Mail: Dr. Hannibal Lecter

[daughter_of_m]

[Postal Delivery for typhoidandswans]

Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Baltimore, MD 21061
USADear Dr. Lecter

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[typhoidandswans]

To: theredqueen@yahoo.transia.de
From: PAT.B13290@bshci.org
RE: Your therapy enquiry

Miss Maximoff,

I certainly have the free time.

I should be happy to work with you, should my... landlords permit it . Would you prefer e-mail or traditional mail? There's something splendid in the ritual of stationery and stamps and handwriting, don't you think? Something formal yet personal. On the other hand, there's something to be said for the convenience and speed of these computers-- hence my response to you using them. But at your discretion, Miss Maximoff.

Unless your records show some physiologic condition directly linked to your memory lapses, I'd just as soon not bother with the medical establishment's attempts to confuse the issue.

Hannibal Lecter

OOC: I'm assuming the staff supervises his emails-- or rather, they normally do. But with Wanda's powers-- *grin*-- it's entirely possible that their communiques are just entirely bypassing the eyes of the nurses? Just an idea. Another random idea I had was that Wanda might assume he was one of the doctors at the hospital, rather than a patient. *laugh* Okay, I'll shut up now.

[daughter_of_m]

To: PAT.B13290@bshci.org
From: theredqueen@yahoo.transia.de
Subject: RE: Your therapy enquiry

Dr. Lecter,

>Would you prefer e-mail or traditional mail?

Though I share your fondness for tradition, I would prefer e-mail. We are a small village and while the post office is thoroughly modern the service is rather less than swift. E-mail is perhaps less personal but more expedient and possibly more secure. I am a young woman, unmarried and without family and therefore attractive to the gossip of the town. If there are any particulars you would prefer be written I can certainly oblige but for the bulk of the correspondence I choose the internet.

Thank you for working with me, Dr. Lecter. I appreciate it more than I can say.

Wanda Maximoff

[There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things.
I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen.
When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.]

OOC: I think we should assume Wanda is covering her tracks - and therefore Lecter's. The general public think she's dead (or at least MIA) and the super heroes, for the most part, don't want to know where she is because they don't want to deal with it. She's quite capable, even unconsciously, of doing what's necessary to remain hidden.

And I think that is an entirely appropriate (and brilliant) assumption! :D

[typhoidandswans]

To: theredqueen@yahoo.transia.de
From: PAT.B13290@bshci.org
Subject: RE: Your therapy enquiry

>and therefore attractive to the gossip of the town

Ah, the pleasant back-stoop chatter of small towns and small minds. Very well. Let's start with talking about your chosen e-mail address. And that rather interesting selection of a signature. What is it about the Wonderland of a repressed mathematician that interests you, Wanda? May I call you Wanda?

Incidentally, your thanks are unnecessary. You're relieving me of some considerable boredom.

Hannibal Lecter

OOC: Fabulous :D All works out then. Forgive me as I'm a little rusty on current Marvel continuity; the general public does remember her, though? I.e., it's probable from reading the news that Lecter knows who his patient is, even if he won't say it to her?

OOC

[daughter_of_m]

I just thought I'd address the ooc questions first :)

Current Marvel continuity is a rather laughable mess but it probably won't affect Wanda too soon. She's been an Avenger forever and they are famous. She didn't have a secret identity, people knew who and what (i.e. a mutant) she was. So, yes, quite probable he'd know.

The Avengers covered up her involvement in Avengers Disassembled. I have no idea how the drop in the mutant population was explained (my main issue with the House of M plot is that it didn't seem to have any real follow-up). According to the recounting of those events in the Civil War comics somehow Wanda is responsible for it (the civil war, I mean) but that seems a bit unreasonable to me. All of these "truths" would be known to the Avengers, the X-Men, the authorities etc. but not the general population. I trust you to decide how much Dr. Lecter knows and how he knows it.

(/obsessive comic fangirl...my apologies)

I will go write her answer now. Great questions, btw.

Re: OOC

[typhoidandswans]

*laugh* Obsessive comics fangirling is just fine. I've done my share of it but it was mostly for DC, less Marvel.

Spiffy; this will all work out excellently. :) *happy little squeal of "this-is-gonna-be-fun"

[daughter_of_m]

I posted the response here because it got rather long :)