5 O'Clock Whistle
"At times I would like you to be home - here," Hannibal says, correcting himself out of a term that was too familiar. "But forcing you to be will not resolve the issue."
It is perhaps the closest Hannibal has come to fully admitting how much he relies on Will, even still. He does not need Will to listen to his issues, to balance his books or shoot his enemies, but he needs him. It is that that sinks beneath his skin and leaves him tensest at moments like these, drawn bowstring tight.
At the very precipice of WWII, choices and chances lead to some things you can't step away from so easily.
The last set of the Nice Work If You Can Get It series. It helps of you've read the others, but you can just easily read without them. You will miss a lot of the references, though, and not recognize the characters that show up later, but the smut is just as delicious, and there is quite enough of it.