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Title: Yin and Yang
By: angstytimelord
Pairing: Will Graham/John Reese
Fandom: Hannibal/Person of Interest
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 500
Disclaimer: This is entirely a product of my own imagination, and I make no profit from it. I do not own the lovely Will Graham or John Reese, unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while. Please do not sue.

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"He was out there, wasn't he?" Will's voice was low, shaky.

John hesitated for a moment, but he knew that he couldn't lie to Will. He had to tell the truth, no matter how much Will might be frightened by it. "Yes, he was. I know it was him."

Will nodded, the color draining from his face. "I was pretty sure that he was when you took off out the door. I didn't see him, but .... I could feel him. Even though the sun's out, it felt like there was a dark cloud that was spreading out all around me. I've felt that way ever since I met him."

"Ever since your first meeting?" John asked, raising an eyebrow. "You kept up a friendship with him for a while, so I've heard, so he must not have been that forbidding at first."

Will raised his head to meet John's gaze squarely, without flinching.

"When I first met him, I was stupid enough to think that he was a friend, that he had my best interests at heart," he said, sighing softly. "It didn't take me long to find out that wasn't true."

John's heart went out to the other man; he himself had been in that position before -- thinking that someone was a friend, someone who he could trust and count on, and then finding out that wasn't the case at all. Harold was the first real friend he'd ever had, and he treasured that friendship.

Will didn't have that in his life. He had no one to lean on, other than his faithful dog. John wanted to reach out a hand in friendship, to be the person who Will could put his trust in. But he knew that it wouldn't happen overnight, not after all that Will had been through. And he didn't just want to be a friend.

No, he wanted so much more than that. He wanted to have Will in his life for a long time to come -- and he knew that a relationship like that took time to build.

But he could do it. He could make the effort. Will was worth it.

"All my life, I've felt that kind of darkness around me," Will said, a slight shiver going through his body. "I think that, in a way, he embodied everything that I'd always felt."

"Well, he isn't going to wrap that darkness around you any longer," John said, his tone more forceful than he'd intended for it to be. "He isn't going to overtake your life, Will. You came here to get away from him, and I'm going to help you do that. You don't deserve to live with that kind of darkness. I don't want you to."

Will nodded, and at that moment, a cloud fell over the sun, casting one side of Will's face into shadow. Darkness and light, yin and yang, showing clearly on his face.

John couldn't hold back the shiver that crept down his spine.

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