Oh, Rose is the active problem there, definitely, but he does actually know better that to tell her things, and if he can resist Bev he can probably resist Rose. Probably. Possibly even Rose and Chloe working together.
Hannibal attended Casterbrook just long enough before they mutually agreed his talents lay elsewhere to know not to ask anything, but also he is the man who reminds Peter too much of his father except without all the things that always came between him and his father, and the one he wants to break the timeline for, as a gift, especially since even Newtonian magic can't cure TB.
Hannibal and Ben, because he doesn't know how to react to Ben, except that he knows just enough history to know a little bit of what Ben must have fought through to be who he is, and he knows the awe in Ben's face when Peter explains he's a wizard of the Folly (and that people always say he looks kind of like the President of the USA) isn't for him, really, it's for the things that people like Ben worked for, but he has no idea how to, like, tell him any of that. Except music. And he's almost as bad at music as talking about feelings anyway. But.
Meanwhile, yeah, as soon as Molly forces Shaw into a bathtub and steals all his clothes, he and Nightingale get on just fine, and he gets his feet under him in the 21st century pretty quick; it's not that much more future shock than washing up in New Orleans was, and Nightingale knows all about future shock anyway. Best buddy cop story, Belgravia doesn't know what hit it.
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Hannibal attended Casterbrook just long enough before they mutually agreed his talents lay elsewhere to know not to ask anything, but also he is the man who reminds Peter too much of his father except without all the things that always came between him and his father, and the one he wants to break the timeline for, as a gift, especially since even Newtonian magic can't cure TB.
Hannibal and Ben, because he doesn't know how to react to Ben, except that he knows just enough history to know a little bit of what Ben must have fought through to be who he is, and he knows the awe in Ben's face when Peter explains he's a wizard of the Folly (and that people always say he looks kind of like the President of the USA) isn't for him, really, it's for the things that people like Ben worked for, but he has no idea how to, like, tell him any of that. Except music. And he's almost as bad at music as talking about feelings anyway. But.
Meanwhile, yeah, as soon as Molly forces Shaw into a bathtub and steals all his clothes, he and Nightingale get on just fine, and he gets his feet under him in the 21st century pretty quick; it's not that much more future shock than washing up in New Orleans was, and Nightingale knows all about future shock anyway. Best buddy cop story, Belgravia doesn't know what hit it.