"Young Tom tries his hand at picking up a boy. No one will miss him. " One-sided Tom/Hannibal.

Crossover with the film Hannibal Rising. Disregards novel canon/illusions of continuity, as many of us would like to. (Archive warnings don't quite cover it, additional warnings in notes.)

"A little humility would be in order."

"You're Murdock's second in command."

"We're partners," Foggy says, but he can't not trip over the words because it's fucking cold in here and his tongue feels swollen in his mouth. Maybe he's got a chipped tooth. "That's how lawyers work, we're partners."

This guy knows about Matt. He fucking knows.

In the early days of the Russo-Japanese War, a disciplinary episode results in Sugimoto Saichi being transferred from the 1st to the 7th Division. It doesn't take long to figure out that Russian gunfire might pose him less danger than the tangled web of a unit in which he's ended up.