Ichabod - Episode 15

11:35

“Just go in and sleep damn it!”

Ichabod cursed under his breath in his new room.  He could still hear her pacing up and down as she walked from one room to the other room.

He could feel the way she breathed, ‘I love you’ into her daughter’s ears while she tucked her into her bed. Even though it was like very far from his room, Ichabod could feel every movement...every whisper. His transition time was getting closer and he couldn’t control himself that much.

The bottle was in his hand and he thought of putting more drops into his tongue...

“You imbecile! That will be cheating! I will kill you if you try that nonsense!”  He snarled to himself in Odin’s voice.

He snapped out of it with a deep grunt....

"Please Harmony....just go and sleep...."

**

Harmony left Tracy’s bed and was walking out when she heard Tracy’s voice.

“Mum, please make daddy come to my Halloween party. I don’t want to be laughed at again.”

Harmony smiled weakly and turned around to walk back to her daughter.

“I will try my best my darling but if he can’t make it, I wouldn’t mind dressing up for you...”

“No, that was what you did the last time and people laughed at me. I want my daddy this time

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. Please, That’s the only way the costume will work.”

Harmony took a deep breath and nodded.

“I promise, your daddy will come with you. Okay?”

Tracy nodded with a weak smile.

“Now go to bed.”

Tracy shut her eyes and Harmony switched off the light beside her bed before walking out of her room.

**

11:47 pm

Harmony lay in her tub as the soap and water floated around her. She was confused. While she was trying so hard to keep Michael away from their life, she couldn’t stop seeing how much Tracy needed him and now she didn’t know what to do.

Was she being unfair?

Certainly not! She just couldn’t get hurt and she was not going to allow that psychopath to hurt her daughter’s feelings.

She remembered the previous year when she had sent him a message for the daughter-father Halloween party in Tracy’s school. She had begged him to try and find a time to come since it would really mean so much for Tracy but he never replied the message not to talk of coming.

That buffoon!

Now all of a sudden, he just wanted to come into their life as if everything had been perfect? No way!

She stretched her hand to pick up her tab which was on the stool next to her. She unlocked the tab and went through her WhatsApp contact list.

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. Then she clicked on Michael and she began to type.

“Her Halloween party is in two days time, you better get cracking if you really want to be part of her life. I will send a video to you, practice the steppings and be serious with it. This is going to be your last chance. Do not mess things up!

After this she sent it at 11:58 pm before putting the tab away After this, she gathered herself up, picked her towel from the stool and tied it around her before walking towards the mirror.

12:00 AM

Just as the time struck 12:00 AM, sharp pain through it Ichabod’s body and thankfully, he had his belt tied around his mouth to reduce making a noisy grunt, The pain raced through his entire body and his face twitched. A loud growl escaped his lips and then his posture became more confident and dominant.

He growled satisfactorily and in one hand, yanked off the belt around his mouth.

“Naughty, naughty Ichabod!” He said as he walked to the mirror where he could see someone that looked exactly like him but who wasn’t him. His reflection in the mirror was that off the scared-weak Ichabod.

“What exactly were you thinking fool?” He grunted at himself in the mirror. “Do you really think you will lock me away tonight after you kept me away during the day?”

Ichabod who was in the reflection looked sober. “Don’t do anything stupid Odin”

“Oh do shut up! You are nothing but a weakling! You and I both know that I can’t touch her yet!”

“Yes but we both know how clumsy and impatient you are. You can do anything to sabotage my relationship with her!” Ichabod shouted in Odin’s head angrily.

Odin thought for a while and then grinned mischievously....”wow...” He thought for a while and shrugged, “ II wish you didn’t say that. Now you just gave me an idea. Way to go Ichabod!”  He said with a wink before moving away from the mirror.

“Now where is your room Harmony?” He said to himself, he listened carefully and everything seemed to slow down as he listened to catch the sound of Harmony’s heart beat which was coming from somewhere  in the left direction.

“Well...time for an adventure...” He said to Ichabod before proceeding towards the left direction.....