Sleepy Hollow with future help: chapter one reupload

This is a story I 've made up :) I do not own the movie or characters except for the girl out the future.
maybe my english sounds a bit out of place but that is because I am dutch and english isn't my first language :)
just enjoy reading it and review :D

I'm reuploading this chapter because I looked back and saw that my english was horrible here XD.
And I want to pick up the story again so I hope this is better than first and I will rewrite the other chapters as soon as possible.

Sleepy hollow with future help?

It was still the year 2010 and I was sitting in my room listening to some good metal. I love to listen to metal because I am a metal head as people call me. I dress different than other people, I always wear band shirts and my hair was dyed black. I have brown eyes and one thing I was never proud of is my name. Kyleigh, that's how everyone calls me.

It was already evening and I was extremely bored because it was vacation. 8 Weeks of pure boredom and then back to school to pass my exam. I'm 19 years old and I have no idea what to do after I pass my exam. Maybe I'll join the police. But I don't really like cops; they always give me tickets for silly things. They should better arrest real criminals instead of giving poor scholars driving without light tickets. So, I still don't know what to do.

I sighed at this thought; my mother is always fed up with me because I have no future plans. I decided to watch a movie. Maybe this would lead my thoughts away but I don't know which movie to watch. I checked my cabinet full with DVD's. God, there are so many how can I ever choose? I have a really big cabinet with more than 1000 DVD's inside it. All sorted by genre and title. My hand slide down to a DVD near the horror section and I picked it up.

Sleepy Hollow? I've never seen this movie before but the title seems so familiar to me. Hasn't my grandfather once talked about a Sleepy Hollow? But I can't remember what he said about it. I checked the back of the DVD. No, I still couldn't remember what he said about Sleepy Hollow.

I putted the movie in my DVD player and lay down in my bed still fully dressed. It is freezing cold outside so why should I pull on a cold pyama? The movie started and I was feeling really sleepy. Ironic I thought. I feel sleepy and hollow at the same time. After about 25 minutes I couldn't keep my eyes open and I fell asleep.

I opened my eyes. Hmm… is the movie finished? Huh! What am I doing here on the cold ground? And why am I outside? I can remember that I was watching a movie in my room and I am sure that I was in my bed. Am I sleepwalking again? Where the hell am I? I don't recognize this place. I stood up and tried to walk but I felt really dizzy and had difficulty to remain on my feet.

I looked around me and saw some buildings. Those buildings look really old. At least they didn't look like the houses in my town. It seems like that I am in a small town or something. I really don't know how I get here. But I do know that I want to go home already.

I tried to walk to the nearest house that I saw. It was a large mansion build on a very small hill with pumpkins in the garden. I stumbled to the door and knocked with the small strength still left inside me. A woman opened the door. I looked at her and gasped. This can't be real! She looks the same as the girl from the movie I was just watching. She wears the same dress and everything looks so odd and old inside. I felt really strange and the next moment everything went black before my eyes. I just collapsed at the door. "Oh dear child are you alright?'' The woman looked really confused at the strange girl who just fainted right in the doorstep.

A couple of hours later I woke up in a bed. Am I home again? But I started to look around me and I noticed that this wasn't my room. In fact, it appeared that I was in the old mansion. There were 5 people starring at me which made me totally uncomfortable.

'She is finally awake!' I looked up at the man who said that. It was an old man with a white wig they used to wear hundred years ago. He looked extremely much like Baltus van Tassel!

Around were standing 4 people, 2 women's and 2 other men. 'Well apparently she is not dead.' said one of the two men who looked really like that constable from the movie. What was his name again? Igor,Icho,Igobad? Damn, I can't remember it anymore.

Where am I? What is this place? How did I get here? Suddenly all those questions rose up in my head and I asked them in such a rush that I totally forgot to breath.

'You're in the town of Sleepy Hollow of course.' The man said which I assumed that it was Baltus. Sleepy Hollow? That can't be! I almost yelled out of surprise. I was afraid to ask this question but I need to know it. 'Which year is it? Tell me it's 2010.'

'2010, I'm afraid that you are still confused of the fall you've made at the doorstep. It's 1799 of course.

Oh no, did I travelled through time? I turned my head around and looked in the eyes of the constable. He quickly turned his eyes away as soon as he saw me staring at him. Right okay… I am just going to say it. 'I am from the year 2010 and I don't have a clue how the hell I'd get here.'
So, that's one less worry.

'Right.' Baltus stared at me with big eyes. 'That maybe explains your cloth style? I looked at my clothes and I realized that I was luckily still wearing my own clothes. 'Well, just go downstairs when you are ready. I need to talk to you.' After these words everyone left the room.

I sighed and got up out of bed. I checked my pockets and noticed that I still have my IPod with me. Slowly I walked down the stairs. Wow… I never have seen such an old house before. It's beautiful but it has yet a gloomy sight.

I entered the dining room, or at least I thought it was. In the same room was also that constable whose name I totally forgot. It was something with an I. He was trying to eat something but it looked more like he was choking in it.

I sat at the same table and the woman who opened the door walked to me, offering some food and something to drink. 'Thank you!' I replied. I was starving.

'Let me introduce myself child. I am lady van tassel. I am the Lady of the house, and this is my husband: Baltus van tassel. He is a magistrate. And she up there is my step-daughter Katrina. And he is Ichabod Crane: A constable from New York. He is here to investigate the murders in Sleepy Hollow.'
Right, that was his name again. 'I am Kyleigh but what do you mean with the murders in Sleepy Hollow?'
I knew the movie went about a headless horseman who was decapitating everyone but I just want to check.

Ichabod suddenly spoke: 'Have you ever heard of the headless horseman?'
' Yes I have,' I replied. 'But only in a movie I was watching before I ended up here.' I didn't tell the details because it will only confuse the people here more.

'See!' The constable replied. 'Apparently people believe more in reason in the future.'
I looked surprised to Ichabod. He looked really good. That was also one of the reasons I watched the movie. But as soon as he saw me staring again he looked away. Hmm… Maybe people are not used to look at each other eyes while talking.

At the same time a guy I recognized it was Brom entered the room and yelled; 'The horseman has killed again!'