A/N: I don't own any of the characters. ..:cries out loud:... what a shame! Well, anyway. I thought this up with the help of my friend Incapability who also helped me with correcting my mistakes. ..:blows a kiss:.. thank you!

Have fun reading it, I hope you'll like it.

The Head

1st Chapter - All these senses

The Headless Horseman entered the room and closed the door behind him. Lady Van Tassel sat on a big chair and combed her long hair with a wooden brush. Like a queen on her throne she sat there, majestatic and powerful. She smiled when she saw that the man was holding a black bag. He always took the heads back to her in that bag.

The Hessian came closer and kneed down in front of her. She put the brush on a table next to her chair and folded her hands on her lap, waiting for him to announce the good news.

"I bring you his head," the Hessian hissed and she reached out for the bag. The she opened it with an expression of a child getting a present. Her excited hands held up Ichabod's head. She smirked satisfied.

"Very good," the Lady said with a low voice. "He closed his eyes?", she wondered.

"Yes," the Hessian said, "he was so scared he fainted." The Lady rolled her eyes.

"He couldn't even die properly, could he?" She touched Ichabod's lips, then a shiver ran down her spine. She had wanted this man since the moment she had first seen him. His lips felt soft, and now he wouldn't be able to hold her back from doing to him what she had always wanted. Her eyes glimmered.

"Put it on," she ordered in a trance.

The Headless Horseman took the head and placed it on his neck. He opened Ichabod's eyes - well, now they were his eyes - and looked at the Lady very interested.

"You are beautiful," Ichabod's voice sounded fascinated. She sighed and smiled shily. "Thanks," she said.

But then she shook her head to get rid of her childish behaviour.

"I can see again," he whispered and took some looks around. "You are indeed beautiful," he repeated then.

"You have a head now, of course you can see," she explained to him and poured some wine into a wine glass. Outside it started to rain and Lady Can Tassel felt encouraged by it. She turned around to face him.

"You'll feel again," she said in a dry voice. "But this won't change anything," she added when she saw Ichabod's smile. She walked over to him and sat down on the floor.
"You'll feel love, or at least you think you will." She touched his lips. "But there isn't such a thing like love." She smiled. "Not in the least." His eyes carefully examined her to inhale every inch of her cold, beautiful view.

"Now, do what you always do. I need to be rewarded for treating you so well," she said, inching closer. His mouth fell open and he was astonished by her nearness. He could see again, and probably he could feel... She amazed him and he didn't understand why he felt so warm inside. She was the first woman he could see. He kissed her wildly.

"That's what I've missed in all of our nights," she said.

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He watched her while she got dressed. Now that he got some more senses back, he was overwhelmed by his feelings and totally obeying her. Her beauty made him even more addicted. But she was so cold when she spoke to him that he was not fully satisfied when he was with her.

"I want you to kill her," she said, again her voice was cold. He chocked. "What, kill - kill her?" He couldn't imagine killing somebody any more. She nodded, glancing at him icily.

"If you don't, you know what's going to happen. Be a good boy." She left.