They spent the rest of the days in the archives trying to see if the death had any kind of ritualistic or spiritual meaning that could lead to some bigger apocalyptic plan that the horseman had but they couldn't fins any useful information that they hadn't already figured out. It was ten-forty-five and she was ready to call it quits, she looked up from her book and saw he was reading the same book he had been reading all day and it confirmed her suspicion of him being distracted.
" What's on your mind?" she asked placing her book on her lap.
He shook his head and looked up from his book to her as though he was trying to shake off a dream. " What do you mean?" he asked.
" Well you've been reading that same book all day and i haven't seen you flip the page once so i ask again what's on your mind?" she asked moving from her chair to the one next to him.
" Miss Mills have you been watching me?" he asked with a sneaky smile.
" Mr Crane please stop trying to change the conversation" she said mimicking his voice. He looked up at her his face gone completely serious and his eyes full of dread.
" Miss Mills if it is alright with you i would like to have a little bit more time to think about all of this, to determine what it all means before i tell you what has been bothering me " she said his tone full of worry and pain and guilt and overpowering dread.
" Of course" she said reaching a hand out and placing it on his shoulder " When your ready you can fill me and you know i'll listen? right?" she said.
" Of course" he said with a weak smile. He placed his book down on the table on the opposite side of him to Abbie and turned his body to face her. " For now though would it be alright if we went home?" he asked. She couldn't help but to smile when for the first time he called it home not her apartment, finally he was getting comfortable.
" Sure i was just thinking the same thing" she said stepping up from her chair and reaching for her jacket. She slid it on in one smooth motion and watched as Crane did the same before they made their way out to the parking lot and into her car.
The drive back home was silent but he didn't even notice he was too busy thinking about the page he had been reading and re-reading all day. If it was true and the horseman knew about it then it meant that Abbies life could be in danger.
" Leftenant " he said breaking the silence.
" Yeah?" she asked not taking her eyes off the road.
" I must confess to you what has been bothering me all day" he said.
" Okay go ahead" she said relived that he was talking to her about it, when things got really bad he sometimes had a habit of closing himself off from the world and keeping it too himself until he blew so the fact that he was speaking to her about it meant a lot to her.
" The book that i have been reading today speaks of a ritual in which a demon can bring someone back from the dead by swapping their life for another " he said hoping that she gained his meaning and that he wouldn't have to go into greater detail.
" Okay and that has you unable to concentrate because?" she asked not yet seeing what he was getting at.
" It only works if the person has taken the place of the deceased" he said turning his head to face her. She drove silently trying to figure out what he meant but it still didn't seem like that big of a deal that was until she thought about everything that had happened.
- he had woken up in a new century and together they had grown to have a friendship stronger than any she had before
- they fought off the apocalypse just the two of them until Jenny and Irving
- then Katrina had come back and caused a lot of problems to say the least,
That's when she put it together in a way she had taken Katrinas place when she was gone and now that she was gone again it might be seen that she had done the same thing.
" You think the horseman's gonna try to kill me to get Katrina back?" she asked meaning dawning on her.
" Yes" he said weakly as they pulled into the driveway. She pulled her keys from the ignition and sunk back into her chair.
" Do you think he knows?" she asked against all her better judgement. He unclipped his seat belt and turned around to fully face her.
" I believe he knows but i don't think he knows that killing you is the only way to get her back" he said.
" Okay and why do you think that?" she asked turning her head to face him.
" I believe that the bodies we found were all failed attempts to bring her back meaning he does not yet realise that you are the only way to get her back" he said.
" Okay" she said " well this is all a little too much for me so i think i'm just gonna have a shower and sleep on all of what you just told me and we can talk more in the morning" she said unclipping her seat belt, throwing the car door open and jumping out of the car. He could see despite her best efforts that she was scared and knew she would never admit it so instead of trying to convince her to talk to him he left it unsaid.