Chapter 10: A Battle Of Ends
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The shadow demon was aware of the fight leaning more in the good sides favor and violently thrust himself among the battle, gliding like a ghost through the chaos. This was not how it was supposed to happen, he was to gain control of the dimensions and return to his true form. That was the bargain he had made, somehow through it all, the dimensional agency had made sure to be involved and the girl they brought with them was destroying this. He worked too hard for this to happen, she would have to be locked away, killing her was not an option. "I need to be in my true form, I need her hidden talents." With a rage filled cry, inhuman to say the least he leapt into the air and landed a few feet from Willy and Sabina.
The pair was currently distracted with a gargoyle, and two crocodile demons. Sabina paused in her tracks and ducked the blade demon who joined the fight, watching as Willy promptly took his blade exposed cane and removed its head.
"Why did you…
ROOOOOOAAAAAAAAR
"That's why." She whispered turning toward the sound and going visibly white. "Shadow guy, very mad." Willy rose a brow at her comment, but decided against retorting and grabbed her arm with his good one.
"Time to go then little girl." He pulled her rapidly through the various battles around them, and ducked down within a hidden ditch. "Carmel horns." He grumbled brushing the mud from his pants and sighed in misery.
Sabina found herself smiling in spite of the situation, he was annoying beyond reason at times but she liked him anyway. "Willy…we aren't safe here, and the others can't deal with all the chaos on their…" she paused watching him pull out a velvet green bag full of what resembled giant sized jawbreakers, about the size of ones fist.
He glanced at the one in hand, a demented gleam within his violet gaze. "Cover your ears Sabina." She quirked her brow, but did as requested. "ICHABOD JAWBOMBER!" he hollered hearing a muffled curse and tossing the large candy over his shoulder.
BANG!!
Covering her ears didn't even begin to muffle the sound the 'jawbomber' banged out; Sabina rubbed her ears vigorously and eyed another of the candies in his hand. "My ears are ringing." She grumbled ignoring the amused giggle and covering her head when he shot another one, followed by several more.
BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!!
Jack dove over head and landed in a rumpled heap at their feet. "Bloody insane, demented, dangerous, nightmare, candy making, annoying…
"That's a long list of complaints…take it up with Ichabod later." Retorted Cry-Baby landing beside us with his own grunt of pain. "The rest of us are first." Soon Sands, Gene, Tom, Spencer and Edward joined us.
Willy's eyes shifted nervously worrying about his partner. "OH!" Ichabod come to an abrupt halt at both their feet, where Midori landed a few feet ahead of him, then the rest of the monster clan joined them. "Was that entirely necessary Midori? He asked indignantly, startled when Willy started to fire of more of the candies and covering the assault on his eardrums.
"You're alive mate…all that matters." Jack had forgotten his long list of complaints and was also covering his ears like the majority of us, while another ambush of jawbombers went off.
Sabina glanced up after the sound stopped and again rubbed her ears. "You are dangerous…nothing like the Willy Wonka within my world's point of view." She glanced around seeing everyone was still alive, but no one looked overly healthy or pleasant, monsters even looked worse for wear. "I have a feeling those didn't stop our shadowy friend." Edward winced painfully when he attempted to move a dagger from his outer thigh. "Edward don't…you'll hurt yourself more in an attempt." Slowly dark eyes met hers, making a small chill climb her spine.
Sabina knew that they were different within this world then she had seen them in her own, but the dark haunted eyes that met hers were far from kind. She could see he wasn't evil, he did have his gentle side, but when a battle was present all the fury within showed. Ignoring the conversation of Willy's candies, she slowly slid forward removing the dagger in his leg and watching Sands take over with the first aid kit. "How he managed to hold on that…I'll never guess." She ignored the others and strained her ears for signs of the shadow demon.
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The Hessian road down into the ditch with the others looking in far better shape then the rest. "He's gone back to the woods." He offered in his strange raspy voice.
All of them took a minute to regain their breath and treat all their wounds, before Ichabod spoke up and studied the others around him. "Did anyone know that Rowen wasn't on our side, or suspect he wasn't as he seemed?" slowly all eyes leveled with him, and he got his answer with the anger within each of the faces around him. "Didn't think so…I wonder how many others played you for fools in the rebellion." Slowly he clasped his hands in a thoughtful way, lowering his dark eyes to the ground in intense consideration.
"Sands…take care of the others." Sabina whispered slowly sliding out of the ditch and glancing around at the massacre of bodies, limbs, and more internal organs then she cared to consider.
It was a horrible sight, barely any place to step without hearing a rather unpleasant sound underfoot. She cringed hearing a squish sound and glanced down at some sort of yellowish spongy substance on her foot. "EWWW!" she considered going back to the others, but studied more of the massacre around her in hopes of getting some answers.
She yelped whirling at the gentle hand that was placed on her shoulder. "Ichabod." She took a deep breath and glanced around expectantly. "What?"
Ichabod furrowed his brow in thought, before glancing around his feet and paling slightly. "Not alone…oh dear." He managed glancing around at his feet and feeling ill.
"I don't think you want to faint in this…ick…mess." She offered a grim smile and stepped around more of the various organs, wincing each time she heard a strange sickening squish. "Remind me to knock that imp out…this is so gross." Ichabod finally managed a small smile and glanced back at the others.
"I suspect there is more then one traitor…but they aren't with us." He stopped bending down to investigate a still wriggling form and gagging. "Just a…p-part of (gag) some-something." She recoiled when the thing suddenly stopped making a strange squeal sound.
She turned seeing he was considerably paler then usual. "Are you sure it was part of something, and not actually…well…something?" he didn't appreciate her humor at the moment, but it did distract him from fainting.
"I see why Willy likes you so much." Ichabod sighed slightly at the giggle she allowed and realized they were now nearer the woods, and none of the others appeared ready to come find them. "He seems to have an interesting…
She met his dark gaze, slowly realizing he was trying to find out whom she cared for most. She knew from the way Katrina had treated him, he had been hurt deeply and she assumed that he was attempting to stop any form of hurt happening again. "He cares…ok, now what?" she hesitantly opened her mouth to speak, but turned to the sounds of rapid hoof beats instead.
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The Hessian rode up to the pair, offering the slightest of smiles already suspecting Ichabod had a crush on the strange girl. He ignored the flush within both their faces and easily jumped down from Daredevil.
"It appears your friends have run out of theories…Seth seems to remember some of the names and indicated they were part of the Shadow Demons group. They are also all a bit restless…he's still in the woods watching, I can feel it." Ichabod nodded at the report and glanced behind him wearily.
"We better get back to the others." Sabina managed, seeing Ichabod nod in agreement eyes still intent on the woods. "Daredevil?" she noticed how the horse seemed to grow nervous, characteristics she had seen within the woods, during Ichabod's rescue of her.
The three of them turned toward the woods, clawed branches swinging with a wind of unknown fury. "I'm guessing this isn't good?" they all turned to Edward who had cautiously followed after the Hessian.
She noticed the others were starting to come out of the ditch and shook her head. "GET BACK DOWN!" she grabbed Ichabod and started running back for cover, Edward wasn't far behind and she turned briefly seeing the Hessian was holding his ground for them. "He's going to get hurt." She breathed softly, closing her eyes before halting at the edge of the ditch. "Someone needs to help the Hessian."
Midori glanced up at her healed wing and arm. "I'm strong enough." She stretched her massive wings and took to the air.
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Daredevil refused to abandon his master, until the Hessian roughly ordered his pet away. He stood sword ready and waited. The wind picked up making the woods come alive in a fury of rustling branches, reaching out to grasp the world within its clutches. "They're safe." He kept his sword risen and was startled hearing a sound of wings land behind him.
"Hessian put your sword back…you're part of us." He eyed Midori with icy blue eyes, and then glanced at the others. "Before Sabina does something stupid?" he knew the girl was capable of doing just that too.
Returning his sword to his sheath, Midori lifted him into the air and quickly flew back to cover. The Hessian landed into a roll and watched her struggle to regain her balance after her landing. Everyone glanced around at each other; they knew that facing off with the shadow demon was going to be extremely hard on them. The worst part at the moment was they weren't in any condition to do so, and he would return with more reinforcements. "This is starting to look grim for all of us." She met the eyes around her and closed hers in a near defeated look.
Slowly two arms wrapped around her shoulders and she glanced up startled. Ichabod and Willy both smiled at her, staring around at the others. "That Shadow thing…we can't just give up." Willy nearly whined, wincing in pain when Sands tightened the bandage on his wound.
"What would you purpose we do Willy?" Abberline questioned on the verge of sarcasm, dark eyes glittering with irritation. "We barely made it out of the last battle…do you think we can do it again?" Sabina hated the fact he had made a very obvious point, and she wasn't about to argue with him.
Ichabod glanced around at everyone and then studied the rings on each hand in front of him. They were tied into the ring the shadow demon wore; Sabina had prevented him from gaining the upper hand by snagging them. Not all the dimensional agents were present, so what use were they? "It's not all the rings, just one." His eyes widened in surprise, before he glanced at the pale blue one on her finger. Cautiously he lifted her hand to examine it closer and ignored the strange looks from the others.
Willy quirked his brow following Ichabod's gaze, slowly he started to realize something was working within his dark eyes. Ichabod was coming up with a solution to their problem and to his amusement Sabina was again directly in the middle. She noticed Willy's far too happy smirk and eyed Ichabod curiously, she followed his gaze to her ring and then it hit her like a ton of bricks.
She groaned softly giving Willy a look of contempt. "Ichabod…what is it?" she wasn't sure why she dared to ask.
Ichabod started at being addressed and noticed all eyes were currently lingering on him. "Your ring…you stated that they're all tied in somehow, but his ring is a dark version…
"A shadow of one of them." Abberline added, catching onto Ichabod's theory quickly.
Ichabod nodded in confirmation and noticed her recoil slightly already getting the idea. "Sabina?" she glanced up briefly and then covered her face with her hands.
"Why me? I truly dislike that voodoo witch." She grumbled more under her breath and saw Jack smirk knowingly at her reference.
Corso glanced around and strained his ears against the roaring wind. "If she's the key…why hasn't he attacked?" Mort smacked him beside the head and peered around wearily.
"Never ask such a stupid question in a dangerous situation Corso." Mort harrumphed aggravated by his stupidity. "So what's the deal then Ichabod?" suddenly Ichabod felt like he was under a microscope and felt extremely uncomfortable.
Willy took notice to his discomfort and studied him carefully for signs of fainting; putting Ichabod on the spot after being through a body part field was a bad idea. Sabina took notice to the concern in the familiar violet gaze and hesitantly placed a hand on Ichabod's arm, she could feel him trembling slightly.
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The shadow demon could hear them discussing him; he could hear the discussion of the rings and grew very angry, and impatient. His time had just run out, once they piece that together about his ring being the shadow of hers it was all over. "This isn't going to happen." He rose into the air, mindful of the area around him and started to open a gateway into the area around the ditch.
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Jacks eyes widened considerably when he noticed a new outlook from deep in the woods appear off beside him. "Bugger!" all turned to see the gateway opening and scrambled out of the ditch to gather some ground and footing. "Sands, ye better bring out the big guns mate." Sands rose a brow and pointed out with a rather frustrated growl, he had used most of his arsenal.
"I think your partner is out of weapons, or close to it Jack." Muttered Mort rather irritably at the latest grim outlook on the situation, Sabina walked over cautiously and directed her gaze on him. "What?"
She knew that this was a bad idea, but she knew it was their best option. "Convince Shooter out into the open, let him have control and if he attempts to attack us instead of the enemy, regain whatever control you have over him." Mort's eyes bugged at the suggestion, and a few of the others looked at her like she had lost her mind.
"She's mad." Abberline noticed Spencer's eyes darken considerably and wondered what he was considering. "Armocost?"
Slowly his eyes met Abberline, but the stare that greeted him was inhuman. "I think it's time the alien living within me took over." She turned startled at the fact he could control his alien side, and then eyed the others curiously.
"Edward…time to get really dirty." Cry-baby sounded far too amused for her liking and the sharp snapping of Edwards scissorhands, wasn't a comfort.
Sabina glanced between Ichabod and Willy. "Why do I get the feeling I'm going to regret suggestion that?" Willy offered her a familiar smug smirk, and again flinched getting his bad arm in a position where it wouldn't get injured to much during the next fight.
"Seth!" the skeleton stopped immediately in his attempt to slink off into the woods and out of sight. "Get back her or I will toss you into a pit of werewolves!" snarled Stefan dangerously.
Seth rattled slightly at the threat within his voice, turned conceding to return to the others and fight. "Good Skeleton." Whispered Consuela with equal contempt in her eyes.
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Everyone split off into pairs with the exception of Willy, Ichabod, and Sabina. They remained in the middle of the chaos watching the portal slowly growing in size. She reached within her boot and yanked out her dagger from home, silently hoping she could stab something solid within the Shadow Demon. "Does he even have a solid form?" she pondered the thought briefly before jumping back from a flying creature of sorts and slicing off one of its wings in quick session.
The battle was again raging, bodies going down left and right, blood, organs, and the like again raining across the field around them. She had a brief thought feeling sorry for whoever had to clean up the mess, but was instantly distracted by a very large dark figure emerging from the gateway. "The last stand?" she glanced skyward and hoped whoever was listening was watching out for her and all her new friends.
She glanced briefly around feeling her eyes close in unsure concern when Ichabod fell to the ground rather limply, she concluded that he was either hurt, worse, or had fainted. She hoped with all her heart he had fainted, because she realize she cared very much for him and could feel her heart slowly breaking at the thought he was gone before she could tell him. She quickly rolled from the massive hands reaching for her and grabbed at a substantial battle ax on her recovery. "Someplace solid or some weakness?" she again rolled from the aggressive hands, regaining her footing and swinging the ax with all her strength.
Naturally to her irritation it glided right through him. "You can't hit me…I am not solid." He laughed eyes glowing a deeper red, and refocusing on his target.
Sabina ignored the cocky remark and concentrated on his structure, the way he had easily grasped her without dropping her. "He has some sort of a weakness…he has to solidify when he grasp something." Her mouth twitched into a slightly surprised look, and she quickly dodged his attempt on her again.
Willy noticed the fight going on and saw something within her expression he didn't like. "Sabina!" his tone was warning her not to be foolish, but was clearly lost.
She offered Willy a warm smile and took a breath feeling the familiar shadowy grasp wrapping around her waist, aiming to pull her into another portal.
Thwack!
There was a loud roar of pain followed by a rather indignant grunt, and slowly the chaos paused almost in slow motion at the strange sound.
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"Ew." Willy managed watching the arms of the Shadow being fall to the ground and shrivel into a strange fogging misty, the ring now remain on the ground at her feet. "Their retreating." He whispered watching everyone slowly starting to gather, and seeing the Hessian attempt to get Ichabod to revive.
"Stands to reason she took away shadow's power." Abberline was holding his wounded side and cursing avidly after his comment.
Sands, Mort, Corso, Edward, Cry-Baby and Spencer all paused watching the scene slowly unfold, the other monsters joining them with equal fascination.
Jack come up behind the others, eyes studying her through narrowed lids. "What is that woman doing now?" slowly all eyes focused on her and slowly they realized what she was doing.
They all started to protest her action, but were ignored much to everyone's discomfort and irritation.
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Sabina heard the protests while studying the shadow ring and the now weakened shadow creature before her. "Sorry gang…this is in my hands now. I really dislike Tia Dalma and plan to give her a piece of my mind." She smiled wryly wondering if she would survive to do so.
The Shadow demon was in shock, he couldn't believe she had reasoned out one of his only weaknesses. She had taken away his power, his promise to be whole again and was about to finish off his existence. With a cry of rage he ignored the fact he no longer had arms, and was running at her. He changed one of his legs into a wicked black ebony blade and aimed for her heart, this was not going to be his end.
She heard the cries of horror and resisted the urge to dodge the shadow demon, it was her only chance and she knew the risks involved. She closed her eyes waiting for the demon to pounce, there was a loud shriek followed by a sudden violent wind black as night itself.
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Ichabod had come around in just enough time to witness what was happening, and was on his feet in minutes running at the violent wind tunnel. The others voices were a mere buzzing within the background, except for the figure running along side him violet eyes burning with worry.
Both Willy and Ichabod dove into the violent wind tunnel, getting knocked around fiercely before both landing in a rather uncomfortable tangled heap near an unconscious figure. Ichabod's first thought was the demon had pierced her and she was dying due to the blood on her shirt and her arm, but to his relief she was still alive. Willy had kindly indicated she had been stabbed in the shoulder, and would live.
Violet eyes studied his partner for a very long time, and slowly a small impish smile broke out on his face. "You've fallen for her." He called low over the still howling wind around them.
Ichabod didn't think this was the most appropriate time to point this out, especially when neither of them had any idea what she had done to cause this tunnel and the demon to vanish within it. He sent Willy a warning look and attempted to pull Sabina into his arms, but the wind only seemed to press down on them, forcing them to remain in place.
Willy fiddled around with his pockets in search of one of his candies to hopefully get them some way out, but found nothing that would work. "Ya know…I think she intended on this." He noticed her hand had a singe mark on the thumb and pointed finger. "Ichabod." Slowly dark eyes studied her hand, a deep frown creasing his features.
"She's more stubborn than you…imp." Ichabod noticed her stir slightly and glanced up in time to watch the strange dark cloud of howling wind, slowly dissipate around them.
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The others were around them in a concerned circle in minutes, all talking at once which stirred Sabina into further consciousness. "Shhhhh." She managed keeping her eyes closed against the pain radiating from her arm, and headache she had acquired during her fight with the shadow demon.
No one heard her and continued to fire hundreds of questions, comments, and concerns at Willy and Ichabod both; they were trying to calm them all down long enough to focus on her wounded arm. "I want to go home." She considered her current position carefully and finally opened her eyes, no one had yet noticed.
"SILENCE!" she finally managed, her voice tight with pain. "I'm alive, will you all please be quiet…I have a headache." It was absurd to concentrate on the headache over her arm, but it got the silence she wanted.
"Alls well then, she's alive and good." Jack offered with a flair of his hands, all eyes narrowing at him in frustration. "What?"
The others just ignored him and turned their attention back on the three before them, Sands slowly got down and started to treat her shoulder. Sabina allowed herself to go back into a comfortable sleep, the danger was past and she was with friends.
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Finally she came around glancing around her surroundings. They were still near the woods, the others appeared to be directing a massive clean up with the help of the ever charming Seth. Willy was sitting nearby talking quietly with Ichabod and appeared to both be waiting for her sharp wit to come back.
"How many tossed their cookies?" she croaked seeing both turn to her, and then she rolled her eyes at the amused smug look on Willy's face. "You are still aggravating." This only made his grin widen at her apparent amused aggravation.
Ichabod considered her arm and ignored Willy's amused explanation. "Several actually…they decided Ichabod's fainting spells were more of a hazard then help though. He and I were assigned to take care of you little girl, obviously I was stuck here because of this injury of mine." She gave him a scathing look, and stuck out her tongue. "I see you're feelilng better." Ichabod scowled in frustration with Willy pointing out why he was there and sighed in defeat.
"Ichabod…you could always use one of his own candies against him." Slowly a smile appeared in the corner of his mouth, and Willy faked shock at her comment. "I'm fine…stop worrying…"; she paused watching Willy lightly poke Ichabod with a wag of his brow. "…You stop worrying too Willy and stop pestering Ichabod." Willy shot her a mocking look, and glanced skyward with a slight flush to his face.
"Ya know…I didn't miss that, it was rather quiet." Willy remarked before climbing to his feet and carefully navigating his way around the chaos to tell them of Sabina's recovery.
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Ichabod chuckled at Willy's usual responses; clearly he and Sabina were back to normal. Slowly he realized they were alone and followed Willy's exit, seeing a familiar look within his violet gaze. "That imp!" he realized what Willy was up too and felt himself begin to tremble slightly.
Sabina could sense something was off and waited patiently to be filled in. "What's the matter?" Ichabod jumped at her sudden comment, then allowed a brief flush to tint his face.
He slowly clasped his hands in an attempt to stop trembling and met those steady blue eyes. "N-Nothing really." he smiled weakly. "Willy was worried about you, he would miss your banter…" he trailed off, this was not going the way he had imagined.
"He's an annoying imp." She smiled slightly at the startled look on his face. "I like him as an annoying imp, and friend. If he likes me in the sense I think you're asking…eventually we would kill each other. The like can only go so far…I run out of patience too easily." He smiled knowingly at her, and how the two of them seemed to always bicker like siblings. "Besides…" she paused wondering what she was thinking, but now that the danger was past, it seemed reasonable to admit she liked him. "…I like someone else." She knew her face was very red and could sense his confusion.
"Yeah…she likes you!" Willy stated forcing both of them to jump and glance up at his sudden appearance. "Told ya so!" he did some little strange dance twirling his can with a familiar chuckle.
"ANNOYING MUCH!" Sabina snapped watching him sit on the edge of the ditch and shrug.
"Always will be…deal with it. You are stuck with me as his partner…and if I read the superiors right. This is going to be an interesting trio team." She reached up and easily yanked his hat down over his head.
"Good…that means I get to torture you." She smiled wickedly, seeing his violet eyes narrow after he removed his hat. "No more peeking to see what color undergarments I wear though." He turned about thirty shades or red and began to mutter candy curses under his breath.
Ichabod glanced back and forth watching the banter and chuckled at Willy's expense. "If that's the case…I feel for the superiors, she's going to be putting them in their place as much as she does you." She smiled seeing Willy seem to brighten at the comment.
"Now that will be worth any case load they dump on us." Willy grinned cheekily and studied Ichabod intently. "Ya going to kiss her anytime soon Ichabod?" this made Ichabod redden considerably and got him a scathing look from Sabina.
"Willy…they're white with…
"I'm going to help the others." Willy squeaked out nervously, before retreating to the chaos around them.
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Ichabod felt the heat in his face slowly dissipate and glanced up at the amused expression on her face. "He's an evil imp." He muttered brushing off the caked on dirt on his suite and seeing her blue gaze intently watching him.
"You never tried to clarify his accusation?" Ichabod felt strangely nervous and quirked a brow in confusion.
He stopped brushing at his clothing and wondered what she was talking about. "What accusation?" she stepped up to him and noticed a faint tint return to his cheeks.
"His accusation of the person I like…", she noticed the tint in his cheeks seem to fade and an uncertainty creep into his expression. "That candy making imp is correct though, I do like you Ichabod." Very cautiously his steady gaze observed her.
He hadn't been really interested in anyone since Katrina had hurt him so deeply, he wasn't entirely sure he was ready to try again. The sincerity in her voice and encouragement from Willy was enough to make him push aside most of his doubts though; Willy had always looked out for him and even did some rather unpleasant things to keep Katrina from hurting him further. He concentrated on those many things for a moment, one was candifying her mouth shut, binding her with a mass of laughy taffy when she attempted to confront him and belittle him, and another she had found herself verbally beaten with his rather inconsistent childish banter. Slowly a small smile managed to work its way across his lips.
"Happy thoughts?" She wondered hoping she hadn't just chased him off, knowing very well Katrina had hurt him in the past.
"Amusing thoughts of Willy torturing Katrina actually." He noticed her expression change to one of displeasure and concern. He took a deep breath and allowed the trembling in his hands to stop briefly by grasping hers gently in his slender fingers. "I like you too Sabina." She felt herself smile in spite of swearing she would act too relieved.
Making sure Willy wasn't present he gathered his courage and leaned down slowly placing his soft silky lips against hers, she in turn pressed hers warmly against his in return. Carefully she rested her hands lightly on his shoulders feeling the kiss deepen, his hand lightly entwining within her long blonde curls.
"Isn't that cute?" Both broke apart beet red and glanced up with equally dangerous looks on their faces. "What?" Willy couldn't help himself, and grinned like the Cheshire cat.
"Aye, quite." Jack piped up slipping up beside Willy and glancing at them. "Ye know love, ye might be able to teach the constable there some interesting new tricks if I be reading ye right." He smirked smugly seeing Willy's eyes widen with surprise, slowly a knowing smug smile crossed his face, which made Jack eye him curiously.
"Sands?" cautiously Sands appeared eyeing the scene and smirked knowing exactly what was going on. "You mentioned on one or two occasions…you would like to see Jack suffer?" Willy's voice was deliberately amused, and he was stifling laughter in his attempt. Sands nodded in confirmation. "You are about to get your wish."
Sabina gently patted Ichabod's hand in a reassuring fashion and leveled her gaze on Jack. "Jack Sparrow…I recommend you start to run." Slowly she climb out of the ditch watching Jack study her with a smug look on his face.
"Captain." Jack watched her gaze steadily observe him and swallowed hard, she was serious. "Sabina love…what are you…
"I won't consider slapping you…" she smiled slightly a wicked gleam within her gaze. "…but that doesn't mean punching your teeth down your throat will be any more pleasant." He took the hint and raced off among the chaos, Sabina rapidly in pursuit.
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"Are the superiors going to be able to handle her helping us?" Edwards voice was soft and his eyes had returned to their kind doe like look.
Willy watched Ichabod glance skyward and smile slightly. "Probably not…but it will be fun to watch." He giggled gleefully and observed Sabina nearly tackle Jack to the ground, before he wrenched to the right and again bolted off.
"Somehow I get the impression this is going to be a long wait." Ichabod glanced up at the amused look on everyone's face, taking note that Abberline no longer seemed agitated with Sabina.
"Probably." Ichabod chuckled ignoring the fact that Willy was making kissing sounds, and muttering a familiar 'k-i-s-s-i-n-g' rhyme under his breath. "Willy…I'll make sure she continues to taunt you mercilessly with the incident in her house." Willy's mouth instantly snapped shut, a very red color tinting his face. "Good Imp." He chuckled at the less then amused expression on his partner and friends face.