Ichabod - Episode 32

SO GUYS, IVE NOT BEEN SLOW JUST COS I WANTED TO BE SLOW LOL...I GOT A WRITER'S RESIDENCY OFFER EARLY THIS YEAR AND I HAD TO BE WRITING LIKE EVERYDAY...BUT IM DONE AND UP THERE IS MY CERTIFICATE. IT WENT ON FOR SIX WEEKS THAT IS WHY THINGS HAVE BEEN SLOW....WELL, YOU CAN CONGRATULATE ME, I JUST GOT CERTIFIED AS AN INTERNATIONAL WRITER...YAAY!LOL!

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He has been waiting in the car for some time. He needed a plan but he didn’t want Odin to mess things up for him, so he planned to do things in his own way. He checked the time, it was some minutes past 12 pm, his phone rang and he picked it, it was Rashidat.

“Hello,” he said quickly.

“Ichabod, where are you? You need to come quickly, the man is away, we can question him, I will meet you with an umbrella, come quickly, Adam is here as well.” Then she hung up.

He sighed and quickly dialed Harmony’s number, it was answered by Vivian.

“Hello Sexy, “ Vivi said.

“Oh hi Vivi, please I need to go somewhere really important, please can you cover for me with Harmony? She mustn’t know that I left?”

“Well, I  have always heard that after a fight between two lovers, the make-up sex is always great,” Vivian joked, laughing.

“Please, Vivian, it’s really important.”

“Ok handsome, just know you owe me. She is on set right now so, we won’t be done till the next four hours or more.”

“Great thank you

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. I won’t forget this,” he said and ended the call before turning on the ignition key.

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Rashidat was waiting outside, dressed in a short gown and looking really pretty. How come he was noticing that she was pretty all of a sudden…

“Odin you need to stop that nonsense, now is not the time!” he said to himself as Rashidat spotted him and ran to him, in her hand was a big blanket and an umbrella. It was an abandoned road so no one was coming.

 She handed him the umbrella and covered him with a blanket as the two rushed towards the house. While they walked hurriedly, he could hear something burning under the blanket, the smell was that of a roasted barbecue, it was until he got inside that he realized, that  his upper arm wasn’t well covered and it got slightly burnt along with part of his shirt that was formally covering the area.

“Oh goodness! I have a hole in my arm,” he said as they got under the roof.

“Opps, sorry about that son, “ Adam said, holding a bottle of liquor. Rashidat rushed to draw all the curtains, darkening the whole room.

“It will heal, “ Rashidat replied, walking closer to him.

 Just as she had spoken, his body began to heal itself.

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. “So where is the man?” he asked and the two stood up, leading him to another dark room.

The man was tied up in a chair, he had a dried stream of blood somewhere below his chin. His suit was torn and had dirt all over it… when he sighted Ichabod, he began to scream.

“Stay away from me! Stay away from me! You evil!”

Ichabod  frowned, “oh, you do not wish to see him right now trust me. So now, I have a question to ask you, why were you following me?”

The man was no more shouting but now grunting.

“Speak fool!” Adam shouted but the man wasn’t talking.

“Look, I don’t want to hurt you, “ Ichabod continued, “but I need to know why you are following me?”

“I think we might need Odin to get him to talk,” Rashidat said.

“No, he will only kill him!” Ichabod retorted and then faced  the man, “ please, say something,  did Michael send you to be watching me?”

The man was quiet still.

“I think I may have to support Rashidat, you do not have much time Ichabod!” Adams replied.

“I do not want Odin, he will only…” Ichabod shouted stubbornly but Rashidat scratching him with a knife and he felt all the blood rushing to his brain as his bones contrasted and contracted. There was more crackling noise and his eyes turned reddish…a snarl escaped him…

“Oh, you naughty girl. That was so smart,” Odin growled and then faced Adam, “howdie old chap! How come you are looking younger every day?”

Adam rolled his eyes. “We don’t have time Odin!”

“Oh come on Adams, you are too old and you are nofun…” he looked at Rashidat, “this missy here, has got enough charm, I think I will enjoy myself while…”

“oh stop the flirting odin and get him to speak…” Rashidat ordered.

Odin laughed, “your wish…” he said with a bow, “is my command.” With this, he turned to the man who on seeing him began to scream frantically.

“Oh do shut up! I hate noisemakers, if there is anyone who will do all the noisemaking, that should be me!” he said and took the man by the neck, pulling him up from the ropes which loosened immediately, he held him up with one hand against the wall….

“Now, listen, ugly face! I do not have all the time! So , who sent you? Was it the other ugly face called Michael? If yes, what are his plans? Where is my ring and what does he plan to do with the pictures?”

The man began to choke as he couldn’t speak so he dropped him…

“Now speak….!”

“He wants to take Tracy with him, he wants to destroy Harmon’s career and he wants to expose you. As I am speaking, he is already gotten information about your ring. He has people in high places. That is all I know!”

“But why?” he growled.

“Because he said you destroyed his publicity on the day you showed up at the costume party, and Harmony is preventing him from being with his daughter…”

“He is not even a good father…” Odin spat.

Then he stood up. “Tell me more…”

“He..is going to send the pictures to Harmony and blackmail her with it….he plans to expose her on her birthday.”

“How many of you are tailing Harmony and myself?”

“ Just six of us…” he replied, shivering. “I will give you all the locations and Michael,, please don’t hurt me…”

Odin smiled, baring his teeth, “good boy, now chapchap! No dilly-dally ! I do not have all the time hey”