Ghosts Of The Past

Chapter 4

Lily spent the rest of the weekend reading Katrina's journal. It had different spells and incantations, stories about the Sisterhood and its members, it even spoke about some of the history of Sleepy Hollow. Every time Lily opened the book, it felt like Katrina's voice was telling her the story on the pages. After Ichabod died, Katrina had married a British officer named David Williams and after few years, she bore him a son. Williams men continues to be born until Lily finally came, fulfilling what Katrina had prophesied. And as Lily read more, she realized the extent of her powers. She sat in her backyard Sunday afternoon with the book, reading the incantations and trying to use her powers. What she read was mostly about powers over elements, mostly weather. There were spells also that could have effects on nature as well as people. But nothing Lily felt comfortable with. She was fascinated by her ability to call the winds and rain, she even was able to make a seed sprout, but she knew she wanted to keep everything simple so to not cause any issues. She mostly looked at her powers as something like a parlor trick, except she knew that she would have to use them to finish what Katrina had intended for her to do and find a way to reunite her with Ichabod, Lily know she would have to figure out a way to get him out of the hospital to be able to work on getting him back to where he belonged.

That night, Lily laid in bed, her mind racing as she tried to figure out what to do. She rolled over in her bed and looked at the clock. It was 2 AM. The night nurses would be going on break around 3:30 before bed checks at 4. She out go bed and quickly dressed before heading to her car and driving to the hospital. When she got there, she checked in at the security booth and parked, taking in her computer and going directly to the conference room. She would need to hurry to get her plan in motion. She sat in the conference room typing and reading books for about 15 minutes. She then spliced into the security cameras in the room and the hallways on the third floor to stay on a repeated picture on an empty hall for 30 minutes. This would give her time to sneak into Ichabod's room, get him out and to her car, and make it look like she had been in the conference room the whole time. Then, she would end the repeat and leave without any issues.

Lily tiptoed out the door on the third floor watching the nurses at the station gather their things for their break. Once they left, she went to the desk and grabbed the extra keys and she hurried to Ichabod's room and knocked quietly before quickly walking in and closing the door behind her. He stood from his chair looking at her as she quickly walked over to him and unlocked his restraints. He looked at her confused.

Lily (she whispered as she spoke): Don't look at me like that, Crane. I'm getting you out of here.

Ichabod: Why?

Lily; I'll explain later. For now you're going to have to trust me.

Ichabod nods and follows Lily to the door. She opens it and pokes her head out before motioning for Ichabod to follow her. She drops the extra keys at the desk and leads him to the stairs as they quickly run down to the first floor and to her car. She unlocks it and tells him to lay in the back seat before closing the door and locking it. She runs back into the hospital and to the third floor and back to the conference room to the third floor to end her research in camera. After turning off the video splice, she closes the laptop and calmly walks to the elevator and down to the first floor to check out with security and head to her car. In her mind the whole time, repeating an incantation she read in Katrina's book that made people oblivious to her. It was working; no one questioned her as she walked about. She quickly walked to her car and got in and started driving to leave the property.

Lily: Stay down. I have to go through one more security check. (She didn't hear any response from Ichabod) Crane? (She stopped at the security office and was quickly waved off to leave and once they were away from the guard office, she took her hand and felt around in the backseat) Crane?