A/N: Wishing everyone a very happy Jix-Anny 2026! This story is set in the 31 Ghosts universe. If you haven't read 31 Things to Do in Sleepyside When You're Dead, you can find that story (Book?) here. This can be read alone, but it will make a heckuva lot more sense if you've read 31 Ghosts first! PG-13 and this is a Trixie/Dan world.
Pause for a moment. Just want to let you think this through. Say you're a witch. And you can see dead people who need your help fixing things and righting wrongs so they can move on to... wherever. Cool, huh? Yeah. It can be. But also say one of these dead people is an unpredictable guy you suspect might have been a mobster when he was still a part of the living and breathing portion of the population. And now you know him as Very Headless Vernon for a good reason. Also, say your hometown is just a stone's throw from Sleepy Hollow, New York. Probably, you don't wanna convince Vernon it would be fun to dress up and pretend to be the Headless Horseman. 'Cause it turns out? The Headless Horseman? Has absolutely no sense of humor and things can get pretty hairy when he shows up. That whole flying, flaming pumpkin thing that looks so awesome in the movies? Not so much in real life. You just wanna trust me on this one, okay? Seriously. This is one of those times when it's literally best not to play with fire.