VALDUGGERY!

Just wanted to try something different - to take a break from my main, more serious stories ;D So this one will be short, cute, and prolly 3-4 chappies in length(already all completed too, hehe).

Read on...

Skulduggery watched Valkyrie with hollowed eyes, tracking her across the ever so unstable floorboards of his modest abode. She was setting up something technological, an Xbox console, a play-thing that the mortals had been absolutely obsessed with these last few decades. And by the looks it required a lot of unnecessary wires, plugs, and power. Skulduggery was, for the first time in probably a century, paying bills to accommodate the fact Valkyrie was a very permanent fixture in his daily life.

As he watched her totter about he remembered when she was a twelve year old runt of a child who stumbled into a world of horror, danger, death and magic, and just never let go. He had assumed that twelve years would find her in a mental hospital somewhere on an isolated island, brought to raving insanity by the bad choices in life; or worse, just plain dead. But she wasn't. She had persevered far longer than Skulduggery had originally given her credit for. Especially since he had assumed she would walk off within the first month of their unusual meeting on her own free will, horrified by the world around her but all the more safer for knowing.

Valkyrie hadn't.

Valkyrie seemed to be the kind of person who would now die of boredom if there wasn't a crime to be solved, or a bad guy to kick, or a moron to be held at gun point just because she could.

While Skulduggery puzzled her, Valkyrie stood up triumphantly. "And you said I couldn't do it!"

"You miss quote me dear, I said you could."

"You said, see if you can, in condescending tones!"

"I had no such doubts. But alas, it gave you the determination to prove me otherwise. Well done."

"One day, Skulduggery, I'm going to take all this sarcasm," she said, motioning with a hand to all of Skulduggery, seated pert on the sofa, watching. "And I'm gonna," she slammed a fist into a palm and ground it inwards. "Like that."

"Like that?"

"Yep. Like that."

"And I'm assuming that's you crushing the sarcasm out from my bones?"

"Squeezing. Like a lemon."

Skulduggery shook his head sadly. "What have I created?"

Valkyrie smiled, turning back to the console and booting up the system. Satisfied by her job she carefully stepped over the cables and threw herself sideways into her mentor, passing him a device.

"These are controllers," she grinned.

Skulduggery made a sound of him clicking his tongue. "I know that."

"That's good."

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