A/N: hello there! this is my first fan fiction, so don't be too hard:/3 i will try and Update as soon as possible. i will try and have it as a week as the longest wait, if it will be longer i will but up a notice:3
Disclaimer: i do not own Skulduggery or any other characters in this story, nor do i own the rights. i own the plot and any characters i may add. ( i wish i owned it, and with my master plan, i will soon mwahahahahaha!...i've said to much...*fades into darkness*)
I was sitting on the couch, watching little Allison sleep in her cot. She poked so peaceful in her little bed, drool coming out of her mouth with not a worry in the world. sweet and innocent. Unlike me. I've seen more that any 17 year old should have to see. (don't know when her birthday is so roll with it) It had been three months since the Necromancers had the downfall of the temple here in Dublin, three months since I found out skulduggery was Lord Vile. Three months since I last saw Fletcher.
I missed him. I never really knew what it would be like with him gone. I took his presence for granted, and now I lost him. To be honest, I regret breaking up with him. Sure, he wasn't bad boy and mysterious like Caelan was, but he made me laugh and made me feel safe and loved.
And I blew it.
If I had just hadn't gone to see Caelan behind his back, who knows what would have happened. Now Caelan is dead. He was killed by the sea water by my hand when i pushed him. he was mad at me for telling him i didn't want him anymore. I went back to that day.
"Why do you do this?" he raged. "Why do you defy me? I love you Valkyrie! Do you know what that means?"
I dropped to my knees.
"I love you," he said in the ear. "We're meant or each other. Can't you understand that? I've tried to be patient. I've tried so hard. But you just don't get it. you continue to fight."
His hand closed around my jaw, and lifted my face to him.
"You think its easy for me?" he asked, tears in his eyes. "You think its easy to give my love? I've tried in the past. Girls, women, so many, they each stole a piece of my heart. But each time it ended I lost a piece of myself."
My hand went to my pocket, fumbled with the phone.
"But you," Caelan said, "You're different. The others, they couldn't keep the monster away. As much as i loved them, our love just wasn't strong enough to keep them alive. Sooner or later, the monster would emerge. Thats when Dusk found me." He sneered. "He said I was endangering everyone with the things I did. He tried to stop me, but he couldn't kill me. He was living by the code. We didn't kill our own kind. The vampire he had with him, he was even worse than Dusk. He talked about living in darkness, in solitude, keeping away from the mortals. One day I'd had enough of his lectures, and I slit his throat and took his head. And because of that, I was exiled. cast out to an existence of loneliness. Until I found you. We're meant for each other. And if you cant understand that, I'll just have to make you."
That was three months ago.
Allison woke and started crying. I got up off the couch and picked her up.
"Hey there baby," I cooed. I walked to the kitchen knowing she was hungry. It's amazing how much babies eat, sleep and poop. I don't know how they can fit that much into there tiny bodies. I got a bottle from the fridge and warmed it up. When it was done, I tested it on my arm then gave it to her. She instantly stopped crying and started to down the milk. I laughed to myself when I heard the front door open.
"Oh Des, was it really necessary to provoke him like that?" my mother said as they walked into the house. I went to say hello when I say my dad and nearly dropped Allison.
"Oh my god! Dad, what happened?"
He had a black eye that was starting to swell and a bleeding lip split in two places.
"You're father felt it was necessary to honk his horn and yell some words at the car that cut us off, and when the car pulled over he followed saying he was going to give the guy a one two."
I just stared at my dad as she took the baby from my arms.
"He ended up apologizing and practically begging for forgiveness when the man got out and was 6 foot 3."
"He did this to you?" I asked incredulously. My mom went to get some ice after setting a sleeping Allison in her cot and went to put it on her husband.
"Oh no, the man was quite forgiving and left. Desmond here tripped a rock and fell on the steel side rails." She said with a smile.
"In my defence, it was a very large very mean rock."
I just stared and then laughed. I walked over to them and gave them both kisses and went to my room muttering how I had the two craziest parents in the world.
I walked to my bed and plopped down on it. I looked at the clock. 11:48. No wonder I was so tired. I was just about to close my eyes when I phone started to ring. I looked at the ID and saw Skulduggery flash across the screen. Guess I can't ignore that one I mentally groaned.
"Yes?"
"We found a lead."
I sat straight up and jumped out of bed.
"Where?"
"I'm on my way to your house right now. 5 minutes."
"Ok, bye." I closed my phone and touched my mirror on my closet door. My reflection stepped out.
"Go to bed," I told it. It nodded and began to put on my night clothes. I myself started to put on my clothes made by the one and only Ghastly Bespoke, who is now an Elder on the council of the Sanctuary of Dublin. They fit perfectly, of course.
I got them all on and slipped through the window and used air to cushion my drop, and went to the pier to wait for Skulduggery. The lead he was referring to was the case on two people who have been eluding us for months now. Their names are Billy-Ray Sanguine and Tanith Low.
Ever since we found some interesting information from Nye, the new Sanctuary doctor, we have been doubling our efforts to find them.
About a month ago, the kind doctor told us he knew how to remove the remnant inside Tanith.
I thought to the day he told us, me, Ghastly and Skulduggery were in the sanctuary discussing matters on a recent case with the Grand Mage, Erskine Ravel, when the secretary came in and told us Nye wanted to speak with us.
We walked to the infirmary when he told us.
"You what?" Ghastly had nearly yelled.
"I have found a way to remove the remnant from a person even if it has been more than 4 days."
"That's, that's great! That means we can get it out of her-"
"Hold on a second there my friend," Skulduggery had interrupted him. "How exactly do you plan to do this?"
"If I can get inside her, I can take out the remnant and free her body."
"You mean cut her open" I had said
It looked at me and gave a slight nod. I felt sick.
"No way. Find a different way that doesn't involve cutting open a person's body." I don't need a friend of mine to go through what I did I almost added.
"There is no other way. Unless you want her to live like that forever or worse, get killed by another fellow sorcerer that is."
Skulduggery had talked about it with Ghastly and Ravel deciding it was the best option.
I heard the rumbling of the 1954 Bentley R-Type Continental, one of 208 ever made. I looked up to see it come to an abrupt halt. I ran and jumped in as he took off, not giving me anytime to put on my seat belt. I looked over at Skulduggery, in his low brimmed hat, black tailored suit, black gloves and of course his gleaming skull.
"Where are we headed?"
"An old abandon warehouse just outside of Dublin. They've been spotted entering and leaving there multiple times in the last week."
"Who's the source?"
"A retired sanctuary agent. He had heard about the case through some friends who still work at the Sanctuary. When he first saw them, he kept a look out to see if it really was and to get the proof he needed to present to the Elders." he said. "Though with Ghastly, he probably only needed his memory." he muttered the last part.
I just nodded. We sat in silence for the rest of the ride. I peered at him a few times. I wonder how he was. After the incident with China and the information Eliza Scorn had given us, he had gone for a few days. No one knew where he was. He appeared about 3 days later, same as always, except he seemed a little different. But who wouldn't when you found out information like that.
China's hasn't been seen since her library was destroyed. I missed her. I know what she did was terrible and pretty much unforgivable in Skulduggery's books, but we had become close after Tanith was taken over. We had become friends.
We pulled up to the warehouse. It was disgusting and filthy and well, abandon. We got out of the Bentley to see about 30 Cleavers standing at attention wit there scythes drawn. Ghastly and Ravel were standing in front giving orders to them. We walked up to join them.
"You are under no circumstances to kill, maim, or seriously injure Tanith Low. We are to bring her back alive and relatively unharmed."
"As for Mr. Sanguine, do whatever you deem necessary." Ghastly added.
They turned to us.
"Ready?" Ravel asked.
"As we'll ever be," Skulduggery said.
"Alright," he turned to the cleavers. "I want the first team of 10 to go in first. After you are fully in the rest will follow. Detective's Pleasant and Cain will go around the back and Elder Bespoke and I will go in from the sides. Alright, go!"
Review please or Tanith will kill Ghastly and run off with Sanguine!