A/N: So, I just finished the last Skulduggery Pleasant book.
UNACCEPTABLE.
Anyway, so I wrote a drabble.
Disclaimer: This all belongs to Derek, not me.
What is more commonly known as idiocy.
Skulduggery was a complete idiot.
Valkyrie had decided it.
And well, she felt she had the right to decide it. After all, she was still exhausted.
After the events of the last few weeks; being Darquesse and then not being and then dying and watching friends of hers nearly die. After going through her Surge and becoming this new kind of Adept, she could really do with a rest. And Tanith had been all for it. She had told her to take some time off and breathe. Wow, it had felt good.
Sure, Gordon's house without the echo of Gordon felt odd; it felt wrong. And it wasn't home. She decided that she needed to move. As to where, she hadn't decided yet. She just had to move away.
But anyway, she had taken some time to sleep and watch stupid TV and order pizza.
And then Skulduggery had turned up.
Now, at first, Valkyrie had been pleased to see her friend after the whole mess with the Accelerator.
But then he told her about the renegade sorcerers who blamed her for the destruction caused in Roarhaven and her mood had decreased a lot.
To make matters worse, Skulduggery reckoned that they had followed him here.
Valkyrie could have killed him. Again.
Unluckily for her, she didn't have the time as the renegades had promptly appeared and thrown Skulduggery through a window. Now they were staring at Valkyrie with some dark intentions indeed in their eyes. As quickly as she could, Valkyrie held out her hands, not in a particularly threatening gesture, but nor in a surrendering one.
"Now, now… Let's not make any rash decisions…" A tall bald man threw a stream of energy that only narrowly missed her. "Or not…" Without a second thought, Valkyrie spun, kicking the bald man in the face and dodging a blast of fire from one of his companions. She backed up, concentrating her power into her hands, but she knew that her power was almost uncontrollable. Where was that damned skeleton when she needed him?
As if in answer to her thoughts, said skeleton appeared behind the renegades with his new wall walking trick and sent them flying with a flick of his wrist.
"Well, this is all not very nice, is it? I mean, we've just saved the world, yet again and all you can do is try to kill people? And the people who worked so hard too…" One of the renegades moved to run and Valkyrie knocked him out with a well-placed punch. "Ah, well, off to the Sanctuary with you."
After all that, the Cleavers showed up to take them away and Valkyrie collapsed back on her sofa, glaring at Skulduggery.
"You broke my window."
"They threw me through it!"
"It's still broken. And you're the cause."
"I didn't mean to break your window. I only came to warn you…"
"You put me at more risk. And broke my window."
"I was trying to be nice and clever!"
"More commonly known as idiocy."
"Oh hush." Valkyrie grinned and settled back into her sofa.
"I'm going back to sleep. You be good." This earned much grumbling from Skulduggery.