"No you're not..."

Geoffrey was desperately trying to get the policeman to let him inside the crime scene. Skulduggery and Valkyrie needed to get this case over and done with, Scrutinous was too tired to convince people magic isn't real and that he's a psychopath.

"How do you know if I'm your mother or not?"

"Because I've known my mother long enough to know you're not her."

"And what makes you think that?"

"Unless you're a woman dressed as a man, I'm almost entirely 100% sure she's female."

Geoffrey huffed. He was so sure he could make the policeman think he was his mother, he would let her in, right?

"You were adopted, Thomas as a child. I am your birth mother."

There was silence for a moment. Scrutinous was impressed with himself.

"My name isn't Thomas..."

Geoffrey paled at his sudden stupidity.

Still your mother would have wanted you to let me in, no?

"I...guess?"

Geoffrey brightened at his overall victory.

"Great! I have some detectives here to help you out! They're very scary, especially the tall man. I wouldn't underestimate the other one, though. She has a dark side."

"Sound like happy people."

"They are still, somewhat exactly that."

Just then the great Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain came by and waltzed into the crime scene and Scrutinous took that as his cue to leave. So that's what he did. He wasn't one for finding clues, nor fighting, he had Valkyrie do that for him. He looked across the living room and saw his new partner, Karou, with better luck on the persuasion. For some reason Philomena had not come in for work that day, she wasn't answering her phone calls. It was just their luck Karou could pop in at such short notice. Geoffrey happened to like successful women and Karou was just that. He wasn't sure if he returned her love to him or not. But still, he was brightened by her smile.

Recently mages were being killed all over London, and the British Sanctuary were requesting help from the Irish Sanctuary. After a few minutes, Skulduggery found himself struggling to adjust his facade in a way where he could raise one eyebrow.

"Skulduggery, what on earth are you doing?"

"I'm gracefully using beauty products recommended by Zoella. Not that I need them, Im a very handsome man, even without a facade."

Valkyrie rolled her eyes at his snarky remark and Skulduggery envied her for the luxury of being able to change certain features of the face.

"So what can you gather from the crime scene, Valkyrie?"

"He made no effort whatsoever to protect himself. The evidence is the fact that there's no defensive marks."

"So either he was very weak, though i doubt it, being a Sanctuary detective and earning China's high respects."

"He didn't have any time to react."

"Or maybe he trusted the killer."

"So then there's someone in the Sanctuary murdering our detectives."

"There's a traitor in our midst."

If it's too short, deal with it. There's loads more chapters to come, even though I'm not bothered. It's not the end of the world, dumbass...I'm worse than a drama llama. I'm an ALPACA-LYPSE! Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation. Bubbles, you'll be in my next chapter, Leon is such a jerkwad for dumping you, cHrystal Fury, I spelt the name the way you want it, happy now? Love ya, my Eritrean luck charm! Please check out My Sleepless Nights and read her story, The Not So Amazing Life Of The Girl In Black. I'm in it! Also, if you want to be in MY story, review and tell me about your characters and their names!

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