This is my first ever FanFic, so it might be terrible. It will probably get no reads, so I'm just talking to myself. Apparently that's the first sign of insanity. Well then, I'm screwed.
SO, yeah, it's set after the events of Death Bringer, so when book 7 comes out, it will clash with that storyline.
I'm not really sure of the rating, it might get a bit... well... heated, later on :)
I don't really have an overall plot line either. This is all based on dreams. Yes, I know, "It does not do well to dwell on dreams", but I'm seriously bored. As you can tell from this, I go off on random tangents, so this may be a terrible story. But I've babbled too much already, so go on, read, then review PLEASE!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Skulduggery Pleasant, or any of it's characters. Derek Landy does. The genius.

Valkyrie and Skulduggery sat in the Bentley outside the Sanctuary in Roarhaven. It was the middle of August, but that didn't stop the ever-persistent rain from pouring down around them, rattling on the windshield. Stupid Irish weather.

"You want to do WHAT?" Skulduggery practically screamed, unlike his usual calm demeanour.

"Skul, you and I both know that it's time. I have to do this", Valkyrie replied, tears ever so slowly creeping their way into her eyes, and choking her voice. She pushed them away. She had to be a big girl now.

"This is practically suicide Val. You don't understand. This is a secret that has to be kept between us."

"No. This is MY secret, and I don't want to keep it like this any longer. The council need to know."

"They need to know that I'm Darquesse."

Skulduggery glared across the car to her. Why didn't he understand how much she needed to do this? How much the secret was tearing her apart inside?

"Skulduggery, if I tell them, they could help! They could figure out what's going to make her come out again, and prevent it. They could help me tame her, keep her inside. Look, I know it seems drastic, but it's not like we're going to tell Guild or anything. This is Ghastly and Erskine we're talking about!"

"What about Madame Mist, and the rest of the Sanctuaries. Do you think they could really keep something like this a secret? Just because we have allies on the council, it doesn't mean we can tell them this. They would have to alert the Elder Mages from across the world. London and New York would be over here in an instant. The system would crash into chaos. Darquesse is going to end the world Val, they can't let something like this go."

"Darquesse is going to end the world? I'm going to end the world! I have to tell them, not just for me, not just so I can get this secret off my chest, not so I can stop all the lies and deceit, not because I hate lying to my friends. Not allies, friends!"

Valkyrie closed her eyes for a second, catching her breath, fighting back the stream of tears that threatened to spill onto her cheeks. She and Skulduggery had never had an argument like this before.

"Not for all of that. But for you, for the Elders, the Sanctuary, and the rest of the bloody world! For my parents, and for Alice! Darquesse is going to destroy the world, and I'm going to kill everybody! We've seen it; the Sensitives are still having their visions. I'm doing this to save everyone; it's the only way you all have a chance to live. I need help, I can't do this alone!"

Skulduggery looked Valkyrie. His apprentice, his associate, his friend. No, more than that. He wouldn't admit it, not to anyone, least himself, but these past few years he'd felt a connection between the girl that he hadn't felt in so long. She was becoming, every day, more and more like a... like a daughter.

"Valkyrie, you know, you don't have to go through this alone. I'm here, I can help you. Going to the Elders is the wrong move"

"But they can help me!" she cried, not caring about the steady flow of tears dripping onto her T-shirt.

Skulduggery's voice dropped suddenly, until it was almost inaudible. If they hadn't have been sat in the car, centimetres away, she wouldn't have heard his whisper.

"Valkyrie, they won't help you, they'll condemn you".