Author's note: Hey ya'll, it's me, Angela. This is my first ever fanfiction, so please be kind. This was an idea I came up with when I was joking around with my friends about what should happen in the fourth book

Disclaimer: I do not own Skulduggery Pleasant

Billy Ray Sanguine had a secret. Usually, a well kept one. But then that skeleton detective had walked on in and found him out. And wouldn't leave well enough alone.

"I can't believe it," Skulduggery taunted.

"Shut up," Billy Ray pushed the skeleton away.

"I mean, really," Skulduggery persisted. "What's it like?"

"If you're so curious you can bloody well try it yourself."

"Naw," Skulduggery waved a careless hand. "I don't really swing that way."

"Swing what way?" asked Valkyrie, approaching.

"Billy Ray's way," Skulduggery grinned down at her.

Valkyrie looked up at Billy Ray Sanguine, with a look of shock on her face, "I should have guessed it."

"I know, it was so obvious," Skulduggery sighed sadly. "We're supposed to be great detectives, how could we not notice?"

"Coz you're not as great as you think you are," Sanguine snarled.

"Yeah, but, really," Skulduggery grinned, well, sort of grinned, grinned for a skull. "I can't believe it"

"Bloody oath!" Billy Ray Sanguine exclaimed. "Believe it already."

"But all those times we fought, and I locked you up, and" Skulduggery shuddered, his ribs clattering together. "How could I not notice?"

"Well, now you know," Billy Ray tried to walk away.

"Wow," Valkyrie added to the conversation. "You're really-"

"YES!" Sanguine shouted. "Yes already."

"Yes?" Fletcher asked, appearing with Tanith at his side.

"Yeah," Tanith agreed. "What's 'yes'?"

"Billy Ray," Skulduggery pointed, barely able to keep in his laughter. "He's just revealed a major secret to us."

Fletcher and Tanith knew immediately what Skulduggery was talking about.

"Wow," Tanith said.

"I know!" Skulduggery giggled.

"We should have known," Fletcher's mouth was agape.

"I know!" Valkyrie joined in Skulduggery's laughter.

"Okay," Billy Ray Sanguine snarled. "We've all had a good laugh, now can we just forget it."

"No," Skulduggery replied seriously. "I walked in on you, now it's ingrained in my memory forever, I can't forget it."

"Well can we at least not bring it up?" Sanguine bargained.

"No," four heads were shaken.

Billy Ray sighed.

Valkyrie's phone rang and she swiftly picked it up, "Hey Ghastly. Yup, okay, sure. Hey you'll never guess what we just found out about Billy Ray. Wow, that was a good guess. Yeah okay, we'll see you soon."

Valkyrie hung up and looked at her friends, "Ghastly needs us, says he got a call from the Sanctuary."

They turned towards Skulduggery's Bentley. As they left Skulduggery called over his shoulder;

"I can't believe you're gay. And with a cleaver."

Billy Ray Sanguine buried his head into his arms.

"Was that what we were talking about?" Fletcher asked Valkyrie as they walked away. "I thought we were talking about the fact that he'd been stealing my hair gel"