Valkyrie walked upstairs in to the small study room of her uncle's mansion where she found Skulduggery looking through some case files.
"Anything interesting?" She asked.
"Hmm, not much. Just Scapegrace trying to cause some havoc but nothing overly major." He replied.
Valkyrie was trying to keep her feelings for Skulduggery to a minimum. With all the previous cases which Valkyrie and Skulduggery have both been working all and Valkyrie breaking up with Fletcher 6 months ago, she basically didn't have much time for herself to just breath. But since all the drama had been passed, she thought now was a best time to make a move or else she might never make one. Plus, she was an independent woman that didn't believe that the man should make the first move.
"Well if you aren't busy…Why don't we go out somewhere?" Valkyrie said, trying to sound casual but internally her mind was scream 'HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?'. Oh, the irony.
"Eh…Like just the two of us?" Skulduggery answered, sounding rather confused.
"Yeah, if that's okay with you?" Valkyrie said, starting to regret her decision now.
"Oh yes absolutely! How does dinner sound?" Skulduggery was shocked by the sudden idea of going somewhere with Valkyrie, but he wasn't going to miss this opportunity.
"That sounds lovely." Valkyrie replied, smiling back at Skulduggery.
"Great! How does tomorrow sound at 8pm? I'll pick you up of course." Skulduggery suggested, trying to remain calm, cool and collected but was inwardly buzzing with excitement.
"Yeah that's fine with me!" She replied, her smile growing wider than before.
"Good. Wear something nice – like dressy."
"Why?..." Valkyrie asked.
"It's a surprise." Skulduggery said, tilting his head to indicate he was smiling back at her.
"But-"
"No buts, you'' like it, trust me."
Valkyrie walked over to Skulduggery until she was standing right in front of him and glided her hand to the back of Skulduggey's neck until she grazed the engraved symbol to bring up Skulduggery's façade. The Sanctuary did some more work on keeping the façade as one face, and he used another symbol if he needed to change it. Valkyrie gazed up to a slightly tanned face and sparkling blue eyes. His hair was a shady blonde that had the right quality of volume of hair, so Valkyrie could run her hands through it. When Skulduggery's façade came up, he breathed in – as Valkyrie was close enough that all he had to do was moved down to kiss her. This took all his efforts to not do this.
"Hmm…I can usually read you like an open book but nope, not this time. Okay I'll dress up. But if danger occurs and my dress gets ruined – you are responsible for buying me a new one." Valkyrie demanded.
"Deal" Skulduggery replied, his soft pink lips curling into a smile.
The following day, Valkyrie was having a wardrobe crisis. Unable to find anything goof enough to wear for her…date with Skulduggery? She wasn't too sure. She decided that she needed help and there was only one person that could help her at a time like this.
Tanith.
Valkyrie pulled out her phone to call Tanith, after a few rings she answered: "Yes Val, is everything okay?"
"No." Valkyrie replied.
"What? Why – What's happened?"
"I have a major wardrobe emergency."
A few moments later, Valkyrie could hear the engines of Tanith's motorbike outside her house.
'Well that was quick', Valkyrie said to herself.
As Valkyrie opened the door for Tanith, she could see Tanith carrying a bag.
"What's in the bag?" Valkyrie asked while walking back up to her bedroom which now looked like someone bombed the place as there was clothes spread across the room.
Tanith put her bag on top of Valkyrie's bed and slowly unzipped it, obviously to add suspense to Valkyrie's curiosity. Inside the bag was multiple kind's of dressed and shoes, make-up, hair straighter and curlers.
"How did you manage to fit all of this…in there?" Valkyrie asked, sounded quite impressed with Tanith.
"It's called being a woman. Now – let's begin!" Tanith said as she got to work with starting Valkyrie's makeover.
After going through about 5 different dresses and trying to decide what hairstyle to do – Valkyrie was finally ready.
"You never told me what this is all for, Valkyrie." Tanith said, obviously wanting to know the inside details.
"Eh…I'm going out for dinner." Valkyrie replied.
"Oh really? With who? Do I know him? What does he look like?"
"It's um...It's with Skulduggery" Valkyrie said, hesitantly.
Tanith took her, eyes widened, blinking.
"Haha could you repeat that; for a moment I thought you said you were going out with Skulduggery." said Tanith.
"You aren't imagining anything. I am going out for dinner with Skulduggery."
Tanith paused for a moment and then a smile started to slowly grow across her face. Valkyrie just stared back at Tanith, looking rather terrified about what thoughts were running through Tanith's head. Tanith let out a girly squeal and jumped on the spot while clapping her hands – basically looking like your typical teenage girl from high school.
"I'm so happy for you" Tanith exclaimed.
"Okay calm down! I still don't know if this is officially a date or if we are just hanging out as friends so don't be telling this to anyone!" Valkyrie instructed.
Tanith just nodded, with a big Cheshire cat smile.
At 8pm Skulduggery rang Valkyrie's doorbell, he had his façade up for the occasion, just in case there was a possibility of a kiss by the end of the night. Skulduggery always had to be prepared. Moments later he saw a beautiful young woman opening to door wearing a forest green velvet dress that went just below the knee but was tight around her body to emphasis her hour-glass figure with black heeled shoes. Her black hair was tied up into a plaited bun with curls strimming down the side of her face and she was holding a forest green clutch bag to match the dress.
"Woaw…" Skulduggery said, "You look beautiful."
"Thank you." Valkyrie replied, her cheeks going slightly red.
Valkyrie stepped out of the house and closed the front door behind her. They both walked in the direction of Skulduggery's Bentley and Skulduggery opened the passenger door for Valkyrie to step inside.
"Such a gentleman – what is wrong with you tonight?" Valkyrie said, laughing.
"I'm am the personification of what a gentleman should be like." Skulduggery replied as he got into the car, obviously filling up is own ego.
"So where are we going exactly?" Valkyrie asked as they drove down the road.
"Oh, we are just going to this restaurant I know." Skulduggery replied.
Valkyrie's head just slowly turned towards Skulduggery. She obviously knew they were going for dinner so saying they are going to a restaurant didn't exactly answer the question.
"But where though, smartass." She said, smirking slightly as she knew he was just trying to wind her up.
"Well that would just spoil the surprise now, wouldn't it?" Skulduggery replied.
Valkyrie looked at Skuldggery to see him smiling whilst looking at the road in front of him. They finally arrived at the restaurant which Valkyrie noticed was called Del Romo. As they walked inside, they could see each table was candle lit which created a very romantic atmosphere. A waiter approached then and directed them to their table. Skulduggery pulled Valkyrie's chair back, being the personification of a gentleman.
After they both ordered, Valkyrie asked: "So why did you decide to bring me here?"
"Well the food is good, it's got a lovely atmosphere and look over there…" Skulduggery said, pointing over to another table. Valkyrie looked over to where he was pointing, were she could see Kenspeckle, who appeared to be on a date.
"No way" Valkyrie said, laughing slightly at the situation, "How did you even know about this?"
"I overheard him talking to Ghastly about meeting a woman and he was going to take her out on a date. I thought you'd rather enjoy listening in to what might happen." Skulduggery joked.
They both laughed, and Skulduggery slowly slipped his hand into Valkyrie's. Valkyrie's eyes moved up to see Skulduggery's sparkling blue eyes gazing back at her. She smiled.
Then after eating food and having quite a few drinks they decided to leave the restaurant. They both felt slightly tipsy, meaning they were more comfortable with each other to casually flirt back and forth. Valkyrie leaned into Skulduggery, linking arms with him. Due to his upgraded façade, it now allowed him to have skin all over his body, so Valkyrie was able to feel his strong muscular arms which she gave a slight squeeze. Skulduggery looked down at her laughing slightly which made Valkyrie giggle. It didn't take them long to walk back over to the car and soon Valkyrie was standing outside her house with Skulduggery accompanying her to the front door.
'I really enjoyed tonight', Valkyrie said, turning her head towards Skulduggery.
"So did I", he replied smiling back at her.
Valkyrie looked down smiling to herself, but felt Skulduggery's finger go under her chin, gently raising her head up slowly until they were gazing into each other's eyes. He then stepped forward until their lips were only inches apart until finally…
They kissed.
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