The chapping wouldn't stop. What was with that man? Why did he always have to be so persistent? He had been tapping the window for going on two minutes now and had failed to notice that the window was unlocked; all he had to do was slide it up from the outside.
Another long minute later the tapping stopped. By this time Valkyrie was wide awake and only staying huddled under the duvet out of sheer laziness. She heard footsteps on the carpet next to the window then Skulduggery spoke "Were you ever going to let me in?"
"I knew you'd find your way in eventually." Valkyrie fake-yawned.
"I'm glad you have confidence in me and all but you really could have opened the window." She felt him sitting on the foot of the bed "Just to be nice."
Valkyrie squirmed, her head peaking over the top of her covers, glaring at him. "What's the emergency?"
"No emergency." He said brightly. Skulduggery would have been smiling if he had lips.
"Then why did you come chapping on my window at" Valkyrie looked over at her alarm clock. "Oh crap!" She squealed. It was already twelve and she was supposed to have done all of her chores an hour ago ready for her mother coming home from work.
"What?" Skulduggery asked confusedly as Valkyrie threw off the duvet and ran for the wardrobe, grabbed some new clothes and dashed for the bathroom to change. If she was going to have all the chores done she was going to need her reflection's help too. Maybe she could even rope Skulduggery into help washing the kitchen table...
Val turned on the shower and proceeded to wash herself, shaking her hair in an attempt to get it wet so much that there were splashes on the mirror. She heard Skulduggery lean on the outside of the door. "Valkyrie?"
"What?" Val yelled over the shower.
"Were you supposed to have done something?" Val could tell he was displaying his genius "Like, I don't know, chores?"
"You're a genius!" Sarcasm not leaving her voice "Do you mind helping?"
"I don't know... There's a bit of an emergency."
"I thought you said-... What's the emergency?" Val sighed, giving in, turning off the shower and quickly getting dressed. Skulduggery didn't answer.
When she tried to push open the door at first it wouldn't budge, Skulduggery had been leaning on it all right. He stepped out of the way, took one look at her dripping wet hair and asked "Do you want me to-?"
As she sped for the hairbrush she just nodded and before she could reach her bedroom mirror she was bone dry. Dragging a brush threw her tangled hair Val decided to ask again "What's the emergency?"
"Oh. No emergency." Skulduggery said brightly.
"I am going to kill you." Valkyrie spat, glaring, she let the hairbrush drop to her side. As Skulduggery moved his jaw to speak Val cut him off "Yes, I know you're already technically dead but don't you worry, I'll think of something."