Warning! This chapter contains sexual themes!
"What makes you think we will meet each other again?" Valkyrie asked and looked Skulduggery in the eyes. In them she could still see the glimpses of surprise and understanding, but also a new one: curiosity.
"A feeling I have. It tells me that this is just the beginning, that something is about to happen. Something that will change our lives as we know it. Don't you feel it as well? I can see on you that you have also noticed it." Skulduggery took a harder grip on her hand and once again Valkyrie could feel and see the electricity that excisted between the two of them.
She could not do anything but nod. She still did not know what it meant, but she had a guess. Considering the tingling she had felt between her legs earlier, she was attracted to Skulduggery. She did not know if it only was because he looked good and that it had been a while since she last had intercourse, or if she actually wanted to sleep with this mister Pleasant. She had never been cheating before or even thought about other men under the 10 years she and Fletcher had been a couple.
Could it be that she had started to become... bored? Was she searching for something new, something fresh and invigorating?
She tore her gaze from Skulduggery and once again turned her gaze to the road while she let go of of his hand, since she had noticed that she was nearing the ditch. She had no intentions whatsoever to cause an accident. Especially not when she had another person with her in the car that she did not know if she would be able to keep her hands from if something... intimate... would occur between them.
"So, do you want to tell me a little more about yourself, Skulduggery?" asked Valkyrie to have something else to talk about before the mood in the car would become awkward. "Where do you work? Not here in Haggard, then I would have seen you."
Skulduggery gave her a gaze that told Valkyrie that the previous topic was not finished discussed but he answered her question. "No, I do not work in Haggard. I am working in Roarhaven, a city around one hours car drive away from here. You have probably heard about it. It is kind of infamous for being a town where only the bravest dare to live. It is there all the worst are living, the most criminal. Which also is the reason to why I am working there. I want excitment and challenges. What else is the meaning of being a detective? Especially after I lost my wife and child. To be a detective is the only thing I have left now."
Valkyrie was filled with a sadness towards Skulduggery. He was so young and had already been through so much. He had a job he loved and that he probably had worked with for some years now. He had found love and formed a family, but had also experienced how it feels when it is taken away from you.
"How long have you been working as a detective? I have been working with it for five years and I started when I was 20."
"Are you really just 25? I know that you shouldn't talk about a womans age and all that, but you look a lot younger." Skulduggery gave her a flirtatious smile that Valkyrie answered. "I have been a detective since eight years back and I also graduated when I was 20 years old."
Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. "Are you 28? And I that thought we were the same age! You also look like you are younger than you really are."
Skulduggery laughed and the atmosphere was once again back to normal. "That I am taking as a compliment, Valkyrie."
"The pleasure was all mine."
Without them noticing they were now in Haggard. They just drove past the pier Valkyrie had played at so often in her childhood together with her friends and family. They would soon be at the downtown where she would let Skulduggery out. The thought made her become sad. She had really liked Skulduggery's company and did not want to part from him, while she at the same time knew it was the right thing to do. She should really drive home to Fletcher and crawl down in the bed together with him.
Before she had time to stop herself she heard herself say "You know what? I do not want you to become soaking wet again now that you just have dried. Where do you live? I'll drive you home. It will not be such a long detour for me and I have nothing against it."
"Are you sure? I do not want to impose." Skulduggery looked at her and when he saw the determination in Valkyrie's eyes he nodded. "Okay. I live on Cemetery Road. Do you know where that is?"
"The house next to one of those two funeral homes? Yes, I know where that is. Excuse me for saying this, but it seems a bit morbid to live next door with the dead."
"As I told you before my dear Valkyrie, I am not directly what people would call 'normal'. You would on the other hand understand why I like to live on Cemetery Road after hearing the two men that owns the funeral homes argue with each other. It is actually quite entertaining when they stand at each end of their fences and yell insults at each other."
Valkyrie laughed. "I can imagine that. Those two have a reputation here in town not being able to resist the chance to argue as soon as they get the oppurtunity. Let me guess. When you are bored you usually sit on the porch and listen to them and laugh quietly for yourself. Am I close?"
Skulduggery looked at her in surprise under a few seconds before he laughed. "It sounds as if you already know me, Valkyrie! Are you sure that it is not you who have been spying on me?"
Valkyrie laughed again. "The reason to why I said so is because it sounds like something myself and Gordon could have done when he was still alive. Be it that I have no patience with and he had no patience with idiots, but that does not mean that we thought it was fun to listen to them."
"For some strange reason I do not get surprised of what you just said." Skulduggery got something compassionate in his eyes. "You miss him a lot, don't you?"
Valkyrie got at least as surprised as Skulduggery when tears rose in her eyes and poured down along her cheeks. She did not dare to stroke them away from fear of that she would lose control over the car. "So... sorry", she sobbed. "I do not know what came over me. I usually do not cry infront of others."
Skulduggery leaned closer and stroked away her tears with his fingertips. The feeling of having someone else who understood her pain next to her just made the tears pour faster down her cheeks. As soon as Skulduggery stroked them away new ones came to take their place. Luckily Valkyrie could se Skulduggery's house just a few hundred meters in front of them and the relief rose inside her.
"We... are here..." she managed to sob and glanced up at Skulduggery at the same moment that she parked the car next to his house.
Skulduggery said nothing. Instead he unbuttoned both his and her seat belt before he opened the passanger door. Then he laid his arms around her in an embrace while he lifted her up. Valkyrie shouted of surprise but did not protest when Skulduggery carried her over to the house after having closed the car door and locked the car. He unlocked the house door and they walked into a dark hallway. Skulduggery lit the hall lamp and a soft shine fell over them. He then carried her over to the living room where he sat down in the couch and laid her head against his shoulder. "So. Now you can cry without anyone else having to see, Valkyrie."
"But... You are here..." Valkyrie mumbled against Skulduggery's shoulder.
"I do not count. Furthermore I can not see you cry if you have your head in my shoulder, can I? Now then, let it come out. I am here for you."
By those words Valkyrie could not hold it back anymore. She took a hard grip around Skulduggery's shirt collar and buried her face in his shoulder while the tears poured. She tried to hold back the sobs that wanted to get out from her throat, but it was in vain and soon she gave up the tries of keeping them back. Instead she let all of her sorrow and missing flow out of her and to her surprise it felt really nice to be able to cry together with a total stranger. Because that's what Skulduggery was.
A stranger.
Skulduggery kept holding her while he stroked her back and hair. He whispered calming words in her ear and his voice made Valkyrie shiver of pleasure between the sobbings. She did not know what to believe or think about everything that had happened to her since she had met Skulduggery Pleasant. She had discovered sides of herself that she did not know existed and she still did not know what she thought of them. Were they good, bad or something in between?
She found herself thinking that something like this she would never have been able to do together with Fletcher. There just did not exist in her world picture that if she became really sad or depressed just would walk up to Fletcher and sit in his lap to let the tears pour out of her. Instead she would have locked herself in the bathroom, in their bedroom or taken a drive in her car to being able to clear her thoughts.
As she had been telling Skulduggery before: she was not a person that cried in front of others. What was it then in this case that got her to completely sonika let this stranger lift her up in his lap to then cry against his shoulder? What was it with Skulduggery that meant that she could totally trust him, but not the man she claimed to love?
As if Skulduggery had read her thoughts he looked down at her in the same moment that she lifted up her face to look up at him. Their faces were just a few centimeters away from each other and Valkyrie could once again feel that attraction between the two of them. She could see in Skulduggery's eyes that he also felt it and without she knowing why they were doing it, they leaned closer and closer towards each other until their lips met in a kiss.
The attraction that had been laying slumbering between them from the moment they had laid eyes on each other now literally exploded in an ocean of desire. The kiss soon turned into a tongue war. They pressed against each other, wanted to get as close to the other as possible but it still was not enough. They wanted more than kisses. They wanted to explore each other, touch each other, see each other.
Skulduggery laid down Valkyrie on the couch and pushed his body against her. Valkyrie let her hands stroke against Skulduggery's back, hair and chest while she pushed her own body against him. Her whole body seemed to burn and the only thing she wanted was to feel Skulduggery inside of her. She had never wanted anyone as much as she just now wanted Skulduggery.
They broke off their kisses to catch their breath and when they looked each other in the eyes they could see the desire they both felt for the other. They both knew they could not back now. There was no return anymore. If so their lifes had been in danger they could not have prevented what was about to happen. For some reason which none of them could understand they were attracted to each other by some unknown force.
They both were breathing strained and Valkyrie could not help but observe Skulduggery's face. He was so beautiful, so unlike anyone else she had met before... He was an angel in human form, too beautiful for this world. She wanted to see him naked, she wanted to inspect whole him from top to toe and she wanted him to do the same with her. She wanted their bodies to melt together and become one.
Why am I doing this? I am together with Fletcher, for God's sake! I should not be doing this, it's wrong! Infidelity is wrong, that's not who I am... or? Oh my God, I want him so much it hurts me inside! What should I do? What Fletcher does not know can not hurt him, right? It's not like I'm going to leave him for Skulduggery. This is just a one-time occasion.
Valkyrie's thoughts were interrupted by Skulduggery that stroked her cheek. She returned to reality and once again felt how her heart beat hard, how her body burned from bated desire and how close their bodies were to each other. "Valkyrie, what is happening? Why do I want you so much, even though we have only knew each other under such a short time? What is it with you that makes me not being able to control myself?"
"I could ask you the same thing, Skulduggery. I can not control myself either. I have never felt like this before. There is something with you, something that I am attracted to. What this something is, I do not know, but I do not care either." Valkyrie took off Skulduggery's suit jacket and then started to unbutton his shirt. She never let go of his gaze and in the same moment that the shirt fell off him she kissed him while she let her hands explore his neck, shoulders, collarbones, chest and and waist. His skin was so soft and he was covered in muscles that tightened so nicely at the same moment that she touched them.
Skulduggery shivered from her touch and gave out a low moan in her mouth that also made Valkyrie shiver. She felt how Skulduggery pulled off her jacket to then let his hands find their way under her t-shirt where he unbuttoned her bra. Then he let the both garments get pulled off her and now they both lay half-naked in the sofa. Skulduggery started to massage her breasts unbearably slowly och Valkyrie pushed them up against his hands while she moaned. She bent her head backwards while she at the same time pushed her throbbing gender against Skulduggery's bump that could be be surmised in his pants. As soon as their genders touched each other both detectives moaned loud.
Valkyrie continued to move her gender against Skulduggery's and he let his lips kiss her throat and neck to then continue down towards her collar bone and at last stop by her breast. He slowly let his tongue circulate around her nipple while his hand continued to massage her other breast. His other hand stroked her waist and hip.
"Oh, Skulduggery..." Valkyrie moaned and bent herself more backwards so that he would get better access. "So good..."
Skulduggery laughed and pulled down the zipper in her jeans. Then he realeased his grip on her breasts and bent down over her waist. He gave her stomach kisses light as a feather while he pulled down her pants. He stopped for a second and looked her in the eyes. Valkyrie nodded and Skulduggery understood that she gave her permission. He looked at her swollen lips, stiff nipples and waist. She was so beautiful and then he had not even seen the lower parts of her yet.
Slowly Skulduggery took off Valkyrie her shoes, socks and pants. Now she only lay in her underwears under him. He let his fingertips stroke along the top of her feet first to then let them find their way up along her legs. He could see how she shivered from his touch and he smiled to himself when he thought about what would come next. She would be doing a lot more than just shiver before he was done with her...
Slowly, so unbearably slowly, Skulduggery pulled his fingers along the outside of Valkyrie's underwears. She moaned and pushed up her gender against his fingers. God, he was so good at teasing her! Her lust towards him just grew and grew the more he touched her. She was so wet, so horny... She wanted him inside of her right now! "Please, Skulduggery..."
Skulduggery smiled and pulled off her underwears. It did not take many seconds before Valkyrie could feel two fingers that massaged her inside while at the same time a tongue licked her clitoris. She bent her back backwards in an arc and moaned loud. She started to move in the tact of Skulduggery's fingers and the feeling they and his tongue gave her made her tremble in pleasure. Oh, it had been such a long time since someone had touched her in this way... She understood first now how long it had been.
She pushed harder against him and grabbed his hair while waves of pleasure went through her. She could not hold the orgasm back much longer if Skulduggery continued with his treatment. She wanted to let go, but still not since she was afraid that Skulduggery would think that she was satisfied and stop without having becoming a part of her.
His fingers pushed deeper into her and Valkyrie thought she would faint from the pleasure that arose. Skulduggery had found her G-spot! Oh, god! She felt it as if she would melt, so good it was. "Valkyrie, let go..." His voice, that velvety voice... Valkyrie could not hold it back any longer but let go and came with such force that she screamed out Skulduggery's name out loud at the same time as her entire body was coursing with spasms.
Skulduggery pulled out his fingers from her and gave her a moment to regain her breathing. He looked down at her with such a desire that Valkyrie thought she would be able to come again just by looking into his eyes. She sat up on her elbows and let her hand stroke Skulduggery's cheek. "That was... amazing. Thank you."
"It was nothing." Skulduggery smiled and took her hand in his. "Come."
Valkyrie stood up and would have fallen if it had not been for Skulduggery's hand. Her legs trembled and felt like gelly. On unsteady legs she followed Skulduggery to a bedroom with only a single bed, a wardrobe and a window. Skulduggery put her by the edge of the bed and took her in his arms before he gave her a slow kiss. Valkyrie kissed him back while she unbuttoned his pants. She helped him out of them and then lay down on the bed with Skulduggery on top.
"Take me... Make love to me, Skulduggery Pleasant..."
"With pleasure, Valkyrie Cain..."
In the same moment that his penis penetrated her vagina Valkyrie exploded. She was filled with so many emotions at the same time. Pleasure, desire, shame but also an affinity. It was as if she had found home, as if it was here that she was meant to be, in Skulduggery's arms. As if she had only been half a person before and that now finally had found her lost half.
Skulduggery began to move and she followed in his pace. He took it slowly at the beginning, in fear of hurting her but when he noticed that she wanted more he began to move faster. Valkyrie pushed herself harder against him and laid her legs around his hips so that he could come even deeper. They moaned against each others necks and Valkyrie dug down her nails in Skulduggery's back when he hit an extra sensitive spot. They pushed even harder against each other, more desperate. It was as if they could not come deep enough, not close enough to each other.
After what felt like an eternity Valkyrie noticed how a new orgasm started to build up in her. She pressed harder, faster against Skulduggery and felt how he also began to reach climax. She pressed her body as close as she only could against him and in the same moment that Skulduggery bit her neck she came with such violence that she saw black dots in front of her eyes. "Skulduggery!" she screamed and dug down her nails so deep in his back that she felt how the skin broke.
"Valkyrie..." Skulduggery whispered in her ear and filled her with his hot sperm.
The both lovers sank down onto the bed and Skulduggery pulled out of her. Valkyrie turned her head towards him and gave him a tired smile. "You are incomparable... I have never... experienced something that... even comes close... to what we... just did..." Valkyrie said with a strained voice.
Skulduggery laughed low and bent down over her. He gave her a kiss which was full of feelings and that got Valkyrie's whole body to pulsate with warmth. She laid down comfortably against his shoulder and before any of them knew it they had fallen asleep.
When Valkyrie woke it was still dark, but the light of the early dawns first rays could be seen in the horizon. First she could not understand where she was, but then the memories came back to her. She looked up and could see Skulduggery's beautiful face that slept peacefully above her. He had laid one of his arms around her and held her in a loose embrace.
She sat up carefully not to wake Skulduggery. She gave his cheek a soft kiss, stretched herself and gave him one last longing gaze. Then she got upp, walked to her clothes in the living room, got dressed and looked around. When she had found what she had been looking for she sat down on the couch and wrote a letter. When she felt finished she walked out of the house, sat in the car and drove home to Fletcher, her boyfriend.
She threw one last gaze at the house on Cemetery Road in the rearview mirror before she turned back her gaze on the road ahead of her. Despite what she had wrote in the letter she had a feeling of that she and Skulduggery would meet again. Under which circumstances these would be, she had never been able to imagine...
Dear Skulduggery Pleasant
Thank you for tonight. It was fantastic and unlike anything I have ever done or experienced before. Despite this it is with sadness in my heart that I have to beg you not to contact me any more times. I am already in a relationship and I want to give it a chance. I will never forget you or what we experienced together, but it ends here. If my life had looked different we may maybe have been able to become something more than just a shoulder to cry out on. As it looks now, however... I am so sorry...
I wish you all luck.
Sincerely, Stephanie Edgley, alias Valkyrie Cain
And there we go! Now the story will really start to get interesting. Please tell me if you have some ideas about what's going to come next or if you have any ideas that you think I should consider put in future chapters :)
