A.N. – Hey! So I'm gonna try to upload as much as possible, because I have a lot of songs! I really encourage you to check them all out! Oh, and I forgot from last chapter, I don't own anything, Derek Landy and James Newton Howard do! *Gasp* What if James Newton Howard scored the Skulduggery Pleasant movie? Ok, that's it! I'm writing to Derek Landy about this!

Title: Nelson's Challenge – I changed it to "Fletcher's Challenge"
Album: Flatliners

"Come on Fletcher! Move it!"

"Valkyrie, calm down! I'm not moving from this bathroom until I'm done and you know it!"

"It doesn't take two hours to do your hair! It doesn't take me two hours to do my hair, hell, it doesn't even take me two minutes!"

A brief moment of silence, and then Fletcher, in a hurt voice, "There's no need for hurtful words, Val. And besides," he started up again, "what makes you think that I've been doing my hair for the past two hours? I could've been doing something completely different and you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference!"

An awkward silence ensues…

"Um..."

"I WAS DOING MY HAIR, I SWEAR! MY HAIR AND NOTHING ELSE! I SWEAR!"

"Okay, then..."

"Just my hair."

"Gotcha."

"Hair. Nothing else."

"Yeah, I heard." Valkyrie responded, sighing.

"Good." She heard him breathe an audible sigh of relief and rolled her eyes. "If all you've been doing is your hair, why are you taking so long!"

"Well, your hair isn't a work of art," Fletcher responded, and she heard him squirt a hair gel bottle, "Your hair is blah! BLAH I TELL YOU, BLAH! YOUR. HAIR. IS. BLAH." He said, squirting out some more gel on each word. He continued, "My hair on the other hand, is an artifact. Something to preserve for future generations. In the future, my great-grandkids won't ask about their great-grandpa Fletcher Renn, but about their idol, the one with the great hair." Valkyrie could almost see him staring out into space, swelling up with pride. "In the future," he said, louder than before, "kids in schools all around the world will draw pictures, depicting their favorite hero, and I'll be on every sheet, standing tall and standing proud, with my beautiful locks flowing in the wind. 'Why did you choose him?' their teacher will ask. And them, full of pride will announce that they chose me, me of all people, because..." he got quieter, "because of his hair."

Valkyrie, who had zoned out for most of this, leaned against the door and heard something dripping. "Fletcher," she called out, "are you holding the gel bottle upside down while it's open?"

"Wha-? OH JEEZUS IT'S EVERY-WOAH!" She heard a thud, then a huge squirt. A few seconds pass and then a meek "No..."

Valkyrie was leaning against the door laughing when Skulduggery came up. "May I inquire as to what you are laughing about?" Valkyrie could only dangle her hand in the general direction of the door. He got the idea and tried the door, but finding it locked, broke it down.

They were not ready at all for what they saw next. Valkyrie collapsed on the floor in hysterics, and Skulduggery took off his hat and sighed. Fletcher was doing his hair, all right. He had apparently slipped, and now was jellin' up his hair with his shirt wet with the stuff, back up against the tub, and one foot inside the toilet. He looked up at the disruption and sighed. "I'm doing my hair here!" he chided, perturbed at having to stop. Seeing that they were not going to stop laughing - or in Skulduggery's case, shaking his head – he explained. "Ok, so I was talking to Val and then I realized that the bottle was dripping and I stepped back but I slipped but I couldn't let my beautiful hair go to waste so I started to do it on the ground when I realized my foot was stuck so now I can't get up. Ok?"

They still couldn't breathe because they – both of them now – were laughing so hard.

Fletcher rolled his eyes. "Help me up?"

"Why don't you just teleport?" Valkyrie asked when she got her breath back. Fletcher looked at her like she was stupid for a second, and then stuck his tongue out. The next second and he was standing next to her, pant leg dripping wet. Valkyrie chuckled, and turned as if to kiss him, but grabbed the bottle of hair gel. "I'll just take this!" she said as she ran away.

Skulduggery sighed and trudged after them as he heard, "VALKYRIE CAIN, YOU GIVE THAT BACK! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT MEANS TO ME! FINE! FINE! YOU ASKED FOR IT! I SHALL NOW BRING FORTH…THE WRATH OF THE FLETCH-BOT! YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Later, at a Skulduggery-formed group meeting, he brought this incident up. "Fletcher," he said, sitting down, "I know you don't want to hear this, and that this will be hard for you, but you need to stop touching your hair. At all." Valkyrie burst out laughing at the happy- to- sad- in-less –than-half –a- second Fletcher.

"What?" He managed to choke out. "Take away my pride and joy?"

"Only your hair gel," Skulduggery corrected.

"My baby?" He squeaked. "You want to take away my baby?"

"Yep!"

"But-but-y …. !"

And then he passed out.

The Morning After

"Fletcher, you don't need 4 hours in the bathroom for your hair!"

"Well, I'm sorry, VALKYRIE," he spat out the name in disgust, "but since I don't have anything to keep it together, I'm just going to have to brush it, and brush it, and brush it, and brush it, and brush it, until it's how I want."

Valkyrie groaned in frustration as Fletcher continued to brush. "I'll get you for this," she muttered under her breath.

That Night

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Another clump of hair fell to the floor. And another, and another, and another, and another. "I'm sorry, Fletcher," Valkyrie said to the sleeping Fletcher, "but if you're going to take away my time in the bathroom, I'm just going to have to keep shaving, and shaving, and shaving, and shaving until I get it right…"

A.N. – Sorry the ending was so bad, I was rushing since I only had about 20 minutes to upload it. My dad shuts off the internet at night. It bugs the heck outta me! Anyway, I hope you liked the ending, and I hope you review, seeing how I have none at the time I am writing this. Reviews really motivate me, and I want to be motivated enough to make this longer than 500 chapters. So please review, it makes me feel good, and have a nice day!