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-Recap-
She unlocker her Samsung Diva and Melissa Edgely's voice blared from the phone so suddenly that Valkyrie nearly dropped it.
She reluctantly put the phone to her ear, wincing at the volume.
"What? Beryl showed you a picture of me? I- what cult? I- I'll be right over."
"Looks like Beryl actually knows how to use a cameraphone."
"It does look like that."
"We'd better go."
"We'd better."
...
A black Bentley pulled up outside a large enough semi-detached house in Haggard.
A teenage girl dressed completely in black stuck her head out of the car to make sure no-one was looking, then got out of the car and ran, jumping when she got near the window.
Valkyrie Cain soared up through the air, much higher than is humanly possible and landed on the upstairs windowsill.
She fumbled with the latch and opened the window.
When she got into the room, she dragged off her clothes and looked desparately around for something that wasn't black and made by a certain magical tailor.
Then Valkyrie was dressed in a pair of tartan skinny jeans and a grey Flinstones t-shirt and she jumped back out the window.
A few seconds later Stephanie Edgley came in through the front door.
"Mam? What was that call abou-"
"STEPHANIE EDGLEY!" This time it was her father that yelled.
For the first time in a while, she felt scared.
She mentally berated herself. So, she thought, you can fight a part-god, and go into a dimension of gods and be prepared to try to fight them, but your PARENTS still scare you? Pathetic.
Desmond Edgley burst through the kitchen door. Her mother was in Tesco.
"What did I ask you? Why did you lie? Stephanie, why did you do this?"
Valkyrie looked at them blankly.
"Dad, I have no idea what you are talking about."
He almost snorted.
"Don't act stupid. Beryl came around and showed us a picture she took of you, in a car with a man we have only seen twice in our entire lives. And he was Gordon's friend. That guy from some cult."
She had nothing to say to that.
He looked into her eyes.
"Steph, I've told you about this- this madness. Gordon was obsessed with it, and my grandfather- I don't want to lose you to it as well," he said, tears coming into his eyes.
"DAD. I am not part of a cult, and I am not mad. And you're not losing me to anything."
Desmond blinked.
"But, it was definitely you in the picture... Stephanie,what's going on?" he asked weakly, sitting down on a kitchen chair.
Valkyrie had a sudden idea. So she swallowed her dignity and proceeded.
"Umm... I was kind of hoping I didn't have to tell you like this, but... I was in the car with my boyfriend's dad."
He did a double take.
"What? But... you're only sixteen! You're too young for boyfriends!" he cried.
She couldn't help but smile.
"Dad - I am not too young," she said softly.
A resigned look came over his eyes.
"Fine. I want to meet him. Now."
She forced a smile onto her face.
"Okay! I'll call him!" she positively squeaked.
She ran up to her room, panicking.
Valkyrie punched Fletcher's number in on her phone.
"Fletch, my dad wants to meet you. You have to come over right now," she said breathlessly.
There was a pop and suddenly Fletcher Renn was standing in her room.
"No! You have to go in through the front door," she demanded.
He frowned. "Why?"
"BECAUSE! If you come down from my room, what the hell is my dad going to think?"
His expression cleared. "Good point."
And with another pop he was gone again.
The doorbell rang.
Desmond stood up and frowned. "That couldn't be him already.
She plastered another fake smile onto her face.
"Yeah, he moves fast."
The furrow in her father's brow deepened. "That had better not be some sort of... hint."
She shuddered.
Valkyrie flung the door open and was nearly blasted backward by the power of the smile that was threatening to rip Fletcher's face in half.
She rolled her eyes and swept her arm to invite him in.
He stepped forward, the beaming grin still on his face.
Desmond Edgley had a small smile on his own face as he held out his hand to shake.
Fletcher shook his hand with an almost painful ferocity, pumping his wrist up and down.
Valkyrie's father raised his eyebrows.
He walked into the living room, indicating that Valkyrie and her boyfriend follow.
Fletcher walked into the room in an almost 1920's Charlestown style.
She couldn't help but laugh.
As they sat down, her dad asked Fletcher a question.
"So, how did you meet my Stephanie?"
"..." Then he realised that Stephanie must be Valkyrie's given name.
Valkyrie was impressed at how he managed to talk without lessening the power of the beam that was almost connecting his ears.
"Oh! That's an interesting story, actually..."
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"Well, Fletcher had better be going home now, hadn't you?" asked Valkyrie with a pointed glare.
"Umm... yeah! My mum will probably be looking for me, so..." he replied.
"I'll... accompany you back home. Is that okay, dad?" she asked.
"I suppose that's fine."
The young couple stood up and made their exit.
Fletcher took her arm once they got outside.
"Wait! My dad will be looking for us walking down the path!"
So they walked to the end of the road, made sure no-one was looking and teleported.
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Desmond Edgley sat back in his chair,satisfied. He seemed like a nice kid. Someone that would look after his Stephanie.
And he had that natural English charm. Must be the London accent, he thought.
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The teenagers ended up in the hotel room Fletcher was currently staying in in the Gresham hotel.
"Damn, teleporting is scary."
He smiled his cute smile at her and walked up to a mirror to check his hair.
"I swear. Sometime, I will yank your hair off in the middle of a teleportation and you will never find it."
"Hey, if I go bald you go bald too."
"Been there, done that. Never again."
Fletcher looked stunned.
"...You were bald?"
"Bad experience with Dusk earlier."
His eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"You were bald TODAY?"
She waved it away. "Kenspeckle's science magic helps speed up the regrowth."
"You wouldn't be you bald. You hair is so pretty," he said, running his hands through it.
She hadn't realised until then, but her and Fletcher's faces were less than an inch apart.
He decided to close that gap.
His lips met hers, and her arms went up around his neck.
He had one hand on the small of her back, pressing her against him and the hand that was still in her hair fisted, tugging her closer with every kiss.
Fletcher opened his mouth and very lightly, trailed his tongue over her bottom lip. She took the hint.
Her mouth opened as well, and their tongues met with a fiery passion that she had never experienced before.
Valkyrie moved her hands to his hips, pulling herself as close to him as she could possibly get without fusing into one being.
She ended up pushed against the wall, still making out with Fletcher.
Her tongue explored his mouth while his hands explored her body.
And then his phone rang.
They jumped apart and Fletcher looked for his mobile.
He flipped it up and Green Day stopped playing.
And the shouting replaced it.
"Déja vú," muttered Valkyrie.
She recognised that voice.
"Damn! Will you STOP SHOUTING," he said.
Skulduggery burst through the door.
Valkyrie spun around, but Skulduggery's momentum carried him into her.
They ended up on the bed, him on top of her.
Fletcher looked pissed and dragged her off the double bed.
"COME ON," screamed Skulduggery.
He pulledboth of them by the wrist and out the window he went.
They were falling, falling, falling.
And the Gresham exploded.
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