Theres always me- band-jaxed

It had been two days since Valkyrie had been rejected. She wasn't very happy at the moment.

But- skulduggery thought- there are some things that can only get better by eating chocolate, sleeping, crying, and having someone to comfort you. And, of course, if you have a sock drawer which is adequately large enough, you could climb into it for a few weeks.

Valkyrie was lying in her bed, crying again. Skulduggery wanted to bang his head of a desk right now. Why did she have to be so miserable? Skulduggery really, really wanted to beat up that American. But, it was against the law. Then again, did he ever obey the law? No.

Skulduggery knocked on her door and heard Valkyrie trying to stop crying when she heard him knock. She didn't answer.

Skulduggery slowly opened the door and stepped in, shutting it behind him.

The room was dark with the curtains drawn. The clock said 11.00 PM.

Skulduggery sat on the bed beside Valkyrie. She was lying on her stomach, not looking at him.

'Valkyrie?' he whispered

'Mmm?' valkyrie choked

'How are you?'

'Mmmm' was all she said

'I don't think Mmm is an emotion Valkyrie' skulduggery commented. Still whispering

'Mmm' she said again

Skulduggery lay down beside her, putting his arms around her and pulling her up onto his chest so he could see her face.

'Will you talk to me properly Val?' he whispered

'Dunno' Valkyrie whispered back. Her voice was hoarse and she sounded sad. Fucking American. Why did people always mess things up for Val? God knows.

'Oh. Well what If I begged you to talk to me- would you?'

There was silence for over a minuet.

'Only if you call me supreme overlord Cain' valkyrie whispered, giggling slightly

Skulduggery winced. He didn't want Valkyrie to think back to the day that all happened.

'Will you just talk to me valkyrie? Please?' skulduggery murmured in her ear.

Valkyrie rested her head on skulduggery's chest just under his chin and scrunched her hand into a fist and put it where skulduggery's heart should be.

'k' she murmured back

'good. Are you ok?'

Valkyrie hesitated

'I don't know' Valkyrie whispered where skulduggery's ear was meant to be

Skulduggery pulled her tighter

'Are you sure you don't want be to kick that guys sorry ass?' skulduggery whispered

PLEASE CAN I KICK THAT GUYS SORRY ASS? The voice in the back of skulduggery head yelled.

Valkyrie giggled as if she'd heard that voice. Which she probably could. It was screaming very loud.

But skulduggery hoped she couldn't hear it. There was some things it said about her that were…inappropriate. Really.

'I'll think about it'

They sat in silence for a bit before skulduggery realised Valkyrie was trembling in his arms. He looked down at her and wiped away the tears running down her cheeks

'What's wrong…love? Skulduggery whispered. He wasn't exactly sure why he was using pet names now. He was turning into Fletcher. Ohhhhhh shit.

Valkyrie wrapped her arms around skulduggery's neck, curling her hands into fists on his collar.

'I hate school' she mumbled into his neck.

'So you've told me'

'But…' she trailed of

'But what Val?'

'But nobody likes me'

'That's nonsense- tanith, ghastly, kenspeckle, fletcher, and me especially'

'No, I mean no boy likes me, you know'

'Valkyrie' skulduggery took her chin in his hand and looked at her 'that's even more rubbish than saying Fletcher is manly. You are beautiful and intelligent and really really annoying. How can anybody not like you?'

Valkyrie smiled grimly

'You're a bad liar skulduggery'

'You think im lying?'

'I know your lieing'

'Valkyrie- if I was lieing I'd be teasing you by now'

'Oh gee thanks'

'Valkyrie- I don't know how you can believe that nobody likes you'

'But its true!' valkyrie sighed, sitting up. Skulduggery sat up too.

'I promise its not'

'Prove it' Valkyrie said softly. She looked like she was going to cry again.

Skulduggery didn't know what he was doing. But his body seemed to know. And a voice at the back of his head was yelling YES! YES! YES! FINALLY MAN! FINALLY! CHICKEN NUGGETS FOR ALL!

He wasn't sure why the voice had just announced chicken nuggets for all but he really didn't care at that moment.

He took valkyries beautiful face in his hand, wrapping his other around her waist, and kissed her full on the lips.

FUCK YEAH! The voice yelled in skulduggery's head. FUCK YEAH MAN! GOD SHE TASTES GORGEOUS!

Skulduggery tried to ignore this voice. It was ruining the moment. Which had surprisingly lasted a long time now.

Valkyrie raised up onto her knees and held his skull in her hands and kissed him again

Skulduggery gripped her waist tight. Or he probably would've fallen off the bed. And that wouldn't of been very sexy.

Valkyrie broke the kiss and smiled wistfully.

The only sound that filed the room was their ragged breathing only that was strange for skulduggery because he didn't need air but who cares?! Its fanfiction. Go fucking wild!

Anyway. The only sound that filled the dark room was their ragged breathing. Skulduggery was still gripping valkyries waist tightly.

Anybody who had been standing outside the room-would think something- to put it plainly- 'erotic'- was going on. And skulduggery's voice at the back of his head actually wanted that. Ok, so it wasn't the voice. It was skulduggery. But we'll blame it on the voice anyway. Valkyrie wanted that too. No, not to blame it on the voice, but the stuff about the erotic crap. God, I need a whiskey.

Anyhow.

Valkyrie rested her head on skulduggery's chest and smiled

'Have I proved my point?' skulduggery murmured

THE HELL YOU HAVE! the voice yelled.

Valkyrie giggled.

Which was strange, because she didn't often giggle like that. Unless she was high on energy drinks.

'I think you've proved your point' she whispered

'Well that's good to hear- don't deny it again or I'll have to kiss you again'

Valkyrie sighed- mockingly.

'well- if you put it that way- nobody likes me' she whispered

Skulduggery smiled, tilted her chin up, and kissed her again.