A/N: HEY! Yeah, I know this chapter is really short but I kind of lost the 'spark' I had for this story. Please Review!
"You should have seen your face!" Valkyrie laughed at Fletcher as they got off the rollercoaster.
"Shut up. I wasn't ready for the drop, I was busy admiring the view!" he protested.
"Whatever. You screamed like a girl too." she teased.
"Lets go and get lunch." he grumbled.
"Isn't it a little late for lunch? It's like five o'clock." Fletcher shrugged and she put her hand on his shoulder then they teleported to a small restaurant, a few blocks away from her hotel.
"Ladies first." he opened the door to let her in.
"Thank you." they sat down in a booth and a lady came up to them. "Hi, I'm Sandy and what would you like today?"
"I'll have the Beach House Combo One, please."
"I'll have that too." Sandy scribbled the order onto her notepad and walked away. "So how long have you been in Australia?"
"I haven't even been here twenty-four hours yet, and look how much I've done."
"Yeah. So what are you going to do now that you've found the Jewel?"
"I don't know, I was going to relax and enjoy Australia, see some sights and maybe try to get a tan." Valkyrie laughed at the thought.
"A tan? And how would you explain that to your Mum and Dad? How is your family anyways?" Fletcher asked, amused by her laugh.
"I'd think of something. And Mum and Dad are great, Alice is learning how to walk. She's very smart for a one and half-year-old child." A song came on and they fell into an awkward silence looking out the window, out to the harbour. A minute later their food came. Valkyrie didn't realize how hungry she was until her stomach growled noisily at the sight of two sausages, mashed potato, salad and gravy on the plates.
"Oh wow, that looks delicious!" said Valkyrie. Sandy smiled and left them. Valkyrie immediatley began eating, hacking at the sausage and drowning it in gravy. She noticed Fletcher wasn't doing the same. He was eating very sophisticatedly. She frowned at him.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"You. The way your eating. Its-your-." she shook her head. "The way your eating, its more polite than you used to eat."
"Oh. Yeah, well Rachel doesn't like when I pig out on our dates and it's kind of just become routine to eat like this." he said quietly.
"Rachel?"
"Yeah, I forgot to tell you; I have a new girlfriend now." he didn't meet her gaze.
For some reason Valkyrie felt stung. "Oh. W-why didn't you tell me?"
"I just thought you mightn't have wanted to talk about relationships and stuff."
Valkyrie nodded and tried not to look upset. She was the one who had dumped him. Shouldn't she have had another boyfriend and gotten over him, the way he had done to her? Why did she care anyways, she had dumped him, but still she remembered his face when she had told him. How hurt he looked. She regreted saying those things. She still did.
"Valkyrie, are you ok? Do you need something?" Fletcher asked, worried.
"No! I'm fine." Valkyrie felt the tears sting her eyes, but she blinked them back. Crying, she thought, was a sign of weakness. "I feel a bit sick, I'm just going to sit outside for a minute."
"Okay, but if it's about me not telling you about Rachel, then I'm sorry." He let her leave the booth and watched her walk out the door then turn left, out of his sight.
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Skulduggery sat in his meditating position, in a large green chair at the hotel room. Today had gone well, but it had been bad too. They had managed to get the Remnant Jewel, but Darquesse had taken over. It was lucky she did. She had saved Valkyries life, but Skulduggery knew that the only way she had gone back was because she had hurt him. maybe if Darquesse hadn't hurt him, Valkyrie wouldn't have fought as hard. He was thinking about what could have happened, when he heard the door open.
Valkyrie walked past him, into the bedroom. He slowly got up and walked to to the door. "Valkyrie?" he knocked on the door. "Are you alright?"
He heard a shuffling sound and a grunt. "OW! I'm alright, I'm fine." "Are you sure? You don't sound alright." A second later the door opened and Valkyrie was standing in the doorway in her black pants, a glittery black singlet and red high heels. "I'm going out."
"Out where? Did something happen with Fletcher?" he asked, letting her pass to the living room.
"Just for a walk out, I'll be fine. And don't worry about me." she had a glass of water and looked at him. "How do I look?"
"Valkyrie, you always look great. Just watch out for any bad guys, though it should be the other way around."
She laughed and left the room. He sighed and went back to the green chair. Just as he was about to slip into meditation his phone rang.
"Hello." he said.
"Hello Skulduggery, is Valkyrie there? I tried ringing her but she won't answer."
"Fletcher, I'm sure she has a reason not to answer your call so I suggest you stop trying. If she wants to talk to you, she will." It stayed silent on the other end for a while.
"Well when you see her tell her I said sorry and that I'd like to talk to her again."
"Fine. Good bye Fletcher." Skulduggery hung up before Fletcher could say goodbye.
He walked back to his seat and slipped into meditation.
