Really short I know, hope this is Ok, haven't worked on this for AGES! But quite a few people wanted another chapter, hope this is ok and I know what I want to do, I just need to figure out how it's gonna happen. Enjoy XD
Valkyrie was breathing heavily back in her box.
She could hear all these scrabbling noises and couldn't stop jumping.
She felt like crying, she was constantly terrified and needed her bed.
She needed a hug.
Fletcher wasn't there; she didn't know where he was. Hopefully ok, but with this guy you never knew.
She kept seeing things that she knew weren't there but they were so real, so real.
"Come on Val," she whispered to herself, rocking slowly forwards and backwards. "Skulduggery would laugh at you know if he could see you like this. You need to be strong, you have to get through this. I know but how? This is hopeless, I'm gonna die. No you're not, you can do this. I can't do this. You can do this." Talking to myself now, too crazy for the ceiling, she thought, not a good sign.
The voice watched her. She was breaking. Just how he wanted, no needed, her to be.
The boy too but she was more important.
He'd done his research, found out everything about them, going years back, ever since she'd fought Serpine, he was always watching after that.
He'd been so broken after his wife died that he'd died too. He shut himself off and locked the world out, damning it.
He didn't want to know, it'd snatched his beautiful Claire away, the only person who'd ever loved him.
He wasn't handsome; he wasn't smart; he simply was, bumbling through life, never really expecting anything but snide remarks and a lifetime of being ignored and disappointment.
Then she'd come along, and he could make her laugh, he told her things she never knew and she thought him the most wonderful person in the world, and suddenly he wasn't stumbling through life, he had a meaning, this cruel life suddenly had a meaning.
She was everything anyone could have hoped for, and more than he deserved. Kind, clever, beautiful, funny, loyal, loving, innocent and gone, she was gone. But then he heard about the girl and Skulduggery, and he knew what to do. He no longer wanted to shut out the memories, he wanted to remember them, he wanted revenge.
I'm guessing by now most of you have a pretty good guess already what's going on. If so then PM me and make a guess at what happened the first one to do so will get the next chapter dedicated to them, don't write it in the comment and spoil the story for anyone who hasn't got it yet. :D
R&R please, tell me if I'm wreacking it :)
