This doesn't follow my own fics, but oh well it was fun to write! Hope you guys enjoy! Blood and violence in this.

"Where are we going?" Valkyrie asked. They were in the Bentley, and had been driving for far too long. In Valkyrie's opinion. Skulduggery sighed.

"We're backup." He said, his sockets on the road. He was driving very fast. Valkyrie looked at him.

"We're backup?" She asked incredulously. Skulduggery nodded.

"I don't know why you're so surprised. We call backup all the time. Would be rude if we didn't provide backup once in while."

"Who are we backing up?"

"You'll see."

"No no, oh no. Who? Tell me!" She insisted. Skulduggery sighed again. He didn't say anything for a moment.

"My sister. And some old friends" He finally.

Ezra Bloom, Dexter Vex and Saracen Rue had vastly underestimated this whole situation. They knew this, for sure, because they were currently running for their lives. Their feet pounded through the corridors but they knew the vampires were behind them and picking up speed. They also knew this because they each sported very ugly, very painful injuries. Ezra sharply veered right, the two men following. She ran into a dark room, and when Dexter and Saracen were in the room too, she slammed the door. She lit the room up with her magic, and jammed a chair under the door handle. Saracen and Dexter moved a bookcase in front of the chair. The three were breathing heavily. Saracen's ankle was probably broken, Dexter's head had a very concerning gash on it and Ezra had been thrown through a window and was covered in tiny cuts. Her stomach was wet and sticky with blood, but she didn't look because she knew that if she looked it would be real, and real meant pain, so she didn't look. Various bruises and cuts littered the three sorcerers. Things were broken or dislocated of fractured. But they couldn't stop to dwell on it. Not now.

"Remind me why we did this again?" Dexter panted.

"They're coming." Saracen said, "Twenty seconds and they will realize we are here. Thirty more seconds til they break through. When will Skulduggery be here?!" He asked, his breath hitching as he tried to get it back.

"We decided to take initiative and be good guys." Ezra breathed.

"Let's not do that again." Dexter said, as pounding and hissing and scratching was heard from the other side of the door. There weren't any windows, and even if there was they were thirty stories up. Ezra couldn't support the three of them. So they backed up, Ezra unfolding her Arnis and setting it alight, Dexter summoning magic. Saracen loaded a gun. The bookcase flew as the door aggressively swung open. Everyone fired but there was seven vampires and they were gaining. They were going to lose. But then one caught fire as another gun went off.

"Thank god." Ezra breathed. She twirled her Arnis, hitting and burning a vampire at the same time. Skulduggery burst through the door, followed by a young girl with dark hair. The young girl threw another fire ball, hitting a vampire in the back. Dexter sent an energy stream at another, throwing it off its feet. One grabbed for the girl, but Ezra hit it repeatedly until it fell but didn't get back up again. The girl stared at her for a moment, but then Ezra yelled "GET DOWN!" As three more vampires swarmed the door. Skulduggery blew a strong gust of wind that threw the vampires to the back of the room.

"Get out!" He roared and the other four sorcerers ran. Skulduggery joined them, another gust of wind slamming the door shut.

"What did you do?" He asked Ezra, appalled.

"I thought it'd be easy!" She said, annoyed.

"There were ten vampires in there, Ezra. Ten."

"There was only supposed to be three!"

"And you thought you could take three vampires? At night?"

"I thought three of us could take on three vampires! I may have underestimated it, okay?!"

"May have? You may have?" They were running downstairs now, hastily running as fast as they could.

"I'm alive! Barely hurt!"

"Because me and Valkyrie ran every red light getting here! If I get a ticket, you're paying! And there is blood pouring from three parts of your body, Ezra!"

"Are you serious? It's been nearly a century since we seen each other, and you're telling me about tickets!"

"It's been nearly a century and the first time we see each other because you got yourself into something you shouldn't have!" The vampires were behind them, a few flights up. Saracen was grunting, his ankle causing him grief. Valkyrie was out of breath and very much so wanted to stop running. They burst through the fire exit doors, into the outside world and the Bentley was unlocked as they piled in. The vampires ran out of the building, but Skulduggery was already driving away. Everyone bar Skulduggery was breathing heavily. Ezra hissed in pain.

"What? What is it?" Skulduggery asked, his before bickering forgotten about, his voice etched with concern.

"You know when you stop being busy and then pain suddenly kicks in? That just happened." Ezra said. She was sat in the middle. Valkyrie opened the glove box and took out a bag of leaves, passing it back.

"Jesus," Dexter breathed. Valkyrie turned around in her seat and gasped. Ezra was drenched in sweat and pale, her before blue shirt damp from blood. She was furiously chewing a leaf. A large shard of glass was sticking out of her belly. "Don't you have Ghastly's clothes?" Valkyrie asked. Ezra smiled weakly.

"So you've met Ghastly? Great guy. I haven't seen him in nearly a hundr- OH MY GOD!" Ezra screeched. Saracen had pulled the glass out. Ezra leaned her head back and gritted her teeth, Dexter's hand clutched tightly in her's.

"Is she okay?" Skulduggery asked, driving far too fast to be legal.

"I need something to stop the bleeding." Saracen said.

"I have clothes in the boot." Valkyrie said and Skulduggery sharply pulled over. Valkyrie quickly got out, and ran to the boot, grabbing the back pack and taking out a fleecy jumper and a t-shirt just in case. She got back, Skulduggery holding a flame to illuminate the car. Valkyrie passed the clothing items back and Dexter gingerly laid Ezra down on his lap. There was huge, ugly gash on her belly, blood pumping out of it. Saracen lifted her top and pressed the jumper onto it and Ezra howled.

"Drive, Skulduggery." Dexter said urgently. Skulduggery put out the fire and drove with a vengeance. He had to go to Grouse.

Kenspeckle Grouse thought for sure it would be Valkyrie Cain when he heard the all too familiar sound of the Bentley pull up at four in the morning. He was very surprised when Skulduggery and Valkyrie, unharmed, ran in, with Saracen following them, and Dexter holding a nearly unconscious Ezra in his arms.

"It's been years." He said, dumbfounded. Dexter and Saracen smiled sheepishly, but then Grouse moved into a back room.

"Lay her down here." He said. Dexter gently laid Ezra on the operating table, and Ezra moaned, her hand searching for Dexter, He grabbed it and held it.

"Get out, get out all of. I will tend to you two trouble makers after. Valkyrie, a pleasure as always. Skulduggery- well, Skulduggery." He said. The four left Grouse to work on Ezra. They sat outside the room, behind the movie screen.

"I don't believe we've met." Saracen said, holding a hand out. Valkyrie shook it.

"Hello. I'm Valkyrie Cain." She said, the name still made her feel cool.

"You're the one causing all the trouble." Dexter Vex said with a grin. Valkyrie really, really liked Dexter Vex.

"Causing trouble seems to be what she does best." Skulduggery said.