-Valkyrie's POV-
I don't know what I was thinking.
I blocked calls and texts from everyone, I'm pretty sure Skulduggery even tried. I locked myself up in Gordon's Mansion and stayed there.
It's been two weeks now. No one has bothered try and come to the door. Who would want to? I'm an obnoxious teenager with no friends, no life and in love with a 400 year old skeleton.
Sounds about right.
I'd thrown the dress in the fire in my anger, and watched it simmer and burn. At the thought I clenched my fists, my sharp nails digging into my skin.
And then I heard a knock on my door.
The sound frightened me at first before I realized what it was. I turned in disgust to the door, wondering who the hell would bother.
Slowly I walked up but thought against it and turned and went to my room.
I was only there for 10 minutes, listening to Breathe by Delilah when there was a tapping on the window.
It could only be one person and that made me glare at the curtains covering the window as if he could see.
Another few taps.
"I can hear the music. I know you're there." Came Skulduggery.
Still, I said nothing and did nothing but turn it up louder to drown out the taps.
I didn't hear the window being slid open or the curtains parting, but I did see the shadow that fell over the desk. I turned my head. Said nothing.
"I'm sorry."
Still said nothing.
"I wasn't in control of what I said. I was sort of...maybe drunk."
I turned around and faced him fully.
"I don't care if you were sober or not. The thoughts were still somewhere in your head and you said them. I hardly think you can remember them."
"I do, it's one of he advantages of being a skeleton. And there was no reason to lock yourself up."
"Well, to you, no one really cares for me. I'm just an inconsiderate ass hole who tries to impress every guy she meets." I yelled, turning and walking down stairs.
He followed. "I didn't' mean what I said, Valkyrie!"
"That doesn't mean it didn't hurt."
"I'm not saying it didn't, but I'm saying I wasn't in control of what I said."
"Your argument isn't helping."
"Because it's not making sense or getting through your bloody thick skull!" He then yelled.
I looked at him.
"Out." I said quietly.
"I'm sorry-"
"I said out."
"I didn't man that, Valkyrie please."
"GET OUT!" I screamed.
Skulduggery hesitated before obliging, turning and walking towards the door.
"Your chance of getting me back just made it worse. Don't expect to think you can come back to sort things out."
"Just listen to me." He sighed, turning back around.
"Well, apparently I can't. I'm too thick for someone like you." And with that I turned and walked upstairs into Gordon's study.
I heard the door slam shut.
"Val, you need to calm down." Gordon said s I told him what happened.
"Calm down? You heard what he said to me." I snarled.
"Its an anger build up. Over years, not just because of you. You could be a fragment of his problems. But once in someone's life they have an outburst at the first person that triggers it. Most of what he said might not be about you, no matter if it was in context to sound like it. He tried to explain that but okay, made it worse."
"Damn right he did."
"But you have to see tings from his point of view. Just think to yourself, if he does truly love you then why hasn't he just given up?" He stated.
I stared blankly out the window before leaving the study.
It was 3 AM when I heard the tapping at the window again. I had lost track of time, I think it had been another few weeks.
I was already awake, having not slept well for days.
I stood up and went over to the window, pushing the curtain open and seeing a shadowing figure with a fedora sitting on the window sill.
I made no move to open it.
He switched o hi phone, texted something an then showed me it.
I'm not here to say sorry since you won't accept it but it's easy to tell your dreams have stopped. That's what Yanner wanted, to loose the people you loved and then it would stop. Not all together sure what the purpose is for it but I thought you'd want to know.
I only noticed then that since my birthday my dreams had stopped. Well. That just justifies I don't need him anymore.
I stared a him a moment longer before letting the curtains fall across the window.
Tears streamed down my face and I grabbed the lamp on my table and ditched it at the wall, it smashed loudly and I hissed with pain as a shard of glass hit my arm.
I yanked it out an threw it out the door, crying again. fell to my knee's, feeling warm blood run down my right arm.
Now I really did feel lonely. I felt un loved and un cared for. I felt solitude and judged. I felt like nothing and like a huge black hole was caved into my chest.
Having not noticed the window open and the figure step in, I continued my crying on my knee's with the shattered glass everywhere and my arm uncovered.
Bony arms slowly pulled me onto a lap and embraced me.
Knowing it was him gave me a sense of relief and hatred at the same time. I tried to struggle out of his grip but it tightened and pulled me closer until I relaxed and gripped his coat with clenched fists, sobbing quietly into his suit, curled up in an embrace with his arms around me.
We were like that for hours, until strong, warm sunlight bleached through the curtains on top of us.
Peacefully, I fell asleep.
I was having the same dreams I had before, expect they were going backwards, until it reached when I was standing in the black forest. My pursuer hadn't been the weird dragon after all.
It was Yanner, he was frowning. "How did you beat my curse?"
"It was hardly a curse." I snorted.
"No. Its very powerful."
"I smashed it into little pieces and my friends came to see what as wrong. That's what happened. I never lost anything."
He snarled, "I'll get you, Cain."
With this, his eyes turned to fire and he leaped at me, but before he reached me I woke up with hardly a bead of sweat.
I was in my bed, raining outside and silence in the house
Sitting up, I saw a hunched figure next to me. I poked him.
"Finally."
"How long was I asleep?"
"A few days."
"Right..."
He stood up and held a hand out to me, I took it and stood up with him, he led me downstairs and out side.
"In case you haven't noticed, it's raining." I growled.
"Exactly, so its a romantic moment."
"What's romantic about my hair getting ruined?"
"Your hairs fine." He said simply and cupped my face before kissing me.
Well. Tat was un expected.
Slowly my arms went around his neck and my eyes closed. His held my waist and pulled my closer.
With the rain over our heads and making us drenched, it was like ne of those scenes you expect in Titanic or something.
It went on for a while until we parted and I said, "You're such a doof."
"I try." He said and was about to pull me in for another kiss when the ground erupted between us, throwing us to the ground. anguine straightened his tie and stretched. "Well, sorry to break the moment. But some guy paid me big buck for miss drenched here."
Before I could react from my dazed thoughts he grabbed me and took me down. I tried to reach out to Skulduggery as he dived and tried to grab hold. Out fingers brushed, I tried to cling on.
But I was already gone.
Poor Skulduggery. He finally gets her back and now he's kidnapped.
XD
