A/N

Thanks everybody for all of you support with my story. It started with a sentence on a sticky note and now it's turned into a story that i keep on adding too. I'm glad everybody likes its and I'll try to keep updating on it though my rough draft stops after these next two chapters and I would be more then happy to have any ideas of where the story might go or if you have any characters that you want to add in and what they look like. Like I said I am open to any suggestions or add ins. Hope like this chapter and I'll try to update as soon as I have some time.

Skyler S.

Valkyrie gasped when she saw everybody. Ghastly stood at the front with a wide grin on his face. It took her a few seconds but she recognized a younger Dexter, a thinner younger Saracen, A shorter yet still handsome Erskine l and a short haired Anton. Two other men were also standing there that Valkyrie didn't know but she almost had to laugh at their identical joyous expressions.

Skulduggery gently set Valkyrie down after coming inside the house and shutting the door behind him with his foot. "Well did you do it?" Dexter asks excitedly.

Skulduggery looks down at his feet and scuffs it against the floor. "Well um... guys we never got to that point because we ran into the wonderful Nefarian Serpine. Now if you gentle men will excuse me I need to go get Elizabeth some ice."

Dexter starts to lose his grin along with everybody else in the group of men as Skulduggery walks past them leading Valkyrie by the shoulders to the kitchen where she stopped him and put her hands on his shoulders. "Stay here and I'll go get it myself. Go explain to them whatever they need to know. Because it looks to me like they put a lot of work for something and it would be rude to waste."

Skulduggery smiles then leans down and kisses her. A few moments later they part and he leaves to go back into the living room and entertain their guest while Valkyrie went over to the desk by the door and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. She wrote:

Skulduggery,

Went for a walk. Nothings wrong just needed some fresh air.

I'll be back soon.

Love you,

Elizabeth.

She puts it on the counter then grabs some ice from the old box freezer and heads out the back door into the cool night air. She made sure she was far enough away from the house to where if anybody came outside they wouldn't be able to hear her and then she turned to where she thought the camera would be.

"You there?" she asks quietly trying to focus on something. It was weird enough talking to thin air even if she really wasn't.

She waited for a reply but she didn't get one. "Saracen? Skulduggery? Tanith? Anybody there?" Still nobody replied.

Tears came to her eyes and even though she was trying to stay strong she sank to the ground now sobbing. "I'm sorry guys, I should have got out of the car and away from Thomas, I just didn't realize ... that... that... he wanted me. God Skulduggery I'm... so sorry!"

Valkyrie heard a twig snap and she quickly stood up and wiped the tears away trying to hide that she was crying if it was Skulduggery.

"Skulduggery? Is that you?" she called out. Nothing. She looked around her for a glimpse of movement or anything but it was too dark to tell.

"Whoever you are step out so I can see you." She knew that she was being a wimp but she couldn't help it. It was kind of hard losing everybody you loved but yet seeing them every single day knowing they aren't the one that grew into the ones you cared and loved for.

She looked up as a woman came through the bushes in front of her. She was slim and tall but had a boxers build. She had long brown hair that was braided off to the side and beautiful crystal blue eyes.

"Who are you? What is your name?" Valkyrie asks taking a step backward from the woman but she oddly enough felt comfortable around her like she did with ghastly there was a essence of kindness that surrounded this woman but she knew out of experience to never trust what you felt in these kind of situations.

"My name is Jocelyn bespoke, you must be Valkyrie Cain." The woman replies in a voice that was oddly smooth and comforting to her.

Valkyrie just stared at her not believing that this was Ghastly's mother that she was staring at. The woman that ghastly talked about with love and care and respect and the woman that Skulduggery had killed in his blind rage as lord vile after he had lost his family to Serpine.

"How did you... Your Ghastly's mother, your a physic."

Jocelyn smiled " Yes I am, I saw you appear here from a different time, you can't get back though?"

"Yes. Does Ghastly know about me?"

"No, I am the only one. I came here to offer you my help,"

"Your help?"

"You're stuck here because you are destined to be Skulduggery's wife and if you leave he will die in your time. I'm afraid that I can't help you get home. But I can save your child."

"You can?"

"Yes I can and I will if you want me too."

"Yes! Yes! Anything,"

"Well then I will see you soon Valkyrie but for now I must be going. Good bye."

Jocelyn stepped back into the wood and was lost from sight. It was very unnecessarily dramatic in Valkyries eyes but she was so excited from the new that her and Skulduggery's child's life might not be lost after all that she didn't really care.

She stood there for what seemed like ages thinking about what she had been told. I can save your child. That was good. That meant that all Skulduggery would lose was her. It was a bad ending for her life but as long as Skulduggery would have a piece of her then maybe, just maybe he would be able to live with out her.

She heard something rustle in the bushes again and a few seconds later Skulduggery stepped out.

"There you are, you had me worried. Is everything alright?" he put his hand on her shoulder and she looked up at him.

"I'm fine. Just thinking about all sort of clever little things is all." She smiled up at him. "Is everybody still there?"

"Yes, they were cleaning up," he replies glancing behind him towards the cottage.

"Cleaning up? What for?"

"I told them your were resting so they were leaving so you could have some peace and quiet. It's all very thoughtful of them if you ask me." He says looking back at her.

"Well, we better hurry then. They threw a beautiful party for you and I for one am not going to let them waste it. Besides I want some of that chocolate cake that i glimpsed on my way to the kitchen."

Skulduggery laughs and grabs her hand as they start walking back to the cottage. "Leave it to you to put others before yourself." He says laughing to laughing to himself.

"Is that a bad thing?"

"No it's a wonderful thing and that's why I love you." He says leaning down and giving her a peck on the lips that soon turned into a heated long lasting kiss rather then what he intended when he first leaned down to brush her pale pink lips.

When they parted he gazed down at her as she gazed right back up. "I love you," she says still staring into his eyes, "I love you," he replies.

They started their stroll back again but Valkyrie's mind was on other things then the emotional kiss they had just exchanged. She was sure that deserved better then what would happen to him. And there was no way in hell she was going to let Nefarian Serpine kill Skulduggery's child. Not if she could help it at the very least.

They arrived back at the house right as Dexter was starting to walk out the front door. When he heard them walk up he turned around. "Oh, I'm sorry if we woke you Elizabeth we were just leaving." He says smiling kindly at her.

"No stay, Please. It would be a treat and honor to have you here, please stay." Valkyrie says.

"You sure?"

"Absolutely, it would be my pleasure."

"Okay I'll go let the others know." Dexter runs out and Skulduggery turns Valkyrie toward him.

"That was a very nice thing you did Miss Cain," he says. His eyes glistening with pride.

"Well, it was no problem Mister Pleasant,"

"What do you think of becoming Mrs. Elizabeth Pleasant? Not that I don't love your last name but I've been having a urge these last few months to call you Mrs. Pleasant."

Valkyrie just stared at him. "You mean you want to marry me?"

"No. I want to take you around town and pretend. Of course I want to marry you silly."

"Me? Out of all the woman you could choose you choose me?"

"Yes." Skulduggery says. "Elizabeth Cain. Will you stoop so low as to marry a peasant such of the likes of me and become my caring and selfless wife that I will love for how ever long we both shall live and even after we part you will still own my heart."

"Yes, yes I will!" Skulduggery grabs her around the waist and spins her around and sets her back down and then the next thing she knows his lips are on hers and they are kissing each like there is no tomorrow. Both of them being greedy with each other but not caring and not wanting to part but knowing they have to soon.

After two heated showings of affection in one night it made Valkyrie dizzy but that didn't stop her from grinning like a fool when they turned to the dead men that were staring at them with wide grins in the driveway.

Skulduggery and Valkyrie accepted the congratulations that everybody gave to them and after a few hours of fun conversation and cake they departed with the thanks of the new partners to be. And if Valkyrie didn't know of her future this would have been the happiest day of her life other then that fateful day when she was twelve and a skeleton in a snappy suit named Skulduggery pleasant had came and saved her from a henchmen who was immune of fire.