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So here is a quick flash back that Valkyrie has to her past when her family dies. I know it doesn't even come close to what Derrick Landy could write but I did my best. I hope you all like it and I'm so sorry it's so short but I realized that once i finished it I had no idea how to continue the story since I came up against a short bout of Writers block. If you could help and give me any suggestions on how you want me to write the wedding like

1.) what kind of wedding dress Valkyrie wears,

2.) Who the guests are,

3.) (You can make your own character to be a guest at the wedding just tell me what he looks like what nationality, what relation he has to the new couple and a short past story then i can add them in.)

4.) where the wedding is held and if so what kind of theme it is.

Anything helps and so please comment with you ideas and i'll update as soon as I get some ideas. Thanks everybody for your support!

Skyler S

"Mom? Dad?" Valkyrie yelled into the house.

A matter of fifteen minutes earlier she had got a call from someone, a guy from how deep the voice was, saying that he had her family captured and that he was waiting for her. If she didn't come, he had warned, it wouldn't be that hard slitting their throat.

She turned around to see the Bentley pull up in front of her house. She cursed but knew that no matter how much that she hated that he didn't listen and believe her lies that she was grateful that he had come incase they were too late. She knew she would need some moral support if she hadn't arrived in time even if she never would admit it.

Her hand sparked with electricity as she rounded the corner into their living room. She heard Skulduggery's gun cock in the entryway so she quickly but quietly sprinted over to the stairway up to the top floor she trusted Skulduggery to search the bottom floor looking for her and if he found them she would hear it.

She made it to the top and heard a noise from little Alice's room. Glancing around her to make sure that it wasn't a trap she walked over to the door and listened to see if she could hear anything else. There was a scuffling noise like a chair being scooted across the floor. Valkyrie's raised her hand and the door crashed to the ground as the electricity hit it. She heard Skulduggery pause down stairs and then head for the stairs but she was already headed into the room.

Her sister was tied to a chair right next to the window with the guy standing behind her with a knife to her neck she glanced around to see where her parents were tied and found them lying on the ground. Her dad had a knife sticking out of his back and through his chest and he was propped up on the wall like he had tried to get back up but he had died before he could. Her mother lay face down on the floor with bullet wounds riddled through out her body. A pool of blood surrounded both of them. Valkyrie put the image into the back of her mind and focused her attention on the problem at hand she could mourn her parents later. Fight now morn later was what she always said. Now it was time for her to follow her own rules.

She could hear Skulduggery reaching the top of the stairs and checking the rooms one at a time. The man could hear him too and so he slowly backed up with Alice still with the knife pressed against her small neck. Her eyes were filled with terror and she was reaching for Valkyrie who took a step toward them.

"One step and I slit her throat," The man's gruff voice said. Oddly enough Skulduggery didn't come running into the room and then Valkyrie realized that he had said it to her in her mind and not aloud. He was a physic. Figures.

Valkyrie hesitated and the man slowly moves the knife away from her sister's neck. She sighed and Valkyrie smiled at her sister's relief. Though she knew that the trouble wasn't over yet. And to prove that point the man grabbed Alice closer and slid the knife right across her neck.

Valkyrie couldn't help it. She screamed Alice's name as her sister fell to the ground. Her eyes wide and unblinking as death took over and a large pool of blood flowing around her small body, Valkyrie sprinted toward the man right as Skulduggery came running into the room. She collided with the man and they both crashed to the floor fighting each other, the man blocking every desperate punch and elbow from Valkyrie that was thrown.

Skulduggery raised his gun but Valkyrie was in his way so he didn't shoot. All he could do was stare as his partner fought with the man that had killed her family. He knew what she was feeling right now.

She was feeling blind rage and she couldn't control it. It was devouring her whole and if she didn't fight it she would become just like Skulduggery and she couldn't do that as long as she loved him because no matter what he said it would hurt him more then it would ever hurt her. Then next thing she knew she was standing up. The man about to bolt out the window when Skulduggery's gun goes off and bullet goes right through his brain. Valkyrie smiles at the small victory even though it wasn't her own. And then she is on the floor cradling her sister and sobbing. Skulduggery walks over to her and then gave her a tight hug as she cradled her dead younger sister. All he could provide was the comfort that he didn't have when the same thing had happened to him.