Val is 15.
Valkyrie sat with Tanith in the living-room, they were slouched on the sofa, and they were bored- there had been no cases for two weeks.
Valkyrie sat cradling her newly mended arm, which she had broken 3hours ago on Tanith's motorbike.
Tanith sat whistling and tapping her feet.
"Well, we have done everything on our list, what do you want to do now?" Tanith asked.
"Tanith we don't have a list..... and I dunno, watch a film?" Valkyrie questioned.
"Okay, that's not a bad idea." Tanith answered.
"You pick- I cant be bothered." Valkyrie said, then she stretched and yawned.
"I'll go make some snacks too....." Tanith chattered.
"Ye please! What we having though?" Valkyrie asked eagerly.
"Tanith surprise...!" Tanith said wagling her fingers like jazz hands.
Valkyrie looked puzzled, but didn't question her.
"Right, i've picked..... 'John Tucker must die'....." Tanith said as she wandered in.
"Nice pick, give it ere." Valkyrie mumbled.
"Kay." Tanith threw the dvd, and Valkyrie caught it with her good hand/arm. "Do you have any ice cream?"
"Erm, ye." Valkyrie looked puzzled. "In the garrage freezer, third drawer down, but we only have rasberry ripple."
"Kay, rasberry nipples it is!"
Valkyrie laughed. She dropped off the sofa, shuffled over to the dvd player, and inserted the dvd into the slot.
There was a loud clatter or two in the kitchen.
"I hope you don't like the china plates with pink flowers on them!"
"No, it's okay, I hate pink anyway! But mum might question me! ahhh well....."
"Good! Where'd ya keep the dust-pan and brush?" Tanith yelled.
"Erm, behind the bin!" Valkyrie yelled back thinking it over to make sure she was right, then she started to make her way back to the sofa.
"Thanks!" Tanith called, "Found it!!!!"
8 minutes later Tanith came into the living room with two massive bowls, she handed one to Valkyrie, who was now sat cross legged on the sofa again.
Valkyrie peeked into the dish afraid it might be something horrific, but it wasn't too bad, not like the tuna and chocolate ice-cream she had been given last time, or the ketchup and chocolate with apple and peanuts like the time before.
This time it was: Rasberry ripple ice-cream, with chocolate chips (dark, milk and light), golden syrup, and grated lemon rind.
Valkyrie balanced the bowl on her knee, nearly half a tub of ice-cream in the dish, and grabbed the spoon, she got some of 'Tanith's concoction', and held it level with her mouth, she then stared at it, before closing her eyes, and shoving the spoon in her mouth.
She let the ice-cream melt on her tounge first, then chewed the chocolate chips and lemon rind, then finally, she let the golden syrup slide down her throat.
She looked at Tanith and smiled.
"Best one yet!" She got the two controllers, and pressed for the surround sound to come on, it did.
Then she pressed for ~ENGLISH~ then she pressed ~PLAY~.
They laughed at the movie, especially the thongs bit.
Valkyrie still hadn't eaten all her portion of Taniths food. Fletcher appeared in the room, and he snatched the bowl off Valkyrie and shovelled a spoonful into his mouth.
"OI!" she yelled. "That's mine!"
"Not anymore!" he stuck his tounge out, which had a chocolte chip balanced on the end of it.
"It's got peanut butter in it!" Valkyrie lied.
"Ewwww! Yuck yuck yuck! Blech! Agh!" he yelled, and put the dish back on Valkyrie's knee.
Valkyrie and Tanith laughed, Fletcher bent over, and rubbed at his tounge, trying to get the taste away.
Valkyrie took an opportunity, he was in the perfect stance, in the perfect place, she put the bowl on the arm of the sofa, stuck out her leg, and swung it twice before it smacked into Fletcher's bum, he was sent nose first into the floor. Valkyrie and Tanith were clutching themselves from laughter.
Skulduggery walked in.
"Tanith."
Valkyrie was reeling, laughing her head off. Tanith had calmed down but was still smirking and a little snort let out every so often.
Skulduggery picked up the bowl off the arm of the sofa and looked at it....
"Tanith?"
"Yes?"
"Has Valkyrie had ice-cream?"
"Yes."
"That explains it then."
Valkyrie was running round yelling and laughing, altogether hyper.
They all thought back to the time when it was Tanith's birthday, they had all come round to Gordon's mansion for a tea-party, the starter and main had gone down well, but when it came to the dessert, it had been ice-cream. Valkyrie was hyper on cold foods, and sugar, ice-cream was both of these things, she hadn't been able to contain herself, she had been laughing at ANYTHING anybody said. She kept falling off her chair, even the chairs with arms on the sides she still managed to fall off them. This time though, there was chocolate and golden syrup added.
"Tanith, catch her before she either burns the house down or soaks it." Skulduggery ordered.
"Yes sir!"
The next two hours consisted of laughing and trying to catch Valkyrie....
Three hours later
"Tanith!"
"Yes Skul?"
"I'm going to kill you!"
They stood on the drive of Gordons mansion, waiting for the fire brigade to come, whilst watching Gordons living room flicker with orange light, and watching fire lick the walls, floors, ceiling and furniature. Tanith now had Valkyrie's bowl in her hand.
They also watched Valkyrie wheel around the grass, oblivious to everything that was going on. Everyone was watching her with awe.
"Kespeckle?" Skulduggery asked down the phone. "Please can I have the permission to use that tranquilizer shot you gave me, on..... someone.
"Who, Skulduggery?"
"Errrr, Fletcher?" he lied, Skulduggery looked at Tanith, Tanith looked at Fletcher, Fletcher looked worried.
"I suppose so..."
"Thankyou!"
"Don't worry Fletcher, i'm using it on Valkyrie not you. You should see your face!"
Fletcher sighed then a look of relief spread across his sharp featured face.
Skulduggery grabbed hold of Valkyrie, (this took great effort) and carefully jammed the tranquilizer into her leg.
1 minute later she was asleep, and in Skulduggery's arms.
"Tanith?" Fletcher asked.
"Yes Fletcher?" she sighed.
"Does that really have peanut butter in?" he whined.
"No." she said simply.
The fire brigade arrived.....
Fletcher snatched the bowl and ate the rest of Tanith's concoction whilst watching the fire brigade in action.
"It's like a free movie!" Fletcher squealed.
Tanith rolled her eyes....