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Thank you to everyone! Also, sorry for not updating in a while, been to France for a week then when I got back laptop stopped working! :( But, it's been fixed now, something about the router not working and the network adapter gone a bit crazy - no idea. :P

As Lorcan sat there waiting, her mind drifted off, after all it was Skulduggery she was waiting for, she wasn't sure about Valkyrie but with Skulduggery nobody was sure when or where he'd be, all anyone knew was that he couldn't keep himself out of trouble. She wondered if he'd changed over the years, he probably had, but how?

Her thought train was finally disturbed as the Skeleton walked through the door, and took the remaining seat across from her whilst Valkyrie stood against the wall, half in the shadows. "So, do remind me, when did I become a criminal?" She asked.

"I ask the questions here, but why would you think that?" Skulduggery answered.

"Oh, okay it's just it's not as if I was hand cuffed, shoved in a cell then brought to an interregation room and hand cuffed to a table, is it?" She said as she motioned to her right hand which was currently cuffed to the table. "Oh wait a minute, I HAVE!"

"Well... You wouldn't stop running." He tried.

"You're point being?" She raised her eyebrow.

"We had to stop you."

"Well, could you have done it without making me look like a criminal?"

He hesitated.

"OH MY GOD! Pathetic!" She cried. Valkyrie stayed quite as she knew that Skulduggery could hndle his own fights.

"Well, not if I couldn't call you, go to wherever you live or have any knowledge of you being alive for the past two hundred years." Skulduggery argued.

"Yes, I suppose I am being a little harsh. But did it ever occur to you that I ran because I had a very valid reason, and that I have been trying to get you to notice me somewhere and get you to find me? I stopped that TEN YEARS ago, Skulduggery!" She finished, shouting the last part.

"Listen to me for just a moment! I didn't know that you were even alive! If you didn't even notice back there, I just saved your life!"Skulduggery cried. At that point Valkyrie decided to leave them be, only to walk straight out and bump in to a very worried looking Grand Mage.

"Is she okay?" Ravel asked.

"Yeah, she's fine but I wouldn't go in there at the moment, they're having and argument at the moment." But no sooner had she finished that sentence when Lorcan and Skulduggery both came charging out, Lorcan in front with half a pair of shackles still on her wrist and Skulduggery right behind. "No tell me why you dissappeared now!" Skulduggery screamed at the top of his metaphorical lungs p the argument had evidentleygot pretty heated.

"Fine, you want to know? There was a death order against you and the rest of the dead men! Yes Skul, they did know how to kill you! If I didn't go and perform this ritual you all died, alright! Why do you think Hopeless died? He was the warning they sent me!" She screamed, immediatley covering her mouth after she revealed the secret. "There I said it, is that what you wanted to hear?" Her words biting like they were laced with venom. He only reaction was to stare at her to shocked to speak, just like everyone else around them causing a stony silence.

"He died because,he was a warning?" He echoed her words.

"Yes, alright, he did." She sighed.

"They knew about the friendship we shared, Serpine suggested the idea after he saw how successful it was on you, Skul, one of the dead men. So he then thought well if it worked that successfully on you then how would it work on a small child who was just caught up in the middle from the very start through no fault of her own. I have been hunted ever since by extremist Faceless Ones fanatics, worst things worst they were Mevolent's top men." She confessed, slumping in defeat. "And I still haven't managed to give them the slip, so you better watch your backs because they just heard all of that." She warned.