Hey guys! No Scapegrace in this one, but he makes his grand return for the rest of the story next chapter! Hang with me! Is anybody still out there? I'm begging you to review, here, peeps!
-Sonya
Chapter 14
"So we 'gon break into you're little sanctuary, huh?" Sanguine chuckled, leaning against the stone wall of the Tower as Skulduggery peered out the window.
"Police are coming back in. Tanith, you better grab your scabbard unless you're prepared to lose it."
Tanith nodded, and spun to leave, but Fletcher held up a hand. "Allow me. Compensation for what I just did."
Tanith's eyes grew wide. "What did you do with that picture Fletcher Renn?" she shrieked, but he was already gone.
"Wow," Valkyrie commented to Ghastly, "he's good."
Fletcher reappeared in seconds and held Tanith's scabbard out to her, kneeling theatrically. "You're loveliness," he said.
Tanith glowered and snatched the scabbard, sliding her sword into it.
"So what are we waiting for?" Skulduggery asked, sauntering up to the main group.
"Fletcher to get his head back on right and Sanguine to get the hell out of here," Tanith grumbled.
Sanguine cupped a hand behind his ear like he hadn't heard her. "I'm sorry, whad' ya say, honey bunny?"
Tanith lunged forward to punch the lights out of him, but Ghastly grabbed the tails of her waistcoat with one hand, snatched Fletcher's elbow with the other, and they all teleported, Tanith unintentionally dragging Sanguine along with the fistful of shirt she'd managed to get her hands on.
They landed in a heap in on the curb next to Skulduggery's pumpkin mobile.
"Oops," Fletcher said as Valkyrie tried to shove Skulduggery off her, Ghastly tried to disentangle his feet from Fletcher himself in time to grab Tanith, who was getting up the quickest, still going after Sanguine, and Sanguine, who was finally just trying to get the heck away from the sword lady. He was seriously starting to regret his deal. One kiss wasn't worth being stabbed.
"Ha! Not so pleased now, are you?" Tanith declared triumphantly jumping to her feet, but Skulduggery grabbed her ankle and she was down again, falling into the squabbling heap.
"Wait just a second," Ghastly said, shoving Sanguine away and standing up. He brushed some dirt off his shirt. "Don't we have a job to do? Why are we fighting ourselves?"
Everyone stopped and looked up.
"Excess adrenaline," Tanith said.
"Skulduggery," Valkyrie supplied.
"Valkyrie," Fletcher and Skulduggery both said.
"Nobody cares what I say, anyway so I don' even care," Sanguine drawled, leaning back against the car, finally off the ground.
"Ok," Skulduggery said, straightening his fedora. "I say that Fletcher and I go in and get Scapegrace."
Tanith raised an eyebrow. "And that's going to work because Fletcher has been to Scapegrace's cell before."
Skulduggery paused, and then his shoulders slumped. "Then we default to plan B."
"Which would be?"
"You and Sanguine."
"WHAT?"
Skulduggery sighed, somehow. "Tanith, you have a reason to be there and the authority to see a prisoner in case you're caught, and Sanguine can get you in."
"Send Valkyrie," Tanith demanded.
Valkyrie wrinkled her nose. "Ew, no," she protested.
"Hey," Sanguine protested.
Ghastly rolled his eyes at all the continued antics. "Can we just get on with it already?" he sighed.
Tanith met Sanguine's eyes. "Not one pass. The second you flirt, I kill you, got it, Tex?"
"Wouldn't dream of it, Honey Bunny."