Detedicated to the two Imogens, for absolutely no reason.
'What!' He stood up quickly.
'I know.'
'You're pregnant, with Fletchers baby.'
'Yes.'
'Why didn't you tell me this before?' She rolled her eyes sadly.
'Well, it wasn't exactly planned.' Skulduggery was about to say something, and then stopped.
'...A mistake?'
'Yeah...' He sat back down next to her and buried his face in one of his hands.
'Oh Val.'
'I know, and I...I can't do...do this...' Skulduggery looked up at her to see her face lined with tears. He quickly pulled her into a hug as she sobbed loudly into his shoulder.
'Have you tried contacting Fletcher?'
'Of course, but like...like he cares...'
'I see.'
'Uh, and there's something else...since you're the god-father to this baby, I'd like you to become...its dad.' Skulduggery broke apart from her and put his hands on her shoulders.
'You want me to be a father to your child?' She smiled tiredly at him.
'Yeah, if...that's alright?' He hesitated, and then nodded slowly.
'I...would be honoured.'
She smiled again, falling into his arms with exhaustion. Skulduggery looked down at her, embarrassed. And then he heard Valkyrie breathing heavily, asleep. He sighed and wrapped his arms around the slumbering Valkyrie.