I'm bored, and Mau here made me want to write the sad chapter, without her even trying to make me I think... Oh well, here it is!
It contains my OC. But dw, it's based around Skulduggery and Valkyrie. The OC won't take up the spotlight.
-Dark's POV-
I never liked the Cain girl from the start, leading Skulduggery off like a dog. People thought it was the other way round, but they were blind by what usually happened, by how logical it seemed. No, Skulduggery had been lost for centuries, but now that he had her. He seemed to live again.
I despised that girl because of that. I was meant to be his, he promised, we promised.
But then Nefarian Serpine ruined it all.
-Valkyrie's POV-
Getting away for a while felt amazing, we could finally sit back by a pool and sub bake. Well, I could. I'm not so sure about Skulduggery.
Right now, that's exactly what I was doing, lying back on a pool chair, by the pool, while Skulduggery stood next to me, arms folded in confusion.
"Is this what people do by pools on hot days? I thought the reason for them coming to a pool because it was hot and they wanted to cool down."
I laughed, "They do, but it's also very relaxing to lay back. Try it."
"Just because you're my fiancé doesn't mean I have to try every single thing you tell me to do."
"Like all those other times?"
He sagged and plodded to the chair beside me, "Yes." He said miserably.
Beaming at him, I held back a laugh as he stiffly lied down in the pool chair, "You remember me telling you that I tend to bleach?"
"No excuses Pleasant."
"None of the sort, Miss Cain. I just worry about the cleaners, having the clean up the mess."
"There are so many wrong things in that sentence."
"Only If you think it as wrong."
"No...Anyone could spot it."
Skulduggery just shook his head at me and lied back, I tried to laugh at him. He noticed and raised his hand, pulling at the air to yank my chair as close to his as possible. I yelped but was silenced by a chaste kiss.
"Hush, dear. It's rude to laugh at your soon to be husband."
"You like to brag about that." I curved an eyebrow.
"Only because, I am so very pleased." Another kiss.
Grinning, a waitress came out holding a tray of cool drinks. She stopped beside me and I thanked her, taking hold of a lemonade. She moved her way around to Skulduggery and smiled.
I would have glared, but she could have just trying to be kind.
Skulduggery declined the drink and the waitress nodded as if she were laughing, forgetting he was a skeleton. "Sorry, I have a bad memory sometimes." She laughed and walked away.
Skulduggery looked as if he was double taking. And me too, even recognised her. The black as sin hair, falling in dark, wispy strands down her back against pale looking skin and fiery, amber eyes.
I had seen that look somewhere...a picture maybe.
And then it hit me, I hadn't seen her I had seen her daughter. Almost an exact replica of her mother, except for the splash of freckles, probably acquired from her father.
Skulduggery.
I looked at him, he was staring at where his wife had just been. Then he got up and mumbled, "I'm going to...go inside."
It was a while later that we spoke again, when we were going to bed. I had slipped into the silk sheets, sitting up and waiting for Skulduggery.
He came in a few minutes later, hesitating by the bed. It took him a while to talk, "You saw her too right?"
I sighed quietly to myself, "I don't know...I guess."
"Then you know who she is?" He pressed.
I nodded slightly, "Y-yeah. I guess."
"So then you'll understand why I have to do this." He turned slightly and I sat up more.
"Do what? Skulduggery-"
He pulled off the engagement ring and looked at it for a while before placing it on the bed.
"What?" I whispered.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry but-"
"What? Just because...Some how, for reasons you don't even know yet. Your wife is back, and you suddenly break off everything between us to back? Was I some sort of object, used until you got what you wanted?" Rage started to bubble in my stomach and chest, my limbs feeling like ice and my heart was aching...
He shook her head stiffly and turned his back, "Valkyrie...you don't understand-"
"I don't understand? Look at what you're doing!" I stood up, enraged. "You used me!"
Skulduggery whirled, "I didn't use you! Only a child would think that!"
"Oh, so you play that card on me, like all the other times! I'm just a bloody child to you?"
He sighed and walked out, slamming the door. I hadn't realised the tears that were pouring down my face, I ran into the bathroom and locked the door, sliding down onto the cold ground. I cried and screamed silently, my hands clutching my head, nails digging into my scalp.
I took of my ring and ditched it at the wall, it broke and I instantly regretted it. I cried even more, getting up and going from wall to wall. Struggling to breathe, my fist slammed against the mirror and it shattered, cutting my hand and bleeding into the sink.
I stared at my reflection in the little shard hanging from the top of the mirror frame, blood glistened on the edges and a drop ran down the side. I was pale and washed out, my face puffy and red from crying, eyes dark rimmed already.
I was shaking, badly. Dark little thoughts scraping through my head.
-Dark's POV-
My plan had worked, and I smiled to myself as I saw Skulduggery heading towards the bar. Running a hand through my hair I packed away the rest of the glasses and turned just as the doors chimed open and a bedraggled skeleton in a suit walked up.
"Tell me its really you." Was all he said and my eyebrow raised, I held out an arm to the side and clicked my fingers, "Joy." I called softly.
A young child, looking around 6 walked out, cuddling a teddy bear. Dark hair and orange eyes and freckles, a worried face.
In the corner of my eye, I could see Skulduggery staring in disbelief.
"How...?"
"Exactly like with you, my dear."
I could see this didn't please him, "Necromancy."
"Yes but what does it matter? We're all here now."
"Why now though?"
She shrugged and picked up Joy, "Because maybe the certain Necromancer didn't like your relationship either."
He looked away slightly.
-Valkyrie's POV-
Shaking my head, my hand clutched the kitchen knife. Things were passed the point of self harm, I really just wanted to get away from this and free myself.
I really wanted Darquesse, but I seemed to have to get there on my own.
I raised the blade and pointed the tip at my heart.
-Dark's POV-
"Skulduggery, dear. You must stop worrying about that girl." I said softly, cupping his face with my hands.
He was about to talk, I knew I, he was about to say he loved me but then a scream pierced the air.
Her.
And before I knew it, Skulduggery was sprinting towards where it came from. I glared and my eyes turned to fire, my body vanishing into a burst of flame, along with Joy.
When he found her, lying in a pool of her own blood, he could do nothing but let out a wail of sorrow, he dropped to his knee's beside her dying form and pressed his forehead against hers, whispering over and over, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
All he could think of why Darquesse hadn't taken over already.
Hurry up, he kept thinking. Noticing her breathing slow and stop.
Her skin start to grow cold.
She went completely limp.
And Skulduggery let out a cry.
Valkyrie Cain was dead.
His Valkyrie was dead.
...
So he followed her.
Aw.
In case of any confusion, his wife ad daughter weren't who they say they were. It was actually that certain necromancer (not naming names for spoilers because I'm nice.) that conjured up a false impression of them.
And Darquesse didn't come out because of Valkyrie's longing will to die, mentally and physically. As they say, the mind is the most powerful.
So it over powered Darquesse's judgement.
I hope I made you cry, if not. I'll try harder another time. :)
And pretty please review! :)