This chapter was written by BethShadows.


"Your house arrest has officially ended," Skulduggery unlocked the chain and padlock he had put around Valkyrie's gate and let it fall back against the metal with a clang.

"Oh thank fuck," Valkyrie ran out of the gate and stopped a few steps out into the road. The ground felt so different out here, the green verge so bright and luscious, glistening with fallen raindrops from the days of continuous rain.

The road sparkled as rain had gathered in the tiny little cracks and gaps in the surface and streams ran alongside the verge, the water fighting downhill to get to wherever water needs to be. The large ditch across the road was full and flowing, Valkyrie could hear the running water of water escaping off the fields and gathering.

"Finally!" Tanith bolted past Valkyrie and leaped over the grass verge across the road, landing in the ditch, water flying up everywhere.

"What the fuck?"

Tanith stood up, soaked and muddy, shook her head and clambered out the ditch. She walked silently past Valkyrie, past Skulduggery and walked up into the house, smiling all the way.


"Do I want to know what the ditch thing was?"

"I've spent the last few days watching that ditch fill up with water and got the desire to jump into it. If there's anything the last two weeks have taught me, it's that life is strange. One minute you're free to do whatever, the next you're stuck . So you gotta get out there and do what you want today or you might never be able to do it."

"Basically you have no impulse control."

"Basically. So now that we're free to do vines - should we do the one we talked about? The 'I'm Gay' one?"

"I see precisely no reasons why not."

"Perfect," Tanith walked off across the room and up onto the wall. "It's perfect because I just so happened to get the morphsuit we needed. And I mean I am bi, but I don't mind using gay as an umbrella term. I do have a slight problem though due to the erasure of bisexual people in the media. I mean look at 'Orange is the New Black' Piper was shown to be attracted to men and women but only one person ever used the word 'bisexual' and it was in a negative light. They just called her gay or straight depending on who she was dating.

"Thankfully Brooklyn Nine Nine fixed that up with the great and glorious Rosa Diaz. I stan a bi-con and I will stop my rant now cause I have a lot to say and we don't have much time cause I need to get back and feed Buddy my lovely little lizard. Ooh- alliteration," Tanith's voice faded out as her footsteps became the loudest noise.

Footsteps echoing from the wall, the ceiling, then finally thumping along the upstairs corridor.

Valkyrie sat on the couch and turned on the TV. Xena jumped up beside her, Valkyrie absentmindedly stroked Xena's fur, ignoring the various crashes, thumps and shouts from upstairs.

Tanith was never exactly quiet at anything she did. Except for things you would never expect.


Tanith was suspiciously quiet.

The waiting rippled through Valkyrie as she listened out for any noise to indicate what Tanith was doing. She'd gone to do something about a morphsuit. Even the inflatable ones hadn't taken this long to sort out.

Valkyrie leaned back against the couch cushions and patted Xena's head. She had tried to keep Xena off the furniture but gave up less than five minutes into her "no dogs on furniture" resolve. Xena deserved the comfy comfort of the couch as much as Valkyrie herself did.

Xena lifted her head and looked to the door. She licked her lips and whined.

"What is it?" Valkyrie ruffled Xena's head, "Hmm? What is it? Is it Tanith coming back? Is it? Is it?"

Xena let out a soft bark.

Valkyrie held her breath and waited. Her heart echoed faintly in her ear. She could feel the vibrations of Xena growling. There in the distant reaches of her hearing, footsteps.

Tanith.

It was Tanith. But was it? Valkyrie's stomach tensed. It could easily not be Tanith. But then it so easily could be.

Xena sat up and tilted her head.

Something scuffled above Valkyrie.

In the second it took to look up a flash of green fell in front of Valkyrie. Tanith landed in a crouch at the foot of the couch in a green morphsuit.

Tanith looked up at Valkyrie. Valkyrie stared back, blinking slowly.

"I'm gay."

"Just gotta do that off a kitchen counter now," Valkyrie said.

"Yup," Tanith popped the 'p' and jumped up to her feet.

"It's not going to work is it?" Tanith asked.

"Given our track record of jumping off things - nope."

"I can't wait."


Tanith ran at the counter. She leaped up, got one knee and her hands on the counter and pushed the rest of body up. She moved from a kneel to standing as upright as she could. Her head was bent forward, pressed against the ceiling.

Valkyrie kneeled down on the floor and held her phone up. If she was right the screen should catch Tanith leaping into frame and landing on the floor.

"All you gotta do is leap rightly," Valkyrie said.

"I like that word - rightly."

"Me too. Do you want to do this in one take, or two?"

"Go for one. I can't really be bothered editing shit."

Valkyrie nodded, "say when you're ready to make the leap of faith."

"Okay, ready," Tanith prepared to jump, "wait. Shouldn't we re-watch the vine to check we've got this right?"

"Probably. Memories are unreliable. We gotta refresh those minds of ours."


"Okay so you gotta be standing, then you jump down, land with your head bowed then look up as I zoom into your face," Valkyrie said as she closed down Youtube and returned to the camera.

"Rightly-oh."

"Rightly-oh."

Tanith leaped back up onto the counter.

"I am rightly sorted," Tanith adjusted the hood on her morphsuit.

"How about we stop saying rightly?"

"Rightly-oh."

"I will push you off the counter and resplit your head."

"I apologise."

Valkyrie shook her head and readied her camera, "I'm ready in three, two, one!"

Valkyrie pressed record and Tanith leaped off the counter, landing neatly in a crouch. Valkyrie followed her as smoothly as she could with the camera and zoomed in on Tanith's face as Tanith looked up.

"I'm gay," Tanith looked sideways into the camera and burst out laughing.

Valkyrie stopped filming and laughed.

"Ya know, we first talked about doing this three weeks ago," Tanith said, standing up.

"Really? Why'd it take us so long, I mean I know we had house arrest but wow."

"Yeah…"


Up next is another chapter tomorrow.

So I finally finished it. I literally have no real excuse so I am sorry for not finishing this earlier.

Thank you to guest, Demise Rim, who left a review on chapter one. I was a bit confused by what you mean by a current post? If you mean is this story currently being updated - then yes. We try to post every week on Wednesday. It does change sometimes but we aim for Wednesday every week.

Until next time!