Okay so yapyap told me that asterisks don't work for scene breakers in stories so I'll use her method by using x's so (XXXX) or something :) In my chapter 52 I was talking about using the asterisks but they didn't work, sorry for any confusion.

By the way everyone should read yapyap's stories, they are soooo good :D

Anyway, this time it's Ghastly and Tanith's job to get Skulduggery and Valkyrie together ;)

Tanith sat in Ghastly's shop drinking tea, happing to be in his presence. Ever since Doctor Nye managed to claw out the remnant, everything between them had been romantic. They labelled themselves a couple, if not, something more than that. Tanith hadn't remembered anything after the process with the remnant and she was repulsed to find out about the 'relationship' she had with Billy-ray Sanguine.

"Valkyrie and Skulduggery are arguing." Ghastly told Tanith with a sigh.

"What about?" Tanith asked.

"I don't know, apparently Skulduggery's been acting weird and trying to avoid her as much possible and Valkyrie thinks he's keeping something from her."

"Well it can't be too bad right?"

"Well they haven't talked for a week and a half and Skulduggery has been going mental." Ghastly replied with a laugh. "You do know what he's 'keeping' from her don't you?"

Tanith smiled. "His undying love for her?"

"Yep." Ghastly replied.

"So should we do something about it?"

"Yep." Ghastly said again grabbing Tanith's motorbike keys and threw them to her. He grabbed his van keys and locked up the shop.

"Alright, you go get Skulduggery and I'll get Valkyrie. We'll invite them out to lunch at that little restaurant they built next to the Sanctuary and they'll just have to talk to each other." Ghastly nodded and they gave each other a kiss. Tanith put her motorbike helmet on and sped off down the road.

Tanith skidded to a stop out the front of Valkyrie's mansion and Valkyrie walked out to meet her.

"Wow, I'm surprised you managed to leave Ghastly to come see me." Valkyrie said sarcastically with a smile.

"No time to talk, we're going out to lunch." Tanith grabbed Valkyrie by the arm, plopped the spare helmet on Valkyrie and they were off.

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Ghastly knocked on the front door of Skulduggery's house and it was answered quickly.

"Oh." Was all Skulduggery said and ushered Ghastly in.

"Nice to see you too." Ghastly said sarcastically.

"Sorry, I thought it was someone else." Skulduggery said. Ghastly had never seen his best friend so sad before. You could even hear it in his voice. Ghastly explained the whole lunch thing to Skulduggery and he agreed to go. Neither Valkyrie or Skulduggery knew each other were going as well.

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Valkyrie and Tanith had already taken their seats at the back of the restaurant.

"So why are we at a four-seated table?" Valkyrie asked.

"They, uh, they're tables were full." Tanith replied nervously. Valkyrie looked around at the empty restaurant.

"Right." She was beginning to get suspicious.

Valkyrie heard a voice coming from the front of the restaurant though she couldn't see anything because of the wall that was behind the front desk. There was no doubt she was sure of who it was.

"How could you?" She said to Tanith with cold eyes and stood up.

"Valkyrie, you are fighting over nothing at all. Sit down. You're taking things out of proportion, get a grip." Valkyrie slowly sat down with narrow eyes.

"Fine, I'll stay," she said. "But I'm not going to talk to him." She folded her arms.

"Sure you won't." Tanith said quietly.

"What?"

"Nothing." Skulduggery and Ghastly approached the table. Ghastly sat next to Tanith leaving Skulduggery to sit next to Valkyrie. If he was capable of having an expression, he'd be looking at her sadly.

"Hi Val–" Skulduggery began.

"Don't talk to me." She replied looking the other way.

"Look Valkyrie." He started again.

"No you look, do you know how it feels to be avoided? Probably not, but let me tell you, it feels horrible. I wake up one day and bam! You're avoiding me like you have no idea who I am." She looked up at the ceiling.

"Valkyrie, you don't understand." He leaned in closer, next to her ear. "I love you." He whispered.

"That doesn't make sense." Her tone was quieter as her heart went crazy. She wanted to still be angry but suddenly she felt herself soften. The intensity of him being so close was unbearable.

"I avoided you because I was trying to stop loving you. It's so wrong, in so many ways Valkyrie can't you see that?" He said, hurt clear in his voice.

"But... but Skulduggery, I love you too." Valkyrie felt dizzy, the mood changed so quickly. One minute she was letting out her angry inner most feelings now it's her romantic inner most feelings.

"It's still wrong though. I am over 400 years old Valkyrie and I've fallen in love with a 21 year old, it's not right. And I'm a skeleton for god's sake!" By now he was clutching on one of her hands. When Valkyrie told him she loved him, somewhere inside his skeletal frame, fireworks went off but he knew he couldn't get too excited.

"Skulduggery, I couldn't care less about how old you are or what you are. You understand me, you know who I am and no matter what I do in my life, you will never judge. So what if I turned down someone who was 80 years old or 50 years old. You are the one I want, age doesn't matter with you. You're the one I relate to the most, isn't that how love is meant to be? Skulduggery you may be a skeleton but that's also why I love you, you make the most of who you are. You're still a man anyway, you just happen to be a skeleton with great style and an ego the size of the earth." She looked at him and smiled. Everything she said was true; she just wanted him to be hers.

Skulduggery chuckled. "You're making it hard to protest." Skulduggery said softly.

"Then don't." Valkyrie replied, shaking her head. The only sound he made was a laugh, that was as good a 'yes' Valkyrie would take. She pulled him by his jacket lapels and kissed full on the teeth until he activated the tattoos.

"Ahem." They broke apart and Valkyrie went bright red.

"So whenever we do that, you get all grossed out. It's hardly fair." Ghastly chuckled and Skulduggery pushed him playfully.

"It's about time though, Valkyrie couldn't stop talking about you for the past week." Tanith said.

Valkyrie kicked her shins under the table and Tanith winced.

Wasn't a very good ending, it meant to end a little earlier than that but I couldn't stop it :S