A/N: I'm bad at updating...

But I'm trying I swear... :L

I don't think I've done a good Valduggery in while so here we go!

Enjoy ;D


Chapter 50:

Valkyrie stood on the balcony of a hotel in Dublin, looking up at the stars. Everything was messed up.

Tanith was gone back to London, Ghastly was upset about Tanith and wasn't speaking to anybody, and Skulduggery had just disappeared out of Ireland, he'd been gone for a couple of weeks now.

She felt an arm around her shoulder and looked around at Fletcher.

He had stayed.

She walked off the balcony and into the room, not knowing what to do with herself.

She was wearing a plain black fitted dress, so she just slipped on her flat ballet shoes.

"I'm going down to the bar for a drink.." She mumbled and left before Fletcher could comment.

She ordered a Baileys and sat at the bar playing with the straw.

She jumped when she heard a velvety voice from beside her and she turned, expecting to see her familiar skeleton in disguise.

"Hello."

The man was, well, gorgeous. He looked to be in his mid twenties, he had jet black hair and startling blue eyes.

He smiled at her dumbfounded expression, he had perfectly white teeth.

But the thing she noticed most was that he had skin, hair and eyes.

Another thing she found strange was the fact that he was wearing a pinstriped suit which she found all too familiar, with his tie slightly loose and his two buttons left open on his shirt.

"Hi.." She whispered, startled by the likliness... but it couldn't be.. Could it? He was a skeleton, it couldn't possibly be him.

"What's your name?" She blurted before she could stop herself.

The man hesitated.

"Err, S...teven." He said. "I'm Steven."

Valkyrie smiled.

"I'm Valkyrie." She said, shyly.

They talked for what seemed like hours, and Valkyrie couldn't shake the feeling that she really did know him, from the humour to the way he acted.

"So where did you say you grew up again?" Valkyrie asked, acting like she was only mildly curious.

He paused.

"Dublin." He said.

"And what age are you?"

"...Twenty... seven..." He replied slowly.

Valkyrie narrowed her eyes.

"Skulduggery." She said, she put her nineth drink back down onto the bar and glared at him.

He tried to act innocent and surprised but he ended up just shying away from her.

"Okay. Okay. Let me get this straight. You disappear for WEEKS and leave me at the mercy of FLETCHER. And now you're here. Trying to pretend to be somebody else." Valkyrie said, annoyed and shaking her head.

"I know, I'm sorry."

"You're sorry? Sorry? Sorry doesn't even begin to cut it, Skulduggery!" She said loudly, and she drank the last of her drink and got up angrily.

Skulduggery got up out of his chair too and followed her.

"Please Val, I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking straight." He said desperately, but Valkyrie kept walking away from him.

He grabbed her arm and spun her around. Looking into her eyes, he kissed her.

She was shocked but her lips were moving with his and her arms were around his neck, his were on her waist.

He pulled back and smiled at her.

"I love you." He said, kissing her head.

Then she realised why she felt so... empty, so incomplete. She didn't have him.

"I love you too." Valkyrie whispered, hugging him to her.


A/N: Not the best ending but what the hell...

First proper fluffy Valduggery in ages me thinks :P

Please revieeeeeeeeeew! (:

Thaaanks for reading :)

Violet Rayne.

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