The last ten years
Later, when I had left Dex I decided to go to the sanctuary. I wanted to take my mind of Dexter and the distant way he acted towards me. I could tell that he missed me and that he was guilty about something, but what I didn't know. I was hoping that someone could fill me in on what has happened the past ten years and found Valkyrie sitting in the library, reading a book on developing new magic after the surge. I sat down next to her and she looked up, startled by the sudden shift of the couch. She was so consumed with her book that she hadn't seen me walking towards her and I understood perfectly how you can get so caught up in a book that you forget about the world for a while.
"Hi Legacy, I heard you were getting back soon, but I didn't know exactly when." She smiled at me, and I felt a wave of sympathy wash over me from her and felt that she pitied me. "So," I said, "anything interesting happen in the last ten years?" I asked and Valkyrie smiled, happy to fill in all the blanks. I learned that all of the sorcerers that had been affected by the accelerator had been captured, all the remnants either dead of back in their prison. I also learned that Dexter had been fired from the sanctuary and that he was on bad terms with Ghastly and Skulduggery and all the other dead men who were still alive. Valkyrie hadn't seen him in three years, but I had just come back from his house, so I wondered what he had done to make everyone so angry at him.
"What did he do Valkyrie?" I asked, pleading her with the tone of my voice. I also pushed out a feeling of obedience so when I said "tell me, please," she actually did. "He was a mess, when you left I mean. I never thought he was capable of the love he had for you but he proved us all wrong. Your sudden departure turned him into a mad man. He took his anger and frustration out on anyone he could find, even punched me once or twice, although he regretted it later because I gave him back five times as much as he gave me. He was becoming unstable in his grief. He didn't know where you were or if you were ever coming back and let me tell you that is not a good feeling.
When Skulduggery went into the other dimension with the faceless ones the only thing that held me together was that I had hope that he was going to come back, and that I could find a way to make that happen. Dexter didn't have that. He had to let you go but he couldn't. It was like losing someone you love to death. That was literally what it seemed like. It happened when we were on a case and we finally found the bad guys, they were being particularly elusive on that day, and we were right on their tail. A fight broke out and Dexter went all out. He killed some of them Legacy.
He killed people when he didn't have to. He had no reason to do it, we were going to take them back to the sanctuary but he just couldn't stop. Skulduggery and I had no time to even turn around and tell him to stop before they were dead. Skull was silent for the whole car ride back to the sanctuary and when we got there he grabbed Dexter by the scruff of his shirt collar and dragged him into China's throne room. He made her punish him. He was sentenced to a year in prison and then when he got out he disappeared. We didn't see him for five years after that. And he only got back from where ever it was that he went a week ago, just in time for your return, but he didn't know that you were coming back so I don't know how he got the timing so right."
She looked pleased with the way she told the story but when she saw the look on my face, which was horrified, the pleased look vanished to be replaced by one of concern and worry. I could feel the emotions emulating off of her and they brushed against my skin making me shiver. I stood up and decided that I needed to go back to Dex. "I need to go Valkyrie. Thank you for telling me everything. Nobody else would." I said to her with a sad smile and walked out of the library and back onto the streets of Roarhaven. I walked fast to Dexter's apartment building and basically ran up the stairs as the elevators were taking too long to arrive.