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arghhh watching a scary pink video clip arghh scarishly disturbing

how was your christmas and new year hope it was great well here is the next instalment so sorry it took so long to be put up

enjoy it and review please that can be your new years resolution :)

Valkyrie always felt peaceful when she found herself surrounded by the sea, it was something to do with the rhythmatic movement of the water or the constant splash of the waves crashing down. Whatever the reason it had always been a place of peace and harmony for when times got tough. Just like now. This was why she found herself here.

The birth of her two new siblings had been a joyous moment in her currently depressing and difficult life but it had also created a new obstacle. Valkyrie had known it would be hard and terrible to kill one sibling but now it was doubled because there would be two. The water was cool and it felt welcoming she let it lap around her; she got the sudden urge to begin doing laps.

Valkyrie dived under the surface and reappeared a few metres away. A smile began to break out on her face. She felt like normal again. She swam over to a flat rock and touched it she than swam back and did the same thing. She kept repeating the lap over and over; so many memories came flooding back. Good times, normal times. She heard the familiar noise of a car pulling up and someone stepping out. She knew who it was.

"Valkyrie." Skulduggery's voice called. Valkyrie kept swimming repeating her lap over and over.

"Valkyrie. Really come out of the water so we can talk." Skulduggery was becoming impatient. Valkyrie took no notice and ignored him continuing to swim always touching the rock.

"STEPHANIE!" skulduggery's voice boomed. Valkyrie jumped. It had been a long time since skulduggery had called her that. She turned to look at him eye brows raised.

"Right well now I've gotten you attention." Skulduggery began.

"Harrumph" Valkyrie huffed and began swimming constantly going back and forth always touching the rock.

"Why are you doing that?" he asked.

"Doing what." Valkyrie replied still swimming.

"Touching that rock." Skulduggery said. "It looks as if you're some psycho or something." Valkyrie sighed and swam over to the shore. She got out and walked up to where skulduggery was standing next to her towel. She bent and picked it up wrapping it around her and went to go sit on the edge of the pier. Skulduggery joined her and she began.

"When I was younger, a friend called matty and I use to play around here. He made up the game. The rock he made a portal. It was a portal to a different world." She smiled and looked out over the water remembering.

"In that world he and I were king and queen and we had children. Of course they were pretend and when we talked to them we'd be talking to thin air but ….. But for some reason the children always wanted to know about a different place, wanting to find something different. They always complained about wanting something different from the everyday life, a bit like what I wanted." She turned to look at skulduggery her face a mask of pain and sorrow. "Don't make me do it. I don't want it anymore." She whispered

"Don't want what." Skulduggery asked

"I don't want this anymore. I don't want to do it I just can't." she said

"Do what?" skulduggery asked again.

"This." Valkyrie said and she gestured with her arms at him. "I don't want to be your partner anymore." She said and turned away to look at the water rising and falling.

Skulduggery sat there his mind racing. She didn't want to work with him anymore didn't want to know him. Didn't want to have anything to do with him. She wanted to turn her back on everything , wanted to forget about it all.

"what." He managed to croak "you….you don't want to be part of our world." He asked.

"Not our world Skul it's not mine, it's yours, I don't belong in It." tears began rolling down her cheek.

"I can't do it and don't you dare make me." She yelled at him

"Im not making you do anything." He said exasperated.

"Yes you are." She screamed. "You're always telling me what to do always telling me how to do things and I can't do it. I have TWO new siblings Skul not one, two. I DON'T WANT TO KILL THEM. I just want it to stop I don't want to become Darquesse."

She crumpled into his shoulder sobbing and shuddering. Sighing skulduggery wrapped his arms around her shaking body and cradling her he whispered in her ear.

"It's okay; you won't become Darquesse I won't let her take you over, Val I'll look after you." He kept repeating. And then finally he said what he had been meaning to say since he arrived.

"I'm so sorry, so sorry please I'm sorry. Val I'm sorry I'm so sorry." His voice began to become squeaky and cracking like he were sobbing and Valkyrie guessed that if he were still human he would've been.

A few minutes passed as Valkyrie sat slumped in skulduggery arms, slowly her sobs began to subside.

"Valkyrie, are you…. Are you sure that you don't want this anymore?" skulduggery asked his voice unusually high pitched.

"I… I don't know." She replied "I just don't feel like I can do it…alone."

Skulduggery lifted her off him and stared at her. "Alone! What do you mean alone I've been here for you always. Valkyrie, don't ever think that your alone. I'll always be here for you. No one will matter more okay you… you're… you're special Valkyrie, special to me okay. I know that maybe sometimes someone might be a bit more special to me than you but it would be in a different context okay. I mean, you're like the daughter I lost okay and I don't want to repeat any of that again. But sometimes it might seem as though I might like someone… well…you know… His rant slowly was coming to an embarrassing end and Skulduggery waved his hands about trying to find the right words.

"yes." Valkyrie encouraged him to continue.

"um… well ahhh…. China." He gasped out and turned his head away.

"what." Valkyrie shouted jumping up face lit up. "China" she said laughing. "After all that skulduggery all the cautions you gave me to stay a fair distance away and now… you and china…. You're not serious are you?"

"Well. China and I are… I guess you could call it an….. item." Skulduggery said crouching in a defensive position ready for the explosion of insults and humiliation that would tumble out of Valkyrie's wide open mouth. But it never came all that came was one plain "oh" as she stood up and walked off towards the change rooms.

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