Skulduggery is human. (I have no idea how but he is) He is human in most of my stories! And Lauren is 17 and Josh and Harley are 10.

When everyone was sat down Erskine and Ghastly told them their case

" Kalin Lyn and Vero Knight are partners in crime. I know, cheesy. But they are strictly buisness, buisness as in killing mages all over the country" Everyone chuckled after Ghastly finished. Erskine carried on.

"They have killed 29 mages over the world. 3 in Spain, 5 in America, 6 in England, 10 in Australia and 3 in New Zealand." He was reading from the report on his desk."They last sighting of the pair was in Cork in Ireland. All the victims were very high up in the Sanctuary." He looked up to find all three detectivesstaring into space, hr could tell by there eyes they were registering all the information. The Valyrie was the first to snap out

"Where are they from?"

"Milton Keynes in England" Ghastly answered. Next to snap out was Jessie

"Any siblings?" Ghastly and Ravel looked at each other with sadden faces. Ravel looked at the floor.

"Yes ummm Vero Knight's sister is ummm..." He looked at Ghastly then Valkyrie. Ghastly was looking at Valkyrie too.

"Tanith" Ghastly whispered. Valkyrie's mouth dropped and Skulduggery snapped his head around to look at Ghastly.

"I haven't told her but last night I asked her if she had any sisters and she said no" Ghastly looked at Valkyrie in the eye "So she dosen't want to talk about her so Valkyrie, do you think we should tell?"

"Well, if she dosen't want us to know she's her sister then we shouldn't tell her. But every time I will see her I will feel guilty"

"Same"

"And she's my best friend and Ghastly, she's your wife" Ghastly looked at the floor

"So this means i'll have to tell her"

"Yep"

"Okay i'll tell her when I get home"

"Okay now that's done we should get going, Skul, it's getting late Lauren will be getting annoyed with Josh by now"

"Like daughter like mother"

"Shut it muppet"

"That was rubbish Val"

"I know I couldn't think of anything else"

"Okay sorry to brake up your little moment guys but I have an important meeting to get to" Ravel intruded

"Yeah and I have a wife to tell that her sister is a murderer"

"Okay Ghastly, if you need any help just call me"

"Will do" He walked out of the door.

"Erskine is there any hotels near by?"

"You can stay at ours if you want we have a guest house in the grounds" Valkyrie offered

"We do?"

"Yes, skul" She rolled her eyes."You don't have to pay or anything Jessie"

"Thank you "

Tanith and Ghastly's house POV

"Tanith I'm home" Ghastly called as he entered through the door. Tanith came through from the kitchen with a smile on her face

"Hey hun" She reached up and kissed him.

"Harley, dad's home" She called up the stairs Ghastly heard a faint 'hey'. Ghastly pulled Tanith by the hand into the living room

"Tan, I need to tell you something"

"What is it?"

"Let's sit down"

"God Ghastly i'm your wife not some agent at the sanctuary you don't have to be so formal with me"

"I'm sorry" He gave her a sad smile and sat down on the sofa. She sat down next to him and turned 90 degrees to face her husband.

"What's wrong? your never this sad" She sat on her knees on the sofa and put an arm around his neck and lent her chin on his head.

"Whats happened?"

"umm we've had a case come in to arrest a Vero Knight for murder" He felt her stiffen.

"So?"

"Tan,babe, I know she's your sister"

"Okay"

"Do you want to work on this with us? I understand if you don't"

"it's okay i'll do it I hate my sister and I want her behind bars" She sniffed immediatly Ghastly looked up a tear was falling down her cheek.

"Hey what's wrong?" He brought his arm around her waist and was hugging into her.

"I can't get the things she did out of my head"

"What did she do?"

"She...killed...my brother" She burst out crying

"Shh, Shh it's okay i'm here it's okay" He brought his other around her aswell and kissed her forhead.

"She only killed him cos he was stiking up for me!" A new group of tears came out

"Shh it's okay" Harley appeared at the door

"Dad why is mum crying?"

"It okay, son, could you do me a favor?" He nodded "Could you go to my study and get designing pad and pen please?" Harley ran out the room. Tanith lifted her head.

"Why do you need your pad and pen?" She wiped her hand under her eye

"Oh I don't it was just to get him out the room" She laughed and he smiled at the thought that he lifted her mood.

"You okay?" She nodded

"Yeah " He leant down and kissed her

"I love you"

"I love you too"

Skulduggery and Valkyrie's house POV

Valkyrie and Skulduggery had bought a mansion a few miles away from Roarhaven because Gordon's was too old and cramped to have a family but they still kept it for a spare for family and stuff. Their new house was modern and massive. It has a big living room and a white modern kitchen. It has a big island and stool the work tops are marble. It has a microwave, blender, fridge, freezer etc. It also has a massive library that's where the detectives keep all their copies of people's files. They have every single mages' profile. The house has 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Skulduggery has a study where they keep Goron the echo stone and all Skulduggery's books. In the kitchen they have a dinning table aswell. In the guest house there is one bedroom and bathroom and a kitchen and living room.

"Thank you guys for letting me stay here"

"Its okay Jessie make your self at home me and Skul have got some kids to sort out well I have" Jessie laughed. Valkyrie walked back out the door and over the garden to the back door of her house. Lauren was sitting at the island on a stool she looked tired.

"Hey darling"

"Hey mum" She croaked out. Valkyrie relised she had tear stains on her cheeks.

"What's wrong?"

"I had a fight with James" James and Lauren had been going out for 3 years.

"It's okay hun you will sort it out just give it time" She walked over to her daughter she druped an arm around her shoulders "What was it about?"

"We had a row about magic. He said I should do symbols insted of Elemental, I could never stop elemental!"

"It's okay hun, what did you say? Are you keep with elemental?"

"Of course I am!" She put her head in her hands and started sobbing.

"Okay hun, don't listen to James if you want to stick with elemental you do and if you want to do symbols we will be behind you one hundred percent" Lauren looked up with a smile

"Thanks mum but i'm staying an elemental"

"That's my girl" She gave a hug

BANG!

They both looked at each then started to walk towards the stairs

"Where's your brother and father?"

"Garage"

"Okay, go get you father and you and Josh stay in the garage"

"But-"

"No buts just do it" Lauren walked away towards the garage Valkyrie looked up the stairs and lit a ball of fire in her hand.

She started to walk up the stairs. She got to the top and heard another noise from the master bedroom, (Skul and Val's) Valkyrie slowly creped up to the door. She put her ear to the door. She looked towards the stairs to find Skulduggery creeping up. She put her index finger to her lips to tell Skulduggery to be quiet, he nodded in responce and came to stand next to her his ear to the door aswell. They couldn't hear anything but someone moving around. They both pulled away and Valkyrie put her hand up to count down from five. On zero Skulduggery kicked down the door to find Sanguine putting a bomb behind the head board. He snapped his head towards the married couple. He started to curse

"The Hollow men were suppose to distract you" Valkyrie looked at him puzzled.

"What Hollow men?" That when they heard a girl's scream from down stairs.

"MUM! DAD!" It was Lauren. Valkyrie and Skulduggery quickly turned and ran down the stairs to find Lauren against a wall surronded by three Hollow men, Josh was under a desk two Hollow men were trying to reach him. Skulduggery took the three around Lauren and Valkyrie took the other two. Skuldggery put a ball of fire into the first Hollow man's face. He picked up a pen from the side table and stabbed it into his chest. The Hollow man burst and the gasses escaped, they were grim. The second one came running at him. Skulduggery stepped aside and the Hollow man ran right past, Skulduggery stabbed it in the back with the pen and the same happened with that one. The last one Lauren had covered. It was lying on the floor. She had a foot on it's chest and a knife in her hand ,she plunged down and the knife went straight through it's paper skin-thingy and it burst. Skulduggery came up to Lauren and picked her up

"You okay?"

"Yeah, dad" They both looked over to Josha and Valkyrie. Only one Hollow man was there. And Valkyrie was fighting it, Josh was watching from the sidelines. Valkyrie was punching it considently. Skulduggery noticed something in the back of her jeans

"Val your gun is in the back of your jeans!"

"Oh yeah" She pulled out her gun and shot the hollow man in the head once it burst and gasses escaped.

Josh suddenly started crying. Valkyre immediatly knew what was wrong

"Oh i'm sorry hunny I didn't mean to scare 's okay, the gun isn't going to hurt you. Look" She held her gun out to Skulduggery "Babe can you take it please" He reached out and took the M9 Pistol and put it in the back of his trousers. With his shirt and trousers and guns (his revolver was in his holster) he looked proffesional. Valkyrie looked back at Josh and smiled.

"See hunny it's gone, no more guns" Josh stopped crying and sobbing and Valkyrie pulled him into a hug.

"Watch out!" Skulduggery called, Sanguine was coming up behind Valkyrie and Josh with his razor out. Sudddenly a lighting bolt hit the Texan from the side. Jessie came through the door.

"He's dead" She casualy.

"Thank you Miss Sparks"

"Its okay and call me Jessie I'm your guest" The adults smiled. Lauren was being hugged into Skulduggery's side with her face in his chest. Josh was still with Valkyrie.