Tanith puffed heavily, blowing her wavy blonde hair off her face, showing a rebellious child face, rejecting to go to the dentist. Why did she have to go to the dentist after all. She was a grown up woman. Literally. It depended on the question. Ugh, these were too much for her filled skull. She puffed. Again. With that, Valkyrie sighed.
"Tanith, I think the air conditioner is working quite well."
"I'm well aware of that Val but I just… Can't help it."
Valkyrie hugged Tanith. Well, they did try to hug as best as they could in the Bentley, which was pretty hard. It created a rather amusing scene of Valkyrie's one leg up in the air and Tanith's arms all buckled up, virtually, again. Skulduggery glanced at them.
"What an efficient way to hug." He murmured.
Valkyrie turned to Skulduggery, who was surely grinning. It was normally hard to say a skeleton was actually grinning. But this time, it was plain obvious. In "skeletonish" ways. She raised her eyebrow.
"Shut up." Skulduggery chuckled. He could manage to do this.
Valkyrie did deserve some time with Tanith. Some girlish moments, shopping and stuff. She needed a break and Skulduggery knew it. Even the most amazing infamous detectives in the World needed a break. Skulduggery's break would be punching even more bad guys. Expected, naturally. But Valkyrie wasn't really looking forward to punch some bad guys right after they have reunited with Tanith. Not today, at least not for the next couple of hours. Nobody can fight the urge to kick some faces that need it. But first, they were going to the friendliest place in the world… [Author's note: I seriously hope my sarcasm worked.]
"Well, well well. What did I do to see you once again?" said Nye, narrowing it's eyes suspiciously. Skulduggery ignored it. Valkyrie fought the sudden urge to kick it once again in the face, and decided that this time, ignoring will be the best solution. Nye raised its eyebrow. It was hard to do so for something without eyebrows, but Nye managed to create the atmosphere perfectly. It glanced at them and saw one extra person in the corner. She was 85 years old, seemed like a 30 year old, acted like a 4 year old. Maybe a little younger, minus or add a few years or so. Only one person could have such standarts. Nye's eyes expanded when it saw the one and only Tanith Low.
It put a little smile on its face. "Oh. Hi there dear. You look better than the last time I saw you. Now, let's skip the formalities and get to work, shall we?"
Tanith nodded, threw an angry look at the crowd outside the room. Valkyrie replied with a "Just relax, it's going to be fun." Look on her face. Skulduggery was doing his best naturally. This was enough for Tanith. She sighed and sat down on the white, long chair, too long for her liking, pushing the tables and any junk coming out of her way. She was the strongest living woman in the world. Nye took off its bloody smock, showing its skinny waist and its disgustingly visible ribs. Tanith winced. Then Nye quickly put on a new one.
Tanith didn't like that smile Nye threw at her.
"I hope your friend, Valkyrie right, told you about how much I care about hygiene. Good old days." Nye told this in a slightly wistful voice that even made Tanith redeem herself from countering it. Tanith closed her eyes. She hated going to the dentist. Who didn't? After that day, no one would... She lost her favourite tooth and since that day, she had the urge to kick the dentists in the face. How her life has turned upside down when she lost that one tooth.
Tanith shook the thoughts off her head but accidentally opened her eyes but quickly closed them, in case Nye would want extra money if it made it from the hit to the face. Tanith had her moments. Nobody could survive from a hit from Tanith. Literally, nobody.
She heard the greaky sound of the dentist chair nearby, leaning towards her. She pouted and gritted her teeth. She could feel Nye glaring at her. It raised an "eyebrow".
"That pouting could make me make a too huge mistake for my liking. Possibly you wouldn't like it too. And you could be chewing my finger too, which is more unpleasant. Since your jaw is a brawny one. Saying for my finger, you see."
Tanith raised her two eyebrows and waited. Nye continued, "That is something good. No need for awkward silences."
She felt a little happiness flapping in her tummy. But the nightmare wasn't over.
"So let me, would you? I'm getting paid for this, come on."
No arguments. Nye was right. As usual. Tanith opened her mouth, as wide as possible. Nye didn't say anything and silent meant everything was fine, for now but as no one could, she couldn't trust Nye. But this time she was desperate. As soon she was sure her jaw wasn't going to fall out, she could kick it before it could try anything it was normal for Nye. But Tanith couldn't help worrying about this whole jaw thing since Skulduggery was the one who gave her the advise. Not surprising.
Nye placed a metal flat mirror thingy inside her mouth and felt her tongue tickle. She held her laughter, since it would sound like a dead mouse. Nye was still. That was not good eventually. Nye's voice was dull. And tanith could feel her eyes burning since this time, Nye was not moving.
"Oh God."
Bah, I think I lost the pretty atmosphere from the start since I have asore throat in the middle of Summer. Pretty disoriening, as you can imagine. So forgive me, at least this time.
So yeah, this was unnecessarily long. I don't think I survived long enough to... Oh wait.
Yeah, but that "Oh God" part was good to write, I can assure you that, at least.
Got to eat some melted chocolate then. Peace,
-The Zombie Queen, No Hot Air Can Stand Her [Probably].