I'm sorry I haven't updated in such a long time. I think I was so over how I wrote the last chapter, I just didn't feel like continuing.
Thank you to DeadGirl19 and Bella Pleasant for reviewing! You asked for it, and here it is! If you ask for more in the reviews, I'll probably update sooner.
May be grammar mistakes, I didn't read through it properly... Enjoy, Read and Review!
Her spirit was broken.
Valkyrie did not move after she fell to the floor. She lay there, crumpled, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, waiting for her heart to stop beating. She knew she had to get out of this mess, to be fine and strong, but she could not will herself to do it. Sanguine broke her. It was up to Skulduggery to fix her after that. Skulduggery knew it would take hard work to get back the shine in her eyes, but he had to do it. He was the only one who could.
"Valkyrie, I know it hurts, that you feel like avoiding everything right now, but I need you. All you need to do is go to the wall to your left. The keys are hanging there. Just unlock me, and I will take care of you after that." His velvety voice broke as he spoke. Valkyrie hung onto his words, but did not move.
"Please, Valkyrie Cain, I love you," He was whispering, shaking now. Sobbing. She shifted, just the tiniest bit. He continued, "I will help you through this. Remember, until the end? It's not the end just yet."
Valkyrie raised her head. God, that hurt. She moved slowly, but nevertheless she slowly got up and started shuffling towards the keys. Just a bit further, she told herself. Then all the pain will be gone. Skulduggery loves you. He'll help. She chanted this in her mind as she reached the keys and shuffled back to Skulduggery, unlocking one of his wrists and watching as he gently took the keys from her and removed the rest of his shackles. Valkyrie saw how tense he was. The chair he sat in was almost in shambles, barely being held together by magic. He took his jacket off and draped it around her, picking her up as if she weighed nothing. He started flying, down the caves, finding the exit by feeling the shifts in the air.
The night was dark and quiet, and he saw they were by the seaside. Skulduggery found the nearest of his situated Ford Fiesta's, this time a hideous yolk colored car (Even though Valkyrie was hurt so badly, she managed to mumble something, which Skulduggery could only make out as "Sunny side up"), and drove them to the house on Cemetery Road, since he thought she wouldn't want to be in a noisy public place while she dealt with her hurt. He also had healing rocks at his house.
Valkyrie was a mess. She did not say anything, did not move much. Skulduggery flew her into the house, and placed her gently onto her bed in her room, that Skulduggery had installed when he knew the couch wasn't enough. He went and ran a bath for her, but he thought she would want her privacy after such an ordeal, and trusted her to get in the bath safely. By herself.
"Valkyrie, I am running you a bath, okay?" No answer. "Will you be ready in around 5 minutes to take a bath?" She murmured. Skulduggery took that as a yes.
He tried to make the water the right temperature, which was hard considering he had no skin to feel warmth anymore, and then added some of the healing rocks.
"I'm done," Skulduggery called out softly. "Do you need help or….."He finished awkwardly. Valkyrie didn't respond.
He went over to check on her. She was shaking hard and rattling under his jacket. Tears leaked from her eyes silently, and still she shook violently. If Skulduggery still had a heart, it would have shattered into millions of pieces.
He moved towards her to hug her, and she flinched away. He felt slightly hurt, but he understood. A man(although Skulduggery would never call that putrid, loathsome, thing a man) had just violated her. Skulduggery was more or less, a man.
Anger resonated in his bones as he took out his phone and called Tanith. He moved away from Valkyrie so as not to scare her.
Tanith picked up on the third ring.
"Hey Skul, what's u-"
"Tanith. I need you here right now. It's important." Skulduggery growled.
"What in the name of Ghastly's purple panties happened?" Tanith shouted. It sounded like she was wrestling someone.
"Tanith, this is serious." He seemed to shout so quietly, with menace. All sounds of fighting stopped. Tanith knew this tone of voice. He sounded like the story that always found its way into the pub she was in. The same story, no matter how varied it was. The story of when Skulduggery's family was killed.
Skulduggery heard the sound of a motorbike revving in the background.
"What happened." Her voice was steely now, void of all expression.
"Valkyrie. Sanguine, he..." Skulduggery choked on his words.
"He what? Hurt her? Any broken bones? You have the healing rocks right?" Tanith said, sounding worried, but slightly relieved.
There was a pause.
"He didn't hurt her like that." His usually velvet smooth voice grew rough with emotion and fury.
"Then how-" Tanith stopped suddenly.
"That fucking piece of shit." She yelled into the howling air around her. She stepped on it.
A minute later Tanith rushed into Skulduggery's house. She found Skulduggery, sitting so unnaturally still at the kitchen counter, one hand clutching his pistol, the other on a new Ford Fiesta's keys. The moment he sensed Tanith, he swung into motion. As he walked past Tanith towards the door, he mumbled "She's in the bedroom. I ran a bath. Please. Take care of her."
And with that, he was out the door.
What is Skulduggery going to do?
I'll try to update soon.
Until then,
Razbery out.
xoxo