Author's Notes: Another one written under the gun. So yeah didn't exactly have time to really re-read this over and edit stuff. I hope it makes sense and isn't riddled with errors.

Ghost Slayers

Chapter Forty-four

By Relm

Val grumbled as he stared at his empty classroom. There was an unspoken rule at the university that if the professor was more than thirty minutes late to class that the students could leave. In most cases it was because then it was assumed that class had been cancelled. In this case however it was just circumstances that lead Val to arrive so late.

Given that he woke up at 'Naga's' home the only clothing Val had with him was the suit he wore to the charity event. The suit itself wasn't a terrible one, but it was far too formal for teaching. That and a few of the buttons on the shirt had been popped off by his too enthusiastic bedmate from the night before. So Val had no choice but to race home first to change.

Val had called the university to give them a heads up about his lateness so they could warn his class. Apparently the message wasn't passed on or the students just took it as an excuse to bail. It made Val angry as he had tried to get to the university as fast as he could. If he had known this was going to happen he wouldn't have rushed so much.

You could have stayed with Naga a little while longer... A voice in the back of Val's head rang away pointing out things he would much rather keep tucked away.

Val found himself groaning at the thought of Naga naked amongst those black satin sheets. Yes his head had been pounding and her voice had been annoying but it had been such a tempting moment for him. But he chose work over pleasure and now he was bored.

With no class to teach all Val could do was mark tests and homework assignments. Given his hangover induced bitter mood the grades he was giving were not very generous. If these were papers and tests from the class that chose to skip then that would make sense he would grade them poorly. However they weren't they were the tests and papers from his later period classes.

Spying a look at the clock on the wall Val was dismayed to realize he still had a good twenty minutes till the start of the next period.

...

Amelia was working on researching the various places of interest she and her co-workers had decided were possible targets when her phone rang. Since Amelia hadn't been expecting any phone calls at that time so it startled her.

"Who's calling?" Lina wondered as she watched her youngest employee try and fish out her cell phone from her purse.

"It's my sister." Amelia answered looking at her cell in confusion.

Filia was quick to glare at Amelia. She wasn't too pleased with what Amelia had done in regards to Filia's step-brother.

"Hello?" Amelia answered her phone while timidly trying to avoid Filia's glare.

"Hi Ames! How are you doing this fine and lovely morning?" Naga's voice was almost sing-song like over the cell phone speakers.

"As well as can be expected. We're dealing with some strange-"

"Nevermind I've lost interest in your ramblings. Let's talk about a more interesting subject, me. OHOHOHOHOHOH!"

Amelia rolled her eyes at her sister's obvious narcissism. "How did the charity event go?"

"Swimmingly! I looked fabulous as always and that special little accessory you sent me was the perfect added touch to my outfit!"

At first Amelia was confused, what was her sister talking about? "Do you mean Mister Val?"

"Mister Val, oh my how professional sounding. Though he's a professor so shouldn't it be Professor Val?" Naga let out a girlish giggle which was very uncharacteristic of her.

"Um... well no... as Val is his first name... But I'm assuming things went well?"

"OHOHOHOH! Well indeed! That man has a wicked mouth! It makes me shiver just thinking about it!"

"Wha-what are you talking about?"

"Oh dear me sister dear. Do you really think I'm the sort of woman to kiss and tell?" Naga's voice sounded rather naughty at that comment.

"Um... I um..."

"Tisk tisk Ames. I will not go into those details! Stop pestering me for them! Sometimes you are such a nosy little thing!"

Amelia shook her head once more. "How was Mister Val at the charity event?"

"Well that I can tell you about. He arrived so deliciously wrapped up like a Christmas present. Not as tall as I wanted but that was fine as I was warned about that. And his bulging biceps were a nice surprise."

"Okay so you liked the way he looked... what else?"

"He's a fantastic dancer and I love his sexy deep angry voice. Grrr! I know there were many women who were just green with envy! I felt like a brighter star than I usual do. OHOHOHOHOHOH! Oh and he's jealous beast too!"

"Jealous? Mister Val didn't hurt anyone at the party did he?"

"No but he just might have if that man bid him up any higher! That's actually the reason why I'm calling. During the event there was an auction and lunch with me was one of the prizes! So I wanted to know, what's Val's favourite food?"

"Um... what? Ah... give me a moment..." Amelia put her phone down and looked over at Filia with a most puzzled look on her face. "Um Miss Filia... what's Mister Val's favourite food?"

Filia's face scrunched up into a frown. "What? Why does your crazy sister want to know that for?"

"I think Mister Val won a lunch date with my sister in a bidding war...?" Amelia mumbled in confusion.

"Great... just what I need my step-brother dating your crazy big boobed sister..." Filia shook her head and shuddered at the thought. "Val pretty much likes everything. Seriously he'll eat anything."

"Okay." Amelia put her cell back to her ear. "Miss Filia says that Mister Val isn't a picky eater and will go for just about anything."

"OHOHOHOHOHOH! Excellent! I'll talk to you later! Love ya!"

Amelia looked at her phone and let out a deep sigh.

"Please tell me your crazy sister wasn't excited about this lunch date." Filia demanded while glaring at Amelia.

Amelia weakly smiled at Filia and giggled nervously. "Sorry...?"

Filia rolled her eyes. "Well at least they haven't slept together."

Amelia's nervous smile remained on her face but she was mum on the subject. Though her sister didn't come right out and say it Naga did imply some form of hanky-panky had occurred.

...

"Now turn to page 156 in your book and you'll see an example of poor usage of foreshadowing and irony." Val instructed his students as he wrote on the board. "Now I want you all to read the passage and write an essay on what the author did wrong and what would have been the proper way to use these literary devices in the context of the story."

The class let out a collective groan at Val's assignment.

"Shut it and get reading!" Val yelled slamming a ruler on his desk.

The students jumped in surprise and quickly got to their assignments. Val was being particularly short tempered so the students weren't about to push their luck.

Val plopped himself down and went over the pop quizzes he had assaulted his students with earlier. His mood hadn't improved much since the start of his school day. Coming into an empty classroom and nursing a hangover headache was bad enough but he had another problem to make his day worse. In all his rush to get to work Val didn't bother to eat any breakfast. It was practically lunch time and he was starving. It was times like this that Val wished he still had that stash of food in his desk. He still didn't know who it was that stole his munchies though he was sure it was Xellos or Phibrizzo.

The sound of a door opening and clicking of footsteps on the hardwood floor distracted the students from their assignments and made the turn their heads. They were shocked to see a tall busty woman wearing a pair of faded black skinny jeans, black knee-high boots, black sequined halter top and a black cropped fitted jacket. She had a saucy little smile as she strutted her way towards the front of the class.

"Whoever that it is better sit down or they get a failing grade in this class!" Val threatened not even looking up from the papers he was marking.

"Ooohh... Does that mean I'll have to stay after class for... detention?" The owner of the high heeled boots purred in a most sexual manner.

Val's face snapped right up and with eyes as large as saucers he looked at the offender. He was completely shocked to see Naga standing before him holding a couple bags of take out thai food. "Na-Naga? What are you doing here?"

"OHOHOHOHO! Did you think I was going to let a silly thing like school get in the way of our lunch date?" Naga waved the bags of takeout in front of Val's face.

Val could smell the food through the bags and it smelled heavenly. "But I'm working right now!" He growled at her through gritted teeth.

"Well we can fix that. Class dismissed." Naga motioned for the students to leave.

The class hesitantly started to pack up their things.

"Get back to your assignment!" Val ordered his class. "And you..." He glared at Naga. "Sit down and wait till the period is over." He pointed to a chair adjacent to his desk.

Naga smiled and then did as she was told. She sat down... on Val's desk. She crossed her legs and arched her back as she shot a sideways glance at Val.

Val just shook his head and tried ignore both the beautiful woman and the delicious food sitting on his desk.

Even though the students were supposed to be doing their assignment more than a few of them were chatting via text and twitter about their teacher's mysterious lunch date. There were quite a few rumors flying about the main suggesting that 'Naga' was a prostitute. She did seem too pretty for a man like Val. Especially then they were porn star pretty.

Really the students should have been more concerned with doing their assignment as Val was so on edge that he was likely to snap at anyone at that moment. But the period was almost over so it didn't seem likely that Val would ask for their essays till tomorrow's class.

"You know the food will get cold." Naga reminded Val.

"It's just a few minutes." Val grumbled after spying a look at the clock.

"Then why not let them all out early?"

Val didn't need to answer that question as the bell rang signalling the end of the period. "I want those papers first thing next class. As well as five page paper character study on the protagonist of Aongsh's 'Ashen Forrest'."

More collective groaning from the students as they exited the classroom.

"So can I be the teacher the next period?" Naga purred as she turned around so she was laying on Val's desk propped up on her forearms and her legs up in the air.

"No. And get off my desk!" Val growled.

"Do you know how sexy your voice is when you're angry?" Naga raised an eyebrow at Val as she got off his desk.

Val wanted to mad, hell he wanted to scream at her, but he couldn't. Not when he was blushing so hard. "Where do you want to eat?"

Naga chuckled to herself. "Here is just fine." She purred as she opened up one of the containers and brandished a plastic fork. Twirling the pad thai like it was spaghetti Naga got a good forkful and brought it up to Val's mouth.

"Wha-what are you doing?" Val exclaimed all flustered.

"OHOHOHOHOH! Feeding you your lunch you sexy beast. You paid so much so for this honor after all."

Val was still blushing as he let Naga feed him. It was embarrassing, sexy and depressing. Embarrassing because he was being fed like a kid, sexy because it was Naga that was doing it and depressing as she reminded him of just how much money he had thrown away at that charity dinner. "What was the charity event for again?"

"Um... kids who are um... homeless... and need things... or stuff..." Naga mumbled.

"Oh so you don't even know what I wasted my money on?" Val snapped at her.

"Wasting? Excuse me this is a privilege!" Naga huffed.

Val rolled his eyes.

"Well if you're going to be so ungrateful then I won't give you your present." Naga threatened him.

This perked Val's interest. "And what would that be?"

Naga pulled out a ticket from her jacket and handed it to Val. "It's a ticket to see the play that I happen to star in. We could have dinner afterwards."

Val looked at the ticket and noted the date. "This Saturday? Why not Friday?"

"Oh I'm spending the day with my little sister. I could cancel but Ames practically begged me to agree to spend some time with her. I love her but she is so needy. But that could be because I'm a famous actress and she slays ghosts for a living. Can't blame her for feeling deprived of attention. OHOHOHOHOH!" Naga laughed feeling pretty good about herself. Though it was Naga who asked Amelia to spend the day with her and not the other way around. But she didn't have to tell Val that.

(Author's Notes: I know I'm laying the Naga/Valness a little thick though there is a method to my madness. I could just skip the point but I want to establish more of rapport between the two. Plus writing those too is just too darn fun. I highly recommend anyone the pairing to anyone wanting to try a pairing.)