Valkyrie was sitting in skulduggery's sitting room when someone knocked on the door.
''Valkyrie would you please answer the door?"
"Why don't you?"
"I'm not opening the door because I'm a skeleton my dear combat accessory."
"Façade." She muttered as she walked to the door. When she opened it she screamed causing skulduggery to run out to the door to see Valkyrie hanging onto a startled Dexter vex. Skulduggery laughed as Valkyrie squeezed and Dexter started going red.
"Val I missed you too but if you don't loosen your grip I might get internal damage."
"Serves you right! Going touring in Indian mountains for months leaving nothing but a note to explain where you went!" And with that she hit him and went inside.
''I'm not hugging you, but I'll copy Valkyrie and hit you?"
"No thanks."
Skulduggery nodded and followed Valkyrie inside.
Dexter walked into one of skulduggery's sitting rooms after hanging up his coat to see Valkyrie on the phone and skulduggery sulking in his chair.
"Who she talking to?"
"I don't know. I asked her and she kicked her shoe at me."
Dexter laughed and got the other shoe to the head for it.
"I see what you mean." He muttered scowling at a hysterical Valkyrie.
"Can we know now?" Skulduggery asked impatient. Valkyrie grinned
"I think it's about time for a dead men reunion."
Twenty minutes later and after a lot of skulduggery chasing Valkyrie around the house all the men were sitting in the biggest living room.
"So what will we play?" Valkyrie asked from her seat beside skulduggery where she had his hat on her head. Sacren grinned and said "We could play truth or dare?"
"Good god no!" Skulduggery yelled while Valkyrie grinned and nodded.
"Hands up for truth or dare?" Dexter asked. Five hands went up. Skulduggery sighed "You always team up on me."
"That we do." Valkyrie muttered absent-mindedly patting him on the head (skull?).
They all sat in a circle on the ground to begin.
"Who will start?" Dexter asked excitedly.
"Umm val?"
Valkyrie grinned "Sure, we'll go clockwise so Dexter will ask me, I'll ask anton, anton will ask tanith, tanith will ask skulduggery, skulduggery will ask sacren, sacren will ask ghastly and ghastly will ask Dexter. Ok?"
Skulduggery raised his hand "I don't want to sit beside tanith. Shes too unpredictable."
"But that's what makes me fun!"
"Skulduggery I'm not saying that again so you're staying there."
"Truth or dare Val?"
"Dare of course." Valkyrie said without a doubt.
"Ok val you have to use your cheesiest pick up lines on us but you don't have to do tanith cause a certain tailor might get jealous." Dexter said grinning evilly. Valkyrie stood up and paused.
"Uh val?"
"Come on!"
"Wait. I'm thinking… Ok I'm ready."
First she walked over to sacren "They say sacren rue knows things, so do you know what I want right now?" She said draping her arm around him. Sacren for his part laughed.
Next she moved to Dexter "I wouldn't mind playing with your lasers sometime." This time blushing. Dexter raised his hand and let it light up grinning. She now turned round to look at the other three men. Glancing over at shudder she walked up and sat down on his knees "How about I sit here and we all about what ever comes up?" She cooed. Anton looked terrified while the other men laughed.
Valkyrie now looked at the last men who were looking a lot more worried. Valkyrie stared at skulduggery before turning to tanith and whispering something to her. She grinned and nodded to her. Valkyrie then turned back to skulduggery.
"Now Valkyrie…"
Valkyrie walked over and whispered loud enough for the others to hear
"I wouldn't mind having a second skeleton in me."
Before tapping his façade tattoo and stepping back. Now that skulduggery had a face everyone could see his shocked expression. Valkyrie now turned to ghastly "Do you want a tailor one or a general one?"
"Hey I didn't get that option!" Anton said.
"Do you really want me to tell you the hotel one?"
Shudder froze and shook his head slowly.
"Good. Now ghastly?"
"Um general?"
Valkyrie laughed and nodded "Ok. The only thing I want in between our relationship is latex." At the last part Valkyrie blushed and walked over to tanith and whispered one to tanith.
"Hey! That's not fair! You said all ours out loud!" Sacren complained
"Yeah but Dexter said that I didn't need to do one for her."
"I want to hear the tailor one!" Dexter said grinning at ghastly.
"Oh." Valkyrie said turning to ghastly "The only thing I want you to make is my day." On saying this ghastly went red, the other men laughed but tanith went over to him and sat on his lap. "Sorry val but he's taken. But I'm sure the others wouldn't mind comforting you."
Valkyrie laughed and went back to her seat. "Dear anton truth or dare?"
Anton looked at her before saying "I think I'll stick with truth." Valkyrie smiled "How many women have you kissed in one night?" Anton paused before spreading out his fingers and counting them off. "Anton shudder!" Valkyrie teased when he passed ten. Anton looked up "About 36." "WHAT?" Sacren and Dexter yelled. Ghastly just stared "I thought you were the responsible one."
"Can we move on?"
"Of course."
Anton turned to tanith "Tanith truth or D-"
"DARE!"
Anton smiled and nodded "You have to sit on each dead man except me and ghastly. A new person each new turn."
"Ok who's going first?"
"You can start here tanith." Valkyrie said before the lads started teasing ghastly. Tanith nodded and sat on Valkyrie's knee.
"Ow! Your heavy!"
Tanith ignored her and turned to skulduggery "Ok skul what do you want? Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Oh um…. Ooo we never did find out how the two of actually properly met!"
"It was at Gordon's funeral. She spotted me standing under a tree near by paying my respects and then after at the wake she went up to the study and when I went up I saw her just standing there. She looked retarded."
"Hey! I was mourning my dead uncle!"
"Hush now. Anyways after I charmed her I left and we didn't meet again until the will reading where I met her wonderful aunt and she got herself a house."
Valkyrie nodded "He walked by me and congratulated me."
"But the first time we properly met was after when a man attacked innocent Stephanie and I had to save her. That's how she started on the road to becoming Valkyrie Cain and the devil sitting here."
"Oi!"
"Ok stop guys we have to move on." Sacren interrupted eager to have his turn.
Tanith got up and plopped down on skulduggery next.
"Sacren truth or- ow! That's my eye socket! Dare?" Skulduggery ask trying to keep tanith in one place. Sacren smiled "Dare."
"Ok you have to find something with an s in the beginning of its name and kiss it for 60 seconds."
Everyone stared at skulduggery. Sacren nodded "Respect." He then moved around the room looking for something to use.
"Shovel?"
"Shelf?"
"Shudder?"
At the last one everyone started laughing while Anton backed away from Sacren.
"Valkyrie if you don't stop flirting with anton I shall be forced to shoot him." Skulduggery warned.
"Ah is someone jealous?" Anton teased.
"It's ok when this is over you can all have a kiss. Except ghastly. I like my head on my shoulders." Valkyrie said still looking for something that Sacren can kiss. Then she saw it. Tanith's sword was sitting on the armchair near Sacren. "Hey! I have something!" she called pointing to the sword. Sacren grinned and grabbed it. Then he started kissing and stroking the sword. This continued for 60 seconds and the Sacren put it back on the armchair.
Valkyrie then stood up and walked to each man in turn kissing each on the cheek and she even gave ghastly a peck on the head.
"Oi! Where's mine?" Tanith asked now sitting on Sacren. Valkyrie laughed and gave tanith a big kiss on the cheek.
Sacren now turned to ghastly "What will it be ghast?" Ghastly hesitated "Umm…truth?"
Sacren grinned "I've always wanted to ask why on earth you would pick ghastly as a name?"
Ghastly stared at Sacren before gesturing to his face and shrugging. Tanith jumped off Sacren and hit ghastly. "I can't believe you! Why would you still think that!?"
"I can't help it I'm ok with that."
"Hands up here who thinks ghastly is ugly?"
No one raised their hand. "The others are used to me." Ghastly muttered.
"Me and Tanith haven't known you as long but I never though of you as ugly even when I first met you and if Tanith thought that she wouldn't have gone out with you." Valkyrie said quietly.
She had started doing that sometimes when she was alone with the dead men.
Skulduggery was beside her whispering something as soon as she said it his arm around her like a comforting father. "I didn't have friends like you when I picked it." Ghastly said sadly watching Valkyrie nod to whatever skulduggery had said.
"No more sad stuff! There's still one more person to go!" Valkyrie said happy again.
Ghastly grinned and turned to Dexter. He put his hand up to ghastly
"I shall be picking dare because I have too many secrets to do truth."
Ghastly grinned "I though so. Dexter you have to name all of the seven dwarfs and you have to take off a piece of clothing for each one you miss. You have…. what? 40 seconds?"
"Yeah!" The others agreed.
Dexter who been wearing heavy clothing when he had arrived but had changed into his signature jeans, t-shirt and a hoodie scowled "Ghastly are you sure you want to take the risk of letting tanith seeing MY muscles?"
"Oh don't worry ghastly's got a lot more muscles than you" Tanith said sweetly.
"Well what about poor val? Sh-."
"Dexter I've seen all of you except ghastly without tops on. Don't even finish that sentence."
Tanith glanced over at Valkyrie " You've seen skulduggery AND anton?!"
Valkyrie blushed "skulduggery's shirts are always getting ripped and Anton walked into the wrong tent after a shower on a mission."
"That's why the two of you were blushing so much during the banshee mission!"
Anton glared at Sacren but didn't answer.
"I'm surprised that you haven't seen ghastly."
"Well I have but he didn't know." Valkyrie muttered.
"WHAT?!"
"Well it was when skulduggery made me go in because he was sulking and I walked in and he wasn't in the front room so I walked into the back room and he was mending the shirt he was wearing so I just kind of backed out of the room and waited for him out side."
Ghastly laughed "I remember that day! You kept glancing at me! I thought I missed a rip."
"Hey! Come on its my turn!" Dexter whined.
"Ok ok. Go. Now!"
"Um… Ok sneezy…, doc, clumsy…., grumpy, sleepy…..."
"Times up! You missed dopey and that other one…"
Dexter laughed and took off his jacket and pulled his t-shirt over his head.
"My my granny what big muscles you have!" Valkyrie teased evilly.
"All the better to grab you with!" Dexter roared throwing Valkyrie over his shoulder and legging it out of the room.
The others looked at skulduggery expecting him to go after them but he was just sitting back as if waiting for something.
"What?"
"Valkyrie was just been grabbed by large man and you're not going after them."
"She can take care of herself. And it's not 'a large man' it's only Dexter."
There was a crash and Valkyrie walked back into the room looking smug.
"Should I ask what happened?" Ghastly said laughing.
"Well Dexter's pride might be wounded and his knee."
Skulduggery laughed "Told you so."
"You told them what?" Valkyrie asked confused.
"Nothing."
Dexter limped into the sitting room. He looked grumpy and he was holding his kneecap. On seeing the great Dexter vex hobbling because of a 24 year old skulduggery laughed "You had her slung over your shoulder and she still bet you!" Dexter scowled and mumbled something sounding like "At least I didn't need to be saved by a magic less 12 year old."
Valkyrie grinned and stood up "Anyone else want to be embarrassed by me today? Sacren? I haven't embarrassed you yet."
"Me and Anton aren't embarrassed!" Ghastly interrupted.
"Oh really? What about some certain pick-up lines?"
Ghastly paused before saying "I hope you have never said them to anyone else EVER."
Hi! Hope you liked this. I'm thinking about doing a second one of this that will include a new character called disharmony (thanks to a certain reviewer for the character!) and a new game. Since I'm doing this on holidays I will probably have others up too but if you think of a good game for the dead men I will try to make it happen!