Valkyrie muttered a curse underneath her breath as she walked stropily to the classroom, Skulduggery one stride ahead. She was drenched from head to toe in water, her hair dripping, teeth chattering slightly from the cold. She cursed Skulduggery's name just loud enough for him to hear her, causing him to chuckle. Was it really her fault he'd made the water vapour in the air come crashing down on her like a waterfall? She didn't think so, but he was taking no responsibility of course. She didn't think it was her fault that he'd chucked her in the lake, but he wasn't taking responsibility for that either. She did the biggest death-glare she could muster towards him, or rather, the back of his head. He seemed to know she was doing it, and chuckled again.
"You know if you used your own mind for once you might have considered drying yourself before we even set foot into the building." Valkyrie scowled at the pleased tone of his voice.
"I don't want to set my hair on fire." She muttered as he opened the classroom door and walked in.
"Just in time." He turned to her "We have a class next." Valkyrie rolled her eyes and glared even more furiously at him. He pretended to ignore her and moved away, stacking up some of the dummies in the corner as she began muttering curses again. A moment of so later, the first students began to gather outside. They were mostly tall, probably Valkyrie's age, and seemed amused when they first walked in to see her dripping wet. She glared at them all, wishing looks could kill (or at least maim) as she muttered a quick excuse, which didn't really satisfy the students. They questioned her further and Skulduggery laughed while Valkyrie glared daggers at him before she stood and walked over to him.
"What are you doing?" He asked as she took the base of his jacket and wiped her hands on it.
"Drying my hands." She answered simply "So I can dry my hair." She turned and walked back to the table, summoning a flame into her hands. In one swift movement a downpour of water washed over her like a waterfall, and she gasped, her hair plastered to her head, smoke sizzling from where the flame had been doused.
"Skulduggery!"
"You wiped your hands all over my clean jacket." She picked up an empty ink pot and threw it at him as he laughed.
"You're so mean to me." She muttered, sitting on the desk, sulking as the other students laughed at her. If her hands had been dry she would have summoned a flame and lobbed it at him, but she couldn't get a spark going in amongst the wet. Finally, Skulduggery stopped laughing and began to teach the lesson, but when he asked her to do a demonstration of blocking with the dummies, she ignored him, wringing out her hair so the water formed a puddle on the floor.
"Valkyrie?"
"No."
"Val"
"I said no."
"You are the single most stubborn person I've ever met, you know that."
"Shut up." She muttered as he turned back to the class, preparing to do the demonstration himself with one of the dummies. He clicked his fingers, and Valkyrie watched, still sulking, as the dummy stood and posed in combat position.
Before anyone could move, a scream emanated from the corridors. Skulduggery looked to Valkyrie who leapt to her feet as they, and the students, rushed into the corridors to see the pink blob turn the corner, still screaming, her mouth wide open as she tried to run in her obnoxiously pink pencil skirt. She seemed to be fanning her tongue, and Valkyrie smirked.
"That'll be the ghost chillies." She muttered as more and more people came out of each room on the corridor, watching the pink blob as she panicked, running back and forth, her hat askew, black mascara tears streaming down her cheeks, before Skulduggery clicked his fingers, and a waterfall of water down poured on her. She froze, her arms held out as she closed her eyes and gasped. She spat some water out and wiped her eyes with her hands, causing the make up to smear across her face in what looked like a failed attempt at art, brushing the brown hair from her face.
"Better?" Skulduggery asked, a slight tone of amusement in his voice. Her mouth still wide open, she made a kind of 'ahhhh' noise that squeaked like the hinges of an un-oiled door, as if she could produce no solid words. Valkyrie could suppress the smile no longer, and disappeared into the classroom so she could grin madly. A few moments later, the students and Skulduggery joined her, and when they were sure she was gone, Valkyrie burst into laughter.
"Oh my God, that's the funniest thing I've seen since new years day when you insulted Fletcher for three hours straight!" She laughed, suddenly giddy with excitement.
"Quick question, how much chilli did you actually put in the sugar?" Skulduggery asked. Valkyrie grinned.
"I dunno, half a pot?" Skulduggery chuckled as Valkyrie laughed again, some of the students joining in with her as they slowly begun to realise she had some involvement.
"Yes yes yes, you're very funny. Now, back with the lesson. Val, seen as you're in higher spirits now, would you care to do the demonstration?"
"Oh alright. But I'm still mad at you."
"Now, could you be mad at me?"
"Yes." There was a moment of silence as the laughs died down and everyone regained interest in the lesson.
"Oh."
