I know it's been a while but I've been a lot busier than normal :) I will try to update more frequently and to the best of my ability :D I hope you enjoy this chapter….
"So, how do you know Sherlock and John?" The woman asked Valkyrie. They were walking through the halls of St Bartholomew Hospital to the morgue. Sherlock had gracefully agreed to take them to see the dead body of Alexandar Tumiman.
Skulduggery, Sherlock and John were walking in a line behind the two women. John looked uncomfortable, Sherlock was broodingly silent and Skulduggery was smiling. Valkyrie was walking with Molly Hooper. The woman had mousy hair and was small. She was quite pretty but lacked confidence.
"We're working on a case together." Valkyrie told her.
"Alex Tumiman's case?" Valkyrie nodded. "He's a big one." Molly continued. "Not as in weight size he's actually quite skinny." She quickly corrected. "We don't know how he died yet. We're going to have to really cut him up. I mean autopsy in a searching way. To find out what killed him." She trailed off.
Valkyrie almost winced for the poor woman.
"So there weren't any bruises or anything on the body?" Valkyrie asked.
"No, nothing it was quite strange." Molly informed her. "It even looked like he'd been thrown through a window but didn't get a scratch."
"Hmmm." She nodded as if it was interesting but she'd been thrown out of quite a few windows and hadn't been covered in scratches. "How do you know them?"
"He was killed and I have to do his autopsy." Molly frowned.
"I meant Sherlock and John." Valkyrie interrupted.
"Ohh," the woman blushed. "Sherlock often needs to look at the dead bodies to prove cases and such."
"So you knew Sherlock before you met John?"
"Yes." Valkyrie couldn't find anything to say to Molly's reply and they were silent. Valkyrie shifted and looked over her shoulder at Skulduggery.
He shrugged and made shooing gestures with his hands. She rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at him.
"So, do you like working here? Do you find it creepy spending heaps of time with a dead person?" Valkyrie asked Molly. She heard Skulduggery chuckle and she smirked proudly.
"I love working here, I think. It's easier for me to be in the dead's presence than the living." Molly answered.
Valkyrie stared at the woman with her peripheral vision. Would she suddenly kill her so she was more comfortable? Luckily they reached the morgue and entered the cold room.
"He's in number twelve. I've got to go now. It was lovely seeing you." Molly smiled and waved.
"Bye Molly." Valkyrie waved.
"Bye Sherlock."
"See ya." Sherlock said and Molly hurried from the room.
"Wow she is weird." Valkyrie announced after she was sure Molly had left.
"You do realize that you find it a lot easier to be around old people than those your age." Skulduggery pointed out.
"Shut up. That's just because they're more interesting than those my age." Valkyrie snapped.
"You don't know anyone your age but Melancholia."
"Yeah well she's the only interesting one." She sneered at him and looked for the right door to Alexandar Tumiman's dead body.
"Only because she tried to kill you and managed to kill me." Skulduggery laughed. "You really need to get out more."
"I get out just fine." Valkyrie yelled.
"Oh really. The last time you went out was your birthday last year." Skulduggery pulled out Alexandar's body and started poking at the man's face.
"The last time I went out was the night before last. Me and Tanith went to Fuzzard . We got picked up by like a million guys." She told him.
"What?" His head snapped up. "You said you were getting an early night."
"Yeah because you would have gone mental if you found out." Valkyrie shrugged helplessly.
"Valkyrie, you are almost an adult. You are free to live your own life. I've got what I need. Let's go." Skulduggery announced and started walking out, leaving the body out.
Valkyrie's head snapped from the body back to Skulduggery and now to Sherlock and John leaving. They were following the skeleton.
"Wait," she hurried after them. "What did you find?"
"He's one of your least favorite people." He said over his shoulder.
"What?" Realization dawned on her and she almost froze. How could he have died then and how could she have missed that fact.
"Who are your least favorite people?" John asked.
"Umm," Valkyrie shrugged. She couldn't really tell him that Alexandar Tumiman was a vampire.
She took a long shower and washed her hair. When she came out she found Skulduggery sitting bolt upright in a chair. He was staring straight ahead.
Valkyrie smiled and got her make-up kit. She pulled out the blush and sneaked up to him. He would freak when he woke up. She'd better hid somewhere with John and Sherlock until he cooled down.
"Don't even think about it."
"Ahhh." She jumped and backed away quickly. She took a deep breath. "You scared the life out of me."
"I was not meditating." Skulduggery told her.
"I know that now." She snapped. "What were you doing?"
"I was thinking about the vampire." He muttered. "Why would one be working in the Tower? Why, it makes no sense unless he was after the clock. But that doesn't make any sense either."
"What are we going to do now?" She asked and started picking at the chips on the table.
"I've already gotten in contact with one of the main vampires here which I will chat with tomorrow." He told her.
"You will chat with? What am I going to be doing?" She asked.
"You will go with Sherlock and John. Apparently they have some information about who may now have the clock and if so I need you there. You have Ancient blood in you and you should be able to find the clock easily." Skulduggery told her. "I can trust you but not them completely."
She sighed. "I, I'm just sick of all this ancient business. First there was the scepter, then the faceless ones, then the scepter again and now a clock. What the hell is this blood clock?"
He chuckled. "Think of this as some sort of fun field trip, almost like a blast from the past."
Silence.
"I hate it when you try to be positive." She muttered.
"Fine, we're all going to fail because you can never deal with one simple problem. It just keeps creeping up on you. You can't run away from your blood either, eventually it'll come out and seep through your skin. Soon it'll be running out your ears the colour of brown red dirt." He started. "Soon we will all see,"
"STOP!" She yelled. "I can't stand it anymore skeleton."
"Your fingernails will fall out and blood will,"
"OH NO YOU DON"T." She launched herself at him and he burst out laughing, only for his chuckles to be cut off by her fist in his face.
Hahahaha, I don't know whether to say poor Skulduggery or poor Valkyrie :D Please feel free to review and put in requests :P I hope you enjoyed it :D