Hey, I wanted to dedicate this to my admin in crime, Light xxx. Her character is an important key, Don. There's no last name so I'll use Don Dulcifer. By the way, Valkyrie is about 13 going on 14. Yeah! And sorry Light xxx I had to adjust his age to make it work. Sorry! (again)

BLOODY MARY (DEDICATION)

Skulduggery and Valkyrie were Driving home in the dark and ominous fog…

"Hey, you know what we should do once we're at Gordon's?" Valkyrie asked eagerly.

"What?"

"Bloody Mary!"

"Why? How does it even work?"

"OK, you go into a bathroom with the lights off than you say Bloody Mary three times and than you just wait to see what happens next."

"Valkyrie, that's just stupid. Is it supposed to be scary? Because you and I both know scary."

"C'mon, lets try it!" she insisted.

"No, sorry.", Skulduggery pulled into Gordon's estate, and Valkyrie slumped her shoulders as she got inside.

"Bloody Mary." Skulduggery said to himself followed by a grunt, "Hmm"

He thought for moment and tried it anyway.

"Bloody Mary… Bloody Mary… Bloody Mary…" Skulduggery adjusted his rear view mirror to find Donny Dulcifer in his back seat.

"Donny? What are you doing here?" Skulduggery asked as he pulled over to the right.

"I need help, man. I got into more trouble with Gallow and Rose…"

"Oh, hell. Again? What did you do to them now?" Don flinched a tad and eased up.

"I, uh, was getting chased by Rose so I tapped my arm and she flew back, but then she ran like fast a-and she hit my arm pretty good so, so I punched her and ran away. They're in the black Volvo behind us." Skulduggery angled his mirror to find Rose and Gallow walking up behind them.

"damn it, huh lets go." Skulduggery said snapping his fingers as he stepped out.

"Oh, OK, yeah, I'm guess I'm coming… heh." Dulcifer stepped out too.

"Why is it that you want Donny? He's a socially awkward kid with a hole in his ear."

"Nah." Jaron started, "We needed him to get you, thank you, Donny."

Skulduggery threw a cold glance at Donny and took out his gun. The gun pointed at Donny and Rose scythed out her sword at him too.

"What? Why? Skul I had no clue, I was just being chased." Skulduggery and Rose still had there weapons pointing at Donny.

"What do I do? How can I prove to you that I had nothing to do with this?" Skulduggery put down his gun and tilted his tilted his head to the car and Donny got in, clenching his arm.

Skulduggery splayed his hands and pushed Gallow and Rose back and he ran into the Bentley.

"Where are we going?" Donny asked cautiously.

"Kenspeckle's"

"Will, will Clarabelle be there?" he swooned a tad.

Skulduggery didn't answer, instead he passed Donny a pair of bound handcuffs. Donny slipped them on, feeling awkward.

They drove to the theatre Skulduggery walked inside, still not saying anything, and Donny who followed but his cuffed hands made it hard to close the door.

"Skulduggery." Kenspeckle said, "who is this now?" He asked, pointing at Donny.

"This is Donny Dulcifer." he finally said, "can you get his arm fixed?" He asked, regretting it.

"Hmm, very well. Donny, over here." Donny walked in the direction of Kenspeckle's finger. "Why is he cuffed?"

"He gets mental breakdowns quite regularly, it's not a bad idea." Dr. Grouse sighed and just shuffled away. Skulduggery sat in the waiting area, reading Top Gear.

Donny was sitting and getting stitched up as Clarabelle walked by.

"Hey Clarabelle!" he said. She shuffled over to them.

"Hey! Who are you?" She pondered.

"I'm Donny, nice to meet you." he said holding out his good hand.

"Is it? Oh, me too!" she shook hard, almost breaking his hand.

"Wow, that's some hand you have there. Can I take you for a movie?"

"I don't think that's necessary, Donny. Because your done, bye now!" Clarabelle said as she took over.

"Oh, um, yeah right. Bye." He hopped of the table and walked out.

Skulduggery wasn't in there. Donny walked out and Rose was standing outside waiting for him.

"Donny, we need your help." Rose said, "Back in 1943, remember?"

"I never did want to do what I did. Why?" He looked like he wasn't scared anymore.

"Detective Rife Tenterhooks has been snooping around, he knows what you did but he doesn't know who you are. Need help with the cuffs?" Her sword glistened as she swiped the cuffs off. Donny felt his powers come back.

"He is? I have to cover up my tracks then." he said, rubbing wrists.

"That's right, we need you to stop Cain and Pleasant. Can you do that?"

"I think I can." this wasn't the Donny everyone knew, wimpy, awkward, shy. No, this was Rudolf Otto. Protégé of Josef Mengele.

Alright, admin Light xxx? I know he's like way older than he is and he's not Welsh, he's German. But it's 2 small changes, sorry. Did I get your character right? I have no clue, maybe I did. Weird. Anyway this story is like a flashback it takes place around between Playing with Fire and Faceless Ones. If you read this one before my next chapter for my main series you might get confused… but if you're reading this, you already read the rest I'm guessing, so ignore the previous sentence… peace!