Hey guys! So ignore my authors notes at the beginning of the first three chapters! I forgot to delete them and they are asking you about whether I should make this a separate story which I already have however read the ones I put up from now on! Thank you!

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Okay I'm coming! Calm down, missy!

-Skulduggery

Valkyrie read the text message reply from Skulduggery while shaking her head. Four hours later he thought he'd reply. No doubt it'd be dark outside... well it generally is dark when it's 10:48PM. Valkyrie clicked the button at the top of her phone so it would lock as Ghastly walked into the room which a wide smile.

"What's up?" Valkyrie asked.

"We got the remnant out of Tanith. Nye thinks she'll wake up sooner than was expected," Ghastly said cheerfully.

"Aw that's great!" Valkyrie replied trying to sound as enthusiastic as possible. It was hard to be happy about anything when you closest friend, partner and past mentor was out and about getting into all sorts of trouble. However what Valkyrie did know was that her and Tanith were probably going to have to ease back into their friendship.

Valkyrie knew Ghastly was excited to get her back to the good side. In fact he was probably the most excited out of anyone and everyone knew why. Before the remnant wriggled its way into Tanith, her and Ghastly had had a thing. They were even going to go out to dinner. Valkyrie just wondered what was going to happen between the two now.

Ghastly's eyes were apologetic and his smile was too. He went to her side, sat on the edge of the bed and put his hand on her arm. "He will come Valkyrie and you'll see that he is fine and nothing happened," Ghastly said. Valkyrie smiled grateful for his effort yet wasn't to convinced. Ghastly strolled out of the room and turned right, towards the waiting room.

Skulduggery walked in holding a single red rose. At the bottom was a moist, square sponge to keep the rose relatively healthy for as long as possible.

"Get into any trouble?" Ghastly asked.

"No... not at all," Skulduggery lied. His lying skills were flawless however Ghastly saw through it.

"Skulduggery I may not be a great detective like you but I do have my moments. That 20 centimetre long rip at the bottom, side of your jacket would suggest you got up to more than just a day of flower shopping," Ghastly said flicking the rip.

"Maybe I just tripped and fell on a rose thorn or something," Skulduggery suggested.

"Well for one, Skulduggery you simply don't trip over or anything like that. And second, that is quite a clean rip I must say. Must have been done quickly and with something sharp. I'm guessing a sword... or maybe Billy-ray's razor?" Ghastly hinted.

"Look it doesn't matter how it happened. Is Valkyrie still in her room?" Skulduggery asked.

"Yes and she wants to see you Skulduggery... she's been worried," Ghastly replied.

"Well I guess I'll be seeing her then," Skulduggery nodded and walked to the hallway and walked through the first doorway on the left where Valkyrie's room was.

Ah, there the beautiful girl is... wait, what did I just say? No Skulduggery stop it! You're an intelligent enigma that everyone is jealous of therefore cannot have a mind so stupid! She is beautiful though. She didn't need makeup or any of the other enhancement crap... STOP! While Skulduggery's mind argued with itself, Valkyrie glared at him. Skulduggery strolled gracefully as ever and held out the rose.

"For you," he presented the rose and twirled his other hand to make it more dramatic.

Valkyrie rolled her eyes. "You're such a cheese," she said with a laugh.

"Well I know you've definitely gotten better!" Skulduggery announced. "How's the pain?"

"I don't know... Nye has me on some kind of meds. Actually, coming to think of it... I can't feel much at all," Valkyrie replied and began laughing.

"Okay well that's... uh, actually I don't know if that's good or bad," Skulduggery tapped his chin with a bony finger.

"She's awake!" Ghastly announced excitedly from Valkyrie's doorway and disappeared down the hall.

"Who's awake? What's going on?" Skulduggery asked confusedly. He hated not knowing things.

"If you didn't leave then you would know," Valkyrie said. "They caught Tanith, Nye removed the remnant and now she's awake!"

"Oh well that's good then," Skulduggery replied simply. Valkyrie swung her legs slowly over the edge of her bed and hopped down.

"And here comes the pain," Valkyrie winced and clutched her side.

"I thought you said you couldn't feel anything," Skulduggery said.

"Yes well maybe it was because I wasn't moving," she replied through clenched teeth. Her right knee buckled slightly as the stab wound pain went through her whole body. Skulduggery caught her around the waist and she slung an arm around his shoulder.

Still holding on to her side, she shuffled her way into Tanith's room. Skulduggery was holding most of her weight, trying to not have her put too much pressure on herself.

Erskine, Ghastly and Nye moved out of the way so Valkyrie could see. Seeing truly is believing because at this moment Valkyrie couldn't feel much happier. Screw easing into their friendship, Valkyrie grinned at her best friend who she'd always called her sister.

There, lying on the hospital bed, was the blonde girl Valkyrie loved like family. Tanith Low.

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