So here it is! The last chapter! I really hope you have enjoyed this story, and I would appreciate some reviews where you tell me what you thought :)

Valkyrie Cain woke up by laying in a bed – arealbed – in the Sanctuary's medical bay. At first, she could not remember why she was there. She wrinkled her eyebrows and tried to remember what had happened to her recently, but it was not until she had turned her head and looked into Skulduggery Pleasant's black eye sockets that the memories came back to her.

The necromancer Elizabeth Gregory who wanted revenge on Skulduggery for taking away her dream from her. The torture she had been exposed to. Vile/Skulduggery and Elizabeth's fight that had made her use the last of her powers to protect Skulduggery. How Elizabeth's powers entered herself and how they had tried to hurt Vile/Skulduggery. How they had managed to draw and harm the shadows before their powers had killed her. And finally,how she for a few seconds had been dead before...

"You brought me back, Skulduggery..." Valkyrie concluded her thoughts aloud and smiled a grateful smile to the skeleton who had never disappointed or left her side.

Skulduggery nodded and took her hand in his. "I did, Valkyrie. When I held your ice-cold body with all those injuries... I really thought I'd lost you."

"But here I am!" Valkyrie said and surprised both herself and Skulduggery by laughing. "You're not going to get rid of me that easily."

Skulduggery got something serious about him and Valkyrie's laughter got stuck in her throat. "Inever againwant to have to see you so... vulnerable, Valkyrie. I thought I never again would have to see you dead before me after that time when we defeated Darquesse. It was one of the worst moments of my life, Valkyrie."

Valkyrie nodded and squeezed Skulduggery's hand where it lay in hers. She understood exactly how he felt. During the year he had been stuck with the Faceless Ones, the thought had struck her more than once that Skulduggery could very well be dead when they opened the portal that would take her to him. She had vainly tried to get them out of her mind every time they sneaked in, but even how often she pushed them away, they always returned when she least suspected it.

"I find myself seeing you lying in my arms, immobile, covered with cuts and bruises after the torture Elizabeth gave you. You've been hit and cut before by others, but never this... intensively." Skulduggery sighed and raised his hand. He stroked Valkyrie's cheek with his gloved hand. "I blame myself because I did not understand that Vile could trace Elizabeth earlier. If I had only listened to him, I could have made sure that many of the injuries and the torture you endured could have been avoided."

Valkyrie lay her free hand over Skulduggery's teeth to make him stop talking. "Skulduggery Pleasant, you did the right thing. Both you and I know why you waited so long to induce Vile. He'sdangerous. Every time he peeks out, there is a risk that he will take control permanently, just as Darquesse did with me. We had an incredible luck this time that you managed to regain control."

Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie and she knew only by looking into his eye sockets that he knew she was right. Even though he blamed himself for her injuries, he knew basically that he had made the right decision. If it were something they both knew and were accustomed to at this point, it was that sometimes it is necessary to make choices and sacrifices that feels wrong and make one feel bad, but in the end, it is the right thing to do.

"Sometimes I suspect you're more like your uncle than you want to admit, Valkyrie. This sounds like a typical conversation he and I could have."

"He was a good uncle, and he taught me incredibly much about the world that I did not believe in when I was little, but as I now know, is true."

Skulduggery nodded. "If you only knew how many times, he wanted to tell the truth to you but did not dare since he was worried about putting you in danger and leading you into a road that might not have been meant for you."

"I wonder what he had done if he had been told that this is what I was born to do before he died? That I am supposed to be doing magic, I mean. Do you think he had told me, then?"

Skulduggery shook his head. "Probably not. Gordon thought that if he had told you there would have been a chance that you would not have wanted to be doing magic, since you are the kind of person who becomes more interested in things when they come as a surprise. So, in other words, if you instead got the magic 'thrown in your face' – which you could say that you got the day you and I met – there would be a greater chance that you became interested in magic and wanted to know more about it."

Valkyrie laughed. "That sounds just like Gordon Edgley! It shows that you two were remarkably close friends."

"We really were."

The silence lay between them, but it was no unpleasant silence. They kept looking each other in the eyes, and Valkyrie found that she was smiling a happily but at the same time sad smile. She still missed her uncle a lot, but the missing of him had been mildened a little by the help from Skulduggery. In a strange andverymorbid way, she had Gordon's death to thank for her chance of getting to know Skulduggery Pleasant.

As if Skulduggery could read her thoughts, he stroked her cheek tenderly while squeezing her hand that he still held. Valkyrie could see on Skulduggery's body language that he also missed Gordon and that he too was morbidly grateful for the death of her uncle.

They got interrupted by China that came into the room. Skulduggery was about to release Valkyrie's hand, but she kept holding it. He looked at her with a surprised look in his face, but Valkyrie just smiled. She did not care if the others found out that she and Skulduggery had gone from partners in crime to partners in love. She namely suspected that many of their closest friends and acquaints had understood that it had been something going on between them under a long time.

"Ah, Valkyrie! Nice to see that you are finally awake. We have beensoworried!" China walked over to Valkyrie and gave her a hug, which Valkyrie answered with her free arm. "How are you feeling?"

"I am feeling fine under the circumstances, China. Most of my wounds has healed thanks to Synecdoche and her assistant. I will be fully restored later today, by the latest tomorrow. I will not have any scars left, for which I am glad. Considering what an amazing body I have it would be a disaster if it were covered in a lot of scars!"

China laughed and gave Valkyrie a new hug before she pulled back. Her gaze swept over Valkyrie and stopped some second longer at her and Skulduggery's interlaced hands. She raised an eyebrow but did not say anything. Instead, an understandable smile could be seen in her face.

"Anything else, Grand Mage?" Skulduggery asked.

China looked up at him with that smile still attached to her lips. "No. I just wanted to see if Valkyrie had woken up and check on her injuries. I am happy to see that she is once again up on her legs and can be put into duty the days to come. I will call for you in a couple of days when your services will be needed again."

With those words China strode out of the room. As soon as the door had closed behind her Valkyrie could hear how Skulduggery sighed next to her. When she looked at him, he had laid his hand over his face. "Now it will not take long before the whole Sanctuary finds out about our 'status'."

Valkyrie laughed and leaned towards Skulduggery. At the same moment that he let down his hand from his face she gave him a small kiss on his teeth. "Does it really matter, then? They will nonetheless see it as soon as we walk out of here. And I still stand for what I said earlier before China walked in: people have suspected for a long time that there is something going on between us and has just waited for us to show it publicly."

Skulduggery tilted his head, and Valkyrie could see that he was amused. "How come that I have not heard anything about this?"

"Because you are not best friend with the Grand Mage."

Skulduggery laughed and laid his hand on her cheek. He leaned closer and in the same moment that his teeth met her lips Valkyrie felt how butterflies bubbled up in her stomach. Even though Skulduggery had no real lips to kiss her with (except for when he had his façade on), the way he pressed himself against her told her how much he loved her and cared for her. He would do everything in his powers to protect her and make sure that she did not have to get into as much trouble as she had been doing under Elizabeth's "care."

She pressed her lips harder against his teeth and laid her arms around him in a tight embrace. Skulduggery laid one of his hands in her hair and let the other hands fingertips stroke along her back. Chills of pleasure travelled among her spine and spread its way out to the rest of her body. She took an even harder hold of his shirt and pressed him even closer against herself. Skulduggery broke off the kiss and looked at her with restrained desire.

"Valkyrie, what are you doing with me?" he whispered, and Valkyrie could hear the desire also in his voice. "What is it with you that makes me have such a tough time to control myself? If you only knew how long I have longed for this..."

Valkyrie smiled and laid her forehead against Skulduggery's. "I can imagine, Skulduggery. I have also longed for this for some time. I have simply been too afraid to show my real feelings for you, since I was worried that, you would only see me as a friend and partner."

"You are my best friend, Valkyrie. Nothing is going to change that. I love you, Valkyrie Cain. Until the end."

"Until the end", Valkyrie whispered and activated Skulduggery's façade. This time he wore a face with high cheek bones, green eyes, and red hair. Valkyrie let one of her hands play with his hair while the other lay over Skulduggery's chest. To her major surprise she could feel heartbeat in there. "What...?"

Skulduggery smiled and gave her cheek a tender kiss. "Surprise."

"But when have... How long... Who...?" Valkyrie was so shocked that she could not formulate a real sentence.

"While you slept and healed, I walked over to China to ask her for a favour. We have under a long time talked about improving my façade, which we had already begun with during your five year long absence after the war with Darquesse. At the beginning we had only managed to get a body without organs that I only could wear a couple of hours per day. Both me and China has been searching for symbols under many years that would give me acompletebody with working organs as well, but it has proved to be more difficult than we had thought.

Then, just before you got kidnapped by Elizabeth, China thought she had found the right symbols to be able to finish the work and which would also give me access to a complete body as long as the symbols are active and not just under a couple of hours per day. Before she had time to tattoo them on me though, you disappeared, and I got other things to think about."

"Let me guess. You walked over to China and let her tattoo in these symbols while I slept so you could have something positive to show me when I woke up?"

"Precisely." Skulduggery nodded. "So... What do you think?"

Valkyrie gave Skulduggery a mischievous smile and laid her lips against his ear. "I like the face and the thought of you having a body under all those clothes really appeal to me. The problem is just that I cannot get a good look at your new bodywhileyou are wearing all those clothes..."

Skulduggery shivered when Valkyrie's voice stroked his ear, and he had to restrain himself from throwing himself over her and attacking her with hungry kisses and caresses. Instead, he lifted an eyebrow and gave Valkyrie a sexy smile which caused her to bite her lip. Skulduggery saw that even she had a tough time to restrain herself. "That should be able to be arranged, miss Cain. Unfortunately, I do not think that the environment we now are in is suited for that kind of... 'activities'."

Valkyrie sighed and gave Skulduggery her best puppy-eye look. "Awh, why not? No one needs to know..."

"Believe me, it hurts me as much as it does to you Valkyrie not to be able to touch you in that kind of way. I want to remind you though that we currently are finding ourselves in a place where people are moving about all the time and thatanyonecould come marching in here and catch us in the act. When I explore your body, I want to have you for myself and be able to enjoy you to the fullest without having to worry about being interrupted." Skulduggery let his fingertips travel down along Valkyrie's cheek and throat in a teasing caress while he at the same time gave her yet another sexy smile that promised both this and that.

Valkyrie closed her eyes and bit her lips as not to moan aloud. God, the desire that right now flowed through her almost got her to burst! She wanted Skulduggery and thatnow, even though she knew what Skulduggery said was true. It was too risky to try anything in here. Synecdoche could after all come in here at any moment and check up on her.

As if the doctor had read Valkyrie's thoughts she stepped into the room with a whiteboard in her hand and looked up just in time to see Skulduggery with his façade activated and with his hand on Valkyrie's throat while Valkyrie had her eyes closed and bit herself in the lip. Synecdoche cleared her throat, and it got the two detectives to quickly separate. "I apologize if I interrupted something."

Valkyrie's cheeks became red of embarrassment, but Skulduggery was as calm as ever. "Not at all, doctor Synecdoche. How does the test results look? Is Valkyrie healthy?"

Synecdoche nodded and gave Valkyrie a calming smile. "Yes, everything is in order. Your results are looking good, especially after the blood transplantation that we did immediately when you came here. It was lucky Skulduggery managed to get you here so quick, otherwise the situation would have been a lot more critical."

Valkyrie managed to return Synecdoche's smile. "Yes, I am lucky to have Skulduggery. If it had not been for him..."

Skulduggery pushed her hand and then once again turned towards Synecdoche. "When can Valkyrie be signed out?"

"When she feels she's ready. I cannot do anything more for her. The scars will disappear by themselves in a couple of hours and the bruises should already be gone thanks to the healing bath she received after we had given her blood." Synecdoche gave them both a new smile and prepared herself for leaving and look after her other patients. Just when she reached the door she turned around once again and looked at them. "Yeah, that's right, I almost forgot! Congratulations to you both. You both make a perfect couple. I wish you the best of luck!"

Both detectives looked as equally shocked, and Skulduggery was about to answer the doctor when she left them both with a smile on her lips.

"That was... awkward, to say the least. I guess that China could not wait that long to tell the good news."

Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie and tilted his head. "To quote you, Valkyrie: 'Does it really matter, then? They will nonetheless see it as soon as we walk out of here', was that not what you said?"

Valkyrie gave Skulduggery's shoulder a punch but had to smile. "Yes, I did. Come on now, I want to get out of here!"

"Always as impatient." Skulduggery gave her a kiss and then walked away to get her clothes. When he came back with them Valkyrie had pulled back the blanket and now sat on the bedside dressed only in a green hospital gown. "That suits you."

Valkyrie made a face and received her clothes. "Turn around and no peeking! Not that I do not want you to see me naked, but not until we are alone and can enjoy each other, to quote you."

Skulduggery did as she had asked him and turned around. He heard the rustle of clothes coming off and on and had to fight the urge to turn around just to get alittleglimpse of Valkyrie's beautiful body. "Just so you know I have technically already seen you naked a couple of times. If I do not remember it totally wrong, I have seen you naked at four separate occasions. The first time at your parents' house, the second time when we fought Darquesse, the third time when Elizabeth sent me the pictures and the fourth time while we fought against and after we defeated Elizabeth."

"Technically it was my reflection you saw that first time, if I do not remember wrong, but you're right. Despite that I would like to think that when you see me naked the next time it's like you're seeing me naked for the first time. Also, I do not think that you would be able to keep your hands away from me if you saw me naked now." Valkyrie put on her pants and walked over to Skulduggery. "Done! Can we get out of here now?"

"As I said: Always as impatient", Skulduggery answered and smiled. He took her hand in his and together they walked out of the medical bay. They met a lot of sorcerers that looked at them when they walked by, but Valkyrie was way too happy and excited to notice them.

It did not take them long time to reach the Bentley and when they were forced to let go of each other's hands to be able to get into the car Valkyrie felt how disappointed she became. She liked the feeling of Skulduggery's hand in hers. She comforted herself with that she would soon have both his hands over all her body and that thought got her in turn to get filled of a light excitement that started in between her legs and that travelled up through her whole body.

The drive back to Haggard did not take long, but for Valkyrie it felt like an eternity. To make the time move faster she decided to tease Skulduggery a bit. She leaned forward as far as the seatbelt let her and whispered sensually in his ear: "What do you want to do when we arrive at your place, Skulduggery?"

Skulduggery shook and took a harder grip on the steering wheel. God, Valkyrie really knew what to do to make him go crazy! If she only knew what kind of thoughts that went through him right now. There was so much he wanted to do with her, so much he wanted to explore... Instead of telling all this to her, he was content with laying his hand on her inner thigh and stroke it slowly.

Valkyrie moaned low in Skulduggery's ear and let the tip of her tongue stroke along his earlobe. By Skulduggery's reaction to judge, Valkyrie first thought they would drive down into the ditch, but since Skulduggery was such a skilled driver he managed to get the car back on track again. Considering his reaction, Valkyrie knew that she could tease Skulduggeryeven more. The more she made him want her, the quicker they would be by his place, which in turn meant that she would sooner get him in her arms.

"Do you like what I'm doing to you, Skulduggery?"

"More than you think... If you do not stop, I'm afraid of what I might do."

Valkyrie laughed and let her lips brush against Skulduggery's cheek to then wander down along his throat and neck. She let her hand caress his chest and she became extremely satisfied when she could feel the musculature that silhouetted underneath his shirt. Oh, she could only imagine how Skulduggery would look like under all those clothes. How his skin would shine and how his muscles would move as gracefully as when he was a skeleton.

Skulduggery turned to her and gave her a kiss that showed her how much he desired her, and it made her shake from repressed desire. Why would it be so far to Skulduggery's house?! Just as Skulduggery released her lips, she looked up right to see the exit to his house and she smiled. Soon... Soon she would get to explore the man she loved more than anything else.

At the same time as Skulduggery swung in front of his house and parked the Bentley, Valkyrie took off the seat belt and turned to Skulduggery. He looked at her with the same repressed desire as she and Valkyrie knew they could not back away now. They both wanted each other and thatnow.

As from a given signal, they simultaneously opened the car doors and exited the Bentley. Valkyrie was the first to enter the front door, and at the same moment she touched the door handle, she felt Skulduggery's hands around her waist and his lips against her neck. She closed her eyes while enjoying the feeling of having Skulduggery's lips against her skin. She opened the door but did not step inside. Instead, she felt how Skulduggery lifted her up and put her over his shoulder. She got so surprised that she gave out a shriek of surprise. She tried to kick herself free but soon noticed that Skulduggery held her in an iron grip.

"Skulduggery, what are you doing?!" Valkyrie screamed-laughed.

"Did I not tell you that I did not know what I could do if you did not stop? See this as revenge because you almost got us both killed. You're lucky I'm such a skilled driver, Valkyrie."

"Hello! It's not my fault that you're a typical having-difficulty-to-concentrate-while-my-girlfriend-kisses-me person! By the way, I saw how much you really liked it..." Valkyrie smiled and managed to get up so much that she could bite Skulduggery in the shoulder, causing Skulduggery to grunt in surprise before throwing her on the bed in her room that he had let install for her.

Valkyrie moaned when she hit the bed but soon got other things on her mind. Skulduggery's lips found her and began kissing her hungrily. She answered the kiss and laid her arms around his neck and back to make him come closer. Skulduggery's hands quickly found her breasts and began to massage them while he continued kissing her hungrily and passionate. The two detectives moaned into each other's mouths and trembled from all the feelings that rinsed through them.

Without Valkyrie knowing how it had happened, she suddenly found herself laying naked in front of Skulduggery. He looked down at her and the look he gave her seemed to go straight into her soul. It was as though he reallysawher, her whole being and not just the bodily part.

"Valkyrie, I never thought I'd meet someone like you... You're the light in my darkness, the star that leads me home when I'm lost. No words can describe what I feel for you or how much I love you..."

"You do not have to say it. Show me instead. Make love to me, Skulduggery."

"Are you sure? You do understand that if we do this there is no going back? I do not want to pull you into something you'll regret later, Valkyrie."

Valkyrie stroked Skulduggery's cheek. "Look me in the eyes, Skulduggery. I've never been so sure about wanting something like I am right now. My body, not mysoul, screams for you. Iwant you, Skulduggery Pleasant."

Skulduggery did not answer. Instead, he helped Valkyrie to take off his clothes. For every time a new garment fell off Valkyrie stroked with her hands over the naked skin. Just as she had suspected, Skulduggery was muscular and his skin was so soft and covered in, to her surprise, scars. She stroked over them carefully. "How come you are so covered in scars?"

"I asked China to transfer all the damage I have had during the years I lived as a skeleton. I want to look at these injuries and remember what I've gone through to get them. That way, I can honour the people I have lost and remember the choices I have made that led to who I am today."

Valkyrie smiled and kissed one of the scars that covered Skulduggery's stomach, and it caused Skulduggery to moan low. "They suit you... It makes you become... whole, in the absence of a better word. I prefer you as a skeleton but understand why you want a temporary body. There's so much fun you can do together..."

She continued to kiss Skulduggery's stomach and unbuttoned his pants. She could not help but see and feel the bump that was under there and now when she got herself a good gaze on it, she widened her eyes. She had been suspecting that Skulduggery would be well packaged in the lower regions, but notthispackaged. She could not help but wondering how he would be able to fit inside of her but quickly shot away that thought. Skulduggery would never hurt her intentionally.

The feeling of being observed made her look up. Straight into Skulduggery's green eyes that radiated desire, love but also... was it fear? "What is worrying you, Skulduggery?" Valkyrie laid her hand on his cheek and looked at him with a worried expression on her face.

"I..." Skulduggery interrupted himself and swallowed before he continued. "I am just a little nervous at what we are about to do and... I am even afraid of hurting you in some way. You must remember that I have not been with another woman in this way since... since I lost my wife several hundreds of years ago." To Valkyrie's major surprise she saw how Skulduggery's cheeks turned red of embarrassment. "What if I... Bah, it's just as good to say it aloud. I am worried that I will not be able to satisfy you!"

She could not help it. Valkyrie started to roar with laughter, and she was forced to lay her arms around her stomach when she laughed the most. This she could never have imagined! That the big Skulduggery Pleasantactually was worried over something!"So... Sorry! It's just... that... I never thought... that those words... would come from you... Skulduggery!"

"It is not funny, Valkyrie! I hope that you understand that I take this very seriously! I would not be able to forgive myself if I hurt you under a... let us call it an 'intensive activity'. Especially not when it is your first time." Skulduggery took a steady hold on Valkyrie's wrists and forced her to look into his eyes. "Because it is your first time, aren't I right?"

Valkyrie stopped laughing at the same moment she looked in Skulduggerys eyes. He really took this seriously... She nodded. "Yes, it is my first time, and I amnotworried that you willnotbe able to satisfy me. Considering how good you are at everything else you throw yourself into, I think you will have no problems with satisfying me, Skulduggery. I trust you completely."

Nothing else but those words were needed. Their lips met once again, and it did not take long before Valkyrie could feel Skulduggery's fingers inside of her. She understood that he was warming her up and was filled with even more love towards this skeleton that she had come to love above everything else in this world. That Skulduggery took such time to make her enjoy their love making together was more than she could have begged him of.

"Valkyrie... It might hurt a little in the beginning but trust me when I say that it will better after a while. I will be careful."

"I know, Skulduggery. I'll let you know if it gets too much, do not worry." Valkyrie smiled and looked Skulduggery deep in his eyes. "Take me, Skulduggery Pleasant."

"With pleasure, Valkyrie Cain..."

He laid his hands around her hips without letting go of her gaze. Slowly he let himself glide inside of her and the feeling made them both moan in pleasure. Valkyrie bent her head backwards and slowly pushed her gender forward to meet up with Skulduggery's. When Skulduggery pushed himself yet a little deeper into her, she felt it as if something inside of her burst and a wave of pain went through her.

Skulduggery stiffened and was about to move himself out of her, but Valkyrie laid her legs around his hips to make him stay put. "No... Continue. It will soon disappear. I will not let you get away now, Skulduggery."

As to prove that what she was saying was true, Valkyrie began to slowly move back and forth over Skulduggery's gender. For each new movement, the pain disappeared increasingly until the only thing she could feel was a pleasure she never thought she would get to experience. The feeling of how Skulduggery filled all of her was simply too wonderful to describe. This was so much better than she could have ever imagined!

"Oh, Valkyrie..." Skulduggery moaned and started to follow in her movements.

Valkyrie laid her arms around Skulduggery's neck and pulled him down into a passionate kiss while she pushed herself harder against him. She wanted to feel him deeper, wanted him to fill whole her with himself. She wanted to feel how they both became one, how they would melt together.

As if Skulduggery had been able to read her thoughts, he pressed himself deeper inside of her and Valkyrie moaned high between their kisses when the feeling of how Skulduggery filled her washed over her. Oh, God! He was so good at this... So stupid of Skulduggery to think that he would not be able to satisfy her!

"More, Skulduggery... I want more... I am soon there..."

"Your wish is my command..." Skulduggery whispered in her ear and took a harder grip around her before he obliged.

Nothing else existed except for her, Skulduggery, and their interlaced bodies. Valkyrie felt it as if she were traveling on an ocean of pleasure and for each new, hard thrust she came closer and closer to the shore. Despite how much she tried to hold it back, she could finally no longer stop it but bent back her head and dug her nails deep into Skulduggery's neck while she screamed out her lover's name in the same moment as the orgasm waves washed over her.

Soon after, she could feel how Skulduggery let go and she held him when he filled her with his seed. They both breathed heavily and when Valkyrie felt she had strength enough, she gave Skulduggery a little kiss on his forehead before leaning back against the pillow. "Wow... That was..."

"Fantastic?"

"I was going to say 'wonderful', but... yes, that was fantastic too. You're a good lover, Skulduggery."

"You sound amazed. I thought it was you who said I was good at everything I did and that I had nothing to worry about?"

"I knew you are a good lover, but nothowgood. This exceeded my expectations with a great deal, you should know."

"Glad to hear that, Valkyrie." Skulduggery smiled and gave her a kiss before he lay down beside her and pulled her into his arms. Valkyrie crept into his arms and enjoyed the feeling of being embraced by the person you love more than anything else.

"I hope I did not hurt you."

"It hurt a bit at first", Valkyrie acknowledged. "Do not worry, it went over fast. Once the pain disappeared, I could do nothing but enjoy."

"I'm still sorry. I had wanted to avoid the pain but realized that it would be difficult. We can look forward to the next time, when you will not feel any pain, I promise you."

"That sounds good", Valkyrie whispered and smiled mischievously. "I just hope it will not be too long before then..."

Skulduggery laughed and stroked Valkyrie's hip slowly. "You do not have to worry about that, Valkyrie."

Valkyrie closed her eyes and sighed happily. Just as she was about to fall asleep a thought appeared in her head that made her widen her eyes. She looked up at Skulduggery with a splash of fear in her eyes. "Skulduggery... We did not use any protection. Do I have to worry that I may have become pregnant?"

Skulduggery looked down at her, and to her horror he paled. "God dammit..."

Sorry for that! I just couldn't help it ;) I thought it would be fun to end this story with a cliff-hanger, sort of... I'll let you readers decide what happened next. Did they get a little baby Skull or not? :)