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     ^{She’s sat in the corner of the lounge, her knees drawn up to her chest as she hugs them to her… She’d been in this position for hours- yet she’d only called Skulduggery ten minutes ago.  For the most part she hadn’t wanted to call him, didn’t want to worry him, didn’t want to feel WEAK-.. but she’d caved and dialled the number before she could talk herself out of it again.. because she was weak, even if she couldn’t admit that to herself.  
       It’d been about midnight when she’d heard car doors slamming outside before the men forced their way into the mansion… She stupidly hadn’t even had a gun with her; she hadn’t had time to place them throughout the house again.  STUPID.  From what she’d been able to get out of them, from the words they’d spat at her, they were Roarhaven mages.. Mages whose friends she had killed when she was DARQUESSE– they didn’t care that she was back to normal, that she was just Valkyrie, they just wanted something to kick and hit and let it out on.. She was surprised she wasn’t DEAD.  And she hadn’t fought back…  She knew she deserved what they were doing, she should have been STRONG enough to stop Darquesse before she got out, she should have been able to prevent it all from happening.. but she had FAILED, and she had to live with that.   
        She doesn’t even look at Skulduggery as she speaks, because she knows he’ll be able to tell that she’s lying, that something’s wrong, that there’s things she hasn’t told him– like how she doesn’t know how to use her practice, how she’s so out of practice fighting that she’d be surprised if she could beat a teenager… how during the five years she was gone she’d done nothing but mope.. that she’d let all her previous training slip away, how she was no longer fit to be his partner on cases, because she wouldn’t be of any use except to stand there and do her best to look pretty, how she was now useless.  
              ❝ A couple of mages broke in–  I suppose they were after something.. And I accidentally got in their way. ❞} 

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skuldxggxry:

  _{“— YOU KNOW WHAT,
 I’m sure GHASTLY would  l o v e  to hear your input.
 Here, look, I’ll call him right up
   so you can tel him–”}

          “LET ME REPHRASE SLIGHTLY; 
    your suit looks stupid on you, whereas
       on somebody else it would make them
    look devishly handsome.” 

skuldxggxry:

  _{“OH, GOOD.
 I was worried you had to pee again.”}

skuldxggxry:

_{“NO THANK YOU, VALKYRIE—
 You know very well that I’m in a perfectly good relationship
 with my CAR.
 
 By the way, you can stick your GOD DAMN laboratory model.”}

skuldxggxry:

 <sub>“VALKYRIE CAIN,
 you must  c l e a r l y  be hallucinating;
 I killed Nefarian Serpine  y e a r s   ago—-
  He can’t’ve come back.”

 [ And yet, there’s an edge to his voice ]
 For something deep within him believes her,
 and it’s a thought that INFURIATES and SCARES him.</sub>

skuldxggxry:

  <sub>“AND YET,
 I insist you show incredibly perseverance
 and suck it up.
I haven’t gotten dressed nicely
 just to sit at home and order a pizza.

 It’s tradition, Valkyrie,
 and a great honor.”</sub>

skuldxggxry:

  <sub>“THAT IS THE SINGLE MOST DISGUSTING THING
 I have ever heard you mention, Valkyrie,
 and that’s quite a thing to say.

   I don’t even want to imagine
 What a vile mixture like that
  would taste like.”</sub>

skuldxggxry:

 <sub>“……………..


        I’m going to find my GUN–
 Retrieve my hat, won’t you?
 I can’t very well shoot someone
 without looking good.”</sub>

skuldxggxry:

  _{“…….
  I SWEAR TO GOD, VALKYRIE,
 if you managed to lose my Bentley
 when I specifically told you to keep an eye on it–”}

battleaccessory-blog:

                            “YOU want to borrow STEPHANIE? WHY?” 
  It wasn’t everyday somebody asked if they could borrow your daughter.  A spanner? Yes.  A cup of sugar? Well they asked.. But a daughter? That was something that wasn’t exactly normal.. There’s a frown on Desmond’s face because even though he may act like he has no idea sometimes, he very much does– he knows what goes on in the world of MAGIC, he knows the dangers of it, and there are many times that he wishes Stephanie had never found out about it– that she hadn’t been drawn in.. But it was her choice- and she’d run to it with open arms… But that didn’t mean he was HAPPY about it. 
         “She’s BUSY at the moment.. But if you need a hand I can help you.”