two world breakers in a pod

I ♥️ JAZMIN BEAN XX

valkyrie sighed, back at corrival. again. the idea of going to school bored her so much. it apparently also bored skulduggery, as he couldn't even be bothered to show up

as she walked through the locker lined corridors, she watched as the kids scurried past her, probably Afraid of gettin in trouble or being arrested. As she made her way to her destination, she took in all the sights, she wondered how her life would have turned out if she had gone here rather than risking her life semi daily with skulduggery.

Valkyrie found a bench outside of the heads office and sat down to wait for omen, she was at corrival to investigate a girl called Amelia lights, she was supposedly destined to find out her name and destroy the world or whatever, they knew it was likely a false alarm, however they were here none the less, so Valkyrie figured she may as well catch up with omen, and see if he knew anything about this girl

Valkyrie found herself humming quietly and daydreaming about a world were she didn't have to use violence to solve her problems, about a world were she didn't have to worry about people finding her phone number and sending her threats, about a perfect world were this Darquesse shit never happened. But there's no point thinking about what might have been, it's better to focus on the now rather than the then

"you haven't come to arrest me have you?" said a familiar voice from behind her, causing her to jump slightly

the voice belonged to omen darkly, the brother of the great almighty auger darkly, who was destined to face the king of the dark lands when he was of age, omen wasn't strong, or smart as auger, but he had proven himself to be reliable and a great friend

"you scared me" she huffed

"and for that you have my most sincerest apologies"

Valkyrie sighed "go for a walk?"

"alright" omen said and they walked out into the warm summers day

"did skulduggery not join you?" Omen asked

Valkyrie shrugged "he's here somewhere I think"

omen nodded

"what do you know about Amelia lights?" Valkyrie asked

"not much, she's in my year, but she's older than most, so I think she's like sixteen or something, anyways, she tends to get picked on a lot"

"do you know why?"

omen hesitated "she never really eats or drinks, and it shows" omen hesitated again "I don't think her parents feed her"

Valkyrie nodded

"she sits by me and never at lunch sometimes, she never really says much" omen continued

Valkyrie nodded again "is that all?"

"yeah, she usually sticks to herself" Valkyrie nodded and they continued their conversation, after about twenty minutes of walking Valkyrie said "well I should probably get back to skulduggery"

"do you think you could draw this conversation on for..." omen stopped and looked at his watch "seven more minutes?"

Valkyrie frowned

"why"

"I don't want to go back to maths" he said with a shrug

Valkyrie laughed "fair"

when omens seven minutes had passed Valkyrie wondered over to the cafeteria where she saw skulduggery talking with a small girl in a white t shirt and black shorts, she couldn't tell exactly, but she looked around 9-10 years old,she took another look, she had long black hair that looked like it was cut with safety scissors, and what had once been bangs, were now long overgrown, while Valkyrie was leaning against the large frame, the girl got up, hugged a battered green book with a gold embossing to her chest and walked past her, Valkyrie noted that her arms and legs had bruises, and there was one on her cheek that she was trying to hide with her hair. Valkyrie's heart sank. When the little girl had passed she sat down on the opposing chair to skulduggery, he was looking slightly lost "who was that" she asked, tilting her head slightly

"we have our world breaker" he said quietly

her eyebrows furrowed slightly, "didn't you say she was roughly my age, that girl looks like she's nine" Skulduggery nodded, a shadow passing over his non existent face.

they walked around the grounds, they couldn't speak with her anymore until later because she was busy with classes and homework

"we can't leave her here" Valkyrie said quietly

"agreed" skulduggery said

Valkyrie was trying to figure out what skulduggery was feeling, probably severe anger, he had his child that he loved so dearly ripped away from him, and when he looked at this girl, she was very obviously being abused and starved at home, he was probably wondering how anyone could do such a thing. Valkyrie's heart tightened with a mix of empathy and determination to turn this girls life around.

They walked in relative silence, aside from whenever a bird chirped, skulduggery would mutter something under his non existent

When they had walked around the field multiple times, skulduggery said he was going to talk to the head and see if they could temporarily remove her from the school, so Valkyrie decided to sit on a bench while she waited for something to do, to her surprise, the stronger and smarter darkly sat next to her "your not roping omen omen into anything right" he said

"nope, we just had a chat"

"alright" he said, hesitated then said "he never really recovered from that last mission thing, he still can't sleep properly" Valkyrie felt a pang of guilt, it had been nearly 2 years since they had omen had played his part in the take down in abysinnia, and from what she had heard, he was still in therapy and struggling with night terrors.

i put a slightly shaking hand on his shoulder "you have my word, I won't involve him anymore unless we absolutely have to"

he hesitated, good that boy did love to hesitate, then nodded

they sat in silence for a moment "any missions or whatever your doing?" Valkyrie asked

he shook his head "nothing for no-" he was cut off by Valkyries phone pinging, when she looked at it, she straightened up "I'm really sorry but-"

"you have to get going" he finished, Valkyrie gave a weak smile and ran into the castle