two world breakers in a pod

chapter, who knows what anymore

another 1K+ word chapter!

skukduggery knocked on chinas door, she apparently had something to tell him (if u don't know what chinas big secret is, you are worlds biggest dumbass, I've been hinting at it for ages and outright said it like twice)

Valkyrie wandered into the library to try and find something even remotely interesting to read, when she walked towards the mortal history section, Amelia jumped out behind her, Valkyrie was just beginning to appreciate how much she looked like China, they had the same hair, the same good looks, and even the same bright blue eyes, Valkyrie figured if China had told her she was her biological daughter, she would have believed her

"hi!" Amelia said as Valkyrie jumped

"oh my god you scared me" Valkyrie said putting her hand over her heart

"oh, sorry, but I want to sh9w you something, come on!" She said happily and grabbed Valkyries hand, dragg8ng her through the maze of book shelves, for a 4'9 girl weighing a whooping 50 pounds, she was really fucking strong

"Come on!" she said still happily as she dragged her up to the ladder that led to the roof, it was always pretty up here, but now it was absolutely gorgeous, it was a little past sunset, so the sky was dark, but the northern lights were showing, they were beautiful, there was pink and purple and green, and could make even the most serious person ever say wow

"wow" Valkyrie said as both of them sat down

they admired the silence for a bit when Valkyrie suddenly realised in the nearly 3 months she had known Amelia, she had completely and utterly failed to figure out what her magical branch is

"what branch of magic do you study" Valkyrie asked sounding curious

Amelia smiled and responded with "I don't remember what the right term is, I think it starts with an n (neoteric u dumbass), but I can see people, from really far away (I am 100 percent stealing elevens powers from stranger things, it's the exact same down to the fact there needs to be white noise, so suck 8t up 😜)"

"interesting Valkyrie says

"very" she says "I can show u if you'd like?" She says

"alright" Valkyrie says

they got to Gordon's house. How? Why ru asking me

Valkyrie took an old bandana and helped Amelia tie it around her eyes, then turned on the sink

"who do you want me to find?" She asks

"I don't know, skulduggery maybe?" Valkyrie says and Amelia nodded, and motioned for Valkyrie to shut up in the politest way possible

"he's at the counter thing , with the cabinets under it" she said

"he's grabbing the chess board, chinas making tea I think.

"Now skulduggery's setting up the chess board, I think their probably ab- opps, China dropped a teacup, how silly of her" she said taking the bandana off of her eyes, then blinking violently at the sudden change of light

"you kind of get the idea now?" Amelia asked

"I think so, can you hear them"

"8m sorry?" Amelia said

"like can you hear what their saying?"

"oh, no, I've tried, I think I probably could if I tried hard enough I think" she said, China said her speech was getting better, it really wasn't, although Valkyrie hadn't really spoken to her like, at all when they first met

"we should probably head back soon" Amelia said looking at her watch, they'd been away for nearly an hour

"Oh shi-crap" Valkyrie said realising that while Amelia was technically 16, she looked like she was 9, and it felt wrong to swear in front of a nine year old

later

When they walked back into the library, they were immediately disturbed by the silence, it's never silent, especially when skulduggery is around, as the walked through the hallway to the kitchen, Valkyrie saw skulduggery hat, just lying on the floor, and little drops of blood everywhere. When they made their way into the kitchen, skulduggery was looking through the freezer

"nice of you two to finally show up" skulduggery said not looking up from the freezer

"Care to explain what the hell happened" Valkyrie said

"someone broke in, attacked us, im fine, chinas got it worse though" he said throwing his arm up in the general direction of her

"is she okay" Amelia said quickly

"she'll be fine" skulduggery said as he grabbed a bag of frozen corn from the freezer and wrapped it in a towel, then walked over to where China was sitting

She was indeed worse for wear, she had a cut along her lower lip and was holding a bloodstained paper towel to her actively bleeding forehead, the source of the blood most likely coming from a punch straight to the forehead

Skulduggery sat beside her and pulled up her t-shirt sleeve

"dislocated" he muttered not to anyone in particular, then looked up

"This is going to hurt like hell" he said, and she nodded

China took a deep breath as skulduggery put his hand on her shoulder and popped it back into places as China sucked in the air through her teeth

"how does the feel" he said and put the bag of frozen corn on her shoulder

"hurts" she said "top cabinet, above the fridge, paracetamol" she said through sharp gasps

Skulduggery nodded and walked back into the kitchen

"how are you feeling?" Amelia asked sitting next to her

"better" she admitted

They stayed for a moment "they got us by surprise, came straight through the door, they got me pretty good, after that we beat them easily though" and then she smiled

"They ran away?" Valkyrie asked as she started picking up some of the stuff that had been knocked over

chinas smiled widened more "yes" she said happily as skulduggery walked over walked over with like the capsule things and a cup of water, and China took it quickly

"better?" He asked

"much" she said as she moved her arm around (magical paracetamol)

"and is..." skulduggery hesitated looking at Valkyrie

"their fine" China said as Valkyrie was looking back and forth between the two of them

"okay, their is something you guys aren't telling me" Valkyrie said sounding slightly annoyed

skulduggery looked at China

China sighed "no point hiding now I guess" "Valkyrie" she said turning to face her "Amelia's going to be a sister, 1, because I've finally gone through the legal process of adopting her, and two, I'm 3 months pregnant" China said

yes, I'm leaving you on a cliff hanger, kill me, burn me at the stake, use serpines red right hand on me, I probably deserve it butttt😜