Random One - Shots of The Detective Duo.

Swimming

"Skulduggery?" Valkyrie yells out. She and Tanith had been looking for Skulduggery ever since that morning when he said he would pick Valkyrie up for their next case. But he never showed up.

Tanith had appeared a half an hour later after Skulduggery hadn't shown up and had decided to help Valkyrie try to find him. They had been looking for hours now and still hadn't found him yet. Valkyrie had almost given up when she heard a loud splash down at the pier.

Valkyrie looked around seeing if Tanith was near but she was nowhere to be found so Valkyrie decided to see what it was herself. She walked quietly down to the pier and what she found when she looked down in the water almost made her fall in herself.

Tanith had found Skulduggery. Unfortunately, it looked like she tried to scare him and instead made him fall in the water. When she had tried to help him out he had pulled her in. That was the splash Valkyrie heard.

They both heard her laugh and looked up as Valkyrie stood up and tried to hold back her giggles. "HOW ARE YOU TWO LOVE BIRDS DOING DOWN THERE?" She yelled down to them. Both Skulduggery and Tanith had glared at her and Valkyrie knew that if looks could kill she would be dead at the moment. She almost fell down as she let the giggles she was holding back go.

Skulduggery just rolled his eye sockets metaphorically of course as he rose from the water and left Tanith to swim to shore.

"Hey!" She yelled at him. He looked down at her

"Yes, Tanith?" He asked.

"What about me?"

"What about you. You can swim can't you?"

"Oh, I'm going to kill you Skulduggery!"

"Well in my defense you did push me into the water. And metaphorically you can't kill me since I'm already dead."

"Help. Me. Out. Of. This. Water. NOW!!" Tanith yelled at him.

"You'll be fine! You're only a few feet away from ground any way. You could literally walk to shore!" Skulduggery says.

Tanith glares but doesn't say anything. And the next thing Skulduggery knows is he's falling back into the water.

What he didn't see was why Tanith was yelling at him from the water Valkyrie had sneaked up from behind him where he floated in the air right beside the pier and had pushed him resulting in him losing control of the air holding him up momentarily giving him time to crash into the water. Valkyrie fell to the ground holding her stomach, she was laughing so hard.

Tanith who had swum to shore while Valkyrie distracted Skulduggery had joined her up on the pier and laughed as Skulduggery flew up to where they stood. He glared at Valkyrie and went to take his hat off. But nothing was there. He slowly turned around and walked back to the edge to see if it was floating in the water where he could get at it. He couldn't see anything and decided that he should go down and see if it got stuck on the rocks or something. The thought that Valkyrie had stolen the hat when she pushed him never even crossed his mind. He floated down to the water trying to ignore as Valkyrie and Tanith laugh.

Valkyrie who had thought she had done an amazing job at acting ran too the old pine tree about a meter away from where she and Tanith were standing. She used the air to propel her up to the top and she sat the hat there. Before she came down though she saw Tanith motioning at her frantically. Luckily Valkyrie had hit the ground right as Skulduggery rose up above the pier.

Valkyrie walked over and Skulduggery looked at her she just smiled.

"What did you do with my hat?" He asks her tiredly. Though she could hear a hint of amusement in his voice.

"You didn't find it down there?" She asked him.

"Does it look like I found it?" he asks her.

"Well no... But we never know with you." Right as Valkyrie had finished with her sentence the wind decided to blow very hard. Valkyrie who had tried to hold the hat still had succeeded in the wind not blowing the hat off the tree but also in the big gust of wind the tree didn't move once and Valkyrie got blasted with the wind because all her power was maintained on the tree.

Skulduggery ever the detective looked up and found his hat sitting preciously on one of the limbs of the pine tree. He looked Valkyrie and then at the tree and started sprinting towards it. Valkyrie who had started sprinting after Skulduggery had lost control of the air that was holding the hat up and it flew into the air. Skulduggery stopped and stared up as his hat flew away. Valkyrie who had stopped as she too watched the hat started to slowly walk backward and when Skulduggery turned around and looked at her.

The tale Dexter had told her when they were on their way to the French sanctuary. He had heard rumors of the great skeleton detective that had no mercy and fire for eyes. At the time Valkyrie didn't even think of it until now. It really matched Skulduggery at the moment. She started sprinting towards Tanith when Skulduggery started running after her. She almost had reached the pier when he had tackled her from behind. She just lay there gasping for air as he tickled her. Though he had stopped a while ago they still lay there on the ground.

"You know what Skulduggery?" she asks aloud

"What my dear combat accessory?"

"I'm glad we're friends."

"Me too Valkyrie. Me too."