skull on fire: A skulduggery pleasant/ hunger games crossover fanfic

Chapter Two: A Little Teleportation

Chapter Two: A Little Teleportation

Me and Skulduggery kissed for what seemed like hours but was in reality only a few seconds. The feeling of his hard jawbone on my lips set off fireworks inside me. I was, for the first time in my life, truly happy.

And then, of course, Fletcher had to spoil it all. He teleported literally inches away from us and jumped back in horror.

"You do know you are a five hundered year old skeleton and a sixteen year old girl right?" he squealed indignantly.

Me and Skulduggery pulled apart and looked at him balefully. "You do know we are both going into the arena and not coming out", stated Skulduggery harshly. "and we are in love, so I think we have every right to have as much fun as possible with what remains of our miserable lives dont you agree?"

"Well actually", muttered Fletcher, choking up, "Actually, I wanted to talk to Val but if you're busy..." He made to leave but I reached out to stop him. He stiffened at the contact and shot me a worried glance.

"I'll come with you", I murmered, walking out of the train compartment with his hand in mine. I can still feel Skulduggery's tortured gaze as I closed the door.

"What was it you wanted to say?", I ask.

"I.. Well I just wanted to say that I, I love you Valkyrie. I saw you kiss skulduggery but I still wanted you to know, I thought.. I dont know what I thought but.. well you know now.."

I look at him in shock, can't he see? him and Skulduggery were my best friends. I loved both of them, as friends, but my feelings for Skulduggery had grown into something else, something I couldn't hope to control. I don't want to hurt Fletcher, I love him too much as a friend. But I can't tell him something that isn't true.

"Fletcher", I begin-

"It's Ok, dont say it, I know now it cant happen. Soon the train will have travelled to far for me to teleport here anyway.. I guess.. I guess this is goodbye."

I run to hug him, the thought of losing him, on top of everything else, destroys me and I end up sobbing in his arms. He gently tilts my head up and kisses me softly on the lips, then he teleports away. He is gone and I will never see him again.

I slide down the wall and sit on the floor in the corner, my face in my knees as I try to make sense of my life. The feeling of Fletchers kiss still lingers on my lips, soft and warm and gentle and wrong. The exact opposite of Skulduggery's who's kisses are hard and cold and meaningful and so, so right. I love them both in different ways, but now I will never see one of them again. I cry.

This is how Skulduggery finds me, curled up in the foetal position in the corner. He asks me what is wrong but i just say it's stomachache. I can see he doesn't belive me but he lets it go and just holds me while I cry. After a while, he picks me up bridal style and carries me back to the carrige. It is time to discuss survival strategy.

We watch reruns of the reapings and take notes but I had to stop writing halfway through the reruns because Skulduggery starts kissing me. When the reruns are finished (and Skulduggery has finished kissing me) me and Skulduggery discuss our tacticts. If you are wondering why we don't have a mentor it's because he said something very offensive about Skulduggery and Skulduggery kicked him out. Out meaning off a moving train. He survived but is as I speak having some serious surgery in the medical carrige of the train. I suppose I should be annoyed, but he was a hopeless tutor and a morphine addict anyway. He would never have been much help.

Me and Skul man think about allies. After seeing the Reapings we have some in mind, and we decide that the best tactic to start off with is to assemble a group of people. We decide that it will be hard to build any more solid ideas until we have been to training, met the tributes. And ultimately, seen the arena and what sort of place it is. So much depends on how much cover there is, weather there is a water source near the cornucopia. All the things we don't know that are the most important.

A/N: End of chapter two! please fan, vote and tell me what you think in comments below! thank you!!

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