Skulduggery Pleasant fan-fic: The Cradle of Magic (UNDER EDIT)

Plasters and car keys

-Dex

Sarc paused from his general rant,
"Is she singing?"
I looked up from my newspaper,
"Uh yeah, yeah she is"
"Er, why?"
"You're the one with all the answers Mr 'I'm so cool I know everything'... Probably because she's happy."
"Women are so weird." He sipped his overly sweet coffee.
"Ummmm hmmm..." I resumed reading the article.
"Of course you don't think that though, do you Dexter?"
I looked up into his stupid smug face, " Shut up you nosy b*****d..."
He laughed and spilled his coffee everywhere, I chuckled and returned to my paper.
Fletch had left fifteen minutes earlier so there was a long pause.
"Hell!!" Bliv cried out from inside the bathroom.
I looked up at Sarc who had put his mug on the table and leaned forward from his place in the door frame.
I folded the paper, put it on the sofa and got up. "Bliv, are you Ok in there?" I yelled at the bathroom door.
"Uh, yeah, yeah I'm okay..."
"Do you want some help or?" Sarc asked
"Er no I'm okay, just..."
The door unlocked and Bliv hopped out in a pink dressing gown, "Could you grab me a cloth please?" Thick blood ran down her leg.
Sarc rushed over and unravelled a bit of kitchen roll and handed it to her. She hobbled to the side of the sofa and sat down, wincing when she applied the cloth.
"Just a bit of blood, it's fine..."
"Razors are lethal, eh?.." Sarc asked handing her a bigger wadd. She smirked and nodded.
"Do you want a plaster for that?" I asked.
"Yeah thanks, they're in the cabinet to the left of you." I took out a plaster and put the wrapping in the bin.
"It's ok.." She said attempting to take the sticky band aid off my finger,
"No it's alright," I said "hold out your leg..."
Sarc muffled a laugh and Bliv shot him a 'shut up' look. He stopped.
I wiped her leg clean of blood, she grimaced. I applied the plaster and helped her up and off the sofa.
"Thanks." She said and squeezed my hand.

She locked the flat door behind her, returned the keys to her pocket and zipped up her leather jacket. "Right.."
I glanced at my watch "fifteen minutes." We walked to the stairs.
"Oh s***!" Bliv face palmed
"What a great day you're having..." Sarc added sarcastically.
"I completely forgot, I left my bike at work when we went to go see Ghastly and Erskine... Urgh dammit..."
"It's ok, I'll drive you in..." I offered.
"Oh what a charmer..." Sarc rolled his eyes. Bliv gave him the death stare, he put his arms up in defence.
"That would be great, thanks Dex"

"Can I come?" Sarc asked as we inclined down the spiral stairs.
"But dude, you have a car..." I asked
"S'pose"
"Then why?"
"Because I feel left out..."
"Nawww..." Bliv patted him on the shoulder. We left reception and headed down the street, to the left and into an almost empty car park down the road. I took out my car keys and flicked the button; the car went beep.
"Oh my God..." Bliv gawped
"What?"
"Oh my God, you have an Alpha Romeo!"
"Er, yeah..." I opened the boot and put my case in.
"And I..." Sarc took out his keys, "have a Porsche..."
"What!"
"What?"
"How come you two can afford such expensive cars?! I can only afford a motorbike!"
"Because Bliv my darling..." Sarc put a hand on her shoulder "because... Umm.. Dex?"
I sighed "because we've so many years of hardcore work and skill that people will pay a load for our experience."
"Oh yes, and because we are both outrageously sexy and nobody can resist the temptation to hire us. " Sarc added
"Hmm yeah that too..." I agreed.

I opened the door for Bliv, who got in; I turned to Sarc, "I'll see you there then?"
"Uh yep," he signalled for me to close the door so she wouldn't hear. I closed it; smiling at her.
"What?"
"You God Damn know what!" He looked and sounded irritated.
"There's no harm in it Sarc, I mean she's cute..."
"There is harm, on so many levels, One; she's far too young for you. Two; she's skul's girl and he's just got her back, if he finds out you two have something going you're going to end up like Fletch. And Three; she's far too dangerous..."
"Dangerous? What the hell do you mean?"
"Nobody goes straight from Uni without contacts to a high classing level in the Sanctuary, it took me ages to get where I am... Also..." He broke into whisper "have you seen her stats? Natural talent is one thing, but this is off the bloody scale, it's the same with Vin too..."
"How did you get hold of her stats?"
"I'm me, I just did..."
I rolled my eyes and walked back to the car. "Dex, just take it easy... Y'know?"
"Oh I bloody well know..." I slammed the car door behind me. There was a long pause, I hate fighting with Sarc.
"Everything ok?" Bliv looked into my eyes.
I closed mine and inhaled deeply. I smiled and turned to her, "yeah, sorry, I'm great, fine, don't worry..."
She smiled "good, I wanted you thank you actually Dex, for everything it's hard starting from scratch... Again..."
"Seriously it's fin...." And she leaned over and kissed my cheek. I burned scarlet and she laughed. Her pretty laugh.
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I'm sorry, I had a request from Vin XD
Hope that wasn't too bad...
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