Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Note: I talk a lot of money and business here but know nothing of it. Sorry. I probably messed up a lot but this is fanfiction and my world so let's roll with it.
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Chapter 59
That night brought a flash thunderstorm and flooding to the area Valkyrie lived in, but it didn't stop her brothers and sister from preparing the house for the new security. Valkyrie had sat by the window with Tanith for most of the night on watch, mostly because she didn't want to lie in bed awake and worrying, but also because she wanted to spend time with her sister. At some point around three in the morning, Valkyrie was staring outside and narrowed her eyes, looking into the black outside.
"Tanith," she whispered. "Is it me, or is there something by the front wall on the right?"
Tanith leaned forwards to look better but Valkyrie didn't see it again and was sure Tanith didn't see it either.
"Call the alarm anyway," Tanith said after a moment. Valkyrie nodded and went to the nearest other person, Weasel, and told him there may be someone outside, and he spread it to the others. They already had everything on highest security as it was and anyone coming it to any entrance would set off the alarms. But as they had already discussed, their alarms and security wasn't good enough. They were all tense.
When morning came, they were all tired and had slept in fitful shifts. Morning did bring builders and security advisers and fitters and installers, but it didn't make them any less nervous. If anything, they were more worried as it left a lot of open spots for someone to get into the house.
To combat that, they started taking things outside to confuse anyone that might have been looking. They started taking large items out of the house from the hall they were doing up into an office hall, focusing specifically on the one that was going to be the security room. Valkyrie herself was packed into a box to go alongside the other boxes of stuff, and she had to stay very, very still and quiet as Bear and Crow carried her outside and packed her into Panda's van. Panda, Crow and Tanith drove them to the skip and they dumped all the items except Valkyrie herself, getting her to hid in the van under the bench.
They then went to Crow's house, a place they didn't go particularly often. Positioned at the end of a pretty street, there was only two competing funeral services to share the space with. The house was fairly large, with a big kitchen, two small bathrooms and three bedrooms and a few sofa beds for the Dead Men from before they took in Valkyrie. They hadn't lived permanently together before that, with Bear at his hotel for at least five days a week, Panda having his own place, and the others either at those places, Dexter's apartment, or travelling.
They took Valkyrie into the house quickly, though they didn't think anyone had followed them.
"How long are we staying here?" Valkyrie asked.
"Only me and Tanith are staying here with you," Crow explained. "And hopefully for only a week. If we get Caelan before that we can move back in then, if you'd like."
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain
Fanfiction(This story is written as a fanfiction, but can be read as a story without having read any of the books.) Valkyrie Cain, the adoptive daughter of the Dead Men, has had a life full of love and magic. But as she gets older, times become scarier and sh...
