Skulduggery – Crow
Anton – Bear
Ghastly – Panda
Dexter – Wolf
Saracen – Weasel
Erskine – Snake
Solomon – Raven
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Chapter 75
All hell broke loose.
Snake started screaming, Wolf and Weasel began laughing and pointing mockingly at Panda, Crow nearly broke the table standing up, and Bear nearly broke his chair and the wall when he stood up too quickly and it went flying back.
Valkyrie laughed at them and didn't help even a little when the Idiots started chanting and trying to hug Tanith, slapping a disgruntled Panda right out their way.
Tanith swatted them away but couldn't run as she was on bedrest. She crossed her arms as Wolf, Weasel, Snake and Valkyrie ran loops around her and sang about the baby. In the other room, Panda had been flattened to the wall by Crow and Bear and looked to be being interrogated.
"Alright, stop it!" Tanith shouted, smacking Weasel and Snake harshly. Wolf and Valkyrie jumped out her way as she stormed over to the others. "You can stop that! There's no need to interview him about it."
"He got you pregnant," Crow growled, not taking his eyes off Panda's stubborn look.
"It's the twenty-first century, Skulduggery," Tanith said with exasperation. "It's both our fault. So instead of lecturing a grown-ass man about conception, you can congratulate us so I can sit the hell down before I fucking feint!"
Valkyrie jumped forwards and helpfully added: "She really will faint."
Crow sighed and they backed off Panda. "Fine. I am sorry Tanith. Congratulations on your pregnancy."
"Thank you," she told him. "I need to get some sleep."
She turned and left at a slow walk, looking altogether paler than before dinner. Panda followed before Crow could threaten him again.
"Aren't people meant to be all radiant and lovely when they're pregnant?" Snake asked as they sat back down at the table.
"Tanith's not exactly been keeping safe since she got pregnant. It's taken a toll on her body and that's why she was getting so sick and is tired so much," Valkyrie explained to him. "She might get better in a few weeks with all the weird things Civet is making her drink."
"Can I have some?"
"They're for pregnant women, so no," Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes. "You can have alcohol."
"I like vodka," he agreed.
"What happened on this mission then?" Valkyrie said quickly before he offered her some and Crow banned alcohol from the house forever. She had to keep her options open!
"That was a strange turn of events," Wolf said with a huffed laugh. "Saracen knew before we got into Roarhaven that someone was under the bar, but it wasn't a prisoner. Idiot barkeeper nearly got himself killed and we had to drag his sorry arse to the Sanctuary in cuffs. Thinks he's the Killer Supreme."
"Aside from him, we didn't find Tesseract at all," Weasel said, putting them on track.
"The Torment was waiting for us," Crow said.
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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...
