Chapter 167
"I know!" Nadia screamed down the phone to Tanith.
Valkyrie shook her head and smiled, resting on the bed. They were going back tonight, or at least over to where her family was staying. Last night, after their engagement, Valkyrie and Nadia enjoyed an afternoon of shopping and talking all about what they'd love to do as a wedding and what they thought their family and friend's reactions would be – ignoring Nadia's family entirely, which Valkyrie's hadn't mentioned but had noticed – and then in the evening after a light dinner had seen a very bedazzled Santa float.
Then they had gotten back and watched a movie they had rented from the collection in the reception of the hotel, followed by sex, showers, and more sex before bed. They had been tried from their activities, and hadn't gotten up until midday, and then had gotten onto telling everyone about the engagement.
Nadia had wanted to do that part, and Valkyrie had happily allowed her to do all the work and had watched telly instead. Then packed... then ordered food, ate the food, watched a movie... and she was still talking.
Valkyrie looked over at her and smiled as she caught Nadia admiring her ring with a big grin as she and Tanith spoke about weddings. No regrets.
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"Tanith's looking at wedding dresses," Fletcher told them as soon as they got close enough. He was grinning widely and looked excited for them. "Congratulations, by the way. I thought you were going to wait a while?"
"Yeah, I changed my mind," she said, giving him a one-armed hug, which Nadia copied. "Have they only been talking about us the whole time?"
"That and the baby doing tummy time," he rolled his eyes. "She almost rolled over yesterday, but not quite. Ready?"
They grabbed his offered hand and teleported to a living room where her whole family were sitting. It was a tiny, wooden, cabin place and she could feel the chill but it was a lot nicer than where they'd just been outside with its roaring fire.
There were screams of happiness all around, hugs, congratulations, and a very confused, wide-eyed baby. It was nearly overwhelming, so many bodies hugging her at once, but it was fun too. Luckily, they were all more interested in Nadia since she had the ring, so Valkyrie sat down.
"Now we can plan the wedding!" Erskine said, pulling out a notebook that looked like the one he'd used for the house except this one had a pink cover and lightly pink tinted pages. He'd had a lilac one for the house planning and another deep green for landscaping.
"It won't be for a while," she reminded him.
"It's going to be amazing!" Nadia said over her. "We'll need these next few years to organise it all! I definitely want it in Ireland, and all our family needs to be there."
"How many people is it on your side?" Erskine asked.
"God, at least two hundred including second cousins. Then I would like, maybe, fifty friends? I was trying to work it out earlier. That doesn't include plus ones on the friends either. Then Valkyrie's family and friends."
"We can't really have much of my family," Valkyrie pointed out. "Crystal will be there, and Gordon, and you guys. That's my family."
"And Pa and Skulduggery," Dexter nodded.
"Obviously. Wouldn't it be nicer to have a smaller wedding though? Maybe just close family and our friends?" Valkyrie suggested. "I mean, you have more family than most venues can handle."
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain
Fanfic(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...
