Chapter 192
"I'm really sorry again, officer," Valkyrie reiterated, getting her keys back from the Gardaí. "Thank you for letting me take her home tonight."
"It's fine, Miss Edgley, just keep yourselves out of trouble. Eh, Miss Robin, can you do that for us?" The officer questioned jokingly.
Nadia nodded, makeup streaked down her face, heels in her hand. "It won't happen again. I'm sorry."
They were waved out of the lobby and Valkyrie leaned down, picking Nadia up with one arm and jogging down the steps to the car that had been parked outside the police station by another officer when Nadia had been arrested and taken into custody, bringing Valkyrie along as a witness. It was five in the morning, the birds were starting to tweet, and it was bitingly cold.
"I'm sorry Val," Nadia whispered.
"It's okay, honey. Let's just get home," Valkyrie told her tiredly. She opened the passenger side door and swept Nadia's legs into the car, shut her in and drove them home. "What will I do with you?" She asked when they parked, looking at her sleeping fiancée. Valkyrie smiled. How couldn't she love that face?
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Valkyrie waited impatiently for the end of Nadia's first counselling session to end. She'd had to look far and wide to find someone she could trust to leave with Nadia, doubly so considering some of her issues included topics surrounding the Dead Men, the Sanctuary and all that business, but she'd settled eventually on a lady called Sermon. She had been understanding, straight to the point, matter of fact, and had been quick to tell Valkyrie before anything else that she would not be telling anyone what Nadia told her, including to Valkyrie herself. She'd been satisfied with that and booked a session. Some pushing on the necessity of the meeting, as well as paying more than average, helping get a session much, much sooner than was usual.
But that had been then and now she was bored.
Finally, after an hour and a half session, Nadia came out with a small smile, going straight to Valkyrie in the small waiting area of the apartment complex-like building.
"All done?" Valkyrie asked.
"Yep. Another session booked for next week too. On Thursday morning," Nadia nodded, taking the water bottle Valkyrie had brought gratefully. "I didn't realise I had so much to talk about."
"Is that a good or a bad thing?" Valkyrie asked with a smile.
"Good, I think. I only really spoke about my parents, honestly, and a bit about us. I didn't even mention Skulduggery," she told her. "I think I will next time. It was really good though, she made me feel like I wasn't being, you know, mean to my parents."
"I'm glad. She seemed nice when I spoke to her. Are you okay going to China's still?"
"Yeah, I want to get my apprenticeship sorted!" Nadia grinned.
They'd taken the motorbike, so it was an hour drive over to China's library, and they met China in her apartment. Valkyrie sat down in her usual spot and left China and Nadia to flush out the deals of their apprenticeship contract. It was going to start immediately, focusing on getting Nadia up to scratch in time for her Surge, and would continue even harder after that. Nadia looked excited, albeit a little nervous around China, and accepted a few books to read as well as promised to buy some supplies to work with. She went into the library to begin immediately, leaving Valkyrie with China.
"Well then," China said, sitting in her luxurious green armchair and crossing her legs before looking at Valkyrie for a long moment. "You're not happy."
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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...
