With a pout on his face, Fletcher quietly knocked on the door. Skulduggery had requested, more like threatened, that he only ever teleport into his house if it was an emergency. In this case, it was most certainly not. It was just a simple, ordinary day and Skulduggery had required that Fletcher join them on this one case.

He was met with silence.

Valkyrie had told him to come to Skulduggery's house at around mid afternoon and he had checked his phone enough times to know he was exactly on time. For once anyway.

He knocked again.

Five minutes later, he was met with silence again. He couldn't even hear movement behind the door. Feeling just a little bit of panic, Fletcher decided to teleport in. He expected to hear Valkyrie talk first, making up an excuse as to why she couldn't answer the door. However, when he appeared in the detective's lounge room…

He was met with silence, again!

Valkyrie was curled up on the lounge, a thin sheet wrapped around her slim figure. Her eyes were closed and her breathing was even and slow. The Skeleton himself was in his favourite lounge chair, hat covering his skull and feet popped up on the coffee table. Fletcher blinked. Then suddenly remembered Valkyrie telling him once how Skulduggery meditated and that for him, it was like sleeping.

They were sleeping?

"Hey!" He shouted. "Wake up!"

Valkyrie was the first to rise and stared at him with lousy eyes before she yawned and then turned to look at Skulduggery.

"Oi," she grumbled. "Time to get up." She threw the pillow she had been using at his skull and wasn't surprised when he simply reached up and grabbed it.

"Were you…napping?" Fletcher asked.

"No," Skulduggery said. "We were having a sleep-in and that's a completely different thing." He placed his hat back onto his head, straighten his suit and then nodded to himself happily.

"What about the case?" Fletcher mumbled.

"Ah yes. Thankyou for waking us up Fletcher, if it wasn't for you, we would've been asleep a lot longer then necessary. You may go home now, if you wish."

"What?"

"Well you see, the only reason I invited you was because someone had to wake us up. Last night was quiet a tiring case for the both of us and we wouldn't want to be late for our next meeting. See? I told you he could be useful, Valkyrie."