Hey it's Valkyrie4ever! This story was inspired by more drawing I'd done and was told to write about it. So I did. Hope you enjoy.

Plz note I do not own Skulduggery Pleasant a certain Mr Landy is the lucky one to own them. Also Valkyrie looks like she is in her late twenties but I just don't mention it yet I haven't decided yet if I will.

I know there are spelling mistakes occasionally and I am really sorry if I keep changing tenses again (read other stories) I will try to make more sense.

Chapter 1: Photo albums

Tanith Low was at Ghastly Bespoke's shop browsing through his old photo albums. Since he asked her to marry him and she accepted she wanted to know more about him and the people he was close to in the war so he got one out and told her the stories behind each one. She'd learned more about the dead men and their suicidal missions. About Skulduggery and his family. How his parents had died. He told her a lot about the time before she was born. She found one picture that she didn't recognise or have Ghastly talk about.

"Who's this?" Tanith asked. She pointed to the teenage looking girl with hair the colour of fire (yes red, orange and yellow) that fell down just below her waist. It was beautiful. Her eyes were emerald green and glistened in the light and she had pink, thin lips. She was tall, slim and looked strong. She wore a red dress that fell just below her knees and a purple belt around her waist. But the thing that Tanith noticed the most was her coat. It was black and stopped mid-thigh and was fitted around her perfectly. But it was exactly the same as Valkyrie's.

"No-one Tanith. She was just an old friend." Ghastly said after a few seconds hesitation. "I think she was someone from Skulduggery's family."

Tanith nodded and turned the page. It was the girl again on both sides of the page. Only this time she was with someone in both of them. The first one she was standing next to another girl about her age in the same outfit as before.

The other girl was dressed in a long green dress, down to her ankles, with short sleeves. She had long brown hair with a midnight blue highlight in her fringe. That was natural as hair dye didn't exist then. Her eyes were also green but paler. More like the colour of grass than emeralds. They were both smiling and held a fireball each. They were elementals. In the other picture she was with Ghastly.

Before Tanith could ask him about it Skulduggery and Valkyrie walked in having another argument. But stopped when they saw what was happening.

"Hello Tanith, Ghastly," nodded Skulduggery. "I see you've got your old photo albums out."

"Yes but I was just about to put them away." Ghastly said about to take them away from Tanith.

"Oh no don't on my account. What fun it will be to catch up on the past."

"Yes and it would be nice for you to tell me about some of your old friends and colleagues," Valkyrie said.

"I would love to..." said Ghastly. He turned to Skulduggery. "But there are certain people in here that I don't want to be reminded of." Hoping Skulduggery would understand.

"Like this person?" Tanith said holding the album up for Skulduggery and Valkyrie to see.

"Which one there are two there I don't recognise," Valkyrie commented.

"Oh... This one," Tanith told her pointing to the red head.

"She's pretty."

"I know."

"You know Ghastly's right." Skulduggery said. "Maybe we should put them away."

"Why? And who's the other one?" Valkyrie asked.

"It doesn't matter!" Skulduggery snapped. He calmed down quickly. "I'm sorry Valkyrie I didn't mean to snap. It's just that they were very close to me and Ghastly."

"What were their names Ghastly?" Tanith asked gently.

"It doesn't matter."

"I'd like to know. Were you close?"

"Yes we were." He sighed knowing he'd lose. "The red head was called..."

He was interrupted by someone bursting through the door. He and Tanith stood up and Valkyrie and Skulduggery turned round sharply. Valkyrie heard Ghastly and Skulduggery gasp. Standing there in front of them was the red head.

"'Ello dad," she said, he accent sounded like it was slang

Ok I know that doesn't make sense yet. Who's 'dad?' I know but read chapter two to find out

Review and be nice (do not comment on spelling mistakes I know they're there!)