SPOILERS! Ok this is based after TDOTL but ghastly and anton are still alive, ravels still a traitor and ganith HAS happened.

Tanith and the Dead Men

Tanith sighed and looked round Gordan's living room. Of course it wasn't really Gordan's living room it was val's but everyone calls it gordans (anyways going off topic). All of the true dead men where there and tanith noticed that val had accomplished a lot in her 23 year old life. She had helped save the world around 9 times (one of them being from her evil alter ego), gone into hell to save skulduggery, fought a war (and won) AND became a dead man. She couldn't help it she started laughing. Everyone else had been watching T.V. so when tanith had laughed this tough group of men had jumped and vex had fell off his chair. (Val was too used to this to jump).

Val glanced round, ignoring the others and came over to her.

"What's wrong?"

Tanith leaned over and managed to whisper it to her before she bursted out laughing again. Val looked at her and started laughing too.

By now the men had recovered enough to notice the girls mad laughter.

"What's wrong with you?!" Sacren asked looking slightly scared

Valkrie just waved Sacren over to her. He approached carefully but Val just whispered what Tanith had said and fell over again. Sacren looked slightly shocked but repeated it to the others. Vex looked impressed, Ghastly looked annoyed, Anton shrugged, Skulduggery tilted his head amused but Sacren looked quite upset.

"She's done WAY more cool things than meee!" he whined.

This started Tanith and Val off again.

"Oh and I've come back from the dead twice." Valkyrie giggled.

"Ok I know one of them but twice?!" Ghastly asked.

"Well when I was 13 skulduggery killed my reflection for the Torment and then when they were getting rid of Darquesse." She stated calmly.

"What!?" Ghastly yelled at skulduggery.

Skulduggery just sighed "We needed the location of the Grotesquery."

Ghastly just sighed and turned to the girls, "So any more funny things to share?" Val and Tanith who had been watching this with some very amused dead men looked over.

"Well I have one moreā€¦." Tanith said grinning slightly.

"Well what is it?" asked Dexter looking curious.

"Patience Mr. Vex!" she grinned "So I was thinking about how the dead men has an empty slot and I was wondering who in the world you would find THIS time! Since you have already recruited an at the time 18 year old girl!" At this the girls started laughing again.

Skulduggery tilted his head "Your right we should get our seventh dead man again." At this Valkyrie and Tanith froze. Skulduggery looked at the other dead men "You think so?" The other men nodded.

"Hey I'm a dead man too! I should get to know too!" Val whined. Shudder walked over and whispered something to Valkyrie. She grinned and nodded madly.

"Who?" Tanith asked annoyed with the way the others were hiding who they were going to ask.

Skulduggery looked over "Well we've decided since you're always following us around like a little puppy we may as well let you join our little club."

When he said this Tanith screamed and hugged him, then moved on to the others only stopping at Shudder who paused before throwing tanith over his shoulder and throwing her in a large pile snow outside with everyone else laughing at the door.

Shudder turned to go back inside chuckling when a leg swooped under him and knocked him face first in to the snow and then to complete it Tanith pushed the snow on her on his head and walked back inside to address the others "I would like to say thank you for asking me to join and my answer is YES!" And with that she ran up the stairs to 'her room' just as shudder ran in smashing the snow onto Valkyrie instead of Tanith.

"SHUDDER!" Valkyrie roared.