#/flings this at the sp fandom while screaming

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skulduggery & wife headcanons post

for anyone not familiar with my trash headcanons, my name for skul’s wife is demelza bc it got infuriating just calling her ‘skul’s wife’

also this may be the longest post i have ever come up with holy shit this is the result of like 45 messages to @tanzani-coil on skype

OK SO

- she's like, 19. she's training as a medic bc the war has opened up all these job spots and she wants to put by a little money. she figures in like, a couple hundred years, she'll have enough saved to keep her father comfortable when he's old

- her father takes her to work with him in this "hospital" thats been converted from a tavern in an occupied town bc there are just. this is the front line and there are so many wounded soldiers. so many. and shes just. ?????? kind of overwhelmed, i guess bc she's 19 and she's holding the hand of a guy who just got his leg blown off by an enemy energy thrower and he dies half an hour later and what is this?

- and anyway at some point the dead men turn up with skulduggery who’s just been rescued from somewhere and is in a Bad Way bc he is Reckless and got himself captured by fighting too far from the rest of the group - they bring him in and professor grouse deals with the serious shit like the broken ribs and the fractured cheekbone and the dislocated shoulder and then kind of leaves demelza to deal with the small shit, bc he has other patients who need Serious Care

- so demelza gets to clean up the lacerations and the bruises and whatnot and while she's doing that she kind of looks at him and he's cute. she thinks he's kind. like there's no way to explain why , she just thinks he looks like he's a nice guy. and she wonders what the hell got him into this war

- and anyway at some point he wakes up, is like, barely conscious, she gives him water and he holds her wrist so tight she thinks he might break it and asks where he is. so she tells him like. you're safe. you're in the hospital. you're home. your friends are outside. and skulduggery gives her a goofy drugged up smile bc he's on those morphine leaves and he's sky high atm and goes "when i saw you i thought it might be heaven"

- and she just. DUDE? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TERRIBLE YOU LOOK RIGHT NOW AND YOU'RE FLIRTING WITH ME ? IT WASNT EVEN A GOOD LINE and like. she's equal parts endeared and exasperated by him?

- he needs a lot of supervision while he’s healing. like skulduggery doesnt rest easy at this point in his life, he needs to be on the go and he gets bored rly easily and if she doesnt watch him he'll be trying to get out of bed and wander off. and bc magic medicine is not yet at the point that his ribs can be fixed in an hour, he needs to stay in bed

- so she develops like. strategies for dealing with him. she brings him books or sits on the side of his bed and plays quill-and-paper games with him she asks him about the war, expecting him to be just as smug and to elaborate as much as all the other guys who've tried to pick her up with their war exploits but like. he tells his stories with humour, they're funny, but he never glamorizes what he does and she likes that?

- she always comes in to say goodnight to him before she goes home for the evening, every time she does he cheekily asks her for a kiss and she smacks his arm and tells him like "you cad, general" and then says goodnight and goes home. one night she gives him one, bc he's had a bad day and she can tell he's exhausted and in more pain than usual bc he moved around too much the day before and he just looks miserable so she kisses him on the forehead to cheer him up

- at some point, he starts asking her to call him skulduggery bc he fully intends on courting this girl and ‘general’ is just so formal

- she gives him something of hers? at some point? like its insignificant, its like a handkerchief or something, and she said he could keep it. he sleeps with it in his hand and when he has nightmares he holds it up to his face and breathes in her scent and it calms him down some

THEN

- once he's healed, she kind of doesnt expect to see him again? but he turns up to walk her home from work like she's a lady or something and she hooks her arm through his and whatever basket or whatnot she's carrying he'll take for her and he walks her back to her father's house and then says goodnight at the door, all very above board and respectful

- she's about to let him go, but she's gotten used by now to kissing him on the forehead when she says goodnight so she goes on tiptoes and pulls him down to her level and does the goodnight kiss 

- and this goes on for some time

- sometimes he'll bring her presents, jewellery, new dresses, books. she goes through clothes a lot because she gets covered in blood working, so she really appreciates it, it's very sweet of him

- she very much has a crush by this point and is like. idk. just beginning to hope that he might do too? - like soldiers are flirty, she wasnt especially moved by him flirting in the hospital, bc all soldiers will hit on a pretty nurse. but he's entertained this for long enough now that she honestly thought he'd have gotten bored. 

- then he doesnt come to get her from work. and he's not there the next day either. 

she goes home and cries bc she was stupid to let herself have feelings for him and he's done exactly what she thought he'd do and left her. then she gets a letter a week or so later and feels very stupid bc he's back at the front and " thinking, as always, of you " and she's like :33333333

she keeps his letters in her top drawer tied together with a ribbon and she writes back to him, tells him about her life and the goings-on at her work and how cantankerous her father is these days and just tries to take his mind off the war? by talking about her safe, average, dull life

when he comes home he's back to meeting her from work. she notices he's limping, he shrugs and says he got off lightly, one of the boys in his platoon was blown to bits. she takes his bag for him and they argue over who's walking who home, when they're just out of sight of her house he asks her if he can still have his goodnight kiss or? and she decides, fuck it, pulls him down to her and actually properly kisses him and then promptly flees the scene bc that was highly inappropriate behaviour for a young lady and good god demelza what are you doing

skuldug nearly walks into the path of a carriage twice on his way home bc all he's focusing on is she kissed him