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Six Baudelaires AU, Part Three: Reference Guide

A quick guide for everything I intentionally referenced in The Six Siblings, That’s Not How the Story Goes.

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Without further ado…

Chapter One / Prologue - in which the Baudelaires get lost at the train station

“We’re dead as heck.” Nick shrugged.

Considering the younger age of the children here, they use much lighter swear words.

Klaus had his hands over his ears, and he looked on the edge of tears. “It’s too loud! It’s too loud!”

Klaus is overstimulated.

They were in some kind of shoeshop, and a ginger man glanced at them. “Oh, hello!” he said. “Are you- where are your parents?” [...] “When did you see them last?” [...] “Why don’t you have some snacks? It’s all vegan, if-”

The shoemaker that helps them out is Drumstick from File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, who is noted to have made money repairing shoes.

“Lilac is almost-nine,” Klaus said, “And she’s got two braids cause she wants to be like Wednesday Addams on TV.”

The Wednesday Addams reference should be obvious, though I should point out that Lilac wants to emulate the 1960s Wednesday, which is the one she’s seen on TV; the older show once again makes the time period ambiguous.

“Oh my God.” Beatrice was saying. “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.” “Kids, are you alright?” Bertrand asked, the second they pulled away. “Did anything happen?”

Pretty clearly, the Baudelaire parents were terrified that VFD had abducted their children while they were separated.

“No! No, we’re gonna be fine!” Lilac said quickly. “We just need to find Klaus and Nick. I… I’ve gotta find them. I’m in charge. I’ve gotta find them-”

Ah, Lilac’s already got Anxiety™.

Rest of the fic under the cut.

Chapter Two - in which Violet saves everyone’s asses

No major references in this chapter.

Chapter Three - in which Sunny cusses quite a bit

“Their species can completely freeze over in cold temperatures.” Solitude assured him. “So they may stop moving, almost look dead, but they’ll be alright, and they’ll unfreeze when we get somewhere warm. We’ll have to catch them up on whatever happens.”

Babbitt’s based off of a wood frog, which do freeze in low temperatures.

Also to note: by this point in the fanfiction, Solitude no longer uses babytalk, and instead speaks in full sentences.

Chapter Four - in which the Baudelaires join the Snow Scouts

“Oh, yes.” Klaus said. “Those snow gnats behaved like Violent Frozen Dragonflies.” “Guys…” Nick whispered, but none of them heard him.

Nick is not a fan of VFD at this point, but his siblings are too busy trying to get help from this scout that they don’t immediately notice his discomfort.

As her story continued, Nick pulled on Klaus’s sleeve, gesturing that he wanted to talk, but Klaus shook his head; the other Snow Scouts would notice them leaving.

Trying to tell Klaus something about VFD.

“I mean it.” Nick shook his head. “Things can’t ever go back to the way they were. Even if one- or both- of our parents is up there, and they shove Olaf off a cliff and take us home… it’s not going to be the same. We… we know too much.” His siblings remained silent, processing this, as Nick wiped his eyes on his sleeve. “They won’t protect us.”

Nick knows how VFD recruits its “volunteers”; his fear is that their parents are alive and consented to them being recruited, and will just turn them over to VFD.

Chapter Five - in which Nick gets to climb something again

She hmmed, brushing her bangs out of her face as she considered what she could make with all of this.

Sunny already has long hair that she’ll need to tie back while thinking, like her big sisters.

Sunny held out the mug of orange juice, and said, “Aurantiaco,” which meant, “Chip away at the juice until you have shavings, so I can make orange granita.”

“Aurantiaco” is derived from the Latin adjective “aurantiacus”, meaning “orange.”

Chapter Six - in which Sunny makes a signal

Quigley gave her a smile, and then looked back down, as the Baudeaires crowded around him- all except Lilac, who was still staring at the smoke. “Well, we’ll have to go back through the Vernacularly Fastened Door, down the Vertical Flame Diversion, hike the path the Snow Scouts are taking- and they might notice we’re gone by now so we’ll have to come up with some excuse, Duncan always said you could never go wrong with an exit pursued by a bear-”

A reference to a famous stage direction from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

Chapter Seven - in which Lilac goes feral

Nick bit his lip and pushed a charred novel back onto the shelf, before moving to scratch his arm.

TRIGGER WARNING: SELF HARM MENTION

Once again, Nick’s arm scratching occurs whenever Olaf or his troupe are mentioned.

Klaus walked over, too, and he pulled his siblings into a hug. “We’ll protect each other.” he said. “Okay? No sacrificing ourselves, no kidnappings, no separations. No more.”

Klaus really wants to make sure Lilac doesn’t try to trade herself, like she tried to do with Nick.

“Lilac, seriously, I can’t breathe-” “Then suffocate.”

A reference to the popular meme:

“We hate to interrupt!” came Lilac’s voice, and Violet and Quigley turned to see her and the twins run back into the kitchen, “But we found something!”

Lilac: Y’ALL BETTER NOT BE FLIRTING IN HERE

Chapter Eight - in which the Baudelaires raid the fridge

Solitude looked up. “Sure, hon.”

A reference to the meme:

“I was making them an anniversary present- a map of all the places they’d traveled.” Quigley sighed. “And I never got to tell them that I don’t…” he hesitated, and then said, “I mean, Duncan and Isadora came out to them, but I never told them that whenever I was doing astronomy class and called myself a space ace…” Violet laughed, and Quigley flinched. “No, no, I’m not making fun of you, it’s a good pun, I’ll have to make sure Nick knows it.”

Quigley and Nick are both asexual.

“I think my parents found out when I told them I wanted to marry both Elizabeth and Darcy.” Violet smiled. “Lilac and Nick teased me about that for years. I don’t even know if they remember now.” Quigley stared at her. “Holy shit. Vi… I said the same thing.”

A reference to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Violet is bisexual, Quigley is biromantic.

Nick slid against a half-collapsed wall, screaming into his lap, hot tears springing to the edge of his eyes and streaming down his face.

TRIGGER WARNING: PTSD, SELF-HARM

Nick goes away to have a panic attack without his siblings worrying about him; it’s also explained in this segment how his scratching is him desperately trying not to slip into a flashback.

Chapter Nine - in which Lilac and Nick are very pissed off

“Nocere!” Sunny said, which meant something like, “I’m alright, they haven’t done anything too bad.”

“Nocere” comes from the Latin verb “noceo”, meaning “to hurt.”

“Uncus!” “The hook-handed man made it so I didn’t freeze.”

“Uncus” is the Latin word for “hook.”

And then she asked, “Senio?” which meant, “Where are the others?”

“Senio” is the Latin word for “six.”

“Nosra,” Sunny said, which meant, “A man with a beard but no hair and a woman with hair but no beard; they’re arsonists who burned down the Headquarters.”

“Nosra” is “arson” spelled backwards.

“Coquus.” Sunny said. “I can do that. There’s enough ingredients to make spinach rolls in the trunk, including an eggplant that’s about as big as I am.”

“Coquus” is the Latin word for “cook.”

“I know, Vi! I know what they’ll do to her, what they’re probably already doing to her!”

Obvious reference to Nick’s time as a captive, but subtler reference to the fact that Olaf tortured him with the information of what he’d do to each sibling in turn.

“Yes, she is!” his voice broke. “I was helpless! I thought I wouldn’t be, but I was! And she’s a baby! I was almost thirteen!” Tears streamed down his face, as he pushed her again. “I was almost thirteen, and I was wrong!”

Reference to a similar line spoken in every All the Wrong Questions book.

Chapter Ten - in which Nick spills some Bitter Tea

Title is a reference to Kit’s quote, “Tea should be as bitter as wormwood and sharp as a two-edged sword.”

“Sure.” Nick said. “We can be Volunteers who want to recruit our innocent little baby. They’ll believe that.”

A reference to VFD recruitment tactics.

“Isa had a huge collection of what me and Duncan called ‘goth poetry.’” Quigley said, smiling. “She likes to recite, too. Verbal stim.”

Isadora (and all the Quagmires in my headcanons) is Autistic. Nick has ADHD and also stims with recitation.

“It’s not. Snicket’s real. And he…” Nick shivered. “Let’s just say he’s definitely real. Maybe even still alive.”

“He’s real and he fathered my oldest sister.”

That’s when they heard the crash, and Esme’s scream. They all fell silent for a second, and then Nick let Quigley go.

An intentional combination of the Book version of this scene - where they decide to warn Esme- and the Netflix - where she traps herself.

There was a flash of recognition, and then she smirked. “Well, well, well.” she said. “If it isn’t Beatrice’s little angel.” Nick’s hand flew to his necklace, as his glare intensified. “Fancy seeing you here, I thought you were supposed to be smashed at the bottom of the mountains.”

Something Olaf called him in Chapter Fourteen of Part Two; Nick was very close to Beatrice, whom Olaf and Esme both despise, so you can bet they took a lot of their anger on her out on him.

“Fancy seeing you here.” Nick said. “I thought you were supposed to be somewhere in the second circle of hell, but I guess you can’t have everything, can you?”

In Dante’s Inferno, the second circle of hell is the circle of Lust.

“Why he’s here doesn’t matter.” Nick said, and then he smiled very coldly and said, “What matters is you’re our hostage now, so I’d suggest you shut the fuck up and do what we tell you to do.”

Was going to make this more obvious in the text but decided against it, so here’s a fun fact: this is something that was said to Nick during is captivity. He’s getting a lot of joy out of saying it to Esme.

Chapter Eleven - in which Carmelita gets adopted

Nick took a deep breath, and then said, his voice breaking, “Don’t act like I don’t know what you’d do to her. If you have laid a single fucking hand on my sister, there will be hell to pay.”

Once again, a reference to Olaf torturing Nick with information on what he planned to do to the other Baudelaires.

“Why are you recruiting us, too?” Colette asked, peering from the net. “We already work for you.”

Changed from Fernald to Hugo, Colette and Kevin in order to explain their absence in TGG.

Esme glared at him. “We don’t need that ugly girl. Having an infant servant was fun.”

TRIGGER WARNING: CSA MENTION

Esme knows about Olaf’s attraction to Lilac/Violet and is jealous, instead of being, you know, disgusted and horrified.

Carmelita just smiled and gave Esme a hug. She turned towards Olaf, starting forwards, and just then, Nick thrust Solitude into Violet’s arms and raced ahead of her, pushing her back.

Even though Nick hates Carmelita, he doesn’t want her suffering like he did.

Chapter Twelve - in which Lilac is a Disaster Lesbian

“No- she can curl up inside a diving helmet! Aye! The helmets have a tiny door on the neck just for such a purpose! Aye! I’ve seen it done!”

Though this doesn’t happen in-fic, this did happen in the original book lol.

“Actually,” Nick sighed, laying his head on Klaus’s shoulder as Soli wriggled around to try and get a good view of the captain, “He’s the researcher, I’m an… well, I…”

Nick’s having an identity crisis brought on by the PTSD; he’s not sure who he is anymore.

“Come on, Lilac will be fine in a minute.” Nick said, elbowing Klaus. “She just needs to time to adjust. You know. Like Sappho.”

Sappho - a famous lesbian poet.

Chapter Thirteen - in which I bang my head against a table because I have to pay attention to Widdershins

“No, no, we do!” Fiona looked ecstatic, and Lilac let out a squeal as Fiona grabbed her hands. “One of our previous crewmembers, the one who later turned out to be stealing information on VFD headquarters, she stockpiled a shitton- oh, sorry, I mean a lot of coffee.”

The “spy” may-or-may-not have been an anti-VFD Ellington Feint...

“Now, I’m sure you have lots of questions.” Fiona said as they walked. “Definitely.” Nick said. “Number one, how d-”

A reference to the meme/quote from “The Office” (US) 4x11:

Chapter Fourteen - in which the Baudelaires encounter a Great Unknown

“Let Violet work on the wheel,” Klaus suggested, “And maybe Fiona can help Lilac with the telegraph.”

These kids are gonna get Lilac a girlfriend if it kills them.

“Don’t worry,” the captain replied, “We’ll find a spouse for the others, too! Aye! Perhaps we’ll find your long-lost brother, Fiona! He’s much older, of course, and he’s been missing for years, but if Klaus can locate the Sugar Bowl he can probably find him! Aye! He’s a charming man, so one of the girls would probably fall in love with him, and then we could have a double wedding! Aye! Right here in the main hall of the Queequeg! Aye! I would be happy to officiate! Aye!” “Okay, well,” Nick said, as everyone stared at each other incredibly uncomfortably and he finally made his way to stand beside Klaus, “That’s not going to happen, for a number of reasons. First of all-”

First of all, Klaus is gay.

Second of all, Fiona is gay.

Third of all, Lilac and Fiona are the ones flirting.

Fourth, everyone’s too young to get married.

Fifth, Nick is aromantic.

Sixth, “your older long-lost brother” is not a good phrase to throw around to a group of children who’ve been trying to escape a man who tried to marry Lilac.

Seventh, your children are not fucking prizes to hand out???

Eighth, what the fuck dude.

Chapter Fifteen - in which Lilac and Fiona are Gay as Hell

“I mean, you could call them King stropharia. I just like the scientific names. They’re fun to say.” “Oh, that’s completely valid.” Lilac smiled. “I learned Russian when I was younger just because the boys read Anna Karenina and all the names were fun to say.”

Autistic verbal stims!!

“Lentinula Edodes.” Fiona said, smiling at some fungus growing on a hardwood log. “Also known as Shiitake Mushrooms.” “Shiitake?” “Don’t start.” Fiona giggled.

It sounds vaguely like “shit.”

Lilac and Fiona returned to the dorms very late, arms linked together as they chatted about a book they’d both enjoyed, about another sugar bowl whose contents were actually very well known.

A reference to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

Nick, meanwhile, was passed out on a chair near the door, almost having fallen over; Lilac recognized this position quickly, from the many times he and Klaus or Violet would sit at the bottom of the stairs waiting for their parents to come home late at night. “He was waiting for us.”

Nick was waiting up to talk to Lilac, probably to tell her about the Snicket Thing.

She carried him to a bunk, lowering him onto it. “Go back to being five years old, okay?” Lilac whispered, reaching over to grab a blanket. “We’ll lock you in the closet again and then make ice cream towers.”

“Lock you in the closet” is a reference to the one-shot.

Ice Cream towers are a reference to the prologue of part two.

Lilac sighed and pulled the blanket over him. “You’ll be okay. You want me to sing?”

All the references to Lilac singing someone to sleep are reference to the song “Asleep”, performed by Emily Browning, Movie!Violet’s actress.

“Good or bad cry?” Lilac shut her eyes. “Both.” she admitted.

Chef’s Salad.

Chapter Sixteen - in which the Crew goes swimming

They heard what sounded like a very suspicious watery noise, and Nick said, “If this submarine is flooding, I’ll take one for the team and die first.”

Reference to this line from Part One, Chapter Four: “Do you think if one of us died, the rest’d get transferred somewhere else?” Nick asked, hanging upside-down from the rotting couch. “I’ll take one for the team.”

“Nobody’s dying.” Lilac sighed, not looking him in the eye.

Nick’s lowkey suicidal remark scared her quite a bit.

“How about some of us stay here and do more research,” Violet suggested, squeezing Nick’s hand, “And the rest of us look for the Sugar Bowl? I can stay with Nick and try to work with the submarine. Nick, maybe you can dig through books and see if you can find anything on the Gorgonian Grotto, or the Great Unknown, and read it to me while I work.” [...] He’d found something that seemed to be filed under the Great Unknown, but it was probably misfiled as it just talked about a tearoom and a roadster.

Probably my most blatant reference to Movie!Klaus’s actor, Liam Aiken, narrating the All the Wrong Questions audiobooks.

“Ekab!” Sunny said, which meant, “I can stay here and cook!”

“Ekab” is “bake” spelled backwards.

“I’m sure someone did, aye.” Widdershins waved his hand. “Whoever got assigned the job. Perhaps R, or her daughter, they may have been nearby at the time. Or Larry, aye! We weren’t told about who was in charge of you, just that we needed to document information and track the Sugar Bowl!”

A reference to Jacquelyn (the Duchess of Winnipeg, making her either R or her daughter) and Larry Your-Waiter following the Baudelaires in the Netflix series.

“Don’t you worry, Nicholas! Everything’s for the Greater Good!"

While Widdershins usually calls him Nick, he slips up here, much like Poe always does; Nick hates being referred to as Nicholas.

“Besides, VFD wouldn’t abandon you! Aye! You’d be a great volunteer! You’re a dedicated researcher! Aye! You’re a saint! Aye! You’re an angel! Aye! You’re a-” Nick stared at him in horror, and then said, “I have to go!” and took off running.

Nick was already put on edge by this victim-blaming conversation, the revelation that multiple people could’ve helped him, his siblings leaving, the VFD cult stuff, and Widdershins’s constant bullshit, but the use of the word “angel” sets him off the edge; it reminds him too much of being referred to as “Beatrice’s Little Angel.”

“Okay, so, I found a box of rubber bands.” Lilac sighed, sitting atop a chest. “And half a gun, a broken mirror, what might be a microphone, and a scattered notebook with sketches of some kind of snake.” Solitude peered over her shoulder, her arms full of bottles. “I don’t recognize it.” she said sadly. “Also, it’s not a snake. It’s got legs, see there?”

Lilac found sketches of the Bombinating Beast.

Chapter Seventeen - in which Violet doodles

“Precisely.” Lilac said. “It’s something that’s not a choice at all. Our Mother used to give us Hobson’s Choices. She’d say, ‘Lilac, you can dust the furniture, or I can play polka music all night.’”

A reference to Lemony Snicket’s dislike of polka music in File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents.

“She’d do that with the others, too.” Lilac recalled. “Violet could clean her room or we’d stand in the doorway and sing Row Your Boat, and Nick could be nice to guests or be made to read that third book about those kids in a maze, and Sunny could have a bath or a pink dress.”

A reference to The Maze Runner: The Death Cure by James Dashner. I hated the entire series, but the third book was the worst.

TRIGGER WARNING: Following references for Chapter Seventeen discuss Nick’s self-harm in detail.

She ran a hand over her ponytail, and then she said, “Nick, I will be right back, but you have to promise not to lock the door.”

She is scared he’ll lock her out and continue self-harming.

As soon as she was out of Nick’s sightline, she buried her head in her hands, struggling to remain calm. Don’t freak out. Don’t freak out. Help him now, freak out later. You need to help, Vi. Just keep moving.

Violet knows freaking out in front of Nick will just make him feel worse

Do the scary thing first, get scared later.

“No come in!” Sunny shouted. “Surprise!”

Sunny’s preparing Violet’s cake.

“Nodnaba,” Sunny said, and Violet heard her sliding from the counter. “He and Widdershins stepped out a moment; they’ll be back soon.”

“Nodnaba” is “abandon” spelled backwards.

Widdershins and Phil have “stepped out”, and either right now or very soon will be abandoning ship.

“Crayola,” Sunny said, which meant, “There’s a whole box of markers right here, for writing labels on cannisters. Can you bring them back when you’re done?”

Very obvious reference to Crayola art supplies.

“Alzatadispalle,” Sunny said, which meant, “Eh, fine, I don’t care about this submarine much anyway.”

“Alzata di spalle” is Italian for a shrug.

But she swirled the marker- a light blue color- around her brother’s arm, until there was just a jumble of color. Then, an idea finally coming to her, she took a black marker and drew some squiggles above it, mirroring the shape of their Uncle’s prized snake, the Incredibly Deadly Viper. It felt like a lifetime since they’d seen him.

A reference to Ink swimming through the sea at the end.

Violet took his hands, squeezing them softly. “When you feel… feel like you want to scratch without an itch, I want you to take these markers and draw where you… where you want to hurt. Do that instead. It should help. And if it doesn’t, I want you to tell me, okay?”

This is a legitimate coping mechanism for self-harm; drawing on skin with pens or markers.

Violet waited until he met her eyes, and she admitted, “About two years ago, I asked Father why he had pen drawings on his arm.”

Bertrand dealt with depression and self-harming tendencies, as well. Violet was the only kid who knew, and only because she asked.

Chapter Eighteen - in which Solitude catches a cold

“I found a newspaper scrap.” Lilac said. “I, uh, read a bit. Maybe we could discuss what we’ve read while we eat.”

She read the stuff about Fernald starting the fire.

“Like… ‘poached egg’ means ‘half the battle.’” Klaus said. “Remember when Nick used that metaphor and we punched him for it?”

A reference to a tangent Lemony went on in this section of The Grim Grotto.

Soli nodded, passing Klaus the wasabi and Lilac two cannisters, and soon they put on their diving helmets, suiting up for their return journey. Solitude hmmed as Fiona helped her put her helmet back on, saying, “Sand’s inside, I think.”

The spores.

“Senso-orario,” Sunny said, which meant something like, “I fell asleep in the kitchen, and when I woke up, Phil and Widdershins still hadn’t returned, and now I can’t find them anywhere.”

“In Senso orario” is an Italian term for “clockwise.” “Widdershins” means “counterclockwise.”

Chapter Nineteen - in which Olaf is a dick

“Ha ha ha heepa-heepa ho!” came a villainous laugh from the hallway, and within a few moments, Count Olaf entered, dressed in a similar suit of slippery material, only with a portrait of Edgar Guest instead of Herman Melville. “Tee hee tort tort tort!” “No, no,” Violet looked up, giving him a glare. “Don’t do that.”

A reference to me not wanting to write Olaf’s villain laughter for like three chapters.

He stepped closer, putting a hand on Fiona’s chin. Lilac gasped and ran forwards, slapping his arm away. “You must be Fiona.” he said. “Why, you’re all grown up! The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle.” Nick shot up his head, giving Olaf a glare that could have killed him. “Get away from her!”

OLAF 👏 IS 👏 A 👏 CREEP

Lilac and Violet glanced at each other, and then around, trying to spot an escape route. This, however, was a mistake; Olaf figured out very quickly what they were planning, and before they could do anything, he reached forwards and ripped Nick out of Klaus’s grasp.

Once again, Olaf knows the kind of effect he has on Nick, and how protective of him the others are, and uses this to his advantage.

“My henchperson will simply torture the information out of you.” He smirked down at Nick, who was shaking uncontrollably. “Isn’t that right?” Nick didn’t respond, barely keeping himself from sobbing.

Nick’s been captured again, with his siblings. Olaf is taunting him, heavily implying that he’s going to follow through on his threat to torture Nick’s siblings in front of him before killing him.

“Umore,” Sunny said, which roughly translated to, “God, that’s a mood.”

“Umore” is an Italian word for “mood.”

“What did we tell you, you little beast?” she hissed. “You can’t get away from us.”

Most of Nick’s worst trauma came from “punishments” from when he tried to escape, which is why he panics whenever they’re about to be caught.

“Holy fuck,” said a girl at the oars, “What the hell is wrong with you all?”

Not really a reference but I just want to point out that none of these recruits have any context for this so they’re probably just. seeing all these crazy shits saying whatever they want

“I’m getting tired of this.” Olaf said, waving his sword and gesturing at Nick. “You all get to see the first brig, it’s deluxe, as it comes with a noose. I think we should put this one in the second brig for-”

A reference to Netflix’s The Vile Village: Part Two.

“I think,” Olaf said, pressing his sword against Nick’s throat, “We should put those two little rebels in with our little Nick.” Nick finally started to cry, tears streaming down his face as he almost collapsed, and Violet shouted, “You bastard! Leave them alone!”

Once again, Olaf’s planning on following through on the threats that scared Nick so badly. Violet, the only one who knows about what Olaf threatened him with, is the first to start panicking.

Chapter Twenty - in which Lilac leads a jailbreak

The title itself is a reference to Chapter Sixteen of Part One: in which Solitude leads a jailbreak.

Her younger brother finally pulled away, but only to run off to the corner of the small brig, where he leaned over and vomited onto the floor, barely keeping his own balance. Lilac jumped to her feet and dragged him towards the wall, as he shook more and clung to her arm. [...] Nick shuddered beside her, and he finally choked out, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

Nick knows exactly what Olaf’s threatening, and he’s falling back into a pure traumatized state; he doesn’t think they can escape, he thinks he’s going to die while Olaf torments his siblings, and nothing is going to stop him.

“I…” Lilac slid onto a hard bench, where Nick sat beside her and refused to stop clinging to her side. “I glanced at the locks on our way in. They’re ordinary enough pin-tumbler locks, so- hold on a moment. Nick, Nick, please-”

A reference to a repeated phrase in When Did You See Her Last?

And then Lilac quietly sang, “Pretty when the window blows, I love my tree in autumn… Like I love my tree in summer, like I love my tree in winter… They put me in a room, and I thought of you in autumn…” She shut her eyes, humming the next line, and then she picked up again. Fiona kept working on the lock, and Nick kept clinging to Lilac, terrified to let go, and she kept singing. “Pretty when you sing me a new song in autumn, or a new song in winter, or a new song in summer…”

The song is “Pretty When The Wind Blows”, sung by Emily Browning, Movie!Violet’s actress.

The line she hums is one that would definitely not cheer Nick up - “And I’m sad I won’t see you again.”

Violet leapt in front of her siblings, and Klaus reached out to grab Sunny, who honestly didn’t look too worried.

Sunny is friends with Fernald, she knows he won’t do anything to them.

“We could pretend the Great Unknown showed up and is about to eat everyone.” Violet said. “I’m sorry, do you have a small black statue that can imitate its call?” Fernald said. “Why would I-”

A reference to Violet and Klaus’s escape in Netflix’s The Grim Grotto: Part Two.

A reference to the Bombinating Beast statue from All the Wrong Questions.

“Smelled like horseradish.” Sunny nodded.

Sunny, the chef, would remember.

Chapter Twenty-One - in which Fiona is Volatile

“I-” Nick stuttered. “I know TS Eliot.” “Macavity,” Sunny said, which meant, “Wasn’t that from your musical phase?”

A reference to a song/character from Cats the Musical, based on a poetry book by TS Eliot.

“I’ll make this simple.” Olaf smiled. “I could torture you until you tell me, or we can trade information- or a lack of information, if you so prefer.” Then, in a sickly sweet voice, he called, “Nick?” [...] “We don’t make deals with bastards.” Lilac crossed her arms. Olaf smirked, eyeing her in a way that made her incredibly uncomfortable. “Interesting choice of words, my dear Lilac.” Nick sat up, horrified, as Olaf took a step closer to his oldest sister, and then he shouted, “It’s in the kitchen!”

TRIGGER WARNING: CSA MENTION

Nick is terrified of Olaf hurting/assaulting Lilac, as well as outing her as Snicket’s daughter to everyone.

Sunny sighed and said, “Cruciatu,” which meant, “Can they kill us now?”

“Cruciatu” comes from the latin verb “crucio”, meaning “to torture.”

“I’ll be fine. If we get caught, we have a potential escape plan that involves a seaside town, a train, and a vineyard.” Fiona said. “And releasing a bunch of wild new recruits to perform chaos.”

Firstly, a reference to the Thistle of the Valley train that goes out of Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Secondly, a reference to Netflix’s The Grim Grotto: Part Two.

As she moved slowly towards the controls, Violet at her heels, Nick curled up on his chair, and he whispered to himself, “But they were fucked up in their turn, by fools in old-style hats and coats… who half the time were soppy-stern…” He hugged Solitude very close, shutting his eyes and trying not to think about everyone who had left. “And half at one another’s throats.”

The poem later recited by Olaf in The End - “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin.

“Mr Poe,” Klaus said, looking from the taxi to Poe, “Have you ever heard of a Hobson’s choice?”

“You can either get in the taxi, or go with Mr Poe.”

The woman smiled at Lilac, as if she’d asked the right question.

Another All the Wrong Questions reference.

Chapter Twenty-Two - in which Kit cannot drive

“So,” Nick said, kicking his feet and glancing down at Soli, “Are we in agreement that we are ‘fucked’, a word which here means, ‘holy shit’?”

Obvious reference to Lemony Snicket’s way of defining words.

They looked to each other, thinking hard. “Well,” Lilac finally said, “In the few minutes we’ve known her, Kit Snicket has broken at least nine safety laws, driven into a hedge, and seems intent on recruiting us to spy for a secret organization.” “I like her.” Violet decided. “Me, too.” Klaus added. “Same!” Sunny said.

A reference to similar lines in Netflix’s The Penultimate Peril: Part One.

“Mother said she purchased it during intermission.” Lilac said. “She said it was the most interesting time she’d ever had at the opera, and she never wanted to forget it.” “I’m sure it was interesting.” Nick muttered, curling up a little.

Nick knows about the murder.

She moved behind Lilac, tying back her hair for her. “You look just like your father.” Kit sighed, not noticing the flinch Nick made as he reached for some food to pass to Soli. [...] “Really?” Lilac asked, smiling a little. She’d never told that she looked like her parents.

She looks like Lemony.

Violet and Nick shared a quiet look, one that their siblings didn’t quite understand, but the two of them read perfectly.

Violet and Nick, after Widdershins’s shit, are very anti-VFD.

“That’s fine.” Lilac assured her, reaching for a cup. “I like my coffee bitter.” “That is surprising.” Kit said absent-mindedly, still looking through papers.

Considering Lilac is Lemony’s daughter, and Lemony doesn’t like coffee (All the Wrong Questions), this comes as a surprise to Kit.

“That’s why you’ll be together.” Kit said, putting her hand gently over Nick’s. “I’ve received reports on your progress, Baudelaires, and while I haven’t been able to reach you, I have seen that you take care of your own.” [...] Kit gave them all a reluctant and sad smile, and then repeated, almost to herself, “You Baudelaires take care of your own.”

A reference to a line from When Did You See Her Last?: “We Snickets take care of our own.”

Chapter Twenty-Three - in which the Baudelaires enter the Hotel Denouement

Nick bit his lip, thinking about everything. VFD. The secrets. The Sugar Bowl. That reminded him of a book Lilac read him. “We’ll live on the moon.” he said quietly, his voice almost blank. “And we’ll have flying horses.” God, he wished he was still young enough to believe that.

A direct reference to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

When it was time to go in, Klaus and Lilac immediately threw their hands over their ears.

Overstimulation.

Exactly six bells were ringing- the extra bell, 371, 547, 674, 781 and 954.

371 - Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Education and Social Sciences.

547 - DDC for Organic Chemistry; Colette’s mission involves her sneaking in here.

674 - DDC for Lumber processing.

781 - DDC for Jazz is 781.65; Ellington’s career has something to do with jazz.

954 - DDC for India and neighboring countries; it’s an Indian restaurant.

Chapter Twenty-Four - in which the first three bells ring

The woman smiled, and while Lilac did not recognize the white coat or black uniform underneath, she did recognize the woman standing in front of her, even though she wasn’t bending in any unusual positions. [...] “You see, I am a brilliant chemist, as you can tell from my outfit, but I’m afraid some of these fumes have gone to my head, and I’m having trouble recognizing some words here.”

A reference to Cleo Knight, the brilliant chemist from All the Wrong Questions, who only wears black-and-white to honor the family ink business.

“I told you they’d judge us.” Kevin said. “I should’ve just called up my old gangmate.” “She wouldn’t have gotten here in time, she lives on the other side of-” Hugo began.

A reference to the theory that Kevin is Kevin Old from File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents; his “gangmate” would be Florence Smith, who had a special interest in reading and thus have a large vocabulary.

Lilac narrowed her eyes. She recognized the chemical compounds- her and Violet had gone through a celebrity crush phase on a chemist about three or four years before- but she was having trouble figuring out what they combined into. “What is this for?”

Another reference to Cleo Knight.

He doodled the shape of a pegasus on his arm, beside the moon. He remembered that book. What else had Merricat thought would be on the moon? Rose petals. He could draw roses next.

Once again, a direct reference to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

“Can I help you, concierge?” Hal asked. “Um.” Nick froze a moment, panic clutching his chest. You’ve been caught! You’ve been caught! You’ve been caught!

Once again, Nick is immediately put into a panic by being caught, due to his trauma from his captivity.

Chapter Twenty-Five - in which the next three bells are answered

The door swung open just as Klaus stepped back, and he saw Charles exit, blinking over at him in a bathrobe. “Sorry,” he said, “I was hoping I wouldn’t have to call someone just to take me down the hall, but my eyesight isn’t what it used to be, and I’ve recently developed a phobia of optometrists.”

This entire scene is based on a scene that had to be deleted from the Netflix adaptation due to Rhys Darby (Charles) being stranded because of a hurricane during filming. It can be read here.

“Don’t step on the crack, or you’ll fall and break your back!” Soli sang, laughing a little as she jumped down to Room 781, trying to imitate Babbitt’s hops.

While this is a slight variation on a popular children’s game song, it’s specifically a reference to the scene between Ducky and Littlefoot in The Land Before Time.

The woman looked at her very, very carefully, and then said, “It’s alright. That’s a fake, anyway.” “Fake what?” Solitude turned to look at the statue, as the woman knelt to put it back. “It looks like a snake, but there are those little claw-shapes there, suggesting hands.” “Well, it’s a replica, made by my foster-brother-in-law’s sister-in-law. Just in case we need to switch out.” “Switch out what?” The woman glanced down at Solitude, smiling and brushing the young girl’s hair back; it had fallen a little from her hat. “It’s a long story, and you probably have work to do. I’m sure you have more important things to get to.”

The woman is clearly Ellington Feint from All the Wrong Questions; she is still very into Jazz music (hence her room), and may-or-may-not have access to the Bombinating Beast statue.

Her foster-brother-in-law (Kellar)’s sister-in-law is Ornette Lost, implying Ornette married Lizzie Haines.

Solitude blinked. This woman couldn’t know her; Soli didn’t recognize anything about her, except the record currently playing. She hesitated, and then pointed to the record, saying, “That’s a pretty song.” The woman smiled slightly. “It is, isn’t it? Do you know the name?” “Do you?”

The song is “Solitude” by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong; aka Ellington’s song in All the Wrong Questions.

“Really?” the woman sighed. “Okay, sweetheart, you run along. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to find my wife before she can fistfight Geraldine Julienne in the lobby.”

Her wife is Moxie Mallahan, a journalist who would definitely get kicked out of the hotel for fighting Geraldine Julienne.

“Plumber,” Sunny said, which meant, “Yeah, but she writes those shitty articles from The Daily Punctilio about us, so she deserves it.” “I thought that was Ms Poe.” Soli said confusedly.

A reference to Katherine Plumber, the journalist from the musical Newsies.

A reference to Eleanora Poe and Geraldine Julienne being combined into one character in the Netflix adaptation.

“Klaus Louis Baudelaire, are you suggesting that we have not been having a good time?” Nick said.

Klaus’s middle name is taken from his actor, Louis Hynes.

“I mean,” Nick said, considering, “The whole ‘VFD’ thing totally explains that weird-ass letter they sent us from Europe.” “What?” Lilac narrowed her eyes. “You remember?” Nick said. “When they went to Europe for, like, two weeks, and sent us that fucked-up letter about how they loved us and that even if life sucked we’d always have each other and all that bullshit?” Lilac, Violet and Klaus groaned. “Oh, fuck, you’re right!” Klaus said. “That makes so much sense now.” Lilac said.

A reference to “The Letter That Never Came” scene from the 2004 film.

Chapter Twenty-Six - in which the harpoon is fired

The Baudelaires sighed, and then Nick said, “Yeah, a little suspicious, isn’t it? Your parents burned to death the same night VFD saw fit to drag you all out.”

Highkey reference to the theory that Volunteers kill the parents who don’t want to give their children up for recruitment.

Violet nodded grimly, while Lilac and Klaus gave Nick careful looks, and Solitude and Sunny gasped quietly. Dewey scanned him with his eyes. “You would get along with Ernest.” he said finally.

The implication here is that Ernest joined the firestarters partially due to speculation about their parents’ murder, or at the very least, Ernest is incredibly critical of the way VFD is run.

“You can’t rely on associates.” Count Olaf said. “More comrades have failed me than I can count. Why, Hooky and what’s-her-face double-crossed me just yesterday and let you brats escape, and then stole my submarine!” “Good for her.” Sunny said, almost unfazed, too furious at Olaf to feel much fear at the moment.

A reference to the meme from Arrested Development:

“How do you know us?” Lilac asked, putting an arm around Violet. The man looked at her sadly. “That’s the wrong question.”

A reference to All the Wrong Questions.

Chapter Twenty-Seven - in which Nick finally spills

“Diviso?” Sunny asked, which meant, “What if they try to split us up?”

“Diviso” is a Latin adjective meaning “divided.”

Chapter Twenty-Eight - in which Everything Goes to Shit

The title is a reference to many of my other fanfictions: In the Stranger Things Superhero AU fic Shatter: Pirouette in the Dark, Chapter Nine was titled “Everything Goes to Shit”, and Chapter Thirty was titled “I already used the title ‘Everything goes to shit’ but I need to use it again”, and people thought that was so funny that it became a running joke in basically all of my fics.

“Lilac Emily Baudelaire.” “Violet Malina Baudelaire.” “Nick Liam Baudelaire.” “Klaus Louis Baudelaire.” “Solitude Theodora Baudelaire.” “Sunday Theo-dora Bau’elaire!”

The first four children have their middle names from their original actors- Emily Browning, Malina Weissman, Liam Aiken and Louis Hynes.

Solitude and Sunny’s middle names are both Theodora, to further confuse people as to what the S stands for. See: S Theodora Markson, All the Wrong Questions

Nick took a moment to respond. “E-Explorer?”

Identity crisis! Getting a bit better though.

“He murdered…” Lilac bit her lip. “He murdered Jacques Snicket!”

Lilac’s realizing here that that was her uncle.

They all turned to look at Olaf, who didn’t even look uncomfortable. They wanted him to be uncomfortable. They wanted him to be scared.

A reference to a line from Shouldn’t You Be In School?: Someone cleared their throat and we both looked back at a tall, masked figure, watching us calmly. Too calmly, I thought. I wanted him worried.

Sunny and Soli were crying, too. “Audit,” Sunny said, meaning, “People never listen to children.”

“Audit” comes from the Latin verb “audio”, meaning “to listen.”

They stood up, with Nick lifting Solitude and Violet moving to lift Sunny, and then they walked back together, holding their heads high and ignoring the stares and whispers and chills. They sat again in the front row, still holding onto each other and refusing to let go.

“Bene?” Sunny asked. “Is that good?”

“Bene” is the Latin word for “good.”

The elevator shot down to the basement, and as it did, Nick and Violet leapt onto Olaf, pummeling him with their fists and trying to rip Justice Strauss away. Olaf shouted, and Lilac and Klaus immediately jumped help, managing to pull Justice Strauss out of his grip as Soli and Sunny screeched and started biting at his ankles, with Babbitt jumping over to the judge so they didn’t get squashed. The siblings had been waiting for this a long while, and they weren’t going to waste time.

a reference to the original shitpost that inspired this au.

Chapter Twenty-Nine - in which Sunny turns to Arson

“Alexandria,” Sunny said, which meant, “Unless she has a backup, you son of a bitchass motherfucker.”

A reference to the Library of Alexandria.

Chapter Thirty - in which the Baudelaires have had ENOUGH

“And the only fucking reason,” Lilac said, sitting up and grimacing as her stomach wound flared up, “That we haven’t thrown you overboard already is that we might need bait to catch larger fish to eat.”

A slight reference to “Shipwrecked” by The Gothic Archies, which was inspired by The End.

“Cazzo,” Sunny said, which meant, “Which won’t be long, dickhead.”

“Cazzo” is an Italian curse word.

Chapter Thirty-One - in which Nick is not taking Ishmael’s bullshit

“You cannot force me to wear white.” Lilac said.

A reference both to Lilac being incredibly goth, and to her trauma from the Marvelous Marriage, where she was forced into a wedding dress.

Nick said. “Listen up, you- someone cover Friday’s ears.” Klaus reached forwards and slammed his hands over Friday’s ears. “Alright. Listen up, you bitchass motherfucker.”

I’VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG IS A BITCHASS MOTHERFUCKER-

“I was drugged up once, it’s not fun.”

I left this to be interpreted in separate ways: one, like Duncan guessed in Part Two: Chapter Twenty, Nick was drugged as part of his torture. Two, like Klaus said in Chapter Twenty-Four, Classical Literature Camp was wild.

“Yeah, it’s not.” Violet agreed.

Reference to her being drugged in The Hostile Hospital.

Chapter Thirty-Two - in which the Baudelaires make camp

“I feel like we weren’t supposed to do that.” Violet said, as they walked away from the beach.

A reference to me going very off-book.

Sunny nodded, as they placed them in front of her. “Crusoe,” Sunny said, which meant, “We can drink the milk inside, so long as we don’t allow it to ferment, and I can make us toasted coconut flakes, if you give me some room around the fire.”

A reference to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

“Sandstone,” Sunny said, meaning, “Can someone get me something like a bowl?”

A reference to her first line in the Netflix series: “Can you find a rock that’s not sandstone?”

They were silent again, and then Lilac said, “Um, speaking- speaking of hard things to tell- oh.”

She was going to tell them about her biological father.

Nick’s face fell. “You’re right, we don’t wanna kidnap.”

Don’t wanna emulate VFD.

Chapter Thirty-Three - in which the Baudelaires begin to heal

“Wait.” Friday narrowed her eyes. “Bears don’t live on beaches.” “I know!” Klaus laughed. “Shakespeare had no geographical knowledge whatsoever.”

Once again, a reference to a famous stage direction from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

“Yeet!” Violet shouted, as she threw herself beside her siblings, and after a second, Lilac flopped over, too.

A reference to the vine/meme.

Chapter Thirty-Four - in which Friday goes off-book

“Kit Snicket?” Lilac shouted. “No, Kit Kittredge.” Solitude sighed.

A reference to the American Girl doll, Kit Kittredge.

Friday sighed and stood up, taking a few steps forwards. She looked at her mother, and her mother’s outstretched arms, and then out at the crowd. Watching her. Waiting for her to listen. And then she stepped back. “No,” she said. “No, I don’t think so.”

A quick rundown of Friday’s mentality here.

Chapter Thirty-Five - in which the Baudelaires plan a mutiny

Klaus nodded. “Cinderella. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The Juniper Tree. Little Match Girl- might skip that one, actually. Do you want to try to read it?”

Skipping “The Little Match Girl” because she dies at the end.

“Suit yourself.” said Olaf. “But you know what? I bet those islanders won’t let you back onto Olaf-Land, now that you’ve recruited one of their own.”

Intentional use of the word “recruit” here, just to taunt them.

Chapter Thirty-Six - in which we go surprisingly more off-book

“I know this.” Nick was the first one to move, stepping towards a tall fish statue, the red paint slightly peeling. He shook quite a bit as he ran a hand over it, and Klaus rushed over to put an arm around him. “We were trapped in here. How… how did we fit in here? Klaus, how did we fit?”

A reference to the fact the Red Herring statue can be seen in the arboretum in the Netflix adaptation.

Nick turned to Klaus, eyes wide. “We did fit? We were in here? I didn’t make that up?”

A very lowkey reference to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; Uncle Julian sometimes doubts the traumatic arsenic incident that paralyzed him and killed the rest of the family really happened.

Chapter Thirty-Seven - in which Lilac has a costume change

“Why would I-” Violet asked as Lilac grabbed a knife, drew it up to one of her braids, and chopped it off. Violet leapt to her feet and gasped, while Nick’s dropped his marker in shock. Soli and Sunny let out tiny shrieks, as Friday stared and Klaus said, “Lilac!” “I need to think.” Lilac said, and she grabbed another braid and chopped it off. “And this hair is getting in my way!” “Lilac-” Klaus started forwards, but she held up a hand to stop him, and then grabbed her loose hair and started cutting. Her braids fell to the floor of the tree, as she kept cutting to get rid of the strands that could reach her face. Within a few moments, her hair was cut even shorter than the boys’, with only a small, thin braid on the side of her head.

Firstly, a reference to the fact the dramatic haircut is my favorite trope of all time.

Secondly, specifically and heavily inspired by the scene in IT: Chapter One when Beverly Marsh cuts her hair.

“Oh, fuck yeah! Deus ex Rana to the rescue!” Klaus said, rushing over first.

“Rana” is the Latin word for “frog.”

Chapter Thirty-Eight - in which the Medusoid causes a ruckus

“Hey!” Lilac shouted, stepping forwards. “What in the nine circles of hell is going on here?”

A reference to Dante’s Inferno.

“So are you, my dear.” Olaf said. He eyed her with his shiny eyes. “Why’d you do that to your hair? It makes you look much less pretty.”

Unfortunately, another reference to Beverly’s haircut in IT: Chapter One: this was the response it elicited from her abusive father.

Chapter Thirty-Nine - in which man hands on misery to man

Solitude looked to her, narrowing her eyes, a seemingly insignificant memory floating back to her. “Question mark.” she said, “Beast.”

When she realizes some stuff about Ellington’s statue.

Kit looked at her, and Lilac saw in her eyes that her choice not to take the apple had nothing to do with her child.

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE

It’s often theorized in canon, and confirmed in this fic, that Kit was suicidal, which was why she decided not to take the apple.

Chapter Forty - in which the Baudelaires go on together

“We didn’t.” Sunny said, putting a hand on Lilac’s leg. “We have each other.”

A callback to “We lost everything.” “Except each other.”

“We don’t need to escape.” Violet said. She turned to Lilac. “Do you remember that musical, based on that movie, based on that movie, based on that book-”

The song they proceed to sing, “Finale”, is from the musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is based on the Disney movie, which takes a lot of inspiration from the 1939 film, which was based on the Victor Hugo novel.

Also I made a gifset with those lyrics and I’m still very proud of it.

“I know.” Violet nodded. “I… I guess we can’t lock you in the closet anymore, huh?” Her smile only lasted a few seconds. “I’m sorry. Just trying to cheer you up.”

A reference to the one-shot.

They never told Bea she had the same shine in her eyes as her father. She didn’t need to know.

Bea is biologically Olaf’s daughter.

Solitude found all the herpetology books, which Klaus and Friday read to her. She furnished Babbitt’s habitat, and let her hair grow out so that she could braid it.

Just like her big sister Lilac.

“A statue normally wouldn’t mean anything,” Violet had told Friday, “But, well, Nick found some interesting accounts, didn’t you, Nick?” “Li’s Dad is a wordy motherfucker,” Nick said, tossing a file that had been slipped into a bowl of honeydew melons, “But yeah, I did.”

Huge reference to All the Wrong Questions.

Chapter Forty-One / Epilogue - in which Beatrice leaves the island

“Well, maybe we only have to last a year until Lilac turns eighteen, and then we spend our fortune on pop tarts and Pokémon cards.” Solitude said.

A reference to this Alex Hirsch tweet:

“We’ll have to come up with fake names.” Solitude giggled. “I’ll be Sensible.” “You will not, I called dibs!” Sunny shouted.

A reference to Netflix!Sunny’s name in @ornettelosts‘s Nine Baudelaires AU. Love ya, Sammie! :D

“I still wanna know how Babbitt had-” Nick began, but Klaus slapped a hand over his mouth.

“I still wanna know how Babbitt had sex.”

Lilac ran her hands over the title. “Yeah. Let’s leave this behind.” She smiled and said, “Time to go. Sound off! One!”

They’re leaving their series of unfortunate events behind.

Lilac smiled and said, “Let’s go find something new.”

There’s always something.

Perhaps, in ten years, Beatrice would have a much happier message for her uncle than he expected.

A reference to The Beatrice Letters and, lowkey, the happier version of it in Netflix’s adaptation of The End.

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Chapter Forty-One → in which Beatrice leaves the island

As we suspected, we are to be castaways once more. The others believe that the island should stay far from the treachery of the world, and so this safe place is too dangerous for us. We will leave by a boat B has built and named after me. I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which we can hope. We cannot truly shelter our children, here or anywhere else, and so it might be best for us, and for the baby, and for Lilac, to immerse ourselves in the world.

If our second is a girl, we will name her Violet. If it is a boy, Lemony.

“Excuse me?” Lilac gasped.

All eight children burst into laughter, and Bea, sitting on Sunny’s knee, let out a happy shriek.

“Lemony?” Violet repeated. “They would have named me Lemony?”

“That’s not even your fucking Dad!” Lilac elbowed her. “How awkward would that have been?”

“Lemony Baudelaire.” Sunny said, and they all laughed again.

“You’d think Mother would know better than to curse someone with that name.” Klaus said, pouring them all some more fresh coconut milk.

“Do you think they found out he was alive?” Nick asked.

“Who knows?” Lilac shrugged.

“Do you think my Father knows I’m alive?” Friday asked.

Sunny smiled at her. “Maybe you’ll find him one day.”

“Or maybe I won’t and don’t care cause he ditched me.” Friday giggled. “You’re all stuck with me- ha!”

“Oh, what ever will we do?” Nick laughed. “How will we feed this many children?”

“Well, maybe we only have to last a year until Lilac turns eighteen, and then we spend our fortune on pop tarts and Pokémon cards.” Solitude said.

“What the fuck is a pokémon?” Friday said.

“Well, first we have to make sure we don’t get arrested.” Lilac said.

“Those papers said that the arson wasn’t blamed on us.” Klaus said.

“Newspapers aren’t reliable, dipshit.” Nick said.

“We’ll have to come up with fake names.” Solitude giggled. “I’ll be Sensible.”

“You will not, I called dibs!” Sunny shouted.

“We’re not doing that, first of all.” Violet said. “Second, first thing we’re gonna do is find a house where VFD can’t fuck with us.”

“Cheers to that!” Nick raised his glass.

“I thought ‘cheers’ was used for alcohol.” Friday said confusedly.

“Not always.” Klaus assured her.

“Oh my God,” Lilac said, “Nick, if you let the coconut milk ferment again-”

“No, no! God, I was just being funny. Stop being a killjoy.”

“Stop being a bad influence.”

“You’re a bad influence!”

Violet jumped up. “Excuse you! I’m the worst influence!”

They laughed, and Bea raised her arms in a cheer, and Sunny said, “She’s right! She’s the worst influence!”

“On who?”

Sunny shrugged and hugged the baby. Lilac watched with a happy gleam in her eyes, and then she turned to Violet. “Um… is everything packed?”

Violet pushed her hair behind her ear. “Yeah. Most everything’s in the boat. We still need to move in Babbitt’s habitat-”

“You added the lid, right? So they don’t get hurt in storms?” Solitude asked.

“Yes, lid’s on. And I added a strap so you can attach it to yourself, like you asked, in case of wreck.” Lilac nodded. “How’s Babbitt doing?”

“Sleeping.” Solitude beamed. “I suspect Baby Babbitts by the time we reach shore.”

“I still wanna know how Babbitt had-” Nick began, but Klaus slapped a hand over his mouth.

“Let’s see…” Violet thought. “We replaced the sail, we packed enough clothes and food for a month, some fishbait just in case, storm prep, books-”

“Cake!” Bea cheered.

Violet laughed. “Yes, we packed you birthday cake, lil bean.”

Friday smiled, but Sunny frowned. “Are we sure?” she asked. “That we want to leave? We have everything here.”

The other Baudelaires shared a look, and then Lilac ran her hand over baby Bea’s hair, which made her burst into giggles. “We can’t hide from treachery forever.” she said. “We can’t hide from the world. We have to face it head on.”

Sunny considered, and then nodded. “I’ll get my kitchen stuff.”

“What about this?” Nick looked over at the book their parents had written, and that they’d added to.

Klaus smiled and ran a hand over the cover, and said, “We should leave it. Some other castaways may need help someday.”

Lilac ran her hands over the title. “Yeah. Let’s leave this behind.” She smiled and said, “Time to go. Sound off! One!”

“Two!” Violet cheered, pulling her hair back with her ribbon.

“Three!” Nick picked up Solitude, who giggled.

“Four!” Klaus grabbed a few extra books and adjusted his glasses.

“Five!” Friday called, playing with her bracelet and jumping up to spin her new dress.

“Six!” Solitude cheered from where Nick was spinning her.

“Seven!” Sunny shouted, also tying her hair into a ponytail.

And Beatrice laughed, threw her arms up, and said, “Eight!”

They pushed the boat out to the edge of the coastal shelf, and glanced at the nameplate, with scratchy writing that had somehow lasted a year. “Yeah,” Nick said, “I ain’t setting sail on a boat named The Olaf.”

“I think there’s something under it.” Lilac said. The siblings knelt and took the board off, and smiled at the name revealed.

“Well, look at that.” Klaus said, and he traced their mother’s name.

Nick put a hand to his necklace, and Lilac to hers.

“Where’s our little Bea?” Violet asked. “I want to test our life vests.”

“She’s saying goodbye.” Friday said. “At the graves. She’ll be right back.”

The Baudelaires nodded; they’d all said goodbye to Kit that morning, while Friday helped Beatrice pack her teething rings.

“Last chance.” Lilac sighed, looking at the horizon. “We can always stay another year. Or two. Or three.”

“Fat chance. I’ve been cooped up long enough.” Nick said.

“Are we really ready? Are we sure?” Lilac asked.

Violet smiled. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

Lilac smiled and nodded. “Friday, you get your little sisters in while we set it off.”

Friday nodded, picking up Solitude. “Come on, frog-girl.”

Solitude giggled, before settling Babbitt’s tank underneath a seat. “We’re all ready to go!” she cheered.

“Freedom!” Nick shouted, causing them to laugh.

“Wait!” they turned, smiling, to see Bea crawling down the slope as fast as she could.

“Li!” she called. “Vi! Nick! Kla! Fri! Sol! Sun!”

“Oh, come here!” Klaus held out his arms, and lifted her up, swinging her in the air. “We wouldn’t forget you, we never could.”

“You’re a Baudelaire forever, just like the rest of us.” Nick said.

“Get in the boat, you little thing!” Sunny called, using a term of endearment she’d made up herself.

Bea nodded, and then looked down at the nameplate of the boat. She frowned, and said, “Beatrice.”

The Baudelaires grinned. “Yes.” Lilac said. “That’s our mother’s name, and yours. Now come on, we want to set sail while the day is still light.”

The boys all climbed in the boat, and Klaus pushed aside a bowl of apples to make room for Bea’s seat. Lilac and Violet gave each other a grin, as they pushed the boat off the beach.

Lilac smiled and said, “Let’s go find something new.”

They climbed in, and the Beatrice set off.

Perhaps there was a reunion in their future, on Briny Beach with four children they thought they might never see again. Perhaps there was hope. Perhaps there was a way for them to have a normal life, or even an extraordinary one that wouldn’t cause them so much pain. Perhaps Lilac would have a repair shop, and Violet an inventing studio, and Nick a journal to write in for his travels, and Klaus a library, and Solitude her very own Reptile Room, and Sunny a giant kitchen. Perhaps Friday would have a research center, and Duncan a printing press, and Isadora a space to write her poems, and Quigley a room to make his maps, and Fiona a mushroom garden. Perhaps Beatrice would have a very large family. Perhaps, in ten years, Beatrice would have a much happier message for her uncle than he expected. Perhaps there would be none of that. Or perhaps there would be more.

But right now, all they knew was that something was ahead.

And all eight Baudelaires looked towards the horizon, and knew that, whatever happened, their story wasn’t over yet, and that was the best they could hope for.

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↳ That’s Not How the Story Goes [Six Baudelaires AU]

Solitude leaned over to hug him again, and then she said, “How’d they hurt you?”

“I can’t tell you that.” his voice was all choked up.

“Will it help you?”

“It won’t help you. I don’t want you… thinking about it.”

“But you want her to think about it?”

“Because she’s evil. Her and her stupid boyfriend and…” Nick was breathing very hard. “And everyone. I feel like… like the whole world’s against us.”

Solitude thought hard about that, her eyes widening. The whole world? That sure was a lot of people, and they probably had better supplies than the rest of them. Bigger numbers, more money and food and luck and…

That didn’t matter.

Soli hugged him tighter, and then said, “If they are, at least we’re on the same side.”

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket || Rated T || 121k words || Completed 2019-09-11

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SIX BAUDELAIRES AU: Five Days until Part III

We Didn’t Lose Our Family - a Violet Baudelaire playlist

{8tracks} {playmoss}

Six Baudelaires: {ao3} {tumblr masterlist}

Full tracklist under the cut.

She’s My Sister ~ Cassandra Compton and Dianne Pilkington // “I just want her to try to let me to decide / Who I am and how I live my life / No more post-its on the damn fridge door! / I just want her to feel what it's like at her heel / With a crazy puppet master at my strings! / I just want her to see how she affects me / But she's my sister, so somehow I'll always love her / It seems we'll always be stuck with each other...”

Warrior ~ AURORA // “I fall asleep in my own tears / I cry for the the world, for everyone / And I build a boat to float in / I'm floating away / I can't recall last time I opened my eyes to see the world as beautiful / And I built a cage to hide in / I'm hiding, I'm trying to battle the night...”

Pompeii ~ Madilyn Bailey // “But if you close your eyes / Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? / And if you close your eyes / Does it almost feel like you've been here before? / How am I gonna be an optimist about this?”

When I Was Younger ~ Liz Lawrence // “When I was younger, I asked my father / ‘Why are we so human?’ / Now that I'm older / I think I figured it out / We're just doing what we can...”

Young Blood ~ Bea Miller // “But in dark times when we close our eyes / It's a nightmare, it's a nightmare / When the sun don't shine we lose our minds / But I swear, we can get there / We've got young blood / Can't destroy us / We make our own luck in this world...”

Turns You into Stone ~ Fleurie // “Long before the haze / Darker shadows reigned / Stairway to the sky, that timeless alibi / Gold in your eyes dancing like fire / Dreamer trapped by your desire...”

Sinners ~ Lauren Aquilina // “Our hearts are too ruthless to break / Let's start fires for heavens sake / Our hearts are too ruthless to break / So let's be sinners to be saints / And let's be winners by mistake / The world may disapprove / But my world is only you...”

Human ~ Gabrielle Aplin // “Show me that you're human, you won't break / Oh, love your flaws and live for your mistakes / Beauty's on the surface wearing thin / Come closer, show the marks upon your skin / Show me that you're human...”

Unravel ~ AmaLee // “This loneliness is infinite / It’s laughing at the innocent / I can’t tune out the memory / I’m screaming out for mercy / Unravel me...”

Someday ~ Ciara Renée and Andrew Samonsky // “Someday, life will be fairer / Need will be rarer / Greed will not pay / Godspeed this bright millenium / On its way / Let it come someday...”

Time to Say Goodbye (Acoustic) ~ Casey Lee Williams // “Were we born to fight and die? / Sacrificed for one huge lie? / Are we heroes keeping peace? / Or are we weapons / Pointed at the enemy / So someone else can claim a victory?”

Fight Song ~ Rachel Platten // “And all those things I didn't say / Wrecking balls inside my brain / I will scream them loud tonight / Can you hear my voice this time? / This is my fight song / Take back my life song / Prove I'm alright song / My power's turned on / Starting right now I'll be strong / I'll play my fight song / And I don't really care if nobody else believes / Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me!”

Stand My Ground ~ Within Temptation // “I can feel / That it's time for me to face it / Can I take it? / Though this might just be the ending / Of the life I held so dear / But I won't run, there's no turning back from here!”

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SIX BAUDELAIRES AU: Three Days until Part III

We’re Innocent Enough - a Klaus Baudelaire playlist

{8tracks} {playmoss}

Six Baudelaires: {ao3} {tumblr masterlist}

Full tracklist under the cut.

Myling Lullaby ~ Jonathan Eng // “Sleep now, my child / The day is almost done / Sleep now, my child / There goes the sinking sun / We're placed into this world / Left to survive somehow / But no ghastly sight out in the night can hurt you now...”

Heroes ~ Peter Gabriel // “I wish I could swim / Like dolphins, like dolphins could swim / Though nothing will keep us together / We can beat them, for ever and ever...”

Not About Angels ~ Birdy // “How unfair, it's just our luck / Found something real that's out of touch / But if you'd searched the whole wide world / Would you dare to let it go?”

Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd // “Did they get you to trade / Your heroes for ghosts? / Hot ashes for trees? / Hot air for a cool breeze? / Cold comfort for change? / Did you exchange / A walk on part in the war / For a lead role in a cage?”

Yesterday ~ The Beatles // “Yesterday / All my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday...”

Everybody Wants To Rule the World ~ Lorde // “There's a room where the light won't find you / Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down / When they do, I'll be right behind you / So glad we've almost made it / So sad they had to fade it / Everybody wants to rule the world...”

Plant Life ~ Owl City // “I've been longing for / Daisies to push through the floor / And I wish that plant life would grow all around me / So I won't feel dead anymore...”

When Your Feet Don’t Touch The Ground ~ Ellie Goulding // “Everyday just feels a little longer / Why am I the only one not getting stronger? / Running ‘round pretending life's a play / Doesn't make the darkness go away / I may be young but I can still remember / Feeling full of joy, crying tears of laughter / Now all my tears are all cried out / Make-believe, but count me out...”

In Our Bedroom After the War ~ Stars // “Lift your head and look out the window / Stay that way for the rest of the day and watch the time go / Listen, the birds sing, listen, the bells ring / All the living are dead and the dead are all living / The war is over and we are beginning...”

Eyes Open ~ Taylor Swift // “The tricky thing / Is yesterday we were just children / Playing soldiers just pretending / Dreaming dreams with happy endings / In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords / But now we've stepped into a cruel world / Where everybody stands and keeps score...”

Step Out ~ José González // “House on fire, leave it all behind you / Dark as night, let the lightning guide you / Step outside, time to step outside, time to step outside / Time to step outside you...”

Let’s Just Live ~ Casey Lee Williams // “And it seems we weren't prepared / For a game that wasn't fair / Do we just go home? / Can we follow through? / When all hope is gone / There is one thing we can do...”

You’ll Be In My Heart ~ Celtic Woman // “Don't listen to them / Cause what do they know? / We need each other, to have, to hold / They'll see in time, I know / When destiny calls you, you must be strong / I may not be with you / But you got to hold on / They'll see in time, I know / We'll show them together...”

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SIX BAUDELAIRES AU: One Day until Part III

Not a Baby - a Sunny Baudelaire playlist

{8tracks} {playmoss}

Six Baudelaires: {ao3} {tumblr masterlist}

Full tracklist under the cut.

Paradise ~ Coldplay // “When she was just a girl, she expected the world / But it flew away from her reach, and the bullets catch in her teeth / Life goes on, it gets so heavy / The wheel breaks the butterfly / Every tear a waterfall / In the night, the stormy night, she'll close her eyes...”

Youth ~ Daughter // “We are the reckless, we are the wild youth / Chasing visions of our futures / One day we'll reveal the truth / That one will die before he gets there / And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones / Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone / We're setting fire to our insides for fun / Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home / It was a flood that wrecked this home...”

Landslide ~ Fleetwood Mac // “Well, I've been afraid of changing / Cause I've built my life around you / But time makes you bolder / Even children get older / And I'm getting older, too...”

Children Will Listen ~ Masa Fukuda // “Careful the spell you cast / Not just on children / Sometimes the spell may last / Past what you can see / And turn against you / Careful the tale you tell / That is the spell / Children will listen...”

Naughty ~ Josie Griffiths // “Cinderella in the cellar / Didn't have to do much, as far as I could tell / Her godmother was two-thirds fairy / And suddenly her lot was a lot less scary / But what if you haven't got a fairy to fix it? / Sometimes you have to make a little bit of mischief!”

Alive ~ Sia // “I was born in a thunderstorm / I grew up overnight / I played alone / I played on my own / I survived...”

Radioactive ~ Within Temptation // “I raise my flags, don my clothes / It's a revolution, I suppose / We'll paint it red to fit right in, whoa / I'm breaking in, shaping up / Then checking out on the prison bus / This is it, the apocalypse...”

The Triumph ~ Casey Lee Williams // “Can't wish away the dismal days / Can't bring back what is gone / Won't waste more tears on yesteryears / Instead, we'll carry on! / We'll win, for sure, we will endure / And though our goal is far / We'll be the ones to touch the sun / The triumph will be ours!”

Stronger ~ Kiesza // “I feel stronger, bigger / I feel taller, so much higher / Feel enlightened, can't be frightened anymore / I can run now, so much faster / And defeat won't be my master / And to conquer the demons / I won't have to wait much longer!”

What’s Up Danger ~ Blackway & Black Caviar // “I'm insane but on my toes / I could keep the world balanced on my nose / I had a slumber party wit' all my foes / Now I wear 'em like a badge of honor all my clothes / If I'm crazy, I'm on my own / If I'm waiting, it's on my throne / If I sound lazy, just ignore my tone / Cause I'm always gonna answer when you call my phone / Like, what's up, danger?”

Tiptoe ~ Imagine Dragons // “From your slanted view, see the morning dew / Sink into the soil, watch the water boil / They won't see me run, who can blame them? / They never look to see me fly, so I never have to lie...”

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ~ Joseph William Morgan // “If you need me, call me / No matter where you are / No matter how far / Just call my name, I'll be there in a hurry / You don't need to worry...”

Defying Gravity ~ Kerry Ellis // “So if you care to find me / Look to the western sky! / As someone told me lately / Everyone deserves a chance to fly / And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free! / To those who’d ground me / Take a message back from me!”

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SIX BAUDELAIRES AU: Six Days until Part III

There’s Always Something - a Lilac Baudelaire playlist

{8tracks} {playmoss}

Six Baudelaires: {ao3} {tumblr masterlist}

Full tracklist under the cut.

Dangerous to Dream ~ Caissie Levy // “I wish I could tell the truth / Show you who’s behind the door / I wish you knew what all this pantomime and pageantry was for / I have to be so cautious, and you’re so extreme / We’re different, you and I / And it’s dangerous to dream…”

True Colors ~ Zedd & Kesha // “Stars fall at my feet, keep me grounded as I reach / Higher than I see, is there something there for me? / Pulling back the reins, letting go again / I’m not afraid, I’m not…”

To Feel Alive ~ Iameve // “Free to rise again / Hand in hand against all odds / We’ll overcome / Together we are one / For the first time in this life / Don’t have to fight to feel alive…”

Stand in the Rain ~ Superchick // “She never slows down / She doesn’t know why / But she knows that when she’s all alone, feels like its all coming down / She won’t turn around / The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear / The tears will not stop raining down…”

Bring Me to Life (Synthesis) ~ Evanescence // “How can you see into my eyes like open doors? / Leading you down, into my core / Where I’ve become so numb, without a soul / My spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold / Until you find it there, and lead it, back, home…”

See Who I Am ~ Within Temptation // “We just can’t stop believing / Because we have to try / We can rise above / Their truth and their lies…”

I Know Your Secrets ~ Katie Garfield // “There’s a crack in your mirror / You’re looking over your shoulder now / All the voices you’re hearing / They’re calling you out…”

Human ~ Christina Perri // “I can turn it on / Be a good machine / I can hold the weight of worlds / If that’s what you need / Be your everything…”

Titanium ~ Madilyn Bailey // “I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose / Fire away, fire away / Ricochet, you take your aim / Fire away, fire away/ Shoot me down, but I won’t fall / I am titanium…”

Rose Red ~ Emilie Autumn // “Tell me no more stories / And I'll tell you no lies / No one wants to hurt me / But everybody tries / And if you think that I've been waiting / For my planets to align / It's time you go on / Get your things, get up, get out / I'm doing fine…”

Born to Die ~ Lana del Rey // “Lost but now I am found / I can see but once I was blind / I was so confused as a little child / Tried to take what I could get / Scared that I couldn’t find / All the answers, honey…”

Sacrifice ~ Casey Lee Williams // “You can’t have my life / I’m not your sacrifice / You can try, but I’m free / And you won’t conquer me / I won’t crawl / Most of all / I won’t fall / For you…”

Asleep ~ Emily Browning // “Sing to me / I don’t want to wake up on my own anymore / Don’t feel bad for me, I want you to know / Deep in the cell of my heart, I really want to go / Sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep / There is another world, there is a better world / Well, there must be…”

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SIX BAUDELAIRES AU: Two Days until Part III

I’ll Handle This - a Solitude Baudelaire playlist

{8tracks} {playmoss}

Six Baudelaires: {ao3} {tumblr masterlist}

Full tracklist under the cut.

Solitude ~ Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong // “In my solitude you haunt me / With reveries of days gone by / In my solitude you taunt me / With memories that never die…”

Castle on a Cloud ~ Les Miserables // “There is a lady all in white / Holds me and sings a lullaby / She’s nice to see and she’s soft to touch / She says, ‘Dear child, I love you very much…’”

When I Grow Up ~ Matilda the Musical // “When I grow up / I will be brave enough to fight the creatures that you have to fight / Beneath the bed each night to be a grown up / When I grow up… / Just because you find that life’s not fair / It doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it / If you always take it on the chin and wear it / Nothing will change…”

If We Hold On Together ~ Diana Ross // “Souls in the wind must learn how to bend / Seek out a star, hold on to the end / Valley, mountain; there is a fountain / Washes our tears all away / Words are swaying, someone is praying / Please let us come home to stay...”

Over the Garden Wall ~ The Blasting Company // “Two voices, now they are singing / Then ten, as the melody soars / Round the shimmering pond all are joining in song / As it carries their reverie on…”

On Top of the World ~ Imagine Dragons // “Cause I’m on top of the world, hey! I’m on top of the world, hey! / Waiting on this for a while now / Paying my dues to the dirt / I’ve been waiting to smile, hey! / Been holding it in for a while, hey! / Take it with me if I can / Been dreaming of this since a child / I’m on top of the world!”

Running with The Wolves ~ AURORA // “Trick or treat, what would it be? / I walk alone, I’m everything / My ears can hear and my mouth can speak / My spirit talks, I know my soul believes…”

No More ~ Beckah Shae // “You best be leaving now cause I’m about to bring some glory / You lose, and thanks again for giving me an awesome story / You just don’t know who you’re messing with / I’m a warrior!”

This Will Be the Day ~ Casey Lee Williams // “They see you as small and helpless / They see you as just a child / Surprise when they find out that a warrior will soon run wild / Prepare for your greatest moments / Prepare for your finest hour / The dream that you’ve always dreamed is suddenly about to flower!”

Elastic Heart ~ Sia // “And I will stay up through the night / Let’s be clear, I won’t close my eyes / And I know that I can survive / I walked through fire to save my life…”

Somewhere ~ Within Temptation // “Lost in the darkness, hoping for a sign / Instead there is only silence / Can’t you hear my screams? / Never stop hoping / Need to know where you are / But one thing is for sure / You’re always in my heart…”

Sound of Silence ~ Jadyn Rylee // “In restless dreams I walked alone / Narrow streets of cobblestone / Neath the halo of a street lamp / I turned my collar to the cold and damp / When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light / That split the night / And touched the sound of silence…”

Towards the Sun ~ Rihanna // “Lost my faith and trust / You and I know gold don’t turn to rust / I still swear that we can reign / Like the kings and queens of better yesterdays…”

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Six Baudelaires AU, Part Two: Reference Guide

A quick guide for everything I intentionally referenced in The Six Siblings, Part Two: This Tale is All Sorrows and Woes.

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MAJOR SPOILER WARNING - the plot twists from this section of the fanfiction will be discussed at length.

Without further ado…

Chapter One / Prologue - in which Lilac has to Older Sister

“Release Nick, you fiend!” Violet tackled Klaus to the ground, as both of her brothers burst into giggles. “Never! Nick’s my prisoner of war!” Klaus said, trying (and failing) to push her off.

Nick being the “captive” in the childrens’ game throughout the chapter is a bit of an obvious foreshadow to his captivity from Chapters 12-20... which meant it was really fun when none of you noticed until then and then tried to kill me. XD

A full reference of the books namedropped in the childrens’ game:

Violet and Nick’s kingdom, Terabithia, is from Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. Their original characters, either Susan/Lucy and Peter/Edmund, are a reference to The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis.

Lilac and Klaus’s kingdom, Gwyntystorm, and their characters, Irene and Curdie, are from The Princess and the Goblin and its sequel, The Princess and Curdie, by George MacDonald.

Lilac says she thought Nick was Eragon, from The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, and Klaus says he was Aragorn, from The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. Nick’s suggestion for a new name, Glaedr, is also a character from The Inheritance Cycle. Nick finally decides to be Peter Pan, obviously from Peter Pan by JM Barrie.

“Naw, they definitely are.” Nick nodded. “When a new baby is born, one of the other children has to die. Everyone knows it.” [...] “Now, since it’s a girl maybe, they could take out one of them,” he gestured towards Violet and Lilac, “But you’re the most useless, Klaus, so-” [...] “But yeah. Babies suck and we should totally throw our sister off the roof.”

Direct reference to Addams Family Values (1993)

“Watch me.” Nick’s eyes lit up. “Wait, no, better plan. You guys remember Moses-”

Reference to the story of Moses, who was placed in a basket in a river as an infant.

Lilac quickly answered the phone, saying, “Baudelaire residence. This is Lilac Emily. To whom am I presently speaking?”

Lilac’s middle name is taken from her actress, Emily Browning.

“We’re sensible and proper!” Nick added.

A reference to S Theodora Markson’s catchphrase in All the Wrong Questions.

“What was that, Dad? No, no real ropes. Yeah, promise. We’ll go to bed on time, too. But you’ll all be back in the morning? Yeah, I know. Don’t open the windows.”

The Baudelaire parents don’t want to risk their children getting recruited.

“He said we have a new sister.” Lilac reported. “Solitude Theodora Baudelaire.”

A direct reference to S Theodora Markson.

“Can we make a blanket fort?” Klaus asked. “Like we used to?”

Much like the last prologue, this is a reference to the scene from the 2004 film.

Rest of the fic under the cut.

Chapter Two - in which the Baudelaires move into a nice Shack

As he stood, Nick turned to look at his brother, and after a second, he realized something. “Wait a minute.” he said. “Are you… taller than me?”

A reference to Louis Hynes’s growth spurt inbetween TMM and TAA in the Netflix series. (Though, fun fact, at this moment in time, Liam Aiken is currently taller than Louis Hynes, so I guess Nick eventually does end up taller.)

Violet groaned and stood, and Solitude said, “Winnie,” which meant, “We could have Babbitt judge; they’re good with numbers!”

A reference to the main character of Babbitt’s namesake, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.

After a moment, Nick said, “I’ll give you a tip.” “Yes?” Nick smiled slightly. “There’s a book, about the mother of a girl who reminds me a lot of you, in that everyone thinks she is adorable and perfect. The mother gets scared when the girl’s classmate drowns on a field trip and her daughter steals something shiny off of him, and she then finds out that she has a very suspicious genealogy.”

Nick giving tips in the form of book recommendations is a reference to Lemony’s habit of doing the same thing to Pip and Squeak in All the Wrong Questions. This is a double reference, as Liam Aiken, Nick’s actor, read the audiobooks for ATWQ.

The book he is referencing is The Bad Seed by William March.

“Gah-ahc.” said Solitude, which meant, “Let’s sleep outside.”

One of Soli’s lines in the 2004 film.

Chapter Three - in which the Baudelaires make new friends

Sunny narrowed her eyes. “Armoracia,” she muttered, which meant something like, “That doesn’t sound right. Apples and Horseradish taste very differently.”

Early foreshadowing for Sunny’s cooking interest.

“I can get the windows,” Lilac said, “Should be an ordinary-enough pin-tumbler lock.”

The phase “ordinary enough pin-tumbler lock” is repeated a lot, as a reference to the second All the Wrong Questions book, When Did You See Her Last?

“Yeah, there’s no locks.” Duncan said. “Bonnie said that they fell off a few years ago and never got replaced.”

A reference to a main character from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken.

Chapter Four - in which Duncan and Isadora break into a Library

“See? Researcher. Like Klaus.” Nick said. Klaus narrowed his eyes at his twin, trying to figure out what Nick was on about. “Is that… really important?” “Yes.” Nick said, and failed to elaborate. [...] “I think Klaus and Duncan should take the fungus.” Violet said, sharing a look with Nick. “The rest of us can keep an eye out for that book.” “Why should we take the fungus?” Violet held back a smile and shrugged, but Klaus quickly figured out what was going on. His face went red, and he glared at her, but Duncan said, “I’m fine with that,” so all he could do was shrug and keep shooting his siblings dark looks.

Violet and Nick are trying to set Duncan and Klaus up, much to Lilac’s horror.

“Like a little cat.” Duncan said. “One of those feral ones that are super tiny.”

A reference to the world’s smallest cat, the Rusty-spotted cat.

“That doesn’t sound right, but I really don’t give a shit.” Nick shrugged. “We’ll find it, won’t we, Soli?”

A reference to a line from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode 5x03, “The Great Recession”, which later became a meme - “That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about stars to dispute it.”

Chapter Five - in which the children run amok at Prufrock Prep

“You’re lucky.” Isadora said, sitting on the edge of the roof and kicking her legs as she looked down at the dying grass fields. “Our parents’ estate’s executor doesn’t give a fuck until orphans are ‘in’, whatever the hell that means.”

As revealed in The Slippery Slope book, Esme was left in charge of the Quagmires’ estate.

Lilac giggled. “Yeah. Mom used to have [a necklace] just like it, except instead of these gear patterns, it had her initials. I always thought it was pretty, but she never let me wear it, so I learned how to make my own. She was… so proud.”

2004 Film Violet does indeed have a necklace throughout the entire film; I just added a backstory.

“Nick Liam Baudelaire, what the hell is that?” Lilac shouted.

Nick’s middle name is in reference to his actor, Liam Aiken.

“Marbeau,” said Sunny, meaning, “Maybe they’ve finally opened a daycare or toddler school.”

A reference to Firmin Marbeau, who pioneered a forerunner of modern daycare.

Chapter Six - in which the Baudelaires have Gym Class

“Tik,” said Sunny, meaning, “No! Typing and stapling is so hard when we’re tired!”

“Tik” spelled backwards is “Kit”, which, no, is not a reference to Kit Snicket, but Kit Kittredge, who famously carries a typewriter.

“Say goodbye to Nick, Solitude.” Lilac said, grabbing the toddler’s hand and dragging her to her feet.

Another bit of foreshadowing for Nick’s capture.

“Olil.” Sunny groaned. “Leave me alone to die.”

“Olil” spelled backwards is “Lilo”, as Sunny is directly quoting a line from Lilo & Stitch (2002).

“Speaking of which,” Carmelita said, “As this is the second message I gave you, I really deserve a tip at this point.” “There’s a book about what happens when you let a bunch of schoolchildren run around unsupervised,” Klaus said, “And it features a pig’s head on a stick.”

Once again, the book recommendation instead of a tip is an All the Wrong Questions reference.

Klaus is recommending Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Chapter Seven - in which Nick gets them all in Even More Trouble

“I’m just telling you what I was told to tell you.” Carmelita giggled. “And since this is my eleventh message, you’re overdue eleven tips.” “We gave you our tips.” Nick said, glaring at her. “But here’s today’s; there’s a book that was made into a popular film that is about a hound dog and a fox. In the book, at the end, the hound kills the fox.”

Once again, ATWQ reference with the tips.

The book he’s recommending is The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P Mannix; and, yes, that IS how the book ends. The Hound dies, too. You’re welcome for ruining your childhood.

“Klaus?” he sounded very uncharacteristically terrified. “Klaus? Are you okay?” Klaus, startled, quickly stumbled out, “Y-yeah, I’m fine…” as Lilac and Violet also jumped up, grabbing the infants, and the Quagmires hurried to their feet. “Did your glasses break?” “No, I’m-” “Are you hurt?” Nick pulled away from his slightly, his eyes moving fast as he scanned his brother.

While Nick’s PTSD worsens much later, the first signs of it start showing here; he’s still traumatized from Klaus’s hypnotism, which was always kicked off with him getting tripped and his glasses breaking.

“I wouldn’t say that.” said Nick, glaring down at the floor. He hadn’t looked anybody in the eye since he’d attacked Carmelita.

Nick isn’t ashamed of attacking Carmelita; he’s ashamed that he “overreacted” to something so minor. He doesn’t like admitting he needs help, which becomes a problem after his capture.

“We know what homeschooling is.” Violet said. “We were-”

In this continuity, the Baudelaires were homeschooled before the fire.

“Halloween, age nine,” Isadora said, “Was when we wanted to go as a certain family of six children. The problem being that there’re only three of us.”

A reference to The Brady Bunch.

“We know you’re not asking.” Isadora said, smiling. “We’re volunteering.”

whelp.

Chapter Eight - in which Lilac Snaps

No major references in this chapter.

Chapter Nine - in which the Baudelaires are given Fashion Lessons

They fell silent again, and then quietly, Lilac started to sing. She sang a song that was normally played very loud and energetic, but she gave it a slower melody, quietly soothing Sunny as they walked up and up the large staircase. It was a song about how everybody’s looking for something, and as they walked, listening to Lilac’s soft voice, they all really hoped that whoever was looking for the Quagmires would find them quickly.

A reference to “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” by Eurythmics, but more specifically, a reference to Emily Browning’s cover version.

“Ah, you’re very adventurous!” Jerome said. “Just like your mother. We were friends a ways back. We hiked up Mount Fraught with some friends- gosh, it must have been twenty years ago-” [...] “Hmm? Oh, no, just the Snickets and that Markson boy.” Lilac narrowed her eyes. “Who?”

“That Markson boy” is a reference to the theory that Bertrand Baudelaire was adopted by S Theodora Markson’s family. Lilac’s recognition is not of her father’s maiden name, but of “Snicket”, which she vaguely remembers from her childhood.

Chapter Ten - in which the In Auction is planned

Currently, the Baudelaires were spread out in the living room. Nick and Klaus were trying to read through a book on Emily Dickinson that they’d bought the other day, while Violet and Lilac were going through the newspaper, trying to find something interesting, or some news on the search for Count Olaf.

The Baudelaires miss the Quagmires so much they’ve accidentally picked up their habits; Emily Dickinson is a famous poet, and Violet and Lilac are reading the newspaper.

“She seems like the kind of person who’d try to set me up with some rich kid.” Nick said. “And I’m never getting married, not even when I’m older. I’m gonna live alone in the woods, and the only one who can come visit me is Soli.”

Nick is aromantic.

“Ihering!” Soli said, which meant something like, “I’ll live with you and we can raise reptiles in the woods!”

A reference to Hermann von Ihering, a zoologist.

The waiter nodded. “I didn’t realize this was a sad occasion.” [...] “Did you say-?” Lilac began.

The waiter is a VFD agent; once again, Lilac vaguely recognizes the code phrase.

Chapter Eleven - in which Klaus finds an Ersatz Elevator

“I’m not going to let us chase red herrings!” Lilac shouted back, hurt.

Dark foreshadowing to the red herring statue.

“Solitude is,” Nick said, moving past him to find a pencil and paper, “Sunny is the albatross that curses us.” “Doom!” Sunny cheered.

A reference to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

“It worked.” Violet smiled. “We never expected otherwise.” Klaus said.

A reference to the line from “The Bad Beginning: Part One” in the Netflix series.

Chapter Twelve - in which the Baudelaires fall

“Not so bad.” Solitude muttered. Then, she said, “Radec,” which meant, “Just think of it as a ride, instead of an actual fall.”

“Radec” spelled backwards is “Cedar”; a lowkey reference to Cedar Point.

“No, we’re going to make a lockpick.” Lilac said. “Flamethrower’s too volatile. Besides, I don’t trust you with it.”

“Too volatile” is a reference to the phrase being used in The Grim Grotto.

She spun on her heel, exiting out a door behind them. As she did, Nick said, “Should I go after her and tell her the kitchen was out the other door?”

Esme went to call Olaf and the henchpeople, instead of going to the kitchen.

“Yeet Babbitt.” Solitude suggested.

A reference to the vine/meme.

They had to walk through a parlor to get to the door, and as they did, Nick stopped a moment, glancing at the phone. It didn’t look broken. “Hey, guys?” he called, but they didn’t hear him, so he started to run to catch up.

Nick started to run to catch up; he never did, because that’s when one of Olaf’s henchpeople grabs him.

And then, with a swish, there was a thump, thump, thump, and the Baudelaires stopped falling.

Only three thumps- because Klaus and Lilac were carrying the toddlers, and Nick didn’t fall, only three kids hit the net.

“Nhojnod!” Sunny shouted. “You bastard!”

“Njohnod” is “Don John” spelled backwards, a reference to the character from Much Ado About Nothing, who is a bastard in both the legal and ethical use of the term.

Chapter Thirteen - in which Sunny crawls up an elevator shaft

“Sunday Theodora Baudelaire!” Lilac shouted. “You get back down here right now!”

Sunny’s middle name, “Theodora”, is once again a reference to S Theodora Markson; even after her death, she’s still confusing people about what the S stood for.

Sunny sighed and turned slightly towards them, calling out, “Salvo!” which probably meant something like, “I’m going to go get us some rope and see if I can find Nick! I’ll be back soon!”

“Salvo” is a Latin verb, meaning “to save.”

Sunny bit her lip and shook her head. “Appentier,” she said, meaning, “He’s not in the penthouse, at least from what I saw.”

“Appentier” is a french word from which “penthouse apartment” is derived.

“Kim?” Sunny asked, meaning, “Wait, we get leeway for being kidnapped?”

“Kim” is the name of the girl who is kidnapped in the film Taken (2008).

Solitude glanced at her in confusion. “Greywater?” “Yes, Soli,” Violet said, “A word which here means, ‘basically piss and shit.’”

A reference to a line from IT: Chapter One (2017).

Chapter Fourteen - in which Some Children are sold at auction

“You’d be surprised what’s legal and what’s not, actually.” Esme said. “For instance, in our society, cannibalism is legal, but religiously frowned upon-”

A reference to the only ASOUE canon that matters, the Real-Time Fandub. (part one, part two)

“Very interesting.” Olaf said. “And I suppose you think that your dear sister Lilac will take care of you then?”

Olaf is taunting Nick here, as he’s about to drop quite a lot of secrets to him, but mainly that Lilac is his half-sister.

Notably, Nick is the only Baudelaire not present in this header image.

Chapter Fifteen - in which Nobody’s having a good time

No major references in this chapter.

Chapter Sixteen - in which Lilac has a bad plan

For sapphires and fortunes we are held in here. Only you can end our fear.

Isadora’s poems are ever-so-slightly different in this AU, due to Nick’s presence.

The addition of and fortunes indicates that Nick is still with them.

Until dawn comes, we cannot speak speak. No voices come from this sad beak.

“voices” is more specific than “words can”; Nick has already started to go nonverbal due to his trauma, and Duncan and Isadora are unable to yell through the statue.

Chapter Seventeen - in which the Village makes a Big Mistake

But as she passed the Baudelaires, her hand slipped, and the man turned and met Lilac’s eyes. He stared for a moment, as if he realized with a shock he recognized her from somewhere. Then, he said, very quietly, “The world is quiet here.”

Jacques is realizing that Lilac has Lemony’s eyes; if he hadn’t realized before she was his niece, he does now. He tries to signal her with a VFD codephrase.

“Now,” Lilac said, “We will need full access to all your inventing materials.” “And I’ll need blueprints of the uptown jail.” Klaus said. “Dead fly.” said Solitude.

While this is an obvious reference to Soli wanting to feed Babbitt, it is also a reference to a similar request made by Wednesday Addams in the 1964 sitcom The Addams Family, episode 1x10, “Wednesday Leaves Home.”

The first thing you read contains our clues: An initial way to speak to you.

“Our clues”, once again, signals that Nick is still with the Quagmires.

Chapter Eighteen - in which Count Olaf was not murdered

No major references in this chapter.

Chapter Nineteen - in which the Twins get a Birthday Present

“You won’t keep Nick.” Lilac added. “He’ll get away from you, and the Quagmires, too! We’re never going to give up, and neither are they!” “Baudelaires don’t give up!” Solitude shouted. Olaf just smiled. “I wouldn’t be too sure about that.”

Nick’s trauma has already caused him to shut down completely, and Olaf knows this.

Inside these letters the eye will see Nearby are your loved ones and the VFD

Nick and the Quagmires are still together.

Chapter Twenty - in which Sunny drives a Firetruck

“Nick, hey.” Isadora slowly pulled away from Violet and Lilac and stepped closer to the fountain, her voice very soft. “Your siblings found us. We were right. They found us.”

The Quagmires aren’t as traumatized as Nick; they’ve learned how to avoid the wrath of their captors, and have complete faith that the Baudelaires will save them. Nick’s been tortured and told quite a lot of things that temporarily broke him.

Duncan and Isadora shared a glance, and to the Baudelaires’ surprise, Nick flinched and also shared the triplets’ look. “Well, that’s not a surprise.” Duncan said. “He was the brother of a man who-”

Duncan, Isadora and Nick all know about Jacques Snicket, his relationship to Lemony, and Lemony’s relationship to Lilac.

Nick was backing away from the fence, eyes wide, gripping onto Solitude so hard his knuckles were white. Isadora ran forwards, and Lilac realized then that he was shaking uncontrollably. “Nick, Nick, it’s okay!” Isadora said. She reached forwards, grabbing his face. “Look at me! Look at me! Duncan-” Duncan ran over, putting a hand on Nick’s shoulder, as Nick said, “They’re going to find us. They’re going to catch us. They’re going to find us-”

A lot of Nick’s trauma came from punishments after he attempted to escape, so he goes into a panic whenever they’re about to be caught.

At that moment, Solitude pushed Babbitt onto Nick’s shoulder and said, “Hold this!” She immediately started running, jumping over Lilac and crawling through the window and onto the seat beside Sunny. Then she slid to the floor and jumped on the gas pedal, causing them to take off again.

A reference to Pip and Squeak from All the Wrong Questions, who drove their taxi in a similar way.

Klaus stared back, and then his gaze hardened, and his siblings had never seen him look so furious. “I’m going to kill them.” Klaus vowed, and he meant it. “I’m going to kill them, Nick.” Nick’s eyes widened, and for several seconds, he looked like he physically could not process what his brother had just said.

A running joke up to this point was that Nick would suggest murder and Klaus would remind him that was illegal; after seeing his brother in such a state of shock and fear, this gag drops as Klaus decides Olaf and his troupe have to die.

Chapter Twenty-One - in which Nick is not feeling great

Meanwhile, Klaus was leaning against the wall, with Nick leaning onto his shoulder, curled up so he could be as close to his brother as possible. He had his eyes shut, but Lilac knew he wasn’t asleep; she didn’t think he’d slept at all.

A symptom of severe trauma is the loss of sleep, either because of nightmares, or fear of what could happen while in such a defenseless position. This will be explored in Part Three.

Nick bit his lip, and then nodded and said, “I-I’m sorry-”

Nick’s gotten over the initial shock of his rescue, and he’s starting to regret breaking down and starting to hate being so obviously traumatized.

“Wait, Li…” Nick paused. “Can I… can I talk to you?” “Of course.” Lilac said softly. Nick glanced from Klaus to Violet to the toddlers. “Alone?”

Nick has decided it’s Lilac’s right to know she has a different (possibly living?) biological dad than the rest of them, but he also knows it’s her decision who else she wants to know, hence why he wants to tell her alone.

Nick looked up at Klaus, and said, “I-I…” he shut his eyes. “I thought I heard… no, no, I must’ve… I thought I heard her, but… I had to… she wouldn’t… have found us this fast…”

Esme and Olaf were Nick’s main tormentors; they trigger his panic attacks more than the presence of the rest of the troupe.

“No! No, don’t leave!” Nick shouted, leaping forwards and grabbing Klaus’s arm.

Nick is absolutely terrified of isolation/abandonment, especially in enclosed spaces.

“Never!” Klaus pushed Nick farther, incredibly terrified by just how quiet his brother was.

Nick was punished a lot for “backtalking” his captors, so when he’s around Olaf and Esme, he almost never speaks.

Chapter Twenty-Two - in which the Baudelaires break into a Hospital

“Dimidium,” Sunny said, which meant, “Well, it’s only half a hospital.”

“Dimidium” is a Latin noun, meaning “half.”

“We could kick down the door.” Lilac suggested. Then, she gave Nick a small smile. “Remember, Nick? When you were locked in the closet and wanted Mom to kick down the door?”

A reference to a previous one-shot for the Six Baudelaires AU.

“Do you think that’ll have the information we need?” Violet asked. Nick flinched again, and then he said, “Um-”

Nick heard the word “Snicket”, and immediately assumes the worst- that it’ll out Lilac to the rest of their siblings.

Chapter Twenty-Three - in which Solitude steals some shit

Nick still didn’t respond, and Violet’s voice broke. “You have to remember. You couldn’t have been younger than… six or seven. Mother and Father were so mad, when they found us I thought they were going to explode… but you weren’t even upset, I cried but you just said you’d… you’d heard some kind of animal cry, and you thought it might need help, and I was the only one awake to help you… they got even madder, told you you should’ve stayed with them, but you didn’t see anything wrong, and… Nick, please tell me you remember that…”

An animal cry is a signal from VFD recruiters to prompt the children to say the codephrase that begins recruitment. The Baudelaire parents don’t want their children recruited, and were terrified to wake up and find their children gone on a night that they could have been kidnapped.

Violet carefully pulled the scraps from her pocket, spreading them out in front of her, while Klaus turned to Nick. “Did they tell you anything?” he asked. “While you were… with them? About VFD, or this whole ‘Snicket’ thing, or Olaf?” Nick didn’t look anyone in the eye. “There wasn’t… much time to chat. I only… Lilac, can we talk?”

Pretty much all of Nick’s pleas for Lilac to talk to her are brought on when Snicket is mentioned.

Nick pulled away, scratching at his arm, “That’s not…”

POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING: IMPLIED SELF HARM

Nick’s arm scratches are a tic he picked up during his captivity; he starts to scratch whenever his captors are mentioned, to keep himself alert. This will be discussed and resolved in Part Three.

Nick looked sharply up at her and said, “Mom stole from Esme. She wouldn’t give a shit.”

Nick knows about the theft of the sugar bowl, as well as the Opera Night. (which are separate incidents, fuck you Netflix.) He’s very pissed at his parents for keeping vital information from them.

Chapter Twenty-Four - in which Violet makes a decision

They went to the Js. Then, quietly, Nick said, “Can we go to the L cabinets?” “Why?” Lilac asked. Nick glanced towards his siblings, and then away. “Just a guess.” Lilac shrugged directed them to the Ls, and Nick flipped through one drawer, eyes narrowed. Then he shook his head. “Nothing here.”

He’s looking under both “Lemony” and “Lilac.”

Nick paused. “I mean… we don’t have to- to watch it right away.” [...] “Li, please,” he said, “Can we talk? Just outside, just the two of us, there’s something-”

Nick wants to be able to tell Lilac about the whole “Lemony Snicket” thing before they can risk having her find out from the file.

“I did.” Jacques nodded. “I managed to contact-”

He managed to contact Quigley.

“We’ll find them.” Lilac swore. “Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Are you scared?” “I’m scared you won’t let me make a flamethrower and turn it on that bitch.”

A reference to this incorrect quote, which is, of itself, a reference to a line from the television show Brooklyn Nine-Nine, episode 3x10, “Yippie Kayak.”

Still no response. Lilac looked around in terror, her hand flying to her necklace. “Violet Malina Baudelaire! You get the fuck out here!”

Violet’s middle name is taken from her actress, Malina Weissman.

Chapter Twenty-Five - in which Lilac breaks down

“I’m not…” Lilac sniffled. “I’m not like you.” Nick froze. “What does that mean?” “You all are so close.” Lilac shut her eyes. “You and Solitude, you and Klaus, you and Violet, Violet and Klaus, Klaus and Sunny, Solitude and Sunny… all of you. You’re all each others’ best friends. None of you care about me like that. [...] I just… feel like… like there’s this wall between us. That we can’t see, but we can’t cross. And I can see you all… you all together. And I just… can’t be like that. Cause I have to be responsible? Cause I’m the oldest? Cause… cause I just can’t be loved?” “Li!” Nick put a hand on her cheek, turning her towards him. “Li, we do love you. You’re our big sister! You’re our sister! You are our family! Sure, we pick on you, but not because we hate you! We all love you, too!”

This is why Nick doesn’t take the opportunity to tell her about her heritage; he wants to wait for a moment where the information won’t give her more anxiety, or make her think she’s somehow less family.

Nick paused a moment, and then he leaned his head on her shoulder, shut his eyes, and said, “They fuck you up, your Mom and Dad. [...] They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, then add some extra, just for you.” Lilac stiffened for a second, and then carefully put an arm around Nick. “Where… where’d you learn that?” “The Library.” Nick lied.

Nick is quoting “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin, which is later quoted by Olaf in “The End.” He learned the poem during his captivity.

“Nick.” Lilac wiped her eyes, and then put her hands on his. “It’s okay to… to talk about what happened to you.” Nick bit his lip. “That’s…” “I’ve been busy, yes, but I’ve also been scared. Scared that I’ll… I’ll hear something that makes everything worse.” Lilac’s eyes darted to the ground a moment, before going back up to Nick. “But I’ll listen. I want to hear you. I want you to tell me.”

TRIGGER WARNING: CSA MENTION

Lilac has been avoiding Nick in fear that he’ll explain what he suffered under Olaf. While she knows learning the details can help her better protect her brother, she is terrified that she won’t be able to handle it, and she’s completely terrified he might have been sexually assaulted, seeing as Olaf threatened to do that to Violet specifically to punish Lilac, and he had Nick under his control for a while.

Nick smiled at her. “You can do anything, sis.”

Nick knows she’s biologically his half-sister, but he wants to make completely sure she knows he will always consider her his sister and his family, and nothing can change that.

Chapter Twenty-Six - in which Klaus impersonates a Doctor

Nick flinched. “You want to be like him?”

Something to note: After his capture, Nick never refers to Olaf or Esme by their names; just him or her.

Nick took a deep breath. “These vents are a lot bigger than I thought, but, um… they’re still pretty cramped.” Solitude shrugged. Of course it didn’t seem cramped to her, she was only a little over two feet tall. “I was just… I’m not sure I like how small it is.”

Nick’s claustrophobia, gained from being trapped in a red herring, a statue, and possibly other small spaces inbetween, is starting up.

“Doctor Howser.” Lilac said in an austrailian accent, thinking very fast. “We’re going to perform surgery soon.”

A reference to Doogie Howser, MD, which starred a young Neil Patrick Harris, who played Olaf in the Netflix series.

“Since when could you do an Austrailian accent?” “You don’t know everything about me.” Lilac scanned the list.

Lilac’s actress, Emily Browning, is Australian.

Chapter Twenty-Seven - in which the Baudelaires jump out a window

Nick had placed Solitude onto the ground and now held Violet by the shoulders, shaking her slightly as he shouted. “What did they do to you, Vi? Vi, what did they do?”

Nick knows exactly what could have happened to Violet in captivity, so he’s completely and utterly panicked.

“I’m with Klaus.” Nick said shakily. “We go together or not at all.”

A reference to the track “Together or Not at All” from Doctor Who, by Murray Gold.

Chapter Twenty-Eight - in which the Baudelaires visit a Carnival

No major references in this chapter.

Chapter Twenty-Nine - in which Solitude finally morphs into a reptile

“Well, if they…” Nick shut his eyes. “We just… better get there before they drink too much, that’s all.”

Nick has had experience with the troupe while drunk, and would rather attempt to speak with them before it goes too far.

“Well, then,” Lulu said, stepping forwards and looking a bit confused, “What exactly are you, please?” “You can call me Babydoll.” Lilac said.

A very clear reference to the character that Emily Browning played in Sucker Punch (2011).

Surprisingly, the henchpeople looked a little startled at that, as did Lulu, but Esme laughed. “Sounds like my kind of girl!” she said. “I drowned an ex once. So did you, dear, right?” Olaf was taking another swig of wine, so they couldn’t exactly see his reaction.

Olaf “drowning an ex” is a reference to the Netflix show canon, where he left Georgina Orwell under a bridge to drown.

His reaction being hidden is because, for obvious reasons, he doesn’t quite want to talk about murdered parents.

“Well, I’m Elliot,” Klaus said, “And this is my other head, Janus.”

Janus was a Roman god with two faces.

“And that down there,” Lilac said, pointing her thumb at Solitude, “Is our little pet gorgon. We call ‘er Euryale, cause her actual name is just a buncha hisses.”

Euryale was one of Medusa’s sisters in Greek Mythology.

Chapter Thirty - in which the Baudelaires put on a show

But as they started to leave, they heard a low rumble, and Nick immediately grabbed onto Klaus’s arm and let out a nervous gasp that was, thankfully, missed in the noise.

Nick recognizes the sound of Olaf’s car.

Chapter Thirty-One - in which the Baudelaires play fortune teller

“Or maybe,” Nick said, very quietly, keeping his eyes shut tight, “They were told not to find us.”

Nick learned a lot about VFD during his captivity, including their recruitment. He’s worried that their surviving parent may be ready to give them up to the organization.

Nick grabbed a selection of paper, staring curiously, and then he quickly tried to shove it back, but Klaus’s eyes widened as he caught a glimpse of it, and he grabbed it from his brother.

Nick, once again, sees the name “Snicket” and assumes the worst.

Chapter Thirty-Two - in which the Baudelaires are asked to murder

“No, thank you.” Esme said, looking down a Sunny and frowning. “I’m afraid I don’t like cinnamon in chocolate anymore, the woman who introduced it to me recently perished in a fire. But it’s very kind of you to offer.”

The Baudelaires received their taste for cinnamon in hot chocolate from their mother.

“Sounds good.” Kevin said. “I’ve committed crimes before. Why, when I was no older than Elliot and Janus-”

A reference to the theory that Kevin from ASOUE is the same as Kevin Old from File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, who committed vandalism and thievery.

Chapter Thirty-Three - in which someone is pushed to the lions

“I’m sure you are.” Olaf smirked, and he reached forwards and put a cold hand on Nick’s cheek. Nick tried very hard not to cry, but he wasn’t succeeding very well. “Now go jump into that pit. We want to see you devoured by lions.”

Olaf, who knows that the freaks are the Baudelaires, specifically picked Klaus and Nick to sacrifice to the lions specifically to torment Nick more; he knows what effect he has on him, and is relishing it. Once the boys are gone, they can grab the rest of the Baudelaires and escape.

“I wish we had a cartographer with us.” Violet sighed.

A reference to the next book, where Violet will have a relationship with Quigley, a cartographer.

Chapter Thirty-Four / Epilogue - in which they should have said something

“Come on.” Bertrand said, taking Violet’s hands and spinning her as she giggled. “It’s Duke Ellington. That’s your fav, Li.”

A reference to All the Wrong Questions.

“What song is this?” Violet asked. Beatrice smiled over at Soli, who was curled up on Nick’s lap, biting his sweater. “It’s got a very special name, isn’t that right, dear?” Solitude giggled.

“Solitude”, by Duke Ellington, likely Ellington’s song in All the Wrong Questions.

“Dashiell if it’s a boy,” Bertrand replied, “Sunny if it’s a girl.”

“Dashiell” after Dashiell Qwerty from All the Wrong Questions.

“We could adopt one of the outdoors animals.” Nick suggested. Beatrice and Bertrand turned to look at him. “The what?” Bertrand asked. “I keep hearing animals outside my window, every now and again.” Nick shrugged. “Howling or yipping or sometimes breaking a branch. Maybe if we brought them into the house, they wouldn’t get in so much trouble.”

Recruitment attempts that have not been working, because Beatrice and Bertrand refuse to let their children join VFD.

She turned to a selection of beach photos, slowly pulling out a small picture of baby Lilac, sitting on Briny Beach. It hadn’t been the first time she’d seen the ocean, but she’d still been so excited to splash in the water.

Since Lilac was born eleven months before Violet, it’s likely she was born on the island.

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Chapter Thirty-Eight → in which the Medusoid causes a ruckus

The group ran through the sand, holding each others’ hands and trying to swerve around trees and leap over rocks. “What time is it?” Nick asked, gripping tight to Solitude and looking up at the sky.

“The shelf won’t flood for maybe an hour,” Friday said, “And we’ll get there soon!”

“Will they listen to us?” Violet asked nervously.

“They’ll listen to me.” said Friday, determination in her eyes.

They kept running, as fast as they could, but they sped up even more when they heard angered shouting.

“Oh, shit!” Nick said. “Revolution!”

“Keep moving!” Sunny called.

They ran, bursting out from behind several leaves and sliding out onto the beach facing the coastal shelves. Ahead of them, a table had been overturned, the bland island food scattered across the floor. All of the islanders were at each others’ throats, whether literally or figuratively; some were fighting with words, shouting to the skies. Some were pushing and shoving, and some were even punching or kicking. And at the edge of the crowd stood Ishmael, sitting on his throne on top of the sleigh, watching it all with vaguely concerned eyes as she sheep sniffed around the sand.

“Hey!” Lilac shouted, stepping forwards. “What in the nine circles of hell is going on here?”

Erewhon whipped around. “Baudelaires! Where were you? We had to start the mutiny without you! Where are our weapons?”

“We don’t have weapons!” Lilac said. “Listen! Everyone, Ishmael is a- Nick, how would you say this?”

“He’s a bitchass motherfucking liar!”

“Yes!”

“Ishmael can walk!” Friday shouted, as the fighting died slightly so they could see the approaching children. “He can walk and he locked us in the arboretum to die!”

“What were you doing in the arboretum?” Miranda asked.

“He has a poisonous fungus!” Klaus said.

“They’re obviously insane!” Alonso said. “Where would Ishmael get a poisonous fungus?”

“He can walk!” Friday shouted.

“I’m done with the way Ishmael’s running this fucking colony!” Finn shouted. “Everything exciting that shows up here gets thrown away, and now he’s walking around on his own?”

“He’s not walking!” Ariel said. “And I’ve had enough danger for a lifetime!”

“Danger will come whether you like it or not!” Weyden shouted. “This woman arrived on a raft of books, like I did!”

“You abandoned your books.” said Professor Fletcher.

“She did not!” Larson cried. “You helped her hide them so you could force those children to read!”

“We wanted to learn to read!” Friday shouted.

“You’re reading?” Miranda gasped.

“You shouldn’t be reading!” cried Madame Nordoff.

“Well, you shouldn’t be yodeling!” Dr Kurtz said.

“Yodeling is better than carrying a flashlight!”

“Carrying a flashlight is better than having a picnic basket!”

“Hiding a picnic basket is better than hiding a spyglass!”

“Hiding a spyglass is better than hiding an arboretum of shit!” Nick shouted. “And trying to murder us!”

And then the Baudelaires heard another voice, one that froze them dead in their tracks.

“Silence! All fall silent for the King of Olaf-Land!”

“Oh, fuck!” Nick cried, and Klaus and Violet pushed themselves in front of him, while Lilac grabbed Friday’s arm and dragged her behind them.

Olaf stumbled towards them, a gloating look in his eyes. He’d completely abandoned his disguise, and was holding the diving helmet in his arms. The islanders gasped, and Alonso said, “I thought we abandoned him on the Coastal Shelf!”

“We let him out!” Erewhon said.

“You did what?” Violet screamed, horrified.

“He can help us! He-” Finn began.

“He’s a liar and a murderer!” Lilac said.

“So are you, my dear.” Olaf said. He eyed her with his shiny eyes. “Why’d you do that to your hair? It makes you look much less pretty.”

“Get the fuck away from her!” Klaus shouted, grabbing Lilac’s arm.

Olaf laughed, turning to Ishmael, who was looking incredibly angry. “Oh, Ish,” he said, his eyes shining bright, “I told you many years ago that I would triumph over you someday, and at least that day has arrived! Your mutineering islanders let me out of my cage, Ishmael, to force you off the island and crown me king!”

“King?” Erewhon said. “That wasn’t the plan.”

“If you want to live, old woman,” Olaf said rudely, “I suggest you do whatever I say.”

“You’re already giving us suggestions?” Brewster said. “You’re just like Ishmael.”

“Untrue!” Olaf said, holding up the helmet. “I have the Medusoid Mycelium! It’s a poisonous fungus, and the second I release it, everyone here will be infected!”

“You don’t have the Medusoid Mycelium, dickfuck,” Klaus spat. “Ishmael does, and he tried to kill us with it!”

Olaf paused and then peered inside his diving helmet. And then he tossed it aside and said, “Well, isn’t that interesting? In that case, I suppose the Medusoid must be nearby. Henchpeople, go find it for me!”

“I have a better idea.” Violet took out her knife. “I stab you with this, I stab Ishmael, we get the fuck off the island.”

“Stab!” Sunny cheered.

“Why, Violet Baudelaire, that’s murder.” Count Olaf said. “You don’t-”

“The world would be a better place without you in it.” Violet insisted.

Friday let go of Lilac’s hand, wandering back through the crowd. Lilac turned towards her, watching her slip past everyone, and she hastily followed, giving Klaus a quick tap and gesture to let him know where she was going.

“Violence is not allowed on these shores!” Ariel said.

“There’s been plenty of violence anyway! You all were just fighting!” Nick said. “And Bitchmael tried to fucking murder us, can we please discuss that? Also, Hoelaf, stay put until Violet stabs your ass.”

“Now!” Ishmael shouted, sitting up straighter, not noticing Friday rush behind the sled. “I think we all need to stop! You’re all being silly. Let’s be cordial. Drink your cordial, and then we will banish these troublemakers to the coastal shelf.”

“We’re not going anywhere while you’re still the dictator here!” Violet said. “We won’t go anywhere until justice is served!”

“Then you’ll be standing here a long, long while.” Olaf snapped.

“Fuck off!”

“Fuck you!”

“Fuck this shit!”

“Please, no swearing is allowed here!” Miranda said.

“Fuck that!” Nick said.

“Listen to me!” Ishmael said. “These Baudelaires and their Count are rocking the boat too much, and-”

“And you’re a piece of shit!” Friday shouted, as she leapt forwards. She threw her arms out, pushing Ishmael’s chair with all her might, and as she did, Lilac jumped forwards to help her. With a start, the sheep let out terrified bleats and scattered, causing enough friction that Ishmael’s chair completely toppled.

The clay smashed onto the sand, and islanders gasped as Ishmael fell to the floor, the clay around his feet falling away. But that wasn’t all that fell; as soon as the chair toppled, out toppled a harpoon gun, an apple core, and the Medusoid Mycelium.

Several islanders screamed, leaping back, and then several things happened at once. Nothing ever good happened to the Baudelaires, when things got heated, weapons were out, and so many things were going on.

Lilac pushed Friday back, as Klaus ran forwards to grab onto the girl. Olaf rushed past the islanders, throwing himself at the Medusoid Mycelium, a greedy look in his eyes. Ishmael jumped to his feet, startling all the islanders, as he ran forwards and gripped onto the harpoon gun, throwing it up to point at the villain. Sunny let out a screech and Violet and Nick shared a look, quickly dropping the toddlers to the ground and running forwards, both putting their hands on the knife handle.

Olaf grabbed the helmet, as Ishmael grabbed the weapon and pointed it at him.

And then Violet and Nick leapt forwards and stabbed Count Olaf right in the side, at the same time that Lilac jumped at him and swiped her knife, hitting his hand.

Olaf let out a shocked gasp, and the helmet fell from his hands just as Ishmael shot. The harpoon soared through the air, and hit the glass of the helmet.

Lilac dropped her knife, and Violet and Nick ripped theirs out of Olaf, leaping back and screaming as spores filled the air.

Solitude let out a terrified shriek, so Nick thrust the knife into Violet’s hands and ran to her, hugging her tight and shutting his eyes a she screamed.

“What’s going on?” Omeros shouted.

“Something’s in my throat!” Erewhon said.

“Ishmael is standing!” Finn said.

Count Olaf stepped back, wheezing as blood leaked from his wounds, and he said, “Ishmael has just released the Medusoid Mycelium onto all of you!”

“Ishmael released poison onto us?” Alonso said.

“It’s the revolters’ fault for letting Olaf out!” Ariel said.

“It’s Olaf’s fault!”

“It’s the Baudelaires’!”

“It’s Ishmael’s!”

“It’s Friday’s!”

“It’s everyone’s!”

“It doesn’t matter!” Lilac said, stumbling back as tears sprang to her eyes. She ran back to Friday and Klaus, who were clinging to each other. “We all just breathed in the spores!”

“We only have an hour!” Violet said. “If we all don’t stop arguing, we’ll die!”

“The fungus is deadly?” Madame Nordoff shrieked.

“I didn’t stay on this island to die!” cried Ms Marlow. ‘I could have died a home!”

“Nobody is going to die.” Ishmael announced to the crowd.

“It depends on how you look at it.” Rabbi Bligh said. “Eventually we’re all going to die.”

“Not if you follow my suggestions.” Ishmael said. “Now first, I suggest that everyone take a nice, long drink from their seashells. The cordial will chase the fungus from your throats.”

“No, it won’t!” Violet cried.

“Fermented coconut milk is just an opiate!” Klaus said.

Nobody seemed to be listening, though, so Sunny just cried, “Arboretum!”

“Sunny’s right! There’s a kitchen in the arboretum!” Lilac said. She picked up Friday, holding her tight, and said, “We’ll be right back! We might be able to find horseradish!”

“They’re lying!” Ishmael said. “There’s nothing in the arboretum but junk! They’re trying to trick you!”

“We’re trying to save everyone!” Klaus said.

“Please, let’s hurry!” Nick cried, holding a screaming Solitude, who looked about ready to break down.

“Ishmael, why the fuck are you doing this?” Violet shouted. “If you just sit here and drink cordial, you’ll be doomed!”

“We’ve all breathed in the same poison, we’re all in the same boat!” Lilac said.

“We’ll see about that.” Ishmael said with a grim smile.

“Hightail it!” Sunny shouted, meaning, “We’d better hurry!”

The siblings rushed out, while Miranda called for Friday, and some islanders angrily called for the Baudelaires, and Olaf stumbled back onto the sand, trying to find something to wrap his wounds.

As the children hurried over the brae, all the way back to the arboretum, ducking through leaves and swinging through sand, they felt like their lives were slowly being sucked out them. The poison was working its wicked way through their systems, and every now and again, they had to stumble to a stop to cough, their lungs feeling like they might explode, their throats scratchy. Friday and Solitude were crying into the respective shoulders of the Baudelaires carrying them, while Sunny tried to look ahead and stop coughing, and Klaus and Violet grabbed onto each other, and Lilac pushed forwards, trying to lead her siblings the right way.

By the time they reached the apple tree, Violet said, “We don’t have much time!”

“Hope horseradish.” Sunny said.

Violet and Nick ran forwards to the clock blocking the door, and pushed and kicked it, screaming. Finally, once Klaus put down Sunny and ran to help, they managed to yank it back, and they slid inbetween the roots of the tree, running into the kitchen.

The toddlers were dropped on the counters, and Lilac put Friday down beside the fridge, and everyone dug through the pantries and racks, hoping and praying that they would find something. They found sage, oregano, paprika, dried parsley, garlic salt, tumeric, nutmeg, marjoram, and powdered lemon peel, but nothing they could use.

“There’s no horseradish! Nothing!” Violet said.

“No wormwood? Wasabi? Eutrema?” Sunny started to cry, as Solitude wandered to a couch and climbed onto it, sinking into a pillow and sobbing.

“Maybe it’s hidden somewhere.” Violet said.

“Who in the fuck would hide horseradish?” Nick said.

“Our parents.” Sunny sasid.

‘We don’t have time to search the entire arboretum to find horseradish!” Lilac said.

“Are we going to die?” Friday said, and she clung to Lilac again.

“Our parents have to have something here!” Violet said.

“I wish they’d told us something.” Klaus said. “Anything! About where to find horseradish! About VFD! About…”

“Maybe they did.” Nick ran to the floor, where he’d dropped A Series of Unfortunate Events. “They wrote all their secrets here. If they hid the horseradish, we’ll find it here.”

“We don’t have time to read that entire book!” Lilac said.

“If we fail,” Sunny said, her voice heavy with fungus, “At least we die reading together.”

The Baudelaires all gave each other grim looks, and then they nodded, and ran to the couch to pick up Solitude. They embraced each other, and cried, and Lilac flipped open the book, and said, “Find Mother’s handwriting.”

Like most people, the children had occasionally been in a curious and somewhat morbid mood, and spent a few moments wondering about the circumstances of their own death. Most people do not choose their final circumstances, of course, and if the Baudelaires had been given the choice they would have liked to live to a very old age. But if the six children, and Friday, who was cuddling against Lilac as Klaus put an arm around her and Sunny leaned on her leg, had to die while they were still children, then perishing in one another’s company while reading words written long ago by their parents was much better than many other things they could imagine.

They skimmed the pages, flipping through as fast as they could, looking for “horseradish”, “medusoid mycelium”, “fungus”, “wasabi”, or any other words they needed. As they read more and more, it grew harder and harder to breathe, until Klaus finally spotted the words.

“Here!” he said, his voice rough and wheezy. “Look!”

“Ishmael’s fearmongering has stopped work on the passageway, even though we have a plethora of horseradish in case of any emergency.”

“What does that mean?” Friday said.

“We’ll explain later.” Nick said.

Klaus kept reading. “We’re attempting a botanical hybrid through the tuberous canopy, which should bring safety to fruition despite its dangers to our associates in utero. Of course, in case we are banished, Beatrice is hiding a small amount in a vess-”

Klaus’s next cough was so violent that he fell to the floor. The other Baudelaires leapt down, huddling close to him. He slowly pointed one pale hand to the ceiling. “Tuberous canopy is the roots above our heads. A botanical hybrid is a plant made from the combination of two other plants. I… I don’t know what he’s talking about.”

“They put the horseradish into roots.” Nick guessed, coughing and shaking.

“Apples!” Sunny cried. “Bitter apples!”

“We need to eat an apple to dilute the fungus!” Lilac said.

But as the Baudelaires tried to stand, they found themselves collapsing on the ground, shaking. Friday stumbled a few steps before falling beside Violet, who quickly put an arm around her.

“Come on.” Lilac wheezed, struggling to move. “Come on.”

“We can’t make it.” Klaus cried.

“No…” Nick hugged Solitude to his chest as she wailed.

“We can’t die here!” Violet said. “Our parents saved our lives in this… in this very room, many years ago… with-without even knowing it…”

“Maybe not.” Klaus said.

Lilac shut her eyes, and hugged Sunny to her. “Maybe this is the end of our story.”

And then the children heard another sound, faint and strange, in the secret space beneath the apple tree their parents had hybridized with horseradish long ago. The sound was a low hiss, and Solitude suddenly looked up in hope.

The Incredibly Deadly Viper moved first to Sunny, the closest, and dropped an apple beside her.

Lilac quickly reached out and gave the apple to the toddler, who bit into it and then passed it to her. Lilac bit only to give herself enough strength to push to Violet and Friday, as Ink came back with another apple, dropping it beside Nick and Solitude. When they were done, they stopped by Klaus, who took his bite last. As they bit and chewed, they felt the fungus shrink away, and their breath coming back to them.

“Holy fuck.” Klaus gasped. He sat up, hot tears at the edge of his eyes. “Holy fuck…”

“We’re alive.” Lilac gasped, as Friday and Solitude let out wails and grabbed the nearest Baudelaire to hug. Sunny cried, too, running to hug Lilac, who pushed her arms out and brought all her siblings into a group hug.

“We’re alive.”

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SIX BAUDELAIRES AU: Four Days until Part III

These Things Don’t Just Happen - a Nick Baudelaire playlist

{8tracks} {playmoss}

Six Baudelaires: {ao3} {tumblr masterlist}

Full tracklist under the cut.

Get Off My Back ~ Bryan Adams // “Get off of my back and into my game / Get out of my way and out of my brain / Get outta my face or give it your best shot / I think it’s time you better face the fact / Get off of my back!”

Windmills of Your Mind ~ Parenthetical Girls // “Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own / Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shown / Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream / Like the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream…”

Keep Your Eyes Open ~ NEEDTOBREATHE // “Don’t let the night become the day / Don’t take the darkness to the grave / I know pain is just a place / Where the will's been broken / Don’t let the fear become the hate / Don’t take the sadness to the grave / I know the fight is on the way / And the sides have been chosen…”

Warriors ~ Imagine Dragons // “In youth you’d lay / Awake at night and scheme / Of all the things that you would change / But it was just a dream / Here we are, don’t turn away now / We are the warriors that built this town…”

You Can’t Take Me ~ Bryan Adams // “Why did it all go wrong? / I wanna know what’s going on / And what’s this holding me? / I’m not where I’m supposed to be / I gotta fight another fight / I gotta fight with all my might / I’m getting out, so check it out / You’re in my way, yeah, you better watch out!”

Who Will Save You No ~ Les Friction // “Alone with this vision / Alone with this sound / Alone in my dreams / I carry around / I will not take from you and you will not owe / I will protect you from the fire below / It’s not in my mind / It’s here at my side / Go tell the world that I am alive!”

Butterfly ~ Rachel Rose Mitchell // “Fall to your knees so they’ll overlook you / Play along, they’ll move onto somebody new / Save your complaints til they’re gone and won’t hear / They’ll turn out the lights but you won’t disappear…”

Top of the World ~ Greek Fire // “I remember the nights / Caught up in dreaming my goodbyes / Watching the door for anything more than an ordinary life / I remember the days / New beginnings on an open page / With something to prove and nothing to lose, not a soul to betray / Here I am / Living a dream that I can’t hold / Here I am, on my own…”

I’m Still Here ~ John Rzeznik // “I am a question to the world / Not an answer to be heard / Or a moment that’s held in your arms / And what do you think you’d ever say? / I won’t listen anyway / You don’t know me / And I’ll never be what you want me to be…”

Hold ~ Superchick // “Tell me I can make it through this day / I don’t even have the words to pray / You have been the only one who never left me / Help me find the way through all my fears / Help me see the light through all my tears / Help me see that I am not alone in this…”

Friend, Please ~ twenty one pilots // “Living like a ghost, you walk by everyone you know / You say that you're fine, but you have lost your sway and glow / So I stopped by to let you know / Friend, please remove your hands from over your eyes for me / I know you want to leave / But friend, please don't take your life away from me...”

Hope of Morning ~ Icon for Hire // “Try as I might to keep it together / Why is recovery taking forever? / Fool the whole world, just until I get better / I’m terrified I’ll be faking forever / On and on, I wonder what went wrong inside my head / I don’t have to have the answers, but tonight I wish I did / All the pain I can’t explain away won’t fade / All the the secrets silenced by the shame / Don’t make me say it…”

Red Like Roses, Part II ~ Casey Lee Williams and Sandy Casey // “It’s like a movie, but there’s not a happy ending / Every scene fades black, and there’s no pretending / This little fairy tale doesn’t seem to end well / There’s no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell / I know you didn’t plan this, you tried to do what’s right / But in the middle of this madness, I’m the one you left to win this fight…”

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Six Baudelaires AU, Part Three {AO3} {Masterlist} {Part One} {Part Two}

Chapter Twenty-Nine → in which Sunny turns to Arson

“No.” Violet gasped.

“No!” Nick shouted.

“Lilac!” Klaus screamed.

For a few moments, Lilac didn’t feel anything, and she was unsure why her siblings were so concerned, or why her dress was red, or why they’d all stopped fighting Olaf. And then, as soon as she realized what had happened, she felt… hot. Too hot. Holy shit, holy shit, she was on fire, she was on fire, who set her on fire? There wasn’t a fire, was there? Then why was she so…

Klaus and Violet ran forwards, grabbing their sister as she lost her balance and collapsed. They helped her up, stumbling out of the elevator, while Nick gripped tightly to a screaming Sunny and Soli and lifted them up to follow. Justice Strauss let out a gasp and a shriek, dragged into the hall by Olaf, who lowered his harpoon gun only enough to put his bloody knife back into his pocket.

Violet knelt beside Lilac, ripping her sister’s ribbon from her pocket and stretching it out. She was about to cry, looking ahead; there was a long strike against her eldest sister’s stomach, and a large line from where Olaf had swung his knife. It was bleeding too much, it was too big…

“Klaus, you know how to patch a wound?” Violet asked, her voice breaking.

Lilac opened her mouth to speak, but instead she just let out a cry as Klaus grabbed her hand, dropping to the ground. “We don’t have enough supplies!”

“Will the ribbon stop the bleeding?”

“You’ll have to tie it really tight-”

“Lilac!” Solitude sobbed, as Babbitt hopped over to the eldest Baudelaire, chirping worriedly.

“Li!” Sunny screamed, and then she whipped around to glare at Olaf, who had pushed Justice Strauss to the door ahead of them. “Bastard!” she screeched, trying to throw herself out of Nick’s arms, but he pulled her back, terror flashing in his eyes. He’d frozen again, fallen silent again, and now he was backing up, holding his younger sisters as tight as he could, refusing to risk Olaf hurting them, too.

“You son of a bastard bitch fuck!” Klaus shouted, as Violet pushed Lilac up slightly to put some of the ribbon behind her. “I will kill you!”

“Klaus-” Lilac began.

“Shh.” Violet said. “Don’t talk. Klaus, hand me the other end of the ribbon.”

“If you children are quite done with your dying sister,” Olaf said darkly, as he pushed Strauss a bit closer, “I need someone to type in this password so I can get the Sugar Bowl before I poison the hotel.”

“You bastard!” Solitude shrieked.

“Fucking asshole!” Klaus screamed.

“You…” Nick was shaking very hard, clinging tight to two struggling children. “You…”

“Yes, I got rid of one of you. I still have five left. Hurry up.” Olaf said.

“She’s not dead yet, dickfuck.” Violet said, and at that, she tied the ribbon. Lilac gasped at how tight she pulled it, and she continued, “Sit still, Li. We’ll find something. Always something.”

“And what the fuck makes you think you’ll be getting the Sugar Bowl, bastard man?” Solitude shouted.

“Because I get the Sugar Bowl, or I kill Justice Strauss.” Olaf said.

“You wouldn’t dare!” Strauss said. “As soon as my fellow High Court Judges-”

“They’re on Olaf’s side!” Violet shouted, putting an arm under Lilac to help her sit up.

Justice Strauss gasped. “That can’t be. I’ve known them for years! They were so interested in your case-”

“Because they were telling me all about it, dipshit.” Olaf said. “Now, I’m going to take the Sugar Bowl, then go to the roof to get the mycelium to poison the hotel.”

“You won’t be able to poison the hotel without killing yourself, not that we give a shit about your life, pissfucker.” Violet said.

“Okay, first of all, I commend you on the variety of swear words you have at your disposal,” Olaf said.

“Bitch!” Sunny shouted.

“Second,” Olaf said, “I’ll simply escape off the roof. There’s a sailboat up there Carmelita made me buy for her, I’ll simply push it off and escape into the sea.”

“That drop will kill you.” Violet said.

“Well, I suppose I’ll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.” Olaf growled.

Violet took a deep breath, and then said, “I’ll help you go down the roof and survive!”

“What?” Klaus said.

“Violet!” Nick shouted.

“If you take us with you!” Violet said.

Strauss and Lilac both gasped, and Olaf said, “And why would six puny orphans want to follow me?”

“Because we have nowhere else to go.” Violet said.

“Violet, what are you doing?” Nick asked.

Violet turned to him, and whispered, low enough Olaf couldn’t hear, “Stalling? I don’t fucking know.”

“Well first, my dear Violet-” Olaf said.

“Don’t go near her!” Nick said, pushing himself in front of Violet and Lilac, still gripping tight to the youngest two.

Olaf continued, as if Nick had not spoken. “-we’ll need to get the Sugar Bowl. The cryptid Denouement said that the first password was some medical condition you all share. If you would be so kind as to type that in-”

“I’ll do it.” Klaus said, jumping to his feet.

“Klaus!” Nick said.

“No, Klaus-” Lilac began, before Violet pulled the ribbon tighter and she gasped.

“Very good. Glad to see most of you are seeing sense.” Olaf said.

“Klaus, wait-” Justice Strauss began.

Klaus knelt in front of the door, and typed in PEPPERMINT ALLERGY. After a moment, they heard a familiar click.

“Fucking good.” Olaf said. “Next is the weapon that left me an orphan.” He turned and gave Nick a dark smile. “Would you be so kind as to type that in?”

Nick took a deep breath, as everyone turned to stare at him. Then, slowly, he put Solitude and Sunny down beside Lilac. Solitude grabbed Babbitt, cuddling them close, while Sunny just stared, horrified.

“I’m sorry.” Nick said to the others. “I wanted to tell you.”

Then he went to the door, scooting beside a startled Klaus, and he spoke as he typed.

POISON DARTS.

Violet’s eyes widened, and Lilac started to cry, and Klaus’s mouth dropped open. Solitude and Sunny stared at Nick, as if hoping he was joking, but they all heard the lock click.

“Now, bastard,” Nick turned to Olaf, glaring down the smug asshole, “You want me to type in the third one? The chorus of the lullaby?”

“Of course.”

Nick shared a look with Klaus, as Lilac whispered, “No…”

Once again, Nick spoke aloud as he typed, but this time he sung a little, tears starting to roll down his face.

And then they took him, yea, they took him They took him far away They took him in the dead of night Beneath a moon of gray

They took him from the kitchen Like you’d take a midnight snack The VFD they took him And they never brought him back

There was a third click, and the door swung open.

“Oh, what the fuck.” Solitude muttered.

“Boys…” Lilac gasped as Violet hugged her tight. “Why would you help him?”

Olaf raced into the room, just as Klaus said, “Because the Sugar Bowl’s not there.”

Indeed, in a few moments, they heard Olaf let out a scream of frustration. Nick ran for the toddlers, while Klaus helped Violet stand Lilac up, both grabbing one of her arms to help support her. Her face had gone pale, and despite their best efforts, she was starting to bleed through the ribbon. Justice Strauss ran to them, as if trying to figure out how she could help.

“Where is it?” Olaf snarled, whipping around; inside the small laundry room, there were some washing and drying machines, piles of dirty sheets, and plastic jugs, but no sugar bowl.

“That secret died with Dewey Denouement.” Klaus spat.

“Fucker.” Solitude said, as Nick picked her and Sunny up again.

Count Olaf turned to face the children, and they had never seen him look so frightening. “Well,” he said, “He won’t be the only volunteer that dies today. I will release the Medusoid Mycelium on this entire hotel-!”

“Burn down hotel.” Sunny said, and the Baudelaires froze.

“What did you say?” Olaf snapped, turning on the youngest, who Nick tried to shield quickly.

“Burn down hotel!” Sunny shouted.

“Sunny, no!” Justice Strauss said.

Count Olaf laughed. “She’s become an arsonist! I knew I was a good guardian!”

“You were a terrible guardian!” Violet said.

“S-Sunny doesn’t know what she’s saying!” Klaus said.

“Burn down hotel!” Sunny screamed again.

“Good idea, little toothy freak!” Olaf said. He grabbed a jug from the shelves and started pouring it onto the sheets. “This should be flammable enough!”

“Sunny, why?” Solitude asked, eyes wide.

Sunny just turned to her, and said, “Signal.”

The Baudelaires realized what she meant. Kit had said they’d be watching the skies.

“Do you think Kit knew?” Solitude asked, shuddering.

“It doesn’t matter.” Violet said. “What matters is a fire might also make people flee, before the mushrooms do.”

“What if the fire alarms don’t work?” Klaus asked.

“What’s a fire alarm?” Justice Strauss asked.

Violet shut her eyes. “Oh. That explains so goddamn much.”

“Give me that book, bitch.” Olaf said, and Justice Strauss gasped as he ripped Odious Lusting After Fortunes from her hands. “This should get rid of the evidence.”

“Alexandria,” Sunny said, which meant, “Unless she has a backup, you son of a bitchass motherfucker.”

“You can’t do this!” Justice Strauss said.

“I can do what I want!” Olaf shouted, and he dropped the book into a hamper. He pulled a lighter from his pocket and dropped it into the sheets, and they all watched as the flames quickly caught.

“Oh, fuck.” Nick stepped backwards, and Solitude let out a wail at the sight of the flames.

How many fires will we see? They all wanted to say, but instead, they stayed silent as Olaf pushed past them.

“How are we going to warn everyone?” Justice Strauss worried.

Solitude looked up at her siblings, and then said, “Preludio.”

They nodded at her, understanding immediately.

“What’d be brat say?” Olaf asked as they crowded into the elevator.

“She said you’re an assclown fuckface mcshithead.” Nick said. “And also that you won’t have time to spread the Medusoid throughout the hotel before it burns down.”

“What?” Olaf roared, and the second the doors closed, the Baudelaires leaned forwards and slammed onto every button, like their father had taught them.

“You wretched beasts!” Olaf shouted. “Now I-”

“Won’t be able to kill everyone, we got it.” Violet hissed. “But we’ll be able to warn everyone of your dick move. Klaus, help me with Lilac, she’s losing balance.”

“‘M fine.” Lilac lied.

“We need more fabric to make a bandage.” Klaus said.

Nick put the toddlers down as the elevator dinged open to the first floor. Several people were still running around, confused and blindfolded.

“Everyone! The hotel is on fire! Leave immediately!” Violet shouted.

The man with a beard but no hair was standing nearby. “Fire?” he said, in his strange, hoarse voice. “Good work.”

“Was that the Baudelaires?” said someone. “We need to capture them!”

“We need to capture Olaf!” said Jerome, hand-in-hand with Charles.

“He’s the in the elevator with the Baudelaires!” shouted the woman with hair but no beard.

“Call the fire department!” Solitude said desperately.

“Which one?” was the reply, from either Frank or Ernest, but the doors slid shut.

When they did, Nick rolled up his sweater and began ripping at the sleeve of his undershirt. Violet gasped as he ripped it clean off, and then in half.

“Wrap this around Lilac.” he said, hanging the strips to them. “They should be big enough to help.”

Violet bit her lip, and then took the strips. “Thank you.” she said. “Klaus, help me sit her down.”

“I can-” Lilac began, but she was starting to look dizzy.

Klaus and Violet sat her down as the doors opened, and Nick shouted, “There’s a fire!”

“Evacuate the premises!” Solitude shouted.

“A fire?” said Esme Squalor. She was still wearing a blindfold, and holding hands with Carmelita, who was feeling around the walls. “Who said that?”

“It’s us, bitch!” Solitude said, while Nick backed up a little. “Fire! Run!”

“Oh, don’t listen to the cakesniffers!” Carmelita said. “They’re trying to escape! Let’s take off our blindfolds and peek!”

“Don’t take off your blindfolds!” Count Olaf said. “These Baudelaires are guilty of contempt of court, and they’re trying to trick you into joining them! There’s no fire!”

“We’re not tricking you, Olaf is!” Klaus shouted.

“You’re all morons, anyway. And I still need to find my Sugar Bowl.” Esme said.

“Piss off, cakesniffers!” Carmelita said.

The doors slid hut before the Baudelaires could argue any further, and Violet and Klaus finished re-tying the fabric around Lilac’s wound. “How are you?” Klaus asked.

“I’ll… live.” Lilac glanced between the two, barely able to speak. “But I’m… I’m real tired, I-”

“Do not go to sleep, Li, the building is on fire.” Violet said.

The door dinged open, and Nick backed up towards his siblings while he shouted, “Fire! Fire! Get out!”

“Nicholas Baudelaire?” said Mr Poe. He was facing the entirely wrong direction, and holding his handkerchief up to his blindfold. “Don’t add the false reporting of fire to your list of crimes! You’re already guilty of contempt of court, and perhaps murder-”

“It’s not false!” Justice Strauss said. “There really is a fire, Mr Poe! You have to leave!”

“I can’t leave! I am in charge of the Baudelaires-” Poe said, just as the doors dinged shut.

With each stop of the elevator, they were faced with more or less the same as the last few floors. On the third story, Ms Bass was wandering around with a suspicious sack, and on the seventh story was Mr Remora and Vice Principal Nero. Eleanora Poe was wandering around the fifth, and Charles and Jerome held hands so as not to lose one another, and Hugo, Colette and Kevin were wandering around carrying birdpaper, and they saw many people they didn’t recognize, and many they did, many volunteers and villains, some who believed them, and some who didn’t. There were so many people running around, and so many people who had their own stories, stories the Baudelaires would never hear and never see.

But by the time they reached the roof, not a single one of them cared.

Klaus ripped off the bottom of his shirt to add to the bandage around Lilac, as Nick knelt down so he, Soli and Sunny could be closer to her. “It’s okay, it’s okay.” Violet whispered, pushing Lilac’s braids back. “It’s okay. Klaus, grab her when the door opens, we should be at the roof now. We’ll get her onto the boat.”

“Thanks to you orphans,” Olaf grumbled, “I won’t have time to poison the whole hotel, but at least we got to start a fire. Though I’m afraid some people might escape.”

“Some may not.” Justice Strauss shivered.

The Baudelaires glanced to each other, and then they felt the building tremble beneath them.

“The fire is weakening the structural foundations.” Violet said. She grabbed tight to Lilac’s arm, and then said, “Come on, we have to go. Klaus, help me get her into the boat.”

Without another word, all six Baudelaires turned from the adults and strode out of the elevator and to the boat. They lowered Lilac inside, and she curled up, still gasping a little from the pain and overheating. “We’ll attach a drag chute.” Violet said. “Nick, get in and hold tight to the girls, do not let them fall.”

Nick nodded seriously, sliding into the boat with his arms tight around Solitude and Sunny.

“I- I can- you-” Lilac tried to say.

Violet put a hand on her shoulder, and Klaus touched the other and said, “We’re not leaving you. Okay?” Lilac hesitantly nodded, tears in her eyes, and Klaus continued, “I’ll angle the sail to catch the wind.” Then, he whispered, “The wind would have pushed the bowl into the pond.”

“Then it’s where nobody can get to it.” Violet nodded at him. “Help me with this.”

Violet grabbed several towels and sheets and had Klaus help her bind them together, and then she turned to the adults and yelled, “Don’t just stand there! We need to push this to the edge of the roof!”

“Don’t boss me around, orphan!” Olaf said, as he used his knife to rip open a beach ball, pulling out the diving helmet full of Medusoid Mycelium.

“I’ll make you do whatever the fuck I want!” Violet said. “Boat, roof, now!”

Olaf grumbled, but tossed the helmet into the boat and began to help them push it farther.

“Come on! Get in!” Klaus called, turning to Justice Strauss.

The judge sadly shook her head, backing away. “No, I won’t go, it’s not right.”

“What else can we do?” Soli said, clinging to Nick.

“I won’t run from the scene of a crime. You children should come with me, and we’ll explain everything to the authorities.”

“They might not believe us!” Violet said.

“They could be compromised!” Nick said.

“Pease, children!” Just as they pushed the boat to the edge, and Olaf clambered inside, Justice Strauss grabbed the edge of the boat to stop them from pushing it. “Don’t make this your destiny.”

“We don’t have a destiny.” Lilac gasped out, as Violet and Klaus climbed beside her, tears flowing from her face. “We just have each other.”

“I won’t let you go, Baudelaires!”

Sunny climbed out of Nick’s lap and stepped towards the judge, for a moment looking like she was going to get off the boat. But she merely looked into the judge’s weeping eyes, and gave her a very sad smile.

“Goodbye,” she said, and bit the Justice’s hand.

Justice Strauss gasped and stepped back, and the hotel trembled again, and the boat fell from the roof.

It fell for a very long time, and while Olaf shouted, the Baudelaires just hugged and clung tight to each other.

When it hit the water, the Baudelaires were still together, all in a huddle as Olaf settled down, laughed about something, and commanded them to row.

“I’m sorry.” Lilac muttered.

“You have nothing to be sorry for.” Klaus whispered.

“We’re noble enough.” Violet said, though she wasn’t sure if she believed it.

They turned to see the smoke billow higher in the sky, as the boat sailed away into the ocean.

“The Last Safe Place,” Sunny said, “Is safe no more.”

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Chapter Forty → in which the Baudelaires go on

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TRIGGER WARNING: Nick's self-harm via scratching is mentioned very directly in the second segment, though not shown onscreen. Proceed with caution, and stay safe!

They buried Kit and Olaf far inland, where waves could not disturb their graves, marked with rocks with letters scratched into them. Klaus held the baby while Friday helped Sunny milk the sheep, and they fed her with a bottle Babbitt had located from the arboretum.

The sun set, and they knew the coastal shelf was no longer flooded, and they sat in the roots of the tree. Friday was crying again, though much more silently, as she leaned against Nick, who held her and Soli very close. Sunny leaned against Violet, who leaned against a numb Lilac, as Klaus put his head on her other shoulder and held the sleeping baby to his chest.

“What do we do now?” Friday asked, her voice faint. “We’re still here. We lost everything.”

“We didn’t.” Sunny said, putting a hand on Lilac’s leg. “We have each other.”

“We can’t escape.” Nick muttered. “We can’t escape treachery and trauma and… and everything.”

“We don’t need to escape.” Violet said. She turned to Lilac. “Do you remember that musical, based on that movie, based on that movie, based on that book-”

“Yes.” Lilac nodded, and she shut her eyes and sang for them.

“The world is cruel, the world is ugly, But there are times and there are people when the world is not…”

The Baudelaires all joined in, and Nick hugged Friday closer. “And at its cruelest, it’s still the only world we’ve got.”

“Light and dark,” the twins and Solitude sang.

“Foul and fair,” sang Violet and Lilac.

And then Sunny curled up and said, “Out there.”

They didn’t know if they could cry again.

“We have to look after her.” Violet said, looking to the baby. “Our… our little Beatrice.”

It was the first time anyone had spoken her name. At that, they all felt some kind of peace wash over them, like the waves around them washed over the sand. Beatrice was gone. Bertrand was gone. But the children were here. And the children could go on.

“I have something to tell you.” Lilac said. Nick gave her a sad look, and reached over to pat her leg. Lilac looked at the baby in Klaus’s arms, asleep, and she said, “I’m… do you remember the taxi driver?”

Friday shook her head, and Klaus explained, “There was a man who seemed to know us. Driving a taxi.”

Lilac shut her eyes, and then said, “He was my Dad.”

Her siblings fell silent. She expected them to say something, but none of them did. She didn’t dare look at them.

“Mom was engaged to him before she married Dad. They broke up around the time she got pregnant with me. His name was Lemony Snicket, and he’s Kit’s brother.” She curled up a little. “N-Nick found out, when he was with the Quagmires. He told me just… before the trial. I… I didn’t know how… I’m sorry, I…”

Violet leaned over and hugged her very tight, and then Sunny did the same. Klaus, Nick and Solitude ran over, as Violet whispered, “It’s okay.”

“What does that matter?” Klaus asked, struggling to hug her while still holding a sleeping newborn. “What does it matter?”

“You’re our Lilac.” Solitude said.

“Biggest sis.” Sunny said.

Lilac found out that, indeed, she could cry some more.

Violet opened the door of the closet, and said, “Hey, buddy.”

Nick was sobbing into his lap, and Violet saw with distress that his arms were red again. She opened the door very wide, settling a rock by it to keep it open.

They were outside with Beatrice, and Sunny was making smores. They thought it would be fun to have a campfire and test Violet’s new flamethrower, and Nick had gone inside to get buckets to load water in case the fire went out of control. They’d found some buckets in a closet in the arboretum earlier, so they’d expected him to be right back. When he wasn’t, Violet assumed something had gone wrong.

He pulled his sleeves down as she sat in the doorway, looking into the cramped space. “I-I’m sorry.” he said. “My markers are outside-”

“I know.” Violet nodded. “I… I guess we can’t lock you in the closet anymore, huh?” Her smile only lasted a few seconds. “I’m sorry. Just trying to cheer you up.”

“I know.” He shut his eyes. “How long was I…?”

“Only six minutes or so. I told Lilac you probably just stopped somewhere to use the bathroom-”

“No.” he shook his head. “How long was I trapped? I… I can’t remember. It was so long… I don’t remember counting the days, I… I was…”

Violet held out her arms, and Nick threw himself at her. She embraced him as tight as she dared, and she said, “It’s okay to cry. But it’s also okay if you don’t want anyone to know.”

“I… I can’t…” he shut his eyes. “It’s not fair.”

“I know.”

“He got away with it… he didn’t suffer.”

“He did. We stabbed him.”

“He got to die a hero.” Nick sobbed. “And I know it’s selfish, and I know I should just be happy Bea is safe, but… he got to die a hero. He didn’t suffer. I… I wanted him to suffer. I wanted everything he did to us… am I a bad person?”

“No. No, you’re not. You’re still our Nick.”

Violet hugged him as he cried, letting it all out. It took several minutes for him to calm down, and when he did, she said, “Can you sit here a moment?”

“Are you gonna get my markers?”

Violet bit her lip. “I’ll be right back. No scratching?”

“I’ll try.”

She shut her eyes. “And nothing else.”

“Can I just go with you?”

“I… I’ll be right back. Just stay here a mo?”

Nick hesitantly nodded, and let her slip away. He sat on the floor of the arboretum for a while, looking around at the crib they’d set up in the corner, that Lilac had repaired and Violet had made a mobile for. Sunny’s dishes from her last creation were still in the sink, and Solitude’s little habitat for Babbitt was still on the ground, where Lilac was rebuilding the swinging door. Klaus and Nick’s books were spread on the ground, and Nick could see Friday’s commonplace book- he’d given her the one Quigley gave him, miraculously not wet enough to be damaged, and she loved it more than anything. There was the star chart the boys had been working on, pinned to the wall beside the periscope, reminding Nick that the night still went on. Days still went on.

Violet came back, and she held out her hand. “Stand up, and grab that baseball bat.” she said.

He jumped. “What?”

“Friday’s gonna watch Bea, we’re all taking a trip.”

Confused, Nick stood and grabbed a nearby bat that had washed up last storm. Violet took his hand and led him outside, and he flinched when he saw their other siblings waiting. “I…” he began.

Lilac shook her head. “Just walk with us.”

They walked inland, with Nick too tired and distraught to ask questions until they reached their destination.

“Why…?” he looked down at the graves of Kit and Olaf, spread in front of them.

Violet let go of his hand, stepping back. “Do what you want to it.” she said.

“What?”

“The grave.” she nodded. “Do whatever the hell you want.”

Nick hesitantly took a step forwards, glancing around at his siblings. They all nodded at him, and Solitude even gave him a smile.

Then, carefully, he kicked Olaf’s rock. It shook a little. He kicked it again, and it shook some more.

“Piece of shit.” he said, and then he grabbed the bat and swung. “Piece of shit!”

The rock flinched under the bat, and he continued to hit, swearing and pounding until a crack formed. Then he slammed onto the dirt, shutting his eyes and letting hot tears flow down his face. He didn’t care the mess he was making, or who was watching him. But as kept hitting, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

He turned, and saw Violet stab at the ground with her knife. And then Klaus came forwards, and kicked the dirt. Lilac let out a quiet shout as she slammed the rock with a large stick, and Sunny bit onto the edge. Solitude pounded the ground, and Nick took a deep breath and got back to his beating.

By the time they were done, the rock had split into pieces. Nick turned to look as it cracked, and everyone calmed, and then he counted how many pieces.

“Six.” he said. “Dumb bastard.”

Then he dropped the bat, and hugged Klaus, who embraced him and held out his arm to pull the others in.

“We’re here.” Lilac whispered.

“I know.” Nick said, and that was all they needed to say.

They never told Bea she had the same shine in her eyes as her father. She didn’t need to know.

But they told her she had her mother’s smile, and the same eyes as the other Snickets they’d met.

“You have Biggest Sister’s eyes.” Sunny would sometimes tell her, and the baby would clap and cheer that she was just like Lilac.

Bea liked cake. And she liked watching Violet invent. She liked when Nick tossed her in the air to catch her, and when Lilac sang to her, or played patty-cake. She liked when Klaus read her stories, sometimes fairytales, sometimes true accounts. She liked when Solitude trusted her with Babbitt or a bug she’d recently caught, so Bea could giggle as they crawled or squirmed around her and tickled her. She liked when Sunny gave her things to bite, or chatted with her in their little secret language. And she liked when they all came together and showed her something they’d found on the beach.

Lilac and Klaus made everyone clothes, either by repairing ones that washed up on the shore, or making new ones from whatever fabric they could find, some of which was the wool that Violet and Nick sheared from the sheep. Friday’s first dress was purple, and she spun around in it until she fell over onto Nick. Beatrice’s first onesie was yellow, and Lilac told her, even though she was too young to remember, about how it was the color of the sun, because she brought light back into their lives.

Lilac kept cutting her hair short. She liked it short. She liked thinking about things. She could still braid it a little, she just had to be a bit creative. Her songs got happier, too. She stopped asking everyone if they wanted sung to sleep, and instead just started bursting into a melody whenever she felt like it.

Violet collected ribbons, some of which she let Beatrice chew on, “for luck.” She showed Bea and Friday how things fit together, and told them about how when they got back to shore, she’d show them much more. She built and helped Lilac repair, and kept all the tools in order- and out of reach of Sunny, who kept trying to stab fish with a screwdriver.

Nick once found some paints, and Beatrice started painting on her arm, so she could have drawings like him. He’d cried, and she’d hugged him, and he’d asked if she wanted to exploring. He loved exploring the island. He’d started mapping it. He knew Quigley would want to see the map someday. Bea loved exploring, too, with her big brother.

Klaus read all the books he could find, and Lilac helped him repair the ones that washed up on shore. He read aloud to everyone, and they’d laugh about ridiculous plots, or theorize about mysteries, or ask him to clarify a fact in a nonfiction. He liked when they asked him things. He liked having the answers.

Friday read, too, and she took notes in her commonplace book with pens that her siblings found for her. She sometimes still sat on the beach, claiming the sounds of the waves and birds helped her concentrate as she did the schoolwork Lilac gave her or wrote about her day or the story she was crafting about a girl in a haunted grove, but the Baudelaires knew that sometimes she was looking out at sea, waiting to see a boat of familiar faces. They sat with her, then, and let her lean against them.

Solitude found all the herpetology books, which Klaus and Friday read to her. She furnished Babbitt’s habitat, and let her hair grow out so that she could braid it. She also learned how to craft jewelry from shells, and she made everyone a bracelet to wear, to mark them as a Baudelaire. They were all Baudelaires forever.

Sunny cooked with all the food they could grow in the arboretum, or that washed ashore. She milked the sheep, and broke coconuts, and showed Friday how to work the stove and sink. She made her first cake all by herself when Bea turned a month old, and she was never happier to see her siblings’ faces then when they gazed at delight at her surprise.

And Bea… Bea grew up.

“One day, you’ll meet our friends.” Lilac told her once.

“They’ll be alright.” Solitude said. “The nice lady at the hotel had a statue just like the Great Unknown. I didn’t recognize it at first, but when Kit mentioned it, I remembered.”

“A statue normally wouldn’t mean anything,” Violet had told Friday, “But, well, Nick found some interesting accounts, didn’t you, Nick?”

“Li’s Dad is a wordy motherfucker,” Nick said, tossing a file that had been slipped into a bowl of honeydew melons, “But yeah, I did.”

“And if we’re wrong…” Lilac bit her lip. “Well, we’re not. We have hope.”

“You gave us, that, Bea.” Klaus told her. “You and Friday gave us all hope.”

“We didn’t do that.” Friday said. “You all have each other, and that makes you happy.”

Lilac put a hand on hers. “We all have each other.” she nodded.

They usually ended every day by reading through their parents’ notes. It was comforting, seeing their handwriting, knowing that they were helping them, even though they probably never thought this was the way they’d do it. They’d add their own stories to the blank pages in the back, everything they’d learned, and everything they hoped.

They wondered if their parents ever thought they’d have this many children, or that their children could grow up so much.

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Chapter Thirty-Four → in which Friday goes off-book

“The ocean looks so pretty today.” Solitude said, as she gripped Nick’s hand and toddled ahead of them.

Friday nodded, skipping over some stones and walking along the gray line of the coastal shelf. “It’s always pretty after a storm.”

“Do you think there were any other castaways?” Lilac asked, taking Sunny’s hand to help her over some driftwood.

“I dunno. Probably not, they usually show up first thing.” Friday narrowed her eyes, squinting through the light fog. “Unless that’s a boat.”

They looked ahead, seeing some kind of figure on the edge of the shelf. It was hard to say what it looked like, only that it was large, and square and ragged.

Lilac picked up Sunny, pushing her hair back, and Nick grabbed Solitude, while Klaus and Violet each grabbed one of Friday’s hands. They approached cautiously, and realized that the object was not a ship, but stacks and stacks of books, wrapped together with green straps. Water and damp pages trickled out from all sides, and as they approached, they saw a foot hanging over the edge, an eye tattooed on the ankle.

“Olaf?” Sunny asked, but her siblings shook their heads.

“If I climb onto Nick’s back,” Violet said, “We can hoist Sunny and Soli up.”

“Lilac could stand on me shoulders, if that won’t hurt her,” Nick said, “And Klaus can get on yours, Vi. We all know he sucks shit at climbing but he can probably hold for long enough to get Sunny up.”

“Thanks for that, dick.” Klaus said.

“I can probably climb.” Friday said, moving a little farther down the wall. “I’ve climbed trees before. What’s this thing made of?”

Klaus started. “Friday, these are books.”

Her eyes widened. “These are books? They all have stories in them?”

Klaus nodded, smiling. “That’s right! But let’s find out who’s on top first, before we start grabbing books, okay?”

Friday nodded seriously. “I’ll check around the back to see if anything fell, while you guys check out the person. I’ll just be over there if you need me.”

“Let us know if you need anything.” Lilac said, and Friday nodded and ran around the corner.

“Okay, girls, let’s go up.” Nick said, handing Solitude to Lilac. Lilac climbed on his back and lifted Solitude, while Klaus struggled onto Violet’s and lifted Sunny. The two girls climbed on top of the books, and immediately recognized the woman laying there, in a damp dress of dark velvet. The foot hanging over the cube was bent in a strange way, but she otherwise looked unharmed.

“Kit!” Sunny called to her siblings.

“Kit Snicket?” Lilac shouted.

“No, Kit Kittredge.” Solitude sighed.

“What the hell is Kit Snicket-” Nick began.

And then they heard a chilly, familiar voice squeak, “Yes?”

Lilac threw her arms in front of her siblings, only for Violet and Nick to grab her arms and push her behind them.

A figure stepped out of the mist to greet the children, and Sunny and Soli frowned down the book tower. It was Count fucking Olaf, wearing a streaked red dress, and a pile of seaweed on his head to resemble long hair.

“Holy fucking shit, dude.” Nick said. “This is low even for you.”

“I don’t know what you mean.” Olaf said in a high-pitched voice.

“What is going on?”

The Baudelaires jumped and turned; through the fog was coming a crowd of islanders, who had been ready to storm scavenge. They looked in confusion at the group, and then Lilac said, “This is Count Olaf!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” said Olaf. “I’m Kit Snicket.”

“Yeah, no.” the Baudelaires jumped as Friday stepped back with them, staring over at Olaf. “You’re Count Olaf, and I thought I told you to go away.”

“Friday!” said Dr Kurtz. “We’ve been looking all over for you! You weren’t with the sheep-”

“We can talk about that later.” Friday said nervously, and Solitude noticed a bulge under her dress that hadn’t been there before. “Firstly, this is Count Olaf, the bad man.”

“No, I’ve never heard of this Count Olaf.” said Count Olaf.

“Dude,” said Larsen, “You’re clearly in some kind of dumb disguise. If Friday says you’re Count Olaf, then you’re Count Olaf.”

“Why, of course not!”

“Why is he dressed as a pregnant woman?” said Professor Fletcher.

“Because I am a pregnant woman.” Count Olaf said. “My name is Kit Snicket, and I’ve been looking everywhere for these children.”

“You’re not Kit Snicket!” said Ariel.

“Kit Snicket is up on this pile of books,” Violet said, reaching up to help Sunny down from the top of the cube, as Nick grabbed Soli, “She may be hurt or ill. But this is Count Olaf!”

“Well,” said Brewster, considering, “Ishmael did suggest that we stop listening to you, because you were spreading lies. And your friend is on a pile of books, which are bound to lead to trouble.”

“However, he also told us this Count Olaf was a wicked person.” Fletcher said. “And we should always help the injured.”

“Let’s get Ishmael.” said Omeros.

“How can you get him if he doesn’t move?” Nick asked.

“We’ll put his chair on the sleigh and have the sheep drag him here.” said Sherman. “Friday, you stay to guard, and we’ll be right back.”

“We should get some more coconut cordial, too.” said Madame Nordoff. “My seashell’s almost empty.”

“Stop drinking that shit!” Nick said, but the islanders just shrugged him off and wandered away. In a few minutes, the colonists were nothing more than faint shapes on the misty horizon.

“Don’t worry, Baudelaires. They’ll get rid of him.” Friday said.

“Or us.” Lilac said worryingly.

“But you haven’t done anything wrong.” said Friday.

“Neither have I!” said Olaf, in his high-pitched voice.

“Please, please stop.” Klaus said. “Please just shut the fuck up and go die somewhere.”

“Oh, I don’t think you’d want me to stop pretending.” the villain said, still in his false voice. He reached behind him, and then pulled out the harpoon gun, with its bright red trigger and one last harpoon. “If I were to say that I was Count Olaf, instead of Kit Snicket, I might start behaving like a villain, rather than a noble person.”

“You’ve never behaved like a noble person.” Klaus said. “And that weapon doesn’t scare us.”

“You only have one harpoon, dipshit.” Nick crossed his arms as Solitude let Babbitt onto the coastal shelf to explore, “And this island is full of people who aren’t huge fans of weapons.”

“Yeah, that shit is useless.” Friday said.

Olaf raised his eyebrow. “Why, Baudelaires, you’ve corrupted this young girl’s language.”

“Go to hell.” Friday said.

“Oh my God,” Violet put an arm around the girl, “I’ve never been prouder of anyone.”

“You’ll be prouder of me when I get my first book!” Friday practically buzzed with excitement. “You know, Ishmael said it wasn’t a good idea to teach us Island Kids to read, but Professor Fletcher taught us in secret.”

“Ishmael forced you all to stay illiterate?” Violet asked.

Friday bit her lip. “He doesn’t force anyone. But everyone agrees with him.”

Sunny wandered over to her, and then took her whisk out of her pocket. “Whisk.”

Friday smiled. “Good to see you still have that, Sun. I thought it’d be nice if you had something to help you cook. You’ll keep my secret, won’t you?”

“Of course.” Lilac said, kneeling in front of her. “But you shouldn’t have to deal with Ishmael’s- hold on.” She looked over Friday’s shoulder. “Olaf, don’t wander off, we still have to kill you. Violet, use your knife if he moves again.” Olaf groaned and turned back, and then Lilac continued, “As I was saying, you shouldn’t have to deal with Ishmael’s rules, no matter what pressure the people put on you to listen to him.”

Friday bit her lip. “I love learning, Baudelaires, and exploring, but I don’t want to rock the boat. Ever since my father’s… whatever happened to him, my mother has wanted me to be safe, which is why we left the world far behind and decided to stay on the island. But the older I get, it seems the more secrets I have. Professor Fletcher taught me secretly to read. Omeros taught me secretly to skip rocks, even though Ishmael says it’s dangerous. I secretly sneak out to meet you all every day.” She reached into robe, and smiled. “And now I have another secret, just for me. Look what I found curled up on the other side of the books!”

Count Olaf had been glaring silently at the children, but as Friday revealed her secret, he let out a shriek even more high-pitched than his fake voice. But the Baudelaire orphans did not shriek, staring hard at the long, thick creature, dark as a coal mine, that leapt forwards and immediately pounced upon Sunny. Normally, this would cause the Baudelaires quite a bit of distress.

But instead, Solitude let out a shriek of pure joy. “Incredi!” she yelled, and Babbitt leapt on top of the snake as it wrapped around the youngest Baudelaire.

The other Baudelaires beamed. “It’s the Incredibly Deadly Viper!” Lilac said in amazement.

“How did it get here?” Violet said.

Friday stared at them and then blinked very, very slowly. “That thing I was holding,” she said, “Was called what?”

“No, no, don’t worry.” Lilac put a hand on her shoulder. “It’s a misnomer, which means it was given a very wrong name- by our Uncle Monty, actually.”

“It’s one of the least deadly and most friendly creatures in the animal kingdom.” Klaus said, smiling as Sunny hugged the snake wrapped around her, biting it affectionately, and Solitude ran up to join in, staring at the snake in pure wonder.

“I don’t know much about the animal kingdom.” Friday moved to sit beside Sunny and Soli and the snake, watching with interest. “There’s so much of the world I’m missing by living here.”

“The world is a wicked place,” Count Olaf said quietly, and now it was the Baudelaires who shuddered.

But only a few seconds after that, they saw the approach of the sheep. The mist had cleared a little, and Ishmael, still sitting on his white chair with his feet covered in hunks of clay, was being pulled on the sleigh, with all the rest of the villagers behind him. But as they approached, they realized something else was on the sleigh; the ornate silver birdcage from the last storm.

“Count Olaf.” Ishmael said in a booming voice, as soon as his chair arrived. He stared down at the villain scornfully but also carefully, as if memorizing his face.

“Ishmael,” said a disgusted Count Olaf.

“Call me Ish.”

“Call me Kit Snicket.”

“I’m not going to call you anything.” Ishmael said. “Your reign of treachery is over, Olaf. You’ll be locked up immediately.”

Jonah and Sadie lifted the bird cage from the sleigh, set it on the ground and pushed open its door. With a nod from Ishmael, Weyden and Ms Marlow wrestled the harpoon gun from Olaf’s hands and dragged him into the bird cage, shoving him inside.

Sunny’s eyes lit up, as the Incredibly Deadly Viper unraveled itself and slithered behind her. “Karma.” she said, eyes sparkling.

The villain fit in the cage, but just barely. “This isn’t fair!” he said. “I’m Kit Snicket, a pregnant woman, and you’re locking me up and leaving those treacherous children out!”

“Oh, fuck. Forgot they hated us.” Nick whispered, just as the islanders turned to look at them. Some of them were glaring, while others looked merely curious. Ishmael’s gaze was unreadable, but the children felt cold as he looked at them.

“We’re just here to help Kit.” Lilac said cautiously, standing up straight and pushing her hair back. “We don’t want any trouble.”

Before Ishmael could speak, they heard a gasp. Miranda, Friday’s mother, stepped forwards. “Friday!” she shouted. “Get away from that snake! It’ll hurt you!”

Friday, still sitting beside Soli and Sunny, glanced to the Incredibly Deadly Viper and shook her head. “No. The Baudelaires said it’s friendly.”

“They’re treacherous, Friday!” Miranda said darkly, giving the children glares. “Get away from them, too. Come here!”

“Yes, Friday, come back.” Ishmael said. “I won’t force you, but I think you should stick with us from now on.”

Friday stiffened, her eyes going wide with fear as she gazed onto the crowd of islanders. She glanced from them to the Baudelaires. Slowly, Lilac grabbed Violet’s hand, squeezing it, and said, “It’s your decision, Fri.” Nick and Klaus nodded, and Sunny leaned on Soli’s shoulder and stroked the Incredibly Deadly Viper, who still had Babbitt cuddling on its head.

“It’s my…” Friday repeated, staring at the sand.

“Friday!” Miranda shouted. “Come here!”

Friday sighed and stood up, taking a few steps forwards. She looked at her mother, and her mother’s outstretched arms, and then out at the crowd. Watching her. Waiting for her to listen.

And then she stepped back.

“No,” she said. “No, I don’t think so.”

Miranda’s eyes widened. “Friday!”

“I think I want to stay here.” Friday said. “I want the books. And the snake. And the Baudelaires.”

Ishmael turned his eyes to the girl as her mother gasped. “Friday,” he said, “Don’t rock the boat. Books and snakes and those children- they’re dangerous.”

“I think,” Friday said sternly, stomping her foot. “I want to stay here. You all can go if you want.”

“Friday!” said a young boy- Omeros. “You know this place’ll flood tomorrow for Decision Day!”

“So I won’t be here for that.” Friday shrugged. “But for right now, I want to stay here.” She looked over at Ishmael, and then said, “You can’t force me.”

And then she spun on her heel and ran for Lilac, throwing her arms around her and hugging her tight. Lilac started, surprised, but she hugged the girl back, and then turned to glare at Ishmael.

Ishmael looked a bit like he was struggling to keep calm and maintain control of the situation, which made the Baudelaires very happy. “Friday,” he said, “I strongly suggest you get away from these children.”

“She made her decision.” Nick said.

Ishmael turned to glare at him. “I think you’ve all been putting thoughts in her head.”

Lilac gripped tighter to the girl. “Lay a hand on her and we’ll beat you senseless.”

“Oh, please do.” said Olaf from his birdcage.

“That goes for you, too, asswipe!” Lilac shouted.

“Are you threatening our facilitator?” gasped Alonso.

“We just want to be left alone.” Klaus said.

“If you’re threatening our facilitator,” Miranda said darkly, “Then we’ll have to find birdcages for all of you.”

Nick stepped back, and Sunny bared her teeth, and at that moment, Friday ripped herself away from Lilac, and said, “I’m sorry! I made a mistake!”

The Baudelaires gasped quietly, and the Islanders looked relieved. Ishmael even looked smug.

And then Friday leapt across the shelf, jumping beside the toddlers. There, she picked up the Incredibly Deadly Viper, letting Babbitt slide onto Solitude’s head, and then she ran back to stand in front of the Baudelaires.

“This isn’t a friendly snake!” she shouted. “It’s called the Incredibly Deadly Viper! It only listens to the Baudelaires, so if you try to trap them, it’ll attack!”

The colonists gasped and stepped back, and Solitude ran forwards and started imitating the viper’s hisses, hoping to look like she was talking to it. It cocked its head curiously at her, but that did enough of a trick that Miranda looked like she might pass out, and Willa immediately pushed someone in front of her.

Ishmael just gave the snake a look. “That snake is harmless.” he said. “It used to live here, actually, when-”

He cut himself off, his eyes going a bit wide. Seeing this reaction, Nick stepped towards Friday, putting a hand on her shoulder. “When? Go ahead, Ishmael, tell us when.”

Ishmael opened and closed his mouth a few times, and then he said, “You know what? You Baudelaires remaining here will be punishment enough. This area will flood tomorrow, and you and Count Olaf will be off of our island forever, unable to rock the boat. Friday, when you are done playing with these scoundrels, we will welcome you back. Would you like some cordial before we leave? Perhaps your shell is empty.”

Friday stared at him, and then passed the snake to Nick. Then she took her shell, and, while looking Ishmael dead in eye, slammed it onto the sand and stomped on it. It crashed into tiny pieces, and the remains of the fermented coconut milk spilled into the water. The colonists gasped, and Miranda grabbed tight onto her own shell and backed up.

Ishmael stared at the broken pieces, and then over at Friday.

And then he said, “We should leave.”

The islanders slowly turned the sleigh around, leading the sheep, and Ishmael off. Miranda stopped behind the group, watching Friday carefully. “Friday, come on.” she pleaded, holding out her hand.

Friday just stared at her, and then she said, very slowly and clearly, “Manatees are herbivores.”

Miranda was silent for a moment, and then she turned and followed the colonists away.

There was a tense silence, and then Friday turned around and threw herself back at Lilac. The eldest Baudelaire hugged her tight, and said, “It’s okay. It’s okay. You did good, Friday, you did so good.”

Violet came closer, and also put her arms around the girl, followed by Nick and Klaus, and finally Sunny and Soli. “Good job, Fri-girl.” Violet whispered. “Good job.”

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