HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I finished watching the third season of ASOUE yestersye and had a lot of inspiration to write this. It's a story of how I would've loved The Penultimate Peril to turn out. I hope you like it!

"It's all I know how to…" Olaf whispered, his voice shaky, he let go off the harpoon gun and looked at Violet, Klaus and Sunny "I'm sorry orphans.."

"What is going on here?!" Suddenly a voice from behind them called, the Baudelaire, startled, let go off the harpoon gun which crashed on the ground and went off. The arrow just barely missing Dewey who had just moved an inch to see the source of the voice he had been ever so familiar with.

"Kit?"

"Dewey? Baudelaires? Olaf? What on Earth?!" Kit ran to Dewey and hugged him tight.

"Dewey was telling us about the library when Count Olaf showed up!" Violet told the woman.

"Gun!" Sunny said which meant something along the lines of 'he tried to shoot Dewey with a harpoon gun'.

"I was never going to shoot him! I would never leave your baby without a father, I know how truly awful it is to grow up without a parent." Olaf told Kit, and for a moment she felt sorry for the villain, but that moment has passed and she suddenly grew angry again she didn't notice Frank or Earnest walking up next to them.

"Is everyone alright? What has happened?" Frank or Earnest asked.

"Frank?" Dewey asked unsure.

"Yes, it's me."

"Good. Please help me escort Count Olaf to a broom closet of some sort until the trial. We wouldn't want anymore accidents." Dewey grabbed Olaf's arm while his brother grabbed the other one and they lead Olaf away.

"I'll be with you in a moment darling!" Kit called to Dewey before turning back to the Baudelaires. "Oh, Baudelaires! I have good news for you! I trust you found out who J.S. is?"

"We did! It was Justice Strauss. She has been following us ever since we went away to live with Uncle Monty." Klaus told the older woman.

"Guardian." Sunny said, which meant 'she offered to take us in and raise us until Violet is of age.'

"What is the good news you have for us. We could sure use some." Violet asked.

"Quigley Quagmire send me a message. He reunited with his siblings, they are safe and will be arriving here at the hotel soon." Kit told the orphans with a smile that that the siblings more than gladly returned.

"They're coming? They're actually coming?" Klaus couldn't believe it. It's been a long time since he has seen his friends.

"I can hardly wait! We have so much catching up to do!" Violet sighed happily.

"Come now Baudelaires, let's head inside and change. I think we can finally relax for a while."

After the Baudelaires have changed into more suitable clothes, which were brought by Kit, they went down to the hotel lobby, where they found Kit and Dewey curled up on a sofa.

"Hello again, Baudelaires." She greeted them. "I trust your clothes fit well?"

"Yes, they are very much to our liking." Violet answered and sat down on an arm chair with Sunny in her lap.

"Fashionable!" Sunny squealed.

"May we ask what kept you for so long, Kit?" Klaus asked politely.

"Of course you may." Kit answered. "I'm afraid that while on my mission to retrieve the Quagmires I had an encounter with the 'Great Unknown'. I managed to escape, just barely and that's when I got the message from Quigley that he had found Duncan and Isadora and that they would be shortly arriving, although I can't say for sure when that will be."

"That happens to be right now, actually" A voice suddenly interrupted the conversation. "Hello again Baudelaires, Kit.."

"Quigley!" Violet gently put Sunny down before she got up and ran straight to the triplet, Klaus and Sunny quickly followed their sister and hugged and greeted the two other triplets.

"Words cannot express how truly happy I am to see you all." Klaus said as he hugged Isadora.

"We feel the same way." Isadora smiled and returned the hug.

"Miss you." Sunny said as she ran up and hugged Duncan's leg, who picked her up and laughed.

"We missed you too Sunny, all of you." He said and glanced at Violet who was standing next to Quigley with a wide smile on her face.

"I don't believe we've met before." Isadora said to Kit and Dewey.

"Oh, we've met alright, but I hardly expected you to remember me. You were only a baby!" Kit said and put out her arm. "Kit Snicket, Jacques' sister. And this is my husband Dewey."

"I'm very sorry for your loss, Jacques Snicket was a great man." Duncan told her.

"Thank you Duncan." Kit smiled. "I'm very sorry Baudelaires, Quagmires, but I've had a long journey and am very tired, I think I best be off to bed, I do believe you have a lot to catch up on."

"Goodnight!" the Baudelaires and the Quagmires called after her and Dewey.

"Do tell us Violet, Duncan, Sunny. What happened after our split? I'm very curious." Isadora asked them as she sat down.

"Yes, Quigley didn't tell us a lot, he said you were safe and together which was most important, but I'd like to hear the rest of it." Duncan added.

"The reason I didn't tell you much is because I myself don't know." Quigley said.

"After we split up we caught a ride with a group of people who called themselves Volunteers Fighting Diseases. They were volunteers who cheered up people with deadly diseases at Heimlich Hospital." Violet began explaining.

"When we got there we found out that there was a Library of Records there." Klaus informed.

"V.F.D." Sunny added.

"Yes. We thought we ought to investigate about V.F.D. there. We broke into the library and found a film with Jacques Snicket on it, he was saying how he thought there was a survivor of the fire. At first we thought it was one of our parents, but now we know it was actually Quigley." Violet smiled at him.

"Count Olaf, Esme and his troup took Violet. Olaf was going to perform surgery on Violet's brain, but shortly after that the entire hospital caught on fire and we escaped. We hid in Olaf's trunk all the way to Caligari Carnival where we were disguised as circus freaks. Count Olaf threw a performance and pushed the librarian from Prufrock Prep, Olivia, into the lion pit." Klaus stopped and looked down.

"Oh no." Isadora's eyes were now watering.

"Gone" Sunny said sadly.

"She was a good woman. She worked for V.F.D. and she tried to help us." Violet said. "After that they took Sunny and up to the mountains and Quigley helped us save her, but we split up with him at the river."

"I think you know the rest." Klaus asked.

"Yes, Kit told me, and I informed my siblings. I hope all of this will be over by tommorow." Quigley prayed.

"Me too." Sunny said.

"Me too." Violet mumbled under her breath and stared at Quigley, who noticed her eyes on him anf gave her a small smile that made the eldest Baudelaire feel butterflies in her stomach.