Even though I don't really like one-shots, I decided to write one. Go figure, eh? It takes place when the Baudelaires are at Prufrock Preparatory School. In the books, Klaus and Violet seem to have a different relationship than my friends do with their siblings (I'm an only child! YAY!). The Baudelaires don't have much of an I-tagged-you-back sort of thing going on, and I thought that maybe I'd slip it in there. I haven't reread any of the ASOUE books since February, so I used baudelairette dot net for help. (It's my favorite fansite for the series!) Anyway, enjoy!
Sunny Baudelaire looked
proudly at her work. One thousand, nine hundred forty five staples
made. Just ninety-three left.
She bit into another
medal rod as Vice Principal Nero stepped in to check on her.
"How are the
staples going?" he asked in an irritated voice.
"Dientivo,"
she said, which means something like, "Very well, but this is
rather hard on my teeth!"
"Dientivo,"
Nero mimicked. Then he began to practice his violin playing yet
again. The horrible sounds made Sunny decide to work faster.
After another hour, she
was complete. She handed her staples to Nero, then left the office.
"How many
centimeters wide was the sink?" Mrs. Bass asked Klaus Baudelaire
when he returned from the bathroom.
"Thirty-six,"
he informed her as he took his seat.
"Now," Mrs.
Bass said, taking a ruler from the unsuspecting student sitting in
front of her. "I would like you all to measure - " she
tapped her ruler on the desk, making some students jump "- the
height and width of all the books you find in this classroom."
The bell rang.
All of the students got
up to leave and end school for the day, but Mrs. Bass stopped them.
"Not so fast, we're not finished!"
Reluctantly the
students returned to their seats.
"Go on! Measure!"
After a few minutes,
she asked, "Anyone having problems?"
One student said, "Yes,
Mrs. Bass."
Everyone stopped to
look at her.
Their teacher narrowed
her eyes. "What?"
"You took my
ruler."
Mrs. Bass slammed the
ruler down on the girl's desk. She shrieked and nearly knocked over
the sleeping boy sitting next to her, who immediately awoke.
"Here. CLASS
DISMISSED!"
Sunny walked across the
school grounds to the little shack where she and her siblings lived.
It was a cold, raining evening. S.O.R.E. was always better when the
weather was cold or rainy, because the three Baudelaires weren't as
hot as normal. Sunny shivered in her jacket and put on her mittens
and hat. She knocked on the door.
"Hello, hello, hello,"
said a voice from inside.
Sunny wanted to drop
dead.
"Jeavilin!"
Sunny shouted defensively, a word that here means, "Whatever
you're doing in there, don't hurt my siblings and get out!"
She peeked in the
window. She yelled. It was Olaf.
"Not so quickly,"
said the voice. "Come in, come in, come in."
Sunny gulped. She
wasn't sure what to do….
Someone screamed from
inside, and she was certain it was Violet.
Sunny took a deep
breath and opened the door. Her jaw dropped.
For it was Violet who
had screamed, but she was rolling on the floor with laughter, a
replica in paper form of Olaf's face in her hand.
"What?" Sunny
said, starting to laugh a little bit.
"It's a joke!"
Violet choked. "I made this mask that looks like Olaf to scare
you and Klaus. Wonder where he is, anyway?"
She looked out the
window.
"How make?"
Sunny asked.
"I tied up thread
in a series of different knots I made up to get the hair and eyebrows
like Olaf's. I did the rest with paint and pencils. We got out of
class early, because Mr. Remora is going to be making up a new story
about whales he saw in New Zealand."
"Lifelike."
Violet smiled.
"Jinfu -"
Sunny said, which meant something like "But I think it's a kind
of mean -"
Violet heard someone at
the door and slipped her mask back on.
"Shhh," she
whispered, putting a finger to her lips. She cleared her voice and
said, "Come in, come in, come in…"
Klaus stopped. That
doesn't sound good, he thought.
"FAKE!"
screamed Sunny. "FAKE!"
There was a loud bang.
Maybe he's hurting her!
Klaus slammed open the
door and did a dive into the house, accidentally knocking over
Violet, who was choking with laughter. He crashed into one of the
three piles of hay that he and his siblings slept on.
"Where is he?"
Klaus asked nervously, his voice slightly muffled.
"He's here."
Violet waved her mask in his face once he emerged from the straw. He
jumped and she laughed some more.
"I wouldn't be
laughing if I were you," Klaus said, very seriously, brushing
himself off. "You're the one stuck with the crabs on your back."
Violet stopped.
"Really? I don't feel them."
"That's because
they're stuck to the rather large amount of fungi, dripping down from your neck."
Violet reached for her
back, but Klaus stopped her.
"Don't! You don't
want to touch the crabs. They could bite and transfer a series of
unpleasant diseases into you. But I found out at school today that
there is a way to kill them."
"What is it?"
Klaus smiled. "Stop
thinking that the crabs and the fungi are there, because they're
not."
