unforgiven
a/n: for shipping week at caesar's palace
Olaf watches as Violet kneels before him, begging. She recites some long-ago promise she made, one where she vowed to watch over her younger siblings and always keep them safe.
Please, she chokes out, I'll do anything, please just let them live.
She tells him she will marry him, give her body to him at night, condemn herself to life as his countess, whatever she must do to protect them.
Olaf gives in at last, but only so that Violet will proceed with the marriage. One day, perhaps sometime soon, he will eventually break the girl he plans to wed, and once he has shattered her, he can simply dispose of her siblings. He'll have the fortune by then, so he no longer has any use for them.
-x-
The day of the wedding arrives. Klaus and Sunny watch in faint horror as Violet, forced into a wedding dress and adorned with various accessories that were clearly plucked from the vile count's costume decorations and given to her, says, "I do" to an arrangement that is more than wrong.
Violet's right hand trembles as she signs the documents binding her to her fate.
All three Baudelaires feel distinct pits growing in their stomachs as count Olaf's shiny, shiny eyes twinkle in the lighting. Whatever he has planned, it will not be good.
-x-
After the wedding, after Klaus and Sunny have been sent back to their inadequate bedroom and Violet moved into her new husband's room, Count Olaf enters his bride. It hurts, but not as much as the knowledge that with just one signature Violet has been forced to sign over her whole life to this vile man.
Whatever happens, she will just have to let it come.
-x-
"Say goodbye to the bratty biter and bookworm, Baudebrat!"
The hook-handed man's appendages glint in the dim light as they puncture flesh.
All Violet sees is blood.
She mourns not just her two fallen siblings, but the promise she made long ago that has broken. She couldn't keep her siblings safe.
She led them right into harm's way.
And Violet knows, no matter what, she will never forgive herself.