Yay, I'm back!

I got this random idea while writing Let's Talk for The Other Series of Unfortunate Events, and I just had to write it. Unfortunately, I have some sad news; I'm temporarily putting Home Alone on hold, as I have no ideas for traps they can set up in the mansion. As soon as I come up with some ideas (or if people have ideas and can give them to me), I will continue writing part 2, and upload it.

Anyways, let's get to this story; Safe but Unsatisfied


"Goodbye," Isadora said, looking down at her friends, who were getting smaller and smaller by the second.

"Goodbye," Duncan repeated her words.

From down on the firetruck, Violet, Klaus and Sunny also said some supposedly last words to each other.

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye Quagmires."

"Bye."

Duncan and Isadora could just barely see little Sunny wave to them as they floated off into the sky. Isadora softly lifted her hand and waved, as a sad smile appeared on her face. When she glanced at Duncan beside her she could see he had the same little smile, and that a few lonely tears were neatly rolling down his face. When one of the tears fell off his face, and started plummeting down towards the fire truck and towns folk, Isadora went back to looking at the Baudelaires.

As long as they could manage, the five friends looked at each other. It was a special moment. What could be the last moment.

At first they were maintaining eye contact with each other. When their eyes turned to dots, they proceeded to just look at each other. The Baudelaires closed out the confrontation happening behind them, and even though the Quagmires could see clear as day that Olaf was on the brink of being exposed, they were just focusing on the Baudelaire's. It was as if they saw the event, but not processing it. All they saw was Violet and Klaus, and all Violet and Klaus saw was Duncan and Isadora.

The following minute was both the fastest and slowest one ever. Slow in the process, but afterwards it felt as it had been way too quick. The Baudelaires and Quagmires stopped looking at each other first when the Baudelaires were just two dots on the red firetruck, and the Quagmires started blending in with the hot air mobile home.

Even after that, Duncan and Isadora continued looking at the scene behind them. The firetruck started moving, with the Baudelaires in it as a car pulled up to the crowd. They knew that car well, and immediately understood that Count Olaf escaped again.

They stopped looking out over the edge of the mobile home first when both vehicles were out of sight. Duncan pushed himself over to the closest thing he could lean back onto while sitting, and Isadora got up on her feet to pace a little.

For a good few minutes after that, they were quiet, just letting their emotions pour out of their eyes, while Hector did his best to cheer them up. When he ran out of cheer-up phrases, he went down into the little room that would be the Quagmires, to make it ready for them. Now when he was gone, Isadora felt it was the right time to start talking about what just happened. It wasn't that she didn't want Hector to talk to them, but she just felt it would be better for them to talk in private. She walked over and sat down next to Duncan, who had his face buried in his knees.

"How are you feeling?" she asked, putting her arm around him.

Duncan lifted his head up, and shook it slowly.

"Horrible."

"Same," Isadora let out a long pronounced sigh.

She put her other arm around him, and he did the same.

"Nothing went as it should have," Duncan shakily stated while they were hugging.

They let go, and went back to just leaning against the machine.

"I know," Isadora said, holding back some tears. "Count Olaf and Esmé ruined everything."

"Violet, Klaus and Sunny should have been here with us!" Duncan shouted. A stream of tears poured out of his eyes just when he thought of Violet.

"This can't be the last time we see them," Isadora glanced over at the ladder.

Duncan shook his head, sobbing heavily.

"We failed them."

"No," Isadora immediately turned her head to Duncan. "You can't put this on us, I can't let you do that," she was almost getting ready to cry just seeing her brother like this. "It's Count Olaf's fault."

"But they didn't even get most of our notes!"

"Because of Esmé."

They sighed in sync, and another short silence followed. They just sat by each other, letting their held back emotions flow quietly, while thinking about the unfortunate events of the last hour. It had just been one after another. Right when things looked like they were turning out well, Esmé came with a harpoon gun.

"You know... sometimes I think about what it would've been like if Count Olaf didn't show up to Prufrock," Duncan said after a while.

He had a dreaming look in his eyes, and the ghost of a smile on his lips. Isadora nodded.

"Yeah... me too...," she turned her head to Duncan. "Everything could have been great."

Duncan shrugged.

"Great in some perspectives," he said. "There's still the useless classes, violin recitals, Carmelita..."

Isadora interrupted him with a few quiet giggles.

"But we'd be with the Baudelaires."

"And we'd be safe... together."

"What do you think would've happened if none of these things happened," Isadora shifted her body to fully face Duncan. "If there hadn't been a fire at all."

Duncan looked down at the floor a meter in front of him, and pinched his lips, while going over everything that had happened to them since the fire.

"Everything would've been fine," he finally answered. "We'd probably be sitting in our library, with Quigley, doing our own thing."

"Mother and father would be alive," Isadora continued.

"We'd have no idea about the V.F.D."

Isadora pulled her eyebrows together.

"Do you remember the evening before the fire. Father said that 'tomorrow' was special. Do you think they were going to tell us about it?. They were talking about some weird things."

"Maybe" Duncan shrugged.

"We've been so close to finding out so many times!" Isadora flopped her arms down on the floor.

"Like with Brielle and Lorelei," Duncan suggested.

Isadora sighed soundly.

"I wonder what happened to Lorelei," she said softly.

Duncan shook his head slowly.

"To think that we wouldn't even have met them if it wasn't for the fire."

"We wouldn't even know they existed," Isadora giggled under her breath.

"We wouldn't know the Baudelaires either," Duncan commented.

And with just one sentence, their whole view on it changed. Neither of them could imagine not being with the Baudelaires. Three weeks ago they didn't even know the Baudelaires existed, and now they were at this point. And sadly for them, not being with the Baudelaires was the life that they were entering on this mobile home. They only had each other.

Duncan let his back slide down the wall a bit, while some more tears found their way out of his eyes.

"I miss them."

Isadora couldn't avoid crying a bit as well as she agreed with him.

"And we don't even know what will happen to them now," she said.

Duncan didn't respond, but just let out a quiet sob as his head fell forward onto his knees. Isadora immediately placed her hand on his shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

Duncan took a deep breath.

"You at least got to tell Klaus how you feel about him," he sobbed. "Violet doesn't even know I like her!"

Isadora sighed.

"And... how... do you know... she doesn't know?" she asked, kind of making the sentence up as she spoke, just to kind of cheer Duncan up.

"Well... I didn't ever tell her anything like that, I didn't do anything to show it, and she didn't see what I carved in the red herring," Duncan answered, while tears streamed down his face.

But although he was crying, he had a smile on his face, just from thinking about Violet. Isadora remained quiet. She didn't really know what to say. Thoughts went through her head, but nothing really seemed appropriate for the moment. Until she came up with something that might cheer him up.

"But what if I promise you we won't stay up here forever?"

Duncan looked up at her.

"Seriously?" He asked, hoping inordinately that he could leave and see Violet.

"Yes," Isadora nodded. "As soon as we're safe. It might take a few months, but It'll be worth it."

"But what about Count Olaf?"

"If we wait long enough, the Baudelaires might have stopped him."

"Or... he might have gotten their fortune," Duncan commented. "Or worse... killed them," he shook his head. "I don't want to wait."

"But we have to," Isadora demanded, knowing it was the best for them. "Or we'll be in danger as well."

"I know, I just... I don't want it to be true."

"Neither do I."

Once again, they were comfortably quiet. Isadora put her arms around Duncan, and they hugged each other for a while, giving great comfort. Although the following time on the self-sustaining hot air mobile home would be hard, they would have their hope, and most importantly; each other.

An important, big part of their lives had just been ripped away from them, but safety had replaced it. Neither one of the triplets wanted it to be true, but they knew it was. Isadora knew she wanted to keep the promise she made, but after Hector told them he wasn't sure the mobile home could go down, she kind of lost a little hope and expectation, but there was no way she would give up.

Slowly, steadily and surely her and Duncan settled into the lifestyle up in the air. It wasn't the best one, as they didn't have the best living conditions, and only each other as company, but right now, it was their only choice.

After four months, Quigley appeared, alive, revealing to them that the Baudelaires had mysteriously disappeared, along with Count Olaf after the fire at Hotel Denouement. But another eight months after that, the four people on the mobile home decided it was time to go back down to the ground, and they set sail for Coastal Park Town...


I loved this chapter. It's just a sweet triplet moment, and let me tell you that those are my favorite. There's nothing I love writing more (in ASOUE) than triplet moments, and Dunclet and Kladora moments.

If you have any ideas for those, please write them in a review!

Also, I have a new story coming up soon. It'll be an alternate universe in the genres Romance/Drama. Really excited for that!