Thanx to all my reviewers, Firecracker, devilbabe1215, and Setokaiba419! I really try hard to imitate Lemony Snicket, and hope that you all (and all the readers who didn't review) like the rest as much as you did the first chapter, if not more. For all of the disclaimers, see chapter one. Enough talk. Here's chapter two.

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It was completely dark when the two reached the house, and had begun to snow. Violet weakly knocked on the green door, and moments later it swung open to reveal a girl about her age with long blonde hair pulled back with a magenta headband, blue jeans and a huge white sweatshirt saying, in big bold letters, "SNOWSCOUT." The Os were tiny snowmen, shaped like 8s.

"Hi! What can I do for you?" The girl asked, almost too cheerfully.

"I'm Violet and this is Klaus. I think I twisted my ankle back there. We saw this place a while back and figured there would be someone to help us here." Replied the eldest Baudelaire before her brother could say anything. He looked at her in surprise. Violet was risking everything, a phrase which here means "putting their lives in great danger if the cheerful girl thought they were murderers."

The girl's expression changed instantaneously to one of concern. "C'mon in, Violet and Klaus. I'm Shannon, and welcome to the Snowscout HQ. You must be freezing! Hey, Liz!" she yelled, and a girl slightly younger than Klaus came running down the green hardwood stairs. "Meet the famous Violet and Klaus Baudelaire. Will you grab a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt out of my closet of Violet while I help her with her ankle, and the same for Klaus from Charlie's room? He won't mind." Neither thought to ask how she knew their last name as Liz ran back upstairs. "Now, follow me." She led them into a huge living room with several huge couches, a television, and a fireplace.

"Just lie down for a sec while I get a first aid kit. You both look awfully scratched up. What did you do, roll down the mountain?" Violet did as she was told without a moment's hesitation, and Klaus sat down next to her, noticing the couch was just like one of those at their late Uncle Monty's house. It seemed they had been lucky for one of the first times in their lives to find this place. What had Shannon called it? Snowscout HQ, whatever that was.

Once Shannon returned and started work on the siblings' cuts and bruises, she asked the crucial question: "How'd you get way out here in the middle of nowhere?" "Well," Klaus replied. "It's a long story." The two Baudelaires began telling their tale, from the horrible fire that had destroyed their lives to Count Olaf's taking Sunny.

"And now we're trying to find out what VFD is, and who and where the survivor of the fire is." Violet concluded. Shannon shook her head sadly. Now please stop and do what I told to do in the first chapter. Take your mouse and move it to the top of the screen where the little x is, and click on it. Then, press the power button on the CPU, and hurl this computer off the nearest mountain peak, though if there are none near you throwing it out of an airplane is the next best thing.

"You've been through a lot, most of which I've already heard, but I think we can help you with both of those questions. You see, the Snowscouts are a division of VFD up here in the Mortiman Mountains. We take care of the snowmen."