A/N: Well, I have escaped once again, but must compliment Olaf for his persistance. (( Actually, school has just engulfed my life, and I haven't been able to type ^^;; )). Please excuese spelling errors in this one, as Im too lazy to spell-check it just now...

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As it happened, Lily and Tess we're currently staying in an abandoned cabin nearby, and had come across the Baudelaires while looking for firewood and fetching water. Lily and Tess knew the horrors the Baudelaires had faced, as they too had been being stalked by the wretched man that had ruined their lives.

" My parents died in a fire too; so did Lily's. My parents left me a lot of diamonds. Once Im of age, my family could live off of the jewels for the next three generations at least..." Tess explained. " They even named one after me. The Contessa diamond was stolen shortly before I was orphaned from the museam.. I bet ANYTHING Olaf did it."

Lily nodded grimly. " Yes. My mother and father, as Violet knows, left me loads of money they had made in various ways. My dad used to own a computer software company, and my mother was a writer. Julie Ackart..." Klaus patted the girl's hand.

" I'd heard of her. She wrote a novel, right?" Lily nodded.

"Several.. and had more on the way. They were all lost in the fire though. Its sort of ironic, how we all survived but are miserable anyway. I'd almost RATHER be dead. That way we wouldent have to deal with Olaf and all that stuff..." The children went on for quite a while with their discusion, eventually starting a fire and makeing a small batch of s'mores. For the first time in a while, all the children felt truely content. They were eating a delisious, if a bit sticky and messy, treat, and were in good company. Lily and Tess had figured out how to filter the fire's smoke, so as not to draw attention to themselves, and had each found a small loophole so they could get a small amount of their fortunes that they used to buy food. The cabin itself was only two rooms, and the bedroom only had two average sized beds. After the sun had set, the children found this delemia, but put their heads together and came up with something. They figured two could fit in each bed, so Violet, Tess, Lily, and Klaus would all sleep in there. Lily took off two blankets and a pillow, put them in a basket in a comforatble looking way, and laid Sunny in it. She smiled.

" I do hope thats okay Sunny. Are you comfortable?"

"Brio!" Sunny said happily, which meant something along the lines of 'Yes! Its very nice, thank you." The baby snuggled down into the folds of the blankets contently. Lily and Tess settled down into their own bed and Klaus and Violet theirs, but as none could sleep, they had a massive pillow fight withen ten minutes. After that, the children truely WERE sleepy, and all fell asleep almost immediatly. The all slept like logs to boot. I of course, do not mean the orphans all turned into logs one might want to kick, I mearly mean they all slept as motionlessly as logs as well.

Lily dremt about having her parents and siblings back, and that they were all in the park going on a picnic with the Dragmires and Baudelaires. Tess dremt about her family and her going to an ice-cream shop and then going outside to enjoy it, while window-shopping in a quaint little shopping-center. Violet dremt she had won an invention contest of sorts, and that her parents, siblings, and friends were cheering for her. Klaus dremt about reading with his mother and father in the now ashy Baudelaire library. And little Sunny dremt about the time before the fire had ever occured. She coulden't recall anything bad for those sweet few hours she dreamed, and her life was pretty well as perfect as it had been before the wretched fire. These were all lovely dreams, and I wish all of these things could have been true. But alas, they were not. They were mearly figments of the children's deep, shared desire: To have their parents back.