[A/N: None, I just dedicate this to George, for I kinda used his background info from Playing With Fire about Tocuna and Flo. Hope you didn't mind!]

Twin Flames

A Series Of Unfortunate Events Fanfic by James Berry

It was very hot, the heat was intense. Nal and Cofotu didn't know what to do. The smoke was everywhere, it was choking them. All they could think about was their children, Flo and Tocuna. How to get to them, or the best way to get to them. The stairs were burning, the roof was ablaze.. Embers were falling all around and the smoke was all around. They tried but nothing they could do got them closer to their children. The panic set it: how could they stop this? How could they do anything? The inferno was getting worse; they could feel their own skin buring. The smell of flesh just spurned Nal and Cofotu on. They wanted their children, they needed their children. How had this happened? Why had this happened? Where did it come from? One thing for sure: it happened fast.

What could they do? And then they heard the noise they wanted to hear. Their children. A miracle from the Gods. The voices they needed, longed and wished to be there. Nal made his way through the smoke, the fire burnong like it was hell itself. However, nothing could stop Nal. He made sure that he Cofotu was near the front door, for her quick escape, put she protested that she wasnted to come with him, and Nal had no time to argue so he caved. The stairs were more ablaze that ever , the heat was massive but nothing would stop them. All Nal and Cofotu had on their minds was their childer, to be there for them, to be their parents. Somehow, they made it up the stairs. Their hair was burnt, especially his, and their hands were blistered, but know way were they about to give up now. The door was there. Infront of them. Nal reached out and groped the handle. The pain was excruciating, but he really didn't care. He just pushed the door open. Then he saw it.

Flo and Tocuna were alive, unhared, almost. They were climbing out the window. Flo was sitting on the windowsill, one leg in, one leg out. She was obviously half way through escaping. Tocuna was waiting by the window with two bags, obviously for her and Flo. Both of them were looking at their parents, then Tocuna looked at Flo and flow, not taking her eyes of her parents, nodded. Flo dropped the bags and started running towards her mother. She jumped up durnig her run and kicked her mother. She flew back out the door into the smoke-filled corridor. She was knocked out cold. Her father look at her and ran at her but Tocuna was too fast. She was lifting up her fist and punched him. His nose was starting to bleed. Tocuna spun round and kicked him and that's when she added insult to injury. As Nal fell to the floor and slowly drifted off into unconciousness, the last thing he heard was his daughter, Tocuna, say "Thanks, dad!".