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Chapter Two: A Note and A Kiss

That night after dinner Ella showed the three kids to their room, they had chosen to share one instead of separate. Violet and Klaus gasped and all Sunny could say was "Goh." Which probably meant, "Wow."

"You like it?" Ella asked softly. It was her favorite room in the house. Five of Ella's favorite paintings hung on the walls, her favorite one was of a man in a hat and coat looking into the night sky and seeing his loves face in the stars. Who it was I won't say, you should know.

"It's gorgeous." Violet said in awe.

"It's got a library." Klaus headed over to the half open doors and flung them open revealing a huge library. It made the already large room over twice the size. "What are all these books about?" Klaus asked eagerly.

"Well, art, music, and a lot of old literature. Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, things like that."

"Amazing." Klaus pulled out a book on Mozart and flopped down in a chair.

Ella laughed and watched Sunny crawl across the floor to a pile of hard plastic and begin to bite it.

"I thought she'd like that. Will you two be alright if Violet and I take a walk?"

"Yeah." Klaus didn't even look up from his book. Violet smiled, it felt good to see her siblings so happy.

"I have something to show you." Ella said to Violet as she shut the doors to the room. Ella led Violet down to the end of the hall and unlocked the door. Laying before Violet was a room filled with newspapers, pictures, books and other forms of information. On the wall was a huge oil painting of a large group of people, Violet looked closer and saw some of her old guardians. Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine, along with many other people she had met.

"Wait, who are these peo-." Violet stopped when she saw a couple in the front of the group, next to three people who seemed oddly familiar. The woman was beautiful, she had reddish-brown hair and dark brown almost purple eyes. A deep purple ribbon kept the woman's hair out of her face. "Who is that?"

"Isn't she beautiful?" Ella asked softly.

"Yes."

"That's your mother." Ella watched as Violet's eyes filled with tears, Ella hugged her close and tried to calm her down. "I know you miss her Violet. It's alright, no one will hurt you here."

"How can you know that?" Violet wiped her eyes and looked up at Ella.

"Because, I have my ways, don't worry about it. Come on now you three should be asleep, it's ten thirty."

Ella was just about to go to sleep when she heard the doorbell. She walked to the front door and saw a figure dart away as she opened it, but it was to dark to tell who it was. There was a note on the ground, she picked it up and read it: Come to the waters edge, I'll be waiting. It was signed with an eye, an infamous eye, the V.F.D. eye.

She threw on a coat and some actual shoes and headed to her car. The Waters Edge was a restraint in town and the waiting room was called "I'll Be Waiting".

When she got there she ran into the waiting room and saw a woman sitting in the corner. Ella couldn't see her face but she knew that she had to be the woman she was to meet. She sat by the woman and immediately spoke.

"What was that noise?" Ella asked taking the code approach.

"Nothing." The woman said mater-of-factly.

"If there's nothing out there,"

"Then what was that noise." The woman finished. She did not look at Ella but she continued to talk. "Ask for Mr. Guston, and don't be alarmed when you meet him."

Ella looked at the woman for a minuet and then stood. She walked to the front desk. "I'm here to see Mr. Guston."

"Ah yes this way." The waiter clumsily picked up a menu and led her to a back table where a man was sitting. She sat and told the waiter she didn't want anything.

"So, you're Count Olaf?" Ella asked causing him to stare at her.

"How did you know, you've never met me?" He stared even harder at her as if he was trying to read her mind. Then he noticed her eyes, they were even bluer then he thought they would be, beautiful ocean blue. Now that he truly looked at her he realized just how amazingly beautiful she was.

"Oh please, your henchmen are everywhere. Don't think I havn't heard about them either. The white faced woman out front is even whiter then the one at that table. The waiter was so clumsy I knew he wasn't used to hands, and you weren't even trying."

"Oh, yes well, all part of the plan." He looked at the table, she was smart too. Getting rid of this young woman was going to be harder then he thought.

"So what do you want with me? You're not going anywhere near those kids I hope you know that."

"I, I just, wanted to meet you, that's all."

"Okay in that case I'll be going." Ella stood and began to walk away.

"Wait." Count Olaf stood and to everyone's surprise, he kissed her. Ella pulled away after a moment and looked at him oddly, not angrily, just a surprised look, and then she took off out the door.

"You really are the best actor out there Sir, kissin her just to get on her good side." The Hook-Handed-Man said.

"Yeah, I, I am." Count Olaf said as he watched her walk to her car, except, it wasn't acting.