Imaginary

Author's note: My first ASoUE fic and my first songfic. Normally I do Artemis Fowl but I just had to this before I forgot. Anyway, It's about Klaus and how he feels about Count Olaf and stuff. Set in the first book. It's a songfic with the song "Imaginary" by Evanescence. I love this song. Please review. I don't own anyone.

I linger in the doorway

Of alarm clocks screaming

Monsters calling my name

I heard Olaf before I saw him. Violet and Sunny both stopped what they were doing to watch. All three of us knew what this would be about. We hadn't done our daily chores.

"Orphans? Orphans? We need a little chat about the matter of obedience…"

Let me stay

Where the wind will whisper to me

Where the raindrops

As they're falling tell a story

I didn't listen. Violet and Sunny did though. I continued to sit just inside the ugly doorframe, lost in my own world.

In my field of paper flowers

And candy clouds of lullaby

I lie inside myself for hours

And watch my purple sky fly over me

I hung in between the blurred lines of reality and fantasy. More so into fantasy. In my world was where people would get along. Where my parents were alive and Count Olaf did not exist. I've done this many a time…

Don't say I'm out of touch

With this rampant chaos- your reality

I know well what lies behind my sleeping refuge

The nightmare I built my own world to escape

"Klaus," I heard Violet say. "He's gone. Finally."

I opened my eyes. "What did he say?"

"Count Olaf just talked about the chores and respect and obedience and stuff…"

"Oh." I gazed out of the grimy window.

"Heesh!" Sunny exclaimed loudly, which probably meant something along the lines of: "You knew that so why ask?"

Violet sighed and stroked her baby sister's head. "I just hate him so much, Klaus. How do you keep so… Well… so… Normal?"

In my field of paper flowers

And candy clouds of lullaby

I lie inside myself for hours

And watch my purple sky fly over me

"I… I made my own little world. Inside it, Mother and Father are still alive… And we're all living in peace back at the mansion." I tried desperately not to cry as I said this.

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming

Cannot cease for fear of silent nights

Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming

The goddess of imaginary light.

Violet never answered. She just stared into the distance for a moment, then picked up Sunny and sat beside me. From there, my older sister burst into tears

Hugging to me, I heard her whisper into my shirt. "Oh Klaus. What did we do to deserve this…?"

THE END

Author's note: So, what did you think? It's just a one-shot thing, but I probably will come back to ASoUE when I've finished my two Artemis Fowl fics. Please review.