YAY! I made it to State Championship! On the darker side...

Chapter 11, the last chapter...so sad...

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Also thanks to my non-online supporters, Annie (you rock, totally...) Karly (you rule too, c ya at State!) and Megan (I don't know if you count, thanks, kind-of...maybe...)

Chapter 11 :( Last chapter. If you don't get it, keep on reading.

Duncan's POV

I ran up to my dormitory, not caring that there were other kids, being dismissed and going up to bed.(A/N:Yes, it was that late, Nero's concerts were cancelled that night.) I opened the door so fast it slammed against the wall and left an elliptical dent in it. I ran over to my desk, jumped on the chair next to it full-blast, and fell off the chair when making contact with it. Not caring, I picked myself off the floor and held the desk lamp up a few inches so I could snatch the key that was hidden beneath it. Key in hand, I opened the drawer on the left of my desk, the one only I could open with the key. It contained something so valuable to me it could not be priced, but somehow I felt I had to give it to Violet. I think my mother would want me to.

I took the item in my hands, its color casting light on me, and I was mezmerized at the beauty of the only posession my parents left behind. I folded it up and carefully slid into my pocket. Then I locked the drawer, put the key under the desk lamp once more, and left my room, sprinting down the stairs, out the door, and to the Orphans Shack.

When I entered,I found Violet on a pile of hay, staring absentmindedly at her arms, now covered in reddish brown scabby lines. When I entered, she looked up and blushed, returning to glare at her arms. My heart did a cartwheel, thinking of what she had done earlier, reenacting the scene in my head. "Um, where are Klaus and Isadora and Sunny?" I asked, nervously. I had planned the whole thing in my head.

" The library..." Violet muttered, a little disturbed, still sad. NO! Not the library! They would see us there. I tried desperately to think of another room with a balcony. Aha! The music room! Sure, it would seem a bit odd to take Violet there, but it would have to do.

"Violet," I said, "I have to show you something." I grabbed her arm, remembering to hold more gently, so as not to open the cuts. I led her to the school, but as soon as we got to the entrance doors, she wrenched her arm out of my grasp.

"I'm sorry Duncan, but where are we going?" she gasped, panting for breath. I had been running quite fast.

"You'll see," I told her, hoping my plan would work. I took her arm again, going up to the second floor, all the way to the music room. This was even better than going to the library, because it was on the fifth floor, the top floor. I opened the door and led Violet in, then shut it behind us.

"Duncan, what's this about?" she asked, inquisitively. (A/N:I hope that's the right word.) I walked over to the balcony, opening the doors and letting the curtains flow fluidly in the cool wind.

"Come here," I said, and she trotted over to where I stood. Her hair, and ribbon, flew in the breeze. I glanced at Violet. The moonlight painted her face a pale glowing shade of silvery blue. Lost in her beauty, I stared for a couple seconds, then snapped back to reality. "I have to give you something." I said, and she looked flattered.

I reached into my pocket, drew out the item I loved so much, and gave it to Violet. She took it by its golden chain and looked at it, her eyes confused.

"Is it...?" She asked, her voice full of wonder and awe.

"Yes." I said, proudly. "The only Quagmire Sapphire that isn't being held until I come of age."

"I-I can't accept it, Duncan." Violet's eyes started to water in deep disbelief.

"Of course you can," I said. "you have to.."

"Why?" she asked, simply.

I swallowed, choosing my words carefully. "I don't know if I will live another day, Violet. All this tradgedy: Olaf, Nero, Carmelita, and all the nasty things they've done to us; I don't know if I will make it. This is just in case I don't."

She examined its lush blue color and its shape, and the golden chain it was strung on. I could see the cerulean color reflected in her eyes.

"I really want you to have this." I said. "My Mother instructed me to give it to a person I really liked." I could feel my stomach turning after I said this. I swallowed and gathered up my pride, then-

"I really like you, Violet." I said, feeling the railing of the balcony and running my fingers along it, embarrased. I looked away, and gazed into the crescent moon. Violet's hand touched my face, and I turned to her again. Her face neared mine, and I knew what was coming. My breath stopped; I stood still, waiting, then her lips pressed against mine, and it was as if time itself did not exist; as if none of the horrible things that befell the Baudelaires and Isadora and me had ever happened. I had never been in this kind of kiss before. Then, we both pulled away, and time started up again. Violet tucked the sapphire necklace into her pocket.

"I wish we could stay up here forever. It's so beautiful!" Violet said.

"We could spend the night." I suggested. I sounded so desperate. Spending a night in a music room? But Violet quickly found a blanket, from the whereabouts even I don't know. The balcony was safe, luckily, meaning that we couldn't fall off. Violet lay next to me, with her head on my shoulder, asleep, and we spent the night under the moon and the stars. I fell asleep but woke up to hear Violet sleeptalking:"Duncan, I love you, I love you more than anyone..."

But after she said this, she opened her eyes and smiled. She had planned it."I love you, Duncan.." she said, once more, and we fell asleep.

Under my smile...

Goodbye to all my friends and supporters...this has been a short-lived fanfic. And my last post was wrong: I will be doing a TEE fic, not a TVV fic. Soon to come: Give Me Strength by violetduncan, me! That fic will not be a continuation, just so you know, just another little fic like this one!