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N. Snicket: Okay! I tried changing my penname to Lucy Baudelaire for about an hour… but I changed it back to lucyrocks73… it's just me. I have a special bonding to that penname… why, I'm not sure. I hope you like this chapter, too!

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Chapter Six: Abandoned in the End

The doctor seemed to like talking to Quigley, for yet again he told him what happened.

"Everything we feared could happen has happened. His fever seems to have gotten higher, and he's in a state of shock. His organs are failing, and the loss of blood has taken its toll on him. It'll be a miracle if he makes it through the night."

The girls wept, and Duncan tried to stay strong, even though he felt like crying as well.

"WHAPEN!" Sunny shrieked. (Why did this have to happen?)

Quigley pulled Violet close to him.

"You made it through a long series of unfortunate events. God wouldn't have let you pull through it only to abandon you in the end," he whispered to her.

"You still have hope?" Violet inquired. "He's as good as dead now. I love him but… He's going to die."

"Don't tell yourself just yet."

Several hours later, they were allowed to see him. Violet went in first, and everyone watched behind the glass.

He was the same, but more needles, tubes, and IVs covered him. Electronic beeps punctured the silence, and green blips trailed across monitors. Klaus's face was an eerie shade of a pale white. Machines were all over the place to do the jobs of failed organs. A ventilator tube protruded from his mouth to help him breathe. Papery white criss-crosses of tape attached it to his face. Another respirator went under his nose. Klaus looked much younger then his thirteen years. He looked so helpless that Violet began to cry again.

Isadora watched Violet sob from behind the glass.

"He can't die… He just can't!" she whispered.

No one said anything.

She thought about what Quigley told Violet…

"You made it through a long series of unfortunate events. God wouldn't have let you pull through it only to abandon you in the end."

She walked in and sat next to Violet on the cold, metal chair.

"You know," said a nurse passing by, "if you talk to him, he might be able to hear you."

Violet squeezed Klaus's hand.

"Um… Oh, Klaus. We love you. Can't you see that? Please wake up. Please. Do it for me. Do it for Sunny. Do it for the Quagmires. I can't invent my way out of this one. It all depends on you."

She could hear his laugh ringing in her head.

Isadora took a deep breath.

"I love you, Klaus."

That's all she could say before she broke down in tears. The two teenage girls sat there whispering and sobbing until a night duty nurse interrupted them.

"One of you has to go back out to the waiting room. I'm sorry; our policy is that only one visitor can sleep in here. If it were me making the rules, I'd let you both stay. We'll set up a cot for whoever chooses to stay."

Isadora told Violet that she should stay. Isadora left for the waiting room, where her brothers were sleeping.

Violet sighed. At first, she sat on the cot looking at Klaus by the glow of the instrument lights, but she soon found herself falling asleep.

Author's notes: (Sobs). I DON'T WANT HIM TO DIE! Will he? Or will he make a miraculous recovery? It all depends on whether you review.