The family wasn't prepared for this. Begin!

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~Normal POV

"Sunny, is Beatrice coming home with you for Thanksgiving," Violet asked over the phone.

"Not this time, Violet," Sunny replied a bit hastily.

"Oh, that's too bad, the kids love to see Bea. I'll let everyone know."

"Well... Violet I am bringing someone, just not Bea. She's staying with her family this weekend. She says her uncle Lemony and aunt Moxie were able to make it to dinner this year after how busy he's been. And Kit wants the whole family together for the occasion. Frank and Dewey are taking the weekend off from the Hotel business as usual, but this is one of those rare times that she gets both sides of her family to be home for the holiday."

"Well, that's wonderful to hear," Violet started, "Wait a minute, you are bringing someone?"

There was a short pause and Violet swore she heard hushed voices talking away from the phone speaker before Sunny replied, "Uh, yeah I am... Is that alright?"

"Of course it is. I'll tell the others, and we'll save a seat for them at the table. Are they staying over with you? You know you're staying at Klaus and Izzie's this time, because you stayed with me and Duncan last year."

"Yeah they will be," Sunny replied again sounding a bit on edge.

Violet grew a bit concerned at her sister's tone, but kept her cheerful voice as she asked, "So, who's coming with you?"

Violet nearly dropped her phone in shock when Sunny answered the question.

~...

Violet had called an emergency family meeting in Duncan's office to talk about the newly discovered holiday dinner plans. The six adults gathered in the room waiting to hear what was so important. The kids were in their respective rooms occupying their time with their own activities. Violet was pacing around the room as everyone watched her in confusion.

"Violet, is everything ok," Duncan asked, worried for his wife's behavior.

The inventor sighed, "Yes and at the same time no. I'll start with the good news. Beatrice isn't coming with Sunny this year. Dewey and Frank are taking the weekend off from the Hotel, and Kit's brother Lemony and his wife are able to be in town for the holiday this year. Kit is insisting that the whole family be together for the occasion."

"Oh, that's great," Isadora said smiling, "It's nice to know that Bea gets to be with her whole family this year."

"Then what's the bad news," Klaus asked.

Violet bit her lip nervously, "Sunny is bringing someone else with her instead to meet us. Everyone might want to sit down for this; it's her new 'friend' named Trevor Macready."

Everyone froze in stunned silence. Violet examined their reactions. Duncan and Quigley both looked dumbfounded as if they had just been slapped. Isadora and Fiona's jaws were hanging open in shock. Klaus looked like he was reevaluating all his life decisions in a single instant.

"What," Klaus breathed out after several moments.

Violet nodded, "Sunny is bringing home a boy to meet the family."

"Klaus, honey, are you ok, you look pale," Isadora asked, patting her husband's arm.

"Well... this is surprising news," Quigley said.

"Indeed, I was starting to wonder when this might happen," Fiona added.

"Violet could you explain exactly what is going on here," Duncan asked.

Violet sighed, "Ok, Sunny has been seeing this boy for a couple weeks now and before they start anything too serious she wants him to meet the family. She's 15, guys; we knew this would happen eventually. She asked if he could join us for dinner and stay over the long weekend and I told her it was ok."

"You said it was ok," Klaus asked sharply.

"Yes I did! What did you want me to say?"

"Well if it were me I would have said no!"

"Klaus, we talked about this! We said we'd be open to the idea of Sunny dating as long as we approve of the guy. And that's why she's bringing him over this weekend; so we can meet him. She says he's fine, but if we don't approve, or if he doesn't treat us right, then she'll break it off. She won't tolerate him treating her family poorly."

The family members all shared glances with each other. The six of them had practically raised Sunny together. She was only nine when they had their own respective children. Part of them assumed that Sunny would stay single for the sake of her own career pursuits and for the fact that her nieces and nephew were the only children she needed in her life. But she was still young, and perhaps this boy she was seeing wouldn't be so bad. After all, the six of them had started relationships at young ages too and they had stood the test of time; telling Sunny that she couldn't date, at the age of 15, would be extremely hypocritical.

That didn't help their level of unease at the situation though. The Baudelaire/Quagmire family had some reason to be untrusting of this potential addition to their lives. Violet explained that Sunny would tell them more about Trevor after they meet him. It wasn't exactly comforting to know so little about someone that they were supposed to trust was a good person. Not to mention the possibility of him being a volunteer, or even a villain; this put them extremely on edge. They could only hope that this boy turned out well, for their sake and Sunny's.

~...

"So, did you talk to your sister," Beatrice asked as she packed up her suitcase.

Sunny sighed, "Yeah she nearly dropped the phone when I said I was bringing a boy with me."

Trevor was sitting on the couch beside Sunny in the dorm that she and Beatrice shared. He was about a head taller than her, and had messy dark brown hair and blue eyes.

He gave a half smile before speaking, "I'm sure your family will like me just fine."

"They like me, they'll probably like you too, Trev," Beatrice noted, "But they've known me for my whole life."

"It's just a new experience for them, that's all," Sunny started, "I mean I've never brought a boy home before."

Beatrice shrugged, "Eh, they'll get over it."

Trevor patted Sunny's arm, "I'll be good, I promise, but I don't see what the big deal is."

Sunny and Beatrice glanced at each other. They knew the answer to that even though it wasn't a question. Trevor had never shown any signs of being a volunteer, but that didn't mean that Sunny wasn't still apprehensive about bringing a partner into her life. If it turned out that he was a volunteer, or heaven forbid a villain, then she would be putting herself and her family at a very dangerous risk. Beatrice was not a volunteer like her parents; she was actually studying to be a bat trainer, just like the woman she shared her namesake with.

Trevor was in culinary training like Sunny; it was actually how they had met. Most boys were intimidated by Sunny's unnaturally sharp canine teeth, but he wasn't. He thought she was perfectly nice and very pretty, and they had been seeing each other for several weeks. Sunny had told him that the only way they could take their relationship to a serious level was if her family approves of him. He wasn't against this, but it seemed strange that she was so insistent on the idea. Even Beatrice agreed with her for some reason. Of course Beatrice was Sunny's best friend, and a close personal friend of her family from what he had gathered.

"Sunny, I have to go talk to my teachers to make sure I don't have to do any unnecessary school work over the weekend," Beatrice said, as she closed her suitcase and started walking towards the door, "Behave you two!" She winked at them before leaving.

Sunny smiled at Trevor, "Since you're going with me, I should explain a bit about my family before you meet them."

He put his arm around her, "Alright, what do I need to know?"

"I already told you that my parents were killed in a house fire when I was only a year old. I was raised by my two siblings."

"Yeah that must have been hard. I at least knew my parents before they died."

She patted his hand, "I'm fine, Trev, I miss them, but we've moved past it after all these years."

Trevor reached into his school uniform jacket and pulled out a gold notebook and pen, "Tell me about your family so I can take notes for my commonplace book."

She nodded, "First there's my oldest sibling Violet Quagmire, she's our family matriarch. She's married to the oldest of the Quagmire triplets, Duncan. Are you with me so far?"

"Violet Quagmire, wife of Duncan Quagmire, I'm assuming her surname was previously Baudelaire," He mumbled as he wrote, "Yep, wait Duncan Quagmire? The famous journalist from the improved Daily Punctilio is your brother-in-law?"

"That's right," She replied with a smile, "He and Violet also run our printing business downtown, Quagmire-Baudelaire Incorporated. Ever since the newspaper got taken over by Moxie Mallahan he's been eagerly working there; it's nice to see how much it has changed since they got some sense knocked into them. Violet is an inventor with her own studio and everything. The printing business is mostly just for extra money. Violet and Duncan are the owners, but it's mainly run by the staff. My sister even built the printing press herself as a promise to Duncan."

"She's an inventor? That's cool; I'd love to see her work. I read the paper a lot since it changed so I've seen quite a few of Duncan's articles."

"They have a daughter named Nikki."

"Oh, you have a niece?"

"Two actually," Sunny added, "Next is my second oldest sibling Klaus Baudelaire; he's married to Duncan's triplet sister Isadora."

Trevor's pen stopped writing for a second and he gave her a weird look, "Your brother married your sister-in-law?"

Sunny blinked in surprise, she had forgotten how strange that might sound to people on first hearing, "Yes, Violet met Duncan the same time that Klaus met Isadora. I was only one, but I could tell it was love at first sight for my siblings and the two triplets. Klaus and Isadora have a daughter named Elizabeth, but we call her Lizzie. She's my other niece."

He quietly accepted this information and wrote it down. Sunny continued her explanation.

"Finally there's the middle triplet Quigley Quagmire, he's married to an old friend of ours named Fiona Quagmire. They have a son named Sam; he's my nephew-in-law, because he's not related to me by blood, but I just call him my nephew."

He finished writing, "Ok I got all the names down. Tell me about the others, what do they do for a living?"

"Klaus is a researcher at a center downtown. Isadora is a poetry teacher for a local university, Quigley is a cartographer; he uses our printing business to make his maps. Fiona is a mycologist she works at the local science lab. Nikki wants to be an artist someday; she always carries her sketchbook with her. Lizzie loves to read almost as much as her parents do; she wants to be a librarian. Sam wants to be a marine biologist someday. The kids are all 6 years old."

Trevor smiled, "That's quite a diverse family you have."

Sunny nodded, "My family is very close. They all live in their own houses on a huge estate. I've already told you how I have a wealthy family. The Quagmires inherited a fortune of sapphires when their parents were killed in a house fire when they were young. They lost their parents a year before we lost ours. Fiona is the only one with a living parent, her stepfather Captain Widdershins; we don't resent her for it, though."

"Captain?"

"He's a submarine captain," Sunny added.

Trevor nodded, "Oh, she was raised military?"

Sunny shook her head and hastily corrected him, "No it's privately owned. Her parents were wealthy too, but her mother died in a diving incident when she was young. Their submarine is always on the move, and her stepfather and older brother are too busy offshore to join us this year."

Trevor quickly added this information to his notes, "What's her brother's name?"

"His name is Fernald."

She got up from the couch and went to pack up her things for the long weekend. She and Trevor were going to stay the whole four days at the estate and they needed to be prepared. As she checked over the things in her suitcase she felt something curl around her leg. She grinned toothily as she looked down.

"Hello, Monty," She said leaning down to pet the creature, "Did you get out of your cage again?"

Wrapped around her leg was her beloved pet snake named Monty, after Uncle Monty. It had taken ages for the family to find another of the species called the Incredibly Deadly Viper. Many long hours were spent with Violet and Klaus arguing with the Herpetological Society about finding another of the mysterious species to give to Sunny as a gift. Eventually, the society gave in to their demands and found one of the snakes. Violet and Klaus had managed to convince Principal Whitmore to let her keep it at the school since it was completely harmless and friendly. She had already informed Trevor what happened to her uncle, without too many details of course. He simply knew that he was a herpetologist that had been murdered. And that Dr. Montgomery had been the one to introduce her to her love of snakes.

Monty hissed at her, seemingly asking what he was meant to do while she was away. He had only been with her for about a month now and was still settling into having an owner.

Sunny patted the snake affectionately as it coiled around her; it was still a very large snake despite how much bigger she had gotten since she was last in the presence of one, "Well of course I'm bringing you with us! Otherwise how would you get fed?"

He hissed appreciatively at her in response.

"Good boy," She said, "Now get back in your cage we have to leave tomorrow morning, and I need you to be ready."

She opened up the cage on her table and the snake coiled itself up inside. She locked the cage and heard a soft squeaking sound coming from across the room. On the other side of the living room on a different table sat another cage. This one had a small bat inside it that belonged to Beatrice; it had been a gift from her parents after expressing an interest in being a baticeer and the school had been convinced to allow her to keep it.

"Calm down, Tawni, you're going with Bea and her family, remember?"

The bat squeaked at her in response. Trevor stood from the couch and went to pet the small creature through the cage bars.

"She's certainly anxious," Trevor said.

"She's still getting used to her master. It's a good thing she's not afraid of Monty though."

"Yeah that snake of yours is like a lapdog. He'd never hurt a soul in the world."

"That's the Incredibly Deadly Viper for you," Sunny said with a smirk, "It's the least dangerous and most friendly creature in the whole animal kingdom. Anyway, is your suitcase packed?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah it is. Are you sure that your family is ok with me spending the weekend there? I mean I'd understand if they just want me for dinner then kick me out to a hotel or something."

"Nonsense, Violet said you can sleep on the couch while I take the guest room at Klaus and Izzie's place. Oh, and only family and close friends are allowed to call Isadora 'Izzie.' So, don't do it until she tells you it's ok."

He nodded, "I'll remember that. Did you tell your family that I'm an orphan too?"

"I didn't," She replied, "I figured that was something that you could tell them on your own."

"I suppose that's fair," He said putting his arm around her waist, "At least I was sent here after my parents died, I was six when it happened, otherwise I would never have met you."

She smiled and hugged him, "I'm glad we know each other now."

He kissed her cheek, "Me too. And I can't wait to meet your family."

~End of Chapter!

This will be a multiple part short story; so technically this isn't a one shot I guess. I hope you don't mind that!