Semi-book canon only; begin!
~Normal POV
"The Queequeg is looking a lot better since Violet started taking over the repairs."
However, as Fiona was walking past the barracks to get to the library she stopped when she heard the soft sound of someone crying. Curious about the noise, she turned and saw the barracks door was open slightly. She opened it more and looked inside to find Violet sitting on one of the many bunk beds crying. Normally when someone is crying it is usually a good idea to try to comfort the person, or sometimes ignore them so they don't feel embarrassed about their tears. In this case, Fiona wasn't sure what the better option was. She and Violet had been rather argumentative with each other since the Baudelaires boarded her submarine; with her stepfather not around she had to take charge as captain and that perhaps meant being... too bossy.
It wasn't that Fiona hated Violet, far from it. She would love to be her friend, but it was clear now that they were both under tough situations of their own; causing them to be rather difficult to get along with. With that in mind, Fiona swallowed her pride and went over to Violet to see what was bothering her.
"Violet?"
Said girl jumped and looked up at her in surprise. "Oh, hi Fiona..." She paused to wipe her eyes. "Need something?"
"No I heard you crying; I just wanted to know what was going on."
Violet then tucked something away in her uniform pocket; it looked like a scrap of paper from a notebook. "I'm fine."
"You're clearly not fine. Look I know we haven't gotten along, but if there's something upsetting you I'd love to at least talk about it."
"I said: I'm fine." Violet was almost glaring at her now with visibly puffy eyes.
Fiona sighed, "Fine, but if you need anything just ask."
She walked out of the room, ignoring the sound of Violet shutting the door behind her, and continued towards the library.
"Sorry."
Fiona blinked in surprise and looked down to see Sunny had found her. Her word translated to, "I'm sorry about my sister, she's in a bad mood right now. She didn't mean anything by it."
"Yeah I can see that," Fiona replied, "Shouldn't you be in the kitchen?"
"All done," Sunny replied, meaning, "I'm finished with my job for now. I wanted to talk to you."
"Ok... come into my office." She took the small girl's hand and led her into the library.
Sunny climbed onto her desk and Fiona sat down in her chair, "So what's the problem?"
"Violet misses Duncan."
"Who's Duncan?"
"Duncan Quagmire," Sunny replied. ("Duncan is a boy she really loves. She won't stop staring at that notebook scrap from him that says, 'D.Q+V.B.' Well I assume that's what it says, I know he carved it into a fish statue so he probably wrote it in his notebook too.")
"Aww what happened?"
Sunny explained how Duncan and Isadora got kidnapped and how they ended up saving them. She then talked about their brother Quigley and how he got separated from the Baudelaires. She didn't know the full details of Quigley's survival story so she wasn't able to explain how he was alive in the first place.
"So Violet is stressed because she misses her boyfriend?"
Sunny nodded and then added, "Klaus misses Isadora. He loves her."
"I can tell," Fiona replied, "I knew from the moment I met him that he loved someone else."
Sunny apologized which meant, "He misses the feeling he had when he was around her. He's hopelessly in love with her."
Fiona glanced at the telegraph machine on her desk. "I have an idea."
~…
Violet tried to wipe away her tears so she could come out of the room without showing how upset she really had been. She looked at her scrap of Duncan's notebook one last time before putting it back in her pocket for good.
"If something happens- If something goes wrong-"
"Nothing will go wrong."
How she wished that Duncan had been right that fateful night. He had been so very wrong. Instead of him and Isadora coming safely back in the morning after running laps in their place, the plan backfired entirely and they were kidnapped and forced away from them. When Duncan and Isadora got their precious notebooks destroyed by Esmé's harpoon gun, one of the pieces of paper held a message for Violet that Duncan didn't wish to share with anyone. It was the same message he carved into the red herring statue while trapped inside. The paper said D.Q+V.B and it was the one piece from their notebooks that Violet kept strictly to herself. The other papers were with Klaus and he had put whatever information about V.F.D. he could discern from them in his own commonplace book. Quigley had promised Violet that he would reunite them with his siblings because he wanted to prove to Duncan that he loved his brother.
Knock knock
Violet sighed and went to open the door. She was prepared to get mad at whoever it was for disturbing her, but her words were caught in her throat when she opened the door.
"I heard you were missing your boyfriend," Fiona said, "So I made some arrangements with Hector over telegram and he let them off to board the ship."
Duncan hadn't said a word; he and Violet were just staring at each other in shocked joy. Violet quickly grabbed Duncan in a tight hug and mouthed a thank you to Fiona.
Fiona smiled her response as the two embraced, but they were interrupted after a moment by a voice saying, "Uh, does your best friend get a hug too?" Violet and Duncan pulled apart to see Isadora and Quigley standing nearby.
Violet hugged Isadora, and then gave Quigley a friendly hug, "Quigley how did you end up with your family again?"
"That's easy, after going down the Stricken Stream I met Kit Snicket at the other end, she's Jacques' younger sister, and she gave me transportation to get to the hot air mobile home so I could protect my family. I was only there for a couple hours before Hector got the telegram and let us off on this submarine."
"Quagmires!" They all looked down to see Sunny run up and hug each of the triplets.
Sunny revealed that she had helped Fiona with her plan to see her siblings happy. After the triplets were given customary Queequeg uniforms, which were very welcome changes to what they were wearing. Violet took Duncan off somewhere private to "talk," Sunny went back to the kitchen to help Phil with dinner, and Isadora nervously asked Fiona where Klaus was so she could see him. Fiona smiled and led her to a back room where Klaus was studying tidal charts.
"Hey, I got a surprise for you," Fiona said, getting Klaus' attention. Isadora ran up to Klaus and practically pounced on him with a hug.
"Izzie? Wha- How-" Klaus saw Fiona wink and shut the door to give them some privacy.
"I like her! She's a great friend," Isadora said. She then pulled Klaus closer and added, "Now that we're alone we have a lot of lost time to make up for..."
Klaus didn't get a chance to even try to respond as Isadora kissed him.
~…
"Well they're a lot happier now," Fiona thought as she made her way back up to the main deck to continue driving the ship.
However, when she got there she saw Quigley looking over her maps with intrigue.
"Oh hi captain," Quigley said, "Sorry for messing with your stuff, I was just curious that's all."
Fiona laughed lightly and went to join him at the table, "It's perfectly fine; you're allowed to look. You must be Quigley; your friends told me about you."
"Yes I am, and I'm afraid I didn't catch your name..."
"Fiona Widdershins; this is my submarine. Well it's my stepfather's actually, but while he's not around I'm in charge of it."
Quigley smirked, "If you don't mind me saying so you're the cutest captain I've ever met."
Fiona smiled, her cheeks turning a little pink, "I don't mind you saying that at all."
"So can I stay in the captain's quarters tonight," Quigley joked, "My siblings are a little busy with their significant others so I doubt they'll miss me."
"...I'll think about it..."
That night everyone celebrated Violet's birthday with the special cake that Sunny and Phil made. And being reunited with her best friend and the boy she loved beyond all reason made it one of the best birthdays she'd ever have. Somehow, Olaf's submarine never found the Queequeg. It may or may not have had anything to do with Fernald driving the ship far away to keep a certain someone he cared for safe no matter what it would cost him in the process...
~The End!