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~Violet's POV

"Violet I'm not so sure about you going up that waterfall by yourself," Klaus said worriedly.

I shrugged as I put on my climbing invention, "I'll be fine, one of us has to go up there to see if that signal was Sunny."

"If it was, then Olaf and his troupe will be there!"

"Then I'll make sure they don't see me," I reasoned.

Quigley was looking at the waterfall thoughtfully; I couldn't tell what he was thinking. It was a miracle that he was alive; though I am wary of him. Duncan told me his brother was a flirt who has a weakness for pretty girls. He hasn't flirted with me yet, and I hope he doesn't try to. I never told anyone, but Duncan is my boyfriend. We kept our romantic meetings secret from our families until we could find safety from our misfortune. I denied it when Vice Principal Nero said something about it, but that was to keep us safe. I knew Carmelita was the one who started the rumor about us dating anyway, so it was only a matter of time before we went public with it.

"Violet, can I go with you?"

I stared at Quigley with confusion. "Why?"

"To give Klaus some peace of mind so you don't have to go alone, and because I want to help you find out if Sunny's ok."

His expression was neutral, but his words seemed genuine. I can't help thinking there was some other reason he wanted to do this. He seemed to have something on his mind.

"Klaus, will you be alright down here for a while?"

Klaus nodded and said he would continue his research until we got back. There had to be something we needed in this library while we're here.

"Alright, Quigley, if you really want to then you can come." I gave him one of my climbing inventions and we left one for Klaus just in case something went wrong.

~…

We climbed the waterfall for some time, hours actually. He insisted on climbing beside me instead of following. (Something I was extremely thankful for because that would have been very perverted and wrong otherwise...) About halfway up we reached a ledge to rest on. Quigley reached into his bag and shared some food with me so we could regain our energy from our long climb.

"Do you think Sunny is really up there," I asked.

"I'm sure she is," He replied reassuringly, "I know how it feels to be worried about family."

I nodded. "I'm sorry we couldn't bring them to you. I wish we had brought them with us..."

"That's just how the story goes. I'm willing to wait just a little longer myself. After all, it'll be a pretty big surprise to them," He smiled at that fact.

I tried to calm myself from my family worries by admiring my surroundings. But then Quigley said something unexpected.

"My girlfriend would not have any of this view," He said chuckling lightly, "She'd be too scared to climb up this high."

I blinked in surprise. "You have a girlfriend?"

He took out his notebook once more and pulled something out of it and handed it to me. It was a picture of him and a pretty girl with triangle-shaped glasses. Their arms were around each other and they looked quite content together. I couldn't help noticing the red outfit the girl was wearing along with Quigley's red commonplace book... interesting color choice. I handed it back to him and he tucked it safely in his book.

"Her name is Fiona Widdershins," He explained with a smile, "She lives on a submarine called the Queequeg. This picture was taken on our last day together before I went back to staying with Jacques."

He told me his story about how the two of them met and how he ended up on the submarine for many months while his siblings were at Prufrock. It was nice to hear, and it helped me not think too hard about my family situation. He told me they were still faithful and he wasn't the type to cheat, despite what it might have seemed like from his description according to his siblings.

"I miss her..."

"I can tell; you're whipped."

He scowled at my comment and looked embarrassed.

"I'm just teasing you! I think it's great you're settled."

He nodded. "I wanted to put my life back together. Be a better person for my family. I'm sure Duncan told you all about me..."

"He told me some things," I replied, "Most of the time talking about you was too upsetting for both of them though. And since you weren't keen on sharing your secret I might as well share mine: I'm Duncan's girlfriend."

"No shit? My brother does have backbone! He was never good with girls."

I smiled. "Well actually he's quite charming... We didn't want to tell anyone yet though until we were sure we could be safe together."

Then I frowned. "Then Olaf showed up..."

"I heard... It was that one time I had to believe the Daily Punctilio. But hey that was an incredibly brave thing they did for you guys!"

"It was Duncan's idea," I said. "Isadora did it because she wanted to help."

He got a little annoyed. I think I know where this is going...

"So about Klaus and Isadora-"

I started laughing. "My brother would never hurt anyone! He's too soft-hearted. He loves Izzie. He really loves her. When we got separated he practically turned the Hinterlands into an ocean with how hard he cried. He's too shy to admit it though; he can barely talk to her without stuttering!"

Quigley still looked skeptical. I suppose I understand; he did just meet Klaus after all.

"Trust me, Klaus is a complete gentleman. He'd never do anything like that. He respects Isadora."

"Did he ever touch her?"

"No... but she kissed him on the cheek."

I then chose the exact moment to turn around and continue climbing. I heard Quigley start shouting at me to explain what happened as he started following beside me once more. I then heard him say something related to a threat to Klaus when he gets back to the headquarters. Note to self, get to the headquarters first so Quigley doesn't kill your brother...

When we finally reached the top I was overjoyed to find Sunny alive and well, even though she was locked in a cage again. I introduced Quigley and started to pick the lock while assuring my sister that everything would be ok.

~Quigley's POV

It was nice to finally meet little Sunny but there was something I needed to do up here. I had a promise to keep and I had only one chance to do it. While Violet and Sunny were talking, I stealthily slipped away into Olaf's campground. I reached into my bag and covered my face with my snow scout mask as I snuck behind Olaf's car looking around the area.

I heard Olaf and Esmé Squalor talking gleefully with two very scary looking people, while two White Faced Women watched, along with several people who looked like carnival freaks. But the thing that I was most paying attention to was a man who had hooks for hands and how I needed to get his attention. I've known for a while that this man was a part of Olaf's troupe, Jacques warned me about all of Olaf's associates, even the ones that appeared to be missing from the group here, and I had already known who this was. After all, I have a picture of him in my notebook.

I slipped ever so slowly towards him and from my position made a sound to get his attention. He looked down at me with confusion at what I was doing here. Obviously my mask made him unable to guess who I was, not that it mattered since we'd never met.

He glanced at the conversation between his associates to ensure they weren't paying attention before softly asking, "Who are you, and how did you get up here?"

"Never mind that, sir. I'll tell you who I am in the future. Right now I have a message for you from Miss Fiona Widdershins."

His eyes went wide. As Fiona had said, saying her name made him instantly listen to me. He crouched down beside me. "How do you know her?"

"We're close," I replied knowing I didn't have time to share details. "She wanted me to tell you she misses you very much."

Fernald nodded to show he had accepted the message I just risked my life to give. Fiona will be happy to know I kept my promise. He then looked the other way as I crawled back over to Violet and Sunny without giving away my position. I took off my mask and put it back in my bag. The Baudelaire sisters appeared to not notice that I slipped away for a moment. It'll be an awkward conversation to have to tell them that was my future brother-in-law I was talking to, and I'm not quite ready to explain that yet. Though I guess Fiona must have not known about the whole hooks for hands thing since in my picture he had his real hands.

Violet couldn't convince Sunny to come back down with us so we climbed down the waterfall without her. But at least she was safe, that was the important part.

~Violet's POV

Once we reached the headquarters again I had to stop Quigley from attacking Klaus for having any kind of romantic interaction with my poet friend. Klaus assured Quigley that he would never hurt Isadora in any possible way, and I reminded them that they needed to get along or we'd never get out of this together. Quigley begrudgingly agreed and Klaus proceeded to share his research with us.

"There's a meeting Thursday at the last safe place. Did Jacques tell you about that?"

Quigley nodded. "Hotel Denouement, it's run by the Denouement brothers Frank and Ernest. Jacques took me there once and I got to meet his sister and her husband."

"So this is a call to all volunteers then," I asked. "Everyone will be there?"

"Looks like it," Klaus said. "Now tell me why isn't Sunny with you?"

I explained that Sunny wanted to spy on Olaf since they think she can't understand them and she's fairly certain that she doesn't need rescuing. Something about having an interesting change of events. I don't know what she meant by that. But it seemed to make Quigley amused for some reason. He mumbled something about a kind person after all and I had no idea what he was talking about. It was now night time after our long climbing up and down the slope, so the three of us found some spaces to sleep in for the night.

"Duncan, wherever you are, I want you to know I miss you."

~...

Unfortunately, Esmé came down to the headquarters today, not sure why. Klaus, Quigley, and I kept our snow scout masks on to hide our identities and convinced her to take us to Sunny. It was quite easy actually, all we had to do was lie and say we knew where the sugar bowl was. She'll do anything for that bowl, and I don't think it has anything to do with why it's actually important.

I don't know how, but the three of us managed to climb up the waterfall while pulling Esmé up in a sled chair. And when we reached the top Olaf thankfully didn't recognize us.

We tried negotiating Sunny's release, but found that it didn't matter because Sunny had gotten out anyway and was hiding from Olaf behind his car. I noticed the hook-handed man seemed to look at Quigley the most of us. Like he recognized him or something, he also seemed less invested in what Olaf was telling him to do than before. I'm not sure what was up with that, and Klaus seemed curious too. Quigley seemed calm and collected, must have learned it from his siblings.

When we revealed our identities to Olaf that was when the Snow Scouts arrived to do their False Spring tradition. And to our utter horror, Carmelita wanted to join his troupe! And threatened to murder us! Well it wasn't actually that shocking we knew she was a bitch but this was a new level of bitch.

I noticed something though. Quigley locked eyes with the hook-handed man for a second after taking off his mask. Olaf recognized Quigley from his identical appearance to his siblings. (Duncan and Isadora said they also found out he knew their parents too) But after this happened, the four of us made our escape with a sled that Sunny grabbed from somewhere, I would later find out it was given to her by someone who had grown to care for reasons I didn't know yet.

Unfortunately, the waterfall broke open... and while we were riding down it on our sled Quigley got separated from us. We watched sadly as he slipped down the opposite path of the stream holding his notebook so it wouldn't get destroyed.

Something sentimental tells me he wasn't just doing that to protect his maps...

My siblings and I rode down the stream for a couple hours before we were finally stopped by an object in the water. Whatever we hit was like a large metal box. And it seemed to know we had arrived. A periscope rose out along with part of what appeared to be a submarine. The three of us knocked on the hatch asking to be let in, as we had no other options. Through a speaker we heard a female voice ask for the password. Klaus was about to say what we assumed was the correct one but I stopped him. Instead I said my own choice of password that I knew would get us in.

"We know Quigley Quagmire," I said.

The girl on the other end paused. After several tense moments she replied, "Acceptable." And the hatch opened.

"How did you-" Klaus started but I interrupted him again.

"I'll explain when we get inside."

The three of us climbed down into the submarine that I recognized the name of from Quigley's tale yesterday: Queequeg.

~End of Chapter!

Yes. Three parts in one day. I'm insane...