Chapter 16
//Duncan and Cyanna song :)
Cyanna's POV
Duncan finally broke the silence "Tell me about your childhood" he looked up at me "Like before we met before everyone knew who you where"
"Well uh it was pretty great honestly, my siblings and I would always be building inventions well Violet would, Klaus would read about them and I well I examined the parts and yeah it was pretty great, we watched movies a lot with our parents though we didn't have many friends, our dad home schooled us so it was hard to make friends" I said smiling here and there. "How about you?"
"Well uh we had a library, my parents taught Isadora how to write couplets, and they also taught me how to be good at journaling, Quigley was always reading about maps and stuff, we would always be up late having fun, playing board games, oh and you should of seen my father try and dance" Duncan said and chuckled "I really miss them"
"I know... I miss mine as well" I said and put my hand on his shoulder, he smiled slightly.
I returned a soft smile and we both got up.
Time skip to the night
I walked over to my siblings "Hey you guys needed me?" I asked.
"Yeah, we think there another Denouement sibling, Sunny, Klaus and I where all with a sibling at the same time we all heard the clock" Violet explained. Violet got up and started walking to the elevator we all followed "Remember when we stayed at that hotel with our parents" she said we all nodded "and we thought it would be fun to press a bunch of the buttons at the same time" we all presses a button.
"Father said when you do that you'll never know where you'll end up" Klaus said looking at us.
"Let's see where we end up" I said we all waited. The elevator went past the basement. We stopped moving and turned around seeing a office.
"Looks like a library catalog" Klaus said looking around. "Someone's been repairing a book"
"The paste is still wet" I pointed out.
"And the tea is still warm" Violet said after me.
"Kit is that you?" We heard a man say as the door opened we all looked up. He looked at us. "You're not Kit"
"And your not frank" Violet said.
"Or Ernest" Klaus finished.
"The Denouement brothers aren't twins there triplets" I said looking around.
"Kit told me you where clever" he said "My name is Dewey Denouement I'm pleased to meet you"
"Why didn't Kit tell us about you?" Violet asked.
"My existence is secret which suits me fine cause my work is also secret" Dewey explained "You see the hotel Denouement isn't just isnt just organized like library it is a library" he pulled a drawer and a door opened.
My siblings and I headed towards the tunnel he revealed.
"We collect reports from every V.F.D, agents, scholars, researcher, inventor, scientists, explorer, cartographer, and so on" he said he was walking as we followed. We soon climbed out and it lead us right infront of the hotel. "Ever since the schism it's more important to keep our research cataloged and secured so while frank and Ernest run the hotel I do my work in the shadows here we are" he pointed to water.
"Where the library?" Klaus asked.
"You have to look-" Dewey said but I cut him off.
"Below the surface it's a sub library so it's submerged I read about it once" I had said.
"It's under the pond?" Klaus questioned.
"Our enemies could burn the hotel to the ground but our work would be safe" Dewey said. "It's a secret library"
"It's brilliant" I said and smiled.
"Then why are you telling us?" Violet asked looking at him.
"After Thursday Kit and I are leaving V.F.D to raise our child We will need a new sub librarian or 4 of them" Dewey said with a smile.
"You wanna give us your library?"Klaus asked.
"I've read all about you baudelaires Violet you have invented amazing things under incredible Pressure imagine what you could do with the time and resources that you'd have here, Klaus your research skills are on par with V.F.D greatest librarians why not use them in service at its greatest library, Cyanna you kept a secret from the people you care about most, we can trust you with this one, and I read you examine things closely and Sunny I've heard wonderful things about your cooking never underestimate the ways a good cooked meal could change the world after Thursday count Olaf will be behind bars you'll need a new home why not here" he looked at us.
"Justice Strauss invited us to live with her" Violet looked at Klaus and I.
"She promised to keep us safe" Klaus pointed out. I sighed while they kept talking I was zoning out like always.
I suddenly heard Klaus ask "Whats in the sugar bowl?"
"Ah" Dewey said.
"A interesting Question" Olaf said as he walked over to all of us. "I searched the hotel for you orphans and it wasn't easy cause this hotel is very poorly organized but your in my clutches at last"
"It's not poorly organized it's arranged like a Library catalog" Klaus defended the hotel.
"And where not in your clutches where standing at the end of the pond" Violet pointed out.
"That's what you think but I'm afraid the man next to you is one of my associates, hand them over Ernest" Olaf demanded.
"Oh I'm not Ernest" Dewey said.
"Oh well then hand them over Frank" Olaf said. "You might wanna consider doing your hair different, so I can tell you apart"
"I'm not Frank either" Dewey said.
"What what?" Olaf questioned "Well you cant be Dewey he's a myth like unicorns"
"You're outnumbered Olaf" Dewey said "This hotel is full of Volunteers who arrived early as noble people do as your accomplices, being wicked, will arrive late"
"Of course we will bring early is out " Esmé said from a distance "Thats why they call it fashionably late"
"Who wants to see me hit a cakesniffer with a harpoon fun" Carmelita said waving a harpoon gun around.
"Don't wave that thing around child" Olaf said "It's dangerous"
"But I need too practice you said if I hit a crow you promise to teach me how to spit like a real ball playing cowboy superhero soldier pilot" Carmelita announced.
"Esmé Squalor and Carmelits Spats" Dewey said "my library is full of counts if your treachery"
"Library?" Olaf questioned. "I'm beginning to think you are Giuseppe Verdi"
"Dewey Denouement" Dewey corrected.
"Dewey?" Esmé asked "the unicorn how equidistant do you wanna come to my cocktail party where surviving mushrooms"
"She means the Medusoid Mycelium that's her plan to poison everyone!" Violet explained to Dewey.
"With V.F.D out of the way I will be able to steal the Baudelaire fortune and anything else I feel like taking" Olaf smirked.
"You will never release the Mycelium atleast not without the sugar bowl" Dewey said.
"Speaking of that once we shoot the crow we will be retrieving the Sugar bowl from the laundry room the only thing is a pesky Volunteer put a lock of it"
There was fighting between Carmelita and Olaf, Olaf ended up taking the harpoon gun.
"Apologize right now!" Esmé Shouted. Her and Olaf broke up its a boring story sorry.
Olaf points the harpoon gun at us and Dewey steps infront of us. "Olaf put the gun down you've lost all of your associates"
"I never needed them anyways" Olaf said "All I need is the Baudelaire fortune and the three phrases to open the V.F.D lock"
"Even if you open it you will find nothing besides laundry" Dewey said to him. "It's a decoy"
"I might be handsome but I wasn't born yesterday I will give you until he count of 10." Olaf started counting to ten.
"If you wanna shoot him you'll have to shoot me" Violet said. She stepped infront of Dewey.
"I can live with that"'Olaf said and shrugged.
"And me" Klaus said stepping infront of Violet.
"You kids are just sweetening the pot" Olaf said.
"Me too" I said and stepped infront of Klaus. Olaf rolled his eyes.
"Baudelaires" Dewey said.
"If he shoots us he'll never get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune" Violet pointed out.
"There's still the baby" Olaf pointed out. Sunny steppes infront of me. We inched towards Olaf.
"You have a choice you can choose not to pull that trigger" Klaus said.
"Yeah and can choose death by harpoon gun" Olaf pointed out. "6, 7, 8" he said as she inched towards him Klaus gently grabbed the harpoon gun and we looked at him his face softened slightly "Um 9" he said.
"You don't have to do this" Violet assured him.
Olaf sighed "it's all I know how to do"
"Let us teach you" I said looking at him. Olaf let go of the gun and we held onto it.
We heard coughing "Whats going on out here?" I heard Poe say. My siblings and I accidentally let go of the gun, Olaf's mouth widened and Dewey turned to us. The harpoon shot Dewey.
"Oh my god that mans been shot" Poe said.
"Kit" Dewey mumbled, my siblings and I started running to Dewey.
"Dewey!" We all yelled, he fell backwards into the water. We all leaned over the fountain.
"Baudelaires you just shot that man with a harpoon gun and that other man who I didn't get a good look at" Poe said. I got up.
"Cyanna you should go" Klaus said.
"What where in this together now" I said.
"More people finding out your actually alive isn't good! Go!" Violet demanded. I sighed and ran off. I knew they'd all find out sooner or later but there right now isn't a good time.
//thank you for 45 in #bookseries
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