say you won't let go || Quigley Quagmire x OC

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Dona froze. Only for a moment. Though her body was perfectly still her mind was running at a thousand miles per hour.

holy shit. holy hot fucking shit it's Quigley. What is he doing here? What am I doing here? Move. Would you please get over yourself for at least three seconds and move?  What if he doesn't want to see me? Of course he wants to see me, I'm his best friend! But what if you're not?

Dona shook the unsettling thoughts from her head and just threw her arms around Quigley, finally speaking,"For gods sakes Quigley I was scared out of my freaking mind about you, Christ I had no idea what happened and then I just - just......" she trailed off not knowing how to finish.

He ruffled her hair and laughed,"Whatever weirdo I missed you too."

"You're Quigley Quagmire?" Violet asked in disbelief as Dona detached from him.

"We heard you perished in a fire." Klaus added

"I survived, so did Dona, she was with me." He started,"This place was my last hope for finding my brother and sister." Dona threw an arm around his shoulder, trying to bring some amount of comfort to the boy.

"Duncan and Isadora are safe. The escaped Count Olaf in a self-sustaining hot air mobile home." Violet explained

"How do you know?" Quigley questioned

"We helped them." Violet said

"They're our friends." Klaus continued

"Where are they?" Quigley asked

"We're not sure, it they are safe." Klaus admitted

"We were hoping to find one of our parents up here..... but we're glad we found you two."

"And we'll find Sunny. You saved my siblings, Baudelaire's, let me help you save yours."

"Scuse' you, I'm helping too." Dona chuckled, not knowing that on the top of the mountain, was her father, and two of her sworn enemies, who wanted her dead.

***

The four friends continued to look around when they stopped to look up at the mountain,"Look, green smoke." Violet pointed out. A long stream of green smoke billowed over the edge of the mountain, a type of green smoke the rendered very familiar to Dona.

"That's odd, it's coming from Mount Fraught." Klaus said, and Dona rolled her eyes, as smart as these people seemed, they pointed out the obvious a lot.

"It's a Verdant Flammable Device." Quigley and Dona said in unison

"I read the VFD used them for sending signals" Quigley explained

"Yeah they do, I haven't seen one in ages." Dona confirmed

"So it could be someone from VFD up there-"

"Or it could be Sunny." Violet asserted

A moment of silence fell over them, all wondering what it could be, and only praying that if it was Sunny, she was safe.

"We have to get up there." Klaus stated, breaking through the silence.

"It's a long way to the top." Quigley informed,"We'd have to go back through the Vernacularly Fastened Door, down the Vertical Flame Diverter, and hike the same road the Snow Scouts are takin-"

"-there's a more direct way to the top." Violet interrupted

"No there's not, look at the map." Quigley began to pull it out, but Violet spoke again,"Look at the waterfall."

Dona looked up with everyone else at the long waterfall, frozen solid from the cold, and a damn long way up.

"Holy crap, that's actually really smart."

***

Violet and Dona went back into the burnt headquarters to look for something to help them get up the mountain, while the boys kept watch.

"Hey, Violet?" Dona quietly asked

Violet turned to look at her,"Yeah?"

"Y'know, how, uh, you guys are all looking for people and-and stuff? Well, uh, when I was walking y-yesterday I ran into someone. It-it was my mom. And we decided to part ways, because I had to help you guys and she had to help someone else or something but I asked her something that may change your opinions of me but please don't because I'm nothing like him and honestly I hate him and please don't be upset but CountOlafismyfather." Dona rambled, finishing quickly in hopes that Violet may have not really understood her.

It didn't work. "Oh. I, um, that's fine. You are still Dona to me and nothing can change that, not matter who your parents are you are your own person and I respect you until you do something bad. Don't feel bad about it, it's not your fault, and he's definitely changed over the years, your mom wouldn't have had a child with him unless he was a good person then." Violet reassured, but her voice didn't sound very convinced.

"Thank you." Dona added in a whisper that Violet could barely hear.

***

The girls, after scrounging around in what was left to find something of some use, found a few items of use.

"Look what we found!" Violet remarked, holding up the supplies alongside Dona

The girls laid them down the table before the boys,"We salvaged these from the rubble. See the names?" She asked, holding up one of the trophies made of, what sounded like, flimsy metal.

Klaus took one a read,"Dr. Toranado."

"Father took us to her engineering lectures." Violet explained

"Oh I knew her, nice gal, a bit strange, but she was cool." Dona added, thinking back to her days at those lectures

Klaus read another,"C.M. Comstock. Mother gave me her book on female pirates."

"I know, that's where I learned the Devil's Tongue Knot."

"Ah yes, that knot has saved my life far to many times for my own good." Dona reminisced, her comment went ignored.

Violet held up one final thing, one that made Dona's breath catch in her throat,"Who's L. Snicket?" Klaus asked

"I read his book on maps and his tutorial on the accordion." Quigley said

"It's like our parents were training us for VFD and we didn't even know it." Klaus realized

"As if the knew one day they wouldn't be here." Quigley continued

"It's means Lemony Snicket." Dona finally spoke up, her voice cracking a little,"He's a pretty cool guy, he's either dead or in hiding though. He was blamed for a large part of the cause of the schism, though he was doing the right thing. And yes, they were training you. The only reason I got in so early was because my mom couldn't get a babysitter for me half the time." Dona gave out a watery laugh. Quigley put his arm around her shoulder in a comforting way, she was still soft about her family beneath this tough exterior she put on for the rest of the world.

"Let's use what they gave us."

A/N

Sup my friends, fellow readers, whatever you want to be called. This chapter was pretty lame and I don't like it very much, but I wrote it and wasn't about to delete it or anything, so here ye are. Hope you get some serotonin :)

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