𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 ||𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦||

𝐼𝑉. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝐼𝐼

Imagine standing on top of a very high tower. You're on the edge and are close to falling, and just as you think you're safe, someone pushes you off.

At first, you will feel disbelieve. Are you really falling? Is this really happening?

Then you'll feel hope. Someone will safe me. I'll land on a soft spot.

Then comes the fear. You're falling to your death. This is going to be your end.

And then comes the devastating acceptance. You're preparing for the pain as tears spill out of your eyes as you keep falling, and falling, and falling. Until you hit the ground and your emotions explode.

That's how Aurora Snicket felt as she sat in the deluxe jail cell while the Baudelaires were outside grieving her father's death. She just got him back and now he was gone forever. Just like her mother. Gone and out of reach. Gone and with no way for Aurora to see them again. Gone. Just gone. And the only thing Aurora wanted was to go to the lakes. She wanted to go to the lakes just like the poets did.

"Aurora," Violet snapped the dark-haired girl out of her thoughts as she and her siblings joined her in the cell. "Are you okay?"

"I'm an orphan," Aurora replied with a very sad smile. "I'm all alone."

"No, you're not. We're not leaving you with those bad people," Violet said while looking into her eyes.

"Yes, your father deserves justice, and we won't stop until he gets it," Klaus added making Aurora look at him.

"Only justice will bring peace." Sunny babbled and Aurora smiled softly at the siblings.

"Thank you, Baudelaires, I don't deserve you," She sighed. Violet was about to reply when a coughing man walked in. And Aurora's day got even worse when she saw it was Mr Poe.

"Oh, Baudelaires, I'm so sorry. I suppose I should have seen this coming. Children with your troubles background often wind up in jail with a mysterious girl. I... I blame myself." Mr Poe sighed as Aurora sat next to Sunny on the bench.

"You do know I got kidnapped, right?" Aurora asked him with disbelieve as he already forgot about that.

"Mr Poe, we're innocent," Violet tried.

"They're going to burn us at the stake for a murder Count Olaf committed," Klaus added.

"Oh, Baudelaires, listen to yourselves. You blame positively everything on this Count Olaf, and now you claim he's responsible for his own murder? I simply find that somewhat difficult to swallow." Mr Poe replied.

"He didn't murder himself, he murdered my father and said that was himself." Aurora shot back with tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, but you are?" Mr Poe asked her and Aurora shot up but Violet took her hand to calm her down.