ᴅᴀɴᴅᴇʟɪᴏɴꜱ ( 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 )

ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀɪᴠᴀᴛᴇ ᴘᴀꜱꜱᴀɢᴇᴡᴀʏ

OPHELIA DARLING yawned stretching over to her side, her muscles aching from sleeping on such a rough surface.  She wrapped the blanket tighter around herself, trying to protect herself from the harsh cold.

"Wake up," a voice whispered. When Ophelia didn't answer, they gently shook her shoulder. "Wake up," the voice repeated and Ophelia slowly opened her eyes, her drowsy blue eyes revealing themselves and staring into the masked face of the sweatered scout.

"What's wrong?" whispered Ophelia, her voice sounding husky.

"I have to show you all something," the masked scout replied. "For that, I need to wake up everyone." He said gesturing to Violet, Klaus and Sunny who snuggled together and slept peacefully. The adults had already woken.

The two worked together, the mysterious scout worked on awakening Klaus and Sunny and Ophelia worked on Violet.

"Wake up, Violet," she whispered, partly not wanting to awaken her from her peaceful slumber.

Violet's serenely calm expression was momentarily interrupted by her furrowing her eyebrows and scrunching her face cutely as she adjusted her blanket. 

"Violet!" whispered yelled Ophelia.

Violet slowly opened her eyes, her dark blue irises staring into Ophelia's soft ones. Butterflies erupted into Ophelia's stomach momentarily. Violet slowly rose to look at her surroundings in confusion as she rubbed the sleep away from her eyes.

"Let's go," the scout said and all of them stood up following him. He led them to the back of the cave and a sign read Vertical Flame Diversion. Bertrand, Beatrice and Diana shared looks not bothering to hide their smiles.

"Vertical Flames Diversion?" asked Ophelia, furrowing her eyebrows together in confusion.

"It's not just a chimney, it's a secret passageway." The boy whispered.

There was a big hole in the middle of the cave wall which had footholes chiselled into one of its sides, insuring that a person could climb somewhat comfortably. Ophelia slowly wrapped her fingers around the footholes and found that it was pretty sturdy.

"You want to go to the VFD headquarters," stated Bertrand and the mysterious boy nodded his head.

"Somewhere where you will be safe," continued Beatrice and the boy nodded his head again.

"And I want their help with something."

"Well if you have requests we better get there quick," said Bertrand. "Let's start the climb!"

Ophelia breathed out, as she wrapped her fingers around the second foothold and lifted her legs on the first. Continuing the trek up, she tried her hardest not to look down or to not think of falling. Her legs felt like they were jelly as the higher she reached the more her legs seemed unsteady.