Broken

Chapter IX

I screamed.

"Shut up, orphan!" shouted Esmé leaving the room.

"Isadora" Duncan ran over. "Duncan, where's Violet?" I coughed. "She wasn't here when I woke up and Babs is gone aswell" he replied.

"We've got to get out" I said trying to get up. "Don't Isadora your legs are still weak and I'm not risking you getting hurt again" Duncan said as I realised that I now had a head bandage. "What about you" I said looking at a mark on his head now I wasn't strapped to a wheelchair, I could move my arms but my legs were still too weak to move. "I'm fine, anyway, they've made sure we don't have anything that can pick the lock" he added. So we just sat there for around half and hour, until Count Olaf came to get us, "Come along twins" he said as Duncan got the wheelchair that I was sitting in and walked along Olaf.

"You won't get away with this Olaf" I said looking up at him. "Oh really, I think I already have, and if I were you I would feel lucky that I am letting you see Violet or should I say-". "Excuse me other doctor" said a man who I recognised as a Volunteer Fighting Disease, not the real VFD. Me and Duncan didn't know what it meant but we did know that our parents wouldn't go around hospitals singing. Anyway, the man called Count Olaf over and we thought that he might be caught, of course we were wrong but what did happen is that we saw Klaus dressed up as a doctor. I gasped. "Is- I, I mean Dr Medicalschool may I take a look at your patient list" said Klaus in a British accent. Klaus was wearing a doctors coat and a fake beard, I presumed that Sunny was inside his coat. "How about you come along with me and my patients here to my otherwise deserted office" said Olaf

I gently shook my head as Klaus continued looking back and forth at me and Duncan then Olaf, me and Duncan then Olaf. "Well, well I'm sure your patients need help and I need to get to my patient who needs urgent help also, so just a quick peek?"."Fine" said Olaf who quickly spun his clipboard round so Klaus couldn't see Violet's name or should I say fake name."There we go, I've saved a life today, hold the applause" said Olaf pushing past Klaus and ushering me and Duncan along with him. Suddenly, the head of the Volunteers Fighting Disease stopped Duncan, "Hello, patient would you like a balloon" he said. "Okay" I replied seeing a chance to help Klaus "and my name is Ana". "I'm Gram" said Duncan who, along with me, hoped that Klaus would figure out our message. We took the balloon and were shoved forward by Count Olaf. I took one last look back at Klaus and he looked at me, I waved and then we turned a corner.

"Well done twins" said Olaf "I knew you would do it". "What do you mean" Duncan said stopping. "You'll see" smiled Count Olaf and he launched us forward.