About half an hour later me and Duncan were sitting on the floor in the corner of Madame Lulu's tent while Count Olaf and everyone else in the room were drunk, except for Esmé and Madame Lulu. "I thought by now I'd have all the trunk wine I wanted. You know, Mama told me I'd be a star" said the noticeably drunk Olaf.
"Isadora, the Baudelaire's will come for us, trust me, that's what friends are for" whispered Duncan, it was the first thing he had said since we were thrown back into Lulu's tent.
Then we heard a rustle/thud from outside, "Did you hear something?" Count Olaf asked everyone and stepped outside followed by Madame Lulu, me and Duncan got up to look outside but were stopped by Esmé "Not you two", so we sat back down in the corner beside the entrance to Madame Lulu's room with a crystal ball and the mysterious Caligari Cabinet.
After a while, Count Olaf and Madame Lulu came back in with 2 other figures. One of them had 2 heads and the other was crawling on the floor like a baby but alike Madame Lulu they looked very familiar. " What did you say your names were?" asked Count Olaf. "Erm, we didn't" said one of the heads. "I'm Beverly and this is my other head Elliot" announced the other head. "Must be difficult having two heads" said Olaf. "It's very difficult, you can't imagine how hard it is to find clothes" said Beverly. "Yes, I was just noticing your shirt, I have one just that that, of course not as dirty, it's very in" announced Esmé. "Just because we are freaks doesn't mean we don't care about fashion". Me and Duncan snickered at Beverly's comeback which made everyone look at us in discust except for Madame Lulu, Beverly, Elliot and the little baby under the table who were looking at us like they were worried about us and cared about our safety and me and Duncan noticed so while Count Olaf forced Beverly and Elliot to eat corn (which was hard for them) I whispered "did you see-". "How they looked at us? Yea" said Duncan. "There is something going on, they all look so familiar but I don't know how".
"What is that? Oh, some sort of feral infant" said Esmé looking under the table before being growled at by the baby thing. "That is Chabo the wolf baby. Her mother, a hunter, fell in love with a wolf. That's their child". "I didn't even know that was possible" said Esmé at the same time that Duncan whispered, "that is definitely not possible". "It might be funny to watch her eat corn, too. Here, Chabo, Chabo" said the Hook Handed Man before being attacked by flying corn. "People are always liking of the violence. Yes, Chabo is hired, too. Starting at show tomorrow, Beverly and Elliot will eat corn and little wolf freak will attack audience" announced Madame Lulu in her weird accent "questions?". "Of course they don't. They're lucky to have work. Without this carnival, they'd be working in human resources with the rest of the freaks" said Count Olaf. "You are as right as you are handsome, my Olaf" said Madame Lulu annoying Esmé to stand with Olaf and away from me and Duncan. "Wolfie, two-headed thing, report to House of Freaks, where work accommodations will be provided. Also health insurance, although nearby hospital is how you say" "Burned down" Olaf butted in. "Out of network" continued Madame Lulu "Off you go". "Unless your still hungry, there's plenty of corn left. We'll eat them like normal people, but you freaks just aren't like us" Olaf teased. Then alike when we were stuck in the operating theatre of Heimlich Hospital, everyone started chanting "Not like us! Not like us! Not like us!". "Join in twins" said Count Olaf pulling us up from the ground. And thus we joined in, unwillingly and quite hesitantly but still we joined in.
"Not like us, Not like us, Not like us..."
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FanfictionMy name is Isadora Quagmire and I am going to tell you a story. It will not be a happy story, it is a sad and melancholy story. This is how I didn't escape onto Hector's Self Sustaining Hot Air Mobile Home. This is how I was captured by a wicked Cou...
