A Series of Unfortunate Events One Shots

Memory Lane Part 4

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~Quigley's POV

I spent 10 months total on the Queequeg and 8 of that was in an official relationship with Fiona. She's the best thing to happen to me since I lost my parents. I can't wait to be reunited with my siblings so I can introduce them. I'm sure they'll love her.

At first we didn't know how to tell her stepdad what we were up to. So we would hide our romantic interactions from him until we could figure something out. Anywhere remotely private we could find on the ship was where we could usually be found when we weren't doing assigned jobs.

And this worked for the first month... until...

Fiona and I were in the library together one day, and after some time spent talking we, of course, ended up kissing. It wasn't a heavy make out, but it could have gone that far. She was happily sitting on a table while my hands were at her waist as we kissed.

"Ahem."

The two of us quickly pulled apart at the sound of Mari clearing her throat. Fiona looked extremely embarrassed and ashamed. Mari was smirking at us, she usually did. I felt all the color drain from my face as I realized how much trouble I was going to be in.

"So you are..." Mari left the question open for us to finish.

Fiona didn't say anything, but she did nod after a moment. Mari looked between us as I felt my heart trying to break out of my rib-cage in fear of my punishment.

"Please don't tell my stepfather..." Fiona pleaded.

Mari sighed. "You're lucky I like you kids. Your secret is safe with me. But you know flirting with other volunteers is frowned upon while on duty."

I finally spoke up, "Can I make an argument?"

Mari nodded so I continued.

"We weren't flirting, we were kissing."

I grinned in triumph for that insane logic leap. After all, I'm pretty sure we'd spent the past 2 months flirting openly before confessing our feelings. It was frowned upon, sure, but there's really no way to enforce it.

Mari started chuckling. "Ok you win. I'm happy for you two. Carry on... but uh don't let the captain see you in that position because I don't think he'll be as forgiving." She left.

Fiona smiled at me, "That was surprisingly smart."

"I have my moments! Though I can't help thinking you deserve someone way smarter than me..."

Her smile faded a bit, "Well you deserve someone way more beautiful than me..."

That comment irritated me. I know I'm not as smart as my brother, he's the one who has most of the brains between us, but I can't see why she thinks she's not attractive enough for me.

I smiled and brushed some hair out of her face, "But you are beautiful. Breathtaking actually! But I like you for your personality, not just your bewitching good looks."

"Well what if I don't care that you're not that smart? Sure I could have found someone on my level, but that'd be kind of boring, wouldn't it? I like you just the way you are. Now can you stop trying to read my mycology books? You don't need to try to understand my interests to impress me."

"Good because I can't understand a lot of the words in them!"

After the third month of being together we were eventually caught by her stepdad. (Thankfully it wasn't a super heavy make out session... that would have gotten me killed...)