The Fourth Baudelaire

THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR: part 3

Down on the elevator tunnel, the Quagmires were already freed, but there was a problem, how were the five of them (A/N: Violet, Klaus, Isadora, Duncan and Jacques are on the tunnel while Olivia, Camille and Sunny are in the penthouse.) going to get out of that dusty tunnel.
Jacques could go up the same way he did with Olivia before, but there wasn't enough space for four people so Violet and Duncan decided to let Klaus and Isadora go first, as they were their younger siblings.
But in this story even the best of plans can end in tragedy, however as something that never happens in the lives of the Baudelaires this wasn't a moment of tragedy, because as Jacques, Klaus and Isadora arrived on top, they noticed that Camille was distracting Esmé and Gunther with a dance while Oliva wasn't nowhere to be seen for obvious reasons; in the meantime Klaus sent down the tunnel the hot air balloon.
When finally everyone was safe, or they thought so, the children entered the living room, after Jacques left to notify the Quagmires were safe; but the image wasn't Camille dancing or Sunny whistling anymore, but a Gunther holding with strength Camille by an arm and an Esmé holding Sunny by the neck.
"You take your hands off my sister this instant, you miscreant!!!" Klaus said to Count Olaf, boiling in anger and stepping forward having to be held back by Duncan and Isadora; he was imagining of what he was capable of doing to his sister just out of pure evilness, this didn't mean that he didn't care about Sunny, because yes, she was indeed taken by Esmé that was one of Count Olaf helpers or as she stated later will let them know, his girlfriend. The only difference is that she was a woman and probably less evil than Olaf, not that she didn't have a good taste in men, anyhow that's why he was way more worried about Camille.
"Aww, how cute!" Count Olaf said with fake emotion. "The little bookworm wants to defend his twin... well guess what you're not going to be able to..." he finished with a dramatic effect and then move his head towards the door that directed to the rooms, but nothing came from it.
"Uhh, guess what you're not going to be able to..." he repeated way louder this time. Within a second his henchpeople entered the room running and took Camille. When they were going to take Sunny, she bit the hand of the bald man with the long nose and she was dropped on the floor from where Violet quickly grabbed her but in the commotion, Camille was brought to one of the many rooms in the penthouse, and after a meticulously search all of them, she and neither Olaf or he's associates were nowhere to be seen. But they knew that they couldn't leave just yet because Esmé was so vain that she could not miss her beloved IN Auction, and as the Quagmires told the Baudelaires, Olaf would have hidden them in one of the objects for the auction, the children knew it was time to act, and specially Klaus was determined to rescue his sister.
Now my dear readers, has arrived a moment were I can't explain what Klaus felt in that moment, how Isadora helped or what happened between the two of them, so I think it has arrived the time that someone else helps me to tell the sad and unfortunate events that occurred in the Baudelaires lives, so then, who better to tell it than the Baudelaires themselves.

Klaus' P.O.V:
I'm known for being able to practically know everything, of course that's not possible considering I haven't read all the books in the world, I only speak English, Spanish and Italian and I don't have a clue how to play an instrument... ooh a piano... oh my dear Cam... I'm known as someone who always knows what to say and what the others try to say but now, after a part of me has been taken, I don't even know how I feel. I think that's really bad considering that if you don't know how you feel, who else could? I don't even now what I'm saying anymore, I just want to find her, Camille is... she's a part of me, even though I love Violet and Sunny, it is not the same, there are certain things I would only tell Cam, even though the four of us have a very open relationship, it's just- it's just not the same...
Between my depressed thoughts, I'm interrupted by a ray of light... Isadora.
"Klaus?" The sweet voice of Isadora Quagmire asks as she makes her way over the bed I was reclined in, and looking at the ceiling. "I'm not going to ask if you're ok. Because I know you're not. I wasn't when Duncan and I lost Quigley, even though I don't have other siblings apart my triplets, I think that sharing your mother's womb is a very different kind of bonding experience. So I'm just going to say that if you need someone to listen to whatever, even the craziest thing that it's going through your mind, the darkest thought you could be having, I mean literally anything, I'm that someone."
"Isadora?" I asked with tears already running down my cheeks and my eyes already puffy from before she even arrived.
"Yes Klaus?" She said with a sweet smile.
"I just-I just-I just don't know what I'd do if I l-lo-lost her or so-something happens to her... she's a part of me. Yo-you and Duncan, I don't know how you do it." I said stuttering.
"You know what? I'll tell you the same thing I told Duncan, when he looked at a mirror the first time after Quigley died." She stated firmly but without losing her sweet smile. "It was really hard for him, because seeing himself was like seeing Quigley again; they were exactly the same, except for the hair..." she said and a chuckled a little as if remembering her brother's hair. "His hair was way longer and messier than Duncan's neat and perfect hair... anyways, when he said the same you just said, about don't knowing what to do without him, I reunited all the courage and strength in me to tell him: 'Duncan, you're never going to fill the space he's left in you or in me, you'll just have to learn to make it smaller as the time goes on, because it's always going to be there, and sometimes will hurt more than others, but at the end of the day, Quigley is always with us. I'll see him everyday in you, you'll probably see things about him in me, we'll always remember how he didn't like to dance, or how he'd always said he'd like to play the harmonica. He'll always be here someway.' And Klaus; Camille is not dead, she's just missing and she's as resourceful as you and your family are, so she'll find a way to be safe as we'll found a way to get her out." She finished, and even though I was thinking about my sister's destiny, I could not stop thinking about how much I liked and admired Isadora. She's brave, kind, talented, creative, beautiful, generous, intelligent and an amazing person, and after what she said I can't stop thinking about how she was strong enough to tell all that to her brother. After all she was practically talking to her dead brother, because as she said Duncan and Quigley were practically the same person physically.
"Thanks Isadora! You have no idea how much I needed that." I finally said and hugged her, but then I realized I was actually hugging her and she's been there with me, I mean it wasn't like a hug of 'oh I missed you so and I'm relived you're ok', like the one we had in the elevator tunnel. This was an actual hug taken out of a 'moment', out of a serious talk. So as I realized what I was doing I immediately let her go and felt as heat reached to my cheeks and started to get redder than a chilly pepper.
I noticed her cheeks were red too, less than mine, obviously, but red. Could it be possible that she likes me or something? I don't know, maybe she was just embarrassed, oh my God, is there anything worse that can happen after my twin sister being kidnapped by a treacherous villain and probably that the girl I like knows I like her more than a friend? It seems like Isadora read my mind, because I was flabbergasted with what she said.
"You know I wanted to ask you something but I'm not sure is a good moment; it's from before all of this happened, like when we were at Prufrock." She started nervous.
"Umm, yeah of course, I mean there's nothing I can do right now about Cam, and maybe it'll help take my mind off things." I said naturally and mean it.
"Well. You remember when we were building the flour baby and Duncan and I disguised ourselves as you and Violet?" She asked doubtfully.
"Yes, I remember that quite well, it was a happy moment while it lasted." I answered while remembering the kiss, but then feeling sadness remembering Camille's teasing, oh boy how I miss her.
"Umm, it was a happy moment for me as well. I mean before getting discovered or anything." She continued more nervous than before. "Klaus? Wha-what did you think about what I did, whe-when you guys were leaving?" She said more nervous than ever.
Ok so I know where all of this is going. She's asking me how I feel or felt about the kiss.
"Well, what do you think about that?" I smiled sheepishly and getting slightly pink cheeks again.
"I-I-I-I liked it very much, and Iwasreallyhopingthatyou'dfeelthesamewaybecauseIlikeyouKlausBaudelaireandnotjustasafriend." She said so fast that I could only understand the 'friend' at the end.
"Isadora, is it too much trouble if you repeat what you said?" I asked concerned, this is not a thing she usually does, as a poet she always takes the requested pauses when talking.
"Uh-uh-o-okay." She inhaled. "I-was-really-hoping-that-you'd-feel-the-same-way-because..." she stopped, and again inhaled deeply,finally shocking me with a pleasant surprise. "Because... I like you Klaus Baudelaire and not just as a friend."
My jaw dropped, and I just stayed there astonished, flabbergasted, surprised, shocked, call it whatever you want, but it was like I've just seen an ghost, not that I mean Isadora's a ghost, but I mean that I was just so taken aback that I couldn't understand clearly.
"I-I-I-I-I-I..." I couldn't even say 'like you too' because not a single sentence would go out of my mouth.
"I understand if you don't feel the same way, I mean it was silly to think that someone like you would like someone like me, so common and so uncreative" she said and tried to get up but I quickly grabbed her wrist and stopped her from getting up.
"I-I-I like you too... and in industrial quantities." I finally said regaining confidence. "And you Isadora Quagmire don't you ever dare to say you're uncreative, because you're the most brave, kind, talented, creative, beautiful, generous, intelligent and amazing person I've ever met." She sighed in relief and interlocked her fingers with mine. She looked at me and I looked at her beautiful green eyes. She was indeed the most beautiful person ever.
"You know I'll beg your pardon, but before I lose all my confidence I have to do this..." and quickly kissed her on the lips, putting my free hand on her left cheek and she joining my hand there. She kissed me back and then I just got blank but never let our lips get detached. It was one of the best moments in my life inside one of the worst days in my life, but this moment was just perfect and even though I thought nothing positive would happen to me that day, something beautiful happened indeed. I got my first kiss, with an amazing girl that I hope will say yes to be my girlfriend.
As we pulled apart, our cheeks were redder than Puttanesca sauce, but we looked at each other and just smiled. After almost two minutes of just looking at each other and smiling like goofy idiots, I decided to pop the question.
"Isadora?"
"Yes Klaus?"
"You've made me happy than anyone had,
I can feel that if you say no I would go mad,
and I know it hasn't been so long
But I think that nothing will go wrong,
so I'm just trying to say,
if you'd like to be my girlfriend from this day." I improvised with a poem, I was actually keen on to poems and songs after all the times I've seen Camille trying to compose a song.
"You just think of that?" Isadora asked excited and smiling like child about the poem.
"Yes, it can be our thing." I answered confidently.
"In that case:
'I love how you've made me feel since we met,
And my answer to your question is you bet'." She recited a couplet answering my question, can she be more incredible?
"I'm glad you have agreed,
But I'd like another kiss before going to sleep."
"I'm glad we'll be together,
And a kiss would make the body of us feel better." And she kissed me again, this time shorter.
"You know even though I love this I think we should get some sleep for tomorrow's big act." I said
"You're right..." Isadora said standing up. "Good night!" And as she was about to walk out I caught up with her, twirled her and kneeled down to kiss her hand and said. "Good night m'lady Isadora!"
She twirled again and her beautiful dark hair moved with her, before she said. "Good night messier!" And walked out of the room.
What a night, Camille gets kidnapped, two hours later Isadora comes, we both reveal our feelings to one another and I go to sleep having a girlfriend. I really think it's time to sleep.
Good night Cam! Wherever you are...

A/N: Ok guys thanks for the support and I would love to hear more about y'all.
Anyways, what do you think of the Kladora moment in this chapter? You think they'll rescue Camille? Or will she be taken to the false V.F.D?
I also want to ask if you think I should include more P.O.Vs, because my original idea was not to include them until the end of The Vile Village, but I changed my mind and I took advantage of Klaus' feelings about Camille to add a clever and helpful Isadora willing to do anything to make him feel better.
That's all for now.
Thanks for reading!