The Baudelaires (Unedited)

5: "We're like the goody-two-shoes"

"Lunch!" Justice Strauss yelled.
We ran down the staircase and sat at the table.
"I hope you like vegetables, Charlotte." She smiled.
"I do. I don't mind, just as long as I get to eat." I joked as I sat next to Sunny.
It was a stir fry, quick and easy, and very tasty. She cooked well.
Everyone was quiet, it just goes to show how good it was.
"What have you and Klaus been talking about then?" Violet asked me.
"Books." Me and Klaus answered in unison.
We burst out laughing.
"Which book though?" Klaus asked, curious.
"It's hard to pick one we talked about most." I said, "Nouns."
"Exactly." He laughed.
"Verbs are better in my opinion." Violet said.
Justice Strauss agreed with Violet.
"But nouns are things and places and names. We are nouns. Yet verbs are things we do." I pointed out, trying to get them on our side.
"How are verbs better?" Klaus asked.
"They're things you do as Charlotte said." Violet replied.
"Fair enough.." Klaus smiled.
"Nouns are better.." I mumbled.
Klaus nodded.
Sunny then giggled, "Verbs!"
I sighed and looked at Beatrice.
"Come on Beatrice, nouns!" Klaus encouraged.
"Nou-Nou...Ver-...Verb!" She splurted out.
"No!" Me and Klaus cried out with defeat.
Violet and the others burst out laughing.
Justice Strauss acted as if she was doing a trial, "Verbs are better, end trial!"
I burst out laughing then.
Klaus smiled at me and I smiled back at him as I took a bite of another vegetable.

"Which room is Charlotte sleeping in?" Violet asked.
"Whichever room she wants to." Justice Strauss replied.
"Mine!" Klaus shouted, "..mine" he calmed down a bit.
I burst out laughing.
"Is that okay with you?" Justice Strauss asked me.
"Yeah, I guess so." I grinned.
"We could take out some of the books in the shelf, we could put your bed with the books." Justice Strauss suggested.
"That would be..wonderful, if it's not too much trouble." I agreed.
"We'll just take out the least popular books." Klaus smiled.
"Yep. Psychology is out."
"Psychology is out. That sounds like something Esme would say if she actually read books."
"Yeah, but even if she could, she probably wouldn't."
"Fair enough. But then, in the Book of Mild Surprises, it said that anything could happen even if it is very unlikely."
"It's very unlikely in this world, Klaus." Violet intervened.
I smiled, "she's right. Let's just give most members on the other side of the schism the benefit of the doubt."
"Good idea." Klaus agreed.
"All in favor of giving the other side of the schism the benefit of the doubt, say aye!" Justice Strauss said.
"Aye." We all said.
"Alright, end trial!" She laughed, "go play outside!"

We all got up and walked out into the garden when it began to rain.
I put on my coat and went outside anyway and sat on the swing. The others sat beside me, except Sunny who was playing with Beatrice.
"I'm sorry about Lemony." Violet said.
"It's okay it's...not anybody's fault." I mumbled and mentally added, but mine.
Klaus then playfully tapped me and said, "it!" like a child would.
I got up and started chasing him, tapping him once and instantly running away.
"Oh come on!" He yelled.
Violet then started to play, it was as if we were all kids again.
I started laughing as much as I could as Klaus slipped in the mud and went to go help.
I picked him up and he tapped me, "it."
I tapped him back, it started to look like a game of tennis as we were going back and forth.
I finally got free of the tennis game and tripped backward.
Klaus grabbed my hand and pulled me up.
"Thanks." I said.
He nodded, "you're welcome."
Violet walked back inside, thunder clapping as she did.
A storm was brewing, not literally, but figuratively too.

Me and Klaus followed her inside and sat by the radiator.
My hair was soaking, I didn't put my hood up.
"You sure you don't want to dry off?" Klaus asked.
"I already am." I laughed.
"I meant like..with the hairdryer or..."
"No, I'm fine. This usually worked whenever Carmelita poured water over your head if you sat even thirty meters away from her. Or during sports when she did the exact same thing.." I sighed.
"Only to orphans?"
"No, just to Snicket's. They all know who we are. All of us went there."
"Is that why Carmelita displayed such hate to you?"
"Yeah, I guess we were always the type that would be the goody-two-shoes, you know? The type that wouldn't tell on a person of they trusted them, whereas would snitch on someone like Carmelita if anybody listened." I explained.
"It's sad, isn't it? Your family displays this 'reputation' if most of the ancestors did the same thing. It's like my Father, whenever he adjusted his glasses, you'd know that he's thought of something. Same for Violet, Mother would always tie up her hair if she had an invention in mind. Sunny is a bit of both, just as brave and intelligent. That's what people regard us for." He explicated.
"Lucky. We're not known for much. Just being the kind that defined words, like Father did, or with my Mother, that bravery and loud voice, plus the wanting to do something is s big one in the Snicket family. We all want to make a change in some way, like Father, Jacques and Kit; they wanted to put out fires."
"So did mine."
"Shouldn't we do it for them?"
"Until the day we die?"
"Wouldn't it make them proud?"
"Of course it would, Charlotte."
"But what do we do?"
"Put out fires and get rid of the other side of the skism. Get VFD back together."
"We need Jacqueline."
"Maybe even Frank Denoument."
"No, we can't do that. I'll just get confused. We could get Earnest without knowing"
"True."
"What about Olivia?"
"She got killed by lions at the Carnivorous Carnival.."
"Oh god.."
"We could always find the Quagmires?"
"They're up in the sky, Klaus, it's impossible." Violet pointed out, "I'm not sure if they'd feel safe coming down anyway. Especially Duncan."
"Fair enough, Violet. I can't think of anybody else but Jacqueline."
"So, just Jacqueline.." I sighed.
"Yeah, if she didn't die in the Hotel Denoument fire." Klaus pointed out.