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summerdude) wrote2024-12-30 12:05 am
summerdude) wrote2024-12-30 12:05 am
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I Engage In Some Brotherly Fainting [interlude/closed post]
Magnus hasn't told any of his numerous fathers his plan because he knows they'd put the kibosh on it immediately. Sunny knows, because he's doing it for her. Alex knows, because he's definitely going to be passing out in front of him. Galahad knows, because Magnus likes to keep him in the loop, and because Galahad needs to explain things to SecUnit if SecUnit notices and gets worried. (SecUnit doesn't know, up front, even though Magnus promised to tell it about dangerous activities, for essentially the same reasons he's not telling his dads.)
He takes Sunny flying around on Jack after lunch and then, when he returns Sunny to their dads, sends Jack racing around the entire diameter of their whole world a couple of times while he wrestles with Alex (in varying animal forms) and then wrestles with Alex (in an entirely different and human way). And then he spends about half an hour meditating on Sunny's siblings, and when he's so tired that he can barely keep his eyes open, he calls Jack back and returns him to pendant form, thinking Violet and Klaus. Violet and Klaus the entire time.
He can feel Alex catching his collapsing body, and then everything goes dark.
First, his dreams show him Blitzen and Samirah in the dressing room at Blitzen's Best. Sam is being fitted into her wedding dress; Blitzen has pliers out and is adjusting the chain mail lace detail at the edge of her hijab. Magnus takes a very careful mental snapshot of that so he can describe it to Alex later.
Next, his dreams show him Annabeth, chewing on the end of a ballpoint pen in one of her graduate classes. He can make out a slide about tensile strength of... something or another; in the corner of her notes, she's doodling blueprints for what looks like a truly awesome tree house.
Violet and Klaus, he thinks sternly. His dream slides past Hearthstone and TJ at the Chase Space helping some kid in the kitchen, past Mallory and Halfborn on what seems to be a date in Jotunheim, past Freya scratching the scruff of one of her cats...
...and then it slots into a scene he doesn't recognize.
Outside of a rather large hotel stand three figures. Two of them are Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, who Magnus will undoubtedly recognize, but the third is an unknown man wearing a suit with the word ‘MANAGER’ embroidered over the pocket of the jacket. A taxi pulls up, and two adults step out.
“Justice Strauss!” Violet calls at the same time that Klaus says, “Jerome Squalor!”
“I’m so happy to find you, I was afraid I’d never see you again,” Justice Strauss says as she hugs the two Baudelaires in turn. “I’ll never forgive myself for letting that idiotic banker take you away from me.”
“And I’ll never forgive myself for walking away from you children,” Jerome says, wrapping the two Baudelaires up in one singular large bear hug. “I’m afraid I wasn’t a very good guardian. As soon as I heard all about what happened to poor Sunny – Well. I began my own Baudelaire research.”
Justice Strauss and Jerome Squalor explain to Violet and Klaus how they both were researching everything that had happened to the Baudelaires, both before and after Sunny mysteriously vanished. How they ended up learning about a secret organization known as V.F.D., and that volunteers from that organization had been leaving both of them letters and notes.
“Wherever I looked for you, Baudelaires, and wherever I looked for Sunny, I found selfish plots to steal your fortune. I read books on injustice in all the libraries you left behind and eventually wrote a book myself. Odious Lusting After Finance chronicles the history of greedy villains, treacherous girlfriends, bungling bankers, and all the other people responsible for injustice.”
“No matter what we do, however, we can’t erase the wrongs we did you, Baudelaires,” Justice Strauss says, regret evident in her voice.
“She’s right. We should have been as noble as you are.”
“You’re noble enough,” Violet tells them as Klaus nods in agreement, and all four hug again.
The four, as well as the man wearing the MANAGER jacket, talk more, about V.F.D, something about a sugar bowl, about how Count Olaf has something called the Medusoid Mycelium, but most notably, they talk about how the next morning Count Olaf and his associates are going to stand trial, that Jerome and Justice Strauss and other members of the mysterious organization have compiled evidence against him, and how hopefully all of the Baudelaire orphans’ worries will be over.
“You’ll never have to hide from Olaf again, or worry that anyone will steal your fortune,” Jerome tells them, and they hug once more as a large clock in the top of the hotel chimes out.
The world starts to go dark around Magnus's field of vision.
No, no, he insists. I need to see more—
But the world is fading around the edges. Magnus gets a good look at Violet and Klaus's faces — they're healthy, though they look worried — and then all he sees is a regular dream about Drosera wearing a judge wig that looks kind of like the one Justice Strauss sometimes puts on and acting as arbiter of animal justice among the deer and squirrels and occasional goats of this world.
When he wakes up, he's worn out. He kisses Alex good morning (...well. Good evening) and says, with a great deal of relief and a small amount of consternation, "It worked... but I don't really understand what I saw."
Then he kisses Alex some more, and after a good few moments of getting carried tiredly away, says, "We should probably eat dinner at the cottage tonight. I have a lot to talk to Sunny about."
He takes Sunny flying around on Jack after lunch and then, when he returns Sunny to their dads, sends Jack racing around the entire diameter of their whole world a couple of times while he wrestles with Alex (in varying animal forms) and then wrestles with Alex (in an entirely different and human way). And then he spends about half an hour meditating on Sunny's siblings, and when he's so tired that he can barely keep his eyes open, he calls Jack back and returns him to pendant form, thinking Violet and Klaus. Violet and Klaus the entire time.
He can feel Alex catching his collapsing body, and then everything goes dark.
First, his dreams show him Blitzen and Samirah in the dressing room at Blitzen's Best. Sam is being fitted into her wedding dress; Blitzen has pliers out and is adjusting the chain mail lace detail at the edge of her hijab. Magnus takes a very careful mental snapshot of that so he can describe it to Alex later.
Next, his dreams show him Annabeth, chewing on the end of a ballpoint pen in one of her graduate classes. He can make out a slide about tensile strength of... something or another; in the corner of her notes, she's doodling blueprints for what looks like a truly awesome tree house.
Violet and Klaus, he thinks sternly. His dream slides past Hearthstone and TJ at the Chase Space helping some kid in the kitchen, past Mallory and Halfborn on what seems to be a date in Jotunheim, past Freya scratching the scruff of one of her cats...
...and then it slots into a scene he doesn't recognize.
Outside of a rather large hotel stand three figures. Two of them are Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, who Magnus will undoubtedly recognize, but the third is an unknown man wearing a suit with the word ‘MANAGER’ embroidered over the pocket of the jacket. A taxi pulls up, and two adults step out.
“Justice Strauss!” Violet calls at the same time that Klaus says, “Jerome Squalor!”
“I’m so happy to find you, I was afraid I’d never see you again,” Justice Strauss says as she hugs the two Baudelaires in turn. “I’ll never forgive myself for letting that idiotic banker take you away from me.”
“And I’ll never forgive myself for walking away from you children,” Jerome says, wrapping the two Baudelaires up in one singular large bear hug. “I’m afraid I wasn’t a very good guardian. As soon as I heard all about what happened to poor Sunny – Well. I began my own Baudelaire research.”
Justice Strauss and Jerome Squalor explain to Violet and Klaus how they both were researching everything that had happened to the Baudelaires, both before and after Sunny mysteriously vanished. How they ended up learning about a secret organization known as V.F.D., and that volunteers from that organization had been leaving both of them letters and notes.
“Wherever I looked for you, Baudelaires, and wherever I looked for Sunny, I found selfish plots to steal your fortune. I read books on injustice in all the libraries you left behind and eventually wrote a book myself. Odious Lusting After Finance chronicles the history of greedy villains, treacherous girlfriends, bungling bankers, and all the other people responsible for injustice.”
“No matter what we do, however, we can’t erase the wrongs we did you, Baudelaires,” Justice Strauss says, regret evident in her voice.
“She’s right. We should have been as noble as you are.”
“You’re noble enough,” Violet tells them as Klaus nods in agreement, and all four hug again.
The four, as well as the man wearing the MANAGER jacket, talk more, about V.F.D, something about a sugar bowl, about how Count Olaf has something called the Medusoid Mycelium, but most notably, they talk about how the next morning Count Olaf and his associates are going to stand trial, that Jerome and Justice Strauss and other members of the mysterious organization have compiled evidence against him, and how hopefully all of the Baudelaire orphans’ worries will be over.
“You’ll never have to hide from Olaf again, or worry that anyone will steal your fortune,” Jerome tells them, and they hug once more as a large clock in the top of the hotel chimes out.
The world starts to go dark around Magnus's field of vision.
No, no, he insists. I need to see more—
But the world is fading around the edges. Magnus gets a good look at Violet and Klaus's faces — they're healthy, though they look worried — and then all he sees is a regular dream about Drosera wearing a judge wig that looks kind of like the one Justice Strauss sometimes puts on and acting as arbiter of animal justice among the deer and squirrels and occasional goats of this world.
When he wakes up, he's worn out. He kisses Alex good morning (...well. Good evening) and says, with a great deal of relief and a small amount of consternation, "It worked... but I don't really understand what I saw."
Then he kisses Alex some more, and after a good few moments of getting carried tiredly away, says, "We should probably eat dinner at the cottage tonight. I have a lot to talk to Sunny about."
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Now that dinner is over it's bathtime (yucky), but Magnu offered to give Sunny her bath tonight (not yucky!) so she's pretty hype, a phrase which here means "excited to play in the bath with Magnu, especially since he said it can be a bubble bath tonight". Right now she's in the process of putting a bubble beard on her ducky toy.
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Some of his beard plops onto the edge of the tub with the vigor of his yell.
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"Bug, I had a very special dream today."
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"I know," he says, helplessly, wiping her tears away again. Should he get Dad? Either dad? "I know, bug. It's a lot of big feelings."
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"Done bath," she says, still crying.
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She finally signs overwhelmed as her only response.
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As soon as she's wrapped in the big fluffy towel and out of the tub, she practically clings to Magnu as he gives her the bigger fluffier hug.
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"Thank you Magnu," she says into his chest.
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