a series of disastrous circumstances

Chapter 1

hey, everyone, this is my first au and I have decided to completely remodel a series of unfortunate events. If anything sounds familiar its because I have quoted some sayings from the books and series and reworded some of them so hehe. I hope you enjoy it.

DISCLAIMER!!!! I DO NOT OWN A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS! ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO LEMONY SNICKET/ DANIEL HANDLER! THIS IS MERELY MY ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF THE STORY AND WHAT I THINK COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE!

Violet Baudelaires POV

On the morning that my siblings and I had been enjoying ourselves on briny beach and saw Mr Poes shadow approaching us, we had not known that what he was about to tell us would change our lives forever. "Children. Your parents have been decapitated." We stayed silent, although there were so many things I wanted to do. I wanted to scream at him and tell him off. I wanted to question him and make him give us answers. He took our silence as us not knowing what decapitated means. "Decapitated means their heads were removed forcefully from their bodies." He said. "We know what decapitated means," Klaus, my younger brother, responded. All of my memories of our sweet and loving parents flooded and raced throughout my mind. They're gone. "There, there my dears." Mr Poe said as he rubbed my baby sister Sunny's arm reassuringly. He lead us to his car as we remained silent. Once we all got in and were seated, we drove to our house to retrieve our belongings. In the car ride, Mr Poe attempted to talk to us but we still wouldn't say a word. We didn't mean to be rude, however, we found ourselves speechless. "I'll be taking you to continue your education at Prufrock Preparatory School. Before your parents died they signed a document saying that you will be able to live in the luxurious dormitory rooms, as if they knew that such a terrible thing was going to happen to them. Funny thing is I recently also enrolled a set of orphan twins who became orphans the same way you did and they also will be in the dormitory with you. Perhaps you'll make friends with them." I didn't find anything that he said funny at all and neither did my siblings.

When we reached our home, I hesitated to enter. "This house and everything inside of it, including the enormous fortune your parents left behind will belong to you once Violet turns 18." Mr Poe stated. I didn't feel comfortable going inside knowing that our parents weren't going to be in there. This didn't feel like home anymore. I don't know how were expected to live in it when I come of age. We each then went into our rooms and began packing the belongings we needed the most or anything that would fit in our suitcases. I sat on my bed, so close to breaking down in tears, but I had to stay strong for my siblings. I wanted to throw my chair across the room and break the lamp on my bedside table but I had to stay strong. Once everything was packed I went to my door, and looked back at my room, as if it was the last time I could do that, before heading out. Klaus and Sunny were waiting outside their bedroom doors for me both sitting on the floor with their heads down, not saying a word to each other. We hadn't said anything since finding out the news and I had a feeling we wouldn't be for a while. I helped them up from where they were sitting and then we walked out to where Mr Poe was waiting. He locked the door and informed us of the security cameras he had set up inside and around the premises and how all of our belongings were insured in case of robbery. We then followed him to his car. And during the car ride, it remained silent. Mr Poe once again attempting to make conversation with us, and us not responding. By that point, I didn't care if we seemed rude.

"This is your new home. Fun fact, the architect who designed it was severely depressed and so that's why all the buildings look like tombstones." Klaus sighed, probably thinking of our parents in their tombstone. "I'm sorry children, I forget that's a touchy subject." I wonder which dimwit gave this man his degree in common sense. HE LITERALLY WAS THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS. I shook my head at him but remained silent. Once we reached the front he dropped us off and drove off with two honks from his car. There was a girl, around Klaus' age standing at the front gate, her vibrant red hair in curls as she held a mirror in one hand and fluffed her hair with the other. We walked towards her and she noticed, looking at us funny. "Are you our tour guide?" Klaus asked. "Um are you a blithering idiot, my name isn't our tour guide, everyone knows I'm Carmelita Spats!" She exclaimed. I had a feeling this girl wouldn't be our best friend, but first impressions are often wrong. "I'll be taking you around and showing you the school, then dropping you off at Vice Princies office!" She sang in an irritating voice. "Vice Princie?" Klaus asked. "Vice Principal Nero, you cakesniffer! Only the very special children get to see the principal. I don't like him he's not very nice and he's never invited me to his office so Vice Princie and I assume that him only seeing special children is rubbish." She replied. She then tap danced on the spot and began walking so we followed her around the dead courtyard, the dark halls of the school, through the quiet classrooms and then eventually to the Vice Principals office. She stood, with her back facing the door and looked at us in an odd way. It sounded like whoever was playing the violin inside had no practice whatsoever and was enjoying the awful noise. Klaus caught on to Carmelita's expression and said: "Thank you." "Thank you is not enough. It is traditional to give a special tour guide a tip at the end of the tour." She replied hastily. Klaus reached into his pocket and found a bag of candy and gave it to her. She squealed in excitement then hit the door behind her roughly with her shoe. The awful screeching of the violin stopped and a man with hair sticking up at all ends abruptly stuck his head out. "WHO DARES INTERRUPT A GENIUS WHILE HE IS REHEARSING?" He asked in a rude tone. "It's the baudelaires, they're late for their appointment with you." I looked at Klaus, both of us not realising we had been late. Sunny bared her teeth at Carmelita and growled quietly, while Carmelita hissed back at her. "HOW DARE YOU BE LATE?" He asked once again in his extremely rude tone. "Thank you, Carmelita, for telling me." She spun away, tap dancing and the Vice Principal clapped for her. "What a lovely girl, as sweet as a butterscotch buttercup." He smiled and said. "She has two living parents." He continued. I wish I had ripped out the remaining hairs sticking out of his head, but that wouldn't have been polite.

After explaining to us whose class Klaus and I would be in, and Sunny's job as a secretary he handed us the key to our dorm also explaining that we would be staying with those twins Mr Poe mentioned earlier (who were triplets but their brother was murdered as well) named the quackmires I think? So we walked out of his office to find it. We eventually reached the dorm and I knocked on the door, greeted by a beautiful girl who was probably a year younger than me or around the same age as me. She had long dark hair and was wearing dark makeup and dark clothing. "Are you our new roommates?" She asked in a quiet voice. I nodded my head, she moved out of the way of the door "Come in then." She said in the same quiet voice. "My name is Isadora Quagmire and this is my brother Duncan." Klaus spoke up, saving me because I really didn't want to talk." "I'm Klaus Baudelaire and these are my sisters Violet, and Sunny." He said, pointing to us while saying our names. By then it was time for bed and so we all took showers and went to bed in our separate rooms. I couldn't sleep and so I tossed and turned.

I saw Mom and Dad sitting down in the library reading a wide grey book. I couldn't read the title from how far away I was from it but I could tell the title was written in a faded gold text. A man with one eyebrow, un-groomed hair and a short beard walk over to them from behind, I noticed him pull out a knife before awaiting a blonde accomplice to join him. She was also holding a knife."MOM! DAD!" I screamed-