The prompts are out of order this time - aside from the first one they're in roughly chronological order, but I didn't write them in the order they are here.
Improvised – Kit/Olaf
#12 - End
In the end, maybe it wasn't "true love"; but it was love, and it was real.
#04 - Bugs
Their first meeting ended with Kit storming off, magnifying glass in hand, while Olaf sat dazed and already intrigued in the mud, wondering what kind of person could care so much about ants.
#03 - Beginning
She only went to collect the recording and congratulate him, reluctantly, on his performance; leaving the dressing room three hours later, she still wasn't sure what had happened.
#01 - Air
She'd suspected for a while that his air of arrogant indifference was a test of some kind; it wasn't one she was interested in passing, and they were equally taken aback to discover she'd done so without meaning to.
#17 - Food
That first time Kit feels his heart race inside him and the heat of his body on hers as he devours her with his eyes and his hands and his kisses, and thinks in a daze no wonder you stay so thin.
#36 - Secret
At first they keep it hidden, for no real reason either of them can think of – except perhaps that no one they know would ever guess.
#32 - Pretty
Most of the girls he's dated were prettier and argued less, and didn't have whiny little brothers; and Olaf is a lot less surprised than he'd have expected to discover that he doesn't care.
#35 - Roses
She knew he was serious when he gave them to her without looking to see who was watching.
#08 - Doors
She can lock the props cupboard door behind her now without even thinking, the hand that isn't holding him to her reaching back and automatically flicking the catch into place.
#37 - Snakes
"We're meeting in the Sculpture Garden," Monty says, as Kit hurriedly re-buttons her shirt, grateful that at least it's him – the one person who wouldn't be shocked or embarrassed walking in on them, just curious, as if they were two snakes performing some sort of mating dance.
#23 - Honour
"I don't need defending," Kit snaps, snatching the glove from Lemony's hand before he makes a complete idiot of himself.
#43 - Summer
He shakes the dripping seaweed from his head and mutters you're lucky I love you, and Kit stops giggling and turns pale, whispering lucky you what?
#05 - Coffee
"Well, it's your own fault," Kit says, but she draws the blinds, and makes coffee and toast and excuses for him at the meeting he was probably going to avoid anyway, and, for some reason, when she's the one telling him off he doesn't really mind.
#41 - Stable
Deep down, he knows he probably needs someone like Kit, to say things like calm down or you're overreacting or that's ridiculous.
#21 - Head
"You think too much," Olaf murmurs, blocking her response with his mouth.
#38 - Snow
He insists on giving her the tour, even though she can't stay long and already knows how a movie set works, but when she sees the light in his eyes she can't possibly protest.
#30 - Peace
It's their turn to keep watch over the camp, and they lean sleepily against one another, sharing poetry and singed marshmallows.
#40 - Spring
He likes to lurk behind bookshelves and spring out when she walks past, pinning her against the wall – Kit's never had the heart to tell him that she always knows he's there.
#48 - Welcome
Lemony will just have to put up with him for the weekend, because as far as she knows, that sign above the door applies to everyone.
#42 - Strange
One day he told her he had to leave early the next morning, and that night he was almost shy with her and incredibly gentle, stroking her hair until she fell asleep, which would have been lovely if it wasn't so unnerving (because surely he'd be back in a few days?)
#15 - Flexible
She finds that most suspicions she can ignore, or explain away – until Jacques hands her a single blurry photograph, and they all come crashing back at once.
#45 - Ugly
"Which one of us has changed, Kit?" he snarls, and he's hurting her wrist and his face is twisted and he smells of sour wine and black smoke, and the worst thing is that Kit has no idea what the answer is.
#07 - Despair
It's a choice between the man she loves and everything she's ever believed in – doesn't he think she'd have avoided having to make it if she could?
#16 - Flying
There's one second when they stop fighting and just look at each other, and in that moment the volunteer and the defector disappear and all they want to do is cling to one another and take back everything they said and thought and believed, and it's too late, they're already flying apart.
#10 - Duty
"We could leave all this, together – our own little two-person schism – but I know you never would."
#24 - Hope
"One day I'll do that again," he tells her, realising too late that she'll see it as a threat.
#39 - Solid
He's been flinging himself against that door for an hour at least, ever since she slammed it behind him – it hasn't moved, and when he looks through the window he can see that neither has she.
#26 - Lost
And of course they're bitter enemies now, and what they've lost is nothing either of them would ever want back – or so they'd tell you, if you asked them.
#28 - New
She lets people assume he tricked her into believing he was loyal, but really, none of what he said at that last meeting was new.
#06 - Dark
Ike actually says at one point that he's "gone over to the dark side", and he nearly blows his cover by laughing, has to clap a hand over his mouth – until he sees Kit's red-rimmed eyes as she nods in agreement.
#49 - Winter
It's freezing outside, but she won't go near the fireplace, wraps herself in jumpers and scarves and blankets.
#13 - Fall
Play Lucifer thrown down from Paradise all you want, Kit writes, in a letter she'll never send, but remember I know the truth: you jumped.
#11 - Earth
VFD may be diminished but it still stretches all over the world; there's nowhere they can go to avoid hearing about each other.
#14 - Fire
There's a crackle and hiss and a smell of sulphur as he lights the first match, and in the flickering yellow light he throws back his head and laughs like a monster, a demon, a nightmare, laughs and laughs and laughs because everyone knows monsters can't be hurt.
#34 - Regret
Her only regret is that she took so long to realise the truth – except at three in the morning, when she realises she didn't take long enough.
#09 - Drink
It's not to help him forget, it's to help him remember – he's the one in the right, he's been right all along.
#27 - Metal
I'm creating, you're destroying, Kit tells him in her head, as she works out where they can salvage enough metal for the submarine – but, she adds to herself, we're both pulling this place apart.
#20 - Green
Tiny green shoots are growing up through the ash of another burned out mansion – for no reason she can articulate, Kit comes back the next day with a watering can.
#50 – Wood
She dreams of a dark figure pursuing her through the wood; he dreams of a woman in red, holding an axe.
#33 - Rain
The rest of the troupe know to avoid him when it rains – he locks himself in the tower and they can see him through the tiny window, pacing back and forth and talking to either himself or someone else who isn't there.
#44 - Taboo
Whenever new reports of his crimes come in she makes an excuse and leaves the room, and then stands outside for hours, wishing everyone wouldn't pretend to believe her.
#46 - War
"All's fair in love and war" were the last words Jacques Snicket ever heard.
#47 - Water
Everything is red and wild and blazing and a surge of power roars through him, but he still can't shake her voice at the back of his mind whispering there's one thing stronger than this…
#29 - Old
He's too old and it's too late, and even if it weren't he'd never take anything from a Baudelaire except life and money – but Kit's in trouble, and he still has a promise to keep.
#02 - Apples
He feels bitterness fill his throat as the fungus leaves it, and the pain in his chest reminds him this must be the only unselfish thing he's ever done.
#25 - Light
When you think about it there's no way he should have been able to carry her, but neither of them think about it until afterwards.
#22 - Hollow
He doesn't want to apologise, he's never apologised for anything, but he's uncomfortably aware that even if he did it would be far too late.
#18 - Foot
Her fingers brush against the skin that's been stained blue for as long as she remembers, and she wonders whether poetry counts as forgiveness.
#31 - Poison
Among her last thoughts: did he know she was there that night, and would that have changed anything?
#19 - Grave
"Do you think we should bury them together?" Klaus asked, and Violet and Sunny thought for a moment, then shook their heads.