#denouement

dénouement

Pairing: Chrissy Cunningham/Eddie Munson Rating: Explicit Chapters: 7 Status: Now Complete

For Restraintstiel Week Day 7: Free

Summary: Dean didn't know what he expected from Heaven, but it wasn't to feel miserable and alone. Driving seems to help, until his car breaks down on the road (and how does that even happen in Heaven), and he sees something vast in the sky. Something that is very sure this isn't the end of Dean's story, and it's time for them both to go home.

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Dean didn’t know what to think, so he drove.

The road he was on was familiar every time he looked, but always in a different way. The sun filtering through the pines was clearly a stretch of I-5 in Oregon just north of the California border. When he blinked, it had opened up into the wide blue prairie sky of Oklahoma. The absence of potholes and shitty assholes driving 60 mph in the passing lane was the biggest clue that none of this was real. The lack of challenge was downright unsatisfying.

But he didn’t have anything else to do, so he drove.

If only he knew where he was trying to get to.

It wasn’t like he wasn’t happy to see Bobby, of course he was, but the more Bobby had talked, the more Dean had just wanted to get the hell out of there. How was he supposed to feel about seeing a replica of the Roadhouse like a shrine to the dead, parked in the middle of exactly where it shouldn’t be? And to learn his parents were just over the ridge, and that he was going to be expected to make nice with his father for the rest of eternity?

And that Cas was here, but not with him.

Dean hadn’t even been sure Jack would be around as something tangible enough for Bobby to name and know. Finding out he was, but hadn’t been the one to welcome Dean when he arrived, made him feel sick. Dean wanted to see his kid and make sure he was okay so badly, but it seemed like Jack didn’t want that.

And Cas was here. Alive. But like Jack, he hadn’t chosen to meet Dean at the Pearly Gates.

Maybe Bobby was the only one who wanted to see him. Maybe that made sense. Dean wouldn’t really want to see himself, either.

So, Dean drove. Nowhere to go except… away.

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Denouement

[Noun]

Definition: The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot come together and everything is resolved.

A Confusing Contradiction: If "everyone who's ever met the Baudelaires was invited" to Olaf's trial (at the Hotel Denouement)...

...where were the Poe family? Why do we never see them?

This problem, I believe, has a somewhat ominous solution:

We know from The Penultimate Peril: Part 2, that the Daily Punctilio writes such nonsense to the extent that Mr Poe, husband of leading journalist/editor-in-chief, knows it's "hogwash".

Hmm... let's see. Starting with the last time we see each known member of the Poe family:

N.B. As this is a Netflix-Canon Theory, I will take the Poe family to have 4 members, as the role of 'Polly Poe' (wife) and 'Eleanora Poe' (sister) have been combined in the show to form Eleanora Poe, wife of Mr Poe.

Arthur Poe:

- Well, we see Mr Poe at the Hotel; after all, his appearance causes the Baudelaires to accidentally kill Dewey Denouement.

Eleanora Poe:

- The last time we see Mrs Poe is during the events of The Vile Village, when she's trying to hunt down the Baudelaires

Edgar Poe:

- In The Bad Beginning, eating parboil chicken or arguing with his brother or something.

Albert Poe:

- Also in The Bad Beginning, also eating parboil chicken or arguing with his brother or something.

However, in The Bad Beginning, Lemony notes something important: "One of the brothers Poe followed his father into the world of banking".

Which one, you ask? My money's on Edgar. Maybe this is just my perspective, but Edgar seems a little more loved than Albert by their parents.

My theory is as follows:

Eleanora Poe starts becoming aware (probably by the events of ≈ middle of The Slippery Slope) that the authorities may have cottoned on to her false reporting, so she starts to slowly lose her steady income.

Now, Lemony does the one thing he's become rather infamous for on the fandom: not lying, but omitting the truth; one thing Lemony does not say is when the banking brother took up office, as it were.

Eleanora is now solely reliant on Arthur's income. But: She must stay at home, taking refuge from the ruthless press/paparazzi, or be caught red-handed as a false reporter.

However, this was also a V.F.D. gathering: I believe that Mr Poe brought Edgar into the banking world (probably as an apprentice) so that he is making money by the time the trial comes in order to bribe The Sinister Duo to, more-or-less, 'get out of the trial free'.

This would explain why we don't see Eleanora until Lemony's reveal of her jailing in The End, and why one of the Village of Fowl Devotees Elders (I think her name is Jemima) knows about Mrs Poe's atrocities. It also links to my theory that The Sinister Duo are Mr Tamerlane's bosses.

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