So I had several ideas for short stories while working on my main one, Damaged. I just couldn't decide on which one to do first. So I picked at complete random and this is the one that was chosen so here it is.

I really wanted to write a story that was purely about Lincoln and his elder sisters so I thought what would be the best scenario and decided to do something based on something that happened to me when I was a kid. In other words I took inspiration from real life for this. As a result this takes place when the kids are younger.

Also I'm not very good at thinking of alternative titles to fit the Loud House universe so most of the time I'll be using the actual names of movies and such.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Loud House

It was nighttime at the Loud House and all that resided in the house was the children of the family. The parents having gone out for the night and left their eldest child, eleven year old Lori, in charge of the household for the first time ever. They figured that she was old enough for the responsibility and that she could handle her siblings pretty well. Their mother, Rita, was currently six months pregnant with twins and she and her husband wanted to get as much time together as possible before the two new additions to their family arrived.

Right now the kids sat in the living room watching The Wizard of Oz as it was the only movie on tonight that Lori would let them watch. Currently she was sitting on one far end of the family couch with the second eldest sister, ten year old Leni, sitting on the other side. Between them sat nine year old Luna, eight year old Luan and five year old Lincoln, their only brother, who was sitting between Luna and Luan. Their second youngest sister, seven year old Lynn was watching on the floor as she had wanted. Their last sister, two year old Lucy, was currently napping in their parents room with Lori checking on her during commercial breaks.

However she had instructed the other sisters to switch channels during commercial breaks to keep Lincoln and Lynn from seeing something that they shouldn't. She knew the other girls could handle anything frightening that appeared on TV, but Lincoln was easily scared and she wasn't sure about Lynn. They had already had to calm Lincoln down after the Wicked Witch of the West made her sudden appearance in the film. There were several horror movies playing in the theaters currently and the trailers for them were playing all the time on TV. If a mildly scary scene was enough to frighten Lincoln, she could even begin to imagine his reaction to something that was meant to be terrifying. Even if they landed an a channel playing one the trailers, they quickly changed the channel.

Another commercial break started and Lori got up to check on Lucy again.

"Okay Leni, you flip channels while I'm checking on Lucy. If you happen on a channel that has one of those movie trailers, change it right away. Can you do that?" Lori instructed.

Leni saluted Lori and began to flip channels as Lori walked into their parents room behind them. Almost immediatly afterwards, a rumbling sound came from Leni's stomach. She groaned and tried to ignore it, but the rumbling happened again.

Luna looked at her and asked, "Uh Leni? Are you okay?"

"Oh I think I overdid it on the frank and beans tonight," she groaned as she clutched her stomach.

After a moment, she couldn't take it any longer and dashed out of the room and up the stairs. As she did this, both Luan and Luna began to laugh at Leni's misfortune. As they did so, Luna snagged the remote and flipped a couple more channels. One channel she landed on however was playing one the trailers that Lori had declared taboo. Instead of changing the channel, Luna decided to keep it on for a moment. She had been interested in the movie trailers after she had heard how scary they truly were and wanted to see one for herself.

"Well?" Luan spoke up.

Luna turned to her said, "Huh?"

"Aren't you going to change it? Lori said that these things could give Lincoln and Lynn nightmares," Luan reminded her.

Luna twirled the remote on her finger and said, "Oh come on. What's wrong with getting scared? Everyone needs to get scared every now and then."

"I have no problem with it. I see worse stuff in those sports injuries documentaries," Lynn stated from the floor.

Luna figured Lynn would have no problem with them as she had seen worse from real life than she had seen from any scary movie or anything fictional like that. Lynn's sports documentaries played all the time and seeing the stuff from those made her cringe. Any fake injuries from movies looked less frightening after that.

"See?" Luna said smugly at Lynn's response.

Luan groaned in annoyance and said, "But what about Lincoln? He was already scared by the witch from the movie. How do you think he'd handle an actual horror movie?"

"I don't mind," came the small voice sandwiched between Luna and Luan.

They both looked down at Lincoln who was looking back up at them.

"If Luna wants to watch it, I don't mind watching it a little bit," he said with pleading eyes.

Luan wanted to argue a bit, but she couldn't deny Lincoln's request with the puppy dog look in his eyes.

Finally she relented and said, "Fine, but don't blame me if you get scared tonight."

"Yes. Thank you guys," Luna said eagerly as the trailer continued to play on the TV.

However as the trailer went on, Luna quickly began to realize that watching it had been a mistake. Within a few seconds the trailer had begun to frighten her as well. She could even feel Lincoln suddenly pulling himself closer to her.

The trailer was for a movie called, The Drowning. The film was about the former caretaker of a camp who had drowned in the lake of a summer camp after a prank had gone wrong. Now he was exacting his revenge on the camp and it's by means of garden shears. The announcer for the trailer wasn't comforting either as the man spoke with a very creepy voice.

"What happened at this summer camp years ago will happen again... and again... and again," the announcer spoke with a murder scene after each "again".

Luna could feel Lincoln's arms wrap around her left arm and he began to hold on to her. And he held on TIGHT.

Finally the title of the film appeared with creepy music playing.

"The Drowning," said the announcer one last time as the trailer ended.

The room was quiet for a moment, followed by Lynn gulping and Luan chuckling nervously.

"Well I think they should have watered it down a bit. Ha! Get it?" Luan said while trying to brighten up the mood.

Unfortunatly it didn't work. As Lincoln was now whimpering and shivering and was clinging to Luna's arm rather tightly. So much to the point where it felt like he was cutting off her circulation. She placed her hand on his head and tried to try to calm him down some, but he refused to let go of her arm or even open his eyes. He could tell that the trailer was over, but he didn't even want to look at the TV.

"Aw man. No wonder Lori didn't want us to watch that," Luna said as she gave up trying to calm him down.

"You think?" came the voice that the other girls dreaded.

Luna and Luan gulped and turned their heads around to see a very angry Lori behind them. She had crossed her arms and was glaring at the two girls in front of her and tapping her foot against the ground.

"And how are the two of you going to fix this?" Lori growled at them and pointed at a still shivering Lincoln.

Well Lori's angry. Wouldn't you be angry if someone disobeyed your direct orders that scared someone? So now how will Lori and company deal with Lincoln's fear? Maybe we'll learn in the next chapter.

I also want everyone to remember that this is before Luna went to the Mick Swagger concert that turned her into a rocker, so we're going with her younger appearence in this story.

I based The Drowning's trailer off of the trailer of a real life movie called The Burning, a slasher film from 1981. I just decided to alter it a bit. For me it was the trailer to Scream that freaked me out as a kid.