"Lori stop"
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"Lori, knock it off"
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"For Fu-frick sake Lori! Drop it!" Yelled the albino.
"Well sorry twerp but i rather have you get better than getting worse" Said the blonde teen.
"Don't worry, a simple sickness isn't gonna hurt me" Said the albino kid, part bragging, part trying not to worry his sister.
Lori gave him a deadpan stare and grabbed the mirror that was in his room and put it in front of his face.
He looked extremely pale, his eyes where reddish and there was some mucus coming out of his nose...basically he looked the opposite of fine.
Not that Lincoln would admit it in front of her.
"Eh, i look a little ugly, no big deal" Said Lincoln dismissively.
"Lincoln, just a few minutes ago you were coughing intensively"
"Gee, everyone coughs every once in a while"
"...just drink your fricking medicine"
"Ok i will, just let me do it myself"
Shrugging, Lori gave Lincoln the medicine for him to drink, which he proceeded to do.
Then Rita entered the room.
"So how's my baby boy?" she asked.
"I'm okay, mom, there's nothing to worry about" Said Lincoln, then he ended up coughing a little.
Lori rolled his eyes. "he's not terrible, but he should remain in bed and rest"
Rita smiled a little bit and ruffled her son's hair. "Where gonna leave soon, so you're gonna remain alone for a bit"
The Loud family had to go to several events in a row, Lana's rodeo, Lola's pageant, Lucy's poetry, Luna's gig, etc. They were gonna take Lincoln with them, but he fell sick, so they had to leave him here.
"Shame I can't come with you guys" Said Lincoln.
"I thought you be happy to not come to our events" Said Lori.
"Normally I Don't care, but I rather go with you that remain bed ridden and sick"
"Trust me, we are gonna have a very busy day, you couldn't handle it even if you were healthy"
"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence" Muttered Lincoln.
"Just stating facts twerp"
Lincoln threw an annoyed glare at her, before shrugging and admitting she had a point, he already barely handles them on a daily basis, and they were going all week about how busy this day was gonna be.
So he guessed it was for the best.
"...Anyways, we may come back before dinner, so stay safe and don't overwork yourself, or else you may end up even worse" Spoke Rita to her son, then she took some keys.
"We are gonna leave some keys with you just in case" Then she left the keys in the furniture.
Lincoln just nodded.
"Kids, let's say goodbye to Lincoln!" Rita called her children.
Soon Lincoln's room was swarmed by his sisters and father who went to say goodbye to their only brother/son.
The albino kid was a bit overwhelmed, but he appreciated the gesture nonetheless.
"Thanks guys and don't worry about me, i'll be fine, you guys go have fun" Said the middle child.
"you sure bro, you don't look so good" Said Luna.
"Heh, you already know how I am, a simple sickness it's not gonna keep me for long" He said while winking and waving his index finger.
Everyone presents just rolled their eyes at his cockiness, but appreciated that his spirits where still up.
"Well, bye sweetie".
"Later brah".
"See you soon Linky".
"Sick-ya later Linc".
"See ya".
"Goodbye Lincoln".
"Later Linc".
"See ya soon, Linky".
"See you later, older sibling".
"Bye wincon".
"See ya later champ".
Now the only ones in the room where Lori and Lincoln.
"Well, you gonna remember when to drink your medicine?" Said Lori sternly
"Yeah, I know that, you said that to me ten times this day" Huffed Lincoln, though he had a smile on his face.
Lori smiled and ruffled his hair.
"See ya later Lincoln" Said Lori as she left the room.
Lincoln waited until he was sure the loud family where gone and started to cough intensively, then he lay in his bed with an utterly tired expression.
"Crap, playing 'pretend you're fine' was harder than i thought, but at least they can go to their activities just fine now...i hope" He said to the audience.
Then he took his 3DS and some games.
"I guess i'm gonna be stuck here for a while, so better keep myself entertained during that time.
So he began playing for a while, RPG, adventure games, platformers, the like. He liked platformers the most, but he also liked other genres as well. Lincoln keep playing for a long time and only took breaks to go to the bathroom, he didn't notice the passage of time, though he did remember to drink his medicine, Lori would kill him if he didn't...assuming his sickness didn't do it first.
Nah, he was probably exaggerating the sickness thing.
Anyways, he started playing until he eventually decided to give it a rest, plus he was getting hungry so he wanted to grab a bite.
"Eh, it's not like getting up and making myself something to eat will kill me".
As Lincoln finished descending the stairs, he realized that while it didn't kill him, it certainly took a lot out of him, plus he was covered by his bedsheets since he felt cold.
Then, he immediately realized that the house was quiet.
His family hasn't come back yet.
He decided to check on his phone to see the hour.
07:56 pm, 8 hours has passed since his family left.
He found it a bit odd that his family hasn't come back yet, it was close to dinner.
He shrugged it off, they where probably gonna take longer than expected, though he still decided to send a message to Rita's phone just in case.
Lincoln went a decided to make himself his a sauerkraut and peanut butter sandwich , plus some leftovers.
After coughing for a bit, Lincoln started eating his food, he decided to check on his phone for a response from his mom.
Still no answer.
That was weird, still no answer from her, but he still decided that they where probably fine and too busy to answer him right now.
Seeing he was on the lower floor, he decided to go and play with his Switch, he was proud of having one, since he was able to buy it with HIS own money that HE himself gained.
How did he managed to do this herculean task considering how fucking expensive a switch and it's games are? Well let's just say that when Lincoln put his mind into something, he's not stopping until he succeeds.
Specially when it comes to something he enjoys.
He mostly did it by doing odd jobs and becoming his friends and family sla-I mean helping hand, yeah, helping hand.
Some took it funny and never did live it down(Chandler, Lynn, Lori, Carol, Maggie, the list goes on) , though some for some reason wanted constant help and attention (particularly Haiku, Clyde, etc) he didn't know why though.
He didn't care though, because he managed to accomplish something on his own(plus he couldn't ask his parents for money given what happened last time) and that's what mattered to him.
Plus, the switch and it's games where really good, so it was worth it.
Anyways, he sit down and booted up the Switch.
He was gonna play Super Angelo Odyssey first, then Streak Mania.
Lincoln began playing, he was gonna play until his family arrived, which shouldn't be long.
...And they didn't came.
Worry was beginning to creep up his spine, why didn't they arrived yet? He has been playing for two hours, it was way over dinner time, they hadn't even answered to his messages yet!
He decided to calm down, while it was worrisome that they didn't come yet, he decided to keep a cool head, it was better than to panic aimlessly.
They probably are so tired that they went to an hotel to pass the night and they forgot to tell him, yeah that gotta be it…
...Right?
Anyways, considering they weren't gonna come tonight for dinner, he should probably make his own.
It was good that he knew how to cook, not to his father level, but it was still decent (with the exception of some picky eaters).
After making himself some food, Lincoln contemplated what to do.
His family certainly wasn't gonna come now, certainly not at an hour that he was gonna be awake, so he decided that the best course of action was gonna go to sleep, they probably be here by the morning.
He coughed a little bit.
Well he was feeling tired anyways, so some good old sleep probably won't do him harm.
Turning off the switch,checking to see all doors were closed, Lincoln ascended to the stairs(getting tired once again), did his necessities in the bathroom, drank his medicine (he forgot to drink some of it before, he hoped Lori didn't find out) and finally went to sleep.
Lincoln woke up.
He went, got dressed even though he didn't have to go to anywhere today since he was sick, he checked his phone and saw that it was 12:45 am.
"I oversleep" He said, his family should be here by now.
He marched out of his room
The next thing shock him.
There was no one there.
There was only silence.
Now, Lincoln had a love/hate relationship with the Noise in his house, on one hand he loved it because of the many memories he had with and how his sisters expressed themselves, on the other hand, he hated it because of how obnoxious it could get and how it made it impossible to have a moment of peace in his house, it drove him crazy sometimes.
He still keep the Noise-Be-Gone earbuds that he used some time ago (like hell he was gonna throw them away after all the money he expended on them), he still used them in fact, he just got smarter at using them o the point that his sisters didn't notice it.
But right now he was wearing them and the silence was frightening.
He went to cheek inside his sisters rooms.
Nothing.
To his parents bedroom.
Nothing.
He checked his phone.
No messages.
He decided to to his room to grab his keys and went outside(not before catching his breath from going through the stairs twice).
The day was lively as usual, people and animals were hanging around, everything was the same.
Except in his house.
Feeling weirded out, he went to check on Mr. Grouse.
He knocked on his door and waited.
The it opened.
"What do you want loud?" Asked the old man.
"Hi, mister grouse, i wanted to know if you were alright".
Grouse raised his eyebrow.
"...I'm fine, how are you? i'm guessing you are not fine"
"Why did-"
"Your family is not killing my eardrums right now, which mean something is wrong"
Well Grouse got him there.
"Yeah, they haven't arrived and i'm worried for them".
"They went somewhere?"
"Yeah, they had to leave to a lot of events but they said they arrive before dinner...and that was yesterday"
"I can see how that would be worrisome...wait, you're alone since yesterday?"
"Yeah".
Grouse had a surprised look on his face, then he noticed the sickly look of the albino.
"Are you sick?" Asked grouse.
"Yeah, been since a few days".
"...Well thanks for checking on me, take care of yourself" And with that Grouse close the door.
"Well thank you " Said the albino.
And with that Lincoln returned to his house.
"Perhaps i just gonna have to wait for them some few hours more" He said to the readers, just in case he sended some messages to his family and went to make himself some breakfast.
After making himself some food, he went to play some videos to kill time, though before that he drank his medicine.
After coughing a little, Lincoln started playing games, to kill time and mostly take his mind out of things.
Afterwards Lincoln began checking his phone.
03:06 am.
His family still hasn't arrived or answered his messages.
Taking deep breaths to calm himself down, Lincoln took out his phone and began calling someone.
Finally, the person picked up.
"Hey buddy, what's up" Asked Clyde from the other side.
"Clyde, i think i have a problem"
Little did Lincoln know, this was only the beginning.
Welp, 2k words in a single chapter, that's a first...i think.
Sup guys, i'm sorry this is not Lincoln Casagrande and it's another story that probably won't be continued in quite some time, but i had this idea, i loved it and had to write it down.
Now, i was a little indecisive about posting this because this would seem to similar to LC, and i'm not gonna lie this does have similarities with that story, but i feel this is different enough to be it's own thing...i hope.
Also, there may be shipping (you could probably guess which ones) but that probably won't come up until much later.
I'm not sure if this has been done before, so i'm sorry if it was (though i doubt it since i didn't saw this plot before in a TLH fic, could be wrong though)
Anyways, i hope you guys like, catch ya later.