Chapter One
"Hey, Lincoln… Lookin' good in those undies… They new?" Lynn asked. Lincoln sighed.
"Umm… Maybe two weeks old?" Lincoln said. Lynn came in, taking his shirt off. Lincoln knew what was going to happen next, and in the strangest way, he had been looking forward to it. He was just reading comics in his underwear as he always did on a Saturday. But sometimes… More often lately, Lynn would come in and…
Well, seduce wasn't really the word. It wasn't a tender act. Lynn was never abusive towards him. He never hurt Lincoln. But it was hardly lovemaking. More like very mechanical sex. Lynn shoved Lincoln down on the bed. The younger white haired boy knew the drill. He turned over so his back was facing Lynn. He knew that Lynn didn't like to look Lincoln in the eye while they were doing this. It made it too personal, too intimate, which to Lynn it was never supposed to be.
To Lincoln, he looked forward to the moments when he and his older brother could be so close with each other, and yet hated how distant he felt, even in the most primal moments when one or usually both of them orgasmed. It felt simultaneously overwhelmingly hot and bone chillingly cold.
"You've finally learned what you're doing, eh, Stinkin?" Lynn asked scathingly, shutting the door and locking it, pulling his own pants, rubbing his penis a few times to get it hard.
Pulling Lincoln's head forward, Lincoln's mouth engulfed Lynn's hardness, kissing and sucking it, trying his hardest to make it as tender as possible, even when Lynn wouldn't even look down at him. He always looked somewhere on the walls, maybe at an Ace Savvy poster or something else, even as he began to grit his teeth and held Lincoln's head fast as he released his seed in his younger brother's mouth. Lincoln coughed and gasped. He still hadn't fully gotten used to that.
Lincoln sighed, climbing on the bed and pulling his own underpants down as he felt a warm, wet sensation of exothermic lubricant being poured on his ass and the sensation of fingers going up his asshole, lubricating inside as well as out. Lynn then lubricated himself thoroughly. As he said, Lynn never exactly hurt Lincoln… Not physically anyway. There was just nothing personal or intimate about their sex. Lincoln groaned as Lynn entered him, feeling himself getting even harder than before.
This had been going on for almost two years, at least since his twelfth birthday. He was fourteen now and Lynn was sixteen. Lincoln had a girlfriend, Ronnie Anne. He hadn't had the courage to tell her about this, though sometimes he suspected that she might know that there was more between Lincoln and Lynn than just brothers. The way she looked at him looking at Lynn when the older brother passed by.
Lynn thrust hard, keeping his mouth shut, not even looking at the back of Lincoln's head as he thrust repeatedly, finally finishing shortly before Lincoln did and pulling out. As Lynn began to get dressed, Lincoln followed his own routine of the past few times and cupped Lynn's cheek, kissing him on the lips, only to be roughly rebuffed, being punched uncommonly hard in the stomach, driving the wind violently from his lungs, leaving Lincoln to collapse to his knees, gasping desperately for breath
"Get the hell offa me! How many times do I have to tell you, Stinkin! This doesn't mean anything to me! Stop acting like such a freak!" Lynn snarled.
"But I love you, Lynn!" Lincoln said desperately, tears stinging his eyes. How could Lynn keep doing this to him? He kept coming in, expecting Lincoln to give everything to him and offering nothing back but hurt feelings and heartbreak.
Lincoln didn't know why he kept expecting Lynn to suddenly act like anything else than he had been for the past two years. He didn't know why he didn't tell Lynn to just leave him alone and stop treating him like a sex toy. Tell him that he had feelings too. Lincoln sighed. He could never refuse Lynn. Even if it broke his heart every time he was rejected, he couldn't say no to his older brother. He loved him so much. Lynn growled, walking out with a grimace of utter contempt.
"Later, Stinkin…" He said, leaping down the stairs to go for a run.
"Hey, Ronnie Anne… Stinkin's up in his room… He's being extra girly today…" Lynn said, walking out. Lincoln hurried to get dressed. He couldn't let Ronnie Anne find out about his relationship. He hid the lube and the condoms which weren't used that day, but often were used in place of lube. Ronnie Anne knocked and was immediately let in.
"Hey, Linc… What's wrong? You look like you just got run over by a train." Ronnie Anne said sympathetically, sitting down next to Lincoln, holding him close to her. Lincoln always felt safe with Ronnie Anne. She was rough and tumble when she needed to be, but she was surprisingly gentle with him when he needed her to be. Their relationship didn't start out that way. She was almost as rough with him as Lynn was, so he couldn't even get a break from being bullied at school.
Now, since they started going out a year and a half ago, her attitude towards him had softened a lot.
"Well… That happens… When you get hit in the stomach by Lynn…"
"That's not what's wrong and we both know it. What's really wrong, Lincoln? Come on. You can tell me anything. I won't judge you, I promise."
"This is a lot to not judge. I don't think even Clyde would have it in him not to judge me for this."
"Why don't you try me? If I end up judging you, you have the right to punch me."
"I don't wanna punch you, Ronnie Anne. I'm in love with Lynn…"
"Your brother? I kinda thought something was goin' on between you two. The way you look at him… It's the way Clyde looks at Lori… Like a longing that will never be satisfied."
"Boy, you could work with Lars on his poetry. I… It's more than just unreturned love… I've… Been sleeping with Lynn for almost two years now."
"Sounds like he loves you. What's the problem? He still in the closet and you aren't?"
"Maybe… But I think he really does just want me to help him blow off steam sometimes. Every time I try to look him in the eye while we're doing it or kiss him, he punches me.
"The punch doesn't hurt so much anymore. I've been hit harder by him… Most times… This time was actually pretty hard because I tried to kiss him on the lips… But…"
"This conversation has become much more frank than I was expecting." Ronnie said, looking slightly put off.
"Oh, sorry… I won't gross you out with any more details then." Lincoln muttered, tears flowing freely from his eyes now. He didn't want to upset her, but he needed someone to talk to about this. He needed to be able to get his feelings out there, and Lynn wouldn't listen to him. Ronnie sighed.
She wasn't sure she wanted to hear how her boyfriend was being not only being fucked by another boy, but that that boy was his brother. But she couldn't really shy away from this. He needed her support. She hugged him tighter to her, kissing him gently on the lips.
"Does that mean you don't love me?"
"NO! I do… I-I love both of you… I know that seems weird… But I guess I'm bisexual… I just happen to love both a boy and a girl at the same time. And I wish I didn't… I wish I could stop being in love with Lynn… I just want my chest to stop hurting… I want to stop feeling sick to my stomach every time he comes into my room with that look on his face, knowing I'm just going to be rejected again! I don't want to be in pain anymore!" Lincoln sobbed.
Ronnie Anne continued holding him, feeling an immense sympathy for Lincoln that she didn't usually feel. She always loved him, but usually, he was pretty tough. It came from having ten brothers, most of whom were pretty nasty if not downright abusive towards him. He didn't have a terribly easy home life, so going to school was often a catharsis for him.
"You're welcome to move in with my family, Linc… My parents won't let me hear the end of it, but I think if you can handle ten mean brothers, you can handle talkative and gossipy family. That way you won't have to be around Lynn. You can get over him in peace without having to worry about him pulling you back. I can even help you move out."
"Why would you do that for me? I just admitted that I'm cheating on you!" Lincoln cried.
"No, you admitted that your brother has been using you for sex. There's a difference. He has no right to do that to you. He has no right to lead you on and then drop you like that."
"No, no… I-I agreed to it… I… The first time it kind of hurt, but after that, it felt amazing… He's…"
"You're making excuses for him! You have to make a decision, Lincoln! Either continue to live in a cycle of loveless sex and heartbreak or take control of your own damn life!" Ronnie snapped, her eyes lighting up angrily. "I can't make that decision for you! I…"
"Quiet down… You want my brothers to hear? I need some time to think about this… I promise I'll get back to you tomorrow on it… I promise." Lincoln said, kissing Ronnie Anne and taking her to the door.
She stormed out, snarling furiously at Lynn, who was coming back from his run. As Lincoln was heading to his room, Levi stopped him.
"I think I have a solution for your conundrum… Well, an answer to the question you asked yourself in your diary…"
"You've been reading my diary!"
"No more than any of our other siblings. You really should use the fingerprint identification journal I made for you for your birthday. There's no way our siblings could break into that."
"Anyway, you have a solution."
"Yes… You wondered in your diary if you were a girl and Lynn was your brother, would he be more likely to love you as you love him. You can find out for yourself with this machine. Take this watch and input the parameters of the alternate universe you want and it will seek one out if such a universe exists.
"For the relatively mundane parameters you are seeking, I suspect there are at least ten. It will choose the one most similar to the current one while still conforming to said parameters." Levi said, fiddling with the settings on the watch.
"Okay… Lincoln=Girl, Lynn=Boy, Loud Family=Otherwise same.
"You will be transported to a parallel universe wherein all features are the same within our family save that you will have two X Chromosomes rather than an X and a Y… Namely, you will be female. There's every chance that you may be moved as much as two years forward or backwards in time, depending on whether your thoughts stray or some other unforeseeable anomaly occurs. No physical damage should be done to you, though."
"Why are you helping me? You don't even like me." Lincoln said.
"I need test subjects for my Space-Time Watch. I've upgraded it and I need to make sure that it causes no detrimental effects. Keep in mind that you should not stay in the alternate universe for more than 48 hours. If you do, you may not be able to come back. The countdown will begin as soon as you appear in the new universe."
"Thank you, Levi… I don't know whether I'll see you again, but…"
"Nonsense. I'll be in the new universe as well. You can give me the watch there if you like. He will be able to communicate with me on the success or lack thereof of the experiment." Levi said, still as stone-faced as ever. Lincoln nodded, hitting the Go button. Suddenly, he felt himself being pulled out of his current universe and sent to a new one.
It was a curious sensation, like a tingling and a burning all at once. It didn't exactly hurt, but it wasn't terribly comfortable either.