A/N: Hello everyone. I've recently finish watching all of the episodes of the Loud House so far. And I love it. Anyway this story came to me while I was thinking what I could do. For I wanted to read story in which it focuses more on Lincoln and Lori relationship. So I decided to do this. Hope you enjoy.
P.S. Special Shout-out to The Unknown Twinkie for helping me proof-read this story.
Summary: With the disappearance of their parents, 18 year old Lori must take care of her siblings. However after a mental breakdown, Lincoln learns the truth and offers to help. Watch how their relationship changes and adapts as they work together to take care of their siblings.
Rating: T (might change)
Change and Adapt the Loud House
It is a normal day in the Loud House. Lori, who is busy keeping the house from falling apart, was currently watching her siblings. For their parents were at Mr. Louds work office for a mini-conference. So being the eldest at the age of 18, it fell to her to do what she always do.
"LOLA! LANA! STOP YOUR HOUSE-ROUGHING RIGHT NOW!"
Yelling at her sibling to strike fear into their little lives. The twins, beauty pageant Lola Loud and tomboy Lana Loud, were busy fighting with each other. Because of all of the loud ruckus they were making due to their fighting, they couldn't hear Lori yelling at them.
"THAT WAS YOUR FAULT LOLA!" Lana yelled while punching her sister in the chest and trying to block her kicks.
"LIAR! IT WAS ALL YOU!" Lola yelled kicking her sister in the legs while trying to block her punches.
Lori, who was losing her temper control by the minute, decided to put the end of the fighting. Once and for all. Heading upstairs Lori walked passed two of her other sisters, who were already heading down the stairs. The rocker musician Luna and the Jokester Luan. Both who immediately got out of Lori's warpath. They both then turned towards the fight that Lola and Lana were in.
Luna and Luan both reached the bottom step, right when Lola and Lana started to move their fight into the dinning room.
"LET GO OF ME!" Lola yelled.
"NO! YOU LET GO!" Lana yelled.
While watching the fighting intensify, both Luna and Luan were thinking if they should get involved. The front door to the house opened up, reviling several more of the Loud siblings. Lisa the genius put Lily the baby down on the ground, who then started walking away towards the family couch. The second oldest of Mr. and Mrs. Loud Leni the airhead who was standing right next to Lincoln the only brother.
"Hey Luna, Luan, what is going on here? And where is Lori?" Lincoln asked as he walked in the house with his siblings.
In the background they could hear the twins fighting. What exactly they were fighting over is anyone's guess. Cause Lola and Lana tend to fight over petty things. The fact that Lori was suppose to watch over the house and was currently not present, is what caught everyone's attention more than the twins. Even though everyone could hear some glass breaking.
"Well it looks like they're catching a break. Hahahaha!"
Everyone just sighs at Luan's joke before Luna spoke up in her British accent. "Well Luan and I were upstairs when we heard some commotion. So we came downstairs to figure out what was going on. Only we ran into Lori who is on her warpath."
This cause Lincoln to start thinking. Usually when Lana and Lola got into a fight it was quickly resolved. Granted Lori was always on top of them when they fought. Maybe if Lincoln could figure out what made the twins fight in the first place, he could resolve this.
"I know how to fix this."
The mysterious voice cause everyone to jump and yell in surprise. Turning around towards the voice, everyone noticed their Goth sister Lucy.
"Lucy how long were you behind us?" Lincoln asked.
Lucy just stared at everyone through the bangs that covered her eyes. After a moment of silence she answered. "I was always behind you. In fact I was with you guys for the last hour."
Lincoln put his finger to his chin thinking back to the last hour. Leni took him, Lisa, Lily and Lucy to the store. And now as he is thinking about it, Lincoln did remember picking a can of Alpha-Chews Soup. Only to drop the can as Lucy's face was there very suddenly.
"Now that I think about, you were with us at the store."
"Wow, Lucy you can turn invisible?" Leni asked or stated.
This cause Lincoln to cover his eyes at Leni's remark. However, that didn't seem to get the message across to her…at all. Lucy just gave a loud "Sigh," before speaking.
"Don't sweat it you guys. I have an immunity built up towards the pain of your forgetfulness towards me."
Everyone just stared at Lucy for a minute in silence. After which Lucy took out a piece of paper. "I have written a sad dark poem about. Want to hear it?"
This caused everyone to get a little nervous. And so it was Lincoln who pretty much spoke for everyone. "Now is not a good time Lucy. We'll hear it another time ok?" Lucy just sighs before replying "Ok." This caused everyone to slightly regain their posture and sigh in relief just as Lola and Lana fighting got more intense. Which caught the attention of Lincoln, who remembered that Lucy said that she knew how to fix this.
"So Lucy, you said you knew how to fix the fight between Lola and Lana correct?" Lucy nodded and Lincoln continued his thoughts. "So Lucy how do we fix this?"
Just as Lucy was about to answer, Lola and Lana came to where their sibling were standing. Once they came in still fighting with one another, they unknowingly pulled in Lucy into the scuffle. This caught all of the siblings by surprise. It took Lincoln a second to recover before stepping in to try and rescue Lucy. "Lola! Lana! Stop fighting!" However, Lincoln's plea went unheard as he too was pulled into the scuffle.
"Whaaa!" Lincoln yelled.
Luna, quickly grabbing hold of Lincoln's hand saying "Hold on bro. I got ya." Luna's effort was useless as she too went in. This cause Lincoln and Luna to now fight for survival. "Whoa!" Luan started. "It looks like they got scuffleborded. Haha!" A random arm reached out and grabbed Luan, causing her to join the fight. The remaining Loud sibling started to run for their lives. Unfortunately it was too late for them. One by one the rest of them minus Lily were dragged into the now full fledge brawl of the Loud siblings.
"OW!"
"HEY! NO BITING!"
"KNOCK IT OFF!"
"STOP PUNCHING ME!"
Soon, however, the brawl came to an end when everyone hear the all to familiar whistle sound. "TWEEEEET!" Followed by a rage filled voice that too was all to familiar to the Loud siblings. "Loud family fall in line RIGHT NOW!" One by one everyone stood side by side. With the oldest sibling next to the stairs followed by the rest of the family down to the youngest. The family pets also fell in line right next to Lily. Stomping down the stairs was none other than Lori. All dressed up in her black boots, military jean shorts, green shirt, jacket, sunglasses and whistle. In her hand was a clip board, though no one was really sure what was written on it. Only one thing was going through everyone's mind. "We're screwed."
Lori started to walked up and down in front of the line. Watching closely at the faces of her siblings. Stopping in front of Lola, Lori watched as her sister tensed up. She then open her mouth to speak. "Alright Loud family," Lori started. "When I call out your name, I expect you to respond. Does everyone understand?"
"Yes Ma'am!" Everyone stated.
"Good." Lori continued to inspect her siblings. Thinking on who to inspect first. "Before I get to the bottom of Lola and Lana's fight, I first need to figure out what caused everyone to joined it." Lori's eye's fell first on Luan's. So hoping that the comedian would spill the beans, she will be the first.
"Luan."
Luan stood straight and responded. "Yes, Lori?" Lori just glared at Luan, causing her to gulp in nervousness. However, Lori just ignore Luan's statement and went on without missing a beat. "Luan, I want you to tell me what happen here." Luan nervously smiled and said "It looks like I was the first to be picked. Hahaha!" Lori stared menacingly at Luan and said "No jokes! Just tell me. What. Happened. Got it!?" Luan nodded heavily just incase Lori was going to punish her.
"Good. So Luan, what happened?"
"Well," Luan started. "Luna and I were upstairs when we heard some ruckus happening downstairs. So We came down and saw the twins were fighting. Lincoln and the others got home a few seconds later and so we stood around and talked."
Lori put out a hand and stopped Luan. "Alright, Luan that's enough talking for now." Luan just smiled weakly and watched as Lori moved down towards her left. Slowly, while eyeing everyone in the line, Lori was debating who to asked next. Stepping in front of Lincoln, Lori started to question him.
"Lincoln, what happen here?"
Lincoln was a bit shocked. For he had hoped that Leni or Luna would be the ones to be answer the questions. After all he doesn't know anything. All he knows, is from what he saw the minute he walked in the front door and what Luna and Luan told him. Other than that he knows nothing about Lola and Lana's fight. But the seriousness on Lori's face told him, "Come clean and I won't punish you." So Lincoln did just that.
"Well, Leni, Lucy, Lisa, Lily and I went to the store. We were there for an hour and came back. Once we came back home Lola and Lana were already fighting. And somehow or another Lucy was pulled into their fight. I tried to grab hold of her and I was pulled in as well. Eventually all of us were fighting with each other."
Lori went through the information in her mind. Once it was processed she replied "Thanks Lincoln I will use the information you gave me wisely." With that she walked down the line, to which Lincoln let out a sigh of relief.
Stopping in front of Lola, Lori turned to face her. Lola cringed at the fact that Lori stopped in front of her. Slowly she looked up towards her sister face. Seeing a stern look on Lori's face caused Lola to have a tingling sliver going up her spine. Looking down at her sister, Lori open her mouth to speak.
"Lola, answer me this. What were you and Lana arguing about?"
Lola eyes went wide and froze up. Her mind went blank, as she was trying to figure out what to say. Does she lie her way through? Of course this is Lori for Pete's Sake. She could easily get the truth from her if she wanted to. So what would be the best case scenario for Lola? The answer is simple…lie your heart out.
"Well…you see…Lana broke mom's birthday vase!" Lola said pointing at Lana.
Lana was shocked. How could Lola just put the blame on her? True, she picked up the vase, but that doesn't mean that she broke it. Lana opened her mouth and replied. "Liar! It was you who…" Lana was cut off by Lori who put up her hand.
"Lola what happen?"
Lola put her hand under her chin and said "Well Lana and I were looking for something. And I saw Lana picking up mom's vase. I told her to put it down. She did and came over to me and said "You are not the boss of me. If I want to pick something up I'll pick it up!" I was mad and I shoved her and she ran into the stand where mom's vase was and it fell and broke. Lana then tried to place the blame on me and we fought."
"Is that what really happen Lola?"
Lola stared at Lori for a second before answering "Yes it is."
Lori looked back and forth between Lola and Lana. Lana had a look that if it could kill, Lola would be dead. And Lola had the same smug look that everyone is used to see. Of course, Lori knew that Lana's side was going to be different than Lola's. Lori turned to Lana and said "Lana, what's your side?"
Lana turned away from Lola and said "Well, Lola and I were looking for something to use for a school project. I thought about using mom's vase as a reference until I thought of something better to use. Lola told me to put it down, so I did. Then I went over to her and told her "I want to use mom's vase for school." Lola then told me she was going to use it instead. I told her that I was going to use it and that she needed to find something else. She got mad and then she pushed me."
"Is that what really happen Lana?
Lana crossed her arms and said "Yes it is."
Lori thought about what her twin sisters told her. Of course it's hard to really determined who was telling the truth. For both stories have similar facts about how the fighting got started. But unless someone confess there wasn't mush she could do. And so instead of punishing either Lola and Lana, she came up with the only way possible. Punish everyone equally. Lola and Lana for arguing and breaking their mother's vase in the process. Leni because she took everyone else to the store, without her permission. Lincoln, Lucy, Lisa and Lily for going with Leni. So they were going to be punished but not as harshly as Lola and Lana. Luna and Luan were going to be punished because she didn't even knew that they were home until passing them on the stairs. And the best way to punish everyone was to ground them.
"Lola and Lana, I want you to go pick up the broken pieces of mom's vase and put them on the dinning room table. Then you are to go upstairs into you room and write mom an apology note. Then I want you to stay there until mom and dad gets back home. Dismissed"
Lola and Lana both sadly nodded before slowly walking away to grab the broom. Turning back towards the others Lori just said "As for the rest of you. You're all grounded until mom and dad get back. Go to your rooms and don't come out."
Hearing this everyone started to protest. And the protest continued until Lori silence it with your whistle. Shutting everyone up.
TWEET!
"QUIET!" Lori yelled."
Regaining her composure Lori started speaking. "The reason I'm grounding you guys is because of the following. Leni, Lincoln, Lucy, Lisa and Lily. You all left without permission and I didn't know where you were. If you want to go somewhere that's fine, but I need to know where you are going because I am responsible for you." Lori looked over to Luna and Luan and continued. "Luna and Luan, you are grounded for not telling me you were home. If it wasn't for the fact that I had to go upstairs to grab my cloths I wouldn't have known you were home. Also," Lori paused and looked at everyone. "you are all grounded for fighting."
More protest started before Lori quickly ended it by yelling "UPSTAIRS NOW!" Lori's anger could be seen by everyone. So fearing for their lives they all ran upstairs and the last thing Lori heard from them was the sound of closing doors. Seeing as how that's was everyone, Lori was about to go downstairs to the basement to do some laundry. Until the sound of a ball bouncing was coming from outside. Walking to the window Lori saw her sister Lynn shooting some hoops with a basketball.
Lori sighed seeing Lynn outside. For she was the only one not punished. So not to have her gloat at everyone for being punished, she decided that a short punishment in being sent to her room will save her from getting ganged up on by the rest of her siblings. Lori knows that Lynn will hate her for now, but she'll make it up for her when she gets the chance. But for now a "punishment" was in order.
"LYNN! COME INSIDE NOW!"
Lynn, who was currently working on her basketball skills, hear Lori calling her. For what she doesn't know. After all, she knows about the ruckus from inside, because she could hear Lola and Lana's fight from out here. But it doesn't mean that she knows the reason. So, instead of going inside immediately she decided to yell back at Lori.
"Why? I didn't do anything!"
Lori, who was leaning out of the window, just replied "Because as of this minute everyone is confined to their rooms until both mom and dad are home."
Lynn was about to open her mouth to reply, but closed it once she saw Lori's face. She wasn't going to be defied. Lori was in a bad mood and Lynn could tell. Super disappointed, Lynn just sighed heavily and reluctantly walked back towards the house. Very slowly. Once she walked in the house she stated with a grumpy look on her face. "Why do I have to be inside!? I didn't do anything wrong."
Lori just stared at Lynn and said "You can blame your siblings. I tried to be fair but now I have to punish everyone. Including you," Lori said pointing her finger at Lynn. "So march up the stairs right now.
Lynn angrily stomped up the stairs cursing everyone under breath. With all of her siblings in their rooms, Lori went downstairs and started to do some laundry.
-Two hours later-
"Kids. We're home."
Every one of the Loud children (minus Lori,) poked their heads out of their rooms before rushing towards the stairs. Quickly they ran that they ended up running into each other before tumbling down the stairs. Once hitting the bottom of the stairs, the children quickly rushed to their parents hugging their legs while speaking over each other. Of course their parents couldn't understand them since they were drowning each others out.
"Now, now kids," Mrs. Loud started hushing her children. "I can tell you have a story to tell. But before you tell it your father and I need to tell you all something very important. So if you would all move into the living room and sit on the couch, that would be very much appreciated."
The Loud children all looked at each other. Each of them could tell from their parents faces that this is serious. So, quickly each of the Loud siblings got up and moved from the front door towards the couch. As they were walking Mrs. Loud spoke to them some more. "We'll be right there kids. Your father and I just need to start making dinner." Mrs. Loud then looked at Lori and said "Lori, Dear, would you come help your father and I with dinner?" Lori, who was currently standing next to Lincoln, with a look of confusion just looked towards everyone while shrugging. She then followed her parents towards the kitchen. Of course, as their parents went into the kitchen somebody started to pick on one another.
"Lola, you can't take that seat. It's mine spot."
Lola just crossed her arms and just braggingly stated with her eyes closed. "Well tough Lana, I was here first. So loser and weep."
Lana just grit her teeth together and shoved Lola right off the couch. Lola landed on the floor with a THUD! At the same time Lana started to laugh at her sister. "Hahaha! Serves you right! Oof!" Lana was suddenly pushed off the couch and landed right on top of Lola. Slowly getting up, Lana angrily turned towards everyone else. "Alright! Who pushed me off the couch!?" Laughter struck the air as Lynn was now siting in the spot where Lola and Lana once were sitting, despite how briefly it was. Lynn just continued to laugh as she looked at Lana. Of course this made Lana mad, that she went and stood on the arm of the couch next to Lynn. "Lynn, why in the world would you push me out of my spot?" Lana said pointing her finger at her.
Lynn just smiled and said, "Come on Lana lighten up. I was just showing my love towards you. And besides this isn't your spot anymore. After all, once you get out of your spot without calling it, it no longer is called yours."
Lynn didn't have anytime to react, cause the moment after she stop speaking Lana jumped on her. A fight has erupted on the couch. Lola decided to take this time to get her spot on the couch back. So she went behind Lynn and the moment Lana jumped on her, Lola pushed them both off the couch. When Lynn and Lana both hit the ground, they both looked up at their laughing sister. "I believe you both meant to say that this spot belongs to me." Lola said tauntingly. This of course caused Both Lynn and Lana to jump on Lola. And once again others of the Loud family members got dragged into the fight.
Lori, Mr. Loud, and Mrs. Loud eventually walked into the room. Of course the minute they beheld the fighting, Mr. and Mrs. Loud just slightly sighed. After all they aren't the Loud house without some short of commotion going on. Lori on the other hand was furious. For she had to stop a similar fighting several hours ago. So, Lori grabs her whistle and blew into it very hard.
"TTWWWEEEEEEETT!"
The fighting ceased and everyone turned to the sound of the whistle. There, standing a few feet away, was their parents and a very angry Lori. Quickly as they can everyone got settled onto the couch. Now it doesn't matter who sat where. All that matters is not to suffer Lori's anger and if their only defense was to settle down and behave, then by God they will use that defense until the last breath. Assuming that they could live long enough to even come up with something much better.
Once Mr. and Mrs. Loud saw that their children were settled, Lucy, Lola, Luan, Lincoln were to the right side on the couch, with Lucy and Lola on the laps of Luan and Lincoln. At the other side of the couch on the left sat Lana, Lynn, Lisa, Lily and Luna. Lana sitting on the arm of the couch, with Lynn and Luna sitting next to each other and Lisa and Lily on their laps. Leni, of course, was sitting right smack in the middle of the two sides.
Turning to Lori Mrs. Loud said "Lori go sit on the couch as well."
Lori silently obeying her mother and walked over to the couch. Sitting on the arm of the couch right next to Lincoln. Making sure no more funny business will go on, Mr. and Mrs. Loud looked around at their children. Once they saw that no one was doing anything, they went on with their business.
"Alright kids, you mother and I have something to tell you. So please try and restrain yourself until we done. Alright?"
Lincoln and his sisters (minus Lori,) started to look around at each other. Confused at this sudden family meeting they silently asked each other 'Do you know what's going on?' And once they were getting the 'I don't know' looks from each other, they faced back towards their parents. Mrs. Loud, once seeing everyone's faces, cleared her throat before speaking.
"Kids, your father and I are going on a business trip."
This caused everyone to yelled, "WHAT!?" Before speaking over each other only to grow silent under Lori's glare. Lori's action didn't go unnoticed by her mother, but didn't say anything about it. Instead she continued to explain the situation to her children. "Now, kids. I know this is very sudden…"
"You bet it's sudden!" Lynn yelled while Luna and Lisa tried to calm her down. She however, refused to not be heard. "How long have you two know? When are you leaving? How long are you going to be gone? And who's going to be in charge?"
Mrs. Loud just stood calmly and answered Lynn's questions. "Well Lynn, we are going to be gone for about two weeks."
"WHAT!"
Mrs. Loud held up a hand silently saying to her children "Let me Finish." So everyone settled down to let their mother speak. "As for when we are leaving," Mrs. Loud continued. "We are leaving first thing tomorrow morning. I know that this is sudden, but your father didn't know until we got to the conference. The bright side, is that this will mean that your father gets a pay raise." Hearing this caused everyone to feel more supportive for their parents decision. Lincoln raised his hand to speak. His mother saw Lincoln raise his hand and called on him. "Yes, Lincoln?"
"Umm," Lincoln started. "Who is going to be watching us while you and dad are away?"
Mrs. Loud smiled and gently answered, "Lori is going to watch you guys."
Lincoln and the others stood in silence for a moment letting what their mother said sink into their brains. Once processed they all yelled out the same thing.
"WHAAAAT!"
A/N: And there, that's the first chapter. I hope you all liked it. I noticed something interesting while I was writing this story. I noticed that everyone in Lincoln's family, except for him, have four letter names. Here's a the names in order from oldest to youngest. Lynn Sr., Rita, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, Lily and then there's Lincoln. Crazy huh?
Anyway I hope you loved this first chapter. And Like I stated before this story is going to be centered and focus around Lori and Lincoln. Mostly because I love both Lori and Lincoln and I do love their relationship. Lori for being the Oldest and Lincoln for being the only boy in a house full of girls. So yeah. I'll get the next chapter up soon. Until