Chapter 1
The start of something beautiful
It was a cold february Wednesday in Royal Woods Michigan, all across the neighborhood children laughed and played outside. Snowballs were thrown, toboggans were rode, and men made of snow were erected. Almost every child was enjoying this winter wonderland... almost.
In the Loud House a strange ritual is occurring, this ritual has been happening bi-weekly for the last 6 months. Lisa Loud, the prodigal child of the household, was giving checkups to all of the family members. This started because a doctor at the Royal Woods hospital misdiagnosed Lynn with meningitis. After that whole scare Lisa decided to take matters into her own hands and give each Loud (including herself) a physical every other week.
"Would the eldest Loud please transmit the youngest kin into my establishment."
The prodigy glanced up from her clipboard to see her siblings and Mother standing in the hallway with confused looks on their faces.
"Mother, can you take Lily into my room please?"
"Oh, right. Sorry dear. I couldn't understand you." Rita lifted the baby and wandered into Lisa's room.
"Will the rest of you please remain stationary until I am finished assessing our progenitor?"
A collective "Huh?" is heard from the crowd.
"Don't. Move."
Lisa entered the room, closing the door behind her. Flipping through papers attached to the clipboard the child asked rather mundane questions and her mother responded accordingly.
"Have you taken any drugs or alcohol since your last visit? Have you been exhibiting any flu-like symptoms? Have you had any trouble breathing or sleeping?"
The child circled her mother with a stethoscope and monitored her vitals whilst jotting them down in her notes. After the series of questioning and various pokes and prods Lisa returns to her mothers front.
"That is all mother, you may now vacate my abode."
Rita turns to leave
"Oh, and please request that Lori should be my next patient."
Rita exits the young scientists room, leaving Lisa and Lily behind.
Lori enters the room and goes through a very similar process as her mother. Next is Leni, followed by Luna, Luan, and Lynn.
As Lynn stormed out of the room crumpling up a note, she huffed.
"Lincoln, the brainiac wants you next. Be careful she'll ban you from doing anything fun." the jock snapped angrily.
Lincoln looked at his sister in confusion.
"Hmm?"
"She banned me from sports until next checkup! Apparently two concussions in a month is 'detrimental to my mental wellbeing' whatever that means!"
"Oh, umm if Lisa-"
"Screw Lisa! I don't need a four year old telling me how to live my life!"
Lynn stomped into her room. *SLAM*
Lincoln shrugged and walked into Lisa's room.
"Ah, my only male sibling. I trust you know what this is?" Lisa asks while flipping through her clip boarded papers.
"Uhh, yeah. It's our required physical, right?" The boy asks inquisitively.
"Precisely."
"Ow!" Lincoln grabs the back of his head and winces.
?: "She will open you like a melon, Lincoln. You must destroy her tools of evil!"
"No, she's trying to help." Lincoln whispers
Lisa raises her head from the clipboard, "pardon me?"
"O-oh, it was nothing Lisa. Just ah, j-just a song stuck in my head heh. That's all."
Lisa approaches him and leans her face towards his, almost close enough to kiss him if she desired to.
Squinting, Lisa says, "You shouldn't lie to me Lincoln. I have an apt knowledge and understanding of psychology. I can tell when someone is lying just by the way they converse."
"I-I I'm sorry Lisa. Please don't tell!" The boy begs his sister
"Lincoln, I will not disclose this information to mother if you tell me what you are hiding."
Confidence: "Yo, Linc, Confidence here! Yeah, we don't talk much these days do we? Why are you letting this runt walk over you like a bug on the floor!? You are Lincoln Loud, you are the one in charge! Now, stand up for yourself and assert dominance!"
Lincoln gets a flash of confusion on his face and whispers, "h-how do I do that?"
Lisa raises an eyebrow "how do you do what?"
Confidence: "Show her you mean business! Be Loud and proud!"
The boy gets a determined look on his face and puffs out his chest, "Lisa! This is my business, not yours!" Lincoln shouts. "I will not be threatened by my little sister!"
Lisa flinches back "b-but I wasn't threateni-"
Lincoln stomps forward and pushes his face toward hers. "I will tell you what I want to tell you! Do you understand!?"
Lisa is quivering "I-I'm sorry Lin-"
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"
"YES! YES, I'm sorry! I understand!"
Lincoln took a step back and smiled, "Now, where were we sis?"
Lisa, mortified by what happened rushes past Lincoln. "S-sorry, I need to use the bathroom!" The little genius charges into the bathroom and slams the door behind herself.
"H-hey, she looked scared. Are you sure I should have done that?"
Confidence: "She's not scared buddy, she's so happy she was shaking! You did great!"
"Well, if you really think so."
Confidence: "Lincoln, I don't just think so, I know so! I'm confident in that! Hahaa, I'm funnier than that beaver you call a sister!"
"Heh, I don't know. Luan can be pretty funny."
?: "Do it now Lincoln, destroy her instruments of doom! She will be the end of all of us!"
"I'm not listening to you! Those are important to her!"
?: "More important than us?"
"No! W-well I mean yes. I-I don't know!"
?: "Aww come on Linc, at least destroy one thing for us. Do that and we will leave you be."
The boy approached her workbench and picked up a full test tube rack housing various liquids.
? : "All you have to do is drop it Lincoln. Just. Drop. It."
"But she will be mad. She works so hard on this stu-."
?: "DROP IT!"
"AHH!" The boy screams and drops the whole rack, smashing and spilling almost every vial.
?: "As we promised, we will now leave you alone. Thank you."
Lisa, in the bathroom washing her face; "What in Galileo's telescope got into that boy? He was borderline primal! Well, whatever it is, I need to find out." Lisa puts her glasses back on and heads for her room.
"Lisaaa! Lincoln broke something!" Lola yelled as she exited the bathroom.
"What are you talking about?"
"We heard yelling and then you ran to the bathroom." Lana stated.
"Yes, and then a scream followed by a smash." Lucy added
"Danke." Lisa said, passing the three remaining siblings.
Lisa opened the door and immediately felt sick. The first thing she noticed was her project, smashed on the ground.
"Lisa! I-I can explain! H-he told me you were going to hurt me if I didn't!"
The prodigy dropped to her knees, adjacent to the mess on the floor.
"Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease." She whispered. "I had the cure to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. I was going to win a Nobel prize for that." Her face reddened and eyes began to tear up, filling with droplets of bitter hate.
"Why would you deprive humanity of such a thing like this!? What compelled you to destroy what is considered by many to be a modern day MIRACLE!?" The toddler screamed and began slamming her fists into Lincoln's leg.
"WHY WHY WHY!?"
Lincoln bent down and picked her up, embracing her in a hug. "Lisa! I'm so sorry! H-he wouldn't leave me alone!"
Lisa sobbed into his shirt, "Who! Who wouldn't leave you alone!? You are the only male in this household!"
"I DON'T KNOW!" He held her away from his chest and looked her in the eyes, tears streaming down their faces. "I-I don't know. It's hard to explain."
Lisa Sniffled and wiped the tears from her eyes and pried herself from Lincoln's grasp.
"Please *sniff* Please tell me what's been going on." She said while wiping her glasses on her shirt.
"I. I hear things." He starts, "sometimes I hear people talking when there's nobody around."
Lisa flips open a notepad.
"Continue."
The boy sits on the foot of her bed. "They, they tell me to do things. T-they call me names and hurt me if I don't."
Lisa nods
"Not ALL of them are mean though *chuckle* there's actually a funny one who calls himself Confidence. He actually told me to stand up to you."
*tap*
Lisa drops her pen. "L-Lincoln? Were you in control? Were you in control when you assaulted me?"
Lincoln quickly stood up. "I did not ASSAULT you! I was defending myself from your ridiculous threat!"
Lisa steps back, tripping over the test tube rack and nearly falling in the pile of broken glass.
"Lincoln stop! You're frightening me." Lisa whimpered
Lisa saw him approaching and clenched her eyes, dropping to her knees on the floor. She felt a hot hand rest on the top of her head and flinched, preparing for the worst.
Lincoln ran his hand through her hair and bent down on one knee. "Shhhh. It's okay, big brother isn't going to hurt you."
Lisa slowly opened her eyes and looked at Lincoln. He had a peaceful, calming expression on his face. Lincoln placed his hand on the back of her head and pulled it toward himself, planting a gentle kiss on the top of her head.
"Lincoln." Lisa whispered.
"Yeah?"
"We need to have a talk."
Well, I think that just about wraps up chapter 1! What do people think? I'm having a lot of fun writing this, and having help from the audience makes it even more entertaining.
If you didn't see your suggestion here worry not, I have read it! And it will be going into the story! A couple people sent me their suggestion and I could not respond to them because they were guest accounts. If you want me to write more about your 'voice' it has to be through an account I can respond to so we can communicate. If we cannot communicate you will still get your 'voice' but I will not be able to credit you or do a whole lot with it.
So far I have used two 'voice' suggestions.
Accountless- ?
Exotos135- Confidence
Exotos, I'm sure that's not what you intended to happen but I took some creative liberty to spice up the story, please forgive me.
Every voice in the story has potential to become a recurring pseudo-character, if you want me to stop using your 'voice' or do not like what I have done with it please inform me and I will cease and desist immediately.
Thank you to all who are participating! Let me know how you like it and what you think of this idea.
LoudLurker
