Author Note: Today is my birthday so I wanted to give you this as a present.

P.S. I couldn't find the original version of this so I can do this all over again.

I do not own the Loud House.

Enjoy!

They all turned to see who Mrs Xiuying, would call out to defend the Louds.

"Your honour, I'll like to call Clyde McBride to the stand," she said.

They all watched as the boy sat in the witness box and began to sweat under the dozens of eyes looking at him.

He was then made to swear the oath and did so without missing a beat.

The bible was taken away.

"So, Clyde McBride. How many times have you been over to Mrs and Mrs Louds house, due to your relationship with Lincoln Loud?" She said.

"Urr...fairly often," Clyde said. Before adding. "And Lincoln would come over to my house as well'

"And when you went over, how did the family seem to you?" She said, "Were they happy? Did they all have their own space?"

"Lincolns sisters were amazing people and they welcomed me as if I was one of the family," He said, "Sure the family was large but that's what made them great, I could tell that they truly cared for each other. And sure, it's a bit Chaotic at times but the house is burnt down. I couldn't imagine them being broken up. They loved each other far too much to let themselves go."

And both Rita and Lynn Sr smiled.

And then Mr Jutzi opened his mouth like a dragon, his words intending to burn a now 12-year-old boy without mercy.

"And Clyde, can you please tell the court in the dozens of times you have been inside the Loud House. How many times have you seen Mr and Mrs Loud in the house?" He said, his voice was like a knife.

And now Clyde understood how this man made an elderly man run, the pressure was no joke.

"We are waiting for an answer. Mister McBride" Mr Jutzi said, pressuring him some more, in a span of a second he had gone from 'Clyde' to 'Mister McBride'.

"I-I don't know," Clyde said. "Maybe a couple of times?"

"So not every time, you were inside the house then?" The man said, his words cut through his words that were trying to make the Loud Parents look better.

His enquiry was met with only silence.

"Your Honour. I do not think this will go anywhere, the oldest at the time was 17 years old, so she was legally able to take care of her siblings while their parents were away." Mrs Xiuying said, happy to put one over on him.

The Louds parents couldn't help but smile.

However, the man was far from done.

"I admit there was a legal age person in the house but that person also had a job, which she went to on weekends," Mr Jutzi said, "However when she was gone, there was one more legally aged person in the house to fill in her. Let's talk about Leni Loud."

The girl gasped, hearing her name.

"Would you describe her as a competent enough to watch over the house, when nobody else could?" Mr Jutzi said, "How many times have you seen Leni take charge while the parents were away?"

And Clyde was silent.

That was his mistake.

"You silence says it all," The man said, "And isn't it true you're an only child? How many big family homes have you been to, Mister McBride?"

"I don't see how this relevant" Mrs Xiuying injected.

"Continue," Mrs Field said, she was having no stalling today. "Mister McBride, please answer the question"

"...One" Clyde admitted. "The only big family house I've been to is Lincoln house"

And both he and Lincolns eyes met.

"So, let me classify this to everybody in the room," Mr Jutzi said, turning to address his 'audience'. "Cylde McBride. An only child has only been to one family home. The Loud House. He has absolutely no reference to compare what he saw in that house, to another House. How can he say that he saw love? How does he know that the chaos inside the home wasn't a normal level for big families? After all, hasn't the whole neighbourhood been complaining about the noise level from the Loud House for years? Isn't Clyde McBride actually the worst person to tell us what a family is supposed to look like?"

He's making my witness look incompetent! Mrs Xiuying thought with rage.

Everybody stared at the man with wide eyes including Clyde.

"Now let's talk about your adoption. Mister McBride" He said, turning to Clyde.

"OBJECTION!" Mrs Xiuying said. "This has nothing to do with the case."

"Your honour, if you let me explain this has everything to do with the case," Mr Jutzi said.

The Judge paused before saying. "Continue"

"McBride," Mr Jutzi said, "Do you know what your parents want through just to be called your 'parents' or for you to call them 'Dad'? Do you know what they had to go through just so that you can walk through their doors?"

"No," Clyde said, before looking down. "My parents never told me"

"Well, let me educate you and those who don't know," The man said, turning to everybody. "Not everybody is so fortunate enough to give birth to their own children and certainly not 11 kids. Millions of couples every day decide to adopt, they pray that one day their home would be filled with the laughter of a child... but do you know why we don't give it to them despite the millions of children who would love to have parents?"

The room was silent.

"They have earned the right to be called 'Parents'" Mr Jutzi said, making all their eyes widened. "To keep a child safe, the Government has to do a full background check on the couple. The government has to see if they could actually afford to adopt a child. The government would have to send somebody to do frequent trips to the home to make sure it's not dangerous for a child to live in. The couple would have to read books, attend classes, pass courses. This could take months, years and yet, even if they pass all of this. There is still a chance that they could be rejected"

He then turned to Clyde and said. "Did you know that you would have never had the life you had now if the government chose to stop the adoption?"

Now that hit deep and it showed on Clyde's face, his one father in the room cringed.

"However, you got through. So, what is it like living with Government approved Parents? How is your life?" The man said, "Don't you have a bigger room than Lincoln Loud, who's room used to be a place where they store coats? Don't you have more toy's than he does? Isn't it normal for your parents to help you with every school project? Don't they make sure, you have everything you need for school, the night before? From my source's, there was a time when the 11 Loud House Kid's want to your house. What happened?'

Practically everybody involved cringed and Clyde kept silent.

"Mister McBride, you are under oath to respond" Said, Mrs Field.

"One of my dad's had a mental breakdown" Clyde burst out, "All 11 of them was just too much for them to handle."

Mr Jitzi turned to the court and said. "You hear that? Two people who spent years, training to just have a child live with them. Could not handle 11 kid's wanting their attention." before he said. "Oh, and please tell the court. Why 11 kids went to your house for attention instead of going to their own parents?"

And Clyde's mouth was tight, knowing if he said it, it would not look good at all.

However, he was under Oath and said.

"It's because they weren't getting enough attention at home. They heard from Lincoln that he was showered with attention at my house and wanted that" Clyde said.

"So, for all those in court," Mr Jitzi said, "11 Kid's, went to another Kid's house to get some parental attention, instead of seeking it from their own parents because they know, they wouldn't get enough."

And all the Louds except for Lily cringed.

Rita and Lynn Senior looked at their kid's in shock, their children didn't tell them they did this.

"I am done, your honour" Mr Jutzi said, taking a seat. "No further questions.

The Jude said, "We will now take a 15-minute break before going onto the next witness"

Ch 10: All things will come to light Part 2

Everybody returned back to the Courtroom.

Lincoln and his sisters were kept away from his parents and their parents were kept away from his kid's.

It was so jarring, all of them being in one building and yet none of them could talk to eat other.

They could all see how they had changed, especially Lincoln who no longer had bags under his eyes and his pale face was now rosy.

However, just because they couldn't talk to each other did not mean they couldn't use people they know, to pass on messages to each other like Clyde and Bobby.

"The time is now 12: 15" Said, the guard in charge of the other guard.

They all sat down and the Judge re-entered the room.

"Mr Jitzu, please call up your next witness," Mrs Field said.

"Gladly," Mr Jitzu said, "I would like to call upon, my next witness Miss Sausan"

Everybody was confused as they saw one of the neighbourhood most stand out gossipers take the stands.

She was made to swear the oath.

"For all of you who don't know. Miss Sausan and her friend Miss James were the ones who alerted the police on the night Lincoln Loud was made to sleep outside" He said, and all the Louds looked at her in shock.

Rita and Lynn Senior looked betrayed.

It was because of her, that their family was like this.

It was because of her and her friend, that the government snatched away their children!

"Now Miss Susan. Please tell me and the court, what could be so alarming at the Loud House that you had to call the Police well past mid-night?' He said.

"I saw Lincoln Loud in his PJs sleeping on a pile of leaves outside in the cold," She said, stunning most of the room.

It was the first time most of them had heard what actually want down.

"Okay, that's alarming. However, that wasn't what caused you to call the Police was it?" He said.

"No, it wasn't," She said, "I and my friend Miss James did not want to jump to any conclusion. The Loud family were a loving family even if they had way too many children. Why would they isolate one of their own to the point he was forced to sleep outside?"

Everybody but Lincoln looked down in shame for what they did to him.

And the worst part is if Lincoln didn't do what he did, would they ever be sorry for what they did to him?

If the Police hadn't come, would they have felt truly sorry from the bottom of their hearts?

"So, what made you go to the Police?" Mr Jutzi said.

"We saw that everybody else was safe and warm inside the house," she said.

"You broke in?" The man said.

"Of course not! The Loud family leaves stuff outside the house all the time" She said, "It wasn't hard to find a ladder. We took pictures because nobody would have believed us."

And Lincoln eyes when she said that was heartbreaking.

"And when you called the Police. Did you mean for the whole family to separate?" He said.

"What? No!" She said. "I just wanted the Police to check on the family and to make sure everything was okay. I never meant for it to go so far as to split them up! I never meant for the case to go so far as to go to court, where it's made very public"

How much pain and suffering had she cause just by dialling that number?

"Miss Sausan, you must be blaming yourself right now," Mr Jutzi said, in a surprisingly soft tone. "However, if you didn't do what you did, nobody would have known what the Loud parents are capable of doing without batting an eye."

Then he turned to the Court and said.

"I would now reveal onto you, what happened after Miss Sausan had called the Police," He said, it was the first time, they were all going to hear details of what truly happened. "As Miss Sausan and her friend hoped, two policemen were dispatched to the house soon after and knocked on the door. The person to answer the door was Lynn Senior, the man of the house."

Everybody turned to the man with wide eyes and the man's eyes were wide as well.

He roughly remembered that night and thought he had dreamt the police coming to the door!

After all, why would police come to his door in the middle of the night?

"The Police proceeded to ask Lynn Senior some normal questions," Mr Jutzi said, "Stuff like if everything was okay and is all his kid's account for? Lynn Senior answer was a very sleepy yes. Meanwhile, his middle child was in the backyard, in his PJ's, sleeping on a pile of leaves with not even a simple blanket on him. Anything could have happened to him."

His statement made everybody eyes go widened.

"However, both men could see that the man of the house was clearly tired and barely functioning so they parked in front of the house. Just to make sure, nothing happened to the boy." Mr Jutzi said. "They expected that when morning came, the whole house would realise that the middle child was missing and let him in. After all, that's what a loving family was supposed to do right?"

His words were like an arrow to the Loud family's hearts.

"However, when morning, the two Policemen could have never expected to witness such horrific treatment of a child," The man said, "They bore witness to a child, who had just spent all night out in the cold, be denied a single step into the warm house. They witness him been given his breakfast through a cat flap as if he was an animal. Somebody who was not even human. And what was even more heart-breaking was the description of seeing an 11-year-old boy beg his family to let him back in, only to be given heartless replies back from the people who claim to love him, a day before. Now does that sound like a loving family to you?"

Everybody turned to the Louds.

Clyde looked at Lincoln, Lincoln never told him the reason why the Police got involved so he had no idea that his best friend was treated in such a terrible way by his own family.

Miss Sausan looked shocked as well, she like the rest of the Neighbourhood hadn't heard about the terrible treatment that blew this whole thing up, she thought this was nothing.

"And as the Police watched, confused and horrified about what was going on," Mr Jutzi said, "They finally found out the reason why such a 'loving' family was treating one of their own this way. So what possible reason could they have to alienate a family member? Did Lincoln Loud commit an unforgivable crime? Perhaps they were all suffering from a very bad flew and did not want him to catch it? The answer will shock and disgust you."

Don't say it. Lincoln begged in his mind but the man did.

"Bad Luck," Mr Jutzi said. "The reason why they all stopped loving him. Denied him a roof of his head. Stopped treating him like a human being was because they thought he was bad luck. When Lincoln Loud was picked up by the police, he had been so brainwashed by them that he blamed himself. Even his own parents did not think they had done anything wrong until they learned that they were being charged. How can you say this is a loving family?"

And everybody turned to Lincoln.

"Lincoln..." Clyde said.

Everybody was looking at him.

He thought he could handle it but he couldn't.

This was too much.

It was too much.

Lincoln couldn't take it anymore and took off running, ignoring the shouts from those behind.

And scene!

Next chapter, Lincoln hides in the male toilets and the person who finds him is Miss Smile. They have a heart to heart. Review/fav and follow!