I don't own Digimon or the Loud House.

It's the 26th and it's time for a new chapter! The next few chapters will be a mixture of them preparing to go to war and the sisters confessing their feelings for Lincoln. And yes, the long awaited Lemons will be featured in those chapters. So if it starts with "I Love You Part blank" then expect a lemon. I can't believe that we're actually nearing the end of the first major Arc. only about 15 more chapters left to go. I have about 7 chapters already done in advance and I want to finish the arc by the end of february so that I can focus on Lust For A Loud. I do have a chapter of Lust For A Loud that's about half way done and I will try to post it tonight. But after that, expect the next one to take a while.

Also thanks to all of you who read my one shot "Ace Cream". You guys enjoyed it so much that I decided to make it a three parter. I should have the last chapter done by V-Day so look forward to that one. If it ends up being super long then I might split it in half but by thunder it will be done!

Well I've rambled on for long enough. Expect the next chapter in two weeks on the 9th of February. But if we get over ten reviews before then I'll post the next chapter early. Enjoy!

The Digi-Loud Adventure

Chapter 42: I Love You Part 1

"Hey, Lincoln, wait up!" Lori called out to her brother.

Lincoln had been making his way towards the backyard and stopped when he heard his sister call his name. With a smile on his lips, he greeted his sister. "Hey, Lori, what can I do for you?"

"Well, I actually was wondering if we could talk? You know, alone?" Lori asked him. Despite knowing what she had to do, Lori couldn't help but feel like her stomach had butterflies. She was nervous and felt a bit queasy and she hoped to god that sh-,er, her shoes didn't fart while she talked to him.

"Oh..." A look of hesitation passed on the young boy's face but it seemed to pass as he studied her face. He seemed to realize that it was important and nodded. "Sure, anything you want, Lori."

"Great, let's go!" Without thinking, Lori grabbed his hand and began to lead him towards his room. Strangely enough, both Clyde and Lincoln had their own rooms while all the girls had to share a large room with six beds. Were Digimon sexist? But that was a question for another time, right now she had more important matters to attend to.

As Lori led her brother down the hall towards his room, she failed to notice the slight blush on Lincoln's face. She also failed to notice when he seemed to realize what he was doing and frowned at his own foolishness. And as she entered the room, Lori then realized that she was entering the same room that her brother had lost his virginity to Sam in. And now she wanted to do the same with him on the bed that he shared with another girl the night before. A small part of her felt a little jealous of Sam but she quickly snuffed it out. She had a mission to do and nothing was going to stop her.

"So, Lori, what can I do for you?" Lincoln asked as he looked up at his sister. She was still holding his hand and she seemed lost in thought almost as if she were contemplating something. For one terrible moment, Lincoln thought that maybe Lori knew about what he did with Sam and that she was going to chew him out about it without the others knowing. But as Lori turned to look at him, that thought passed as she looked at him with a look of concern.

"Actually, Lincoln, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." She led him over to the bed and they sat down on it. "We literally just heard a prophecy that says that you will die in one of our major battles. And while I do believe in you and know that you will keep your promise no matter what, I can't help but worry about you. You're my darling little brother and I love you so very much." She then leaned forward slightly in order to place a hand on top of his which lay between them on the bed. "You know that I'm always willing to listen and that I have your back no matter what. So if there's something that's bothering you, please confide in me."

As Lori spoke, she could see the emotions play out in his eyes. Confusion, realization, disbelief, anger, pain, sorrow, and so many more. But to his credit each emotion was fleeting, there one second and gone the next. He was a master at keeping his mask neutral mixed with a bit of concern. She could only tell because she knew what to look for thanks to Sam and Luan. And at the end of her speech, Lori could tell that Lincoln didn't believe her.

"I'm fine, Lori." He told her with a small smile.

Sighing, Lori shook her head. She had hoped that Lincoln would confide in her like he did with Sam but she knew that it was very unlikely that he would. Sam had told her that Lincoln felt like he was a monster for having what he thought were bad feelings for his sisters. And Lori blamed herself for his way of thinking. After all, the most important woman in a young boy's life is their mother, Lori was doubly responsible for him because she also raised him. With a large family, their parents had to work a lot in order to support them all so Lori helped them out a lot. She saw herself as both his big sister and parental figure. And because of that, Lori felt ashamed that she hadn't caught on to it sooner.

Looking back, it should have been obvious that a young boy's love for his sister that he promised to marry wasn't something that should've been dismissed like she did. Lincoln had always been very earnest, even at a young age, and when he said that he loved her, he really meant it. And Lori felt terrible for not realizing sooner that she was hurting him with how she treated him. Worse still because she was his first true love and she treated him like garbage. But that was then and this is now. And right now she had to make things right by proving to him that she returned his feelings. That she accepted his feelings. And most importantly that he wasn't alone, not anymore. Because he had her. He always had her, she was just a little late in realizing it.

"Lincoln, I talked to Luan..." She stated as she looked at him.

"O-Oh...you did?" He asked as he averted his eyes,

"Lincoln...do I have to say it out loud?" Lori asked him.

"C-Can't we just forget it? M-Move on?" It was obvious that he didn't want to talk about it, much less with her. And Lori felt her heart break as she heard his voice began to crack because he was clearly terrified of what she would think. "P-Please?"

Lori reached up to place a hand on his shoulder but Lincoln stood up and walked a few feet away from the bed with his back to her.

"Lincoln...I'm sorry..." Lori told him. She watched as his shoulders tensed up before he turned around and glared at her. And she was sure that when he used that same look on Luan that it had been much more intense. But right now, it looked like he was trying to call upon an anger that wasn't there at the moment. And she knew why it was absent. Because Sam had douse the flames of that anger with her love.

"W-Why...W-Why can't you just q-quit it?" Lincoln asked her. "Y-You...you don't have to pretend anymore, Lori. So...*sniff* p-please, just stop..."

"I'm not pretending, Lincoln." Lori got up from the bed and stood in front of him. She placed her hands on his shoulders and this time Lincoln stayed put. "I know what you're referring to..."

"Y-You mean when you locked me out of the house?" Lincoln asked, his glare gaining a momentary boost in strength.

"That..." Lori admitted with a sad smile. "But more importantly, I'm referring to how you think that we don't really love you...because you think you're a monster..."

Lincoln's eyes snapped wide open as he pulled away from her, his face stricken with fear and panic. "H-how!?"

"Do you really think that I wouldn't have noticed that you've been distant this last year?" Lori asked in a calm manner. She didn't want to upset him so she tried to remain calm for the both of them even though she felt like sobbing as she pulled him close to her. "Or the they way that you've been acting since you rescued Leni?"

"No, it's not p-possible! I was so c-careful!" Lincoln was pressed against the wall of his room. Tears were streaming down his face as he looked at his sister like she was about to strike him. He looked pale and he was trembling from head to toe and it broke Lori's heart all over again. "You can't h-have known from just that! I was so careful!"

"Lincoln...do you remember when I called you the other night? When asked you about what happened between you and Leni?" Lori asked him. She waited until he nodded before she continued. "I saw the way you hesitated when you answered my question about why I would hate you...that look in your eyes was when I figured it out."

Lincoln was forced to accept that she did know the truth and his eyes quickly scanned the room. He had to escape, he had to-

"I know about Sam..."

Lincoln stopped searching and turned to face his sister. Despite everything that had come out, Lori was still standing in the same spot and had yet to make a move against him. In fact, she seemed to be calmly waiting for him to approach her.

"W-What? H-How?" He somehow managed to ask despite the fact that his throat had closed down to a tiny pinprick. He blinked away his tears before he looked at her once more. "How do you know about her?"

"A woman in love can just tell these things..." Lori told him, referring to her feelings for him. They had agreed at the meeting last night that they would keep the fact that Sam told them about his feelings secrets until after everyone managed to love him. This way he wouldn't think that they were just doing it out of a sense of obligation.

But Lincoln didn't catch on to what she was referring to. He lowered his head down and wrapped his arms around himself. "I know...you're in love with your precious Bobby..." Lincoln said dejectedly.

"Lincoln..." Lori walked up to him and placed a hand underneath his chin and gently raised him head up so that she could see into his eyes. The young boy looked at her with a sense of self loathing and longing. She mentally kicked herself for not seeing it sooner and she kicked herself again for not standing by his side when things got out of hand. While what she was about to attempt would not be enough to make things right, it was a start nonetheless.

Lori leaned in and placed her lips on top of his. And for the second time that night, Lincoln's eyes widened with shock before his mind began to register what was happening. Lori pulled away and she could feel her cheeks getting warm which was a tell tale sign that she was blushing.

"Lincoln...I love you..." Lori placed her second hand behind his head before she leaned in for a much deeper kiss.

Still shocked, Lincoln's mind seemed to be fried as he was at a loss at what to do. On the one hand, his sister was making out with him. And on the other, HIS SISTER WAS MAKING OUT WITH HIM! He knew that he should push her away and stop it before it went any further, especially because he was with Sam now. This was a betrayal of her love for him and he wouldn't do that to her. Steeling his resolve, Lincoln pulled away from Lori and this time he meant his glare.

"What the hell was that!?" He demanded. He was as angry as he was confused. He had always dreamt that Lori would one day tell him that she loved him and not in the normal way. And he also dreamed about being able to do things that no siblings should do. But that was before Sam, before the most beautiful girl confessed to him and made him feel like he was loved. And as much as he hurt him to do it, he had to push Lori away.

"Lincoln, I love you." She repeated. "I told you that I know about Sam and I actually talked to her before I came looking for you." That was a lie, they had talked the night before. "And I asked her about what you two did the night before and she admitted to me what she did with you."

Lincoln's glare faded away and it was replaced with a look of distress and nervousness. "You didn't do anything to her right? Because it wasn't her fault! It was mine! I was the one who came onto her!" Lincoln said quickly, trying to take the blame off of the older girl and placing it on himself.

Lori smiled at what he was trying to do. Even in the middle of their emotional heart to heart, he was still trying to be the hero. His noble spirit was one of the things that she loved most about him. "Lincoln..."

"I swear, she didn't even touch me, I touched her! A lot! And she didn't even like it! She just let me do what I wanted because she felt sorry for me because I was Luna's little brother-"

"Lincoln..."

"And my thing was too small to even fit inside so it's like it wasn't even in there and-"

Lori shut her brother up with another kiss and this time she battled his tongue for dominance. And as he tried to pull away, she grabbed onto the sides of his face and held him in place. When she finally needed to breathe again, she pulled away panting but with a grin on her face.

"First off, Sam said that you're not small, not by a long shot. Second, no, I didn't do anything to her. I actually thanked her for showing you love when I couldn't." Lori told him. "And third, I asked her if she minded sharing since I assumed she knew about your feelings towards us."

"U-Us?" Lincoln asked, almost fearful of the question.

"Sam said that she didn't mind sharing so long as that we truly did love you like she did." Lori then placed a hand above his heart. "And I truly do love you..." she leaned in and kissed him on the mouth with a gentle kiss. "I'm in love with you, Lincoln Loud..." she then took his hand and placed it on her chest so that he could feel her heartbeat. "And I hope that you can find it in your heart to also love me...because my heart beats for you now...only you."

Lincoln felt the beating of his sister's heart for several moments as he tried to process everything that had happened. Lori, his sister, had just confessed to being in love with him. HIM! Not Bobby but him, her little brother. Not only that but she knew about him being with Sam and she still wanted to be with him, seemingly willing to share him with Sam, who also agreed to share him (if that was true then Sam was even more perfect than he originally thought.) But he also couldn't just accept it that easily. Why now? Of all the times that it could've happened, as unrealistic as it was, why now? Was she doing because she had known about his feelings and just wanted to fulfill his fantasies before he died? He wasn't sure how to process all of this and he needed answers now more than ever.

"Lori...why now? Why after all this time are you doing this now? If you knew...knew about how I felt then why now?" Lincoln asked her, his voice sounding rather small.

"Believe it or not but I had actually decided to confront you about this a few days ago." Lori told him. "I realized how much I loved you when you almost died from Dokugumon's poison and it took almost losing you to realize how much I need you in my life. Which is also why I agreed to share you because I'd rather have you in my life then not at all."

"But how can you love me? I'm a monster...my feelings are wrong...no brother should lust after his own sister." Lincoln said as he hung his head.

"Hey...look at me, Lincoln..." Lori gently raised his head so that she could look into his eyes once more. "You're a growing young man...you're body is going through some changes and it's perfectly natural to feel certain urges from time to time. That's normal and it obvious that those urges would be directed towards those around you. Lincoln, you live with ten sisters, who are very attractive btw, and you've seen us in various states of undress. Hell, we've all seen each other naked on accident already." Lori couldn't help but chuckle at the first time that Leni walked out of the shower with a towel wrapped around herself only for it to fall off in front of Lincoln. The poor boy had a nosebleed and fainted which caused Leni to think that he was dying. "But the fact that you didn't act on those urges means that you're not a monster. You never tried to sniff our underwear or purposely tried to sneak a peek at us, did you?"

"What!? No!" Lincoln looked horrified at the mere thought of it. "You're my sisters, I love you! I would never do anything as horrible as that!"

"See? That right there is the reaction of a normal person, not a monster. But you're confusing your love for us with the idea of being a monster because of how we treated you in the past...and that's not your fault. It's ours." Lori dropped down to one knee so that she could be level with him. She looked at him with a look full of sorrow and hoped that he could see how sorry she truly was. "Lincoln...I'm so sorry for the way that I've treated you. I've taken you and your love for granted and that's the worse thing that I could've ever done. It should've been me that was there for you, not Sam. But I'm truly grateful that she was or I shudder to think at what might've happened to you. You. Are. Not. A. Monster. I am...and I'm sorry."

Lincoln didn't know when he started crying again but he could feel warm tears falling onto his chest, dampening his shirt. Never did he actually think that Lori would be saying those words to him. Hearing Sam tell him that he wasn't a monster was wonderful and it help him lighten his burden. But when Lori said it, Lincoln felt like he was set free. He dropped to his knees and wrapped his arms around Lori, burying his face into her chest as he unleashed the pain that he still held inside. And Lori cried with him as she held onto him. She could feel his sorrowful cries reverberate throughout her body as Lincoln wailed into her chest. And with each breath that he took, Lincoln shuddered in her arms, trembling with the force of his cries.

They stayed like that for what seemed like hours and when Lincoln finally stopped after pouring out his pain. The poor boy had fallen asleep in Lori's arms. She gently carried him over to the bed and she placed him under the covers. She then sent a text to Sam telling her that they would be staying in his room until tomorrow as Lincoln was exhausted. Sam sent back a winky face emoji taking it to mean that they had done it and that's why Linc was exhausted.

And while Lori would've liked to be one with Lincoln, she first had to make sure that he knew that he wasn't a monster. She had already failed him enough, she wasn't going to continue to fail him anymore. And as the Bearer of Reliability, Lori would make sure that Lincoln could always rely on her from now on. She got into bed with him and pulled him close to her so that she could share in his warmth before she drifted off into sleep.

Her last thoughts before sleep claimed her were that if she had realized her feelings sooner that they could've have nights like this years ago.

End of chapter.

The next charter will contain the lemon between Lori and Lincoln in "I love you part 2." If we don't reach the review goal early then I'll see you guys on the 9th. Till next time.