What Have I Done

Chapter 9

Both Lori and her parents were state of shock, but each were in it for different reasons. The parents of the Loud House have just came into the house to see their child beating up their only son. Lori on the other hand was in shock because of their sudden arrival and her thinking about how much they had seen. Either way, both parties were about exit this state of shock and enter something way worse.

"What the heck do you think you are doing Lori!?" Yelled her mother.

"L-Listen I can explain what's going on!" stuttered Lori.

"Care to explain why you had your brother pinned on the floor while punch and slap him." Lynn Sr. Added.

"Well it all started when…"

"I really don't give two craps about what you have to say Lori," Interrupted Rita.

As the agreement with Lori and her parents continued Luna went over to help Lincoln with Lana. Lincoln was kinda in a daze with the remainder of his adrenaline going away some of the pain from some of the hits started to settle in.

"Lincoln are you okay?" Worried Luna.

"I'll manage." Replied Lincoln coughing a little.

At that moment he felt substance coming from his nose. He placed his hand over his face and and looked at it, and unsurprisingly, he noticed he had a nosebleed. He figured out that he had truly underestimated his sister's true strength, but also underestimated how far his sister would actually go when she was mad.

"I'll go get some tissues." Said Lana noticing his nosebleed.

"I'm so sorry this had to happen Lincoln." Consulted Luna.

"What do you mean, why are you sorry?" Questioned Lincoln.

"I should've done something more to help, but instead all I did is just wait around and just watch things go downhill." Luna explained.

"Listen Luna it's okay. It was my fault for provoking her in the first place."

"That doesn't matter, it still doesn't give her the right to give you a beatdown, if this how she repays for you at least trying to help her out with her problems, she can for sure count me out of her contacts list."

"Here's your tissues." Joined Lana.

Lincoln grabbed the tissues giving her a nod of thanks before focusing back on Lori.

"Lori you have crossed the line," Rita Continued, "I know what's been going on, and I never thought that it would go this far. He just wanted to help you, and this how you repay him, I would've at least thought that you would at least try to make the situation better, but i guess that was to good to be true!"

All Lori could do is look down. She didn't even have the courage to look into her mother rage filled eyes as she lectured her. A part of her saw that this was coming, and another part of her new that she should've just listened to her gut. She didn't know or intend that she would snap like that. She let her anger filled soul harm her one and only brother and she knew that she would never forgive herself for what had happened earlier.

She finally gathered up the courage to speak and said, "Mom I didn't intend for this to happen, and I didn't mean to hurt him at all."

"Lori, right now I really don't care about what you have to say to me right now," replied Rita, "Lori I don't want to see you anywhere near your phone for five months, and you are so lucky I don't go upstairs and smash it against the wall!"

"Honey I think you need to calm down a little bit. Don't you think you that you are going to attract attention?" Intervened Lynn Sr.

"You expect to me to calm down when our daughter has abused our son, and to think that she could have done worse if we didn't get home in time!"

"I understand, but you need to tone it down a little bit. I don't want the neighbors to get suspicious of anything. You know we have a bad reputation in this neighborhood already."

Rita looked at her husband and what he said did make sense. She knew that she was mad, and nothing could change that at this moment of time, but she thought she could do better at least keeping her tone of voice so that she attract more attention than she probably already has.

"Lori, I can't believe you would do this, I still don't want you anywhere near that phone for at least 2 months. I also am making the way you use the van extremely limited as well. I don't want you to use it unless you have to drive the kids to school. If you get a job you should be able to take the bus to get there." The enraged mother said in a more calm, but stern tone.

"Kids I think that it would be est if everybody just calm down and head up their rooms," commands Lynn Sr. but in a caring tone.

As everybody starts to head upstairs the father of 11 then interrupted them, "Lincoln you stay here, and Lori I will talk to you later so don't think that you got out of this."

Lincoln then looked at his father whom's face had the look of confusion and disappointment on it. He felt bad about all of this happening to his family, and he knew that this would only put more stress onto his parents and they already have enough with dealing with eleven kids. Sometimes he wonders why they haven't divorced yet, but he's glad they haven't yet.

Lynn Sr. then walked into the Living Room and took a seat on the sofa and patted the seat right next next to him. Lincoln then walked over with tons of butterflies in his stomach which made him shake a little bit. As he took a seat right next to his father they didn't say anything for about a minute.

"So what's going with you and Lori?" The distraught father asked his hurt son.

"It's a really long story that started yesterday," started Lincoln, "Yesterday Lori came home crying and she was throwing a fit. She wouldn't talk to anyone about it, but she wanted to talk to me in private. There I learned that the reason that she was crying was that Bobby's father had gotten a promotion for his job, and with that promotion required him to move to New York."

"Well that would explain why Lori wouldn't come out of her room that day, but continue."

"When she was talking to me she told me that she had a plan, and I was apart of it. Her "master plan" was for me to talk to Ronnie Anne to convince her to convince her father not to move. At first I agreed with this plan because ,just like her, I was devastated at the news at first and really didn't really think things through. After a little while of thinking I decided that I didn't want do the plan anymore, but when I tried to tell Lori she got mad and threw me out of her room. At that time I knew I was in too deep and I had to do this no matter what. Soon Lucy found out about our plan and said she wanted to help me, and I said why not."

"Wait," interrupted Lynn Sr., "So Lucy was part of this as well?"

"Yeah."

"So this could've happened to Lucy as well?"

"Yeah, but I would never let that happen to her because all she wanted to was help."

"Wow, just tell me the rest. Assuming you're not done."

"Earlier today the plan was put into action at the arcade where I had decided to meet Ronnie Anne. Lucy was there to help me out with what to do, and she was also posted in the vents as well. Ronnie then arrived at the arcade and at first we just played some video games, but after I decided to get serious begain to do what came to do in the first place. As time went on the plan started to fall apart and Ronnie didn't like the idea of me trying to stop her family getting a chance at something great. I then broke my cover and told her why I was doing this, and that really didn't help things out because she started to say I should stand up for myself and don't let people control me. After that she just stormed out of the arcade, and soon after me and Lucy went back home little to know that Lori came out looking for us and when she came back we told her what happened, and I guess you already know the rest."

Lynn Sr. just stood there for a couple of moment trying to think about what his son had just told him. 1. He very shocked. 2. He wondered how could this happen down in his own house and he didn't even know about anything about it, and he was ashamed that one of own daughter knew it before he could.

He then heard some sniffling coming from his side and saw his son close to tears.

"All I wanted to do was help." He said.

"This isn't your fault Lincoln, none of this should be." Comforted his father.

"I'm the one who her provoked her, but I've heard things way worse than what I have said to other people and they don't seen to even care. I seems like I got the horns of the bull."

"Listen son, It's me and your mother's fault for not doing anything to stop it before anything happened, don't let this bring you down because all you were trying to do was help."

"I just wish I could've done more to the situation, all I did was make two girls angry at me, both of them I would have to confront again either at home or at school."

"Son I just want you to know that you will get through this and this will eventually pass by. Sure some scars may be left behind from this, but it could all get better in the end."

Lincoln really let his father's soak in to his body. His body was already full with information for everything that had happened so far this weekend, and he sure that he would explode if he absorbed some more.

As he let the words sink in he finally gave his dad a hug, "Thank you dad."

"No problem son." Replied Lynn.

As Lincoln walked off to his room Lynn Sr. felt something really special inside him. It's been about a year since his only son hugged him. It reminded him when he was a newborn and when he wasn't that old. When his wife had just got of labor she had to the ICU because of a great amount of blood loss. When he was holding his son in the room with him in the hospital he saw something so innocent and of course it was his son. Until later when found out it was going to be his one and only son. At that time in the hospital he knew his son was going to do great things and that he would be something great. So far Lincoln has been that and more making him more proud of his son everyday.

This didn't mean he didn't love love the rest of his family, but when he saw Lincoln, saw a spark, and that spark was something that would make his son into something great. He was this with most of children, and two great examples are Luan, and Lynn Jr.

He remembered all the good times that his family had together, but it crushed his heart to see his family in a critical state. There tower of security and trust was in danger of breaking apart, and maybe even collapsing. The father of this tower didn't want that to happen so he made a promise to himself that he would make sure that this would situation would be gone forever.

Meanwhile, as Lincoln went upstairs he just thought about everything that had just happened so far. He couldn't believe that all of this happened in one weekend, and for all of this to go wrong. A part already knew that this was going to happen in the first place. This was one of those moments where it would be best just to trust your gut more than your mind. The mind can play tricks on you and Lincoln didn't want to be the victim of its prank. His mind kept telling him to go talk to Lori, but his gut said it wasn't the right time. You don't just touch hot metal, so why would you he want to touch a steaming hot Lori.

As he opened the door to his room tons of little head poked out of their rooms like a bunch of bunnies. He could tell a while stampede of girls coming his way. He quickly ran into his room while they started to pile up outside. He always knew that when sister's didn't know about anything but their brother they will try everything they need to figure it out.

As he locked himself in his room, Lincoln just pressed his back onto his door and just sat down. He could hear some of his sisters banging on his door, and asking if they sold come in. He wasn't in the mood to listen to any of his sisters at the moment all he wanted to do was just sit down and reflect on how this day had went on. He just couldn't stop asking himself, why would did this happen? Every seemed to be going well, but then someone dropped the hammer on his soul and the whole day went downhill from there.

When he just sat there rubbing his eyes. He didn't even worry about all the noise going on outside his door. He then slowly crawled to his bed and he tried to go to sleep, hoping that the noise would soothe him.

A/N: Hi everybody it's been so long, and don't ask what was the holdup because I gonna tell you right now that it was because of school work and laziness. I had started 8th grade 7 weeks ago and let's just say that it hard. Also I survived hurricane Irma so that's cool. Anyway I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter, more coming soon I hope.