After Lincoln was found, the following week had been an great improvement for the Louds, they went to visit Lincoln at the hospital everyday,Rocky would still not speak a word to Lucy but the Morticians Club decided to forgive Lucy after she explained everything, they decided she was still one of them, Bobby was still angry with Lori but things were looking up for her too.
Clyde would ocasionally come to the hospital to visit Lincoln with a few of his other friends like Liam, Zach and Rusty, they much like Clyde knew about the mistreatment the Louds gave to him, same could not be said for they're parents, Clyde thought it was good idea to not let they're parents know about it since they weren't as close to Lincoln as the rest of the people who knew, and they could decide not the meet they're demands and inform the police.
Lynn, who had been in the hospital several times because of the injuries she got from the sports she played, knew hospital food wasn't that great, so everytime they went to visit Licoln they decided to bring some food from Burping Burgers.
The younger sisters came more often than the older ones, usually to read him some Ace Savvy comics or in Lucy's case some poems she has been writing, when the older sisters did come it was to bring flowers to him, tell jokes and to play some songs on a guitar, Leni at one point decided to make him a sweater for him to wear, it had the words "Get Better Soon" written on it.
After what seemed in a very long week, Lincoln's head was finished healing, his mother arrived at the hospital to pick him up so that she could finally take him home, she entered the Hospital and made her way towards the waiting room, she looked around from left to right trying to locate her son, after a bit of search she foudn him reading an Ace Savvy comic book while waiting for his mother to come and get him, when she spotted him she smiled and called out his name.
"Lincoln!" Rita called, getting Lincoln's attention."It's time to go!"
When Lincoln's eyes met her mother's he closed his comic book, got up from his chair and rain in her direction with a wide smile on his lips, he jump tackled her into a hug, almost causing her to fall on her butt, but she returned the hug, a few tears escaping her eyes.
Rita held Lincoln's hand all the way until the reached Vanzilla, much to Lincoln's confusion there wasn't anyone in it.
"Where are my sisters?" Lincoln asked his mother.
"They couldn't come today." Rita answered.
"Ho...I was hoping they would come to welcome me back on the day I exist the hospital." Lincoln said hanging his head in saddness.
"Don't worry, you'll feel better when we get home." His mother assured.
Lincoln was sitting in the backseat reading his comics when the car stopped, he looked out the window to see that it was late into the afternoon since the sun was setting, when he noticed that they had arrived into they're destination he closed his comic and exited the car, he stood by his mom and looked up to a the Loud House.
"This is my home?" He simply asked.
"Yes, also know as "The Loud House" this is where me, your father and your sisters live with you." Rita explained.
"I...I don't remember..."He said hanging his head in shame, a few tears coming down from his eyes, he started to feel shameful for not remembering such a wonderful family.
"H-Hey! Don't worry, I'm sure it will all come back to you in time." His mother said kneeling down to his level, giving him a hug while shooshing him."Now come on, let's go inside."
Lincoln dried his tears before grabbing his mother's hand one more and following her inside, once she opened the door lincoln followed her into the kitchen, it was dark, the light was turned off and there were black curtains that seemed to prevent any source of light from the morning sun from coming into the kitchen.
"Could you do me a favor dear and turn on the light switch over there?" Rita asked her son while point towards the light switch.
Lincoln found it weird she asked him to turn the lights on instead of doing it herself but he complied, he walked over to it and turned it on before being startled by screaming.
"SURPRISE!" The loud siblings creamed as they jumped out from several places while popping a whole bunch of party poppers, confetti flying all across the room.
After getting over the shock of the suprise welcome Licoln looked around the room, he saw that that the table was full of what looked like a variety of delicious looking home cooked meals and desserts, aside from that there were also a table full of store bought snack foods and drinks.
After that he looked up to see that there were also ribbons hanging from the celling, but Lincoln didn't look at them for long because he noticed that at the corner of the room there was a banner hanging from one side of the kitchen and extending to the other, banner read "Welcome Home Lincoln."
After that Lincoln finally took a look at the people standing in the room, not only did he see his father and sisters in the room he also saw the other people who came to visit him in the hospital, Ronnie Anne, Clyde, Maria, Clyde with his parents and, Liam,Zach, Rusty with his younger brother Rocky and Luna's roadie Chunk.
"He decided to suprise you with a welcoming party, we all helped, but it was mostly my idea!" Luan said pointing her thumb to her chest with a smug grin."Do you like it?"
After Luan asked that question everyone looked at Lincoln with anticipation at his response clear in they're faces, they looked for a while and saw Lincoln's face change slowly from one of shock into a happy smile and a few tears coming from his eyes.
"I LOVE IT!" Lincoln yelled before giving a tackle hug Luan who returned the hug, and everyone else joined in.
After that, they played some music and the room was filled with laughing, dancing and conversation, everyone seemed to be having fun and at one point everyone decided to play a fighting game tournament, Lincoln came in third, right under Ronnie Anne and Lori, they found it odd since Lincoln was often much better at games than either of them, but they just amsumed it was because of his amnesia and the fact he has been missing for months, he was problably out of practice.
This is the most fun everyone had in months, the day ended very fast, faster them most would have liked, after the party everyone started to leave, Ronnie Anne really didn't want to leave Lincoln with the rest of the Louds, but she didn't have much of a choice, she decided to ask Lincoln to talk to her everyday from his computer and Lincoln complied, that way she could keep tabs on the louds and make sure they aren't doing anything bad to Lincoln.
It was bed time, Luna decided to take Lincoln to bed, she guided her brother into his room and tucked him into bed.
"We are very happy to have you back Lincoln, are you happy to be back with your family?" She asked her little brother.
"Yes, you are all so nice." He said, Luna was happy to hear that, but she then saw Lincoln's smile change into a frown, she looked at him with concern.
"I really wish I could remember more about all of you,I have such a wonderful family and I don't remember anything about yout, it's all my fault, if I wasn't so careless I wouldn't have been kidnapped." He said before a few tears started escaping his eyes.
Luna was shocked about what Lincoln had told her, Lincoln felt guilty about disapearing, when he left the of his own voliton because his family was to blind to realize the damage they were doing to Lincoln before it was too late, once Luna realized this she started to feel just as guilty as Lincoln, not just for not doing anything about his mistreatment, but for lying to him and making him feel like it was his own fault for disapearing.
She gave a strong hug to Lincoln and he hugged her back, both of them crying, after what seemed like hours both started crying and released themselves from the hug to look each other in the eyes, they both had blood shot eyes but a gentle smile on they're faces.
"It wasn't your fault little bro, besides that doesn't matter anymore, what matters is that we are back together, we are a complete family once again." She said before tucking him in bed and giving him a gentle kiss on his forehead, she made her way out of Lincoln's room, but not before looking at him one last time.
"Goodnight little bro." Luna said.
"Goodnight big sis." He answered.
Luna closed the door behind herself and made her way towards Lori's room, she peeked into the half opened door and saw all her other sisters talking to eachother,expect for Lisa who from the sound coming from her room was working on something ,Luna managed to hear a bit of they're conversation.
"Maybe he joined some sort of gang and then he wanted to get out of it so they beated him up and left bleeding out in the park, and that's how he got his tattoo?" Lana suggested.
"I think you've been watching too much TV Lana..." Lola commented.
"But it's not a bad theory, lot's of gangs have tattoos, but then again nothing about that tattoo Lincoln had screamed gangster." Lucy added.
"I don't care where that tattoo came from!" Lynn said before taking her baseball bat out of nowhere."When I find out who hurt my little brother I am going to break they're kneecaps!"
"Hey gals." Luna suddenly said entering the room.
"Luna, how is Lincoln?" Lori asked.
"He is sleeping peacefully..." She answered.
"That's good to hear." Lori commented with a smile, before she noticed Luna's expression, which seemed like a mixture of sadness and someone who was deep in thought. "Is something wrong?"
"I don't think lying to Lincoln was a bad idea, before Lincoln fell asleep he told me how he felt ashamed and guilty about disappearing from the family, when it was really our fault for causing him to run away!" Luna explained.
After Luna explained that the faces of the Loud sisters changed from shock at the realization to faces of shame when they realized it was they're fault.
"Luna...I know this isn't our best choice, but there isn't much we can do right now, if we tell he he ran away and wasn't kidnapped and realizes we are the reason why he ran away, he won't trust us and will run away again." Lori explained.
"Can't we explain to him that we are sorry and we won't mistreat him again?" Luna suggested.
"We can't take that risk, the last thing we want after these 3 months is to lose Lincoln again..." Lucy explained this time.
Luna wanted to argue more, but every argument she came up with in her mind didn't provide any better solutions to they're problem.
"Right..." Was all Luna could say.
"I think it's time you all return to your rooms, you should all be sleeping by now." Lori said, and everyone else started to leave the room...even Leni...
"Leni! This IS your room!" Lori told her.
"Ho right!" Leni said with an innocent smile before sitting back on her bed.
Luna was about to leave back to her own room, but Lori placed a hand on her shoulder stopping her on her tracks.
"I know you don't feel good about this Luna, but Lincoln will forgive himself eventually, right now we should do our best to make Lincoln feel welcomed and included at home." Lori reassured her younger sister.
"Right...thanks Lori, goodnight." She said looking back at Lori with a gentle but sad smile on her face before making her way towards her room.
"Goodnight..." Lori responded as she watch Luna move out of the room.