Lincoln Loud was fast asleep...
And yet, he felt like he was wide awake...
It was dark, dark and quite, it remained that way for a few moments, until suddenly and out of nowhere, a ton of memories without context started assaulting his mind all at once.
"You give bad luck!" One voice said.
"Honestly, things would have been a lot better if you weren't around!" Said another.
"The only thing you do is screw up!" Yet another voice spoke.
"Stop...please stop..." Lincoln begged, but the memories were relentless they continued to attack his mind, no matter how much he begged.
"Stop it...STOP IT!" Lincoln pleaded.
Suddenly, Lincoln opened his eyes, he was back in his room, he let out a sigh of relief, what were those voices in his head, he tried to remember but no matter how much he forced his mind to remember, but he got nothing out of doing that, other than a small headache.
Lincoln could see the light of the sun entering his bedroom, from the way the light was hitting his room, the sun had started rising just a few moments ago, so it was still very early in the morning.
Lincoln let out a sigh out of stress and tried to turn on his side to get into a more comfortable position, but he felt his arms and torso were being held in they're positions, he turned to his left and saw his sister Lola who was in her pajamas, hugging his left arm close to her body, and Lincoln could feel she had a very strong grip on it.
He then turned to his right to see that Lola's twin sister Lana who was also in her pajamas, sleeping under Lincoln's right arm hugging his torso and using his shoulder as a pillow.
Lincoln then looked down to his chest to see his young goth sister Lucy, from what he could feel both of Lucy's legs were folded and resting on the outside of his legs with her knees pressing against his hips, her torso was laying on his lap and belly and her head was resting on his chest, she too had a very small smile on her lips.
Lincoln was a bit suprise to find his sisters cuddling him, but it was a good suprise, that is until Lola started hugging his arm even tighter until it started to hurt, and Lincoln could even feel his blood circulation being cut off from his arm, once this happened Lincoln took the arm that was over Lana to lightly tap Lola on the head.
"Lola! Weak up, you're hurting me!" Lincoln said trying to wisper but the pain on his arm made his voice come out louder than he wished.
"No, let me sleep a bit longer!" She whined.
Lana, feeling the lack of warmth around her body from Lincoln's arm caused her to wake up rubbing her eye.
"Lincoln, is it morning already?" Lana asked.
"Sorry I woke you up Lana." Lincoln apologized.
The talking and light shifting on the bed caused Lucy to wake up, who got up and took a seat on Lincoln's lap.
"Brother, the hour of waking hasn't arrived yet..." Lucy claimed.
"Sorry Lucy, but what are you three doing on my bed?" Lincoln asked."Not that I'm upset, I just would have liked to know."
"We were afraid of waking up in the morning to find out that you disappeared again, we decided to sleep with you so you wouldn't disappear again Linky" Lola explained.
"Right...I'm sorry" Lincoln said, pausing for a moment before his expression became sad."If I was more careful and didn't allow myself to get kidnapped, you guys would have to be so worried about me...I'm so sorry, it's my fault."
After Lincoln said that, Lana, Lola and Lucy remembered what Luna told them last night at Lori's room before they went to bed, and they couldn't help but to start to feel guilty about lying to him.
Lola's guilt suddenly turned into anger and Lincoln looked at her to see her anger clear in her face.
"Stop blaming yourself for that!" She said in a quite shout."It wasn't your fault!"
"It wasn't your fault!" Lola repeated, her voice started to break, and tears started to form under her eyes and fallin on the blanket of Lincoln's bed, the then buried her face deep into Lincoln's chest and began to cry.
"It wasn't your fault..." She repeated, this time a little calmer, and her voice was slightly muffled by Lincoln's chest.
After that Lincoln was a little taken back by the reaction of his sisters about his guilt for getting kidnapped, first Luna and now Lola, he felt it was a bit weird but he just assumed they were feeling sorry for him or it was just pity.
Lincoln decided to return Lola's hug, who seemed to start calming down after being enveloped in her brother's warm arms, Lincoln calmly started shooshing his little princess still whimpering in his chest, stainning his pajama shirt with her tears.
Lucy and Lana started feeling a little left out after that little exchange between Lincoln and Lola, and also a little jealous, they decided to join in on the hug, the four siblings just stayed there for a good while just hugging eachother and taking comfort in the warmth that came with it.
"Lola is right Lincoln, stop apologizing, it hurts to see you blaming yourself for this, please stop it." Lucy spoke up with a smile, trying to sound positive despite her monotone voice.
"Please Lincoln, if we were better sisters we also wouldn't have allowed you to get kidnapped, please stop putting all the blame on yourself." Lana spoke right after Lucy.
"Ok ok, I won't blame myself for what happened, and I won't apologize for it any longer." Lincoln promised.
"Do you mean it?" Lola asked her brother after they all broke apart from the hug.
"Yes, it's a promise Lola." Lincoln afirmed, sticking out his pinky finger and made a pinky promise to Lola.
Lola smiled, and the entire atmosphere of saddness started to fade away...
"But Lucy had a point, it's still not time to wake up." She said pointing towards the clock in Lincoln's room. "Not to mention, today is part of the weekend, so we don't have to hurry to get to school."
"How about we all stay and sleep a little longer?" Lucy suggested, a smile forming on her face again.
"I don't see why not!" Lola said in agreement.
"Yeah, I'm still a little sleepy." Lana added.
Lincoln just stood there for a moment, looking back and fort between the three sisters sitting on his bed, the were all looking at him smiling, waiting for him to give an answer.
"Sure, you can continue to sleep here, but don't hug my arm like that again Lola." Lincoln said half joking with a small laugh.
"Don't worry I won't!" Lola said in delight at Lincoln's response.
After that, Lincoln layed his head back in his pillow, Lana got back under Lincoln's arm and once again layed her head on top of his shoulder, Lola this time decided to mirror her sister and did the same thing, Lucy layed back on top of Lincoln and placed her head once again on his chest, with both of her arms around his torso.
"Sleep well Lana, Sleep well Lola, Sleep well Lucy..." Lincoln said to his three sisters with a smile and his eyes closed.
"Sleep well Lincoln." Lincoln heard the three of the say in perfect unison, before they, just like they're brother, drifted back into sleep.
Little did they know that all the other Loud sisters overhead the entire thing, they were very happy to hear that Lincoln was no longer going to blame himself for what was actually they're fault.
After some time had passed everyone started to get up to get ready for the morning, they made they're way over to the bathroom and made a line to get they're morning showers, the sisters all decided to let Lincoln go in first, after all, they were trying to make him feel happy on the house so that he wouldn't run away.
After all the sister took they're showers after Lincoln exited the bathroom they made they're way over to the kitchen and made breakfast for everyone, and once again, the first one to get his food made was Lincoln.
Lincoln found all this treatment rather strange, he didn't assume this is how they treated him everyday, even thought he didn't have any memory, but he decided not to say anything and just enjoyed his food.
Sometime later after that all the Louds went back to they're activities, the sisters wanted to spend some more time with Lincoln, so the could have fun with him, make him feel welcomed on the house and hopefully help bring some of his memories back, but he was having one of his scheduled talk with Ronnie Anne right now.
Lori however decided that this was a good time to have a sister meeting since Lincoln was busy, Lori stopped by Lily and Lisa's room to tell them to come join the sister meeting, once she entered she saw that Lisa was already working on some strange machine that she had in her room.
"Lisa, can you put that project on hold?" Lori started."We are having a sister meet-"
"Not right now, I'm busy." Lisa cutted her off.
"This is about Lincoln, we are going to try and help him, is that machine more important than helping your brother who still doesn't remember you or any of us!?" Lori said a little angry.
"Trust me elder sibling, once this machine is done, all of you and Lincoln will be thanking me." Lisa answered."But Lily is right over there on her crib, you can take her to the sister meeting."
Lori wanted to argue more with Lisa to convince her to come along, but she decided against it, she went to pick up Lily who was playing with her toys on her crib and took her over to her room so they could start the sister meeting.
She went into the room with the rest of the sisters, once they were all present she banged on of her shoes against small sewing table in her and Leni's room.
"I here by call this meeting to order, let's just skip the minutes and get down to business." Lori said, starting the meeting.
"Ok Lori, what is this all about?" Luna asked."And why aren't Lincoln and Lisa here?"
"Yeah, I thought we promised to make him feel more included." Luan commented.
"Lincoln can't hear the conversation we are about to have, and Lisa for some reason claimed that she was to busy to attend this meeting, I saw her working on some machine, what it's for I wouldn't be able to tell you, but that's not the point." Lori explained.
"Then what's this meeting about?" Lynn asked with curiosity.
"We need to find a way to help Lincoln get his memory back." Lori said.
This caused all the sisters to start murmuring among eachother.
"But if we help Lincoln get his memory back won't he remember the bad stuff did?" Lana asked with concern.
"I'm sure if we make him remember positive memories he won't remember the bad ones." Lori explained.
"Ok, so what's the plan duddette?" Luna asked.
"Ho! We could show him some pictures from the photo albums we own!" Leni suggested.
"Wow, a good idea from Leni, I never thought I would see the day..." Lola claimed before getting lightly punched in the arm by Lynn.
"That's not a bad idea, but what if that doesn't work, we are going to need a plan B!" Lynn commented.
"Right, thankfully, I already have a plan B!" Lori claimed."If the picture and videos we have won't cause him to regain his memories, maybe we could take him to some familar places."
"Like what?" Lana asked.
"Well, there's the comic book shop, burping burgers, there's our school, the mall Clyde's house, there's a hole list of places we can visit." Lucy pointed out.
"Exactly!" Lori said before extending his her arm with her hand opened and her palm facing down, everyone understood what that meant and the other Loud sisters placed they're hands on top of Lori's, making a hand huddle.
"Operation: Restory Lincoln's memories is a go!" Lori claimed.
"Yeah!" All the Loud sisters shouted at once before throwing they're hands up into the air.