Interlude; The next generation
"… So Lacy it is." Lynn nodded to the swaddled, sleeping, human shaped blob of meat behind the glass. Within the nursery there was a multitude of children, the five new children that now made up the next Loud generation were dispersed across the various tables holding freshly cleaned and swaddled newborns.
Lynn herself technically speaking wasn't supposed to even be walking, having triggered her own labour by speed waddling after Lincoln. However the athlete's absurd tenacity and resilience proved itself once more- even if the nurses were staring at her, waiting for the foolish new mother to pass out.
"And Lynn III?" Lori asked with a tone somewhere between exasperation and amusement.
"Why mess with a winning formula?" The Sports Star grinned, "plus we thought me an' Lola would be having a boy and girl each. But hey, it still works for a girl and who wouldn't want to keep the Lynnster train going!?"
"I would have done the same thing," Lynn the first nodded in appreciation of his daughter's wisdom, prompting an eyeroll from the new grandmother next to him. The majority of the family was currently gathered in the hallway outside the nursery, sans only Lisa who lacked Lynn's stubborn/stupid refusal to remain in a hospital bed.
Some were excited, others were more uncertain, given the children's origins and their own births to come. Lola had yet to say anything, staring down at her twins with some unreadable expression. A little distance away from the rest, a still wary of castration Lincoln looked at the little, darker haired newborn that Lisa had dubbed…
"Lulu." He muttered. "Leia, Londey, Lacy and Lynn."
He was a father now.
Up until this point he was internally half expecting this all to blow over, for it all to be revealed to be some kind of social experiment and none of the sisters were actually pregnant. Lisa would appear, declare her findings were complete before revealing it was all some trick and be pounced on by a near dozen irate victims, Luan and Lori still the only true parents among them.
"… You know; I'm more surprised you didn't name them both after yourself," the long suffering eldest pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Dang," Luna examined the still wide athlete, the other woman holding herself up with seemingly little effort. "Ya know, I've gotta say; I wasn't expectin' ya up so quick, Lisa's not even awake yet."
Lynn snickered, "I'm Lynn Loud, a bit of tummy trouble isn't gonna keep me down."
"I bet the juice didn't hurt though…" Lily gently teased from behind.
"Yeah," Lynn admitted, her eyes going blank for a moment. "Not gonna lie; I didn't wanna take it, but that stuff is amazing. I mean; I'm not even mad at Leese anymore; that's how good it is- what?" She raised her hands at the incredulous siblings around her. "Seriously it is- I know you all heard me in there!"
It was true; even now the nearby maternity ward would emit distressingly sexual moans every time the large, soundproof doors swung open to admit a new mother-to-be. From the very moment Lynn had stopped her distressingly fast waddle (which lay somewhere between hilarious and horrifying, depending if you were the man attempting to retain the gonads she was after) to examine exactly why she felt like she'd wet herself, the athlete was determined to make her way through labour without any anesthesia.
That changed within the first hour.
Lynn was only having one child naturally, Lisa having been 'persuaded' to play incubator for her experiment. However as any woman who has gone through labour would tell the listener; once is more than enough.
Add in that it was a fast delivery, and the pain was rising far faster than even Lynn could tolerate; Lily quickly broke the news about the invention. Lisa had made some kind of weird concoction that upon injection promptly turned the agony of childbirth into a sexually thrilling experience.
Lincoln didn't know the exact details, but from the moment Lily had returned from Lisa's room with the vial and stuck the needle into Lynn's arm (because no nurse would administer it) Lynn's expression rapidly shifted from agony to…
Well. He was still torn about whether or not he should have left the room like the others, and not just because Lynn had nearly broken his hand when he stood beside her in childbirth. Certain incestuous fantasies aside actually witnessing a sibling's raw sexuality is never going to be normal.
Watching your kid get literally cummed out is something else entirely.
He prayed to God that neither Lynn III or Lacy ever found out how they'd been evicted from their first home.
Of course every other woman there had demanded the same thing, and while Lincoln was still in the room at the time he was still too stunned from reality to stop a gleeful Lily from administering a dose to every woman in the ward that she could find a fresh needle for. Honestly considering all the potential problems of injecting an publicly un-trialled drug into a bunch of women in childbirth, he was just happy that the dirty looks from the nurses and Doctors were all they were getting.
For now anyway; he was pretty sure Lisa was going to have to pay off a lot of people.
"Yeah we heard," Lori shook her head. "I'll literally be hearing that in my nightmares."
"Whatever Lori," Lynn practically chirped. "Trust me, all the months of pain and contant pissing and shitting? Worth it. All the stupid shit with the goggles? Still kinda iffy, but you know what; all in the past."
"Why don't you wait and see how you feel after the afterglow wears off," Lori dryly replied.
"No, you don't get it; not yet," Lynn wiped a bit of drool from her lips. "I swear, if I didn't have my sports I'd be finding another guy to-"
"Miss Louds?" A nurse with tight lips called out from a door next to the glass. "Would you or your… family like to hold the children now?"
"Ye- ahem, well of course." The refined model calmed herself before turning to the others. "I'll take Leia and Londey first, then the rest of you can take turns."
"Same here for mine," Lynn nodded, then looked at the nurse. "That's Lacy and mini me- Lynn III."
"I see," if the nurse thought there was anything strange about a woman claiming her nieces as her own then she kept it to herself. Maybe she's thinking it's surrogacy? "And who will be taking Lulu?"
There was a sudden silence, then Lincoln realised everyone was looking at him. It suddenly dawned on him; Lisa was still sleeping.
At the moment he was Lulu's primary parent.
He looked at the little brown haired baby through the glass.
"I'll be first I guess."
The nurse nodded, "very good. We'll bring them out in a moment."
And so she did, she and a colleague quietly loaded the infants into some special trolley before wheeling it out to them. There Lynn first took Lacy into her arms, and then reunited with her little namesake.
There the new mother stood; a mostly bald, pudgy and still sleeping fresh offspring in each arm. "H-hey little guys."
"Well… I think you'll grow on me." Lola mused as she settled her infants into her surprisingly strong arms. There the blonde twins rested against her. One opened blue eyes- Lincoln's shade and blinked, but didn't really focus on anything before their owner vaguely moved in the direction of warmth.
"Mr Loud?"
Lincoln looked to the nurse, who was holding a swaddled Lulu. Numbly he held out his arms in a long remembered form, echoes of carrying Lily, Lisa and the twins themselves so long ago came to his mind as he held a child of his own for the first time.
"Just be sure to hold up her head," the nurse released her hold as Lincoln let the weight fall into his secure, but gentle grip. Lulu was surprisingly heavy for a newborn and her brown eyes could be seen peeking through her half open lids.
"Hi there Lulu…" he hear himself say. "I'm your Dad. N-nice to meet you?"
Okay that sounded dumb even to him, and he was pretty sure that the others were looking on in disbelief. But when he glanced up he saw just a few chagrined expressions while Leni and Mom's eyes were wet with unshed tears.
"Hey 'Dad'," Lynn nudged him with an elbow. "We're takin' pictures remember. You wanna try and hold 'em?"
"Umm… sure," quickly he sat down on a nearby chair and opened his arms to let Lynn fit their children into his arms. Lulu remained in his lap, held steady by his hands while his bent arms formed makeshift cradles. "Are we sure that-"
"Just let me do it," Lola strode over and calmly placed Leia next to Lacy on the right, and then fit Londey by Lynn III, Lulu and his hands serving as a kind of keystone for the impromptu sibling basket. "All right, who's got the camera?"
"I do. Lisa's experiments or not, I've been waiting for you to have children!" Rita Loud stepped forward, her voice thick with her announcement and Lynn Sr's ancient analogue camera in hand. "Now; Lynn, Lola, stand beside Lincoln, we're going to get you all in one shot."
Lola raised an eyebrow at being ordered as an adult, but acquiesced. Lynn, still running hot on her 'Happy Birthday' happily waddled over and stood on Lincoln's right, resting a hand on his shoulder as Lola did the same to his left.
Rita carefully adjusted the long obsolete, but traditional camera and stepped back. "Now; everyone say- OH GOD!"
To her credit- that is precisely what the participants of that photo said at that moment, and their reaction was forever recorded in the first photo of the firstborns of that generation. For Lulu opened her eyes properly, and upon seeing the outside world her mother had 'told' her so much about during her inter-uteri programming she couldn't help but smile.
With every one of her mouths.
A/N:
Just a little something before the story progresses. I'm thinking of using these interludes to establish details that don't fit into the 'current' time of the story, as flipping between years and story progression could get confusing.
In the end Lola's second child was indeed female. I did manage to find many Sin Kids to fit into the remaining slots, but there were few males for any of them and while Londey did have a simple character, she did have quite a few comics that showcased her well enough for me to get a good grasp on her. So the expectation from LLFM was ultimately subverted, but considering that Lemy and Lyle came along anyway I suppose it all evens out.