A/N: Okay so I've been busy starting my new job, so I apologize for how long it took to get this chapter out. But here it is , please enjoy. :) P.S: The title has no connection to the South Park game, I thought of the name for the chapter BEFORE realizing that that game had a similar tittle!
Chapter 6: The Whole Yet Fractured
The Louds, Clyde, and the Santiago siblings had just left the Loud House and were heading to the new Royal Woods movie theater. The Loud sisters, Clyde and the Santiagos still could not believe that the inside of Ronda was so spacious, almost as if from a sci-fi book or movie. Lisa being the science nerd, was exploring all around taking notes trying to find out how all this was possible.
"You know Miss Lisa you can just ask me how my creator crafted me. My creator encourages knowledge to be shared and passed on to the younger generations, so long as you don't plan to use the knowledge to make war or hurt the innocent." Ronda's voice sounded through out the inside of Ronda.
"My apologies Ronda. I was just very intrigued on how you function and thought that your creator would be less inclined to be forth coming with her research." Lisa explained slightly blushing from embarrassment. Ronda smiled on her monitor.
"It is as Lincoln said you really do love science related things." Ronda said looking to Lincoln, who was smiling at Lisa's never changing curiosity for science.
"So Lincoln you never told us what movie you wanted to go see." Lori spoke up from her spot in the passenger seat.
"Well it's a Romance type of movie about a young man who goes through an intense time in his life falling in love with someone who he shouldn't, but he refuses to let his love go so easily." Lincoln spoke and noticed that everyone was quiet.
"What?" Lincoln asked feeling uneasy with the stares.
"Well it's just we never thought that you'd be into sappy romances like that Little Dude." Luna spoke for everyone as they nodded in agreement with Luna's comment.
"Yeah you usually want to go watch Ace Savvy movies or something similar." Lana spoke smirking at the thought that her big brother's maturity.
"Well I relate to the main protagonist, and I don't mean his time suffering, but him falling in love and not letting anyone sway him to give up." Lincoln spoke with a tone of determination in it and something else that not even Lana and Lola could decipher. The way Lincoln spoke made the six older Louds, and Ronnie-Anne's hearts beat but not in the same way as they had experienced before.
"So you got a girl you're in love with Lame-O?" Ronnie-Anne spoke with a slight tone of hurt in her voice, but Lincoln didn't notice it.
"It's complicated, but after I was saved by Nagi somethings happened that made me realize something important. He even helped encourage me to follow my heart by saying his families' motto, 'If you follow your heart you will have no regrets, but if you ignore what your heart is trying to tell you you'll come to have nothing but regrets." Lincoln quoted the sagely advice he had received two years ago when he couldn't understand why his heart ached so much.
"I feel that you just avoided the question there Linc." Lynn said not being phased by Lincoln's wise words, she wanted to know who had HER brother's heart. "Wait why am I so possessive of Lincoln? I shouldn't care who he's in love with." Lynn shook off her momentarily confusing thoughts, looking at Lincoln waiting for his answer.
"Sigh." Lincoln sighed, then looked to everyone as they all looked back waiting for an answer from him. "Okay so it's complicated because it's not just one person I'm in love with, so far I've fallen in love with seven different women." Lincoln spoke seeing everyone's gaping mouths in disbelief. Leni was the first one to recover.
"Lincy you're in love with seven different women!? How did that happen?" Leni almost yelled, her heart rate beating even faster, as were all the other older Loud sisters and Ronnie-Anne. They couldn't figure out what they were feeling, or why they were feeling this painful emotion, except Lori did know what she was feeling and possibly the reason why.
"Yeah, that's half the complicated part, the other half of that is I'm sure there are more out there that I'll fall madly in love with." Lincoln spoke with a serious face, no one ,not even Clyde, could tell if he was messing with them or not. " Guys I am really messed up after those 8 years at the facility. For a while I thought I was so messed up in the head that I began to think that I couldn't be loved, that I didn't deserve to be loved." Lincoln spoke his voice cracking with emotion. "But Nagi kicked the shit out of me and told me to stop pitying myself." Lincoln smiled at the memory that would set him down his path he now treks.
"Lincoln Loud don't you ever think you don't deserve love!" Lucy yelled at her brother startling him and her other sisters, not being use to Lucy raising her voice. "If anyone here deserves to be loved it's you Lincoln!" Lucy continued her speech. "You are the kindest, most selfless, most caring person I've ever known, and you being put through all that unimaginable torture hasn't changed that about you!" Lucy was breathless at this point, letting Lincoln absorb her words. Lincoln 's eyes watered and he smiled.
"Thanks Luce. You have no idea how happy your words made me just now." Lincoln spoke tears slowly falling down his cheeks. At that moment all of his sisters pulled him into a group huge, all whispering comforting, and soothing words. After a few seconds Lincoln regained his composure and returned to the drivers seat.
"Hey Lincoln can you tale us tails of these seven princesses that have a slice of your heart?" Hahaha Get it?" Luan joked to disguise her desire to know about these women who seduced her little brother. Lincoln paused for a moment trying to find the right words.
"Well the first hint is that all seven are people that you all know. Now the first woman is a tall blonde that is a bit older then me, she loved her social media and had a great putting arm."
"Carol!?" Lori thought scowling momentarily, as Lincoln described this first woman.
"The second one is another tall blonde, though she wasn't book smart, she was however very talented with cloth, wood, and doors, she also has a heart of gold."
"Who could that be?" Leni thought knowing no one like that.
"The third woman is a free spirit who loves music so much it's her greatest passion."
"Is he talking about Sam, or maybe Tabby?" Luna thought of these two instantly from Lincoln's description.
"The fourth always knew how to put a smile on everyone's faces, even if the joke wasn't very good she never gave up until she saw ya crack a smile."
"Holy giggles is he talking about Giggles? Hahaha get it? Oh yeah I'm talking in my mind." Luan thought to herself.
"Then there's the tough athletic lady though she is very competitive, I know she's got a gentle nurturing side that she hides."
"That almost sounds like either Margo or Polly, but which is it?" Lynn thought thinking hard which one it could have been
"The one that I'm most fascinated in is a bit of a dark soul with a bit of light, she loves the idea of tragic love the most. She likes to think that she's good at hiding her facial expressions, but I could always tell when she was happy, sad, upset, or even lonely."
"A dark soul with light? It could be Haiku, but did she have light?" Lucy thought carefully of anyone like that.
"Finally the first one I ever fell in love with, she was always putting on a mask so I couldn't tell what she was thinking. She acted like she didn't care but she was still a woman and had feelings. She just had a different way of expressing them. Being the 11 year old boy I was I didn't realize that until I made her cry. Though I did manage to apologize to her and we were still friends, she and her family eventually moved away."
"Did something happen between him and Paige, or maybe he had finally talked to Cristina and screwed up somehow?" Ronnie-Anne thought to herself forgetting a few important facts.
"What did you do to make her cry Lincy?" Lily asked not believing that her brother capable of hurting someone intentionally.
"I said in front of the entire school that I'd rather lick the tiles of the bathroom floors then kiss her. Though I said that to get my friends to stop making fun of me, I wish I could go back and do it all different." Lincoln spoke looking at Ronnie-Anne as he had just given a huge clue that only she and probably Clyde would remember. As it so happened the moment he mentioned the part about licking the bathroom floor Ronnie-Anne looked up to him with knowing yet doubtful eyes.
"He was describing me! How could I miss that?! But who are the other six?!" Ronnie-Anne's inner voice screamed, but all anyone could see was her blushing a deep red. Lincoln smiled seeing his first love piece that much of his secret plan together. Just as Ronnie-Anne was about to confront Lincoln, Ronda spoke up.
"We have arrived to the Theaters Lincoln." Ronda then pulled into the parking lot, and had found a perfect spot to park that was near the front of the building. After Parking everyone got up and headed out. Ronnie-Anne wanted to hang back and try to have a private moment with Lincoln, but as everyone was filing out she saw that Lincoln had sped passed her and was out the door already.
"Have fun Lincoln." Ronda spoke
"Will do Ronda." Lincoln responded as he hurriedly exited Ronda.
"Dang it!" Ronnie-Anne exclaimed in a whisper and followed everyone else.
They all walked into the theater and were amazed at how spacious the building was compared to how small it was before it was rebuilt. Lincoln turned to everyone and asked.
"Okay now what movie do we want to watch?" Lori looked to each side and gave a knowing nod and received a nod of agreement, all as if they were having a mental conversation with each other.
"We want to watch that movie you were telling us about Lincoln." Lori smiled at Lincoln's expression of disbelief.
"Wait really?" Lincoln asked not expecting his sisters to want to watch the same movie so easily. "Okay then I'll go get the tickets and the time of the showing." Lincoln walked to the ticket booth. As he walked away the others all huddled together and spoke about the earlier conversation.
"Okay so about the earlier conversation with Lincoln, does anyone have any ides on who he was talking about?" Lori asked this heavy, familiar feeling in her chest.
"Well I have an idea on the last person Lincoln mentioned, but I want to ask him in private first to confirm it before I say for sure." Ronnie-Anne spoke up with a look of determination. Lori nodded her consent seeing that Ronnie-Anne may have figured something out.
"Okay anyone else?" Lori asked the rest. "Well I think the first one he described may have been Carol." Lori spoke her earlier thought hoping the others would do the same now.
"Guys why does it matter who Lincoln was talking about, isn't it his personal business?" Bobby interjected not understanding why they were getting so involved in Lincoln's love life.
"Because Bobby, Lucy was right, Lincoln deserves to fall in love and we want to make it happen. He said that there are seven maybe more. We need to know who these women are and get them to fall in love with Lincoln." Lori explained her false reason.
"Wait, don't you think we should ask Lincoln what he thinks about all this?" Clyde asked amazed by what Lori was plotting.
"Well Clyde, Lincoln's been through hell and then some, so he deserves to be happy by any means, and as his best friend you should want to make that happen." Lori spoke trying to guilt Clyde into dropping his questions.
"I guess your right, but we should first get as much information as we can get about these women from him." Clyde spoke some great advice.
"You're right Clyde we need to make Linc pour his Heart out. Hahaha get it?" Luan chimed in with a joke, everyone rolled their eyes.
"Okay then we pump him for more info when each of us have our days with him. Once we have all the necessary info we find the person and set them on a date." As those words left Lori's lips, her, and the other five older sisters, and Ronnie-Anne felt a sudden rage at the thought of Lincoln with some random woman. They all paused and thought about this feeling that they were feeling a lot since Lincoln returned, the other five older siblings just thought they were being over protective of Lincoln, but Lori and Ronnie-Anne knew that it was jealousy they felt. While all this plotting was happening Lincoln was making conversation with the person at the ticket booth.
"Sorry if I'm stalling, see I'm buying my friends over there some time to plot out how they plan to interfere in my love life." Lincoln explained to the young lady, who was mesmerized by Lincoln while he was talking to her. The young lady looked 21 to Lincoln, she had dirty blonde hair and a beautiful smile, she looked very familiar to Lincoln.
"See I gave them hints about these girls that I'm absolutely crazy about, but they won't figure it out with the limit of details I gave them. Well except for one of them." The young lady started to blush as Lincoln talked, and then snapped out of her infatuation and quickly wrote her name and phone number down and handed it to Lincoln.
"Here call me if you ever get the chance and want to talk more about your interesting game of deception." The young lady said handing Lincoln the paper and the tickets to the movie. Lincoln looked at the name on the piece of paper and paused a moment, there written was the name Paige.
"Is something wrong sir?" The young lady asked Lincoln seeing that he paused looking at the piece of paper she gave him. Lincoln snapped out of his trance and looked to Paige smiling.
"Oh no nothing wrong at all, just realized where I remember meeting you from." Lincoln casually said as he turned to give the tickets to his group.
"Wait we've met before?" Paige asked surprised and confused by this new handsome man.
"Oh I forgot to give my name." Lincoln looked back to Paige and bowed the way gentlemen bowed in the olden days. "The name's Lincoln Loud." Lincoln then turned again and went back to his siblings, and friends, smiling a wide smile, not looking back to see the shocked look on Paige's face. As Lincoln was first walking back, Lola noticed and quickly warned everyone.
"Quick Lincoln's coming back this way!" Everyone broke the huddle and stared toward Lincoln, they all saw him turn and bow and give his name to he young lady in the ticket booth. The six older Louds and Ronnie-Anne thought he was flirting with the woman and the intense feeling of jealousy intensified by ten fold. Lincoln returned to them with the biggest smile they had ever seen on a person.
"Well what's that smile about Dude?" Luna asked trying to mask her jealous voice.
"Well turns out that the girl in the ticket booth was Paige and she gave me her number and asked me out." Lincoln answered knowing the reaction he would get.
"Wait you mean the same Paige that you had a crush on back in Elementary School?" Clyde asked looking over to Paige in the booth. She was still shocked, and Lincoln nodded while handing out the movie tickets.
"Well that must be fate, you running into her after you just described her to us." Lynn stated annoyed at Paige for having the nerve of asking HER ma- brother out. "WHY do I keep thinking that?!" Lynn scolded herself in her mind. Lincoln pretended to look confused at Lynn's statement.
"Actually Lynn, Paige wasn't any of the girls that I described. Though it was nice to see her, and I might call her to hang out, she's not one of the few who have my heart." Lincoln stared into Lynn's eyes lovingly, but not enough to give away his true intentions or feelings. Lynn turned and blushed hoping it wasn't noticeable.
"Anyway Dear Brother it says on the tickets that we have and hour and a half until the next showing of your particular movie choice." Lisa voiced her observation of the ticket.
"Yeah we missed the first showing by 30 minutes." Lincoln explained the later ticket times.
"Well what do we do for the next hour and a half, until the movie starts?" Lily whined a bit, Lincoln just picked her up and put her on his shoulders.
"Well the mall is just next door." Lincoln casually dropped the "M" word and all the girls, except Lori and Ronnie-Anne, forgot their feelings of jealousy and squealed excitedly. "Well I guess there are somethings that don't change." Lincoln Smirked at his sisters, though he did notice Lori and Ronnie-Anne's lack of a reaction. "It's just as I thought Lori and Ronnie-Anne are going to be difficult to throw off the trail." Lincoln thought to himself.
"Then we just have to play our cards more carefully from now on when they are around." Came a different voice in Lincoln's head. Lincoln ignored the other voice in his head, and started walking toward the mall. Before everyone walked out after Lincoln, Lori stopped them to remind them of their plan.
"Okay guys we can use this opportunity to grill Lincoln for more clues about the girls, got it?" Lori looked to them all and they nodded their head's putting their game faces on. They all then went to catch up to Lincoln and Lily.
After a 5 minute walk they were all in the mall, Lincoln had almost completely forgotten what it looked like, and was surprised that even after 10 years, not much changed about the mall. Though he could tell that some of the mini-stores were new. The group could see that Lincoln was admiring his surroundings.
"So guys what do you want to do first?" Lincoln turned to the group with Lily still on his shoulders.
"Well I would like to head to the fabric shop to pick up some new materials." Leni Spoke up.
"I wanted to check out the Music shop to see if they got any new axe guitars and I need to replace my drums." Luna said remembering how her current instruments were in need of being replaced.
"I want to go see the pets at the Pet shop." Lana exclaimed.
"Well I'm going to the Gown store, to see if they have my order in yet." Lola spoke.
Everyone named off what they wanted to do at once and Lincoln stepped back a step overwhelmed by everyone's sudden plans. When Lily spoke an ingenious question.
"What did you want to do Lincoln?" Lily hunched over Lincoln's head to look him in the eyes smiling.
"I was just going to go shop for an entirely new wardrobe. After all I only have a few outfits for work from Nagi and I think I out grew all my old clothes." Lincoln chuckled answering Lily. Lori thought Lily was the real genius in the family at that moment.
"Well then we can't have you going without a wardrobe. Girls we're going to help Lincoln find something fashionable. Lori spoke. Lynn moaned at the idea thinking that that was boring, when Lucy gently elbowed her in the side.
"I can do that while you all go do your own things Lori, besides I have my own idea of fashion." Lincoln spoke playing his eldest sister like a fiddle, knowing what she was going to do next.
"Oh no. No brother of mine is going to embarrass me or himself when it comes to fashion." Lori spoke, and Leni nodded her head in agreement. "Now let's head to GK Henry's they have a great selection on all the current trends." Lori took Lincoln's hand and Leni grabbed his other hand and they lead him to the store they mentioned. Lori and Leni were blushing from holding Lincoln's hands, but Lincoln smiled all while Lily was still riding his shoulders. The rest were following close behind.
From across the store they just entered Lincoln failed to notice that a group of questionable men hung around, and they had been watching Lincoln's group, rather the girls, since they entered the Mall.
"Hey did y'all see that group of hot babes enter?" One of them asked his crew.
"Ya they were high quality women there." Another spoke up.
"I think we should go say hello when they come back out, don't you agree Boys?" The first voice spoke again.
"Hey aren't we suppose to wait for the Boss?" A third voice asked.
"We got time to kill, plus I'm sure there are plenty of them hotties to go around." The first voice smiled a crooked toothy grin. The rest of the group all laughed.
In the store Lincoln had helped Lily off his shoulders and all the older girls had thrown all sorts of outfits at him.
"Geeze guys slow down a bit, I can only try one pair at a time." Lincoln chuckled almost tipping from the shear weight of the pile of clothes.
"Well on this trip Lincoln don't fall for these prices. Hahahaha, Get it?" Luan laughed while throwing more cloths on Lincoln. Lincoln smiled as more clothes were thrown at him.
"I just thought of this, but did they even ask Lincoln for his measurements?" Bobby asked out loud to Clyde, who just shrugged.
"Women, you tell them to pick clothes and that price is not an issue, they go a bit crazy." Clyde commented to Bobby. Leni heard the two and answered the question.
"Chest 41-46, Waist 34-38, Hips 41-44." The two young men looked at Leni amazed at her pulling those random numbers out of no where. Lincoln looked at Leni smiling, while still trying not to fall under the pressure of the growing weight of clothes.
"That's exactly right Leni, I see you still have a knack for measuring people in your mind." Lincoln winked at Leni making her blush, and her heart beat faster.
"It's just a lucky guess Lincy." Leni shyly spoke.
"Nonsense Leni I know the difference between luck and talent. You have talent when it comes to fashion, wood carving, and lock picking." Lincoln said just before he fell for the over encumbering weight of the clothes. Luna was the first to help her brother up.
"Heh sorry Linc we may have gone over board with the whole dress-up thing." Luna scratched the back of her head. Lincoln looked to Luna smiling and held a thumb up.
"It's okay Luna I could actually buy everything in here no problem." Lincoln stated as he turned to the pile of clothes and grabbed a pair to try on first. "I'll try this pair on first." Lincoln then walked over to the empty dressing booth. At that moment Luna walked over to the same booth.
"What do ya mean you can buy everything in the store no problem Bro?" Luna asked curiously, her question had caught everyone's attention and the rest crowded around waiting for his answer.
"Well you remember my jobs right? Well those jobs pay on average about $100,000 a month, after Organization 15 takes their percentage and it's split equally among everyone who participated in the mission." Lincoln explain not able to see everyone's dropped jaws.
"WOW! Lincoln you're making a killing! Lynn yelled amazed, it would take her a year to make that much even if she went pro in the M.M.A.
"Well yeah the way it works is that the higher the rank of a mission the more money you receive." Lincoln said as he took his shirt and pants off and puts the pair he grabbed on, and stepped out to show everyone. He and everyone else could tell that Lynn had picked these clothes from the red and white colors, and the obvious sports vibe they gave off. The girls all stared at Lincoln mesmerized by how handsome and dashing he looked.
"So how do I look?" Lincoln asked turning to show all sides to everyone, Lucy was the first to snap out of her trance.
"It looks great on you Lincoln, for something that Lynn picked out." Lucy japed at Lynn.
"Yeah what she said." Lynn spoke still in her trance, then realized what Lucy said. "Hey!" Lincoln chuckled at Lynn's reaction.
"Well I like it as well. I'll take it." Lincoln walked back to the booth and asked, "Hey can one of you hand me a pair of clothes?" At that request the girls all grabbed a pair that they wanted Lincoln to try on and went to hand them to him. As Luan handed her choice to Lincoln she caught a glimpse of Lincoln standing in a pair a blue jeans, shirtless. Luan took that moment and really looked at Lincoln's upper boy, passed his horrible scars and burns and started blushing.
"Wow! Now that's what I call a Hunk of Man Meat." Luan thought to herself, blushing deep red and her heart rapidly beating. "Why is my heart racing like this every time I look at him or hear his beautiful laugh?" Luan asked herself as she walked toward her sisters. Lincoln showed of each of the outfits that were just given to him, liking each of them.
"Okay well I think I'll buy them all if these are the type of clothes you've picked out for me." Lincoln said as he walked out wearing the last pair that Leni gave him. The girls all smiled happy that Lincoln loved each of their different sense of fashion. Lincoln walked over to the front counter clerk and pulled the tags off the clothes he was currently wearing.
"I'd like to purchase these clothes that I'm wearing and all those clothes in that pile over there." Lincoln pointed to the rather ridiculously large pile of clothing. The young female clerk was bugged eyed from seeing the pile of clothing.
"Ummm are you positive Sir? That must at least cost around $150,000." The female clerk exclaimed not sure if she was being pranked by this customer.
"Actually according to my calculations it is $165,280.74, after taxes are included." Lisa spoke adjusting her classes slightly on her face. Lincoln didn't flinch one bit at hearing the price and pulled out his wallet, and handed a black card to the clerk. Everyone including the Clerk stared wide-eyed at the card, they had never seen a black credit card before only through rumours of the limitless black credit card. The Clerk stared a moment at the card they snapped out her dazed state and processed the charges. As the Clerk did this Lincoln looked at her feeling like he knew her from somewhere. The young woman was about the same age as Luan Lincoln assumed, she also had long brown hair pulled into a neat pony-tail, her skin was a light tan-like color, and the final thing Lincoln noticed was she had blue eyes.
"Excuse me but you seem familiar, what's your name?" Lincoln asked the young clerk. Luan was the closest to her brother and heard him speak to the clerk, while after recovering from their surprise over the black credit card the others all helped bag the clothing. The Clerk looked at Lincoln and smiled.
"It's Belle Yates. My family has lived in Royal Woods for ten years now, when we moved here." The young clerk answered. Luan and Lincoln looked surprised at hearing the name of an old childhood friend. Luan and Luna had become the best of friends with Belle Yates over the years, Belle was there for them when they went through their depression over Lincoln. Luan got Luna's attention and pointed to Belle.
"Luna it's Belle!" Luan exclaimed. Luna looked over and saw the familiar friend and smiled widely. The two went right over to Lincoln each standing on either of his sides excited.
"Belle, is that really you?" Luna asked to confirm for sure it was their friend.
"Oh my god! Luna?! Luan?! It has been far too long! How have you two been!" Belle rush from behind the counter and hugged the both of them as they met her half way all three squealing happily. At that point the other Loud sisters stopped and looked at the source of the squeal, and when they saw Belle they all ran over to greet her. Belle greeted all the Louds and suddenly gasped looking to Lincoln.
"I'm so sorry Sir, these people are old friends from my childhood, and I hadn't seen them since I moved back from college at Oxford." Belle apologized to a a smiling Lincoln, Luan laughed at Belle. She looked at Luan and scolded her. "Luan it's not funny I got so excited to see you two, I neglected a customer!" Belle said exasperation in her tone, Luan just laughed harder.
"Belle it's okay we're here with him." Luna explained smiling, wanting to tell her friend who her 'customer' actually was. Belle looked at Luna confused and curious.
"Really? All of you are here together with him?"Belle asked looking to all the Louds, as they all nodded. "Well I wonder what kind of man can get the attention of all the Loud Sisters?" Belle looked over to Lincoln with wonder.
"Well I guess you could say he left a Loud impression on us." Luan made a pun hinting at Lincoln's identity. "It's almost like he's always been a part of the family. He is a Loud guy through and through." Luan was rolling on the floor laughing hysterically at her jokes, Lincoln was the only one laughing with Luan. Belle was just becoming more confused.
"Okay am I missing something here?" She asked looking to Luna, who smiled and walked up to Belle and turned her to face Lincoln.
"Belle Yates, I'd like to reintroduce you to our one and only brother, LINCOLN LOUD!" Luna announced like she was introducing a famous band. Belle looked at Lincoln shocked and amazed, was this really the boy that she remembered always hanging around his sisters?
"Wait this hunk is your baby brother!? The same Lincoln that was taken ten years ago with out a trace!? That Lincoln!?" Belle stared with disbelief at Lincoln. When Luan and Luna heard Belle call their brother a hunk they both felt a twinge of jealousy, and a hint of possessiveness, but they quickly shook the feelings off.
"Wow! Where did that come from?" Luna thought to herself, blushing slightly.
"Geeze never knew I possessed the ability to get jellyious! Hahaha Get it? Dang it there I go making jokes in my head and forgetting." Luan thought in her mind.
"Wow Lincoln Loud you have gotten so tall and have really filled out." Belle commented on Lincoln's physical stature, Lincoln raised a mental eyebrow at that comment.
"Hey this chick is flirting with us." A voice spoke in Lincoln's mind.
"Go away." Lincoln mentally told the voice, while trying to focus on the conversation in front of him. "Thanks Belle I kinda got in to a fitness regimen over the years." Lincoln casually said leaving out the whole forced against his will part out.
"What happened to you all those years ago?" Belle asked remembering that Lincoln just vanished and was gone for ten long years. Lincoln's smile faded away, causing everyone to worry a bit.
"It don't matter Belle, we're just focused on the fact that he's back. And we ain't ever letting him go again." Luna spoke up thinking quickly, and she walked over to Lincoln and gave him a huge hug. Seeing this all the Loud siblings went to hug him. Lincoln's smile returned instantly.
"Oh I'm Sorry Lincoln I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories." Belle apologized feeling awful at the thought of upsetting him.
"No problem Belle, it's in the past." Lincoln spoke.
"Yes the past that keeps intruding in our life, because we refuse to put an end to them". Spoke the voice from earlier in his mind, resounded.
"Not you too. Please behave and stay quiet." Lincoln begged the third voice in his head mentally
"Very well as you wish Lincoln." The third voice answered politely. Lincoln internally sighed and sever so slightly slumped in an exhausted manner, thinking no one would notice. Lana and Lola did notice.
"Well that's very mature of you Lincoln Loud." Belle smiled and Lincoln blushed at the obvious slight flirtation. Again the older Loud siblings and Ronnie-Anne felt jealous. Belle gasped again and hurried behind the check out counter. "I'm sorry I forgot about your purchases." with that she finished up Lincolns transactions, and handed him the recite but not before writing something on the back. "I wrote my number on the back, call me so we can catch up sometime." Belle Yates smiled very flirtatiously at Lincoln, who being a polite man just smiled.
"I'd like that Belle, though I really plan to spend the next three months spending time with my family and friends." Lincoln spoke more to reassure his sisters and Ronnie-Anne that he was focused on them, and Clyde.
"Aren't we friends Lincoln?" Belle said making a playful hurt face, making Lincoln smirk.
"We are but you are more Luna's and Luan's friend, and I think you three have some catching up to do first." Lincoln tactfully countered Belle's playful banter. Belle smiled at how witty Lincoln was being.
"That is true I have lot's of catching up to do, though I suspect no where near the amount you do." Belle teased not knowing if a line was crossed, but sticking to here gun's as it were.
"You have no idea the secrets Lincoln's got in this noggin o' his." Lincoln's voice changed from his usual mature, innocent voice, to a more childish and playful way of speaking. Lincoln's eyes went instantly wide when he realized what he had said.
"I have to go to the restroom. I'll have some one come pick my purchases up later." Lincoln rushed out of the store after. Everyone stared confused at a retreating Lincoln, until the stores doors closed behind him.
"Dang it! Everyone after him!" Lynn Called being the first to start running after er brother, the others right behind her. Just before Luna and Luan left, Belle called out to them.
"It was good to see you guys, call me so we can hang out." Luna held a thumb up as she left, and Luan smile and nodded.
"As long as you keep your Jess-Belle hands of my man." Luna thought to herself, not even bothering to catch the last part of her thought from worrying about Lincoln.
When they all got out they had followed Lynn to the center of the first floor of the mall by the large water fountain. They looked all around and even asked the surrounding people if they had seen a white haired twenty-one year old run by, amazingly no body saw him. At this time of day the mall was known to get especially crowded.
"Geeze where could he have gone, we were right behind him!" Lynn exclaimed irritably to no one in particular.
"Why did he just run off like that?" Leni asked hoping someone had an answer.
"Perhaps it was a combination of words that caused some kind of trigger for Lincoln, and it scared him." Lisa hypothesized. All the Louds, Ronnie-Anne, Clyde, and Bobby were now starting to get really worried.
"Let's not freak completely guys we just need to find Lincoln and ask him." Lucy spoke in her monotone hiding her worry.
"Lucy's right guy's. Lincoln said he had to go to the bathroom so let's just txt him where we'll be waiting for him, and hope he comes to us." Lana spoke confidently, or rather she hoped she sounded confident.
"Good idea Lana, I'll txt Lincoln now." Lola said excited at her twin's idea. "And send okay now we wait for a reply." After five minutes no reply from Lincoln.
"Okay I can't keep waiting I'm going to go looking for him." Ronnie-Anne called out annoyed from the waiting, but she was trying to hide her worry. Ronnie-Anne was about to go check by the nearest restroom when Bobby grabbed her and moved her behind him. Ronnie-Anne was about to yell at Bobby when she saw the oldest six Louds and Clyde do the same to the younger four Louds. The reason for everyone's protectiveness was right in front of them and heading their way.
"Hey there little ladies. Why you lookin so desperate?" The voice was creepy and full of ill intentions. The group that the voice came from got with in five feet of them. As the vile looking group got closer it became easier to make out the individuals. There was a rather fat caucasian man with long black hair and in his late twenties. A tall red haired caucasian man his hair was shaved on the sides and spiked on top also in his late twenties. A short but muscular hispanic, with short and styled black and bleach dyed hair again in his late twenties. There was an average in every way brunette hired copper skinned man who looked younger then the first three, he seemed to be barely twenty. Next to him was an almost identical man except he was taller and had short black hair and was also barely twenty. There were two women in the group as well, the first one was about 5ft 4in tall, long strawberry-blonde and was caucasian. The second woman was the same height but had short straight black hair and was a light chocolate skin color. Finally at the front of these lot was the one who spoke to them, he was wearing a sports jersey, had short spiked blonde hair, stood 6ft 5in tall and was very muscular for a sports player and seemed to not only be the youngest in the group but also the leader. Lori also noticed that on each of there necks they had a tattoo of a creepy looking smile emoji, from this she could tell they were in a gang.
"We are looking for our brother, he has white hair." Lori spoke hesitantly trying to remain calm, but she was scarred for her siblings, friends, and herself. The Blonde in the sports jacket stepped forward.
"Well we'd be happy ta help ya pretty ladies out. How about we all just split up and go look for your brother?" The Blonde smiled a sly smile, while his friends smirked and giggled.
"No thanks we txted our brother to meet us here." Leni spoke up explaining politely their plan.
"Oh well we should still split up and go look for him, just in case he doesn't have his phone on." The Blonde insisted taking another step forward. " You can come with me Tall and Blonde, and the rest of you can go with me boys and gal pals."
"Hey! We said we don't want your help Guy so get lost!" Lynn yelled out of fear, but hid it well. The Blonde dropped his smile and looked at Lynn.
"Hey yourself bitch I'm here being nice and your all being rude." The Blonde turned to his group. " Can you believe this lot guys? Bunch of ungrateful twats." The vile gang laughed at the Blonde calling Lori and company 'twats.' This caused Lily to move in front of Lori and uncharacteristically burst out angrily.
"Shut up! You're the twats here! You're nothing more then thugs trying to arm strong my sisters and friends to quietly follow you lot so that you can do god knows what! You disgust me!" Lily finished telling The Blonde and his crew off, greatly surprising her older sisters. Lori having the presents of mind quickly shoved Lily back behind her, and Bobby moved Ronnie-Anne over to them so he could be ready to jump to Lori's aid, Clyde did the same. At this point everyone in the mall was looking over at the scene unfold.
"What was that? Little whore's got a mouth on her don't she guys." The Blonde smirked to his crew.
"Don't you dare call my baby sister a whore! You inbred Hillbilly!" Lola shouted very characteristically of herself. Lola had always had the gift of getting under anyone's skin with her words, now was no exception. The Blonde turned to the group with a furious look on his face.
"Listen here ya little Cock-sleeve I ain't a Hillbilly! I'm a Redneck, huge difference! Now I was going to be a gentleman, but now I'm pissed off." The Blonde took an aggressive step forward causing Bobby to move toward him fist clenched ready to strike the blonde man. The Blonde moved out of Bobby's way and countered with a simple knee to his gut followed by slamming his face into his other knee in quick succession. Bobby was on the ground trying to recover the air that was knocked out of his chest.
"BOBBY!" Ronnie-Anne went to her brother to check on him. Seeing he was still alive she looked up to the Blonde with furious, defiant eyes. "What the fuck is your problem!?"
"Hey he came at me first, it was self-defence right boys?" The thugs smiled nodding their heads. Then one of them, the red haired one, realized who they were harassing.
"Ey Jack I just realized who some of these hotties are." The Blonde looked to the Red haired man confused.
"What are they famous or something Franky?" The blonde man named Jack asked.
"Yeah or at least some of them are, like that's Luna Loud, she's been on tours with The Mick Swagger a couple of times. And that there is Leni Loud, she was in that amateur fashion show three years ago her designs are still popular among famous stars. That there is Lynn Loud she's a famous up and coming Rookie in the M.M.A. And there all the kids of Lynn Loud the owner of that restaurant that just opened up town, and the author Rita Loud who wrote that popular book series" The red haired Franky said getting a bit excited.
"Luna Loud? Heard she was a dyke, wouldn't mind making her our new play thing." The Strawberry-blonde said making the young ebony chick giggle. Luna looked offended by the reminder of those hurtful rumours, she wasn't a dyke she was Bi-sexual.
"Leni Loud huh I loved jerking it off to her modeling those swimsuits she made." The fat man huffed out crudely looking at Leni. Leni felt chills run down her spine and started shaking noticeably.
"Lynn Loud, heard that chica was more man-like than any man in the M.M.A. But I think I can put her in her place, in the kitchen." The hispanic man laughed at his ow sexist joke. Lynn was visibly pissed off now, first shot she got she was beating the shit out of this sexist shit head.
"Yeah and now that Franky's said something me and Greg here went to she Luan Loud's comedy show three months ago, she was funny but it got real good when she had a wardrobe malfunction and she showed of her huge naked tits. Ain't that right Greg?" The average looking man turned to his slightly better counter part.
"Hell yeah Danny!" responded the now named Danny. Luan had tears forming in her eyes at the reminder of the most embarrassing thing to happen in her Comedian career.
"Okay I get it they're mostly famous, all the more reason to have them entertain us then." Jack's creepy smile returning to his face. "Okay I'll take the tall hot blonde and the sassy mouth cunt, you guys can have the rest." Jack reached out to grab Lori. Lori who closed her eyes, yelled desperately.
"LINCOLN!" Jack looked at Lori and began to laugh at her.
"Who's that your boyfriend? Well he won't be saving you sluts, now come here." Suddenly Jack was sent flying into the fat man by the sear force of being kicked in the head from his left side by a round house kick. Jack was lucky that all those sport he plays, he had the instinct to suddenly block, but his arms hurt like hell. He looked up to see a man with spiked white hair, and...red eyes?
"Who the hell are you snowflake?" but Jack was ignored as the interloper turned to the Louds and knelt to check on Bobby, who was by now sitting opened her eyes and there stood Lincoln, with spiked hair and...red eyes?
"Why are his eyes red?!" Lori thought to herself, as did all of the Loud siblings, Clyde, Ronnie-Anne, and Bobby, when they saw Lincoln's eyes. Lisa, being the genius, she noticed that other then the red eyes, Lincoln's body structure was different then what she remembered. Lincoln's usual body type was slightly noticeable muscle on a slim body, but now he seemed shorter by an inch and his muscle mass seemed to have increased to be like that of someone who's been weight lifting for a year.
"Lincoln what happened to you, your body has somehow changed in an almost impossible way." Lisa asked for an explanation. Lincoln didn't answer and instead stood and turned to face the gang of thugs. "Lincoln please answer me!" Lisa sounded worried for her only brother.
"I'm not Lincoln, I'm Tasenshi." Lincoln turned slightly to Lisa, "But you all can call me Shi for short." With that Shi turned to face the thugs again and this time he had Lincoln's face in a furious state, and took a step forward.
"Lincoln wait!" Leni called out to her precious brother, and was about to move toward him.
"Stay there Leni Loud, and again I'm not Lincoln. I'm Tasenshi." Came a calm soothing voice that did not match the face he was making Lincoln stopped herself at those words.
"Why is Lincy behaving like not Lincy?" Leni thought to herself feeling very confused at why her Lincy was acting strange. Tasenshi/Lincoln took another step forward toward the thugs, and gave off a VERY aggressive aura.
"You know you've got a lot of balls to strike Lincoln's friends and loved ones, that's something I can forgive by beating you down." Tasenshi/Lincoln paused taking another step forward, "It takes a courageous fool to call Lincoln's loved ones horrible names I'd just break a bone or to to get even." Another aggressive step forward, "BUT I will NEVER forgive anyone who thinks of laying a finger on Lincoln's WOMEN! I'm sending you lot to your graves!" The whole time Tasenshi/Lincoln spoke it was firm and gradually became wrathful. "Now who has the stones to make the next move, I think the two ladies here have more balls then the rest of you do." Tasenshi/Lincoln mocked the men smirking dangerously.
"What are ya idiots waiting for?! Beat the shit out of him it's one against eight!" Jack yelled standing up finally recovering from the earlier kick. The other seven surrounded Tasenshi/Lincoln.
"Your only brave when you out number your opponent? I can't say I'm surprised. Fine come at me, I'll show you it's pointless." Tasenshi/Lincoln took the stance that Sylphiea had pounded into Lincoln's body from all the harsh training she put him through. He was calm and just waited, not really focusing on anyone particular.
"What's Linc thinking?!" Lynn asked her siblings as they all just stood there watching unable to move.
"I don't know Lynn, but we have to trust that Lincoln knows what he's doing." Lucy spoke softly not taking her bang-covered eyes away from her brother.
At that moment the fat man charged from Tasenshi/Lincoln's blind spot. At that moment Tasenshi/Lincoln jumped in the air landing on he fat mans shoulders, and in quick succession brought both his hands in a downward motion, and flipped back off taking his stance once again. The Fat man fell forward unconscious in front of Jack. Tasenshi/Lincoln stood normally and looking bored.
"Is that really all you got? This is boring as fuck. I really hate fighting the weak." Tasenshi/Lincoln turned and started walking back to his group. The hispanic pulled out a switchblade while Tasenshi/Lincoln wasn't looking and charged at is potential victim. On the other side both of the women pulled out tasers and also charged at Tasenshi/Lincoln. Tasenshi/Lincoln flipped on to his hands and performed a wide ranged spin kick, knocking the weapons out of the assailants hands and using the momentum of the spin flipped back on his feet. Tasenshi/Lincoln rushed the hispanic striking his solar plexus with a palm strike, and then followed up with smacking both sides of his head aiming for his ears. The hispanic went down breathless and very disoriented. The women turned to see Tasenshi/Lincoln disappear as their hispanic friend fell to the floor.
"Where'd he go!?" The Strawberry-blonde yelled looking around the area she last saw Tasenshi/Lincoln, when she felt a sudden overwhelming presence behind her and her Ebony friend. They both turned to see their opponent looking at them his eyes showing pity, when they were suddenly slapped them in the faces.
"Young ladies such as yourselves should go home and live quiet 'normal' lives." Tasenshi/Lincoln smiled at them before walking away from them as he made his way to the group of shocked loved ones. The women both put their hands on their smacked faces and started blushing watching the man walk away, their will to fight gone. The remaining four looked at each other and Jack looked at Tasenshi/Lincoln's back growing extremely furious.
BANG!
At that moment time seemed to come to a complete standstill as the Louds, Ronnie-Anne, Clyde, and Bobby watched in utter horror, Lincoln had been shot. Tasenshi/Lincoln stood unmoving a mere six feet away from his loved ones clutching the right mid-section of his chest, trying to subconsciously stop the blood from spewing forth. Behind Lincoln a new person stood next to Jack wearing a large black trench coat and pointing a AMT Auto-mag IV at Lincoln's back.
"Jesus Christ what is wrong with you lot? I told you to keep a low pro-file." The voice came from the stranger, it was gruffled and harden sounding. The man was at least in his thirties, he had short brunette hair that was mostly hidden by his hat that looked like it was from the 60's, he was about as tall as the actual Lincoln. The conscious gang members looked over at the man surprised he just shot a person out in the public eyes.
"B-b-boss Johnny! Well s-see Sir w-we were just-"
"I can see what you were doing, ya daft moron! You was thinking with your dick again!" The man called Johnny cut Jack off, clearly not in the mood to deal with this bull shit. "I told ya's lot to keep out of trouble while I was doing the exchange. Didn't I?!" Johnny yelled at Jack. Jack backed away slightly scarred of getting punished by his boss.
"Sorry Sir but it wouldn't have become a scene if this twat hadn't appeared." Jack pointed to Lincoln placing all the blame on him.
"Whatever, just shut yer mouth." Johnny looked at Jack with cold eyes, the gaze sent chills down his spine. "Now I've got to clean up your mess somehow. Guess I'll have to start with getting rid of the witnesses." Johnny then walked toward the Louds, Santiagos, and Clyde, just as he walked by Lincoln, Johnny felt something grab his arm almost bone-crushingly tight. Looking down he saw Lincoln's hand was what he felt gripping him. Johnny then looked up and noticed Lincoln's eyes were red and glazed. Lincoln wasn't even conscious.
"Geeze not even conscious and you're determined to protect these people. I can admire that." Johnny went to make Lincoln release his grip, but found it wouldn't budge. Getting frustrated now Johnny pointed his pistol at Lincoln's head. "Don't blame me for this, you just got a horrible hand dealt to you."
As all of this was happening all any of the Louds could do was watch as their precious brother stood before them bleeding and now had a gun pointed at his head! Ronnie-Anne watched as the love of her live was about to disappear from her life again only this time for good. Clyde couldn't wouldn't believe what he was watching even as it was happening right in front of him, he felt useless as he was about to lose the only brother he felt he had. Bobby grabbed his sister in hopes of shielding her from looking at this horrible scene, it was all he could manage with the shock of what was transpiring. They were all thinking the same thing in this moment.
"Someone! Anyone! Please save Lincoln!" BANG! The gun fired but Lincoln didn't fall over dead!
"What the hell?! How can you dodge from this range so easily!?" Johnny called out having seen that Lincoln though unconscious had managed to evade the bullet by moving his head at the last second. As Johnny yelled his amazement, Lincoln vanished again and suddenly appeared in front of Johnny and for ten seconds unleashed a barrage of punches at his solar plexus, his jaw and his stomach. Johnny began to cough out blood as he fell backwards barely alive, at least everyone watching thought he was still alive. Lincoln disappeared again and appeared in front of Lori, Leni and Luna. They could see that Lincoln really had lost consciousness, but then how could he still be moving? The three oldest Louds snapped out of their thoughts as Lincoln put his blood soaked left hand on Leni's right cheek and his right hand on Luna's left cheek gently almost caressingly. While he gently touched his forehead to Lori's, she saw Lincoln then smile a dream like smile. The smile made Lori strangely happy seeing it, Lincoln's smile looked so innocent and pure even though he was bleeding and probably dying.
"DYING!?" Lori snapped out of her trance and instantly put her hands on Lincoln's bleeding wound, and turning to Leni. "Leni call an ambulance!" Leni snapping out of her trance finally noticed that Lincoln's bloodied hand was still on her cheek, she started shaking and tears were forming. "LENI NOW!" Lori shouted again causing Leni to jump and Lincoln's hand fell leaving a smeared bloody hand print. Leni quickly pulled her phone out.
"That won't be necessary." A familiar voice called out calmly. Walking up from behind Jack just like Johnny was Nagi and Alexander.
"Who the he-" Before Jack could finish Alexander grabbed his throat and got in his face.
"Utter a single sound and I'll dissect you." Alexander's tone was bone chilling and darker then Johnny's, everyone that heard just knew he wasn't saying it to be intimidating, he really would have dissected him.
"Alexander leave the fool, tend to Lincoln's wounds." Nagi spoke in a serious tone still walking toward Lincoln, Alexander released Jack.
"I suggest that you all scatter before my Captain get angrier then you already have made him, other wise this whole town might become a war zone." Alexander said looking to the women and the one called Franky. They quickly woke up their unconscious friends and all got the hell out of there, though they left Johnny.
"After we tend to Lincoln tend to this man." Nagi pointed to Johnny, while walking by him.
"Yeah." Alexander answered.
The whole group hadn't known Nagi for long but were extremely grateful he showed up. The younger Louds realizing that the danger had pasted started crying, and the older members of the group shaking no longer needing to put up an act. Lori, Leni, and Luna though were still panicking because they could see Lincoln's wound bleeding all over Lori's hands.
"Nagi! Lincoln's bleeding, he was shot, please we need an ambulance!" Leni said her voice cracking from fear. Hearing Leni everyone remembered Lincoln was shot, having forgotten from the shock of everything that was happening all at once. The other seven Loud sisters, Ronnie-Anne, Bobby, and Clyde all crowded around Lincoln trying to see how bad his injury was.
Lori was becoming desperate trying to stop the blood. Leni was fumbling trying to dial 911, messing up every time in her desperation. Luna took Lincoln's hand and started stroking it not knowing what else she could do. Luan became pale as she watched her little brother's blood rip from Loris hand on to the ground. Lynn wanted to run and get help but couldn't bring herself to leave her younger brother's side in his time of need. Ronnie-Anne saw Lincoln bleeding and fell to her knees crying uncaring ho saw how vulnerable she was. Lucy usually liked the site of blood but seeing her beloved Lincoln bleeding see shook in fear. Lana and Lola held each as they watched their eldest sister pushing on Lincoln's wound. Lisa felt that for the first time in her life she was useless, what was the point of being a genus if she could help her siblings in times of crisis. Lily however just stared trance like at Lincoln's smile, wondering why was he smiling?
"CALM DOWN NOW!" Nagi yelled causing even the on-lookers to jump startled.
"This is not our first rodeo. Now get Lincoln's shirt off and get him laying down on his side with the wound up!" Alexander said taking his coat off and pulling something out of his back pant pockets.
"But the blood won't stop if I move my hands Lincoln will bled out!" Lori called out sobbing desperately.
"Lori you need to trust Alexander just like Lincoln does." Nagi spoke softly standing next to her. Lori looked over to Nagi and saw worry and true compassion for Lincoln reflected back at her. "Now Lori take a deep breath and calm down." Nagi spoke kindly to her. Lori did just that and she quickly moved her hands away. Luckily Lana and Lola grabbed each side of the shirt and smoothly pulled it off. Lisa and Lucy carefully laid Lincoln down placing his head gently on Lynn's thighs for support. Clyde remembered he had sanitary wipes in his pockets, for the first time Clyde was truly thankful for his over-protective dads. Clyde hands the wipes to Lori and Leni to clean each side of the wound, and themselves and Lori. Luan and Lily did the only thing they felt they could to help and kept holding his hands gently stroking them. Alexander knelt by Lincoln's backside and pulled a needle and surgery thread out and started examining the wound.
"Okay good news is the bullet went through and didn't hit any arteries or major organs." Alexander announced in a odd professional tone, and started sewing Lincoln up. Clyde handed him more sanitary wipes that he used to clean the area around the wounds, leaving a nicely done stitch job on both sides.
"Okay done, good as new." Alexander looked to everyone smiling and giving a thumb's up, then walked over to check up on his second patient. The group let tears fall even harder at hearing that Lincoln will be okay, watching as Lincoln breathed gently like he was sleeping.
"Okay well let's get everyone back home, this little guy's first day back home has been very eventful." Nagi spoke in a more upbeat playful tone. He then picked Lincoln up princess style and walked off in the direction that Ronda was parked in. Everyone kept pace with Nagi, unwilling to take their eyes off of Lincoln's beautiful peaceful smile.
A/N: So wow a lot is going on in this chapter. Lol... Okay so if there were parts that seemed like they didn't make any sense I am sorry, there were parts were I had zero sleep when typing, also there were a couple days of an intermission if you will, and when I came back to work on the chapter I had to remember how I wanted the scene to play out.
Also again I do appreciate my followers comments, I love reading your comment, they are what keep me going so thanks for the support, and a reminder I do like constructive helpful criticism, no flames please. Oh and feel free to ask questions, I'll try answering if I can with out spoiling the story.