Hey Everybody Sorry it took sooooooo looooooong to get this chapter out but a lot was going on, some you know and or were going through (Covid) and others you don't know. But I'm back and I'm raring to type! So I hope you enjoy this will be broken into two maybe three parts. Comments are welcomed.
Chapter 11: Days of Dating pt.1: Lori and Leni
It was dark and cold in a small room, yet very familiar to the man imprisoned in that room. Nothing could be heard, even with his ears straining, just the type of silence that caused a person to go insane. Given all this the prisoner was strangely calm, almost at home in the current environment. Even though his eyes were wide open, he saw absolutely nothing. The prisoner moved his hands along the floor he sat on, feeling smooth cold cement. Suddenly light shown in as the only door opened.
The person who stepped in was a flustered woman who had to be 25 years of age. She had platinum blonde hair and green eyes, she also wore the all to familiar uniform that the prisoner's captors wear. Except that the Prisoner didn't recognized her, after all he had been there for seven maybe eight years so he got to know the people around. The Prisoner blinked blankly at the woman uninterested in her being there.
"Hey hey does she want to play with us?" A childish voice rang out.
"Oh no they're talking again." The Prisoner thought to himself.
"No way she looks like she might be here looking for a fight, see how she's flustered?" Came a more adult voice, but with a small amount of aggression.
"Why don't we wait and see what she wants. It looks like she's trying to say something." A cold calculating intellectual voice spoke.
"...O..." The Prisoner started hearing a sound.
"Ar..." Again a noise that the Prisoner didn't quite recognize, could it be words?
"Li...ln..." The Prisoner looked to his right to the source of the noise. It was indeed the woman speaking to him trying to get his focused attention. And it was working the Prisoner started to focus and could hear the woman calling him something familiar.
"Lincoln?! Can you hear me?" Lincoln's blank eyes started twinkling with life again. He wanted to voice a response, but his throat was very sore from all the screaming from the last few days of experiments, and lack of liquids to ease the dryness. Lincoln nodded his acknowledgement. Lincoln couldn't help but wonder just who was this beautiful woman was.
"Hi my name's Erika Jackson. I'm here to rescue you." Her smile was very bright and radiated a warmth that reminded Lincoln of eleven other's smiles. The woman named Erika then moved to help Lincoln stand up and support him as she started to move toward the only exit.
"Don't worry Lincoln Loud I'll get your home to your family, I swear as the vice-captain of 12th squad of Organization 15!" The woman named Erika spoke softly to the white-haired boy. The Woman named Erika managed to get the two of them down a hallway, up two flight of stairs and finally went left twice before making it to the cafeteria.
"Sorry but supporting you up those stairs has left me in dire need of food, what about you?" Erika asked trying to start a light conversation, hoping to get the boy she was saving to react in some way. The boy just sat slumped against the wall looking at the floor with blank eyes. Erika shook her head, walked over to the boy and rather abruptly put an ego in his mouth.
"Here food, you better chew it cause I ain't." Erika smiled jokingly to the boy. The moment that the ego hit his lips and made it to his taste buds, the boys eyes had life brought back to them. It was then that the boy was aware that he wasn't in his cell, and that there was an unfamiliar lady talking to him.
"Who...are...yy...you?" the boy managed to speak, but to any who heard it it was so hoarse and gruff, he clearly needed a drink. But upon hearing the boys voice Erika smiled.
My Names Erika, Erika Jackson."
Suddenly everything went dark and all the boy could hear was a voice.
" Wa...up." It was a gentle and familiar voice but the boy couldn't hear what the voice was saying clearly enough.
"Lincoln, time to wake up handsome." The voice spoke again but it was becoming clearer to hear.
"Oh yeah, my name is Lincoln, Lincoln Loud." He thought to himself. Then he started feeling something, or someone shaking him gently.
"NO DON'T GO!" Lincoln suddenly yelled sitting bolt up right.
"Lincoln what's wrong!?" Lincoln looked to his left and saw that Ronnie Anne was the voice he heard. Though it had been a week maybe two since Lincoln had returned to living with his family, he still would wake up confused about his surrounding. Upon looking at Ronnie Anne, Lincoln remembered he was safe and had dreamt of the past again.
"Lincoln what's wrong your crying!?" Ronnie Anne quickly grabbed Lincoln's face and softly kissed his tears away. Lincoln took a moment to enjoy Ronnie Anne's soft touch before noticing that Luna, Sam, Luan, and Maggie were not next to him. Ronnie Anne took notice of Lincoln's confused look, and answered before he could even ask.
"They didn't want to wake you up this morning and wanted to make breakfast for you and everyone else." Ronnie Anne sat next to Lincoln and put her hand on his and grasped it gently but with a noticeable firmness that got Lincoln's attention.
"What's wrong Ronnie?" Lincoln asked seeing she wanted to say something. Ronnie Anne took an inhaled breath, held it and released it while gathering her thoughts.
"Lincoln why did you not leave with Luna and everyone when you rescued them?" Ronnie Anne looked into Lincoln's eyes with sorrow, concern, and Lincoln thought he saw rage. Lincoln felt guilty for making her feel all those emotions at once.
"I'm sorry Ronnie Anne. I lost my cool when I saw that those men had harmed the girls, and trying to force Sam." Lincoln took a moment to pause wondering how to explain or rather whether he even should say how he had wanted to murder every last one of them. Seeing Lincoln's hesitation Ronnie Anne cupped his face in her hands and looked him in his eyes with a new emotion, one that screamed for Lincoln to be completely open and honest with her; to trust her. Lincoln felt a burden lift from his heart, a sensation he hadn't felt since the day Nagi rescued him.
"I wanted to murder every last one of them, and I was going to too; if I hadn't let Jiyshin take over anyway." Lincoln spoke with, from as far as Ronnie Anne could tell, no remorse at the idea of murdering someone. In fact it looked like Lincoln's eyes became lifeless for a moment. Ronnie Anne's heart cracked at the idea that Lincoln would ever think of actually killing someone. She gently put her arms around him and brought him into her chest laying her head on top of his. Lincoln blushed realizing where his face was.
"Lincoln Loud I want you to know that I don't care if you murder everyone in this world I will always love you and be on your side, but I pray to what ever deity is listening that you never have to ever get blood on your hands." Lincoln was shocked from Ronnie Anne's words, not only were they full of truth but they were almost the same exact words that Nagi told him after the incident. He started to cry and he held Ronnie Anne tightly almost too tight, but Ronnie Anne was not going to ruin the moment; for she knew Lincoln needed this.
"I'm scared that the others will think I'm a monster." Lincoln confessed tears flowing out into Ronnie Anne's chest. Ronnie Anne softly stroked his head and smiled at such a ridiculous thought.
"Okay know you know damn well that your parents, and sisters would never see you like that, EVER!" Ronnie Anne moved to face Lincoln and upon seeing him so vulnerable she couldn't resist kissing him. It wasn't a passionate kiss, no it was a gentle lovers kiss. One that said 'nothing will make me stop loving you'. The kiss lasted a fair amount before they parted their lips staring deeply into each others eyes.
"Okay now we really must get showered and dressed before breakfast is ready." Ronnie Anne smiled at Lincoln, and he returned it with a smile of his own.
"Yeah everyone will probably think I'm sleeping in if we don't hurry." Lincoln chuckled.
Little did either of them know they had an eavesdropper listening the whole time, and her heart nearly crumbled at Lincoln's confessions.
"I better get the others after breakfast for a sister-only meeting." The Eavesdropper thought as she silently walked away from Lincoln's door.
Meanwhile downstairs in the kitchen things were getting a bit hectic. Luna, Luan, Sam, and Maggie were trying to make breakfast for everyone in the house, ecspecially for Lincoln, but finding it a bit difficult due to the fact that none of them were really that great at cooking in the first place.
"Babe isn't your dad a chef? Shouldn't you or Luan at least have some skill in the kitchen?" Sam asked as she tried to keep the eggs from being burnt onto the pan.
"Sorry Love all I got from me Da was love for all things British and music." Luna responded as she was dealing with burning sausages.
"Who would have thought that we'd break-fast? Get it?" Luan joked as she struggled with getting the pancake mix on the waffle iron.
"Luan nows not the time to crack jokes." Maggie called out as she was trying to get the bacon away from the dog, cat, bird and hamster.
"You mean like how Sam's cracking those eggs? Get it?" Luan managed to get one more joke in.
"Come on guys we got to have breakfast ready before Lincoln wakes up!" Sam called out scrapping burnt eggs into the trash.
"Love I don't think we have the skills to realistically accomplish that." Luna spoke as she walked over next to Sam to throw away the burnt toast. Sam sighed in frustration knowing that Luna was right. Luna embraced her in her arms. "Don't worry love we can try something else as a thank you to Linc, okay?" Luan and Maggie threw away their spoiled goods too nodding in agreement, but Sam wasn't going to give up.
"Sorry Babe but I refuse to give up!" Sam declared, when suddenly the smoke alarm went off. "Shit we forgot the biscuits in the oven!" Sam ran over to the oven. In her rush she forgot to grab hot-pads and grabbed the hot pan with her hand. "OW!" Sam screamed out. Before Luna could even react there was a white and orange blur running past her toward Sam. It was Lincoln.
"Quick Sam you need to run your hands under cold water. Luckily I keep some aloe on me." Lincoln quickly guided Sam to the sink turned the cold water on and pulled a small bottle of aloe out. Luna, Luan, Maggie, and even Sam were stunned at how quick, calm, and collected Lincoln was in mere seconds of Sam burning her hands. After a good three minutes Lincoln looked at Sam's hands to evaluate how bad they were. "Okay luckily nothing to bad, but your not allowed to play any string instruments for the next two days." He spoke as he applied the aloe, and wrapped her hands in bandages. Sam blushed as she realized how gentle Lincoln's hands were as he held and worked on hers.
"Sorry Lincoln. We wanted to have breakfast ready for you when you got up, but we aren't very good in the kitchen." Luna spoke watching the scene of her brother tending to her girlfriend, almost feeling bad about ruining this beautiful moment. Lincoln looked up from Sam's hands at Luna and gave a slight smile.
"Thanks you four, but if you making me food means you hurting yourselves then just get take-out next time." Lincoln winked, clearly joking. Luan, and Maggie laughed, Luna smirked, and Sam just blushed deeper. "Now you four go in the living room and wait till I call everyone for breakfast." Lincoln announced as he started shooing them out of the kitchen.
"Wait Lincoln we wanted to make you breakfast, let us do it." Sam started not being able to stop Lincoln from shuffling them out of the kitchen.
"Yeah, and since when could you cook?" Luna asked her brother as he shoved them out of the kitchen.
"Okay first I appreciate the thought, but I'd rather the house not get burned down. Second I picked up a lot from helping Nagi cook while on jobs." Lincoln answered Luna and Sam.
"Then let us help Lincoln. I promise we'll be eggcellent assistants. Get it?" Luan protested.
"Good one Luan, but I need to hurry if breakfast is going to be ready when everyone wakes up. So I'll tell you four if you want I'll teach you how to cook on one of our up coming dates. Sound fair?" Lincoln asked. Sam and Maggie looked at Lincoln confused.
"Wait you want Sam and I to join your date with Luan, and Luna?" Maggie asked clarifying they heard correctly. Lincoln looked at Sam and Maggie and answered like it was obvious to everyone.
"Yeah the five of us will be going out on dates in the future." When Lincoln looked them in the eyes the two ladies blushed.
"But isn't that suppose to be the time that you spend with Luna and Luan so you can strengthen your bonds?" Sam asked feeling suddenly nervous.
"Yeah we thought that while we would share them with you, you'd want alone time with them." Maggie clarified their confusion. Lincoln blinked at them then smiled. He then moved to Maggie and caught the four off guard when he took her in his arms and kissed her just as he had Ronnie Anne. Before anyone could react he quickly released Maggie and then held Sam and kissed her with just as much passion as Maggie. When he let them go the two were in a daze, a happy daze but a daze never the less.
"Linc wha-" Luan started but was cut off by Lincoln kissing her deeply and again with matching passion. He then looked to Luna held out his hand for her to take, and almost as if hypnotized she took it. He then brought her to him and looked into Luna's eyes, and kissed her with a passion that Luna thought only Sam could give her. Lincoln then released Luna and Luan stepped back and smirked at the four dazed women.
"Bro what was that for?" Luna asked not realizing she was blushing.
"What a man can't kiss his women?" Lincoln answered as he turned to get started in the kitchen. "I'll be in here cooking, you four go hang out in the living room with Ronnie Anne." Lincoln then disappeared into the kitchen. The girls blushing, did as he asked almost as if their bodies were on auto-pilot. When they entered the living room they all sat on the couch, not even noticing a smirking Ronnie Anne.
"So I take it he gave you four your good morning kiss too." Ronnie Anne spoke still smirking. The four girls shook their heads and finally took notice of Ronnie Anne.
"Wait you know he kissed all four of us?" Sam asked first.
"Well of course. What kind of man doesn't greet his wives without a kiss in the morning." Ronnie Anne answered adding a word that caught their ears.
"When you say 'wives' who are you talking about?" Maggie asked not quite catching on. Ronnie Anne sighed, shook her head and smirked at them again.
"Well there's Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr., Lucy, Lana, Lola, Myself, Sam, You, and eventually Lisa and Lily." Ronnie Anne answered Maggie her smirk now a wide grin as it finally dawned on the four women in front of her.
"W-w-w-wait you mean that Lincoln plans to marry me and Sam along with everyone else?!" Maggie asked not really believing it.
"Yes our Lincoln fell in love with you two when you came over last night looking so beautiful." Ronnie Anne informed them. Luan looked at Ronnie Anne and asked a serious question.
"And your just okay with him adding, not subtracting, women to our group?" Luan asked finding it a bit unbelievable that Ronnie Anne could accept this. Ronnie Anne looked at Luan and her grin was replaced with a serious look.
"I don't care if Lincoln takes thousands of women, as long as I'm one of them I'll be happy. I know he's capable of giving each of us the love we deserve, equal and unyieldingly." Then a single tear fell from her face, stunning the four. "After ten long years of him missing from our lives, I refuse to lose him ever again for any reason." Ronnie Ann spoke softly enough for only them to hear her." Luan quickly went to hug Ronnie Anne.
"I'm sorry Ronnie Anne, I didn't mean to question your love or devotion to Lincoln. I just , well I don't know what I thought." Luan said apologizing with all her heart. She was joined by Luna and then Sam and Maggie.
"Yeah Ronnie Anne, we all know how much you've always loved Lincoln. The day he was taken we could all see and agree that you were in jus as much pain as us maybe even more. That's how much you loved him then, and it's only gotten stronger now that he's back." Luna spoke wiping away her tears.
"Ronnie Anne are you sure your okay with us being in Lincoln's harem?" Sam asked not questioning if Lincoln really is in love with her and Maggie, but out of concern for Ronnie Anne's feelings. Ronnie Anne nodded her affirmation.
"I'm sure. I mean come on I'm okay with him being in love with his own sisters, how would the two of you bother me?" Ronnie Anne giggled as she answered Sam. The rest of them joined her and laughed at the comment.
Suddenly the five girls heard foot steps coming from the stairs. They turned to the source of the noise where they saw Lynn, Lana, Lola and Lily running down the stairs, followed by Lisa, Lucy, Leni and Lori calmly walking down the stairs. Then the Loud parents came out of their rooms wearing their bathrobes.
"Who's making that delicious smell?" Lynn Sr. asked smelling the air. The five were so busy with their conversation they failed to notice the pleasant smell in the air.
"I guess Lincoln is almost done making breakfast." Ronnie Anne spoke. Everyone looked at Ronnie Anne.
"Wait Lincoln's cooking?" Rita asked, remembering the time Lincoln tried to make her breakfast in bed for mother's day. It was a plate of runny eggs, burnt toast and charred bacon. The memory brought a smile to her face as she remembered her little boy's beautiful smile.
"It's true Mom. We were going to cook breakfast for Lincoln, but it didn't turn out well, and there was an accident so Lincoln sent us out and took over." Luan spoke confirming Ronnie Anne's claim.
"He said he learned from helping Nagi all the time." Maggie added.
Everyone looked to each other and then to the dinning room, and suddenly they went running in toward the kitchen. Upon entering the Dinning room they saw that Lincoln was finishing setting the table. Lincoln placed the final plate at the head of the table when he looked over to see everyone enter, shocked looks on their faces.
"Well glad you all got up on your own. Sit down Breakfast is almost finished, just waiting on the sausage gravy to finish." Lincoln then turned walking back to the kitchen. Everyone went to sit in their respective spots to wait for breakfast, all were very curious about how Lincoln's cooking would turn out.
"So Lincoln's cooked breakfast huh?" Lynn Sr. spoke, nerves clearly in his voice; for just like his wife he had a memory of waking up to a father's day bed in breakfast of burnt food.
"Yes, and I for one can't wait to taste his marvelous concoctions. Though my Nagi's cooking is slightly better." Everyone's attention was suddenly on the voice who sat in the middle of the left side of the table, Sylphiea.
"Where the hell did you come from?!" Lynn Jr. exclaimed, practically shouting in Sylphiea's ear. Sylphiea merely took a napkin from the table and put it on her lap.
"Firstly Lynn dear, sit down and be more lady like and asking calmly and politely." Sylphiea calmly and politely asked Lynn Jr. Everyone thought Lynn would yell again, but something shocking happened, Lynn actually sat down and mimicked Sylphiea and put her napkin on her lap. Lynn then cleared her throat and asked again, but in a more lady like manner.
"Excuse me Sylphiea, but how did you get in here with out anyone noticing?" Lynn was calm and polite, everyone was unnerved now. Sylphiea looked at Lynn Jr. and smiled.
"Much better dear. Well to answer your curious question, I simply walked in the front door as you all were distracted by Lincoln cooking breakfast." Sylphiea answered with the voice of a sophisticated woman of upper class, everyone was entranced by the way she spoke. "Though I do apologize for assuming that I can just come and go as I please, that is rather rude of myself." She apologized."
"D-don't worry about it Miss Sylphiea. I mean you are a friend of Lincoln's after all." Lori answered clearly nervous and slight admiration in her voice.
"Please Lori, everyone, just call me Sylphiea." She Smiled at Lori, who blushed for some reason and looked away like a shy schoolgirl.
"O-okay, Sylphiea." Lori answered shyly. At that moment Lincoln bust in the room with a plate full of eggs, toast and bacon along his right arm, and along his left were the pancakes biscuits, sausage and on his head was the sausage gravy.
"Okay everyone the food is all ready. Dig in." Lincoln announced placing the food in the middle of the table. Lincoln noticed how quiet everyone was, and upon looking at Sylphiea he understood why. "Sensei would you mind no trying that sophisticated lady act with my family, please." Lincoln smiled as he asked politely. Sylphiea looked at Lincoln for a moment almost as if searching for something deep in his soul. That look though only a brief moment always sent chills down Lincoln's spine.
"Wish she wouldn't do that!" All three voices in Lincoln's head spoke together, Lincoln mentally agreed. Sylphiea then smiled at Lincoln.
"My apologies Lincoln couldn't help myself. You know how I hate seeing ill-mannered people, especially at the table." The aura she was letting off suddenly disappeared, and everyone felt their nervousness go away.
"I understand, but this is someone else's home. You must be mindful of yourself while in other people's homes." Lincoln spoke to which Sylphiea sighed.
"Yes your correct Lincoln." She cleared her throat and spoke addressing everyone in the room. "I apologize deeply for being rude to you all in your own home, especially to you Lynn. I know you were just merely taken aback by my sudden appearance." Lynn looked at Sylphiea unable to decide what to do, so she looked toward Lincoln, who gave her a nod that said just accept.
"Umm, yeah that's, no problem." Lynn still a bit flabbergasted just turned to the table and started grabbing food.
"Wait Jr. we need to say a prayer before we eat, not to mention let Lincoln sit and join us." Lynn Sr. scolded his fifth born.
"Oh yeah right sorry Dad." Lynn spoke as she bowed her head. Lincoln looked around, and saw that with the exception of himself, and Sylphiea, everyone had their heads bowed in prayer.
"Dear Lord we thank you for this food before us, our health and most importantly the return of our beloved son and brother; Lincoln. Amen." Lynn Sr. spoke and was followed immediately by everyone else saying 'Amen.'
""When did you guys all start believing in God?" Lincoln asked a bit curious, but a hint of something else in his voiced question.
""It was a year after you had been kidnapped. We all were lost and Mom and Dad thought it would help." Lucy answered as she grabbed some biscuits.
"Yeah and while at first it took some getting use to we found that the support from our church community was totally super helpful with keeping us from falling too deep into depression." Leni chimed in as she got eggs, and sausage to go with her pancakes. Lincoln stared at all his loved ones, before sharing a look with Sylphiea; who just shrugged. This didn't go unnoticed by Lana and Lola.
"What's wrong Lincy?" Lana asked both curious and concerned.
"You look like some weird language was just spoken." Lola added, as she and her twin shared the bacon and sausage with each other. Now everyone's eyes were on Lincoln, waiting for an answer. Lincoln just took a moment and sighed.
"I just think it's weird to thank someone /something that had absolutely nothing to do with the food, our health and my return; is all." Lincoln spoke honestly, then quickly added, "Not to diminish your guy's own faith or anything. I... just can't thank anyone who didn't earn it, ya know?" Lincoln nervously scratched the back of his head. Expecting everyone to get a little upset, they surprised Lincoln a bit by giving smiles. Rita then got up from her chair and went to her son and gave him a great big hug.
"You don't need to apologize baby. Your allowed to have your own opinion about these things. Not to mention that while we found comfort in church it by no means that we are crazy fanatics." Rita released Lincoln and looked into his eyes full of love. "We don't care if you have faith in God or not baby, we're just happy your home." Everyone nodded their agreement whole heartedly. "Besides, haven't you noticed that we haven't been to church this weekend." Rita then messed Lincoln's hair up playfully as any mother would. Lincoln smiled at his mother, but only Sylphiea knew that behind that smile was rage toward a God he didn't think did exist or even should.
"Well enough talking lets dig into this amazing breakfast." Lynn Sr. announced to everyone, and on that note everyone ate.
Looking around Lincoln still thought it was amazing, at least to him, that the eating habits of his family haven't changed. Lori would still be looking at her phone while putting food in her mouth from the side, no doubt e-mails from her work. Next Leni was failing to notice that as she was looking in her fashion magazine that she wasn't actually eating anything. Luna was nibbling on toast as she was writing down new musical compositions with Sam's help, while trying not to get jam on them. Luan was practicing her ventriloquism act with her old and familiar friend, Mr. Coconuts, so she was talking with her mouth full while pretending it was Mr. Coconut with Maggie. Lynn was seen shoveling her plate into her mouth not taking much of a break in between, Lincoln was amazed at how she could always put it away and still look so great. Next Lucy was writing poems inspired by her breakfast, she already had three sonnets that Lincoln looked forward to listen to later. Now the Twins were talking about an upcoming exam at school just before they'd get to have some holidays off, they were deep in quizzing each other Lincoln thought it was cute. Lisa had a medical encyclopedia that she was using to check references for an upcoming medical talk at the nearby University for some grad students. Now the youngest Loud, Lily had changed from Lincoln's memories. No longer the baby that would throw her mashed up food, but now instead turns her pancakes and biscuits and gravy into art. As Lincoln was looking at the scene before him he didn't realize that he was about to take a bit of his food.
"LINCOLN!" Sylphiea quickly stood up and stopped Lincoln from eating the food, causing everyone in the room to look at the two startled with shock. Lincoln realized what he had just about done, and knew he had to think quickly of an excuse. He thought of something indeed.
"Oh wow, Sylphiea I didn't see the spider there, thanks." Lincoln looked at his food quickly and pretended to throw the fake arachnid off.
"Ewww Spider keep it away Lincy!" Leni yelled moving away from the imaginary arachnid. Lincoln then stood up.
"I'll go dispose of this plate just in case." He quickly went to the kitchen and when he was gone everyone looked to Sylphiea as though she had the next part of the script.
"Excuse me I need to go make sure the spider didn't scare him too badly. Please keep eating." With that Sylphiea went through the kitchen after Lincoln. As she went into the kitchen Lily was at the door trying to hear what they were saying.
"Lily sweetie what are you doing?" Rita asked her youngest, though she was hoping Lily could hear what was going on.
"Shhh." Lily Whispered for everyone before she gave up and returned to her seat before Lincoln returned. "I couldn't hear them I think they went out the back door." Lily answered, then looked to everyone at the table. "Guys I'm calling a family and a sister-only meeting about Lincoln." This peaked everyone's curiosity.
"What about Lincoln Lily?" Lynn Jr asked her baby sister.
"We'll talk about it at the family and sister meeting Lynn." Lily stood firm about her decision. Everyone knew Lily wasn't going to budge about this. Just then Lincoln and Sylphiea came back in.
"Sorry about that everybody, the spider gave me a right scare there, heh heh." Lincoln smiled a bright, hopefully believable, smile.
"Well I hope you killed it Lincy I still don't like spiders." Leni spoke getting the hibby-jibbies thinking about spiders. Lincoln looked at Leni with his smile.
"Don't worry Leni I killed it." Lincoln then pushed his chair in as did Sylphiea. "Sorry guys, but Reggie called said she needs to talk to me about some finances so I'm going to head over there and be back real quick, promise." Before anyone could say a word to him he was out the door crossing the road. Lily got up again and looked out side to make sure they were gone over to Nagi's house.
"Okay now that Lincoln's gone time to have that Family meeting with Sam, Maggie and Ronnie Anne." Lily returned to her chair and looked to everyone with a combination of serious and concern in her eyes. "Okay we need to talk about Lincoln." Lily announced. Everyone looked to Lori as she is usually the one in charge during these meeting.
"Okay go on Lily what is it you want to talk about?" Lori nodded her head to the youngest Loud the go a head. Lily took a breath to calm the sudden nerves she got.
"Okay well first I've been noticing that Lincoln's been having nightmares lately, when he's alone." Lily looked to see everyone with concerned looks on their faces. "Ronnie Anne saw him have one this morning and talked to him about it, but the problem is that he was having nightmares waking up in tears and keeping it to himself." Lily finished sharing her information. Lisa was the next to speak up.
"It must be from the trauma he's gone through, the torture our dear male sibling went through still haunts him. All because of those MONSTERS!" Lisa spoke with venom in her voice, something the family rarely if ever hear in her. Luna looked to Ronnie Anne now.
"Why didn't you say anything when we were talking earlier?" Luna asked not trying to sound accusingly at Ronnie.
"I was going to when everyone was awake and with Lincoln here to. Besides Luna he didn't give me details on what the nightmare was, but he did say that he was worried about everyone thinking he was a monster." Ronnie Anne admitted. Everyone looked at her with worry at her words.
"Why would Lincy think we would ever think that?" Leni asked her eyes watering up.
"Yeah, we would never think that about him Ronnie Anne!" Lynn yelled clearly upset by this news. Lori put her hand up before anyone else could express their objection.
"Okay everyone let Ronnie Anne finish what she has to say." Lori calmed everyone down and Ronnie Anne nodded a thank you to Lori.
"He did tell me why he thought that." Ronnie Anne sighed and took a deep breath and exhaled before continuing. "When he when to save Luna, Luan, Sam, and Maggie and saw what had happened he wanted to kill everyone of them responsible-"
"Yeah well I would've too if I had gone there with him!" Lynn interrupted, and the twins nodding in agreement. Ronnie Anne looked her in the eyes tears visibly falling. This caught Lynn off guard, she knew the best how tough Ronnie Anne was because they were similar and not to mention over the years have been close friends. She had only seen her cry once before, when Lincoln was taken.
"You weren't there Lynn, when he said he was going to actually kill them, if not for his other personalities, the look in his eyes. It was just a split moment but I saw them dead like nothing I've ever seen before!" Ronnie Anne took a moment to collect herself and wipe her tears away. Lily was the one to go over to Ronnie Anne and hug her comfortingly.
"I know it broke my heart too, hearing him say that." Giving away the fact that she had eavesdropped on them. Ronnie Anne smiled at Lily and happily returned the hug.
"Okay so what do we do?" Lynn Sr. asked the question everyone was thinking. But before anyone answered Lynn Sr.'s cell-phone rang. He answered it. "Hello this is Lynn Loud Senior, how can I help you?"
"Moshi Moshi, put me on speaker phone please." The voice answered. Very confused Mr. Loud did as asked. Everyone watched Lynn Sr. put his phone on the table on speaker phone.
"Hey everyone, can you hear me it's Nagi!" There was a pause, then. "The thing you all need to do with Lincoln is to simply address the problem and alleviate the idea that you'd think of him as a monster." Everyone was stunned.
"How the heck did you know we were talking about Lincoln?!" Lori asked. everyone else looked under the table and in spots where a device could be put, though they found nothing; even when Lisa scanned the house for spyware.
"Simple I used magic." Nagi answered, causing everyone to roll their eyes; Lisa did it twice. "Hey roll your eyes all you want, doesn't change the truth." Nagi added.
"Okay okay back to Lincoln. You really think that all we need to do is comfort him, it can't be that simple...Can it?" Lori asked looking to everyone, they were silent.
"AHAHAHA!" Came a loud laugh from the phone breaking the silence." Of coarse it's enough. Your his family, friends and loved ones. It's like my father always says, 'Love can conquer and solve any and all problems, if you just belief it can." Everyone went silent again but it was different this time, Nagi's words made them feel warm and full of hope and even...love!
"Your father sounds like a sagely man Nagi." Lucy spoke smiling one of her genuine smiles.
"Yeah he can be, but none of his kids will ever say so to him !" Nagi laughed.
"Alright we're here!" Loudly came from Nagi's phone, it was a new and unfamiliar voice.
"Who was that?" Lana asked.
"I'm just helping the new recruit get his memories back, so that he's ready for the festival." Nagi answered. "He really loves his pink hat though. Bye!" And with that the phone went silent.
"Okay I know we say it a lot but Nagi is weird as hell." Lynn spoke.
"I think he's funny!" Lily added smiling and giggling.
"Plus he's Lincoln's friend." Leni also added.
"Yeah but still Weird as hell!" Lynn reiterated. the phone rang again, and Lynn Sr. answered again.
"Thanks for the compliment Lynnie, but wait till you meet my parents. Hahahaha!" and the phone went silent again.
"SEE!" Lynn yelled pointing to the phone, everyone nodded in agreement then they all burst out laughing.
"Well I will say this he certainly knows how to make people feel better." Luan spoke laughing so much she had to wipe a tear away.
"Yeah, I see why Lincoln is fond of this peculiar person." Lisa added cleaning her glasses and readjusting them on her face.
"Okay then we need to plan something for Lincoln to let him know that he is unconditionally loved." Lori spoke up getting everyone back on track.
"Well why don't we do that on our outings that he's taking us on this week?" Everyone looked at Leni. "That way we can totally show him that we love him no matter what, and he can still spend quality time with each of us like he wants." everyone stared at Leni a little surprised, though she had grown smarter with Lisa's help, they stll got surprised when she had a great ideas.
"I second that!" Lola yelled.
"Okay then that's what we'll do, but we will also do small things to show our appreciation, like hugs for no reason, kisses on the cheek or forehead, helping him out with chores, and just spending our free time with him." Lori added to Leni's idea, and everyone agreed. "Okay meeting adjourned." Lori then slammed her shoe on the table. Just then her and Leni's phone went off, they checked it to see a text from Lincoln.
"Get ready Lori/Leni for our date, I'll be back over in 10 minutes."
Meanwhile as the meeting was going on, over at Nagi's house Lincoln and Sylphiea walked in finding Reggie doing arm pull-ups, Alexander reading a resent medical journal on surgeries, and Alexandria was making more explosives. But when Lincoln entered with Sylphiea they stopped what they were doing and looked at them.
"Hey Lincoln what are you doing over here this morning?" Reggie asked wiping the sweat off her body with a towel.
"He almost ate actual food at his parents." Sylphiea answered for Lincoln. At that news all three got up in Lincoln's face.
"Are you okay?!"
"Did you cough up any blood?!"
"Did they find out about your organs?!"
Feeling overwhelmed Lincoln took a step back and held his hand up to silence the questions.
"First, I'm fine. Second, I didn't eat anything so no blood. Lastly I didn't tell them about my organs. "Lincoln looked all three of them in the eyes to reassure them he was fine. Alexander was the first to relax and walk away.
"Good cause none of the medical equipment has arrived from the Island, so I wouldn't have been able to stop the bleeding." Alexander seemed annoyed about that
"Well I'm glad you're okay.". Alexandria hugged Lincoln then went back to her explosives. Reggie slugged him in the arm.
"Ow what was that for?" Lincoln yelped massaging the spot struck by Reggie.
"You need to tell them!" Reggie looked angry at looked down unable to look her in the eyes. Sylphiea put her hand on Lincoln's shoulder reassuringly.
"Now Regina that's his secret to tell when he's ready, not yours." Sylphiea spoke gently. Reggie looked at Sylphiea and then sighed.
"I know, your right. It's just this is a really serious problem that they should know about, especially if you plan to marry them!" Reggie then turned and sat on the near by couch.
"Reggie, do you really think that thought isn't constantly going through my head?! That the three voices in my head don't say something about it!" Lincoln spoke, aggressive passion in this voice. "What do you want me to say, 'Hey everyone because of the extensive torture i lost most of my necessary organs like my stomach, intestines, my right kidney, and my left lung! But don't worry the scientist on Nagi's home island put fake artificial organ in me while they grow me new replacements! You can't see the surgery scar since it blends so well with the other ones I have, but hey what's another scar; right?! So I can't eat real food cause the temporary fake stomach can't digest most foods, so i have to take this nasty ass pill to get all the nourishment I need! SO WHAT!"
Everyone, even Sylphiea looked away from Lincoln not able to look at him without pity, something only Nagi could do.
"And don't even get me started on the pain I was in adjusting to the implants! If Nagi hadn't done what he did, I most likely would've died." Lincoln now looked away from his crew of friends trying to calm down and get the memories of everything out of his mind. "Look I'm sorry I lost my cool, you guys suffered in that hell too. I'm-" Before he could finish everyone including Sylphiea hugged Lincoln.
"Don't you ever apologize to us for what was done in that place, EVER!" Alexander spoke his eyes full of the rare tears.
"That's right! You were the one who kept us alive in that hell! We'd follow you to hell if you asked us to!" Alexandria croaked out through tears like her twin.
"There is no doubt in my mind that we would have died in there if not for you! And because of that you were the one to suffer more then anyone there!" Reggie yelled crying on his shoulder.
"Lincoln when Nagi brought you to me and asked me to train you I thought you were going to be another disappointment and quit on me, like so many others. But you stayed and I'm so happy that your alive as my pupil. Anyone who tries to bring you harm will regret it with their lives; I promise." Sylphiea spoke softly but Lincoln heard it clearly. Now Lincoln was in tears, he didn't mean to lose his cool and take it out on anyone especially his friends, his family.
"I'm still hurting I guess." Was all he could say. Everyone looked up at him.
"Maybe but since coming here you've started opening up." Sylphiea spoke from her own observation.
"She's right Lincoln, your starting to heal." Alexandria whimpered slowly calming down.
"You being around your family is showing tremendous results in your recovery." Alexander stated having turned away to act like he never cried just then.
"Tsundere." The three inner-voices harmonized, making Lincoln chuckle.
"Lincoln I'm sorry I laid into you like that earlier." Reggie sniffled out apologetically. Lincoln just smiled at Reggie.
"It's okay, but your not wrong. I need to tell them and sooner rather than later." Lincoln decided. "I'll tell each of them on our dates, so that I can handle their reactions better." Lincoln wiped the remaining tears off his face. pulled out his phone and sent a text to his eldest two siblings. "Alright I'm going to head out and take Lori and Leni out for the day, call if you need something or something comes up."
"No. Your on vacation, MANDATORY VACATION." Reggie reminded him.
"Besides there's nothing that a few explosives can't handle." Alexandria smile fiendishly.
"Don't worry we'll be fine. Go enjoy yourself, and you can call us if something comes up." Alexander spoke, his nose back in the medical journal. Suddenly Lincoln's phone vibrated, it was Nagi. Lincoln answered, "Hey Nagi what's up?"
"Okay Lincoln I just needed to know, but can I-"
"No." Lincoln cut Nagi off.
"But you don't even know what I was going to ask!" Nagi whined.
"You were going to ask if you could use the squad's funds to invest in or buy something; weren't you?" Lincoln answered stoicly. There was a momentary pause.
"Noooooooooooooooo." Nagi lied. Lincoln rubbed his temple feeling it start to throb.
"How much did you spend?" Lincoln asked.
"Lincoln Loud are you accusing your captain, Big brother, and friend of spending $20 million of our squad funds without permission and investing it in Fairy Bonds." Lincoln still stoic faced looked to Reggie.
"Reggie freeze Nagi's access to squad funds until further notice please." Reggie was typing away on a laptop.
"Already started." Reggie answered typing away.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Came the very loud cry from Nagi. Lincoln simply hung the phone up, and proceeded to leave back across the road.
The moment Lincoln walked through the door he was tackled by a small blonde individual.
"Hey Lily what's up, you act like I've been gone for ever." Lincoln smiled down at Lily, who looked up to smile back at him.
"What your baby sister can't hug her favorite brother?" Lily teasingly asked. Lincoln chuckled at that.
"Well being your only brother has nothing to do with it. hahahaha" Lincoln hugged Lily back and after ruffling her hair make way up the stairs. Just as he was about to walk up the stair, thanks to his training, he saw Lynn jumping down at him; almost like how a lioness pounces on her prey.
"Hey Bro, think fast!" Lynn yelled at her brother thinking he'd move or break her fall, like when they were kids. But to Lynn's surprise Lincoln did neither, he simply caught her and held her to him. The closeness made Lynn blush deeply.
"Lynn! Don't do something so reckless! What if you got hurt? You wouldn't be able to fight in your upcoming match!" Lincoln scolded his athletic sibling. Lynn started to feel a bit guilty now, but before she could respond Lincoln picked her up in his arms the same way a man carries his bride over the threshold; making Lynn blush even more red.
"Now I'm going to put you in your room to think about what you did." Lincoln said as he carried her up the stairs. With the door to her and Lucy's room already open Lincoln simply walked in and put Lynn down. Lynn turn away from Lincoln so he couldn't see her blushing when suddenly Lynn felt a smack on her ass.
"What the hell Lincoln?!" Lynn called out more in surprise then anger at her brother. Lincoln just smiled and turned to walk out.
"Punishment for my naughty sister. By the way you got a nice ass." Lincoln had such a cat ate the canary grin. Just as he was about to leave the room Lincoln felt a smack on his ass.
"You to Lover-Brother." Lynn replied and quickly closed the door, Wearing her own cat-canary smile. Lincoln smirked at the closed door and made his way to his room to change and get ready for his date. When he entered his room he was welcomed with the sight of Lucy, Lisa, Lana and Lola cleaning his room.
"What are you guys doing?" Lincoln asked smiling at his younger siblings curious as to what they were up to.
"We just wanted to do something nice for you Lincoln." Lucy answered as she was dusting his dresser top.
"Precisely as our goth sibling has expressed." Lisa stated as she was washing the window.
"Besides you should focus your energy our where your taking your dates today." Lana teased while remaking Lincoln's bed.
"Yeah Linc, where are you taking them anyway?" Lola asked while puting the vacuum put away. Lincoln thought a moment and shrugged.
"I think I'll leave it a surprise just in case certain sisters inform other sisters." Lincoln teasingly answered. Lola just rolled her eyes, but gave him a smile anyway. Lincoln grabbed his four sisters and gave them a huge hug, and gave Lucy a kiss on her lips; she blushed, smiling.
"Don't we get one too?" Lola whined pouting playfully at her brother. Lincoln simply took Lana and Lola in each of his arms and Kissed Lana then Lola on their lips. For the first time in a long time Lola was speechless. Lana just smiled and had a happy dazed look on her face. Lincoln then moved to Lisa.
"Wait dear Brother, while I would love very much to receive your affections I have never been kissed before; like that." Lisa admitted shyly to her brother. Lincoln was a bit surprised to hear Lisa say that, but he smile and took Lisa hand and looked her in her eyes.
"Don't worry Lis, you'll be fine." Lincoln smiled held Lisa's face gently and kissed her softly but still full of passionate love. When Lincoln pulled away Lisa was smiling with her eyes closed, then she slowly opened them.
"Now I see why people indulge in such intimate things." Lisa commented smiling at her brother, and one day husband and father of her children. Wait Children?!
"Okay everyone I need to change, so I'll need some privacy." Lincoln winked at his younger siblings, who all blushed. They quickly left the room closing the door behind them. As soon as the door was closed Lincoln stripped his clothes and went to his private shower for a quick wash. Thanks to the house being soundproofed, when Lincoln opened the door to his bathroom he was unknowingly greeted with the site of Lori stepping out of the shower; completely naked. Lori froze the moment she saw Lincoln standing just as nude as her in the door way. After a moment of checking each other out and realizing that they were still naked in front of each other Lincoln quickly closed the door slightly and Lori reached for the towel she had brought with her.
"I'm so sorry Lori nobody told me you were in there!" Lincoln called out blushing the deepest shade of red one might imagine.
"No I'm sorry Lincoln I should have asked or at least let you know. It's just that Leni was taking to long in the other bathroom, so I thought I'd quickly use yours." Lori replied back, thinking she might die from pure embarrassment.
"It's funny you guys had the house remolded yet you still only have one bathroom to share among ten girls." Lincoln called out trying to be funny. Lori did giggle.
"Yeah you'd think everyone would have gotten their own bathrooms." Lori replied still giggling. Hearing her giggle made Lincoln smile and chuckle with her.
"So do you have your clothes in there with you or do you need to head to your room?" Lincoln asked thinking he better at least put his underwear back on.
"I brought clothes with, if you give me just a few minutes I'll be dressed." Lori answered.
"Okay take as long as you need Lori no real rush." Lincoln replied as he put his underwear back on.
As Lori was getting dressed she couldn't get Lincoln's nude body out of her mind. She had seen her brother shirtless and his scars, but she did not expect to see him in all his glory.
"He's really a grow man." Lori thought and blushed again at having thought that. "Head out of the gutter Lori. Yes your lovers but one step at a time, we aren't there yet!" She scolded herself. Now fully dressed hair combed and styled Lori steps out of the bathroom, nervous at what Lincoln thinks. Lincoln looking at Lori as see exits the bathroom was entranced by his sister and lover.
Lori had decided to wear a blue short-sleeved blouse, that showed her ample chest but in a modest way, along with a blue leather skirt with a slit on the right ride that reached an inch below he knees. Her hair was styled in a half-up lace rose style with what looked like orange chopsticks in the rose. Lori had also decided to wear stockings and her blue dress shoes. Lincoln also noticed that she had put a cherry-blossom pink shade of lipstick on her lips.
"Wow Lori you look amazing!" Lincoln declared staring intensely. Lori smiled hearing him compliment her made her heart skip a beat.
"Thanks Lincoln, I'm glad you approve." Lori spoke like she was some shy school-girl.
*KNOCK KNOCK*
The knock of the door had broken the two out of there trance as Leni opened the door and stepped in. She was surprised that Lincoln was already back.
"Oh Lincy you should have said you were back, I wanted to surprise you with my outfit." Leni pouted. Lincoln was yet again entranced by his sister's outfit choice.
Leni had chosen a beautiful light-blue summer dress style with spaghetti straps that went to her knees, over her dress was a light-blue waist long jacket. She was also wearing an orange bracelet on each arm. She had her hair in a crown braid style with her trade mark Leni sunglasses on top of her head. She had on her feet dress shoes, but unlike Lori's, Leni's had a slight heel on them. Finally Lincoln noticed that Leni too had put lipstick on, but hers was a light-purple color.
"Well Lincoln tell her how see looks." Lori nudged Lincoln out of his trance.
"She looks beautiful." Lincoln managed to say, not able to think of a more justifying word. Lenis, like Lori's, heart skipped a beat hearing Lincoln say such sincere words.
"Thanks Lincy, it means the world that you love it." Leni spoke smiling at her loving brother. Suddenly remembering that she wanted to speak with Lori she focused her attention on Lori. Lori can you come help me with something real quick?" Curious as to what she needs help with Lori nodded her head.
"Okay Linc you get ready I'll help Leni real quick and wait for you down stairs." Lori then took Leni and they both left Lincoln alone in his room.
"Wow they were stunning!" Jiyshin voiced in Lincoln's head. Lincoln for the first time had forgotten about the voices in his head.
"You guys will behave and not come out." Lincoln spoke quietly out loud to himself.
"We know geeze, besides I only come out when there's a fun fight to be had." Tasenshi commented bordely.
"I will simply observe and advise you accordingly." Roteki coldly added.
"But I wanna play some more Lincy!" Jiyshi whined. Lincoln mentally rolled his eyes. "Okay I'll be good." Jiyshin pouted. Lincoln, satisfied with the answers, went to take that shower, but it would be a very cold one.
While Lincoln went was getting ready Leni lead Lori down stairs and into the dinning room.
"Okay Leni what did you need help with?" Lori asked not sure why they were in the dinning room. Leni held up her phone showing Lori a text from an unknown number, that read.
"I won't give you to anyone Leni Loud you belong to me! I'll kill any man that gets near you!"
Lori read the text then looked at Leni, as she wore a worried expression.
"Do you know who could've sent it Leni?" Lori asked kicking into lawyer mode.
"I don't have an clue, when I got it I thought of every guy I've dated til now and none stick out." Leni answered her worry growing. "Should we show Lincy?" Leni asked, not knowing what to do.
"No, let's not get Lincoln involved unless it's serious. It's probably a prank, but I'll have Lisa trace the origins of the text and find out." Lori was just about to go up to see Lisa, when she saw Lincoln at the top of the stairs. Her and Leni's gaze were transfixed on him.
Lincoln had put on a whit short sleeved shirt, that showed off his muscular slightly noticeable scared arms, with an orange button-up shirt over it unbuttoned and the collar flipped up, his hair was simply combed back neatly; even his cowlick that would never stay down when combed. He had a white bandana wrapped on each upper arm, the bandana's had a weird looking animal logo on it with the numbers 15-2. His choice of pants where blue jeans that had some weird designs that almost looked like some form of kanji. Finally he was wearing black and orange boots.
"Wow White-top you look like your going out on a date or something." Pop-pop spoke from behind Lincoln, breaking Lori and Leni out of their trance. Lincoln just chuckled.
"Well I'm taking Loir and Leni out today. Gotta look my best don't ya think?" Lincoln spoke to his grandfather, but winked to the ladies in front of him.
"Hahaha, I get ya kiddo. Always gotta look your best for your ladies." Pop-pop chuckled and then patted him on the back. "You girls go easy on him now." Pop-pop chuckled and winked at his granddaughters. They blushed at the hidden meaning of his words.
"Don't worry Pop-pop, I can handle anything these two can through at me." Lincoln teased watching his sisters grow a bit more red. "Come on girls or we're going to be late." Lincoln then came down the stairs and started pushing them out the door.
"Wait Lincoln I need Lisa to look at something first." Lori spoke as she was being pushed toward Ronda.
"No time just text her the details on are way, we got to go." Lincoln replied pushing them in Ronda and sitting in the driver seat. Lori just sighed in defeat but smiled at her eager brother-lover and did as he suggested and sent Lisa a text explaining what was sent to Leni's phone. "Okay Ronda take us to our destination please." Lincoln spoke to Ronda.
"With pleasure Lincoln." And with that Ronda pulled out of the driveway and off they went. As they were pulling out and on their way to the beginning of their date, they didn't notice they were being followed.
Well here it was how was it? I felt that it might be all over the place to be honest, but with the next chapters I'll have a fresh start. Lol. Also I'm pretty sure I made it obvious who Nagi's currently recruiting now. Lol