Disclaimer: I own nothing and probably never will. Nor do I own any music by any band at all expecially 2Chellos which is an awesome group that everyone should listen too. Also I don't own Chicago but they are my favorite band.
Authors Notes:
"This is talking."
'This is thinking.'
'This is a spirit.'
"This is singing."
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Lily had a nightmare, Lincoln and Luna told her a story to calm her down. The family listened in. Lincoln sang while making breakfast.
Now the curtain rises on the next act of the story.
Chapter 7: Love is endless
"I had no idea Lincoln had such a sweet set of pipes dude." Luna gushed as she plopped down on a bean bag chair and started to tune one of her guitars.
"Me neither." Luan replied. "Maybe you rubbed him off one." She laughed.
"LUAN!" Luna replied blushing crimson. "We didn't do anything like that."
"Oh? Did I say rubbed him off, I meant rubbed off on him." Luan snickered. "Though I bet you would like that, wouldn't you."
"GAH!" Luna shouted as Luan's joke distracted her and caused a string to snap, giving her a small cut on the cheek. "Dang it Luan."
"What? Are you wound a little tight there Luna?" Luan joked, before taking a breath. "But in all seriousness, that story you and Linc told this morning, did that have anything to do with his dream? Is Liberty supposed to be your daughter?" Luan asked.
Luna sighed and put her guitar down next to her amp. "Yeah. To both your questions."
"That's deep Luna. That story was so tragic, dad really ran you out in his dream and then hurt your baby? That's nothing like the dad we know!" Luan exclaimed.
"Don't you think I know that dude?" Luna snapped back. "His dream is just a dream, a beautifully messed up dream. There are parts of the dream that I wish would happen, and parts that I hope never do." Luna sighed running her hands through her hair. "Dang it Luan, don't you think I know how f'ed this whole thing is, and how fraking sideways it can go? But for all the knowing how bad it could be, there is still a bit of sunshine. Please don't take my sunshine away."
"I love you Luna. I love Lincoln too. And if being together makes you guys happy, who am I to stand in the way of your happiness." Luan said with a smile.
"Thanks Luv." Luna replied getting up and hugging her sister. "You know, we've shared everything growing up, and if it would make you happy I'd gladly share Linc with you. Who knows, once he's back in shape his stamina might be to much for me to handle." Luna whispered into Luan's ear huskily. Luan's eyes rolled into the back of her head and she fell backwards onto Luna's bunk with a nose bleed. "Maybe I went a bit to far?" Luna chuckled softly. "Is that violin music?"
Luna looked around for the source of the music. it slowly got louder as she walked down the hallway. Approaching Lincoln's door the music was the loudest, still muffled by his door and not nearly as loud as when she rocked out on her Axe. "Is that Chicago?"
Lincoln did his 15 minutes climbing up and down the stairs, then did as many push ups as he could, before grabbing a quick shower and heading to his room. Lily and Lucy already there waiting for him. "I still have to do some hand dexterity exercises, you guys here to watch?" Lily smiled and nodded, while Lucy nodded and slunk to the darkest corner of the room. Lincoln reached under his bed and pulled out a watertight black case, and wiped off the dust. "Been down there for awhile, huh bud?" Lincoln said as he flipped the locks on the case. He opened it to reveal his shiny black electric violin just the same as the last time he saw it. "Good to see you again little guy, ready to get to work?" Lincoln asked as he pulled it out and grabbed the tuner. He slowly ran through scales and the beginning of a few simple songs to warm up and retune the violin after so long of not being used. "Well you sure sound ready. Lets start with something simple yeah? How about Chicago?"
Lincoln drew his bow across the strings of the violin playing 'Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4' (1). The upbeat song made Lily smile and bounce a bit to the tune, the somewhat somber and haunting tones of the violin gave off a sound that Lucy found surprisingly pleasant. As the harmony trailed off into a guitar rift Lincolns fingers flew across the strings, and his bow sawed at the strings so fast some of the hairs snapped. Lily's and Lucy's eyes widened in shock and awe at yet another hidden talent of their brother. No one noticed the door edge open and someone slip inside before closing the door again. As the song wound down with its closing verse, Lincoln took a breath through his mouth and bowed to his sisters. They all jumped a bit when they heard clapping.
"Rock on dude." Luna said. "Righteous chops bro. Why didn't you ever tell me you could play?"
"Luna? Wha?... You mean you didn't know?" Lincoln asked in confusion. "I thought since you had the pendant you would've known for sure." Lincoln said.
"Lucy found it at Christmas and gave it to me, I've taken really good care of it. It's like the only piece of jewelry I like to wear." Luna said smiling while stroking the pendant with her thumb. Lincoln looked bewildered.
"You mean you've had it for months and didn't check it for any secret messages from me?" Lincoln said surprising all 3 sisters as he placed his violin and bow back in their case.
"Secret messages?" Luna asked.
"May I?" Lincoln asked as he walked over and reached up to undo the clasp. Luna hesitated for a moment not wanting to part with the special gift, but nodded. Lincoln undid the clasp and, holding the pendant in his hand, flipped it over to the flat silver back side. Which he proceeded to open by sliding his thumb from right to left revealing a micro SD card.
"What?!" Luna exclaimed. "That was there the whole time?"
"Of course." Lincoln commented handing the pendant back to Luna. "Would you like to hear the songs I recorded on it?" Lincoln asked pulling out his laptop, and popping the micro SD card into an SD converter so his laptop could read it.
"I do. Pwease daddy, can we wisten?" Lily asked. Lucy looked at her for a second in confusion before remembering she had done it in Lincolns dream too. 'That's oddly foreboding.' Lucy thought.
Lincoln put the converter in the SD card reader slot on his laptop and opened the folder stored on it to reveal 4 Mp3 files. Lincoln clicked 'play all' and stepped back to let the girls listen.
"Hello Luna, if you are hearing this you found the secret compartment of the pendant I gave you." Lincoln's voice came out of the speakers. "You have always inspired me to try to be better then I am. Even when I messed everything up and pissed you off. I love you, with all my heart. You are a beautiful and talented rocker. You are my sun and moon. Yeah, my Moon I like that, my beautiful Moon Goddess." The recording continued causing Lincoln and Luna both to blush and look at the other two girls. Lily just smiled happily not really understanding. Lucy was stoic as ever as her heart was broken yet again. "I recorded some music that I have played on an electric violin that I bought with 2 years worth of savings on chore, birthday, and Christmas money. I hope you like them."
Track 2 - Lightninghit by DC/AC violin cover by Lincoln Loud. (2)
Track 3 - Road to Underworld by DC/AC violin cover by Lincoln Loud with guitar accompaniment by Stephe Rye. (3)
Track 4 - No Rápidamente by Fuis Lonsi ft. Papa Brits violin cover by Lincoln Loud. (4)
After the final song finished, all three girls had tears in their eyes and awed looks on their faces as they turned to look at Lincoln who tried to escape via the door. Only to find Leni, Luan and the twins standing there listening through the door. "Hi." they chorused sheepishly.
"How long were you there?" Lincoln asked rubbing the back of his head.
"I just got back from the mall and heard a totes awesome song." Leni said with a smile.
"We heard two." Lana and Lola said in unison.
"Moon Goddess." Luan mumbled softly causing Lincoln and Luna to blush again while the others just looked on in confusion. Lisa stepped out of her and Lily's room and waved Lincoln over.
"If you have a moment I require your assistance." Lisa said.
"Sure Lis. What can I help you with?" Lincoln asked as he walked over.
"Let us discuss this in the room I share with our youngest sibling." Lisa stated before turning towards their sisters who were curious. "Preferably alone." Lisa snarked, causing the her older sisters and Lily who all wanted time with Lincoln to frown.
"Calm down Lisa, they might be able to help." Lincoln said trying to defuse the situation as he walked over. Lisa looked at Lincoln calmly before taking off her glasses and rubbing them with her microfiber cloth.
"I suppose Luna might be of some assistance as well but I doubt you will want any of our other siblings involved." Lisa stated before lowering her voice to a whisper so only Lincoln could hear. "I believe you do not want the true parentage of 'Liberty' to be widely known at the moment, do you not?" Lincoln's eyes shot wide open.
"Are you blackmailing me?" He hissed softly between clenched teeth.
"Far from it, male sibling." Lisa whispered. "I only care about science, and the health of your possible F1s. I do not care about societal taboos."
"Then what's this about?" Lincoln whispered with a frown.
"Not out here," Lisa began glancing at their sisters. "to many ears."
"She's right." Lincoln said a bit louder getting everyone's attention. "It'd be better if I did this alone, but if you are all worried about my safety Luna can come too." The sisters begrudgingly agreed and scattered. Lucy taking Lily to the living room to watch cartoons. Luan to head back to her and Luna's room to think. Leni to her room to start working on some the shirts she wanted to make for Lincoln. The twins decided they would separate a bit and do stuff like they used to. Lincoln and Luna followed Lisa into her room. Lisa closed and locked the door before placing a large piece of painted plastic on the floor in front of the door.
"There that should soundproof the room for our discussion about your assistance and my knowledge of your mutual attraction and possible future F1." Lisa said calmly.
"What?" Luna gasped as Lincoln sighed in defeat.
"I have known for quite sometime that you had an attraction towards our male sibling, and that in his last words before being rendered unconscious for three hundred and sixty five days were to declare his own attraction to you." Lisa explained causing both Lincoln's and Luna's jaws to drop. "I am unconcerned about societal morals and taboos. If science let taboos stop progress we would be stuck in the dark ages. However due to your genetic similarities and the scientific probability of your F1 having some form of inherited genetic deformity, I have come up with a simple solution." Lisa continued.
"Hold your roll there for a sec little dude." Luna interrupted. "How did you know about how I felt and what Lincoln said? If my memory serves you were with the Rent's in the restaurant when that happened." Luna said.
"Ah yes, I knew this would be a possible outcome of this conversation." Lisa said before rummaging through a nearby chest and pulling out a small tablet connected to a beanie. "This is one of my greatest inventions. This allows anyone watching the screen here to view the nocturnal hallucinations of the wearer."
"You can watch peoples dreams?" Lincoln asked. Luna looked at him in shock that he understood what Lisa said.
"That is correct." Lisa nodded. "It is perfectly safe, and I keep no recording of anything I watch. However I have an Eidetic memory."
Seeing Luna's confused look Lincoln explained. "It means she has perfect recall of everything she sees, which actually explains a good portion of her intelligence."
"That's kinda cool dude." Luna smiled.
"Indeed." Lisa said. "However let us return to the discussion at hand, I require a sample from you, male sibling, in order to prepare a viable mutagen that would alter your genome just enough to prevent possible problems for your F1."
"Blood, Saliva, or Urine?" Lincoln asked with a shake of his head.
"While the first two might be of some help, it is the fourth option you failed to mention that I require." Lisa explained.
"I thought we kicked your habit of requesting stool samples." Lincoln joked getting a laugh out of Luna, and a deadpan look from Lisa.
"I meant semen you neandertal." Lisa retorted causing both Lincoln, and Luna to gape at her. "What? It is the only viable substance that will allow me to discover what traits you pass on to your F1." Lisa explained.
"It's just surprising really, I should have expected this." Lincoln said with a sigh. Luna glanced around the room and noticed a dart gun partially hidden beneath Lisa's bed.
"Were you going to shoot Lincoln in the nuts with a dart little dude?" Luna asked remembering Lincolns dream. This caused Lincoln's legs to close in memory of that forgotten detail of his dream.
"Weeeeeellllllll." Lisa drawled. "That would be the quickest and least painful application of the mutagen. I suppose I could come up with either a pill, or a suppository. However ingestion of the mutagen could have undesired consequences." Lisa explained.
"Such as?" Lincoln asked.
"In theory," Lisa began. "Ingestion of the mutagen would alter more then just your sperm production. Anywhere from a change in hair and skin pigmentation to growing breast. It could even change your genetic code enough that you would not be a sibling relation at all any more. An outcome I would rather avoid."
"Is there any other way to do it without shooting a dart at our bro's junk?" Luna asked.
"I suppose I could wait until our male sibling is asleep and apply the shot manually. However, that would require me handling his 'Junk' as you say." Lisa replied.
"It's fine just shoot me with the dart gun, at least I won't feel the pain for long." Lincoln said trying to get away from this conversation now.
"True, however I still require a sample to make the mutagen viable." Lisa said.
"I'll get it to you later today." Lincoln conceded.
"Are you aware of our other siblings subconscious attraction to you as well?" Lisa asked as Lincoln and Luna turned to leave. "I find it perfectly understandable. You are the only male around our ages that is humble, noble, intelligent, forthright, and attractive. Subconsciously some of your sisters would begin to use you as a measuring tool against which they judge possible mates. I find myself doing the same, not that I want to be with you in that way. You are a very good male specimen and most others around here lack certain qualities that in turn make them unappealing."
"Huh? I don't understand." Lincoln said confused.
"Bro, Lisa said that most of us girls compare our dates to you and come up short." Luna explained. "It just means that no one is good enough for us unless they are like you, or are you in some cases."
"Exactly." Lisa agreed.
"Ah," Lincoln nodded trying to wrap his head around this new bit of information. "Who?" He asked.
"I do not believe I should divulge that information. It should be up to the individual to confess their affections not a third party." Lisa said. "But do get me that sample soon, as the sooner the mutagen is administered the less likely there are to be any complications." Both Lincoln and Luna glared at Lisa as they walked out of the room. Both thinking 'Who else loves me/him?'
"Hey Linc?" Luna asked.
"Yeah?" Lincoln responded.
"How did you manage to get Stephe Rye to play with you?"
"He was doing an autograph signing at the music store I recorded those songs at."
"Cool."
1. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Violin Cover) - Youtube
2. Thunderstruck - AC/DC - 2Chellos - Youtube
3. Highway to Hell - AC/DC - 2Chellos with Steve Vai - Youtube
4. Despacito - Luis Fonsi Ft. Daddy Yankey - 2Chellos - Youtube