"Medical Attention"

Rating: T for Mild Language and Violence

Summary:

Characters: Rita Loud, Maria Santiago

Fandom: The Loud House

Disclaimer: UltimateWarriorFan4Ever and myself obviously do not own any characters associated with the cartoon The Loud House. The show and the characters are owned by Nickelodeon and the creator that shall not be named at this point (knowing what kinda happened to him). Anyway, this is an idea that I (The Amazing Ghost Musician, catchy name huh), thought of as usual. And if you love catfight fics, well then, this one's obviously for you. Also I know that a lot of you complained about how violent Maria beaten Rita, so I re-edited the story and fix it up. I hope this version is better... ENJOY!

"Uggggggh… where the… where the heck am I?"

Muttered a dazed Lincoln Loud as he found himself being laid on a hospital bed for perhaps the fourth time this year. Nobody had no idea why he was doing there in the first place. Better question was that why he ended up like this to begin with.

The real reason was that it was just any ordinary day for Lincoln Loud. Today was Friday and he was psyched about reading the new Ace Savvy comic that was recently released in the town's local comic book store. And the next thing anybody knew, a football the force of a Mack Truck came flying out of nowhere and nailed Lincoln right in the dome so hard, it knocked him around for a loop. And to make matters worse, Lincoln immediately ran headfirst right into Lynn Sr.'s trusty van, Vanzilla, which of course forced Lincoln to go unconscious. And the next thing he knew, he found himself laid in the hospital bed with his parents watching him with concerned looks on their faces (well all except Lynn Jr and Lynn Sr though since they weren't even here).

"Any idea where I am…?" Lincoln muttered to his mom Rita.

"You kinda suffered a little concussion from the afternoon." Rita replied.

"I did?" raised Lincoln's eyebrow.

"It seems that your sister Lynn threw a football at your face and you kinda failed to catch it in time." Lynn Sr. replied, "And you kinda hit your head on my sweet Vanzilla."

"I'd remember that, but my head's a little banged up." gulped Lincoln.

"Yeah, that's probably the case." Lynn nodded before looking at the watch, "Well, I guess I should head out then. Gotta go check to see what Lynn Jr. got into a fight with, and whoever the kid's parent I had to talk to. The price I have to pay for the fights she's getting into…"

"Later, dad." waved Lincoln.

"Bye son, and take care!" Lynn Sr. waved back before heading out of the hospital entirely.

"Good lord!" Rita moaned to herself. "Why is it that our daughters continue to get into fights, or even cause trouble?"

Once he was gone and out, Rita was left to look after Lincoln herself.

"Hey Lincoln, you need something, honey?" She asked.

"I guess maybe the remote would be nice." Lincoln said, pointing to the remote that was sitting far away from the table.

It didn't take too long for Rita to immediately rush over to the table and grab the remote for Lincoln to snatch away from her hands. And much to Lincoln's luck, it was set on his favorite TV show, "Ace Savvy". Whenever Lincoln found himself in a tough jam or basically hurt and injured, he would always turn to his favorite superhero Ace Savvy just to lift up his spirits. He would have been excited to see him, but due to the concussion he had, Lincoln didn't feel up to it right now.

"Need anything else?" asked Rita.

"I guess I would like to be alone and nurse my head a little." Lincoln replied.

"Got it, I'll leave you alone." Rita nodded right away, therefore leaving the room in order to let her son rehabilitate his head injury.

Right after she stepped outside though, she was then approached by a nurse dressed in white, had tanned skin and had her black hair formed with a bun in her back. Rita soon looked up and found out that the nurse that was approaching her was the mother of Bobby and Ronnie Anne Santiago herself, Maria, who right now was looking at a clipboard and back to a concerned Rita.

"I'll tell you, your son's got himself a pretty nasty welt across his forehead." asked Nurse Santiago.

"Yeah, I gotta remind myself to ground Lynn Jr. for a month as soon as I get home." Rita said, rolling her eyes from that incident.

"I swear, I don't know why his sisters cause a ruckus near him." shook Maria's head.

"I have no idea why my daughters do any of the things that everybody in town says they do." Rita replied. "My husband and I believe that they can handle their own stuff, and then they go ahead and do horrible things like this."

"Have you ever thought of taking control of them?" suggested Nurse Santiago.

"I thought of doing so, but my daughters insist they can take responsibility for what they do." Rita said, defending her own daughters again.

"I wouldn't say the same about your daughter Lynn though." Maria shook her head, "If you need to know why I'm bringing her up, she still owes me $300 bucks for my windows that she broke with her baseball, $100 for breaking one of my tail-lights with her hockey puck, and not to mention $150 dollars to pay for the broken nose my son suffered because a basketball came flying in and smashed his face. So in reality, your daughter owes me $550 bucks."

"I understand, and I will make sure you will have the money by the end of this month." Rita nodded in an understanding way.

"I hope so, otherwise your daughter Lynn will have to pay up again." Maria nodded out as well in a serious tone.

Rolling her eyes out wearessly, Rita moaned, "Like I said, what happened was nothing more than an accident, that's all."

"You mean like that 'accident' all of us suffered when your daughter Luna went her amp high to 16 and immediately broke ALL OUR windows because of the sound?" Nurse Santiago replied, bringing out the little sound barrier incident that recently happened in their neighborhood a week ago.

"I remember," Rita nodded, "I asked her to keep it quiet the next time she practiced her guitar in the living room."

Nurse Santiago soon shook her head at this, once again focusing on the subject as possible.

"That wasn't the point, Rita." Maria added, "She nearly broke every window around the neighborhood, plus she got every single neighbor, including ME, my son, and my daughter deaf for a good week!"

"Once again, I'm sorry she did that." sighs a defeated Rita.

"Sorry? My ears bled for hours!" snapped the Nurse herself.

"Like I said, Luna just didn't know better." Rita shrugged out, forcing Nurse Santiago to roll her eyes in response.

"What about another one of your daughters, Luan?" Nurse Santiago pointed out.

"Well, I don't know what Luan did wrong." replied Rita.

"She nearly burned my backyard apart!" said Nurse Santiago with a glare.

"It was an accident, I keep telling you that." Rita replied again, glaring at the nurse as well. "I don't know why Luan takes her pranks too far, I really don't.

"You should be lucky my yard was still standing after that little incident." Nurse Santiago said angrily.

"So Luan accidentally lit that Happy Birthday CJ banner on fire. It was an honest mistake." Rita explained clearly, which Maria was NOT buying at all.

"No, that's not an honest mistake." Nurse Santiago said, shaking her head, "The honest mistake is how you aren't controlling your kids properly!"

"Look Maria, you might be a mom of your own, but you don't know what the hell it's like to raise 11 kids." Rita pointed out.

"I understand that Rita, but you and your husband still need to be setting a better example for your daughters. Their uncontrollable behavior is the reason why your son ended up here right now." Nurse Santiago reminded her. "This is because you and your husband Lynn Sr. failed to teach your daughters how to be good, and now they're causing trouble all around Royal Woods because of you."

Their confrontation soon turned personal than ever once Rita got close up to Maria, and decided to poke her finger right at her chest, saying with defensive malice, "Don't you DARE tell me how to control my children. They will learn better than this, I promise you."

Maria got a little angry and rolled her eyes. "Really Rita? Then tell me, why is it that all your kids have been banned from almost every place in town?"

"Sometimes they don't think straight, okay?" Rita clearly explained, "Maybe they do make mistakes once in a while, but they manage to move on and decide to do right from what they did in the past."

"I doubt that, Rita." Maria replied in a stern voice. "You can say that your daughters move on from their mistakes, but here's the truth: Your daughters made a lot of bad choices. Sure they say that they've moved on and learned from their mistakes, but then they just toss their morals aside and do the same mistakes over and over again. The way they're all acting, your 9 daughters (expect Lily) don't seem to learn anything at all."

"Excuse me, how dare you point out any of my daughters mistakes?" Rita glared angrily. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"An actual mother who actually knows how to control HER kids, unlike a bad mother like you." Maria scowled back, which only made Rita even more pissed off.

"I'm a bad mother, huh?" Rita raised her voice. "I wouldn't say the same about your kids though, like your son. The last two weeks, our phone bill got around $1,000 all because my daughter Lori and your son spent their butts texting each other non-stop. Why didn't you call him out on that?! Incase you don't notice, your son Bobby makes trouble of his own"

This statement of course caused Maria to get even angrier herself. "Is that so, Rita? I'll have you know that my son doesn't text her as much as Lori texts him. If anybody is responsible for your phone bill, it's your oldest daughter that does this."

"Yeah, but why didn't YOU?" Rita shouted with a poke to Maria's chest.

"Because my son knows how to take a break from his phone, unlike your daughter who's attached to that phone of hers, like the Text-a-holic that she is and you know it." Maria shouted back while smacking Rita's hand away.

The blonde immediately gasped and shouted back, "Don't… you… dare smack my hand away."

"Then don't be poking me…" Nurse Santiago gritted her teeth.

"I will poke you whenever I see fit, nurse." Rita snapped right back.

"Oh yeah, well I'll smack your hand whenever I feel like it." Maria said to Rita's face.

This tension grew so hate-filled for the both of them that it could be cut with an entire knife. Neither Rita or Maria knew that this confrontation wasn't gonna be left without any kind of solution. They were spending these several seconds staring each other down like two dangerous outlaws in a deadly Wild West shootout, but eventually, Rita did manage to come up with a solution of her own not too long ago.

"You wanna make this personal now? Because trust me, you don't WANT TO." The blonde said, threatening the nurse right in the face.

Maria knew that Rita was right since they were in a hospital (which is also Maria's working environment). So it was very fitting herself that Maria knew what to do here in this situation.

"Oh, I want to." Nurse Santiago growled, "My shift is almost done for the day, so let's take this outside. And I will show how PERSONAL I will get."

"FINE!" Rita shouted as she left the entire hallway, leaving Maria to look after Lincoln for the afternoon (luckily, Lincoln didn't hear anything since he was in a soundproof hospital room).

10 minutes later, right around 4:00…

Rita was standing outside of the hospital, obviously somewhere in the alley area of the building where Lincoln was recuperating inside. She walked back and forth repeatedly, honestly waiting for Nurse Santiago to show up and take her lumps like a real woman. Rita was thinking of how many ways she could hurt Maria, which of course, those thoughts were on the inside since Rita wanted to keep those ways a secret until their upcoming confrontation.

Yet still, Rita still found herself walking back and forth, waiting endlessly for the nurse's arrival much to her distaste. Maria definitely watched her from the backdoor, waiting for Rita to strike right away from the front. While Lincoln's mom waited with anticipation, Nurse Santiago felt her phone buzz right away (which she set it to vibrate since Rita didn't want to hear the ringtone from inside the hospital), forcing her to dig the cell phone up from her pocket and answer it right away, revealing the caller to be Maria's own son, Bobby.

"Hello, son." Nurse Santiago said on the phone.

"Hey mom, just wanted to call you to see what's going on for dinner." said Bobby. "I see there's not much in the fridge from where I'm looking at."

"Yeah about that, I'm gonna be home late because I have to work late (she doesn't really mean that). Anyway, you and Ronnie Anne make yourself at home and order yourself a pizza. That'll be your dinner for tonight." Maria spoke back.

"Sweet!" Bobby ecstatically shouted on the phone.

"Yeah, I'll grab myself something to eat while I'm at it. Anyway, I'll be coming home late, so goodbye Bobby. Love you!" Nurse Santiago said to her son before the two hung up altogether.

Once she put the phone right back up, Nurse Santiago looked back up to the back door window where Rita was awaiting her arrival like the endless loon that she was being.

"Hmmmmm, maybe I'll surprise her…" Maria thought to herself as she left the hallway.

Outside the hospital alley though, Rita grew a very long groan knowing how impatient she was now becoming due to her waiting for Maria to show up.

"Uggggh, I'm getting so sick of this!" Rita growled out herself, "What in the hell's taking her so long to get out of that stupid hospital? I swear, looking at a painting is more entertaining than thi-"

She would never finish that sentence all of a sudden…

*BAAAAAAAM!*

Maria Santiago immediately tackled her right out of nowhere once Rita had finally turned right around. It was clear that the nurse had decided to make her appearance in the form of a surprise attack. And it worked wonders, leaving Maria pinning Rita's wrists on the floor while the blonde mother struggled to break free.

"What the… what the hell's your problem attacking me like that?!" Rita shouted.

"You think I'd be stupid and enter through the back door where you'd strike me first?!" Maria raised her eyebrow, "C'mon, I'm not that stupid unlike you!"

Before Rita could say anything, Maria immediately went on the attack, striking Rita in the face with two hard forearms before Rita immediately countered and the monkey flipped Maria right on her back. With the nurse standing up on her own two feet, Rita got right back up and tackled Maria right back, therefore leaving Nurse Santiago right on the bottom while Rita found herself pinning Maria's entire body on top.

"Huh, who's the stupid one now?" asked Rita.

Before Maria could answer though, she managed to counter with just a rake to the eyes, which managed to blind Rita for a good millisecond. Rita tried her best to restore her vision, but Maria immediately said 'no' to that once the nurse threw Rita right to a big garbage can, knocking her out for the time being. Maria tried to approach her just to get her hands on Rita once more, but Rita immediately kicked her in the leg and then swept her feet right away, sending Maria crashing down on the floor. This caused the Latino nurse to moan in pain while Rita immediately got back up on her feet.

"You wanna play dirty, huh?" Rita asked the nurse before chuckling, "Ohhh, we'll play dirty, alright!"

Maria attempted to get on her knees which brought enough time for Rita to use her perfect hand to strip the upper body away from the nurse, which now left Maria in nothing more than a lacy bra. As much as she wanted to cover herself, Maria couldn't have time as Rita immediately used the nurse's blouse as a rope in order to wrap it around the neck of one Ms. Maria Santiago. The nurse felt her face go blue as the blouse began to tighten per second, now making it much more impossible for Maria to escape.

Or did she? Maria managed to get dirty herself by running towards the big trash bin with Rita following suit. Once the nurse ducked down, she sent Rita's head crashing into the bin, knocking herself out in the process. The move managed to get Rita's head looping everywhere right at the same time the nurse took the chance to recover from the excruciating chokehold.

Just to make things even against Rita, Nurse Santiago decided to strip Rita's buttoned up t-shirt off, therefore exposing her white lacy bra out in the open. While Rita got to her knees, Maria went on the strike by wrapping the shirt all around the blonde's head and suffocating her half to death without any hole to breathe in. It was clear from that fight that Nurse Santiago had the upper hand in this battle. Rita could feel her eyes and her oxygen fading fast, forcing Maria to smirk as an insult to injury.

"Give up now?" said the nurse.

Unfortunately for the nurse, Rita didn't know the meaning of the word 'give up'. She managed to use every ounce of strength she had again by kicking the nurse between the legs from behind, forcing Maria to finally let go of a near-conscious Rita in order to rehabilitate her nearly bruised crotch. But as much as Rita wanted to recover though, she was highly focused on beating the crap out of the nurse. And she did just that with a huge tackle right to the floor. But Rita wasn't done just yet. She immediately grabbed Maria right by the neck and lifted her head up, only for Rita to strike her with a barrage of slaps, both by the front and in backhand form.

"Is that good enough for you?" Rita said right before shouting, "IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!"

Before Maria could respond though, the nurse managed to fight back by grabbing Rita by her head and giving her a massive headbutt to the face, knocking Rita off of her and onto her back. Maria then took her opportunity and jumped on top of her opponent, getting the upper hand by sending her forearm right to Rita's entire face. However, one single forearm shot soon turned to multiple shots, now making Rita's face black and blue altogether. Every one of those blows almost felt like the speed of an entire bullet being shot out inside a double-barrel shotgun.

"How do you like me now, BITCH?" Maria shouted back.

"Unnnnnnh… screw… you!" yelled Rita, who immediately struck back by scratching Maria right in the face!

"AGGGGGH!" screamed the nurse, who held her entire face in intense pain.

Once Maria quickly stood up, Rita decided to change things in her tide by stripping off the skirt that the nurse once wore and covered Maria's entire face and hands altogether (take note that her hands were still attached to her face). Then Rita used part of the cloth and spun it around just to make it look like Maria was wearing an entire blindfold. With Maria's entire face blinded, Rita then took that single piece of cloth and dragged Maria to the point where the blonde threw the nurse into the same big blue bin that Maria threw Rita into. The nurse found herself knocked out from the attack while Rita had more fighting words to say to her opponent.

"Aw, what's the matter, you can't see with your filthy hands across your face?!" Rita spoke with feigned compassion before saying with emotionless malice, "Well let me help ya out!"

Just to finally give Maria a spiteful chance, Rita took the skirt right off the nurse's entire head, forcing Nurse Santiago to breathe a bit. However, it was then that Rita decided to use the same skirt and wrap it around Maria's neck in a huge Camel Clutch hold! Just to make things harder for the nurse, Rita immediately sat her hips all across Maria's back, therefore compressing the hold to the point where the nurse's back was being arched painfully.

The hold however didn't last long as Maria managed to use her strength and send Rita face-first into the wall, knocking her out yet again and down to the ground. The nurse managed to get back to her feet and immediately looked down to Rita's entire pants for some reason.

"Ah, what do you know… your pants… are getting a little stained up…" Maria spoke between breaths, "Let me… take care of that…!"

Once the nurse got her breath down, Maria immediately took her hands to good use and stripped Rita off her pants, revealing her white lacy underwear for the nurse to see. As aroused she would be to a sight like this, that wasn't what she was focused on. She was focused on making Rita her bitch by using the blonde's pants as a whip, lashing Rita's entire back with the force of a samurai sword. She wasn't done yet as Maria once again whipped Rita with the deadly denim itself, turning the blonde into a personal whip toy. The impact from the whipping caused Rita to scream in pain.

"Doesn't feel so comfortable now, don't it?" asked Maria, who threatened to whip Rita once again.

Before she could do such a thing though, Rita once again tripped Maria right by the legs using her own feet, forcing the nurse to drop the pants right away. The blonde immediately saw her own pair of pants draped on the ground, which gave way for an opportunity to do some intense whipping of her own. With Maria down on her knees and down on the ground, the blonde grabbed her own jeans and dared the nurse to get right back up to her feet...

But just before Rita could do so, Maria ran in with a BIG low blow straight between the blonde's legs. This of course lost Rita any chance for retaliation as the blonde mother found herself holding onto her crotch in intense pain. The painful impact caused Rita to fall to her knees and give Maria a chance to get back up to her feet, taking her big chance to strike. And she struck big as Maria leapt all over Rita by using her hips to sit all across her face as a way to suffocate her out of pure submission. The way those cheeks of hers were basically smothering Rita's face made it impossible for her to breathe or see. There was not one ounce of oxygen for Rita to get from this sufferable maneuver.

"If you know what's best for you, then give up now!" Maria shouted down to a suffocated Rita, "Don't make it get any worse for you than it already is!"

Rita was coming DANGEROUSLY close to passing out with each second passing away one at a time.

However, Rita managed to find her way out by using her claws to immediately slash a good portion of the nurse's buttocks, forcing Maria to scream like a vicious stray cat!

"AAAAAAAAGH!" She screamed out.

The pain Maria suffered from the scratches on her ass made the Nurse roll off of Rita, giving the blonde mom a chance to breathe. Once she did, Rita decided to get even against her by pinning her body on top of Maria's and trapping her entire chest all across the nurse's face, blinding Maria and muffling out her painful screams so that not even one soul at all could hear her. Just like what Rita suffered, there was not one ounce of oxygen that Maria could find in order to breathe from this chest smothering. Rita smirked down to her victim as much as she could, now getting the momentum back from this fight.

"Suffocate me, will ya slut?" shouted Rita. "We'll see who's laughing when my chest shows your face who's boss!"

Rita managed to suffocate her for a good few seconds before Maria managed to reach up to the blonde's hair and started pulling on some of it with both of her hands. The feeling forced Rita's entire chest off of the nurse's entire face, which led Maria to reach up to Rita's entire neck and choke her long enough for Rita to be turned over on her back. This time, Nurse Santiago was now on top and Rita found herself on the bottom. Maria then used her hands to press her thumbs down on Rita's neck, choking her instantly.

"Ready to go night-night yet?!" Maria hissed out of anger.

"Aghhhh… uhhhh… gasp…ahhhhhhhhhhh…" croaked a defenseless Rita.

"Sorry, I didn't quite understand you? What are you gonna say?" Maria shouted even more, choking Rita even more harder than usual.

This feeling immediately caused Rita's face to turn into a bluish shade of purple, indicating that the nurse's hold on her was more tight and deadly. Just as Rita was ready to faint, she managed to escape YET AGAIN from Maria's deadly hands as she used her fingers to press them right into Maria's entire eyes, forcing the nurse right off of her instantly.

"AGGGH, MY EYES!" shrieked Nurse Santiago, covering her eyes with her hands and letting go of Rita's throat.

Rita managed to get up right away, although she was now barely standing up due to the intense pain she was now experiencing from this fight so far. After shaking off a bit of the nerves, Rita looked at the nurse with even more malice surrounding her face.

"What… I was gonna say it… NO!" Rita shouted as she punched Maria right in the back of the head, knocking her down with a vicious back attack.

With the nurse's face being covered by the cold hard ground, Rita used every part of her intense rage by sitting down on Maria's back and clipping her right in the back of the head with more punches. Although those blows were now getting repeatable as they were, knocking the brain inside Maria's entire skull back and forth in response.

"GIVE… UP… NOW!" The blonde shouted between each blow.

Before Maria could reply though, she immediately fought back just by sliding under like a snake and tripping Rita right on her face, now sending the blonde's entire kisser right by the ground. Knowing the damage that Rita had done to her, Nurse Santiago decided to pay her back right away by yanking onto her hair and flooding the top of the blonde's head with stiff fist shots so hard, it was making Rita incredibly dazed. It was more than enough to use her legs to good use by crawling over to the side of Rita's neck, crunching her neck tendons hard like a vicious vice grip. Her thighs proved to be quite strong in the long run too as she clinched in so tightly that it was making Rita's entire face turn into a deathly shade of purple.

"How do you like that?" Maria spoke down to Rita, who was struggling to breathe, "Yeah, you ain't so tough now!"

Rita did her best to fight back by attempting to hit her right by the calf muscles, but doing so forced Maria to crunch her neck more harder than ever. It was almost like being trapped by a big boa constrictor that Lana brought home once. Rita definitely wanted to forget that moment and no doubt that she wanted to forget this pain that was happening to her right now. That wouldn't be an easy thing to do to her, but she had to figure out how to get out of this hold fast before everything was about to turn dark on her. She attempted to fight back once again by attempting to scratch Maria's calves hard as she could, but once Rita did just that, Maria immediately let go and responded with a hard vicious punch right to the face, knocking the dentist out like crazy.

Maria then picked up Rita right by the hair and growled in a threatening tone, "You wanna fight back, huh? Guess what? You don't get to!"

The nurse then proceeded to make an example by placing Rita's head between her thighs yet again and squeezing the ever-loving life out of her entire head once more. It was now hurting way worse not just due to the thigh weight that Maria had, but it was due to the complete pressure that Rita's entire brain was losing the longer Maria was now holding that lock in. She couldn't even imagine how long those painful headscissors Maria had locked in so far, and so far, the pain around her head and neck made it impossible for her to keep count. That definitely worked to Maria's advantage as she looked down to see the helpless expression that was left in Rita's already-purplish face. Therefore, a smirk was shot around Maria's face like a sinister mastermind, knowing how much she enjoyed making Rita's face look like a bruised grape.

At that point, Rita's entire limbs had gone this close to being numb to her, literally leaving her any chance of attempting to fight back. Sure, she could still lift them up, but they hardly did anything than to flail around helplessly without any chance of fighting back. The only thing Rita could only do at this point was shout out for help, but with Maria's entire calves crushing her throat to death, all she could do was make choking sounds and that wasn't very good for her regardless.

"Aggggggh… Maaaaaaaaa… raaaaaaaaahhhh…" Rita gagged helplessly as her arms fell to the cold hard concrete with a big pummeling slump. Now the only thing that was flailing around was her entire legs, attempting to flop and wiggle around along with her body as a last resort to escape. It was already helpless to this point as Rita felt everything all around her fade to black minute by minute. Maria and her calves were already at the point of giving Rita no mercy at all. She was gonna lock in that hold for whatever she damn well pleased until Rita either got unconscious or even worse, died from the intense suffocation that Rita was about to experience. Maria wasn't looking to let Rita go out like that since taking her life via choking and suffocating wasn't in the cards for her anyway.

She smirked as Rita took one last heaving breath, finally knocking her unconscious and out yet keeping her alive as expected to no surprise. With her face blacked out, Maria finally let her go, leaving Rita's entire body lying motionless on the concrete. It was long enough for Maria to get right back up before she grabbed the phone right from her pocket.

"Okay, now to take care of things from here…" Maria muttered to herself as she started dialing up the phone.

30 minutes later…

Lincoln Loud, who was still in a neck brace and bandage-wrapped like always, began to roll his head around in agony. It was clear that he was still feeling the after effects of the injury that he had suffered from earlier in the day.

"Uggggh, no Lynn… please don't pass it… to me." The 11-year old said, still feeling dazed and tired.

He continued to be like this for a good hour until the Nurse barged right into Lincoln's door unexpectedly.

"Hurry, send her in here!" shouted Maria as she gestured the rest of the medical staff to come into Lincoln's room.

When they did, however, they rolled in what seemed to be Lincoln's own mom Rita Loud, who right now was coming into the room on a stretcher. Lincoln noticed this right away with a shocked expression on his face, even though he was still tired from the concussion and all.

"Wha… what happened to my mom?" Lincoln spoke carefully.

Maria then turned to him and said with a bold-faced lie, "Your mom got ganged up on by a female street gang walking by. We would have helped her out early if one of our nurses didn't throw up on the job."

The medical staff successfully managed to get her on the hospital bed before they scurried right out of here. This left Rita, Lincoln and Maria right in the room all alone, although not for long as she was about to head out for the door as well. But not without turning to Lincoln and sighing out, "You're lucky we managed to keep your mom alive in one piece. She's quite a fighter when it comes to things like these you know."

And then, she finally left, finally leaving both Rita and Lincoln all by themselves to recuperate. Despite being dazed as he was, Lincoln managed to utter out to his mom, "Hey Mom, you feeling alright?"

Rita, feeling the intense pain she was in not too long ago, managed to turn her neck painful to him and utter, "I'd answer, but… my neck hurts so bad if I… talk too much."

"You okay, Mom?" Lincoln said, raising an eyebrow to her, "Your voice sounds a little hoarse."

Rita then groaned in tears before replying, "Well, the reason is-"

The blonde suddenly got cut off once she looked right at Maria through the window, who was giving her a threatened death stare in return. Rita suddenly yelped on the inside and turned to Lincoln as she said, "That thug I encountered nearly choked me to death with a leather belt. It was so tight that it made me sound like a bull-frog."

"I really do hate to be you right now." Lincoln nodded out.

The two were nearly silent for a minute until Rita carefully spoke out with concern, "The truth is Lincoln, you shouldn't blame me for putting you here in the first place. Well, you should though, since I also have to blame your sisters as well. I should have put my foot down when I should've had the chance to a long time ago. If I had told your sisters to at least treat you with respect, then you wouldn't have to be in this mess like I am right now. I promise you as of right now, I'll never let anything bad happen to you. I promise that from this day forward, I'm gonna be taking charge of your sisters and how they act towards you. This, I vow."

Rita then decided to end her sentence right away by reaching out close to his son and uttering out the next four simple words ever to come out of her mouth:

"Will you trust me?"

Lincoln looked at this gesture himself and smiled right in return, ignoring the pain that was coming from his head and nodded painfully, "Yes, Mom. I'll trust you."

It was finally there that Rita had decided to make a change for this family and Lincoln's sisters combined. No longer was Rita gonna let her daughters take control of their own situations involving Lincoln being harmed anymore due to accidents. She was gonna make sure of that, otherwise if she broke that promise, then all hell would break loose. Luckily, she didn't plan to break that promise. And with the blonde mother taking charge of Lincoln's own sisters, it was gonna be quite a safe world for Lincoln.

Even Nurse Santiago could feel Rita's promise to Lincoln from the other room, thinking with such obscurity, "I hope to hell you keep your promise, Rita. Otherwise I'll do worse to you than you would ever imagine…"

Once she saw that moment conclude before her eyes, Nurse Santiago immediately left the hallway altogether, possibly getting to work on nursing the next patient that came across from her while at the same time, hoping that Rita had stayed true to what she said to her own son. As long as Rita kept that promise, there was definitely nothing to worry about.