Liberty entered the house, and carefully went upstairs. The stairs' floorboards were somewhat unstable. Liberty slowly ascended up top, carrying a gun. She entered Leni and Lori's room. At first, it seemed like no one was in here. Liberty approached Lori's side of the bed, seeing Leni, who was looking so fragile, pale and withered, and grown out of her regular clothes, slowly turned to see her. "Who's there?" Her voice was weak and graspy. She looked at Liberty with amazement. "Wh-Who are you?" Liberty sat on Lori's side of the bed. "I know how broken you are. Here." She placed the gun on the bed. "There's a chance that Lincoln will come. He'll find you, and you can take the rest from there. There's only one bullet in there. Its either you... Or him." Liberty then walked out of the room, before stopping at the doorway. "I never told Loni I was sorry for this, but Leni, forgive us. Forgive the others..." She quietly exited the room.

"Your sister's alive. If I die, the deadman's trigger will activate, and the house goes down for good this time. Would you take that chance?" Liberty's lie was the only thing that might keep her alive at the very second.

Lincoln was already walking away, believing it. "This isn't over. I'll find you again... And I will find a way to beat you." Liberty waved her fingers at him.

"Looking forward to it!"

Damn it... She's so good... But not that good.

Lincoln paced downstairs, back into the Lamborghini. For a few seconds, he stood frozen, just sitting in place.

Leni, back home? All this time? No, its- It has to be a lie. No... Liberty-

He turned the ignition, driving away.

Liberty wasn't bluffing, I was able to tell. Regardless, I have to find out.

Lincoln sped away.

Way Later

He pulled up right to the desolate driveway of his familiar house from a lifetime ago. Everything went dark, after bursting through the door. Everything was worse than he hoped wouldn't be. The entire inside of the house seemed line it was exposed to a huge magnifying glass. Everything was scattered among the floors.

No, this was a waste of time. There's no one here... That fucking bitch played me...

He headed out, but stopped when he heard a creaking noise upstairs. Lincoln ran upstairs, following the sound. "Leni?" He entered her old room, and found everything was mostly the same.

"Leni?" Lincoln saw nobody around. The closet door slowly opened, and Lincoln jumped to a zombified figure emerging. Leni's scrawny hand was gripping the gun, visibly shaking.

"Lehh..." He held his hand up. "Leni, put it down."

Her eyes were telling Lincoln that she had been crying for sometime. Her cheeks were still freshly moist. She was still wearing her same attire from a decade ago, but it had grown out of her. Leni kept holding the weapon towards him.

"Lincy... Is that really you?" She finally began to lower her arm. "She- She said you might come... I didn't believe it..."

Lincoln took the gun away. "Where have you been, Leni? Where have you been?" Lincoln embraced her in a hug of missed pain. But, to his surprise, Leni pushed him away.

"I've waited for you. I've waited for everyone... Lori said-" She wiped at her eyes. "Lori said to stay here. That she was coming back. The twins, they-"

"The twins are fine, Leni. Whatever you blame yourself for, nothing happened. You didn't-"

"I didn't fuck it up? I felt like I did. I felt like I did! Too stupid, is all they'll see me as. All these years here, isolated, thinking forever. Thinking why I deserved this. Why God didn't love me enough to- Then I realized. There is no God. There never was. What kind of divine power takes the parents from a big family? I would take Lori's yelling a million times over than being here alone..."

"Oh, Leni... I didn't know. I didn't know you were here."

Wait a second. The footage from the downed ship. Lupa! She paused for a second when she was talking about being inside here. She knew... She knew all along. That miserable-

"Of course you didn't know! But I was always here, always! I've been..." Leni wept into her hands.

Lincoln was feeling it, too. Her suffering had established an atmosphere that was fully reeking of misery.

"I bet you thought I was dead, didn't you?"

He didn't answer, which was itself, the one that let her know.

"I'm not surprised. I want to be dead, Lincoln. You all forgot about me-"

"No, that's not true! We-" He stopped to think of something. It was that, basically. There was no trace of Leni Loud, alive and well. How could anyone have known she was there the whole time?

"You didn't, Linc. You didn't think I was alive. You forgot about me. You let me die..."

"No, we- The others, we're all around. And we can help you, Leni!" He forced a wide, fake smile. "Leni, we can fix this. We can fix you. I can save you. I'll save you-"

She shook her head rapidly. "Fix me? Do I look sick to you? Its too late. You all... You all abandoned me."

Lincoln pictured Lily in her place. It was almost the same situation, but the huge difference was, everyone knew Lily was under the care of Luan, and Leni went missing. It wasn't anyone's fault, for the answers were unknown. "Leni, I didn't know... I didn't know, and I'm so sorry."

Lincoln was distracted enough for Leni to bundle up some energy to grab the gun from his hands. "LENI!" She quickly aimed it to the temple of her forehead.

"LENI LOUD IS DEAD!" She shouted.

"Leni! Please don't hurt yourself." She stepped backwards. "Leni, no." Lincoln was trying to regain control of the situation. "Leni, we love you! You'll hurt the others. They'll be happy to know thay you're alive and well. Leni, please... Please forgive me."

Leni's hand was now shaking more clearly, but violently. "I can't go on like this... I can't."

Lincoln made a step forwards. "Leni, Leni- Please. Its going to be okay now. We can all be happy again."

Leni's finger was closer to squeezing. "Leni... Just remember that I love you."

Her eyes went wide. Lincoln felt he reached out to her. "Leni-"

She stopped her sobbing, and uttered a few soft words. "I love you all, and I forgive you..."

Leni pulled the trigger.

"LEN-"

The gun did its tragic job here. Leni died before she fell. Lincoln quickly picked her up into his arms. "No, not you too! You didn't-... Leni, sweet sister Leni..." He ran his hand through her hair. "I'm here... I'm here, Leni. Like I should've been long ago. I'm so sorry I failed you..."

He closed her eyes for her and cradled the body. "I'll-" He realized what had to be done. "I will fix this. I will make it right."

Outside, Lynn and the twins stood waiting. "I thought it was a lie..." Lynn muttered.

Lana and Lola were sniffing loudly.

Lynn subtly planted a bug on the back of Lincoln's shirt. She sensed something was wrong, and soon enough, she'd have answers, and fast.

"Lana will take you back. Buckle up for another ride." Lincoln leaned on the doorway. "Ugh, I need a cigarette."

"A ciga- When do you smoke?"

"Since my first kill..."

Lynn herself was trying out from Marlboro cigarettes.

"I gave her a gun. She's going to kill herself, if she hasn't already." Lynn was dumbfounded. This woman seemed to know where Leni was. She placed both hands on her headset, ready to take them off. She wasn't eager to hear anything else after this. Surprisingly, she was still all ears even after hearing Lincoln grieving the dead Linka. Lynn knew as much as he did, up to this point.

Leni was apparently back home, and Lynn decided to act quickly, trying to get to her. Somehow, she believed Lincoln was going to capture this Liberty person alive. But that wasn't the case.

Here she was, running into the front yard.

BANG. She removed her headset, and stopped her sprinting. The twins turned back in her direction. The look in Lynn's eyes told them they all failed. Lynn looked onto the old house.

Lincoln walked out of the house, carrying Leni's dead body.

"We bury her here. Behind the house." Lynn wasn't in a position to deny such a request.

"Yeah, I'll allow it."

Lana was already digging, with a blurry vision.

"They're blaming themselves. They ran from her that day." Lola was head down, under a tree. "I don't know the full story, but if she was here all this time-" Lynn didn't need to continue finishing the thought. "Did we fail her, Lincoln?"

He answered, without making eye contact. "No, Leni was gone years ago. She died long ago, and we're only finding out now. This is our punishment for not taking care of each other. We should have all stayed together, regardless of fear." Lynn held his hand.

"You and I both left, Lincoln. I'm here because I wanted to make it right. And you're here, too. You still believe we can be one, don't you? A family?" He broke away from her hand.

"We lost Luan, I lost Linka... And now Leni. She was the purest of us. She had a heart of gold. She didn't earn that misery, she didn't deserve all that pain. She didn't ask to suffer. So, why did she-?" Lynn pulled him into a deep hug.

"Lincoln, I know. I know... Don't think..."

Lana and Lola placed Leni down inside.

"How many more are going to keep dying?" Lynn held the twins together after Lola's question.

"No one is going to. We all have to stick together now."

Lincoln began to refill the grave. "Words can't explain our feelings, our true thoughts, and our pain. We'll leave her here, and hope green grows over it, from her pure blood that is still pouring out. Leni was a cinnamon roll, and she won't be forgotten. I'm going to place Linka next to her, when I steal the body."

"Actually, Linc, that's not necessary. We have the body. And we'll bury her here, as well as Luan. They're family, and they've earned their resting place here. I'm sorry about Linka. We will find Liberty, and you have my permission to avenge Linka."

"We're going to get her... And I'm going to kill her. For my daughter."

Liberty's advantage was gone now, and nothing was in Lincoln's way anymore. It was time to end this.

Liberty returned to the rendezvous point; the huge yellow apartment complex she had memories of, in her own world. She entered with the spare key given to her by the resident.

"Hey, I'm back."

From the bedroom, a man's voice answered. "What took you so long, Liberty?"

"Sorry, slight complications. That girl of his took it instead. As much as I wish to kill Lincoln, I'd never touch that delicate flower, despite her being of his blood."

"Didn't you place the bomb and set it off?"

Liberty hit the table, seething with anger. "He was supposed to die from shielding her! Then I would have won! Gotten back the closest version of Linus... My son..."

The man, wearing a black tank top, revealing a muscular body, emerged from the room. "I've seen too much twisted shit, and somehow, I still don't believe what you've told me. So, ready to hit the Elite Xs?"

Liberty calmed herself, and laughed. "Ready when you are, Santiago."

AN: What happened to Leni? Everything. Of all the Louds, Leni has suffered more than enough. If I had to say, she and Lily have, equally. Also, Lori and Leni's bed is a big queen one, not two smaller ones, to clear it up. The same one Leni was crafting, from "Driving Miss Hazy".

Funny, I didn't think the Santiagos would actually leave RW. For a kid show, this comes as a shock. Say goodbye to your precious Ronniecoln.

Goddamnit Savino. GODDAMNIT SAVINO.

Now, prepare for the final chapter.