"Lincoln I.." Luna was freaking out. She had not thought that.. Her brother. The one she tried so hard to make stay here.. Was finally home.
Tears started streaming down her face while she covered her mouth with her hands. "Is that you?" She said taking a step closer to her brother. "Yes it is but I'm not who I used to be though." Lincoln said stepping closer himself.
She then threw herself at Lincoln crying. Lincoln had given Lea to Ronnie a little but of a while ago. He wrapped her arms around his neck tightly. Lincoln wrapped his arms around her waist and they each held the other tightly.
"I missed you so much! You idiot what were you thinking?! The prank was cruel!" She said everything fast and was leaping between an American accent and a British accent, not being able to control the voices.
"Luna calm down!" Lincoln laughed lightly as he held her tighter. "I'm here and I'm sorry." Lincoln was smiling and happy to see that his rock sister still loved him dearly. "In sorry for leaving you, making you scared, scarring you badly a minute ago, I'll never leave you again."
She sniffed and buried her head into his neck and let tears fall from her eyes. "You better not, or I'll drag you back home." She said with a smile. "Why does everyone keep saying that? Anyways, mom and dad should be home tomorrow right?" Lincoln asked as he let go of her.
She was hesitant to let go of him and took Ronnie to pull her off. "Where have you been baby bro?" She asked as she sat on the couch, shakily drinking a soda Ronnie gave her. "Ronnie tell Lynn she can come down please?" Ronnie nodded and took Lea with her to put her to sleep.
"First off, I'm not a baby any more." Lincoln started. "And I've actually never left Michigan. I've also been driving around through different towns, getting money and doing jobs."
"What kind of jobs do you mean?" Luna was like a second mother to the younger Loud kids, but to Lincoln she was his only mother, it was right of her to worry. Luna was weary of the answer she was about to get for her question though.
Lincoln smiled nervously and rubbed the back of neck and looked away. "Well let's just say.. The police are looking for us." Lincoln said with a smile.
Luna's whole word came crashing down. She grabbed Lincoln by the shoulders as shook him hard. "What do you mean the police are after you?!" She shouted. "A little bit louder, I don't think China heard you enough." He shushed her down.
"And they have no leads as to were we are or who we are, they'll never find us. Me and Ronnie specifically." She hugged him again and he sighed, wrapping his arms around her again. "I'll never let them take me anyways." Lincoln says with a smirk. "They couldn't even if they tried."
Luna looked like she had many more questions but couldn't bring herself to ask, as she was scared of all the answers she was going to receive from her fugitive of a brother. But she did have one question she knew he could answer.
"After everything I did to keep you here.. Hell I even begged for you to stay the day I caught you running.." she said sadly. Lincoln held her chin and lifted her eyes to his.
"Luna.. I left because our parents were on the verge of doing something they would regret, instantly.. and so was I." She had tears in her eyes.
"Why didn't you tell anyone when you left?" He smiled at her. "I left without telling anyone because I didn't want to face all that pain when I would meet each of your sad eyes and I didn't say goodbye because.. I don't do goodbyes, more like see you later." He smiled and she hugged him again.
"You're the best (and only) brother ever." Luna said as she then squeaked when she was picked up by him. "Let's get to my room, I want to show you something." Luna said as He placed her down.
Lincoln blushed at the activitys he and Ronnie did in her room, but speak of the devil and he'll appear right? Ronnie came walking down the steps with Lynn. "Luna, you woke the twins when you shouted." Lynn said as she laughed.
"Ronnie, is Luna's room cleaned." He whispered into her ear as he eyed Luna, while she made her way up the stairs. "Yeah, I flipped the mattress, bleached the walls, changed the sheets, replaced the pillows, picked up put clothes and moved them to Lynn's room." Lincoln then raised an eyebrow. "Why did you bleach the walls?" He asked.
Ronnie then blushed at the question and rubbed her neck sheeply. "I used a UV light to check if I had missed anything, and apparently we made a bigger mess than we thought." Lincoln soon blushed and cleared his throat.
He then remembered a 3rd party in the room. He turned to face a cheeky grinned Lynn. "A mess huh?" She asked wiggling her eyebrows. Lincoln did a anime style sweatdrop before dashing up the stairs to find Luna.
He walked into Luna's room and saw that the walls were now white. Ronnie appeared behind him. "Oh yeah, the bleach chipped away the paint." Linc groaned obviously annoyed that he would have to paint the room back to its original royal purple color.
"What in bloody hell happened to my fucking room mate!!" Luna shouted, her British accent and speech patterns slipping from her control. "I leave for a week and my bloody room is more pale than Lucy!" She was obviously mad, but she calmed herself down and turned to Lincoln, who was smiling nervously and a bit scared.
"Lincoln, since you've been missing for about four years, I'll let this slide. Now come here, I got something for you." She said as she went to her knees and started to knock on the floor boards. They all sounded dull until she hit a loose one out.
Luna smiled and used her pocket blade to slide the board loose. Lincoln kneeled next to her as she reached inside and pulled out a shoebox. "Mom and dad wanted me throw this stuff away, when you left, they said they didn't want reminders of a failure." She said as Lincoln took the box.
He opened it and was instantly floored at the contents. With a shakey hand, he reached inside and pulled out an ablumThe title was clear but very dusty.
With his other hand, Lincoln sweeped the cover clean off any particles and things. Then he gasped as his suspensions were proven.
Lincoln Loud's Baby photos
Made with love; Rita and Lynn SR.
Below the title was a picture of a happy 5 year old Lincoln being carried by his mother. Lincoln growled and grabbed a sharpie from Luna's desk and scratched out 'love'.
He then looked at like with tears in his eyes. "I never cried so much in my life, as I did this past week." Lincoln said as he hugged Luna tightly. He then heard a snap and something being printed.
He looked over and saw Lynn and Ronnie with an instant camera taking pictures. "I think this is cute." Ronnie said as she passed the picture to Lynn. "Newest edition to the scrap book, there's plenty of room I bet."
"Of course there is, they stopped taking pictures when I was 13." Lincoln said as he flipped through the book memories, he took the picture and put it in a available page.
"What happened to the rest of my things?" He was wondering where all his other things had gone cause his room was practically empty, his clothes were in the younger Loud kids house. Lucy and Lily mostly.
"Lori had Lucy, Lisa and the twins hide all your things around the house and in the basement, Hey what's in that small ass safe of yours? The one we found under your bed." Luna saw him tense up and cough lightly.
Ronnie who was behind Lincoln, looked to be more alert now and was waiting for something to happen. "Why do you want to know?" Lincoln's voice cracked slightly, as if he was nervous about finding out the answer.
"Well.. when I shook it, it sounded like metal. It wasn't your coin collection, because Lucy keeps that with her at all times, she has it right now actually." The rocker leaned forward and looked at her brother's nervous face. "Is there something you should tell me?"
No matter what anybody says Luna was his real mother and he loved it, but sometimes she played the role without flaw. "Depends if you'll keep to yourselves, Ronnie already knows."
Luna nodded as Lynn walked in and sat behind the two. "Of course we'll keep to ourselves, wouldn't want you running on us again." Luna joked lightly as she took his hand and squeezed his hand. "Again that is.." She added sadly.
Lincoln nodded sadly but kept his smile. "Do you still have the safe? Lisa didn't open it did she?" He asked, hoping they didn't. "Yeah we have it. We thought that we should keep your privacy." Luna then proceeded to pull out the small safe out from under he bed.
Lincolns eyes would probably shoot out of his face by know, cause of the way he was looking at the safe. He took it from her hands and looked at the dial pad. He then punched 5-2-16 the safe then beep and the door pop open. He opened the door slowly and reached in and slowly, pulled out an old Vietnam war blade.
The handle was created to fit the wielders hand. It was made of oak and was shined and polished to reflect the sunlight, as if it has never been used. The blade was a smooth steel, it was also shined. On the handle the name of there grandfather was engraved into it, Lincoln P. Loud. Lincoln traced his finger along the blade.
Luna was the first to react, her motherly instincts kicking in hard. "Lincoln Loud why the fuck do you an army blade?!?!!" She didn't even reregister the fact that it had his name on it. "So that's what you were taking about huh?" Ronnie said as she eyed the blade with a impressed face. Lynn shocked as to not knowing about this side of Lincoln. "How come you never told us about this?"
"It was grandpa's blade before he passed away. He gave it to me telling me, a man protects his own. I did just that, I left before it could get worse in the house." Lincoln said as he cut his finger, letting the blood flow on to the blade. "It's also the reason I'm still alive from that night." Lincoln said as he gripped the blade.
"What did happened that night?" Ronnie stated. "You never told me." Lynn then started taking. "Yeah I was at a game and everyone was at the game." She did feel guilty when she knew that she could've been able to stop him from running. "The only people who stayed home was, Luna, Lori, and Leni. Mom and Dad too but they got there after the 4th inning."
"Sorry but that's a story for another day." He sighed and put the blade in its sheath and then proceed to strap it to his belt. "I think I'll keep with me now."
Luna, deciding to break this conversation, looked at her watch and saw that it was about to midnight. "It's getting late, I'll take my room obviously, you two can take Lynn's while Lynn sleeps with me." Lynn shouted in protest. "That's not fair! How they get my room?" She put her hands on her hip. "Because, they're married."
Lincoln looked away and coughed while Ronnie gave a deadly blush that would rival Lynn's red eyes. "You guys are married?!" She screamed. Lincoln put his hands up and shook them. "No no no! Why would you say that?" He asked nervously. "Because you bleached my room mate." Luna laughed as Lincoln grabbed Ronnie and then proceeded to pull them out of the room.
1 Hour of getting ready for bed Later..Lincoln was sitting on the edge of his bed shirtless and was wearing a pair of shorts. He was looking at a mirror. "Is this really who I am?" Lincoln asked himself as he ran a hand on the scar on his left shoulder that went down to his bicep.
Ronnie then came in from the bathroom with a loose shirt, Lincoln's of course, and nothing underneath. She got into bed and crawled over to him, his back facing her. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek. "No but your better than most." She says as he holds her hands. "I'll never forget the day we ran away you know. It was the best thing to ever happen to us." Ronnie said as she hugged him tighter.
"We left scared and broke, now we have all the money we need." He laughed and kissed her softly. "Ronnie I love you nothing will ever change that." Lincoln said with the biggest smile he could muster. "Now excuse me while I go to bathroom." She laughed and muttered something about him being a goofball.
He went to the bathroom and did his 'business' and was washing his hands. He whistled to himself and let his eyes wonder. They fell onto the trash bin in the corner. He looked at closer and couldn't believe what he saw. He dried his hands fast and went over dumping it's contents onto the floor.
He searched through what he was looking for. He finally found it and almost fainted.
A pregnancy test.. How could something so small cause so much pain and fear. "Mysteries of life I guess." He noticed that he grabbed the other side, not knowing which one it was. He was hesitant to turn it around.
With Ronnie..
Ronnie looked through pictures of cats on her phone to calm herself down. That test got her worried, it was inconclusive. She threw it out before getting her answer.
She heard Lincoln's phone ringing and vibrating on the desk. "Lincoln forgot his phone." She reached to pick up but was to late as the voice mail took over. "Hey hey, this is the one and only Lincoln, taking calls and picking fights. Leave a message or a time and place I'll meet you there to settle beef."
Ronnie laughed at that, he would always try to make situations as calm as possible.
"Hey Lincoln. It's Stephanie." A sweet female voice cut through the air like a hot knife through butter. Ronnie's head perked up and she started listening. "I've been missing you since that night, I didn't think you could go that hard." She giggled, not helping Ronnie get a clear mind. "Anyways I was wondering if you could come over to 'help' me with a few things tomorrow." She giggled at that part. "I'll see you then, bye Lincoln~" She said the last part in a sultry tone and then hung up.
Tears were going down her face as she held her hands over her mouth. "L- Lincoln.." She said silently and sadly. This couldn't be happening to her right? Lincoln was to loyal to this.. right?
Just then the door the burst open and Lincoln ran in panting. "Ronnie I got news!" He yelled still excited. He then stopped and looked at her broken face. "Lincoln.." She asked silently as she played the message again. "Who this?" Her voice sounded demanding but was broken.
Lincoln knew this wasn't good, he pocketed the pregnancy test and looked into her eyes. A lesson his grandfather taught him was to never stay silent when your trouble with a girl.
But right now, looking at her face was enough to make him quiet.
sorry but I'm going to have to end it here.