Wow, 1000 views on my "No such Luck" AU story in less than a day. Not bad at all. I didn't think it would get that kind of reaction because I'm putting most of my energy into this story. Anyway, here's the next chapter. We get to see Leni in this one, but she's not home just yet.

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The house that Leni woke up in smelled terrible and was clouded with smoke. She could see two guys that were in white T-shirts smoking something about twenty-five feet away from her in the kitchen, but didn't really know, or care what it was. The only thing that was on her mind at the moment was trying to get out of there as soon as possible. The place was a disgusting mess with singed clothes and cigarette butts all over the floor. It was not a place that she wanted to stay.

Leni first noticed that there were thick, twine ropes keeping her bound to a folding chair and a gag in her mouth, keeping her from saying anything. The gag tasted like sweat and more smoke. It was just enough to make her want to throw up, but not bad enough to actually make her throw up. Suppressing her sense of smell, which was all but gone by now, she looked around to see if there was anything that she could use to her advantage, but didn't find anything. There was a small knife on the ground a few feet away, but she couldn't get to that without making any noise of some kind. She was tied to the chair with no way to escape. So, she did the only thing she knew that she could do, and tried squirming herself out of it.

There was a show she watched when she was a kid called "The Jiggles." A few times, she saw an episode where the four main characters had the jiggles and couldn't stop moving around. The way to get rid of it was to shake around until you shook the jiggles all out. Reminiscing back to that episode, she started shaking and wiggling around, trying to loosen the ropes. A few minutes passed and she managed to do just that, while at the same time, not grabbing the attention of her kidnappers. The ropes were still fairly tight though and weren't going anywhere anytime soon. But, the two men were still in the kitchen smoking, completely oblivious to Leni's escape attempt.

More struggling ensued, which proved to be fruitless. There was no way that she would be able to escape without making any noise. So she started rocking the chair side to side, hoping to loosen the ropes enough to where she could escape. She started off small at first, not rocking it too far for fear of making too much noise, but when she felt it loosen some more, she slowly started rocking it more violently. It was working and she felt it loosen significantly, but she rocked too far to the side and tipped herself and the chair over, making a loud thud on the ground. The two guys immediately turned around to see her still struggling to get out.

"Looks like sleeping beauty finally woke up."

Leni froze when she heard that voice. It wasn't a normal sounding voice. It wasn't a voice that sounded sinister. It was a real low and raspy voice and it was beyond terrifying. Leni had seen horror movies before and expected a voice like the killer would have from both of them. But the voice she just heard was more than just a killer's voice. It had a darker undertone to it, a lustful undertone. There was nothing she could do but watch as the two figures walked over to where she was. Looking in their eyes for the first time made her start crying immediately. The eyes of not just men with hostile intentions, but with a glassy twinkle. It was those eyes that made Leni start sobbing. A look on his face that said, "I do whatever I want." Leni was horrified and they didn't even do anything to her yet. They untied the ropes and grabbed each of her arms, tightly. Tears were now streaming down her eyes, yet without any noise coming from her mouth. With eyes that could make even the toughest of men weak in the knees, a sixteen year old girl looking at them, almost couldn't do anything. They dragged her to the couch, where they threw her down. The two men stood there in front of her, menacingly, staring up and down her body, planning the things they were planning on doing. Leni started shaking nervously, dreading what was going to happen next. The same, raspy, low, ominous voice of the one on the left scared Leni and she whimpered as he spoke.

"We're going to have lots of fun tonight sweetheart."

The night went by and not a single person in the Loud house got any real sleep despite their best efforts. Lincoln was taking it harder than the rest of them, as he felt the most responsible for what happened. After all, he was there and didn't do anything. He could have been a hero, but now, he felt like he was the villain and it was terrible. But there was someone else who also felt to blame, although she didn't say much about it until she turned in for the night. Rita too, was feeling guilty for what had happened. She was the one who told Lincon and Leni to go get some excersize, and if it wasn't for her telling them that, nothing bad would have ever happened to them. Her second daughter would be safe and sound in their home, probably working on some new dress that she had.

All of the different things that could possibly be happening to Leni raced through Rita's mind. The worst of which remained stuck. Stuck in her mind as if to haunt her for thinking about her childrens' well being. That made it okay, right? After all, they had all gone to the park tons of times, many times the older ones were by themselves, and at night as well. Not only did nothing ever happen to them, but they never saw anything happening to someone else either. The neighborhood they were in was known as one of the safest in Royal Woods. Yet out of the thousands of children that could have been kidnapped instead, it was one of her own.

Rita sank down on the bed in her nighttime clothes and picked up a book that she had been reading. It wasn't one of those parenting advice books that never end up helping. It was just a book to read for fun. A book to help you go to sleep at night. She opened it to the page she had just stopped on, which was marked with a plain black bookmark. She started reading once she found her spot, but was constantly distracted. Not by noises outside of her room or the house, but by thinking about Leni. Maybe she thought that reading would help her to calm down a little bit, but it didn't work. All it did was make her feel worse for trying to ignore the problem. So instead of trying to force herself to keep reading, she put the book down, not even reading a paragraph, and laid back on the bed, closing her eyes to try to get some sleep.

"Rita, are you asleep yet?" The sound of her husband mad her open her eyes and sit up.

"No, I was trying though, I just can't seem to fall asleep."

"I don't blame you. After what happened tonight, I don't think any of us will get much sleep, if we even get any."

"Yeah..." she silently agreed. At this point, a battle was going on in her mind, a battle of whether or not to tell Lynn sr what she thought about the whole situation. He was her husband, why shouldn't he know what she was thinking. She didn't want to tell him though. Despite knowing how kind of a person he can be, she always had the slightest doubt that if she said something, that he would snap at her. She didn't want to tell him about how she thought that she was to blame, at least partly.

"Something on your mind?" he asked after an unnaturally long silence. Rita let out a sigh and put a hand to her forehead. She didn't realize how long she had been silent for. It definately wasn't normal for there to be silence in the Loud house. Even they, in their own room, would talk to each other about their day before they went to sleep, and share funny stories about what happened at work. But not this night. They had both been silent for at least five minutes, something that was unheard of, except in the dead of night, in the Loud house.

"Other than the obvious?"

"Whatever you're willing to tell me about."

She sighed again and started, "I was only trying to get them to excersize... I didn't think this would happen..."

"Ahh... you feel guilty for what happened."

"Why shouldn't I? I was the one who told them to go out there."

"Because you didn't intend for that to happen."

"But it still happened anyway."

"Honey, evil people will always do evil things, regardless of what anyone could try to do to prevent them. It just so happened..." Lynn Sr stopped for a moment to recompose himself. Just thinking about his daughter at this time made him choke up. "It just so happened that Leni was the unlucky one who was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. There's nothing we can do to prevent situations like that from happening. If they happen, then they happen and there's not anything we can do to undo it."

"Then why do I feel so guilty?"

"Because it's a natural reaction for something like this. I'm her father for goodness sake, I felt guilty too when it first happened, but we have to move past it. Leni needs as much help as she can get and she's not gonna get that help, if all we're doing, is sitting here, thinking about what we could have done, instead of acting on what we can still do."

Rita smiled, taking in the words that her husband offered. He was right. She couldn't help Leni just sitting there, sulking over what happened. They had to help in the best way that they could. And right now, that was letting the police do their job.

"Besides, how would we be an example to the rest of the kids if all we did was feel sorry for ourselves?"

She sighed. "You're right... I need to stop feeling so guilty. It's not gonna help us find Leni."

"Attagirl. Now we need to get some sleep, or... we need to try anyway."

They gave each other a quick peck, turned the lights off, and made an attempt to sleep. Neither of them were able to get any real sleep. None of the kids got any sleep either. Aside from Lincoln and maybe Lori, Rita had it the worst. Despite her husband's reassurances, there was still this nagging voice in the back of her mind telling her that she was to blame. All night she kept telling herself to move past it. Move past it for Leni's sake.

Lincoln, however, was a mess.

He didn't do anything all night. It was impossible for him to think about anything else. Now that his sisters all knew what he thought about the situation, he expected any of them to come in and try to help him through it, like they knew how he was feeling. They couldn't possibly have any idea. It wasn't their fault that Leni was gone. He was the one to blame and there was no way around it, not to him anyway. Sure, it would have been easy to say that it was the video-game distracting him, but that was foolish to think. Lincoln was the one who messed up, not the video-game.

He sat up in his bed and scratched his head. Nobody had tried coming into his room in more than an hour. Lincoln didn't know if this was good or bad. It either meant that he got through to them and decided to leave him alone, or that he was actually able to convince Lynn that it was his fault, and she, in turn, convinced the rest of them. He walked up to the door of his room and opened it. Peering out, he saw that the lights were turned off and nobody was even making their way towards his room. He closed the door and slumped back on his bed, returning to his thoughts.

He wasn't pondering who to blame it on anymore. He had moved past it by now and could only think about Leni. What was possibly happening to her? Once again, only the worst thoughts went through his mind, all of them jumbled together, but never able to escape. How badly did Leni get hurt? What would she look like when she came back? Would she be covered in bruises? In cuts and wounds? How was this going to affect her? Would she come back a different person? The Leni that Lincoln always knew could come back with a totally different feel about her. It scared him. But nothing scared him more than the prospect that she might not come back, and the more he thought about it, the more he began to break down. If Leni didn't come back, Lincoln would never be able to forgive himself.

The door to his room opened slowly. "About time..." he thought to himself. Luna came into the room and stood in the doorway before closing it. She sighed before finally saying something.

"I'm not gonna pretend like you might be okay."

"Lynn told you what happened?"

"She told all of us what happened, except mom and pop."

Lincoln groaned then waited before saying anything. When Luna didn't speak up, he looked over at her. She had a look on her face, "Well?"

"Well what?"

"Aren't you gonna try to convince me that what happened wasn't my fault? That I'm just being ridiculous? Cause it's not gonna work."

"Ten bucks says it will," she replied with a smirk

"I don't have ten bucks," Lincoln replied with a similar smirk, and before he could say anything else Luna chimed in.

"You don't have to have anything. I'll give you ten bucks if it doesn't work and if it does work and you lose, then you don't have to give me anything."

Lincoln was intrigued at the prospect of getting money. He didn't think it was possible for anyone to convince him that he wasn't to blame. He chuckled for a moment then told her, "Go for it. I'd like to see you try."

Without a moment of hesitation, she said, "If it's your fault, like you say, then tell me why you kidnapped Leni."

What? Did she just accuse him of kidnapping her? The response took Lincoln completely by surprise. He didn't kidnap Leni. It was those thugs that took her away. Even if he did kidnap her, where would he hide her? What kind of idiot kidnaps someone then hides them in their own house?

"What do you mean?"

"It's not that hard. If you're the one to blame, then that means you kidnapped her, right?"

"What? No, I didn't kidnap her... What are you..."

Luna interrupted before he could finish. "Well then it wasn't your fault."

"Oh..." Lincoln's look of confusion that had formed on his face went away when he finally understood what she was getting at and he just went back to staring at the wall. Yes, she was right. Lincoln was not responsible for kidnapping Leni, hence it wasn't his fault that she got kidnapped, but that wasn't why he felt guilty for losing her. "I could have made a difference though. If never brought my video-game with me, I could have done something to stop her from getting kidnapped. Even if she still did get kidnapped, doing something would have been better than doing nothing. That's why I feel guilty."

Luna put her hand to her forehead and thought for a moment before finally responding to Lincoln's comment, "Okay, I get it. You were doing something that you knew you weren't supposed to do and it meant that you could have made a difference when it mattered. But the fact still remains that you didn't do it. It's not because of you that Leni got kidnapped. Besides, what if you did decide to play the hero and you ended up getting kidnapped too? What if whatever is happening to Leni right now, was also happening to you?"

"I'd rather be going through it with her knowing that I helped in any way I could."

"I would rather you not." Luna's response was so quick, it was like she knew what Lincoln was going to say.

"All of us would rather you not. Because then it would be both of you out there instead of just one of you."

The words gave Lincoln a well needed slap to the face. Sure, if he could've helped, Leni might have been safe. But if he did help, he ran the risk of getting kidnapped and then two Louds would be missing instead of just one. The saying goes that two heads are better than one, but not in this case.

"Don't get me wrong bro. I hate it just as much as everyone else that it had to be Leni that was kidnapped. But if both of you were kidnapped, I don't know what I would do."

Luna then left the room to let Lincoln think about it. She may not have been the most eloquent talker, but when she needed to make a point, she could do it. Lincoln laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling, thinking about his sister's words. It was true. The more he thought about it, the more he agreed. If he was forced to choose between one sibling getting kidnapped and two receiving the same fate, he would rather it be just one of them. He had been thinking about himself and how he would rather be with her, but realizing that all of his other siblings were suffering in a similar way that he was, gave him second thoughts about it.

That being said, he still believed it was his fault that Leni got kidnapped. She didn't change her mind. If he ever got over that, he would enjoy those ten dollars. But money didn't have any real impact on him right now. He kept telling himself that it was his fault that Leni got kidnapped.

The night rolled by as slow as it possibly could. Nobody got any real sleep. The entire night was like one big power nap, staying on the border between consciousness and complete slumber. None of them had any dreams. None of them had any nightmares. None of them got out of their beds. They just forced themselves through the night, waiting for some kind of sign that Leni was okay. Waiting in vain, then waking up in the morning to find that the events of last night had really transpired. Leni really was gone.

Leni woke up in the early morning hours of the day. Her body was covered in bruises and scratches. She didn't remember much of what had happened the previous night, but based on the fact that there was a knot on her head and she was sleeping on the ground, it was safe to say that she had been knocked out quite violently. Many things raced through her mind as she woke herself up. Leni shuddered as she slowly started remembering what had happened the previous night. Those two men did things to her that she didn't even think was possible. Their lustful desire made them crazy, but it wasn't the actions of them that haunted Leni. The evil faces of the two men had been burned into her mind. Their eyes seemed to come straight from satan himself. If this wasn't hell on earth, then what was?

She slowly dragged herself up to her feet and looked around the room that was barely illuminated by the sun peeking over the horizon. Most of the smoke had cleared out of the room, although some of it still lingered; not that it mattered. The house still smelled really sour, even without the smoke in it. The pain she felt from what happened the previous night was tremendous, almost too much to even move. But she forced herself into it.

Before moving forward, she caught a glance of an open door and heard snoring come from it and also saw two bodies that were slumped in two seperate beds. Leni, still half asleep, leaned forward and began shuffling towards the couch that was now positioned on the far edge of the room. At first, she just wanted to sit down and collect her thoughts for a moment, but something on the couch quickly snapped her out of it and she froze in place, shaking. If it weren't for the fact that seeing it made her remember where she was and what she had to do, she would have collapsed to the ground right there. She slowly looked down at herself, as if to confirm what she remembered happening. If being in a stranger's house wasn't enough to affirm it, the fact that she woke up without anything on definitely did. Leni was now fully awake, and realized what had happened.

Adrenaline coursed through her body and she snatched her classic teal dress from off of the couch and put it on as fast as she could, forgetting about everything else. Not wasting any time, she opened the front door of the house and ran outside, slamming it shut as she did. She had to get away from there as fast as she could. If the two men that abducted her gave chase, then she needed to be far enough away from them to where they wouldn't find her. Leni ran and didn't stop running, nor did she slow her pace until she saw a familiar place. A safe place. Safer than that house was anyway. By now, the sun had risen above the city skyline and was casting it's shadows on the Royal Woods community center. Leni had been here for many of Lynn's sporting events and she also came here for a yoga class she did once a month. She didn't go in though. Instead, she instinctively reached into her pocket to get her phone and miraculously found it. How did it not fall out of her dress? She didn't even know she had it.

Instantly she dialed 911, the only phone number she had memorized and called it. Immediately, the lady on the other end picked up.

"911, what's your emergency."

"Please... I need help. Send a police man to the royal woods uhh... community center as soon as you can. My name is Leni Loud and last night I was... I... something happened last night... and uh..."

"Don't worry about it ma'am, we have a police officer on the way to come get you. He'll be there in just a few minutes."

"Th... Thank you..." She stuttered and hung up.

Just a few minutes was too long for the teenager. Leni nervously paced around the front entrance of the center, waiting for the police officer to arrive. It was so nerve wracking waiting for him to get there. What if he didn't make it soon enough? If the two men were behind her, then she didn't have much time. Those two would stop at nothing to get their "prize," and Leni knew it. It scared her even more when she thought of it and again, the eyes of the strangers ran through her mind. Those evil eyes had been burned into her brain and she sat down as panic overtook her.

A few minutes passed and finally, she saw some flashing lights off in the distance right as she was calming down and thought that she was safe. But right when she saw the police car making the turn onto the main road just a few hundred feet away, she also heard someone yelling from behind her.

"There she is!"

"Aww HELL NO! She ain't gettin' away this time."

Leni got another rush of adrenaline and started sprinting in the direction of the police officer. The two guys had started sprinting after her at this point too, with the same lustful look in their eyes. Leni dared not look back to see it, but instead continued forward, pumping her legs as fast as they could, maybe a little too fast. Her mind forced her legs to run faster than they could handle. They couldn't keep up and it made her stumble. The stumble made her lose balance and she tripped and fell to the ground, rolling and skidding forwards on the concrete sidewalk. Her knees and elbows were scraped up badly now and blood was dripping down onto the sidewalk. She was able to roll herself over before seeing the two men's faces again. Their greedy stare penetrated her very being and she started shaking again. Fear had found it's way into Leni's mind as they reached down for her. She shrieked and flinched as the two men grabbed her shoulders and started carrying her away.

"Where did the police man go?" she asked herself. Right then, the two men that were dragging her away, stopped for a moment and let go of leni. She fell to the ground and sat up with her hands behind her, holding her up. She wasn't paying attention to what they said or did, all she knew was that hopefully, this whole thing was about to come to an end. Leni didn't see much, but she did see her kidnappers start running towards the police officers, then, following several loud cracks, the two guys went limp and fell to the ground, leaving Leni sitting on the concrete with the two of them unable to move in front of her. What just happened.

"Are you okay ma'am?"

The two police officers came into view and were standing about fifteen feet in front of her. Leni stayed uncharacteristically silent, still scarred from what had just happened. She was glued to the ground and was too tired and horrified to even move. They knew that they weren't going to be getting much out of her and they walked closer to try and help her up. When they got her to her feet, she just collapsed, falling on her knees. They sat her back down on the ground and knelt next to her. She studied the face of the officer who had quite possibly, just saved her life.

"Could I get your name ma'am?"

"Umm... Leni Loud..." she responded.

The two officers recognized the name and looked at her with a rather startled expression on their face. She didn't know this, but these officers were the same ones who had responded to a call the previous night about a young teenager who had been kidnapped. The same officers who filed the report for a Miss Leni Loud.

"Ugh... this shift is so boring Jenson. All we ever do is sit here..."

"Chill out, just try to relax Cal..."

"I don't like relaxing, It makes me feel like we're earning money for nothing."
"We'll live dude. Not everyone can take the exciting day shift. Besides, we had that one thing at the beginning of the night."

"Yeah, I guess that's true. It was an interesting case too."

"I know right. I feel so sorry for that family, there's so many of them!"

"It's a crazy world we live in dude."

Just then, they got an alert for someone calling 911, "Finally, some action. Let's go!"

The two officers ran out to their vehicle and made their way to the location of the call. They didn't know who called, nor did they know why they were going, they were just told to go. The location was the Royal Woods community center. Despite the fact that both of them had responded to dozens of 911 calls in the several years that they had been there, both of them were still nervous every time. Most of the calls were for car wrecks or something like that, some of them were just people freaking out over nothing. Rarely did they ever get a call that required something more than jotting a few things down. It did happen though, and when something exciting did happen, they were more than ready for it.

"Okay, we're coming up on the center now. Do you see anything?"

"Not yet... Wait... Who is she?"

Looking more closely they both saw a young woman, most likely in her teens, running away from two guys who looked like they were either hungover, stoned, or both. The woman was barefooted and was wearing a teal dress and the two guys were wearing some beat up, red and blue, plaid, button up shirts. Both of them were chasing the woman with a look in their eyes that would given even the most hardened criminals chills. What kind of people were they? Kidnapping and then raping teenagers. The worst part was that they looked like they didn't have any regrets.

Jenson, who was driving, floored it and the engine roared. They made it only a few seconds late, as the two men were now dragging the poor girl on the ground back towards the house where they were staying. Cal and Jenson stopped the car and ran over to help the girl as fast as they could.

"Stop right there!"

"I'm sorry officers, but we are very busy right now. Now could you please move out of our way?" and they merely continued on their path. Jenson got furious at this comment. What kind of idiot who is obviously doing something wrong talks back to a police officer? He pulled out his gun, turned the safety off, and directed it at the man who was talking back to him. He stood there like a statue, mentally preparing himself for what he was about to do.

"I said STOP!" Cal took his gun out as well and pointed it at the other man who hadn't said a word.

"And I said could you please move!"

"Let go of the lady, then we'll talk..."

"Fine. So be it." Both of the men let go of Leni, reached down to their shoes and pulled out small knives, then started running towards the officers. Jenson and Cal suddenly stiffened up for a second as a burst of adrenaline went through their veins. Neither of them had ever been in a situation where they had to shoot someone, but the law says that if a civilian attacks a police officer in any way, then the police officer has the right to open fire on said civilian. And after the initial shot of energy which froze them up, they were ready to do just that. But what if they hit the lady who had already been so brutally beaten up? She had already been through so much. If they opened fire and accidentally hit her, not only would there be a terrible lawsuit, but they wouldn't be able to forgive themselves for it. Neither would the Lady's family. Their choice, unfortunately, was made for them when the other two men were suddenly less than six feet away and running at almost full speed.

The sound of the guns firing rippled through the air, waking up everyone in a five-hundred meter radius who wasn't already up yet. The two unknown men collapsed to the ground. Cal slowly put his gun down. He knew that what he did was not only legal for an officer to do, but was also legal for a civilian. Yet killing a man for the first time, and not just as a police officer, was a totally different mountain. He walked over to the wall of the nearby building, shaking, trying to calm down and comprehend what just happened. Jenson, even though this was his first time he has had to shoot someone, let alone kill them, had been in similar situations before. It was those situations where he didn't know if he would take the shot that made him that made him realize what he needed to do the next time. He was ready and prepared for this, so he swallowed his anxiety and got ready to help the young woman, who was still sitting up in the same position she was in a few seconds ago. He didn't know if he was okay after that, but she was their main priority right now. She was the one who had been wronged, not them.

"Are you okay ma'am?"

What kind of question was that? Of course she wasn't okay. Jenson mentally beat himself up for saying that, but because he already asked, he waited for her to answer. All she did was look up at him with a blank look on her face, as if she was still trying to understand what just happened. He didn't blame her one bit. After all, she couldn't have been older than fifteen or sixteen. No one, especially a teenager should have to experience something like this.

"Could I get your name ma'am?"

"Umm... Leni Loud..." she told him.

Why was that name so familiar to the both of them. It wasn't like they had ever met this girl before. Did they meet someone she knew? Did they meet her family? Who was she? It took them a while, but their minds eventually caught up with them and it clicked. This was the teenager who was kidnapped last night, and these two guys, now laying on the ground with bullets in their chests, were the ones who kidnapped her.

So, we finally get to the reason that this story is rated the way it is. Thanks again to all for reading and Hopefully I'll have the next chapter out soon.