Chapter 13: La Bambina (PT 1)

Author Note: Got a little more descriptive. Nothing too crazy, but just making a helpful note before reading the chapter. Enjoy!

Lori checked her watch.

6:00 am.

Ok, she can be out at any time now. She thought to herself. She looked at her sister Luan, who was pretty much knocked out. Her best option was to let her sleep until

Luna came out and was guaranteed not to argue. The odds of that were small, but you never know with the Loud sisters. Being the only one awake at the moment really helped Lori think about everything that was going on. Once Luna gets released, She'll be itching to find Lincoln and Lynn.

"Hell has no fury, like a sister's scorn." Lori smiled.

The elevator doors opened and inside was Leni and Lucy. Both were holding a pair of flowers, presumably for Luna. Although Lucy's flowers were dead..due to preference.

"Is Luna allowed to check out yet?" Leni asked.

"Not necessarily. She has to pass some tests to make sure the accident didn't damage anything vital." Lori answered.

"YOU'RE JOKING WITH ME!" A voice shouted. Suddenly a huge slam could be heard through the doors.

It was enough to jolt Luan out of her sleep. Lori was the first to run into Luna's hospital room, followed by Leni and Luan. Lucy followed cautiously in last. What happened next was a struggle between Lori and Leni's strength vs Luna's will to strangle her doctor to death. Luna had passed all of her tests except for the mobility test due to falling from the walking beams. At first, Dr. Keane tried to withhold Luna for a day or two more days. She declined and attempted to finish the balance beam. When

she fell again, the doctor wanted Luna to at least use a wheelchair. Luna once again refused and tried once more. This time, however, she pushed herself to the end.

Because of this, Luna figured she had made enough progress to be released without a walking aid. That wasn't what had written on his papers however. He had left them on the counter near Luna's bed while he went to the bathroom. With enough effort, Luna moved to the papers to look through what the doctor wanted to do.

"Needs somewhat of help moving around. Struggles mightily on the bandaged right leg. Shifts more of her weight towards her left side of her body. Giving Crutches for at least a week or two."

This was enough for Luna to rage out completely. By the time Lori ran in, Dr. Keane was already in the room cornered by Luna, who was holding one of the crutches given to her. She slammed the clutch on the ground and tried to make her way to Dr. Keane with a bed pan. That's when Lori and Leni were able to hold Luna back.

"THIS IS BULLSHIT! YOU KNOW I FINISHED THAT BEAM BY MYSELF!" Luna shouted.

"Luna you gotta calm down." Dr. Keane tried to say with a straight face. The nervousness was obviously there.

"YOU OUT OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD PROBABLY SHUT UP RIGHT NOW!" Luna retorted.

"LUNA STOP IT! YOU'RE GONNA CAUSE MORE TROUBLE!" Lori pleaded.

Luna looked extremely hurt at Lori for this.

"You're telling ME I'm causing more trouble? That's calling the kettle black! Get off me!" Luna shoved Lori's grip off of her.

Lori would have at this point, shoved her sister back and probably started a huge fight. But she knew that Luna was hurting the most right now, and doing any type of actions like that would just damage the amount of help she would be willing to give later. So she stepped back and asked Luan to take her place. It was at that point, Luna had shoved Leni from her waist and leaped towards Dr. Keane. Everything moved in slow motion from there. Luna winded her arm back and threw a vicious punch.

*BAM*

Dr. Keane wasn't going to shy away from the hit, but it never reached him. Instead, The punch had landed on Luan, who had shifted her position to take the huge blow. Everyone stared as Luan stumbled back and held her face in pain. Luna, who found out very quickly, moved to her for support. Once Luan felt her sister near her, The queen of tricks grabbed the rocker by her shirt and held her collar close.

"Luna please.." Luan was able to speak out.

Luna said nothing but looked at her sister. Luan hesitantly moved her other hand from her face. Blood dripped from the girl's face. At first, it seemed as if there was a cut until Luan removed the rest of her hand from her face. Everyone gasped at the sight. Luna felt her heart drop. Her punch not only connected with Luan's cheek, but it also broke the wire from her braces. The wire then pierced through a small piece of tissue through her mouth. When Luan moved her hands to her face in reaction to the pain, the wire also cut a bit into her hands, causing the blood to drip from her face.

"Lu...your face.." Luna mumbled fighting tears.

Luan felt her wire that pierced her and bravely pulled it from the inside of her mouth. Lucy was amazed the most out of her sister's endurance to that amount of pain. But she hadn't forgotten about the tantrum her sister threw.

"Take the crutches and please apologize to Lori and Dr. Keane." she said quietly.

"Lu I don't want-" Luna pleaded.

"TAKE. THE. CRUTCHES." Luan repeated herself. Lori stepped in between the two them.

"Luna. In order to find Lincoln and Lynn, We need you to be the fastest that you can be. You're the lead to this whole thing, Without you being fully healthy, We won't find either of them." She added.

But her words didn't hit the rock prodigy. Her anger was blinding her sight of everything. I mean, nothing was enough for anyone. Did anyone give her credit for anything when she risked her life to look for Lincoln and Lynn? Matter of fact, How did the family love quickly turn into rage? It's to a point where she literally knocked the metal out of Luan's mouth! It was so much for Luna to handle all at the same time.

The wreck.

The voices...

The image of Luan pulling out her wire from her mouth.

Lincoln possibly dead.

Lynn crying alone...

She needed help.

"I can't keep going like this.." Luna broke down.

"You won't have to if you just use the crutches. They'll hel-

"I mean I can't keep going like THIS!" Luna cried even more, pointing to her head.

She was borderline hysterical. It was all of the trauma, all of the stress. At least she figured it was...She felt herself going insane. her thoughts were overrunning her.

"They can't help you anymore!"

"Lies.."

"Lunaaaaa"

"Don't say my name!"

"Dr. Keane do something!"

"ENOUGH!" Luna shouted.

It was all black from there. How long...She didn't know, All she knew was it was painfully slow.

"What's the point of trying so hard anyway?" She heard herself say... But it was more like her conscious said it rather than herself. Everything stayed black. There was nowhere to go. She couldn't see anything anyway, so what truly was the point?

"She fading off from us, we need to find a way to save her!"

"Please...Help" Luna said.

She was drowning, but not in an ocean, and not a lake.

"I don't know what's happening, but... it's ok."

She wanted to respond, but she couldn't find the words.

"Don't fight this feeling Luna..I can't explain what's going on but...I can feel everything. Don't lose yourself."

"Please don't leave me.." Luna forced out.

"I have to go.. Please don't lose your sanity Luna."

"I heard there was a pool here." Rina said.

"POOL?" Lynn swung the bathroom door wide open.

"How did you-" Lincoln was cut off by Lynn tossing him outside of the room.

"What was that for!" He asked violently. Lynn chose to ignore him, so he leaned towards the door.

"We gotta get down there. Rina! Lose those clothes and let's get changed!"

"Lynn wait a sec, don't do that!"

Lincoln took his head off of the door with a face redder than a cherry.

"Well then. What they don't know, won't hurt them." He says to the audience.

When he went to turn back to the door, Lynn was holding a baseball bat.

"Lincoln, What were you doing so close to the door?"

Lynn's face had no emotion on it. Just a dark shade hiding an evil stare.

"Quick Lincoln think smart! One wrong move and Lynn turns your head into mashed potatoes." he thought to himself.

"I was about to go down to the swimming pool and then I realized I had no swimming gear on, So I walked right back." He lied.

Lynn read him like a book. "So why was your head close to the door?"

"I was um...Trying to see if I could find the room by looking down the whole time."

A weaker attempt that Lynn shredded immediately. "Lincoln, were you trying to catch a peek at Rina?

"Of course not! He retorted.

Lynn wanted to hit him in the head with a bat to punish him for a white lie, but she couldn't wait to hit the pool fast enough, so she decided to let it pass.

"She's in the bathroom changing, So don't think about anything crazy, ok?" Lynn warned her younger brother.

Lincoln nodded. Lynn immediately ran down the hall looking for a way to the pool.

"Ok...Just gotta find my trunks and get out of her as fast as possible." he mumbled, entering the room.

He was looking around the room for the bag that Rina and Lynn had gotten for him since he had lost the bag back on the bus on the route here. He can't remember where he placed it, but it had to be somewhere in here. He checked under his bed, inside of the closet, in all of the corners. It was nowhere to be found.

"That's weird.." Lincoln thought. "It should have been here"

"Please help..."

Lincoln froze. The voice was very familiar.

"Please help...me"

He could hear the voice more clearly now. The sound could be coming from the door, so Lincoln slowly made his way to the door. His heartbeat raced, his hands began to sweat intensely. If it was who he thought it was, then...

Lincoln opened the door and found a girl as tall and pale as him staring him right in the face. She was wearing a sundress that was red as a cherry. She also wore goggles on the top of her head that were marked "17." Her eyes were hazel-like, which matched her long, dark brown hair.

"Come with me." The girl said as she grabbed his hand and took him down to a room used for refreshments.

Once they were there, Lincoln was about to tell her how furious he was, only to have her shush him and pointed around the corner. Lincoln peaked and looked towards his room. There were police officers of plenty surrounded the room that he was staying in. Suddenly they kicked the door open and rushed in big numbers. Lincoln instantly felt the need to rush back and help Rina, who was still changing in the bathroom, but the girl wouldn't let his hand go.

"Don't run out on me." She said with a more serious tone in her voice.

"What are you doing?!" Lincoln felt his anger build.

"I'll explain to you later, right now, I need you to help me get out of here." The girl looked him in the eyes.

"Why are you asking me?" Lincoln struggled to get out of her reach.

"Because you're the one who killed Cheif Johnson right?"

Lincoln said nothing. Killed? No way...All he did was taser him, even if it was more than once, it couldn't have killed him...could it?

"Well, they think you did it anyway, So they're looking for you, and a brown haired girl wearing a torn long sleeve t-shirt, who escaped in a police station fight."

Lynn..

"What about Rina? Are they looking for a girl named Rina?" Lincoln asked.

"As far as I know of, no."

"Ok good... At least they haven't dragged her into this yet." he thought.

"But that isn't important, we need to find a way to get to that girl and quick." The girl insisted.

Lincoln looked back for a second. He didn't want to leave Rina alone after all she had did for him, But he knew that he couldn't go back and explain what had taken place. As long as they haven't identified her as an accomplice, she's safe for now. Unfortunately, That wasn't the case for him and Lynn.

"Before we go, were you the one that kept saying "Please...help me..?" Lincoln asked the girl.

"Huh? I don't know what you're talking about." The girl told him honestly.

"That's a little troubling." He mumbles.

"So get ready, because this is the call to adventure." The girl spoke up.

"Last question." Lincoln said.

The girl blinked "What is it?"

"What's your name?"

The girl looked at him and grinned.

"My friends in Toronto call me, "La Bambina"

A few things that I want to clarify

1. A lot of inspiration from Luv is Rage 2 in this chapter. I wanted to dig deep and get a little uncomfortable (Also this is not a Luna-Abuse chapter, This comes in to play later. Trust me.)

2. I also wanted to get dark, but not like a depressing dark. (Just dipping into what I had prewritten.)

3. This chapter by far is one I really would like to hear back about. I had a huge smile on my face after reading through it, And I hope that you guys like it too.

4. The Dialogue in the scene when Luna blacks out: Those comments are all taking place in her thoughts. Whether or not Lincoln can confirm the voice he heard is hers or the last voice that Luna heard was Lincoln's, I will leave that up to you guys.

Hope you guys liked this one.

Stay Awesome

Titan Out *Peace Sign*