Chapter 4: Redemption.
A week later. Lincoln woke up in the morning, and today was Monday. He immediately felt happy at the thought of getting to see Ronnie Anne in school. After all, he, Ronnie Anne, and some of his sisters all had the same classes together.(Yeah I changed it a little just to make it more interesting).
So he got up and got everything done. He was a bit sore from all the training he had been doing with Ronnie Anne, but other than that he felt alright. He and Ronnie Anne are in a great relationship. Ronnie Anne had finally conquered her nerves and now she could do stuff like cuddling, holding hands, and well, you know. They had also been practicing fighting, Lincoln wanted to train himself to be better in every way, so Ronnie Anne gladly accepted because that meant she could spend more time with him, and help him achieve his goals.
Turns out Lincoln was a really great fighter, he had beaten her every time. Of course he never caused her serious pain, but they did throw punches and all that, but they always avoided the face. He was also really great at working out, he had kept up with Ronnie Anne with everything, push-ups, sit-ups, running, etc. She would be lying if she said she didn't get turned on by how much he's grown just within that week. His biceps, forearms, calves, chest, and even his stomach had grown, he now had a very solid six pack.
(I know it takes longer than that to get muscles like that but not in this fanfiction. Oh and also his muscles haven't grown like The Rock big, I mean they grew a little, noticeable change.). When he got out of bed he was clutching his hip a little, last time he and Ronnie Anne practiced fighting she laid a pretty good kick on his hip, and now it really hurt. The only reason she agreed to help him get better at fighting was because he told her he was tired of being weak and that he wanted to be stronger. So she only agreed to fight with him, even though she knew he would get hurt, was because he wanted it. They never did headshots since they wanted it to be a secret, so they only ever went for below the neck.
When he was done with everything he put on his bag and opened the door, and saw Ronnie Anne standing there waiting for him. When she saw him she smiled brightly, and so did he, and she said, "Hey Lincoln, are you ready to go?". He closed and door behind him and as they started walking he said, "Yeah I'm ready, but how long were you standing there?", and she said, "only five minutes, I just got there.". Lincoln remembered what he agreed to on Sunday, and clearly Ronnie Anne forgot, so he wanted to use that to his advantage as he smirked. Then he turned her cheek to make her face him as he kissed her on the lips.
She immediately melted into the kiss as she wrapped her arms around the back of his neck, and pulled him closer to deepen the kiss. They stayed like that for about two minutes, repeatedly kissing each other. Until Lincoln pulled away and said, "I told you that I would give you a really good kiss if you waited.", which made her blush. She loved kissing him, and holding his hand, and cuddling when they watched a movie, and kissing him, and playing together, and training with him, and kissing him, and joking around with him, and kissing him. Well okay, she really really loved kissing him.
Above everything she loved and liked, kissing him was her most loved thing to do. So when he took her arms off his neck she whined a little and said, "Oh come on, you can't just kiss me out of nowhere and not expect me to want more.", and he said with his typical smirk on, "Then you'll get more sometime after school.". She sighed but she didn't really want to argue, if he said she was going to get more than she knew she was going to get more. Then they kept on walking until they eventually reached their school and classroom. When they entered they both saw a group of kids huddled together.
They gave each other a curious look and set their bags down at their desks, which were right next to each other, and walked over to the group. Lincoln said, "Hey, what's going on?", and one of the kids said, "We have a new student transferring into our classroom today.", and Ronnie Anne said, "Really? Who is it?". Another kid said, "It's a girl and we don't yet know what her name is.", which made her sigh, and a girl in the group said, "I think I saw her earlier today. She has beautiful red hair like scarlet, and her name is actually Scarlet too. She's just as tall as Lincoln, and she had perfect teeth, funny, clever, smart, and-". She was interrupted when one of the male kids said, "And she has perfect size breasts and a bubble butt! Not to mention she has the best curves in the world, she looks like she could be a-", but before he could finish, a girl slapped him so hard it echoed even through the hall and she said, "You pervert!". Then the guy ran out with the girl close behind him, Lincoln sighed and thought, "It's a good thing they aren't in our class and they were just spreading the news.".
While he thought that, Ronnie Anne thought, "This perfect sounding girl better not touch my Lincoln, or she'll have another thing coming.". Just then, the bell rang and everybody went to their seats and sat down after they did the pledge. The teacher came in and she wrote her name on the board like she always does and she said, "Hello again class, as you already know my name is Mrs. Johnson. As you may also know, we have a new student transferring here today. Come on in sweetie!". Then the door to the class opened and everybody's jaw dropped, even Ronnie Anne and Lincoln's. She was absolutely stunning, everything those people said about her was right.
Some other things about her everybody noticed was that her hair reached to a little bit below her shoulders and she was slender with astonishing curves. Her facial structure looked as if god himself had made her, and she didn't have any pimples or scars or anything. Her skin tone was a little bit whiter than tan, and her teeth were milky white. Her lips were as red as her hair and she looked…perfect…absolutely perfect. Like an angel almost, all she needed was the wings and she could pulled off the look completely.
Then she walked in and stood at the front of the class, with all eyes on her, and she said, "Hello everybody, my name is Scarlet Surreal. It's a pleasure to meet you all.". Then she specifically looked at Lincoln and said, "I can't wait to get to know you all.". Ms. Quartz said, "How about you tell us a little about yourself Scarlet?", and Scarlet nodded and said, "I'm an only child. I have both my parents. I love reading comics and stuff like that. I love to do practically everything actually, especially to play games.". The entire time she talked, she never looked away from Lincoln, and then she said, "And before you guys ask, I already like somebody. I moved just across the street from him, and his name, yet to be revealed, is quite famous around this school.". Which made every guy sigh, except for Lincoln.
He was pretty sure he saw a moving van in his street somewhere, but he wasn't quite sure where it stopped because he and Ronnie Anne were training at that moment. Speaking of training, Lincoln clutched his hip a little when he felt a sudden pain in it and looked down at it, not enough to badly hurt, but definitely enough to notice it. His hip was still really hurt, like a punch there would definitely take it's toll on him. Scarlet seemed to notice this, and her smile fell. She walked over to him and placed a hand on his desk, which made him look up and he saw her face, and he felt like it was a blessing to even have her close to him.
Then she said, "What's wrong with your hip?", and Lincoln said, "Oh uh, nothing. I'm fine, it's nothing.". Then she put on a determined expression and said, "It's not nothing if your clutching it, so what happened to it?". Lincoln really loved her voice, it sounded like an angels, but he snapped himself out of her lovely trance. Then he said, "I was just…playing around…and I accidentally hit my hip on something and now it's just bruised really bad. Nothing to be worried about, I promise.". He told her yet another lie because he didn't want other people to know he was training.
He wanted to be strong and if everybody knows he trains then they'll think he is weak. Scarlet though, saw straight through his lies, but decided not to keep pushing. She didn't want to embarrass or hurt him, so she took her hand off his desk and said, "Well okay, just don't hit it anymore then. We'd all hate for you to get hurt.", which made him blush a deep shade of red. She saw this and smiled knowing she could do that to him, then she walked to the desk on the other side of him and sat down in it while setting her bag down by her feet. She gave one last glance at Lincoln and he could've sworn he saw her wink, but he wasn't really sure so he paid no attention to it.
Then she pulled out her phone and and from the looks of it she sent a quick text and put her phone away. Then the teacher started class and the entire time it went on, Ronnie Anne was absolutely fuming with anger. She had to restrain herself so much just to not hit that red headed tomato.
When class ended, everybody but Scarlet, Lincoln, and Ronnie Anne left. Ronnie Anne was waiting by the door and Lincoln was packing up his bag. Scarlet though, had a different motive for staying behind. When Lincoln finished packing his bag, Scarlet walked over and put a hand on his shoulder, which made him turn around and say, "Hey Scarlet, do you need something?". Then Scarlet said, "I wanted to know what really happened to your hip. Why were…why are you still clutching it.".
Then Lincoln realized he was still clutching his side, he sighed in realizing he couldn't lie his way out of this. She clearly saw straight through his lies and wanted to help him, so he yielded and said, "I was training because I'm tired of being weak, stupid, and useless. I want to be better, smarter, and stronger. So that's why my hip hurts. Because me and Ronnie Anne were practicing fighting. I only train during P.E because that's the only period where I can without anybody getting suspicious. Sorry I lied to you, I just don't want people to think I'm weak.". Scarlet felt sad for Lincoln, not only could she see through his eyes, but she could also see his built up anger and pain. He had been hiding it for a while. She wanted to do anything she could to help him, so she pulled out her phone and sent another text and put it in her pocket. Lincoln put his bag on and slowly took his hand off trying his best to ignore the pain.
Then he said, "It was nice meeting you Scarlet, and I hope we get to see each other again. I have P.E right now with Ronnie Anne, so I-", then Scarlet cut him off by saying, "Hey, I actually have P.E too. So I'll come with you. What's your name by the way?", and Lincoln said, "It's Lincoln, Lincoln Loud.". Then they shook hands and Lincoln thought to himself, "Good god, her hands are so soft.". Then they pulled away and walked out the classroom. Ronnie Anne walked with Scarlet and Lincoln, but stayed especially close to Lincoln. She didn't want Scarlet anywhere near her man, but she was the new kid and needed friends.
So until she found some friends Ronnie Anne would allow her to be Lincoln's friend. She was jealous about how hot this Scarlet girl was compared to her, not to mention she had astonishing curves. They all chatted and walked onto the playground. It's actually called recess but everybody calls it P.E. So when they got there, Ronnie Anne said she was going to use the restroom(bathroom), and Lincoln and Scarlet went over to the monkey bars. Lincoln started doing pull-ups as they talked together.
Lincoln was at thirty four pull-ups and then two kids came up to them. Scarlet looked at them and said, "Hey, I'm Scarlet. Who are you two?", and the tall one said, "We just wanted to introduce ourselves.", and Lincoln said, "Are you two new here as well?". The shorter one said, "Yeah, we just transferred here. So what's your name pull-up man?", which made Lincoln smile. So he said, "My name is Lincoln Loud, nice to meet you two. So what are your names?", and the two kids looked at each other and nodded. By now Lincoln was on his fiftieth pull-up.
The taller one walked up to Lincoln and took him by surprise. He punched Lincoln in his stomach, making him fall to the ground while clutching his stomach. Scarlet yelled, "What are you doing?!?! Stop it!!!! Leave him alone!!!! You're not supposed to do that!!!!", but the shorter one held her back so she couldn't interfere. Then all the kids in the playground formed a circle around the four and the tall one kicked Lincoln on his head, making him fall back. The tall one said, "Come on Lincoln, is that all you've got?", and when Lincoln finally got up, he said, "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?!?!?!?!".
The tall kid punched Lincoln across his jaw and said, "I'm here to beat the shit out of you, so make this interesting and fight back!". He threw another punch but Lincoln parried it and shoved him back, then he said, "I don't want to fight you!", and the tall kid said, "Then let me make it easier for you then. You have a girlfriend don't you? So if you loose then I'll go after her.". Then Lincoln's whole expression turned so cold and threatening that it could make the Devil cower before him. Lincoln stood straight up and clenched his fists while looking down a little and he tightly closed his eyes. He was trying his best to control it, but that will power was broken when the tall kid said, "After all, she wouldn't want to be with a weak, pathetic, useless idiot…like you.".
That's when every bit of self control he had was broken. All his rage and sadness came rushing up all at once and he clenched his fists even tighter, turning his knuckles white. Time seemed to stop as everything replayed in his mind what people had said about him, "He's a useless idiot. He's too weak and stupid. He's an idiot, he will never be good enough. He's such a burden, why is he even here? He's useless, and he will never be good enough for anything. I hate him, he's ugly. What a disappointment. You can't even do one thing correctly. You pathetic disgrace. What a pathetic, weak, ugly, and stupid boy. You are useless, and nothing but a burden to everybody, and you always will be. You can't change who you are, so just leave and never come back. You are just a pathetic excuse for a human. Nobody loves you, not even your own family. Nobody needs you…nobody wants you.".
Finally, he snapped. All the anger, sadness, pain, regret, everything. It shot up to the surface and the happy mask he always wore shattered. Time seemed to slowly pick up, and he slowly opened his eyes and unclenched his fists. He made a venomous smirk and looked up, sending chills down everybody's spine, even the two kids.
Then he put his thumb in his pocket like a really chill person does and he said, "Okay, that's it. You want to fight? Then I'll gladly rip your throat out.". Which made the tall kids' eyes go wide and his jaw drop, mostly because of just how calm he sounded when he said that. But instead of running, he raised his fist and said, "I'm gonna kick your ass all over this playground. After that I'm gonna-". Lincoln's venomous smirk grew even wider, and he said, cutting off the taller kid, "But that's just the thing, you threw the first punch. Which means now I can kill you and I won't even get into trouble, but if you kill me then you will have one hell of a punishment. After all, I can kill you now and since you started the fight, that means whatever I do to you is considered self defense. But if you get caught, you'll, once again, get one hell of a punishment. I call it being smart, something you clearly know nothing about.". The tall kid growled and threw a punch at Lincoln.
Only to have Lincoln grab his fist and stop all he force in it, with little to no effort. Which made everybody's jaw drop, they were astonished. This kid was at least twice, if not three times Lincoln's size, and he just stopped his punch with little to no effort . Then a series of flashes began in Lincolns mind, forcing him to quickly relive everything he had gone through lately. His anger only grew even more, and he said, "You don't know what it's like…the pain.", and then Lincoln sent his fist into the tall kids' stomach, knocking the breath out of him and sending him back two to three feet.
He didn't have time to recover, because Lincoln had already moved and landed another punch on his nose, successfully breaking it while hearing a satisfying crack. The kid fell to his knees while holding his nose, he was clearly trying his hardest not to cry. Then Lincoln grabbed the kids hair and yanked it up so that he was looking Lincoln dead in his eyes as he stood in front of him. Then Lincoln said, "You don't know what I've been through, and you will never understand. I've been through stuff no kid should ever have to endure. So if you think you can just come over and punch me and threaten my girlfriend, then you have another thing coming.". Lincoln slowly snaked his hand around the kids neck and tightly squeezed it.
He was now choking the tall kid, as said kid was slowly loosing consciousness. But the tall kid decided he was not going out like this, so he reached into his pocket and pulled out a pencil, and he slashed at Lincoln, opened a big wound on Lincolns hip. The same hip that really hurt before, making the pain five times as worse. Everybody's eyes went wide, and their jaws dropped, again, even Lincolns. Lincoln released his neck and slowly walked backwards, clutching his hip as best he could.
Then, when he was a good distance away, he fell to his knees, still clutching his hip. He quickly checked on his wound, thankfully, it wasn't deep enough to be dangerously bleeding. But trust me, he was bleeding alright, and it hurt, a lot. The tall kid slowly got up, and walked over to Lincoln. He grabbed Lincolns hair and pulled his head up slightly to make him look him dead in the eyes.
Then he held the pencil to Lincolns face, and with a twisted, determined, deathly stare, and his eyes as cold as ice. He said, "Any last words, you pathetic waste of space?", but to everybody's shock. Lincoln just smiled, but in his smile, it showed anger, sadness, regret, hopelessness, despair, sorrow, grief, and even a little tear slid down his cheek. For that moment, his mental walls he had built over the years inside himself, were broken. People say your eyes are the window to your soul, but nobody ever thought Lincoln had a window…until now.
For that moment, everybody saw his pain and suffering. They all saw everything within him. His soul, was torn apart. His innocence was gone, along with his sweet smile that everybody loved. Even the tall kid who was threatening to kill him, immediately melted when he saw everything inside of Lincoln.
For that split second, everybody felt everything Lincoln had been feeling…everything. They all froze…when they saw his inner demon. Everybody has one, even the nicest people. But it's always the nicest people, who have the biggest demons…and Lincoln the was nicest of all. They all saw his demon, and if they had to be honest…it terrified them.
His demon was filled with pure rage, pain, sadness, despair, grief, and so many more emotions. The tall kid hesitated, realizing what he was doing to him. He was only causing him more pain and suffering. Nobody could tell how long they stood there, and frankly, nobody really wanted to know. The tall kid suddenly pulled his senses back into place, and he tightened his grip on both the pencil and Lincolns hair.
He said, "I'm sorry, but I have no choice. She'll kill me if I don't kill you.", which triggered everybody's curiosity. But what really started to scare them, was when Lincoln started calmly laughing, even as the pencil was on his throat, he kept laughing. That's when the tall kid said, "What the hell is so funny? Aren't you scared to die?", which only made Lincoln laugh even more. After he was done laughing, he looked the tall kid dead in his eyes, and said, "This whole situation is funny. You are gonna kill me, my family hates me, the girl I once loved shattered my heart and now it's difficult for me to love anybody. That's just the short and really, really, really, really nice way to put it. As for your question. No, I couldn't care less if I died, in fact, it might be better that way. So do everybody a favor, and just do it already.". His smile fell, and now even the tall kid didn't want to even hurt him, much less kill him.
But he had too, he had no choice. So he said, "I'm sorry I have to kill you, but I have no choice. If I don't do it, then she will kill me and my brother.". Then, all of a sudden. Clyde bursted through the crowd of kids and was panting, which gained both Lincoln's and the tall kids' attention. Clyde said, "Lincoln! I *pant* brought L- *pant* Lynn!", with that said, Lynn walked through the crowd and into the circle they were in. But what they saw, immediately shot fear into both the tall kid and Clyde.
Lynns fists were clenched so hard that more than the knuckles were white, and her usual smiling face was turned into a cruel and cold expression with gritted teeth. Her face was basically screaming, 'I'm gonna fucking rip you apart.', and to be honest, the tall kid clearly received it, and believed it. Clyde instantly knew where this was heading, and quite frankly, he didn't want to get caught up in the middle of it. So he slowly snuck out of the crowd. Lynn said in a tone so filled with rage that it would make Hulk look like a joke, "Get. Away. From. Him.".
You could see the fire in her eyes, and from the looks of it, she looked as if she was ready to kill. The tall kid was terrified to say the least, but he had a mission, and he didn't plan on failing it. So he released Lincoln's hair, and Lincoln fell to his side while clutching his right right. The tall kid completely turned to Lynn, and said, "I don't plan on letting you interfere with my mission, but if you insist. I'll just have to take you out as well.". Lynn said, in such an angry and dominating voice, "You will not hurt my Lincoln, he is mine, and I don't plan on letting you hurt him anymore. But if you insist, then I'll just have to take you out.".
He then raised the pencil up and got into a fighting stance, which only infuriated Lynn even more. Lynn raised her fists to chest level, and she cracked her knuckles. As if on cue, they both charged at each other. The tall kid slashed at Lynn, but she partied his attack and used her knee to kick his stomach. Then, before he could recover, she grabbed his wrist and turned it while plunging the pencil into his leg, making him scream in pain.
Then he swung his other hand at Lynn, but she caught it and twisted it far enough to hear a crack, which could only mean she broke his wrist, which, again, made him scream in pain. The tall kid backed away slightly and used his other hand to take out the pencil from his leg and threw it aside. After he did that, he held his wrist and balanced on one leg while barely putting any pressure on his wounded leg. Thankfully the pencil was short, so it didn't cause hardly any bleeding from his leg, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt like hell though. Lynn walked a little closer to him, and braced herself.
Then she spun around one time and kicked the tall kid in his stomach, successfully knocking the air out of him and sending him flying back. He hit the ground with a loud thud, and from the looks of it, he was down for good. With the tall kid done, she turned to find the short kid, only to find he was already by his brothers side. Lynn didn't bother to kick the short ones' ass. So she left him and ran to Lincoln's side.
Where she put a hand on his shoulder as he was still lying down on his side while still clutching his right hip. She said in a soft and caring voice, "Lincoln? Come on Linc, let's get you to the nurses office. She can help get you better. I'll help you there.". Then she put one of his arms around her shoulder and she gently lifted him up to a standing position, and they started heading towards the nurses office. Clyde ran up and put his other arm over his shoulder and helped the best he could. Then he said, "Don't worry buddy, we got you.", and on their way to the nurses office, Lincoln looked at Lynn, and she looked at him. Then, Lincoln said, in a faint and slow tone, "Thank you, Lynn.".
(A/U: So, I recently learned that you could actually own an OC if you created the OC. So I own the OC girl, Scarlet Surreal. P.S please don't take that in a perverted way, you know what I mean.)