Red: Here is the next one shot, please leave reviews on this and the previous ones.


It's been almost a week since Lincoln had been labeled a cripple and left the hospital, and things had changed noticeably. For one, their parents had divorced and Rita made sure that he could have no say in raising their children anymore. Lincoln also stopped going to school as much, thinking about having Lisa teach him instead. His sisters tried to make him feel welcome and stopped forcing him to help them with every little thing.

Speaking of which they were doing most of the things Lincoln normally had to do, taking out the trash for example. The biggest change that they had noticed was Lincoln's personality. He was becoming more closed off and distant than Lucy, which worried them greatly as he rarely ever talked or was seen by them, he rarely ever ate or drank something and they always noticed scars forming on his arms and legs and were even more worried.

*Lincoln*

The wheelchair confined Loud sat alone in the darkest part of the attic, not wanting his family to see him crying.

"Lincoln?" He heard the voice of Lucy beneath him. "I'm coming." He muttered as he picked himself up and sat in his chair before wheeling himself towards the hatch and opening it slowly, letting her into his hiding spot.

"Lucy, what do you need?" He asked her when she hugged him tightly with wet eyes. "I'm sorry for bugging you, I just wanted to be with you. I had a bad day at school." She sobbed into his chest as Lincoln wrapped his arms around her. "It's ok Lucy, you wanna talk about it?" He asked softly as the goth nodded nervously.

*Rita*

"No! You are NOT seeing any of my children Lynn and that is final!" Rita screamed at her ex-husband over the phone harshly. "Bu-"

"NO! And you know what, I am having each of them get restraining orders immediately." She barked.

"Y-You can't do that! I'm their father!"

"Not anymore!" Rita growled and hung up the phone, slamming the landline down on the receiver, she then screamed in anger with a pillow in her face.

"Mom, you okay?" Lori asked in concern as she and Leni entered the room.

"It's nothing dear." She said with a forced smile.

"Mom, please don't lie to us." Leni said sadly as her mother sighed and her eyes watered up.

"Your father is trying to get joint custody of you kids." She said sadly, making them scared and angry to the core. "I do not want to go anywhere near him!" Leni exclaimed angrily.

"I know sweetie." Rita sighed as she hugged her two oldest children.

*Lincoln*

"And then I ran home crying." Lucy finished her story of her terrible day.

"Lucy I..I-I'm so sorry you went through that." He said depressingly and angrily while kissing her forehead, getting her to smile weakly. "How about we go out and get us both some ice cream, that sound good Luce?"

He asked Lucy with a smile as he slowly rolled down the steps with her in his lap. "That sounds…nice." She spoke happily, or in her case a less dull tone.

*Elsewhere*

"Damn my thirst for knowledge." Lisa swore in aggravation to herself as she worked on a device to try and heal all of Lincoln's injuries, however it could not repair the permanent damage in his legs no matter how hard she tried.

"Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT!" She banged her head against her desk multiple times when Lily started crying.

"Oh Lily, I'm sorry." She sighed as she went over and picked her up, rocking the infant back and forth gently.

"It's ok." Lisa whispered in a soft tone. "Linky!" The baby whimpered in sadness as Lisa carried her to the kitchen, hoping that feeding Lily would calm her down.

*Lincoln*

"Thanks for listening to me Lincoln."

"No problem Luce." He said with a smile as he handed her a cone of mint chocolate chip and she shyly started to eat it while in his lap

"So anything you wanna do?" He asked her with a smile.

"No, not really." The Goth muttered as she looked away with an embarrassed look. "All I really want to do is spend some time with you."

*Later*

"Where did Lincoln go?" Rita asked nervously.!"I think he went out with Lucy." Lynn answered.

*That Night*

Lincoln folded his wheelchair and propped it against the wall before crawling into his bed. "Peace and quiet." He sighed with happiness as he drifted to sleep.

"Lincoln?" The white haired boy opened his eyes after two hours

"Lucy?" He yawned as he turned his head to the right, seeing the pale 8 year old with her hair parted from her face and showing an eyepatch on her right eye and tear stains under her crimson left eye.

"Lucy what happened to you?" Lincoln said with worry visible in his voice. "I've had this thing a since week after you got hit. And I can't sleep." She sobbed before crawling onto his bed and crying into his chest. "Lucy, how did you get that eyepatch?" He asked her, his anger slowly rising. "A few days after you went into the hospital, your school bully went looking for you, something about you kicking his ass. Since he couldn't find you he went after me to make you pay. He and his friends cut me up and he…"

"He didn't rape you did he?" Lincoln gritted his teeth. "No, he said that you made him half blind so he, well…" Lucy slowly reached for the eyepatch and lifted it up, revealing an empty socket. This made Lincoln want to puke and tear off someone's head. "He cut it out, 'An eye for an eye' he said." Lucy started to silently cry into his chest as he hugged her tight. "I can't sleep at night because I feel like he's going to kill me and the others while I'm asleep!" She sobbed in fear as she started shaking and breathing faster. "Lucy?" She didn't respond, instead her eye twitched and she started to foam at the mouth "LORI GET IN HERE NOW!" He roared as the oldest rushed in.

"She won't breath!" He said in a panic as one by one the other sisters woke up, Luna keeping the twins in their room.

"Stand back!" Lisa said as she brought out a defibrillator and set it to max power. "CLEAR!" She yelled as she pressed it to her chest, causing the goths body to twitch.

"CLEAR!" Lisa shouted again as she repeated the process.

"Come on Lucy stay with us!" Leni cried.

"One more time, CLEAR!" Lisa screamed as she pressed them against her chest one final time and got the result that they all hoped. Lucy let out a loud gasp as she quickly sat up with some blood leaking from under her eyepatch.

"Lucy you're ok!" Lori cried out. "Okay?! SHE'S MISSING AN EYE!" Luna shouted in shock and anger. "I've been missing it for months; I didn't want to be a bother so I said nothing." Lucy muttered under her breath sadly.

"WHAT?!" They yelled in sync. 'Ah jeez.'

*Later*

"And that's what happened?" Lynn said enraged.

"Yes." Lincoln spoke with a poker face.


"You okay Luce?" Lincoln asked gently. The other sisters had gone to sleep, Lincoln telling them that he would stay with her

"I guess so. I just didn't want them to worry about me." She said sadly. Lincoln smiled and kissed her forehead before holding her close. "Lucy, we're always gonna worry about you, especially me. If something happened to one of my sisters, I don't know what I'd do." He said as he covered her up in a blanket and slowly got her to sleep.