A/N: Hey guys, Eazy here! My schedule has been restricting me from doing the weekly schedule I said I was going to keep, so I am going to make this the longest chapter ever! Thanks for all the support on the story so far, I know I've been kind of iffy with the update schedule but I want to put my best work out there that I can. You guys are the motivation to keep me going forward with this story. This chapter will be focused in the past, as you will see. Also I got some elements of this chapter from a few different stories that I've read. I want to give credits in the next posted "chapter" that I put up directly after this one. Also this chapter will be split in two parts due to me wanting to get something out there for you guys!

Chapter 3: Suffering In The Silence Part 1

In the present time, Lincoln is taking a break from work to have his weekly meeting with his Therapist. He is still going through his depressive phases from his sisters death, but he has gotten a lot better at handling it, but today being the 23rd anniversary of her death is hitting him worse then ever. Next to Luna, who became his adoptive mother at 16 due to the Back Luck Fiasco, Lincoln was the closest to Lynn Jr as a sibling. He talks to Dr. Founders about everything he regrets from his childhood, as well as the things he wishes he could change about what happened.

27 Years Ago

Lincoln had just returned to the Loud House for the first time in what seemed like months. He had been to court the day prior, his parents are currently imprisoned in the Michigan State Penitentiary for a 2 year sentence due to their involvement in the Bad Luck Fiasco. They testified to the court that all along they knew Lincoln wasn't bad luck, and just played along with the girls to make sure a fight didn't break out. When asked how often they got physical, they had to be truthful and responded with all the time. The jury was shocked, and found them guilty for child abandonment, child neglect and abuse of a child. They also found all of the older loud children guilty except for Leni, who called Law Enforcement when she saw the state Lincoln was in, and Luna who returned from a small tour she was doing, and got into a physical altercation with her sisters, and ran away with Lincoln taking the currently 12 year old Lincoln to the hospital, but not before Leni left with them and notified the authorities that they were leaving, Lynn Jr got the worst punishment of them all, 4 years in a medium security juvenile state penitentiary.

All of the younger Louds were adopted by their closest friends and assisted them in getting what they needed, Lincoln supported them and still loved him but it would be a very long time before he let them into his heart again.

Leni insisted to the court that Luna be appointed as Lincolns and Lily's legal guardian despite her age. She was the most protective and caring for Lincoln and had acted as a 2nd mother to him his whole life, which the court approved of. Luna Loud was now the mother of Lincoln Loud.

Lincoln, Luna and Lily were given the house of the former Louds as well as a large settlement. They were basically loaded but didn't think spending their money quickly was a smart thing to do. Lincoln only asked Luna for two things, a house outside of town, and a decent vehicle to be stored in said house for when he got older.

Stella Zhau moved into Royal Woods a few months ago and had met Lincoln, almost immediately she fell in love with the white haired boy. She wasn't sure how to tell him how she felt about him, she had never felt this way about anyone else before and didn't know how to feel, she was very nervous that he would find out. What she didn't know is that he also harbored feelings for him as well, he felt like someone had punched him in the face, but in a good way. He was also scared to tell her how he felt in fear of losing her. Growing up in a house of 13 meant he knew how relationships worked most of the time and he didn't want it to turn into that for them.

But after the Bad Luck Fiasco, they both knew just how strong their love is for each other.

3 Days After Court

For the first time in a while, Lincoln was happy. Stella told him yesterday to meet her at Ketchum Park so she could tell him something important, she described it as something that may change their lives forever, and for the better. He was feeling extremely down about the whole Bad Luck Fiasco and the court case that followed, seeing his family split apart like it was hurt him more then them abandoning him. Lincoln was on his bike and finally pulled up to the park with Stella waiting on him on a near by bench, she waved to him and told him to sit down, she told him how she feels and he told her that he reciprocates her feelings. They kissed and started holding hands, what they didn't notice is the younger loud sisters were in the park and saw and heard the entire exchange, they were happy that their brother found love. The next day at school, Lincoln and Stella walked into school hand in hand, with everyone looking at him and her. They were nervous at what all of the guys would think due to them having a small crush on Stella as well, and them all making a pact to not ask her out. Lincoln was the most nervous out of the two because of the pact. They walked up to their friend group, all of them with slightly angry faces. Stella knew of the pact and assured them that it was her who asked him out and confessed how she felt to him before he had a chance to. They were relieved at how Lincoln kept his word and stuck to the pact, but were also kind of disappointed that Stella chose him out of all the friends in the group, but they really were happy for Lincoln and didn't get mad at him. They all had bro love for Lincoln and could never turn their backs on him.

The rest of the day went well with them being the talk of the school, which wasn't surprising. The other kids thought of Lincoln as a kind of nerdy kid, but they didn't bully him. Everyone showed support and spoke fondly of him, after the Bad Luck Fiasco everyone in the school treated him in a special way which he didn't like at all, He didn't like being treated differently then the other kids in the school to which he spoke to Luna about. He told her that he's stressed out because everyone thinks of him as the traumatized child in the school and treats him differently, almost like they would walk on eggshells around him. He didn't need to be babied at all or shown any kind of treatment, he moved on in his own way and needed to find a way to show everyone that.

The next day at school Lincoln asked Principal Huggins if he could get everyone to the auditorium which he approved of as Luna had spoken to him earlier in the day about Lincolns plan, Huggins went on the intercom and told everyone to please head to the auditorium for a special speaker. Lincoln explained to the whole school the current situation and how he has worked through it his own way and didn't need to be treated differently then anyone. While splitting his whole family apart made him feel horrible, he was content with the result hoping they would result in the older sisters learning their lesson to not treat him that way. He also explained that while him and his sister/moms relationship is a special dynamic, she should not be treated any differently then she would want to be. What Lincoln didn't know was that his mom was in the back of the auditorium and surprised him after his speech, she hugged him and told him she was proud for standing up for himself, Stella also joined in on the hug which made Luna happy as she could see the future between the two children coming to fruition.

4 weeks later

Stella and Lincoln have been together for a month or so now, they are out celebrating their one month at Jean Juans French Mex. They are having a fun romantic night that started at Gus' Games And Grub. They were hanging out and talking about the adventures that they've had over the past month. They've been working through the issues they've faced, as they end their talk Luna pulls up in her new purple Ferrari F12, the only thing she decided to spend part of the money from the settlement on, as well as renovate the former Loud house as well. They updated the house to make larger rooms, as well as make it more modern, Being a full smart house now. The upgrades to the house and buying the car didn't even touch the amount of money they have in the bank account. Despite being the richest family in the city, they were still humble about it and helped people whenever they could. Lincoln had been going through a lot as he had a newfound target on his back, from the court case and his newfound riches, everyone was attempting to extort money from the now three member Loud family. Lincoln had almost gotten hurt multiple times before Luna stepped in and stopped the situations, as well as the Royal Woods police officers that she had made friends with. The house that Luna had bought for Lincoln had been broke into multiple times which lead to her adding major security updates and making sure nobody could enter the property without someone being notified.

There was a new company in town called Futech, they were a military organization from a different….universe? Lincoln wasn't sure he knew how or if it made sense but apparently there are multiple universes that are different from theirs. The Futech CEO Lucas Heel came to him and told him that information. From what he said Lincoln has an Alternate universe version of him that is a hero and helps save the different universes, but Lincoln has yet to meet him. Lucas told Lincoln it would be a few months before he met his counterpart. He was completely fine with it as he still wasn't able to process the information being told to him.

3 Weeks Later

Lincoln was walking down the road to meet his girlfriend Stella at the park, as he was approached by a black van. He had headphones in his ear and couldn't hear the sound of the men getting out of the van and approaching him from behind, they grabbed Lincoln and put a rag over his mouth and he then blacked out.

At The Park

"Where could he be? He's never late." Thought stella out loud.

Just as she finished her sentence, Clyde pulled up on his bike and told Stella what he saw with Lincoln getting kidnapped and drugged. Stella told Clyde to wait here whole she walked a bit of a distance away from him and called Luna. She told her what Clyde said about Lincoln and Luna immediately told her she was on the way to the park. Soon enough Luna arrived with Lily in her arms and she called the cops, she also told Clyde to stay here which he agreed to. She called Lucas as well to notify him what was currently going on and asked them if they could help her find Lincoln, to which he replied yes and told them they would have reinforcements in the next 15 minutes. She thanked him and hung up, Stella was crying so she comforted her and told her everything was going to be fine, that they would find Lincoln in one piece. Soon enough, half of the Royal Woods Police Department was at the park trying to get all the information they could. Questioning not only Clyde, but Stella as well as Luna to which the trio told the police officers everything they know. Lincolns phone was found dumped which threw them off the trail unfortunately, soon enough a gunship that looked like a Vertibird from the Fallout series arrived, and out walked three very familiar individuals, Luna saw them and her jaw dropped. It was a masked version of Luna, Lincoln and Sam, looking very awesome. They all walked up to Luna and asked her all she knew. She told them and started asking questions to which they said they would wait until after this is all done to answer her questions.

Back with Lincoln

Lincoln started to slightly stir awake to realize that he was in a dark place that looked like a warehouse, he wasn't sure who would do this and who would want to take him. He knows since he became the riches kid in the city he knew that he has a lot of enemies, but some shit talking never mattered much, right? Well, he was wrong as Chandler came around the corner, and started beating him with a metal baseball bat which brought back flashbacks of the Bad Luck Fiasco. He started yelling for someone to help him and was crying profusely, while Chandler was laughing and calling him a little bitch. Lincoln composed himself and started yelling at him calling him a bitch and a pussy that couldn't fight him without drugging him, and he broke free and started beating him with the same baseball bat that he had Lincoln. Just as this was happening the Royal Woods Saviors joined in and the police also pulled up and arrived. They broke down the door and saw Lincoln beating Chandler up, they pulled Lincoln off of him and looked to him in shock. Chandler was almost dead, and Lincoln told them he blacked out and started crying. They all comforted him and tried to calm him down to no avail. He was surprised to see the heroes there, but he knew they might come at the account of Luna. He knew of them a couple of weeks prior but didn't tell anyone at the request of them. He knew that they protected many alternate universes of their own. It was weird seeing himself and the two people he thought of parents look so awesome, but decided to hold off on questions until later. He was feeling better at this point, and they all boarded the gunship to head to the Loud house.

5 months later

Lincoln woke up with his girlfriend lying next to him. She had moved into the Loud house 3 and a half months ago. She was enjoying being able to spend more and more time with Lincoln as summer break was almost here, today being the last day of school. Everyone knew that they were living together, and for two 13 year olds it might seem way too early for them to move in but they had been together long enough to convince Stella's parents to let her move in with Lincoln, they were moving to great lakes city and she wanted to stay with Lincoln. Luna was granted guardianship over her as well, she had always been like a second mother to Stella ever since her and Lincoln got together and her being Stella's legal guardian only cemented that role. They were about to leave middle school and enter high school. After today, they would never see the halls of Royal Woods Middle School ever again. Stella started to stir and her eyes blinked open and looked into Lincoln's, he kissed her and said goodbye morning. They went through their morning routine and got ready for their last day of middle school. Today would mark their first steps into adulthood. They were both very ecstatic about today, because not only would they be leaving middle school, they would have a large graduation for the outgoing middle School students, with Lincoln being the center of it. He was going to give the speech in the beginning of it. Both kids were ready to leave and Luna dropped them off. They had a great day at school and were now home getting prepared for the graduation ceremony.

A/N 2: Hey guys Eazy here again. I know this has been a long time coming and I apologize for the wait as well as the need to split it into two parts. My hopes are that I can get part 2 out within the next couple of weeks barring any IRL interruption. Thanks again for all the support and I hope to be back soon!