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(Royal Woods Airport, 3:10p.m.)
The Tabbycoln retrieval team arrived at the airport and found parking spots at the top of the parking garage. After they all got out of their cars, they rushed down to the entrance, and entered the airport trying to find the right gate. Failing to spot it within a sea of faces, they decided to ask a customer service officer where to go.
"Excuse me sir, do you know where we can find the gate to Nashville?" asked Lynn Sr.
"Yes, the gate number is D86, just head down the east hall until you see the gate number." directed the officer.
"Thank you so much." said Rita with a thankful tone.
After retrieving the directions, the team ran towards the gate with great speed, hoping it was not too late. They looked like a stampede of wild animals running across the savannah.
Lincoln and Tabby had just gotten their bags checked and were about to make the next big step in their lives. Making their way to the Jetway, Lincoln felt the biggest amount of eagerness he ever had in his body.
"Are you ready for this Lincoln?" asked Tabby.
Lincoln looked at Tabby and nodded with a smile.
"I am ready for this, once we board this plane, our lives will forever change." said Lincoln
Tabby smiled at Lincoln's confidence once again taking his hand and heading towards the loading bridge. That was until they heard something.
"LINCOLN!"
Lincoln and Tabby looked over their shoulders without stopping to see that their family and friends had found them and tried to reach them.
While trying to get to them, security arrived and stopped them from getting any closer. Striving to break through the wall of officers, Rita tries a last resort plea to convince Lincoln to remain in Royal Woods.
"Lincoln, wait!" cried Rita
Lincoln and Tabby both stopped but did not turn around as they listened to what Rita had to say.
"Sweetie, we are so sorry! I know we messed up and I know there is nothing we can say to make it up to you, but please give us another chance." pleaded Rita. "I know we wronged you in the past, but if you let us, we can fix our family, all of us together." said Rita.
After Rita pleaded, Luna and Leni decided to try and convince Lincoln to stay as well.
"Baby bro we know were not perfect, but we promise we'll be better." pleaded Luna.
"Please come home Lincy we need you; you keep us all together and we can change." begged Leni.
"I promise to literally be a better older sister to you and the rest of our sisters, please Lincoln." promised Lori.
"Please come home Linc I'll tone down the pranks and jokes I swear!" begged Luan.
Neither side said a word as they awaited Lincoln's answer. They all noticed Lincoln was not moving and this made them worried. Tabby was about to ask him if he was all right, but then she saw his expression, and this made her scared. Lincoln had an irate look on his face, his eyebrows were arched so far downward that it looked like an arrowhead, his eyes changed from a calm and inviting ocean blue to a frigid, and aloof ice blue, and his teeth were clenched together with so much force that it looked like they were about to crack.
Many times, they had said they would change their ways, but nothing ever changed. He was done with the empty promises and meaningless signs of affection. After a long silence Lincoln turned around, and finally spoke.
"How about option number two. You take your empty words, shove it down your throats and go screw yourselves!" cried Lincoln as his outburst echoed throughout the airport stopping people in their tracks and looking at the source.
Everyone was shocked about Lincoln's choice of words. Never have they heard him sound or speak like this.
"You're sorry?! I do not think you understand the meaning of that word!" shouted Lincoln.
"Saying sorry means that you truly regret something you did, and you will never do it again, but that never registered into your pea brains because you are all too dumb and dense to realize that! You are right, there is nothing you can say to make it up to me, but there is also nothing you can do to make it up to me either! Time after time you told me you will never play favorites, that I do not need to earn your love or that you will always be proud of me, but that has been nothing but straight B.S!" roared Lincoln.
"You even promised you would never abandon any of your kids, and that you love all your kids equally, I guess by 'kids' you mean your psychotic daughters. you never saw me as your son or brother, considering you threw me out of the house without a second thought of me getting murdered, raped, or kidnapped! I even tried to show you my calling and new talents in art and music, but once again neither of you cared, because my life does not matter to you! I am not your son or brother, I never was I was just an object for all of you to use to rise to the top, take your anger out on, and blame all your faults on, and I am an idiot for not realizing that sooner." said Lincoln with a deep scowl and tears streaming down his face.
Once Lincoln finished releasing his bottled-up rage and anger, the Louds all felt their hearts shatter and have tears streaming down their cheeks. Before any of them could say anything, Lincoln turned his back and gave them a final warning.
"Do not try to bring me back to this crappy city, but if you do try to test the waters and cross another line, I will not be held responsible for what I will do to you next." warned Lincoln.
Lincoln then started to walk on the loading bridge and into the plane. Tabby started to follow, but then stopped and turned to the Louds. With a furious scowl on her face, Tabby spoke.
"You blokes did not fully know what you had. God gave you a perfect brother and what do you do? You take him for granted and put him on the Highway to Hell. Now he is free and can think of himself without any of you holding him back, and I will be there for him no matter what because he needs someone who will genuinely love him. So, Bye, Bye, Bye." said Tabby before she ran to meet up with Lincoln.
Rushing to her seat, the British rocker saw the white-haired lad setting his luggage into the storage shelf above his seat. Taking his seat Tabby was able to set her luggage in the cubby as well. Once everyone was in their seats and the standard rules and regulations were announced, the plane started to take off. Looking out the window, they saw everyone they encountered watching the plane leave. The Louds emotional dams broke, with all stored tears flowing down their faces. Pop-pop and Myrtle were waving goodbye with bright smiles. While the rest of the team were all indifferent, Tabby's parents were waving goodbye with smiles and tears going down their faces. The Casagrande's and Santiagos were all waving goodbye and were releasing their waterworks. While Gavin, Sam, Chunk, Benny, Ronnie Anne, Margo, Polly, Giggles, and Haiku waved goodbye giving them their best regards. Looking at his ex-family Lincoln shot one last glare at them before the plane lifted off.
Tabby glanced at Lincoln noticing he still held his bitterness and wrath towards his family; his eyebrows were still arched in a downward arrow, his teeth were still clenched together, and his breathing was starting to turn into a raging bull's breathing. Calmly putting her hand against his cheek with the gentleness of a pillow, Tabby turned Lincoln's head toward her. Making eye contact Tabby gave Lincoln a loving smile. Connecting their foreheads Tabby whispered to Lincoln.
"Everything is going to be okay love I am here, and I always will be. Take deep breaths, with me inhale." Tabby said in a comforting tone taking a deep breath.
Lincoln copied her motions inhaling at the same time she did.
"Exhale." said Tabby doing the said motion.
Lincoln released his breath as Tabby exhaled.
"Again." Tabby said taking another deep breath. Lincoln copied her motions again, once again being synchronized with their breathing.
They repeated the cycle three more times, with Lincoln now being calm and sporting his signature smile as the plane took off.
(The Loud House, 4:30p.m.)
Returning to the chaotic household after the mission failed, everyone took a seat in the living room, and a thick silence was created. No one uttered a syllable until Tabby's father decided to ask a soul piercing question.
"Louds I want to know something, and I want an honest answer, do you see Lincoln as an embarrassment?" questioned Tabby's father.
Once the question was laid out everyone turned to the Louds awaiting their answer. The Louds were taken back by this sudden question. The sisters all had shocked expressions, until Luna gave her two cents.
"WHAT?! No way, we do not see Lincoln as an embarrassment! We love our brother!" protested Luna.
"Really? You love your brother because your actions say otherwise." countered Tabby's mother.
"No one is perfect! There have been times we did not get along, and yes what we did in the "Bad Luck" Incident was too far, but that does not mean I do not love him, and I don't see Lincoln as embarrassment and neither do the rest of them, right guys?" asked Luna turning to her family.
"Of course not! Look me and Linc may not be close like you and him are, but I love him no matter what! I know I failed at being an older sister to him many times and threatened him for little things like entering my room or touching my phone plus the "Bad Luck" Incident and the Sister Fight Protocol disaster were the worst things that has happened to him, but that was then, and this is now!" said Lori with passion and confidence.
"Me neither! Linc will always have a special place in my heart, I couldn't have asked for a better assistant, and I know me using his feelings for Ronnie Anne for a prank and setting him up with Giggles for the Sadie Hawkins Dance was wrong, but like Lori said that was the past and I can and will change for the better!" stated Luan firmly.
"Same here! I love Lincy, and I always will, he is the reason I know how to drive now! All of you agree right?" asked Leni turning to the others.
Hoping to hear them agree, the rest of the Louds did not make a peep. This made Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luan's hearts break even more because this made them realize something... they never cared about Lincoln, and all the good times they had meant nothing to them.
"Um, hello?!" screamed Lori.
"Why aren't you dudes saying anything?!" cried Luna.
"Are you all really that heartless?!" shouted Luan.
"Do you really see Lincoln as an embarrassment?!" cried Leni.
The rest of the sisters turned away with depressed looks without saying anything, Rita looked down with great shame and Lynn Sr sighed deciding to speak and pour salt into open wound with a heart wrenching confession.
"When Lincoln was born, we loved him from the very beginning just like the rest of you, but as he grew up, we did not see any potential or anything special in him." said Lynn Sr in a regretful tone.
"That is the why I decided to try and get Lincoln into Football, it was not just to get Lincoln to be more physical, I wanted to see if he had potential at sports, but that folded. So, after that incident we agreed to let Lincoln do whatever he wanted, and we would just not acknowledge him for anything even if he did find his calling." said Rita with tears forming and a broken voice.
After hearing that, everyone's blood started to boil, but then Luna asked something that Lynn Sr and Rita would regret answering.
"What about the Bad Luck Incident? Did you really see him as Bad Luck?" asked Luna in an accusing tone.
"Actually, no we did not see him as Bad Luck, we knew he was lying so we just let the Incident roll on." admitted Lynn Sr with sadness in his voice.
The minute he finished the rest of the Loud sister's looked at them with the feelings of disbelief and betrayal flooding their hearts, while Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan and the guests anger erupted like a ferocious volcano. The four eldest sisters were about ready to belittle the lying parents they trusted.
POW
In a flash, Lynn Sr was given a knuckle sandwich from his father-in-law, who was seething in rage glaring down at his dim-witted son-in-law. After thirty seconds passed by Pop-pop spoke.
"Stay away from Lincoln, you are not to call him or find him. Do I make myself clear?" asked Pop-pop threatening his family, except Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luan. The Loud family nodded their heads in fear.
Pop-pop then turned to the four eldest sisters.
"I know you four deeply care for Lincoln, but just give him some time to settle into his new life, okay?" asked Pop-pop in a comforting tone.
The four loud sisters nodded in understanding. Pop-pop then turned to the guests.
"I know some of you are mentally exhausted and are still mad at my family, so we should all head home." said Pop-pop.
Nodding in agreement the guests started to leave before casting one last glare at the louds. After their friends and family left, Lori, Luna, Luan and Leni with Lily in her hands also gave their parents and sisters a death glare before retreating to their rooms, while the rest of the family stayed downstairs crying in despair and heartbreak wishing they could make it up to Lincoln, not knowing how much worse things were going to get for them.