User blog:LoudFanWolf/A Caring Chaps Conundrum with Conflict

A Caring Chaps Conundrum with Conflict, a story by LoudFanWolf

It was Sunday, which is usually lazy day at The Loud House, and everyone was doing their usual things; Luna was jamming on her axe, Lori was texting Bobby, Lincoln was reading Ace Savvy on the living room couch, Leni was bruishing her hair, Lynn was bouncing a ball on her foot, Lucy was doing a seance etc. Everything seemed normal. When suddenly a shriek came from Lana and Lola's room, which made every other Loud kid stop what they were doing, and rush toward the twins room, wondering if either Lana or Lola were in some kind of danger, or if they had gotten themselves involved in a household accident, which was very common given that the house was usually filled with 11 kids, who of course couldn't all be watched at the exact same time.

When all the other LKs got to Lana and Lola's room, they found the latter twin slowly backing away from her bed. A giant snake (or at least it was giant from the POV of a child) was sitting on Lola's bed, hissing at her, as a way of telling her to go away from it's resting place.

When Lola was sure that she was safe from the snake, she stomped angrily out of her bedroom, past her older siblings (Lisa was at the local University giving a lecture, and Lily was with Rita and Lynn Sr at the park) and toward the bathroom. When Lola reached the closed bathroom door, she began to pound on it while screaming "LANA! LANA! LANAAAAAAA!!!"

Lana, who was in the bahtroom fixing the bathroom sink which had broken for the 3rd time that month, screamed back from behind the door "WHAT?!"

"COME! OUT! OF! THERE! RIGHT! NOW! WE NEED TO TALK!" Geez, talk about angry. The other Loud siblings had seen Lola when she got mad plenty of times, but never like this.

Lana opened the bathroom door, an annoyed look on her face. "Geez, sis, what do you want? Can't you see I'm trying to fix the sink here?"

Lola, still red in the face with boiling rage shouted back in reply. "I don't care about the sink right now! How many times have I told you to keep your mangy, nasty, bloodthirsty animals away from MY SIDE of the bedroom?"

Lana raised an eyebrow. "Bloodthirsty? Why would you say that?"

"Oh, I don't know, how about the DANGEROUS, POISONOUS, BLOODTHIRSTY SNAKE THAT I JUST FOUND ON MY BED?!"

"Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you, I found this snake near the junkyard and it looked so lost and lonely, so I brought it home with me."

"WHY, WHY, WOULD YOU DO THAT?! I have a hard enough time with El Diablo slithering all around the house all the time as it is, so why would you bring another reptile into this house?"

Lana's eyes narrowed. "Hey! My animals have the right to go wherever they please in and around this house!"

"Not on my bed! That snake will get its slime all over my blankets!"

"Snakes don't slime over things, Lola! But you wouldn't know that. The only snakes that you know are the ones that your clothes are made out of!"

"Ugh, as if! I would never wear something made out of a disgusting reptile!"

Lana gasped. "Don't you ever, EVER, call my reptiles or any of my other animals disgusting!" Lana snapped at her twin.

Lola leaned in and became nose-to-nose with her twin. "I'll call them whatever I want to, grease monkey."

"Not if I have anything to say about it, brat queen."

Lana and Lola growled at eachother before Lana jumped on Lola and began to punch, kick, and bite at her twin, Lola doing the same.

Lori leaned in and whispered to the rest of her 6 siblings who weren't fighting. "Sibling Fight Protocol is in affect now! Quick, everyone, to Lincoln's room!" And the 6 Loud siblings did just that, as they sprinted toward Lincoln's room, the latter shutting and locking his bedroom door, before hiding and staying quiet with the rest of his 6 siblings. This had become routine with sibling fights ever since the sisters had realized their mistake of not letting their brother know about the "Sister Fight Protocol" which they had now changed to the "Sibling Fight Protocol" so as to not leave Lincoln out of it anymore.

The 7 Loud siblings were sitting in their small, unfortunately cramped safe space, uncomfortable, but at least thankful to no longer be out there, where two angry, rowdy twins were fighting, out for each other's blood.

"Okay, " Lori started "We all should be safe in here as long as-"

"HEYYYYYY YOUUUUU GUYYYYYYYYS!!!"

'Oh no,' the 7 Loud siblings thought 'Derek is here, and now, he's in mortal danger.'

Derek Gabriel, like clockwork, walked up to the Loud House front door, knocked on it rhythmically, and without waiting for an okay to come in, entered the house, and yelled his usual greeting. Afterwhich, Derek was immediately greeted by two six year old girls brawling down the stairs. Now, it wasn't unusual for Derek to be greeted by Lana and Lola arguing when he came in the door, but this was different. When the twins usually argued, it was mostly just small (and yet very noisy) disagreements, and when it got physical, it was usually just a small tug of war sort of deal, pulling at something back and forth and both of them claiming it was theirs. But in the half-year that Derek had known the Loud family, he had never seen Lana and Lola get this physical with their fighting.

When Lana and Lola's brawl reached the bottom of the stairs, both pairs of their eyes traveled, and they noticed their family friend/2nd brother, Derek, in the doorway. 'Great, Derks here, he knows how much I hate/love animals, let's see whos side he's on!" Both twins thought with determination.

After much brawling, the twins broke apart in order to look more inncoent for Derek.

"Hi, Derk," the twins said simultaneously, with Lana jumping into Derek's arms like she usually would whenever Derek came over. Both twins had smiles on their faces, both of them wanting Derek to be on one of their sides as much as possible.

"Hey, twins," Derek said, he looked both of the twins over, and after he noticed the bruises and bitemarks and all over twins arms and faces, he asked "Uh... did I miss something?"

"Hold on, I wanna show you something!" Both twins said as they took Derek by the hands and dragged him up the stairs.

Back in Lincoln's bedroom, the 7 hiding Loud siblings were listening to the twins and Dereks conversation, some with their ears pressed to the floor, some listening through the crack in the door. Lynn was wondering why Derek wasn't running for the shelter like she thought he would. "Why is Derk talking to them? This isn't one of their small disagreements, this is HUGE! Shouldn't he be pounding on the door and begging to be let in here by now? Why is he so casual about this?" Lynn thought out loud.

"Yeah... well, that's probably because uh.... I haven't told him about the Sibling Fight Protocol yet." Luna said nervously.

"Yeah, me neither." Lincoln said nervously. The rest of the siblings (sans Lynn) nodded their heads awkwardly.

"We've known Derk for at least half a year, where he's already become like a part of this family, and yet you guys haven't told him about the Sibling Fight Protocol yet?! I can't believe all of you, especially you Luna!" Lynn shouted, pointing a finger at her rocker sister.

"I'm sorry! It's just that me and Linc were too busy focusing on band practice with him, and hanging out with him and stuff. Plus, I didn't think that he would want to hear about conflict after he-"

"STOP! Don't make me or any of us remember that terrible week!" Lucy shouted.

"GUYS!" Lori shouted "Let's not make it worse by starting another fight while another one is already going on. We all remember what happened last time we did that." Everybody silently agreed, as they all remembered the terrible train wreck that was the "dress" incident. So, after a moment of calming down, the 7 siblings continued to listen in on Dereks conversation with Lana and Lola.

The twins quickly led Derek toward their bedroom, both of their hands keeping a tight grip on either of Dereks hands until they arrived.

"Look, Derk, I found a snake!" Lana said, pointing at the snake, who was still laying on Lola's bed, as the three of them entered the room.

Derek gaped at the long reptile. "Wow, that is awesome! Where'd you find it, Lansy?"

Lola was shocked. "Where did she get it?! Derk, look where it is now! Look at it, getting its nasty slime all over my bed!"

Lana groaned. "I already told you, Snakes don't slime over things, Lola!"

"Whatever, it's still nasty! Come on, Derk, you of all people should know I like to keep things clean and pretty, tell Lana to keep her snake off of my bed!"

Derek looked at Lana and said "she's got a point, Lansy, you and I both know Lola and her desire to keep things clean and pretty. Maybe you should put the snake in a cage." Lola smiled, glad that Derek was on her side now.

Lana gasped. "Derk, how could you say that? You and I both know that animals deserve to run wild and free!"

Derek nodded. "Yeah, that's right, they do." Lana smiled, glad that Derek was on her side now.

"What?!" Lola yelled. "Derk, you can't be serious!"

"Well, Lols, Lansy has a poi-"

"But I don't want that dry, flaky snake skin to be on my blankets!" Lola yelled.

"Well, then, you're just gonna have to deal with it, because the snake is staying!" Lana said with determination. "Right, Derk?"

Derek was starting to feel nervous and conflicted. "Well, Lansy, umm..."

"HA! See, Lana, Derk agrees with me!" Lola said as she grabbed Derek's arm.

"No, he agrees with me!" Lana retorted as she Derek's other arm

"No, he agrees with me!"

"No, he agrees with me!"

Lana and Lola had begun yet another tug of war fight, but this time it wasn't with a doll or a stuffed animal, it was with the Loud family friend/family member, Derek Gabriel, who was feeling very nervous at conflicted at the moment. Derek agreed with Lanas notion that the snake should be able to run wild and free around the house, but he didn;t want to see Lola get mad at him. Let's be honest here, Lola was/is a brat, and if she doesn't her way, she gets angry, and NOBODY likes Lola she's angry. Derek was feeling so stressed, he hated seeing the people he loved fight.. It reminded him of his parents, and how Derek would hear them having arguments over money every chance they got, and how them fighting would always make him feel like a fly on the wall, watching his parents marriage break apart before his eyes. But now that he was officially in the middle of an argument, this time between two of his closest friends/sisters, he felt even worse. Derek felt stressed, confused, and he even felt of a bit of anger build up inside of him, which rose more and more as the twins tugged at him.

The twins kept pulling Derek to one side and then to the other, going back and forth, saying "No, he agrees with me!" "No, he agrees with me!"

Finally, Derek could stand it no longer, he used his hands to push both and Lana and Lola off of him. "STOP! STOP, RIGHT NOW! BOTH OF YOU!" Derek yelled, his voice filled with upset rage.

Derek's angry face turned towards Lana's shocked one, leaned down to her level, and pointed a finger at her before screaming "LANA, IF LOLA DOESN'T WANT YOUR SNAKE TO RUN AROUND THE HOUSE, THEN IT PUT IT IN A FRICKIN CAGE! YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH WILD ANIMALS RUNNING AROUND THIS HOUSE AS IT IS! HECK, MAYBE SOME OF THEM SHOULD BE PUT IN CAGES, TOO!"

Lola smiled, glad that Derek finally gave Lana whatfor. Lola's smile faded, however, when Derek turned his still red, still angry face towards hers, bent down to her level, pointed a finger at her and screamed "AND YOU!  I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! YOU ARE SUCH A BRAT! YOU ALWAYS WANT EVERYTHING TO GO YOUR WAY! YOU ALWAYS GET YOU WANT THROUGH MANIPULATION AND LIEING.  MAYBE LAYING IN SOMETHING DISGUSTING WILL MAKE YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT, AND THAT LIFE ISN'T FAIR! YOU, LOLA LOUD, ARE THE WORST KIND OF BRAT, AND I HATE BRATS!"

Derek stopped to breath, he had just said a mouthful and needed to rest and calm down from his rant. That was when he noticed the incredibly sad and betrayed looks both of tht twins faces. 'Oh no, now I've done it. I lost my temper and now I've lost two (if not all, since the other Louds are their family too) of my close friends. You've really done it this time, Derek, you idiot.'

"Look, I'm really sorry, okay? I just-:" Derek hesitated. "If you need me, I'll be downstairs where it's nice and peaceful." With taht, Derek wlaked the stairs and into the living room, leaving 2 stunned twins behind.

The 7 Loud siblings hiding in Lincolns room had heard everything and were quite shocked, and seeing how the fight seemed to be over now. Lincoln unlocked his door and let himself and the rest out of his room to comfort the stunned and sad twins.

"Wow... I mean, wow. I've never seen Derk so upset before, like, at all." Leni commented, stunned at Derek's rare burst of pure anger.

"Me neither," the rest of the Loud siblings said simultaneously.

"I can't believe..." Lana started, tears pouring of her eyes "that Derk would yell at me like that." Lana finished as Luna comforted her crying younger sister.

"Yeah... I've been stuck in the middle of fights like that with twins load of times, and even I never snapped at them like that." Lincoln added. shocked at his big brother figures unusual rage.

"Well, maybe this would have never happened if SOMEBODY..." Lynn turned towards Luna "told Derk about the-"

Lori stopped her. "Lynn, what dd I say earlier?"

Lynn sighed. "Okay. But still, I wonder why Derk flipped out all of a sudden."

"Maybe we should go talk to him." Leni suggested.

The 9 Loud sinblings agreed, although the twins agreed very releuctantly.

"Don't worry, twins. I'm sure Derk didn't mean to yell at you or hurt your feelings. Maybe theirs something going on with him that we don't know?" Lori suggested.

"Yeah! I'm sure that's it!" Luna commented.

"Well then, guys, let's go talk to him." Lincoln said. And so, the 9 Loud kids went downstairs and toward the lving room, where Derek was watching TV.

When Derek heard the 9 Loud sliblings come up from behind him, he turned his towards them with a  forlorn expression his face. "Oh, hey..."

"Hey, Derkboy." Luan said, an sad smile in her voice. "We just wanted to see if you were alri-"

Suddenly, Derek got up from the couch, ran over to both twins and hugged them. Derek began crying as he apologized repeatedly to the twins, begging for their forgiveness.

"I"m so sorry, twins! Can you forgive me for being the meanest 2nd older brother figure ever?" Derek asked as he and twins broke the hug.

"Of course we can, Derky." Lola said.

"In fact, we're the ones who should be sorry. We shouldn't have involved you in our argument; We're really sorry, Derk."

Derek smiled. "It's okay twins, I forgive you." Derek said as he shared another hug with Lana and Lola.

"But Derk," Lori started, interrupting the sweet moment between him and the twins "why did you snap at them like that? You're usually not the one to get easily angered. Is something going on with you that we don't know about?"

Derek looked at all of the present Loud siblings, and then looked at the floor for a bit before muttering "yeah."

"Well, then tell us what it is, Derk. We can work it out. We want to help you as much as we can." Luna added, with a reference to the song We Can Work it Out by The Beatles.

"Well, here's the thing mates, ya see, I'm not really good at handling conflicts, especially conflicts that involve my famiily, and.." he looked at all 9 present Loud siblings "people who are like family to me." Derek continued on, telling the Louds all about his parents and how they would contsatnyl fight over money very chance they got, and how he always felt like a fly on the wall every time they did. After that, Lana got up, crawled into Derek's lap and hugged him.

"Well, Derk, not every family member is going to be cool with eachother all the time." Lori started after Derek finished.

"Oh, trust me, I know. I've had fights with both my parents and my sister each at least 3 or 4 times. and then there's Lansy and Lols, who have arguments all the time."

"Not only that, Derk, but sometimes, the whole family can be angry at one another." Luan added.

"Yeah. Heh, luckily, that's never been you lot, has it?"

Lori and Leni looked at each other nervously. Both of them thought that they might as tell Derek about the '"incident."

"Well, actually, Derk..."

And so, Lori, Leni and Lincoln (to add his own special side of the story) told Derek about "the dress incdient." Nobody was counting, but by the end of it all, Derek had to have facepalmed at least 7 times.

"Really?" Derek said at then of the story, completely duumbofunded by the story he just heard. "All that over a dress?"

"Yeah, we know," Lori said while rubbing the back of her head. "But me and Leni and everybody else made up, we realizxed our mistake of letting Lincoln in on the protocol, and we changed it's name from 'Sister Fight Protocol' to 'Sibling Fight Protocol.'"

"And now that you're technically part of our family, you can be in on it, too!" Leni added with a bubblygiggle and smile.

"Yeah, I guess. Oh, well, at least you all learned from it. And that's pretty much the biggest fight you guys have had, right? (A/N: If you're confused, my Derek stories usually take place after season 2.)

"Well.." Lincoln started, awkwardly rubbing the back of his head "There was this one where we found while cleaning the attic.." With that, Lincoln shared the story of Louds chaotically fighting while searching for the hidden treasure of Sharon DeMonet. This time, Derek had to have facepalmed at least times. Derek especially glared at Luna when Lincoln got to the part about her throwing him out with her speakers, with Luna standing awkwardly and in shame.

"Alright," Derek said when Lincoln finished "well, at least thats the worst it's ever been, right?"

"Well.." Lincoln began "actually..."

"OH MY GOD!" Derek shouted in exasperation before putting his head in his hands.

With that, Lincoln (and the rest of the Loud kids who were present) told Derek about the Sweet Spot incident. This time, Derek had to have facepalmed over 20 times.

"Are you serious?!" Asked a flabbergasted Derek at the end of the story. "All that over a freakin seat in the van?"

"Yeah, we know, it even sounds stupid to us now." Lynn said,

"I hope it does." Derek replied.

"Well, what can we say, Derek? We're not angels." Lincoln said.

"Yeah, I know that but.. my goodness.." Derek said and chuckled, a smile finally crossing his features as he took in all of the crazy stories that he just heard.

"But you know what, Derk?" Luna asked.

"What, Luny?"

Luna turned to her family. "I don't know if you guys have noticed, but doesn't it seem like we've been fighting less and less ever since Derk came into our lives?"

The rest of the present Loud kids thought for a moment, and then they all nodded.

"You see, Derk, even if we have had big family fights in the past, you coming into our lives has really changed all of us for the better."

"Yeah!" The rest of the Loud kids who were present agreed.

"And now, its time for us to do the same for you!" Lincoln added.

Another "yeah!" came from the rest of the Loud kids who were present.

"Wow, really?" Derek asked.

Yeah, man, we totally owe you one, you deserve it." Lynn said, a smile full of gratitude on her face.

"Wow..." Derek said as he took it all in for a moment again, before looking all the Loud kids who were present at the time "I know I say this a  lot, but-"

"We know," Lori interjected "we love you too, 2nd brother."

"And my big brother." Lincoln added.

"GROUP HUG!" Luan happily shouted as they all came together in a big, happy group hug. Yep, life was good (and now it was gonna get even better) for Derek Gabriel and the Loud family.

THE END

(A/N: WOOHOO!!!! YEAH BABY, I'M BACK, AND IT FEELS SO GOOD!!! Hope you enjoyed reading this one, y'all!)