User blog:LoudFanWolf/Tears of Laughter

Tears of Laughter, a story by LoudFanWolf.

Derek was at home, laying in bed and playing on his iPad,  when he got a call from Rita Loud, who he affectionally referred to as "Mama Loud." Seeing that it was his 2nd mother figure who was calling him, Derek quickly answered his phone, put it up to his ear, and cheerfully said "Hey, Mama Loud, what's up?"

"Derek, honey, I need to tell you something." Rita started, sounding somber.

Derek was caught off guard by Ritas unusual dark tone of voice and replied with "Okay.... what is it?"

"There's been an accident, Luan is in the hospital, and she needs all the support she can get right now, and I'm sure that she would love it if- Derek, honey, are you there? Hello?"

As soon as Derek heard the words "Luan" and "hospital" being put in the same sentence, Derek rushed outside, not even bothering to put on his coat, got on his three-wheeled motorcycle and started booking it to the Royal Woods Hospital.

"Derk, sweetie, are you there?" Rita Loud asked from the cell phone that was currently in Dereks pocket.

Derek put the cell phone up to his ear again and frantically cried "On my way to the hospital now! I'll be there in like 3 minutes!"

Rita, astonished by how quickly Derek was able to react to the news of his girlfriend being hurt, replied to Dereks statment with "okay, honey, see you then," before hanging up.

Derek sped all the way down to the hospital, not even caring if the cops saw him, his girlfriend Luan; the who made happy, the one who he loved with all of his heart, the one who lit his life up like a bonfire, was hurt and  she needed him, and she needed him NOW.

Derek got the hospital in record time. After parking his motorcycle, he ran tthrough the front doors of the hospital, and to the desk of the disinterested looking secretary.

"I'm the boyfriend of Luan Loud, also a family friend, where is her family?" Derek cried while panting.

The disinterested secretary pointed to her right. "The big family is that way," she deadpanned.

"Thank you," Derek said to the secretary before running off in the direction the secretary had pointed.

Derek then found himself in a large waiting room, where he found the Loud family (sans Luan), including Albert, sitting in various chairs, waiting nervously/sadly for a doctor to come by and give information about Luna condition.

Lincoln was the first to spot Derek. The young, worried, stressed boy cried "Derk!" Before running up to  his 'big brother' and embracing him in a hug, Derek doing the same to his 'little brother.'

Rita, along with the rest of the family, spotted Derek as well, and ran up to him and Lincoln, who was still hugging him around the chest.

"Derk, honey, you're here! Thank you for coming." Rita said gratefully.

"Mama Loud, Luan is my girlfriend, and part of my 2nd family, did you really think I wouldn't be here?" Derek replied with a sad chuckle.

"True." Rita said, sadly chuckling along iwth him.

"So, what happened?" Derek asked.

Rita tried not to sob as she told Derek about how Luan ended up in the hospital. "A freak accident occurred at one of Luans circus brthday party gigs; she tried to do a backflip off of a 25 foot high diving board, there was a safety mat under it to catch her, but she missed it, and landed face first. There was blood all around her."

Lincoln began to softly cry into Dereks shirt, his mothers story unintentionally making him feel worse than he already did.

"Oh," Derek said nervously in response to the story. "Well, she's still gona be okay, right? I mean, it was only 25 feet."

"We don't know, sport." Lynn Sr. replied. "I mean, it was 25 foot drop onto cement, and that can cause some serious dam-"

"SHUT UP, DAD/LYNN!!!" The rest of the Loud family angrily shouted, not wanting to hear the gory details.

"Sorry! Sorry!" Lynn Sr. replied nervously, not wanting to upset his family further.

Then, a doctor came in. "Family of Luan Marie Loud?"

"That's us!" Cried all of the Louds, and Derek simultaneously.

"Hmph, there sure is a lot of you." The Doctor commented, before his expression turned serious and somber. "Which makes what I'm about tell you a lot harder to say."

"What's the damage, doc? What's wrong with me sis?" Luna asked.

"Well, young lady, it's more like what was wrong with her." The doctor stated somberly.

That statement took the Loud family and Derek aback.

"W-was? W-w-what do you mean was?!" Lynn Sr. asked as a mixture of shock, confusion and denial ran through his veins.

The doctor gave a sigh. "I'm sorry, we did everything we could, but her internal bleeding was too excessive, her heart gave out and we couldn't revive her. Again, I'm very sorry." The doctor stated sadly.

Shock, sadness, and denial ran through the veins of the entire Loud family, and Derek.

As soon as the doctor finished his statement, Luna screamed and sunk to her knees in grief, sobbing profusely at the loss of her sister, roomate, and arguably her best friend.

Rita wasn't far behind Luna, doing the same thing before hugging Luna close, and crying along with her.

At the news of his daughters death, Lynn Sr grew pale, his face contorting intoone of unending shock. His little Jokester, the only one who seemed to have his sense of humor, was dead, Luan was no longer able to crack jokes with him, spedn time with him, Luan was gone.

For Lincoln, it actually took a few secpnds to register what the doctor had said, and when it finally became clear that his comedienne sister, the one who had given him a job as her sidekick, the one who had helped him make up with the rest of his sisters during the "trophy" incident, the one who he had helped get back into comedy after mocking her out of it, was dead. Lincoln was a strong willed young man, he almost never cried, but his time, he couldn't keep his composure. Lincoln burst, crying a waterfall of tears.

The rest of the Louds followed suit; each having their own, sad, tearful reactions to the news of Luans death.

Derek Gabriel rarely cried, in fact, the last time he cried was the time when he almost killed himself, but didn't thanks to the intervention of Luna, Sam, Lincoln, and Lisa. It was odd, because nobody had actually died that time, but now, someone (not to mention someone who meant more to him than anything else in the world) was dead, and for some reason, Derek didn't feel sadness. In fact, he felt angry.

"NO!" Derek yelled, making the doctor, and the Loud family turn and look at him in confusion.

NO, DOC, NO! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU AT ALL! THIS IS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE, RIGHT?! LUAN PUT YOU TO THIS, RIGHT?! THIS HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF SICK JOKE!!"

"I'm sorry, son, but I'm not joking. In fact, I would never joke about death. I'm sorry, son, but Luan Loud really is dead." The doctor replied solemnly, before turning and walking away from Derek and the still crying Loud family.

"NO!" Derek yelled to the Doctor, who kept walking away, never once turning around "YOU GET BACK HERE AND TELL ME THIS A JOKE!"

As Derek kept yelling for the doctor to come back, he sank to the floor, his body telling his mind that Luan really was dead and that it was time to cry. Finally, Derek couldn't take it anymore, and his eyes began to rim with tears, his head sinking to the floor as he gave one final "No! Come back, come back!" Before crying, and crying, and crying.

"No!" Derek screamed as his head popped off of his pillow.

Derek began breathing heavily as he realized where he was; he was in the Loud House living room, on the family couch, in the middle of the night. After Derek fully realized where he was, he breathed a giant sigh of relief and held his face in his palms as he tried to recover from the horrible he just had.

'God, that was awful.' Derek thought. 'What the heck, brain, why would make go through that?'

Derek sighed, at least he was back in the real world, where Luan was alive and well.

"Luan, oh, Luan! I need her, I need her so much right now! Well, her and a glass of water.' Derek thought before getting off the couch and heading towards the kitchen to pour himself a nice glass of cool, refreshing water.

As it turned out, someone had beaten Derek to the kitchen.

Luan was just browsing the refrigerator for a midnight snack, when she suddenly had a feeling that someone was standing behind her. Luan turned to se her loving, amazing boyfriend Derek Gabriel staring romantically, and yet somewhat somberly at her.

"Hey, Derk." Luan said, looking at her boyfriend in happiness and concern. "Is something wrong, babe?"

Derek then walked towards Luan, slowly, but with a romantic smile on his face, so as not crep Luan out. Luan was not creeped as she shut the the fridge door, her full attention being put on her boyfriend, who, with his hand held out slightly, clearly just wanted to hold for some reason or another.

'He probably just needs some comfort,' Luan thought, as she could still see the sadness in Dereks eyes as he wrapped his around her, and she wrapped her arms around him.

For a few moments the couple just stood there, holding eachother, and staring into each other's eyes before Luan spoke up, still curious as to why her boyfriend looked so sad and and yet not sad at the same time.

"Is something wro-"

"Sshhh, just let me enjoy holding you for a few more seconds, baby." Derek cut her off, sounding sad and needful.

Luan went along with it, wanting to make her boyfriend happy again. Luan leaned into Derek, and mweaved around with him for a few moments before speaking up again.

"Okay, sweetheart, now what's wrong?"

"Oh, Lulu baby, I just had the most horrible dream ever. You were dead. You had died in some freak circus party accident, and there was nothing I could do about it! It felt so real, I..." Luan then wrapped Derek in a warm embrace.

"Derk, it's alright, okay? I'm right here, I'm not dead. Your clown is right here." Luan said, trying to comfort and calm her boyfriend as much as possible. It felt strange to Luan being the comforter and not the being the comforted.

"Don't talk about clowns right now." Derek replied with a watery chuckle, Luan chuckled along with him.

Luan then broke the embrace slightly so that she and Derek could each other in the face, and she saw that her boyfriend now had a grin on his face, and that the last of his tears had just finished rollimg down his cheeks. Dereks eyes were focused romantically on Luan again, and so Luan smiled, happy that her boyfriend was to his normal self.

"See? There's my Derkboy. I'm glad to see him." Luan said, smiling romantically.

Derek smiled back at her. "And you have no idea how happy I am to see my funny clown again."

The couple then started kissing, passionately kissing, their tongues entwining, soft moans escaping their mouths. After some moments, Derek picked Luan up, her legs wrapping around Dereks back, as he carried her towards the living room and near the couch before Derek laid down on it with Luan on top of him. The couple then stopped making out, and stared romantically into each other's eyes once more, before Luan spoke up.

"My Dad would kill us if he saw us like this in the middle of the night." Luan said, chuckling.

Derek chuckled. "I don't care right now."

A few seconds of silence passed before Derek said "Luan Loud, I love you than any word could describe."

Luan was touched "and Derek Gabriel, I love you even more."

Derek chuckled. "Can't you come up with anything else other than 'I love you more?'"

"Oh, shut up." Luan giggled, playfully slapping him.

The couple then shared one last kiss, before cuddling up on the couch, and falling asleep in eachothers arms.

The End

(A/N: This is quite possibly the darkest story I've ever written, but it still had a romantic, happy ending so I hope it wasn't too bad for you guys. Was it? Let me know in the comments!)