"My name is Pariah, and Alex Mercer has been lying to you."

"What are you talking about?" Asked Lincoln.

"What did he tell you," Said Pariah. "That he chose you, that you have some destiny to save the human race. Get real kid, Mercer doesn't give a flying fuck about the human race, and you shouldn't either. Humanity is nothing but a bunch of hairless apes running around on this god forsaken rock, killing, robbing and fucking one another. They only care about themselves, they're a plague, a disease."

"Shut up!"

"You think these people, these worthless animals are gonna love you? You think they're gonna love you the way they loved Lincoln"

"They do love me, and I AM Lincoln"

"No you're not. You're just a freak! And when they find out, they'll cast you aside, send you to the government to be tested on, experimented on, and cut up."

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!" Lincoln snapped. "If you ever call me again, I'm calling the police!"

"BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then Lincoln hung up his phone and threw it on the ground in a fit of rage.

He took a deep breath to calm himself.

"Uuugggggghhhhhhh. What the fuck is going on?" He moaned.

He then put on his pajamas. The warm dry cotton made him start to feel better.

Somehow, he had died and came back to life. He had no idea how or why he came back, but at that moment he didn't care.

Lincoln Loud has gotten himself a second chance at life, and he was going to enjoy it.

He walked down the stairs to find his family all starring back at him.

"Is everything alright?" his mother asked.

"Y-yeah" He said.

Lisa then came up to him, and looked him over from head to foot.

"What?" Lincoln asked.

"Fallow me to my room Lincoln" Lisa instructed, "I would like to run some tests on you."

Lincoln's heart sank, Pariah's words echoed in his head. He stood there for a couple minutes.

"Well come on Lincoln." Lisa said.

"NO!" Lincoln put his foot down. "LISA LOUD! I am not going to stand around and let you probe me like some sort of animal. Just moments ago I crawled out of MY OWN GRAVE! You think you could just let me relax, and enjoy some time with our family"

"Well... you can't just expect to return from the dead, and pretend as if nothing happened" Said Lisa.

Lincoln shot a look of pure rage at Lisa. Lincoln has been mad at Lisa before, but something about the way he was looking at her now felt strange. Almost like she was looking at someone else. She felt a sudden rush of fear.

"Ok maybe we can do this some other time" Lisa said with a nervous laugh.

"Ok good" Said Lincoln. His smile soon returned. "So now what?"

"Are you hungry sweety?" asked his mother.

"No I uh..." Lincoln responded, "I had a bite to eat already"

"Well" suggested Lynn. "maybe we could watch a movie or something. Just sit together as a family, like old times."

"that sounds like a great idea." Said Lincoln with a smile. He walked over to the TV and looked at the pile of movies scattered on the floor.

He was about to put in his favorite movie, King of the Rings (cough cough Lord of the Rings cough cough), but a different movie caught his eye.

Interstellar: a movie about a man, played by Matthew McConaughey, who travels the depths of space to save the world, and his family.

"How about this one?" Lincoln asked.

"Interstellar?" Luan responded. "I'm not a huge fan of sci fi, but that movie just seems, alright alright alright." She said in her best impression of Matthew McConaughey. Most of the family groaned, but Lincoln gave out a little giggle.

"Man I never thought I would here one of your jokes again Luan." He said, as he put the movie in.

"You know" He started, "as I lay dying in that hospital a few days back. Every one of you had come up to me, to say your final goodbyes." He let out a sigh, "You all told me how much you love me and..." He paused for a moment, "how sorry you all were for the various things you've done to me. Luan with your pranks, Lynn with your rough housing, Lori for being bossy. I think I even head Leni apologizing for something. But." He looked at all of them. "Those things are just... just things siblings do to each other anyway. I know Luan would never try to hurt someone for a prank, I know Lynn would never do anything with me she knows I can't handle, and I can handle a lot more than you think. And I know Lori's only bossy because she's looking out for all of us. And Leni has never done anything wrong in her life. You guys all acted like you were terrible people, and that you were the ones who deserved to be sick, not me. But what was happening to me, I wouldn't have wished that on any of you. I love you guys, I always have and always will. You have given my life so much joy and love, if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I wanted to tell you guys that, but I couldn't even speak. Maybe that's why I'm back, to tell you what I couldn't then. I dunno, let's just watch this movie."

He walked over to the couch and sat down, Leni sat next to him.

Soon all the loud siblings and the parents gathered around to watch Matthew McConaughey flying through space in Christopher Nolan's space epic.

As the movie went on, Lincoln realized he was a lot more tired than he thought.

He tilted his head onto Leni's shoulder, and his eyes started to close.

"aww" Said Leni, as she wrapped her arm around her little brother as he cuddled up beside her.

Lincoln gently grabbed Leni's hand. As he touched her hand, he felt something course through him, and he blacked out.

...

"Are you ok Linky? Do you need to sit down" Leni had taken Lincoln to the mall. Lincoln was very sick, and had been for weeks. She didn't quit understand what was happening to him. All she knew was that the rest of the family was really worried about him, and she was too.

Her sisters and parents had said he would be gone soon. She was not sure where he was going though, she hoped it would be someplace to make him feel better.

She was holding his hand as they walked through the mall. He was walking really slow, and he was looking at his feet, he seemed really sad. She felt really bad for him, he was just so sad, and so sick for the past couple of weeks. She had hoped taking him to get some of those comics he liked so much would cheer him up.

"Y-yeah let's just... just sit down for a few minutes" Said Lincoln, he was breathing heavily.

They sat on the nearest bench.

"Still not feeling good?" Leni asked.

"No I'm... I'm not" Lincoln said weakly.

"Well I hope you feel better soon" Said Leni.

"Leni" Lincoln looked at her with a look of both shock and confusion, "I'm not going to get better Leni."

"What?" Leni was starting to get worried.

"I'm dying Leni." Lincoln clarified. "You understand what that means right?"

Leni gave him a blank look.

"I have a terminal illness" Lincoln said, "in a few days I..." he paused for a second, "in a few days, I'll be dead. I'll be gone forever"

"forever? W-where are you going?"

"Leni, I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to die. My heart will stop, I'll stop breathing, and I'll just... no longer be"

Leni felt a knot in her throat.

Lincoln held his stomach and his face clenched in pain for a bit.

"oh man..." he said" I gotta go to the bathroom"

Just then blood shot out of Lincoln's mouth and all over Leni's dress.

Leni sat there for a second, her heart was going at a million miles in our. She looked at her green dress which was now drenched in her brother's blood.

The knot in her throat grew larger, and her eyes felt as if they were burning. Finally she couldn't take it any more

"Wwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!" she cried loud enough for the entire mall to hear her.

"Oh my gosh Leni! I'm... I'm so sorry" Lincoln apologized. "I- I can get you a new dress Leni. One just as pretty as this one was, before I ruined it. I'm, I'm sorry Leni!"

"I...I...I..." Leni stuttered between sobs, "I don't care about the dress!"

"W-why are you crying?"

"THIS IS BLOOD LINCOLN!" Leni cried, "Y-your blood. Y-y-yyou're really going to die. MY LITTLE BROTHER IS GOING TO DIE!!!!" she grabbed Lincoln and held him tight as she continued to cry loudly. "I...I...I don't want you to die Linky! I love you. Please don't leave me!"

Soon everyone in the mall was staring at the two siblings, and whispering as Leni continued to cry.

"What's going on?" said one of the on lookers.

"Did she say that boy was dying?"

A few on lookers had covered their hands over their mouths. And some had even started to cry themselves.

"Leni" Lincoln said softly, "everyone's staring"

Leni continued to cry.

"Can... can we just go? I just wanna go home now" Said Lincoln.

"Ok Linky" Said Leni, much softer now "anything for you" She then picked him up and walked out the door. "My sweet, sweet little brother"

...

"GAH!" Lincoln woke with a start as the credits for Interstellar rolled.

"What is it?!?" Lynn cried, startled by Lincoln.

"Nothing I just" Lincoln explained, "bad dreams I guess." He looked at the T.V, "Oh man, I slept through the movie."

"Well" Leni started, "you looked so comfortable, and so cute, we didn't want to wake you."

"Oh ok" Lincoln said, then he looked down at his hand. A slight feeling of shock and confusion washed over him. Ordinarily his hands were a bit dirtier, his finger nails were usually shorter, basically what you would expect from the hands of an 11 year old boy. But now for some reason his hand, the one that was holding Leni's hand, had somehow changed.

His hand now looked more feminine. His fingers were long and thin, and his nails were long and clean, like he had just had a manicure. His hand, just the one that was holding Leni's, looked like that of a girl. Specifically his hand looked exactly like Leni's hand.

"I uh... think I'm going to go to bed now" He said. Hiding his hand in his sleeve.

"You want me to carry you?" Leni asked.

"Uh... No I think I'm good" Lincoln responded.

"Can I?"

"Sure I guess"

Leni smiled, and she picked up her little brother, and carried him upstairs, to his room.

They got to his room, she put him down on his bed, and tucked him in.

"You know" Said Leni. "I have no idea how you came back, but I'm glad you are"

"Hey Leni" Lincoln started.

"Yeah?"

"Just before, when I fell asleep watching Interstellar."

"Can't believe you fell asleep to that movie, it was like so good." Said Leni. "oh sorry Linky, I know you had a long day. I didn't mean anything by it."

"No that's ok Leni. So, that dream I had. I don't think it was a dream." Lincoln said. He again looked at his hand. It had turned back to normal, "it was like a memory. The other day when we were at the mall... and I was sick. When I threw up on you dress"

"you remembered the mall?" Leni asked, "I already told you Lincoln, I'm not mad about that. I was more scared that you were sick. I'm sorry I embarrassed you"

"That's the thing." Lincoln said. "I don't think it was my memory"

Leni stared at him blankly.

"I, it... I think it was yours."

"Mine?"

"Yeah I... I was seeing everything through YOUR eyes"

"oh..." Leni again gave him that blank look she gave all too often. The look she gave when she was confused. "Well uh... Goodnight Linky" She then kissed Lincoln's forehead to wish him goodnight.

As she did so, Lincoln again passed out, as he seemed to receive another of Leni's memories.

...

Leni came home from the mall that horrible day. She was carrying Lincoln, and crying. She was drenched in his blood. She sat on her couch with her sick little brother, and began to stroke his back.

"I'm so sorry Linky," She cried, "I'm sorry you had to go through that."

Just then Lori saw the both of them, and sat down beside Leni.

"Hey is uh..." Lori started, "Is he doing alright?"

"No" Leni cried, "He's dying"

"Well you knew that didn't you?" Said Lori, "He was diagnosed about a week ago"

"I... I don't know what that means" Leni told her.

"That's when they found out Lincoln was sick"

"Oh." Leni looked down. "I guess I didn't really realize what was happening until, well..."

She gently moved Lincoln away from her chest revealing the blood staining the front of her dress.

"Oh my god" Lori whispered.

The Lincoln started to gag, like a cat about to throw up a hair ball.

"Get a bucked" Leni requested.

Lori ran to get a bucket. As soon as she returned with the bucket, Lincoln grabbed it and puked up enough blood to fill it about an inch deep.

He started to shiver, and Leni held him closer.

"I'm gonna miss you so much Linky" She cried softly.

Lincoln wrapped his arms around her. His grip was weak, and fragile.

Soon Luna came down the stairs. She sat down by her three siblings. "Hey guys" She said in a soft voice, "What's going on?"

"It's getting worse" Said Lori, "He started coughing up blood, I doubt he has much time left"

"Oh" Said Luna, sadly. She ran her finger through Lincoln's white hair.

Luna got closer to Leni and Lincoln. She started to hum a sweet Lullaby.

Luan and Lynn eventually came and sat with them too.

Leni thought back to when Lincoln was first born. Sometimes late at night, when he was up crying, her and her other sisters would hold him gently like this, and Luna would sing him a lullaby as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

At this moment he seemed just as fragile and helpless as he did way back then.

Soon Lincoln had fallen asleep. Leni and the other girls just sat there for a while. Eventually all five girls had fallen asleep on the couch with Leni cuddling their sick, helpless little brother.

...

Lincoln woke a while later, it was about 3 in the morning. He looked at the mirror in his room, and noticed something off about his reflection. He turned on his lights and gasped at what he saw in his mirror.

His white hair had turned blond. The same shade of Blond as Leni's hair.

He shook his head a bit, and his hair returned to normal.

He turned his lights back off and went back to sleep.

He awoke about 20 minutes later to find his younger sister Lucy standing beside his bed, staring down at him through her jet black bangs.

"Lucy" Lincoln questioned.

"Hello Lincoln" Said Lucy. She was holding a crucifix in one hand, and some sort of dagger in the other. "Goodbye Lincoln" She said as she raised the dagger above her head, ready to plunge it into Lincoln's chest.

...

Earlier that night, as Lucy Loud was going to bed, she turned to her roommate Lynn.

"You really buy into this?" Lucy asked her.

"Buy into what?" Lynn asked as she bounced a ball against the wall.

"You really think that's Lincoln?"

"Well who else would it be?"

"I've heard about things like this happening" Lucy exclaimed. "A family looses a loved one, only to have that loved one return. But it's not the person they lost, it's actually a demon sent to deceive the family and to take their soles."

Lynn started to get a little nervous. She looked at the door, then back at Lucy. "You really think Lincoln's some sort of demon?"

"It might be better to be safe than sorry"

"You're not suggesting we kill him are you?"

Lucy gave Lynn a blank look.

"Hey wait a minute" Lynn said, "All this demon stuff... THAT'S THE PLOT OF THAT ANNABEL CREATION MOVIE!"

"I uh... don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes you do!" Lynn exclaimed, "You saw that movie last week! I went with you!"

Lucy's face began to turn red.

Lynn's face turned into a scowl, "Go to sleep Lucy" Lynn then turned over and went to sleep.

Lucy eventually dosed off herself.

She awoke a while later, as she felt a dark presence in the room. She looked around, but couldn't see anything, but she could feel someone or something in the room with her. Whoever, or whatever it was, seemed to fill up the whole room.

"Llllluuuuuccccyyyyyy" came a voice from somewhere, "wake up Lucy" The voice was deep and soothing, with a slight Sothern accent.

"Who's there?" Lucy asked.

"It's me Lucy" the voice said.

"Who?"

"Look beside ya"

She looked next to her. All she could see was the statue of Edwin, the main character of her favorite vampire romance novel.

"E-Edwin?" Said Lucy.

"That's right Lucy, it's me Edwin" Said the voice.

Am I fucking insane!?!? Lucy thought, "Edwin? But how, you're not real"

"I am now" Said the voice, "You're passionate love for me has given me life"

Lucy looked over at Lynn, she was fast asleep, and snoring loudly.

"Uh ok cool" Said Lucy, still not sure what to think.

"I need to talk to you about something Lucy" Said the voice.

"What?"

"Your brother Lincoln" The voice answered, "You're right Lucy. That thing is NOT your brother. It's a demon, sent here to drag you and your family back to hell. You must kill it Lucy, for the sake of your family."

Lucy's jaw dropped. She immediately got up.

She looked for something to use fight the evil spirit that had taken her brother's form. She found a crucifix (always useful in fighting demons) and some sort of dagger, that was anointed in holy water, and crafted from the nails that were used to nail Jesus Christ to the cross. (She knows some people)

...

"Lucy what are you doing" Lincoln calmly asked.

"Silence demon" She said, then she plunged her dagger into Lincolns chest. Lincoln cried out in pain.

Lucy slowly let go of the dagger, and left it in Lincoln's chest. "Sorry, I wish I could believe you were really Lincoln. You don't know how badly I wanted to see his face again, his happy and kind face. He was always there for me, but he's gone now, and I won't let you take any one else I care about."

To Lucy's surprise, Lincoln slowly got up. He looked down at the dagger that was buried deep in his chest. He grabbed it, and slowly pulled it out of his body.

The dagger was coated red with his blood. He let it drop to the floor.

Lucy looked in what was either horror, or amazement, she couldn't tell. As the hole in Lincoln's chest completely closed in a matter of seconds.

Lincoln stood up, and Lucy fell back on her butt.

"Wha-what the" Lucy stuttered. "Well, I guess you're not a demon then, otherwise that dagger would have made you burst into flames or something."

Lincoln looked at her with a look of shock and betrayal, as tears started to flow down his face. "Why would you do this?" He said.

"W-w-what are you?" Lucy asked, feeling terrified and helpless.

"I'm your brother Lucy" Lincoln said, "I'm Lincoln"

"You healed" Lucy said.

Lincoln looked down at his chest, his pajamas were ripped and stained with blood, but other than that he had no signs of an injury.

"Edwin told me you were a demon" Said Lucy, "and you were going to drag us to hell"

"Edwin?" Lincoln asked "Your doll? You tried to stab your own brother, because a statue of the head of a vampire told you to? That is like, totally insane"

"It does sound pretty crazy when you put it that way" Lucy admitted. "He sounded so convincing. His voice was so soothing."

"Deep, soothing, with a slight Sothern accent." Lincoln asked.

"How did you know?" Lucy asked.

"I think your 'Edwin' called me today" He said. He took out his phone, and looked through his caller ID. He found the number that had called him earlier that night. He turned on the speaker of his phone.

Lincoln then returned Pariah's call.

"Well, well, well," Said the voice on the other end. "If it isn't Lincoln Loud"

Lucy looked at Lincoln in horror. "That's him!" She whispered.

"I hear other voices," Said Pariah. "Am I on speaker?"

"Hello... Edwin" Lucy said with an irritated voice.

"Lucy" Pariah's voice was still calm. Shockingly calm.

"You tricked me!" Lucy yelled, "Who are you? Really, and what the Hell is going on?"

"He says his name is Pariah" Lincoln said.

"Piranha?" Lucy asked.

"No, Pariah" Lincoln and Pariah both said in unison, "It means out cast"

"Why did you trick my sister into stabbing me?" Lincoln asked.

"Well how else was I going to get your attention?" Pariah responded, "You hung up on me. Don't you know that's very rude? And as for you Lucy, I can't believe how gullible you are!"

Lucy started to get angry.

"And I thought Leni was the retarded one!" Pariah laughed, "But you! You take stupid to a whole new level! Ahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Lincoln then hung the phone up. "I think we've heard enough."

He then walked out into the hall. "Emergency sibling meeting!" He yelled.

...

All the loud siblings had gathered in Lori and Leni's room, Lincoln had something to tell all of them.

"What's this all about Lincoln?" Lori asked.

"I..." He started, "Have a confession to make"

"Confession?" Lori raised an eyebrow.

"I haven't told you everything about my um... return" He said. "So after I you know, died."

"Did you see Heaven?" Lola asked.

"Well if I did I can't remember" Said Lincoln, "I just remember waking up in a coffin, at first I thought it was one of Luan's pranks."

"Oh come on. I'm not that mean." Said Luan, "sure I go a little crazy one April Fools day, but my craziness is just... coffin on, ha ha get it?"

The whole family groaned.

"Well once I figured it out, and dug my way out of my own grave" Lincoln went on. "There was this... man. He said his name was Alex something, Alex Mercer I believe. He told me, he's the one who brought me back"

"Alex Mercer?" Lisa said, with intrigue.

"I believe so yeah"

"Like THE Doctor Alex Mercer!" Lisa said with even more interest.

"You've heard of him?" Said Lincoln.

"Doctor?" Said Lucy.

"Heck yeah I've heard of him!" Lisa exclaimed, "Doctor Mercer is a huge name in the scientific community!"

"He... he's a doctor?" Lucy said.

"He's a geneticist" Lisa exclaimed. "A brilliant one too. He has made huge discoveries with different diseases and viruses. I even have a few books he wrote." Lisa then ran to her room and came back with a rather large text book.

She showed Lincoln the back cover of the book.

On the back cover was an almost chillingly familiar face.

The dark haired blue eyed man, in the picture, had a much warmer smile than he did before. And he was wearing a white lab coat, instead of a black leather jacket. But there was no mistaking it, this man was the figure standing in front of Lincoln's grave upon his resurrection. This man was Alex Mercer.

"Yeah" Said Lincoln, rubbing his arm, "That's the guy"

"Hey" Said Luna, "That guy looks a lot like that Doctor Alex Maxw.... Oooooohhh I see" She brought her hand to her face, "yeah that's pretty obvious now dude"

"Oooohhh" Said Lucy, "I see what's going on here. I'm sorry Lincoln. I thought you were something from Hell. But it would seem you're just something from a lab."

"Huh?" Said Lincoln.

"Don't you see what's going on here?" Said Lucy. "This scientist, this Alex Mercer. He brought you back to life as some sort of experiment. Probably just to see if he could."

"Experiment?" Said Lincoln.

"All this time I thought you were something of pure evil like Dracula." Said Lucy, "but in reality, you're just Frankenstein's monster."

"Wha..." Lincoln was confused.

"Frankenstein's monster wasn't evil" Lucy said in a sad voice, "He was just scared. I'm sorry I tried to hurt you."

"So a mad scientist brought Lincoln back from the dead as an experiment." Lisa said, "that's a very good hypothesis Lucy. Alex Mercer was known to be unstable, and it was rumored that he had performed some crazy, and dark experiments. But there is one problem with this theory"

"What?" Said Lucy

"Alex Mercer has been dead for over 8 years" Lisa said.

The entire family gasped.

"Ironically he was killed in 2009 by the very virus he was studying." Lisa explained. "That virus, then simply called DX118, or Blacklight, was given the name..."

"The Mercer Virus!" Lincoln chimed in.

"That's correct Lincoln." Said Lisa. "How did you know?"

"Alex said that's how he brought me back. With something called the Mercer Virus." Lincoln exclaimed.

"I really should get a blood sample from you Lincoln" Lisa said.

"Yes, I couldn't agree more" Said Lincoln, "Sorry I snapped at you Lisa"

"That's alright" said Lisa as she walked out of the room. She came back with an empty syringe. "you may feel a small pinch" She then extracted some of Lincoln's blood.

"Oh I should really tell you guys..." Lincoln started. "There's a um... Third party in this situation"

"Party?" Said Leni, "Oh I'd like to go to a party!"

"Not that kind of party" Said Lori.

"Who's the third part?" Asked Lynn.

"Some ass hole, calls himself Pariah" Lucy said.

"Piranah?" Lynn asked.

"No, Pariah," Lucy responded. "Like as in out cast."

"He called me earlier." Said Lincoln.

"He was somehow able to contact me telepathically." Said Lucy, "He tried to convince me he was Edwin, and Lincoln was some sort of demon."

"A telepath?" Said Lisa, "interesting, a bit farfetched but, I'm sure there's a scientific explanation. And as for Doctor Mercer, people have faked their own deaths before. That would explain why Lincoln has seen him 8 years after his supposed death. This will require further investigation. We'll discuss this in the morning. Until then, don't trust any voices you hear in your heads."

Just then as everyone got ready to head back to their rooms, Luan walked up behind Lincoln, grabbed his shoulders, and started to shake him, while screaming,

"IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!"