Hello there gentle readers it is I the perverse one who brought you the wonderful story "Caught". I am still posting that one, but we are quickly approaching the conclusion. So while I have been posting the chapters to that from week to week I have been working on various other stories. This is one of those. This idea came to me as I thought about how little interaction Lisa and Leni really have with each other. Which is a shame as there is a really fun element there. So I decided to play with a few ideas for them. Now I stated before that I do not like to post stories until they are complete or near completion. This is different. See I aim for this to be a series of short stories, going until I run out of ideas or can no longer post them, or just stop having fun. So there may be weeks or months between "chapters". But I do have the first story complete and thought I would share it with you all. It is essentially a three parter, with a prologue of sense, then going into the two part story. I hope you all enjoy this one as much as my other story, I will admit that I am posting this with a sense of dread as to how it will be received, but as a story is not a story unless the eyes of the readers view it, I am presenting it to you. So lets do this ...

The Lisa and Leni Files:

Operation Help

It was a typical day at 1216 Franklin Avenue. The house that had been known to the neighbors as "that house" roared with the sounds of life. The building, which was loosely being held together with duct tape and glue at this point, shook with the vibrant vibrations of eleven children. Rita and Lynn Loud Sr. had often thought it was a miracle that their kids had not brought the house crashing down upon them. Of course there were a few days were they came within a hairs reach of doing just that.

Inside the house it was the usual scene of juvenile chaos. The twins, Lola and Lana, were in the middle of a fight, their fourth since breakfast, over who would get the last of the apple juice.

"I saw it first!" Lana yelled.

"No I saw it." Lola shot back.

"How can you see anything with that hair in your eyes?"

"What hair?" Lola asked. She was confused, she knew she looked perfect, after all she just checked her appearance seconds before coming to get her apple juice. It was the twenty-sixth time she checked her appearance since waking up.

Lana took her hand, licked it, and wiped it down Lola's face, dragging strands of hair with her. She laughed as she immense pride in ruining her sisters perfect appearance.

"Ewwww." Lola squealed. "You touched me with your slobbery hand."

Lana laughed even more, getting a dark and sinister grin from her twin sister. Lola's sweet and cute demeanor often held a dark and sinister center, like an evil tootsie roll pop with an arsenic center. When the pink princess was provoked she could strike like a viper.

"I'll get you for that you booger picker." Lola yelled jumping at her sister.

Meanwhile, outside Lynn Loud Jr. was in the backyard kicking the stuffing out of a practice dummy. That was not a metaphor, she was actually in the process of kicking said dummy to the point were stuffing had begun to escape from a tiny hole near where the rib cage should have been. She was doing all of this to the harmonic hums of her older sister Luna's guitar. Luna played in the garage, trying to perfect her rocking sound, and providing a soundtrack to Lynn's dummy smack down.

Lincoln, the only boy of the eleven children, lay on the couch in his underwear reading comic books and enjoying a much-needed lazy day. Next to him sat his younger sister Lucy, the Loud's little duchess of darkness. She sat with notebook in hand, working on another poem that would make her family hope that the black clothes and monotone voice patterns were little more than a phase to the eight year old.

Luan, a teenage comedian who could have made even a mime groan at her wonderfully terrible puns, sat alone in her room writing new jokes to test on her family. It could be said that she was a student of the game of comedy, just not a straight A student.

Lori Loud, the eldest of the kids, was where all teenage girls could almost always be found. Eye's glued to her phone as she texted and chatted with her precious boo boo bear. Lori and Bobby Santiago's relationship was one that made their friends and family often carry antacids with them, as the baby talk, nicknames, and public displays of affection could give one a wicked case of heart burn.

The youngest Loud, Lily, was bouncing on her mothers knee as babies often enjoyed doing. Little did Rita know that the up and down movements of the bouncing had set in course a series of actions within the dear child that would soon ruin a nice pair of pants.

"Poo poo." Lily both said and did.

That my dear friends left two children. Leni Loud and her four year old sister Lisa. Polar opposites on the scale of mental intelligence. It may surprise you, or it may not, that the eldest of these two was not the smartest one.

Lisa Loud was a genius, already holding a degree, and on the list to win a noble prize. Lisa would remark about her junior noble prize, saying that it was little more than a pat on the head and that she wanted the real deal. At four years old the girl could put most scientists to shame. Her inventions and scientific theories often walked a fine line between pure genius and mad scientist. The only thing that stood in her way was her kindergarten teacher and nap time.

Leni was sixteen years old and still often had a difficult time learning how to make toast. What she lacked in intelligence she more than made up for with kindness and heart. There was no one on the face of the planet with a bigger heart then Leni Loud.

While the other kids were all enjoying their own things, and Rita looked for a clean pair of pants, and Lynn Sr. changing Lily's diaper, Leni walked into the living room. She sat down on the couch between Lincoln and Lucy, neither one looking up from their books. There was a puzzled look on her face, a look the family had long since gotten used to seeing.

"I don't get it." Leni said out loud, not realizing she was speaking the words instead of simply thinking them.

"Don't get what Leni?" Lincoln asked, his gaze firmly grasped on the battle between Ace Savvy and the Card Shark.

"Lincoln you can read minds?" Leni gasped.

"No," Lincoln sighed. "You just said that out loud Leni."

"Oh."

"So what don't you get?"

Leni had to stop, trying to remember the thought that had just crossed the barren wasteland of her mind. "Oh yeah." She excitedly said, "What's a burden?"

Lincoln peered up from his comic book, a look of concern fell upon his face as he wondered why his sister would ask such a question.

"Why do you want to know?" Lincoln asked.

"Well a kid at school told me that I must have been such a burden on my family. You know for being so dumb." The way Leni said the words was like needles in Lincolns heart. She spoke with such an upbeat tone, failing to understand the insult.

Lincoln put down his comic and sat up. Even Lucy was torn away from her poem, looking to her sister with a concerned face that was well hidden behind a curtain of black bangs.

"What?" Lincoln exclaimed. "Who ever told you that was wrong Leni. You have never been a burden to us. And you never will be." Lincoln leaned over and took hold of Leni's arms, looking directly into her eyes. "We love you. You understand that right?" Lincoln struggled to keep his voice calm. Inside he wanted to scream, demand his sister tell him who said those terrible things to her. He was not a violent person, that was really more Lynns area of expertise. Yet at that moment he felt the need to go and sock whoever told Leni that right in the eye.

"I was just asking."Leni said, troubled by the fact that she had upset her brother. "I'm sorry for saying it Lincoln. I didn't mean to upset you."

Before Lincoln could address the situation any further Leni had gotten up and walked away. He wanted to chase after, to make sure she was ok, but was stopped by Lucy.

"Let her go." Lucy said flatly.

"B-But she thinks ..."

"She thinks she made you mad by telling you. Give her some space and we can all talk to her later."

Lincoln didn't like that idea, he wanted to run and give her a hug. To tell her that no one in the family had ever thought of her as a burden. Then a thought had crept into his mind like a disease. They all had often lost their patience with her. Sure they never yelled or called her an idiot, at least not with words. The silent looks they shared, or the heavy sighs they let out when Leni did something they thought was not very bright may have spoken volumes over anything they could have actually said to her. A little twinge of guilt poked at Lincoln's heart, and he slumped back down on to the couch, his head hanging low.

The scene that played out on the couch went unnoticed by most of the members in the house. Luan and Lori were still locked away in their rooms. Lynn and Luna still beat their favored instruments outside the house. The parents sat in their room playing with a clean Lily. And the twins continued to fight over the last tasty box of apple juice. The only other set of eyes to witness Leni's question and Lincoln's dramatic outburst were that of the tiny four-year old genius.

No one had noticed Lisa enter the living room after coming down stairs to get a drink. She had managed to sneak past her siblings, even finding a way to duck and dodge the fighting twins, making her way to the refrigerator, getting a fruit punch. She was on her way back when Leni asked the question and Lincoln reacted in his own concerned, yet overly dramatic, way. She ducked out of the way when Leni walked pass on her way up the stairs where all the kids bedrooms had been.

Lisa sipped her drink and stroked her chin as various thoughts sparked to life in her brain. She quickly followed Leni up the stairs and into the second floor hallway. She turned to catch Leni heading for her room.

"Pardon me dear sister, may I trouble you to escort me to my dwelling for a brief discussion?" Lisa asked.

Leni cocked an eyebrow lost in thought. VERY lost in thought. Lisa waited for a second, wondering if the question had taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque, now lost somewhere in Leni's brain.

"Can I see you in my room?" Lisa sighed. The sigh was nothing personal, not actually aimed at her sisters dimwitted nature. Lisa always sighed when her family failed to understand what she had said to them. It was the cross she had to bare for being the families resident genius.

"Oh sure Lisa." Leni chirped with excitement.

The two entered Lisa's bedroom/lab that she shared with her younger sister Lily. It was an arrangement that Lisa had not agreed too, yet was forced to except. She led Leni to a stool next to her desk and motioned for her to take a seat. She refrained from actually saying the words, knowing full well the response her older sister would give. Lisa then walked over and got another stool, placed it close to Leni, then sat across from her.

"I was witness to the display in our recreation room moments ago." Lisa said.

There was another long pause as Leni stared blankly at Lisa. The words have obviously floated out of Leni's mind the moment they entered. They had not even found time to stop and look around, they just rushed right on by.

"I saw what happened downstairs." Lisa said, removing her glasses and rubbing her eyes.

"Ooohhh. Yeah, Lincoln seemed upset."

"Agreed. Although understandable."

Leni cocked her head to one side trying to follow what her little sister was getting at.

"It is troubling to discover that someone is picking on one of our siblings" Lisa told her. "Think back to when Ronnie Anne had bullied Lincoln. We were all prepared to come to his defense."

Leni remembered that day. She was upset to find out that someone had hurt her little Linky. She was never really one for violence, that was more Lynns thing, yet she was upset none the less. She had wanted to help Lincoln with his problem, figure out a way to teach that bully a lesson. Of course things had taken a sharp turn that day when they all learned Ronnie Anne was a girl.

"That my dear sister is where we find our selves at now."

"Lincoln is getting bullied again? But I thought he and Ronnie Anne were friends?"

Lisa sighed. "You are being bullied." She tried to explain. "The person who told you that you are a burden to us, they are a bully."

"But ..."

"Not the physical kind of bullying, but it still counts." Lisa cut her off, knowing full well what she was going to say.

"So do I fight back? Because I am not good at that." Leni said.

"No, we shall leave the displays of physicality to our more sporting sibling."

Once again silence and a blank stare.

"That is more Lynns thing."

Leni nodded with a big goofy grin on her face as she understood. She was starting to really enjoy her talk with Lisa, and wondered why she had not spent more time with her in the past.

"We shall deal with this in our own little way. I will help you to reach the full capacity of your mental functions."

Leni scratched her head trying to figure out what Lisa had just told her.

"I will help you to get smarter and understand things better." Lisa said.

"Really?" Leni jumped off the stool with excitement, bouncing up and down, her hands clasped together. "You would help me so I am not such a burden to you guys?"

"No." Lisa said.

Leni stopped and looked to her sister, a mixture of sadness and confusion on her face. She had trouble understanding a lot things in her life, yet this was the first time that she was actually upset by not understanding something.

"I can not help you to no longer be a burden. Since you have never been one." There was a small hint of emotion hidden within Lisa's voice. Something that was seldom ever heard. She even made sure to keep things simple for Leni to fully understand what she was telling her. "Even if we get frustrated, we never think of you as a burden to us. We are a family unit, and family helps each other without hesitation."

Leni walked over and hugged her sister, a display of affection that often made Lisa feel uncomfortable, yet at that exact moment felt right. Lisa put her arms around Leni and hugged back.

"Thank you Lisa." Leni said. "I love you."

"I have an affectionate emotional attachment to you as well dear sibling." Lisa said. "Now please release me before someone bares witness to the unusual outpouring of human emotion."

End part 1

Well that was the first part. I hope you all liked it. I wanted to add some heart warming moments as well as try a more light hearted kind of humor. Not sure how that played out in this one, only you guys can be the judge of that. Part two should be up by the weekend or start of next week, so you don't have long to wait.

As always, I want to thank you guys for reading. I please feel free to post your thoughts as I love hearing what you guys got to say.