Come-down
🎂:The loud house
🍫: all siblings(implied/mentioned)
🧁:Luanne
Summary: Luanne is feeling a little blue and insecure, and her trusty family help her smile again.
A/N: (btw title is pronounced like comedy but with down.)inspired by “no laughing matter”. Hurt/comfort because I EAAATTT IT. I LOVE hurt/comfort and cheer up tkls!! Also she’s my fav character so I go FERAL for angst especially when it ends well. (Also becuase she’s my favorite a lot of these are gonna include her as ler or lee because again, I LOVE HER)
Come-down
“Good morning, Luna” Luanne spoke. It was early in the morning, around 8:00. Luanne had been up for a while, just sitting in her bed, and now Luna was finally awake.
“Huh? Oh, morning sis! How are you this morning?”
“I’m fine.” Luanne lied, looking at her sister. Luna stretched for a moment before heading out towards the kitchen for breakfast, then looked back.
“You comin’?”
“Yeah, I’ll be right there.”
“Okay! See you then!”
At first, Luna didn’t see anything wrong, but then she stalled for a moment. ‘Wait a second- no breakfast pun? That’s so odd..’
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“Hello Luanne.”
“Hi Lucy! What’s up?”
“I was hoping you could help me. I wish to find a word with double meaning, and I know you are excellent at that, considering how much you love puns.”
“Hmm… what’s the context?”
“I need something that means to wait in darkness, but I was hoping for a poetic connotation of something else. Right now I have ‘Like an untouched dinner, stuck in the fridge I’m left to…’
“You could use ‘stew’ as in to stew in darkness. But that’s the best I got right now, sorry.”
‘Really? Only one?’ Lucy thought, curiously.
“Thank you, it works perfectly.”
“No problem, Lucy!” Luanne gave a (fake) smile before moving on.
Later that day, the siblings met in Lori and Lenny’s room for a meeting. Everyone was there- except for Luanne.
“We know why we’re here right? something is up with Luanne.” Lincoln announced.
Lisa nodded. “Correct. She has made exactly zero puns or practical jokes all day. This is extremely statistically unlikely.”
“I’d say. I asked her for help with a pun and she gave me one. Not like, fifteen like I was expecting.”
Luna made a noise of agreement. “Yeah man! When I asked her if she was joining me for breakfast this morning, she didn’t even make a breakfast pun! Something is definitely up. We need to talk to her.”
Lisa once again agreed. “Absolutely. The last time this happened she almost gave up comedy entirely. We need to get our Luanne back.”
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“Luanne, may I speak with you?”
“Huh? Oh, yeah, sure Lisa, need a test subject?”
“Not exactly. Let me just cut to the chase- what is bothering you?”
Luanne smiled, but it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “What do you mean? Nothings bothering me! What gave you that idea?”
“You haven’t made a single joke all day. This is not like you, and the only other time this has ever happened, you were extremely upset.”
The fake smile dropped. “Okay, yeah, I admit it. Im just feeling a little blue today.”
“Yes, but why?”
Luanne sighed. “I had a bad dream last night. I was on stage, but the crowd kept booing, and throwing tomatoes at me. And then all of you guys came out of the crowd, whispering to me that I was worthless, that I was never going to be funny and that my dreams were not achievable. So now I’m felling a bit… insecure.. about my jokes.”
Out in the hall, the whole family breathed in, and some of them got misty eyed. Lucy whispered. “What did we implant in her head? Sigh, poor Luanne never deserved that.”
Lisa exhaled sympathetically. “Ahh, a nightmare. Nightmares are your brains way of expressing insecurities and fears. But, you must be aware that dreams cannot hurt you. It wasn’t real, Luanne.”
“Yeah, I know, but I’m having a hard time feeling like myself…”
“Don’t worry, we have a way to help with that.”
“Really?- Wait.. we?”
Everyone in the hall piled into her room.
“Yup. Everyone came together because we were worried about you.”
Luanne teared up a bit. “Aww, really? I love you guys.. but… what are you gonna do?”
“Just lay back and you’ll find out!” Lincoln smiled at her.
Luanne complied and laid back on her bed. “Okaaaaahahahay! Hehehey!”
Lisa began to scribble Luanne’s sides.
“We think it might be helpful to bring some laughter to you, through one of your favorite activities- tickling!”
“Ihihi dohoho lihihike tihihihicklihihing yohohou guhuhuys! Eheehaha!”
All of them started gently tickling Luanne, not all at once, but taking turns.
“We know. And sometimes you use it to help us laugh or cheer up after a long day..” Lincoln began
“And we thought that maybe we should do the same.” Lucy finished.
“Ahahahaww yohohou guhuhuys! I lohohove yohohou soho muhuhuch!”
“We love you too!” The whole family chorused in reply.
“Hmm… I have an idea!” Lynn exclaimed, turning to her siblings, “what if we tell Luanne jokes! Might help her get back into the flow of things!”
There was a mutter of agreement and ‘good idea’ s, and then- the lineup of dad jokes began.
“Hey Luanne, did you hear about the time that a medieval knight asked me to clean his armor?”
“Noho!”
“It was great! I’ve always wanted a night in, shining armor.”
“Pfftahahaha! Thahat wahahas greheheat!”
“What about this one.. did you hear about the graveyard that opened up on the other side of town?”
“Noho, whyhyhy?”
“People are just dying to get in.”
“Hahaha, thahahats vehehery youhohou, luhuhucy.”
“I know.”
“Knock knock!”
“Whohos thehere!”
“Boo!”
“Bohohoo whohoho?”
“Don’t cry! It’s just a joke!”
“I had a joke about an airplane, but It’d just go over your head”
“Hehehahahaha! Ihi knohohow thahat ohohone! Ihi ahahlso hahave aha johohoke abohohout pahahper, buhut ihits teheheahahrahable! Hahaha!”
“There’s our jokester!”
They stopped and let Luanne breathe for a moment.
“You feeling better?”
“Yeah! Guess this comed-Ian was feeling a little come-down! Haha, get it?
And laughter filled the room once more
———THE END————————————————