Professor Luke and the dream road
Those of you who read my other fanfic-the one about Kat-will recognise Kat in this one. But this takes place BEFORE the other one so it's kinda a prequel…like a Kat origin story! Fing awesome! (To me) Now enjoy reading!
Wait…*sigh* I don't own Professor Layton. Or Luke. Or Flora. I only own Kat *sigh*
Kat: Hey! I'm not that worthless!
Okay, first day at a new school. Don't freak out, don't freak out-AAH! Dammit Flora! Can't you just relax?
This was the type of thing going through my head as the Professor drove me to South London Secondary in the Layton mobile with Luke. I still couldn't get over the fact it was named after the Professor. So cute!
Yes this is good! Don't think about school; aah now I'm thinking about school.
Luke had warned me that the inhabitants of his school would not be as friendly as the robots of my hometown. By a lot. So I was really nervous.
We drove up in front of the school. My first thought was, this is it? It seemed so tasteless and boring. St Mystere had been much more interesting to look at. Not a good start.
We went inside. "I need to go or I'll be late for form. I'll see you later Flora." Luke ran off and entered a numberless crowd of students around the doors. The noise! Why did everyone feel the need to shout so loud?
"Come, Flora, we need to see the head and it would be terribly ungentlemanly to be late."
"Of course, Professor."
The head's office was huge (to me, anyway) I had expected it to be small and cramped but it was the complete opposite. There was another new student, about Luke's age, with her dad who looked like he was in his late thirties. She was completely silent and looked down the whole time. She was wearing black, all over. The head teacher talked and talked until only the Professor was listening.
"You will both need to get a school uniform, of course," she continued. The girl's head snapped up.
"No."
We all turned to look at her. Her face looked, almost frightened. "I will not wear that uniform." Wow. She sounded like a rebel.
"It is part of the school code, Kat. It's the school rules. You will be wearing uniform and that is the end of the matter." replied the head frostily. There was an awkward silence.
"Mrs Calder, may I have a word in private?" asked the Professor.
"Of course, Professor…Layton, was it? Yes, you three can wait outside."
There were a couple of chairs out side the head's office. Now bored of looking around, I turned to the girl beside me.
"Hey…what's your name?"
She waited a long time before answering. "Kat."
"Are you starting in year 8?"
"Yes."
"Have you just moved to London?"
"Yes"
"Where from?"
"Little village"
"Really? Me too!"
She eyed me warily. "I can tell."
"How?"
"You're talking to me." Then she shifted her position away from me, making it clear that she did not want to talk.
Hmph.
In form I was sitting next to a nice girl called Hana, and we chatted until it was time for lessons.
By break, I was on the point of collapse.
I had never been to school before and I was not very good at simultaneous equations. It had taken my maths teacher about five minutes to realize I was well behind my class and she had taken me aside and explained it to me.
I also was not very good at music. I had never heard of a music score and it puzzled me that people wrote music notes on five lines when they could just write the letters.
"Flora, seriously? Music notes? Have you ever been to school before?"
"No," I replied miserably. "I've lived in a tiny village all my life."
"Okay," said Hana thoughtfully "So what can you do?"
"Um…art…errrrr…I can…" My voice trailed off
"Art? You can only do art?" This didn't look good.
After a day of a crash course in everything, I was quite happy to see Luke and the Professor standing by the Layton mobile.
"Hey Professor, Luke."
"Hey Flora. How was school? Did anyone bother you?"
"No Luke it was fine, thank you. Apart from I am terrible at maths, music, science-"
"Oh Flora was it really that bad?" The Professor looked concerned.
I sighed. "It's okay, Professor. I need to learn this stuff if I want to make the leap into the real world."
"Quite right Flora. Now let's go home and have a refreshing cup of tea, shall we?"
Later…
"Professor, I met this cool girl today!" Luke said happily as I had a sip of the oasis berry. Ahhhh. Nice and sugary.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah her name's Kat and she was really friendly but she's a bit-"
"Friendly?!" I said. "Luke, when I spoke to her this morning, she was anything but friendly.
"Really?" said Luke, surprised. "Could you have met a different Kat, Flora?"
"Is she new to the school?"
"Yes"
"Then it's the same Kat."
"Well yeah, anyway she moved here from the country cos her dad lost-"
"Because, Luke. A gentleman always says because."
"Because her dad lost his job so he got a new job in London and Kat moved here too. She sits next to me in form, because her name is Kat Royale. R, T.
"Kat Royale? Isn't that a character from a book?"
"Well yeah I said that but then she went all quiet and changed the subject."
Hmph. This Kat was a bit mysterious and I didn't think she liked me. Oh well.
Later again…
"Well goodnight then, Luke."
"Goodnight, Flora."
I collapsed onto my bed. I was going to need the sleep to fuel my brain for tomorrow's crash course in everything else.
Later yet again…
A mysterious figure slipped into Luke's room. They bent over Luke's sleeping form and smiled.
"You wronged me Luke Triton. Now I shall have revenge."
A few minutes later…
The door to Flora's room opened. The new comer looked down almost sadly over Flora.
"I'm sorry, little girl, but your brother must pay. It's a shame you must share in his punishment.
Once they were done, they backed out and left the Professor's flat.
Kat was just lucky they didn't know she was there.
Okay, just to clarify, Kat was not actually in the Professor's flat. She was down the road in her own home you pervs. But she was still lucky (fanfic lucky)
Goodbye Layton people! See yap next chapter! XD