Hey!
I was pretty upset when I had written a chapter for Stuck In Your Head for the second time. Then, I almost went insane when Fanfiction wouldn't let me sign in to post it. So you know what I did?
I wrote this. Here you go.
Hershel Layton let out a sigh from his desk as he poked at a few dinosaur bones with his pencil's eraser. Luke looked at his role model with a curious look. The professor never sighed like that. Something was wrong. "Professor? Is something wrong?" Luke questioned.
The professor sighed again and spun around in his chair to face his apprentice. "Oh, Luke, my dear boy...It seems that I have grown weary of my job..." He muttered.
Luke couldn't believe what he was hearing. The professor always loved his job. Solving puzzles and mysteries, looking at fossils and bones...Who would've thought he'd get bored? "P-Professor! What...What are you saying?!"
"I'm saying that I need to find a new job." The professor bluntly explained.
Luke almost collapsed on the floor. "B-But! I'm supposed to be your apprentice!" Luke shrieked.
"You can still be my apprentice, just not the apprentice to an archeologist who goes around solving puzzles." He assured in an attempt to calm the distressed boy down.
"O...Okay...I guess I can give it a shot." Luke replied, taking a deep breath. "After all, I am your faithful apprentice."
"Great. So, I was looking at this opening for a doctor-" Layton started.
"Wait! Professor! You were already looking for a job?!" Luke questioned. "And you waited until now to tell me?!"
"Of course, Luke. I wanted to check my options before I made the announcement." Hershel explained. "As I was saying, I found an opening for a doctor at that doctor's office nearby."
"...Professor...Do you even know anything about being a doctor?" Luke asked.
"Well, I'm not called a professor just because it sounds official." Layton answered.
"Yes...I know you went to college but...that was because you wanted to be an archeologist...not a doctor."
"They both deal with bones, I'm sure it'll be fine." The professor assured, putting on his hat and coat.
"Yes, but-"
"Shh..." Layton hissed. "A true gentleman doesn't question a true gentleman's choices." Layton stated
Luke soon found himself sitting in a small child's chair in the waiting room of the doctor's office. Layton sat in the adult-sized chair next to him, filling out papers.
"Professor...I'm still unsure about this..." Luke muttered.
"It'll be fine." The professor once again assured him. Just then, a little girl screamed in pain and held her finger. Luke came to her rescue as he usually does to people in need. Luke brought the girl over to the professor, hoping he could help.
"Professor...She got a splinter on those wooden blocks over there." Luke explained, pointing to the corner of kids that had continued playing like the girl was never there.
Layton put the papers on the floor and placed the weeping child in his lap. "A great opportunity to test my abilities..." Layton said to himself as he examined her finger. He began to mumble quietly to himself, turning the situation into a puzzle as he always had.
"Professor...?" Luke quietly called. "You're supposed to pull the splinter out."
"Right. Right. That just seemed too easy to be the solution." Layton commented as he pinched the small piece of wood with his fingers and pulled out the splinter. "Good call, Luke." The professor complimented.
"Professor, you're supposed to put a band-aid on it." Luke stated before the tall man could let the girl run free.
"Of course..." Layton muttered. He grabbed a band-aid and looked at the small hole in her finger. "Right...So...How do I cover the most area of the wound...?" He asked himself as he rotated the band-aid in several directions.
"Professor...Just put it on..." Luke mumbled as the professor continued to make it more challenging than it had to be.
About half an hour later, he finally placed the band aid on her finger and the girl was sound asleep. "A true gentleman never leaves a puzzle unsolved!" The professor happily yelled as he always did after solving a puzzle. The girl abruptly woke up to his voice and began to cry again. "What's wrong?" Layton questioned.
"You woke her up, sir..." Luke explained. A woman came over and took her child away from the professor. She started to rock her in her arms until the child was asleep again.
"How dare you?!" The woman angrily whispered. She slapped the professor on his cheek, his hat falling off in the process. "Stealing children and then making them cry?! Who does that?!" The outraged woman didn't even wait for the professor to answer. She walked away from the duo and sat in her chair with her daughter.
The professor rubbed his face. "Luke...I don't think I'm cut out for the whole doctor business..." He muttered quietly.