Author's Note: I don't like this couple, but this is probably my favorite one. Flora meaning the scientific word for FLOWER, NOT THE CHARACTER.
I don't own Professor Layton.
two. the flora
Dimitri first sees her when he and Bill start their project.
In a world of barely any supporters, and many, many nonbelievers, Dimitri is convinced, however illogical it may be, that she is a beautiful, beautiful rose.
Or, her hair is.
Red locks gently frame her face - perhaps not rose red, but you get the picture - and they curl delicately, like the way a rose gently turns inwards. (He should know. Roses are his favorite, after all.)
Perhaps it was illogical - okay, it was so illogical - but she reminded him of a flower with the way she did everything.
With the way her brown orbs dazzled and twinkled, even when her glasses fogged, and the way she did everything gently and perfectly, there was no way she was not the most beautiful thing - flower - he had ever seen.
She was drop dead gorgeous, and they even shared the same true love:
science!
It was an easy thing to bond over, really.
He made sure he watered the flower - with compliments - but he found himself being too... modest with the way he felt about her.
He tried not to pay attention to the flower's other gardener - the one the flower grows and responds to - but she had chosen that other gardener anyway.
Still, he never forgot to water his flower.
And he begged and pleaded with Bill that the garden was not ready to be harvested yet - meaning he had not won her over yet - but to no avail.
("After all, Dimitri, the show must go on," Bill had told him, aware of Dimitri's feelings.)
And as he runs to his garden one last, awful time, he finds his beautiful, favorite flower - his rose - wilted and done for.