Authors Note: First of all I want to thank the people who have read and reviewed my story so far. It makes me enjoy writing these and want to continue writing these, especially as I don't normally do much with my free time except play video games on the very computer which I happened to write this story, and it also makes these Fanfic a bit of a higher priority. I am also quite surprised at how quickly my story was found literally, by the looks of it, just hours after publishing, and I will try very hard to keep writing stuff that you enjoy. Thanks guys. Enjoy.
Chapter 2:
The next day.
"Yawn" the Professor had woken up from what he at first thought was in truth, a very bizarre dream, he thought over it, immediately Claire sprang to mind, oh how he missed her, I wish she was still here.
The Professor decided that it wouldn't do to constantly reminiscence about the incident, it could prove a large problem if thinking about it continued. "Well" he thought, "I had best get prepared for work, as he rolled over he rolled into someone, at first he thought Luke had had a nightmare and came into his room without disturbing him, then he realised, it was Claire, it wasn't a dream. Claire was here, last night, it really happened.
The Professor smiled to himself slightly, grabbed some clothes and changed in the bathroom and decided to go downstairs and make breakfast and of course, Tea.
A few minutes later Claire woke up, she saw the Professor was gone and smelt the aroma of tea.
"Why am I not surprised" she said to herself," I am awake, I must have Tea" she chuckled slightly to herself. "Well, I may as well head downstairs."
A moment later after she changed she arrived downstairs. A minute later, Luke followed.
"Good Morning Claire my dear, good morning Luke my boy" the Professor said.
"Morning Professor"
"Morning Hershel"
Authors Note: For those who do not know, Hershel is the Professors first name. A weird one isn't it.
"Sleep well?" The Professor asked, always concerned about everyone and anyone's wellbeing. This was one of the many qualities that made the Professor such a popular person, always kind, always the Gentleman. As Claire had wanted him to be.
"Like a log" Luke said cheerfully," Is the kettle still warm enough for more Tea Professor?" Luke was a lot like the Professor when it came to Tea, only he had more of a sweet tooth, so for him, the more sugar, the better.
"Yes my boy, I think it may just be as it was boiled just a moment ago after all. Did you sleep well then Claire?"
"Oh yes Hershel, your beds very comfy"
"I like that about it as well," Luke said, one Christmas I jumped on it to wake the Professor up when my parents and I came to visit and spend the week"
"A rather rude awakening Luke, but it was amusing all the same" the Professor chuckled, remembering and retelling the story to Claire the most wonderful Christmas when Luke had indeed visited with his parents, and the Professor former assistant Emmy Altava had even shown up to give a gift to the Professor, as she always did, she also stayed for Christmas lunch, they ended up kissing under the mistletoe which Clark and Luke had sneakily put up.
Claire looked angry at this point and when the Professor noticed he looked worried, but fortunately for him she said "just kidding". The Professor continued, telling how they had a lot of fun pulling Crackers and exchanging presents, at one point they even had a silly dance off to a song on the radio, Claire burst out laughing at this point and asked Luke how well the Professor did, Luke said he fell over, that was without a doubt the most memorable part of that day. Layton hoped never to forget that day, it was probably the most enjoyable Christmas he had ever had, except for how the Professor and Clark decided just for a joke to get Luke and Emmy under the mistletoe, they even got a picture, just as Clark and Luke had done for him. The Professor never convinced Clark to let him have it, certain that the Professor would get rid of as soon as possible. When Luke wanted the picture of him and Emmy kissing, Clark wouldn't hand that over either, fair to say, neither Luke or the Professor were pleased.
"Did you really Luke? Well that must have been a fun Christmas. Hershel and you both got kissed. Did she enjoy them?" Claire asked slyly.
Both boys went tomato red in the face and never answered. Claire burst out laughing at how they reacted to the question.
"Clark never stopped reminding me about that Christmas every Christmas since then on" The Professor said embarrassedly, still blushing, though now his cheeks merely looked rosy, as though he had ran from somewhere.
"Same here, mean old Dad" Luke said looking still embarrassed as well, only his cheeks appeared a bit less rosy than the Professors.
"Ever since that Christmas, when Emmy visits, I always kept an eye out on the ceiling for more Mistletoe. Emmy kept asking why I was staring at the ceiling. She, I don't think, remembered that Christmas."
"Well Hershel," Claire said in that sort of voice that indicated shock but as though she was amused at the same time" I never would have thought you would play a prank on someone, that isn't very gentleman like now is it?" She said, clearly looking amused at the idea of the Professor tricking someone for a laugh with his best friend from Gressenheller University, where the Professor studied for his degree in Archaeology, alongside his best friend at the time, Clark Triton. That was in fact where both of the 2 had met their sweethearts, Claire was the best friend of Brenda, whom a number of years later became Clarks wife, and a number of years later after that, had Luke. Meanwhile, Claire had begun dating Layton, much to the jealously of Dimitri Allen and Don Paolo, both of whom had crushes on Claire but never told her, or revealed their jealously to anyone.
DING DONG. The Professors doorbell rang, so Layton rose from his chair and went to answer it. Layton then came back with Clark, after some greetings a question as to whom the women at the table was and a request to chat in private, Layton and Clark excused themselves to the Professor study to chat with Clark about a very important matter.
" So Luke, Claire asked, any more amusing stories from either yours or the Professors past that you know about." Luke blushed, then said he knew about a good one about a valentine's day Clark had spent with Brenda during his time at University. Clark heard though and told Luke not to tell. After he left again, Luke told anyway.
"Have you heard this one, given the fact that you knew my Mum right?" Luke asked.
"I don't think I've ever been told about any of your mothers Valentine Days with Clark"
"Well, it went like this. One Valentine's Day my parents planned a day out where they would go to a restaurant, take a walk by the Thames and other mushy stuff like that," Luke said with a look of disgust on his face.
"Luke, one day you may spend a day with a girl doing "Mushy stuff like that" and you'll probably enjoy yourself at the end of it and look forward till next time" Claire said, amused at how all little boys hated stuff like that at his age.
"No I won't," Luke said, looking outraged as though Claire had insulted him very rudely. "Im going to be single all my life. Who needs girls, anyway, were getting of the original topic "Luke reminded her "Can I continue please?"
"All right." She thought it was funny how like most boys his age, he seemed to find the idea of girls and boys in love gross. Boys that age she thought.
"So anyway," Luke said calmly, as though the moment had never happened, "my parents went to dinner, and it was going well, they chatted happily about their intentions after University, about silly things like what if they had superpowers and what would they do if they were Prime Ministers, then Dad spilled his drink onto Mum, she was alright about it though, she quickly got most of it dried with a napkin. Dad kept apologising. She dismissed all of them, then after dinner, fortunately without any more disasters, they took a walk by the Thames, as planned, that's where things really went wrong."
Luke hadn't heard his father Clark and the Professor had snuck up outside the door to listen as well, they were don't chatting and the Professor listening more thank Clark as Clark of course knew the story and was wondering how Luke heard it. "Brenda" he thought, she probably told him but never mentioned what happened next to her.
"Anyway, so they reached a particularly muddy and slippery part of the bank they and hadn't been paying attention to where they were going, cause then Dad slipped and fell into the river!" Luke burst out laughing and Claire did the same. With tears rolling down his eyes, Luke continued, with some difficulty due to how funny it must have been. "Then Mum had to help him get out without getting herself wet, she was alright at the end, she remained firmly dry."
"Yes Luke, I did indeed fall in the river, but your mother seemed to have luckily forgotten what really happened next."
"DAD, umm, so w-w-when did you a-a-and the Professor f-finish talking then, and what do you mean "what r-r-really happened next?"" Luke stammered, scared at how angry his father would be. Clark appeared quite the contrary.
"Seeming as you have already told most of the story to Claire, I may as well finish it, so after I had the misfortune to have fallen in the river, your mother had me swim to a nearby dock for small boats and she would help me climb out, I did so, your mother couldn't stop laughing so I decided to have a laugh myself. When we reached the dock your mother tried to help me climb out by grabbing my hand, still giggling, so instead of letting her help me, I pulled her in as well to stop her giggling." Clark, Luke Claire and Layton all burst out laughing at this.
"And that is what really happened Luke," Clark said.
"Clark how did you know it was me?" Claire asked, curious.
"Hershel" Clark said simply.
"Makes sense, aren't you a bit shocked though?" Claire asked, wondering how he seemed so calm at the news.
"Well of course I am, but given the fact I trust Hershel, I don't so much of a reason to get worried," Clark explained.
"So what were you talking about then?" Luke asked.
"Do you want me to explain Clark?"
"If you want Hershel"
"Well….." Layton began.
Authors Note: Wow, my longest Chapter yet. Hope you enjoyed it and you can find out what Clark and Hershel began chatting about next Chapter. Please review, and again hope you enjoyed it and thanks for reading. Thanks also to the people who enjoyed reading the first chapter as well, I will edit that to make it seem bit less stupid where some people didn't like it and recommended changes. Next Chapter will be ready soon and thanks for the nice reviews, you guys are great. See ya later Everybody.