I am so sorry for not updating sooner, but life pretty much got in the way :(
To The Mocking J: I know you asked for Claire to annoy the Professor, but truthfully, I couldn't imagine her annoying either intentionally or unintentionally. So, I went with having her point something out, that would annoy him. I hope that's okay :)
They're not that good, but I hope they are somewhat worth the wait!
It occured more often than not, that Scotland Yard would ask the Professor to help them out on their more "complicated" cases. The Professor himself often wondered, why they bothered asking him instead of a five-year-old, besides the fact, that it could get ugly sometimes.
"I have a hypothesis; I'm not sure, but I think he was stabbed to death."
"Amazing, Inspector, your opservation deductive skills are absolutely amazing. I, myself, was wondering what the knife in his back was doing, as well as the multiple stab wounds."
Hershel Layton could be called a lot of things, but a gourmet was not one of them. He wasn't terrible, but it wasn't one of his stronger sides either. Whenever, him and Claire were going on a date, they would always eat out or Claire would make the food.
However, he had promised to cook on Claire's 25th birthday and so he did. Tried to anyway.
"Are you certain we shouldn't go to a restaurant or something?"
"I have everything under control," he said, appearing in the doorway, only too late to realise his mistake.
"Doesn't it smell burned in here?"
"...Bloody hell."
Grosky was one of the inspectors that Layton was most used to work with, or rather, help out. This case was no different.
"Maybe we can solve this with a puzzle. Here we go:
The police have 5 suspects in custody. They exspect some of them to lie, but they don't know how many. These are each of the suspects accounts:
A: I saw C do it!
B: A is lying!
C: I didn't do it.
D: I wasn't there when it happened.
E: At least three of us are lying.
So, who are lying and who are telling the truth?"
"There is no doubt about; it must be YOU THERE!" Grosky said, pointing to a random goat nearby.
"...Your logic astound me, Grosky."
I know the pointing and esclaiming is Layton's thing (and a good deal of Phoenix Wright characters' as well XD), but I could really imagine Grosky say it. He probably has at some point, too, without me remembering. Layton is contagious XD
I'm really bad at making puzzles D: