My eyes fluttered open from a, surprisingly, peaceful dream. I felt something warm on my chest and looked down. There was Luke, huddled next to me with his arms holding me tightly. I smiled softly and hugged him tightly. I buried my face in his hair and stayed like that for a bit. Then the words floated into my head.

"I love you too, Clive."

I let out a soft sigh. Did he mean it? He was asleep, sure, but…I shook my head and glanced at the clock: 5:23 a.m. I guess now would be a good time to take a shower. I was getting up when I felt something tugging my sleeve. I looked down to see Luke, gripping my sleeve for dear life.

"Please don't go…" he whispered. I could tell he was asleep by the way the rest of his body was relaxed. I felt the heat rise to my cheeks. I bent down and gripped his hand reassuringly.

"I'll be back, promise." I whispered to him. He hesitantly let go of my hand. I picked up some of my clothes and dashed off.

When I came back Luke was curled up in a ball. At first I thought it was cute but when I heard him it saddened me a bit.

"Please come back.." He whispered. I sat on the bed. I went to shake him awake but as soon as my arm came near him, he grabbed it and seemed determined to never let go. I chuckled a bit at this and began to shake him with my hand.

"Luke…Luke…wake up dummy." I said softly. His eyes slowly fluttered open and he rubbed his eye with his baggy sleeve. His eyes snapped open when he saw how close I was to him,

"C-Clive?!" He yelled falling off the bed. I laughed at bit and walked over to the door.

"Take a shower and meet me in the kitchen, kay?" I left the room, not waiting for his response.

~Luke's POV~

After I got a shower and got changed I went into the kitchen Like Clive asked. As soon as he saw me, he smiled, grabbed my hand, and dragged me out of the suite. I blinked in confusion.

"Clive where are we going?!" I asked a bit franticly. He laughed.

"You'll see .~" The way he said that made shivers go down my back. He dragged me all the way to an odd looking café. I raised an eyebrow at him and he looked away.

"I told you I would get ya something better than your ice-cream." I felt my cheeks heat up when he said that. He remembered his promise? I thought he would just brush it to the side.

When we entered I noticed no one was there except the employees. We walked up to the counter, were a man with black hair and dark brown eyes stood.

"What would you two like?" he asked. Clive turned to me and i quickly averted my eyes to the menu.

"oasis berry tea and some waffles please." i said quietly, luckily the man heard me so there was no need in repeating myself. Clive ordered after me and we went to sit in one of the empty booths until our food arrived.

"Sorry for waking you up so early, it's just that i heard this place is very popular and I didn't want you to have to wait 3 hours before getting anything." Clive said looking away, his face a bit pink. I smiled at him, but instead of saying 'it's okay." i said:

"Thank you, Clive." this shocked him a bit but after a few seconds he returned my smile. Suddenly he looked serious.

"Luke did you have a nightmare last night?" I froze, h-how did he know? I Couldn't tell him! If i did i might never see the Professor again! not Flora and not him! I was about to say something when our food was set on our table.

"I'll come back when you 'gents are done." said a waiter before leaving the table. I pretended that Clive's last question didn't exist as I drank my tea and ate my waffles, but I could feel his stare on me the whole time. When i took the last sip of my tea, only then did i realized he was waiting for me to finish before questioning me further...dang it.

"Luke.." he said sternly, I looked up and I wish I didn't. He was actually leaning across the table so he was closer to my face, and no matter how much I tried I couldn't look away. I bit my lip.

"Yes.." I whispered, responding to his earlier question. He seemed to get that because he asked,

"What was it about?" I heard his voice become softer and it made me want to hug him, and just tell him about all of my problems...but I knew I Couldn't.

"I...I can't tell you." I felt tears stinging at my eyes and he wiped them away when they fell.

"It's okay, you can tell me later if you like." he said. When the waiter came back he payed the bill and we went outside. As soon as we stepped out it started raining. Clive quickly picked me up, in the most embarrassing way possible..BRIDAL STYLE! I am a 14 year old Clive, I can run you know! But instead of saying that I hid my pink face into his chest.

"Not again.." I murmured, remembering this is the second time he's carried me like this. He must of heard me because he laughed and said:

"You're a pretty light, Luke, I swear a pebble's heavier than you."

"Shut up!" I said punching him softly of his arm. He laughed.

"Whatever you want, Princess." he said smirking. I felt my face on fire, what did he have a whole book on how to tease me?! When we got back The Professor and Flora were eating their own breakfast, and because the Professor looked healthy I knew it was not Flora who made the meal. Then i realized that Clive was still carrying me Bridal style, and he seemed to have no intention of letting me go.

"Welcome back." The Professor said with a bright smile, ignoring the fact that Clive was carrying me, Flora seemed to Ignore it too..am I the only one who notices that Clive is carrying me?- you know what? Forget it he's not ganna let me go so I might as well make him my personal pillow.

"Sorry, we went for a walk and before we knew it, it started raining." Clive said..okay that wasn't a lie because we did Walk for a bit, and we didn't see that rain coming. I felt a bit hot so i tugged on Clive's jacket. He looked down at me and I must have looked a bit sick because he put his hand on my head.

"You're a bit warm Luke, you should rest before this gets worse." He carried me to our room and got out my Pj's. After I got changed in the bathroom i went back into our room and Clive tucked me In. He lightly stroked my cheek, and i didn't swat his hand away, it was a calming gesture.

"I'll be back in a bit later, okay?" he asked. I nodded and he slowly left, I suddenly felt tired so I drifted t sleep.

~Clive's POV~

I slowly shut the door. I sighed and leaned against the wall. What if Luke had another nightmare?

"Clive?"

What if he didn't tell me?

"Clive?"

What if- I was interrupted by a tugging on my coat, I looked down to see Flora.

"Yes, Flora?" instead of answering she dragged me to her room.

"Please take a seat, Clive." She said, motioning to a small table where there were two cups and a teapot.. I slowly took a seat and she followed after.

"Tea?" She asked, lifting the pot. I nodded and she poured some for me and herself. She took a sip before putting the cup down.

"Clive," She said looking up at me, with a serious look on her face. It shocked me a bit, for Flora to act so out of character. She took a deep breathe.

"I know you like Luke." She said calmly...oh no I gulped as she continued.

"And I want you to know, so do I." i felt my heart sink, Luke would fall for Flora, not me why would he want to love someone who used him as a pawn? I don't deserve hi-

"But after some thinking I have figured out these feelings for Luke are how a sister feels about a brother so," where was she going with this? She looked up at me a huge grin on her face.

"I want you to know that I support you and will help you in anyway possible to help you get with Luke." I looked at her shocked, but that soon melted into happiness.

"Thank you Flora." I got up and hugged her and she hugged me back. After sitting back down i took a sip of my tea.

"Flora if you don't mind, may I ask you a few questions?" She nodded and let out a sigh I didn't know i was holding in.

"Well first of..does the Professor know." She let out a soft giggle.

"He's oblivious for once." She answered which calmed me a bit.

"Has Luke told you about any of his nightmares?" Flora's smile disappeared, replaced with her serious face again.

"Yes, and from what I know they're always the same. One night I heard him sobbing violently so I went to Check on him and when I asked about it he kept saying something about not being able to see me and the professor and then something about cuts...it worries me badly." Flora said, tightly holding onto her cup. My eyes widened.

"Does he talk to you about it?" I asked.

"Only when he's badly broken down from one of them." She said a small tear going down her cheek.

"I'm so worried about him..." she looked up at me a frightened look in her eyes.

"One night," She began, whispering, looking at me.

"He was still sleeping and he seemed to be in pain...so I lifted his shirt and-and." tears streamed down her face, but she kept her eyes locked on mine.

"there was a huge gash on his back surrounded by little ones.."thats why he didn't take of his shirt when we went on the water rides.. Suddenly anger filled her voice.

"Someone is abusing Luke! I know it! It's not the Professor because luke didn't have any cuts when we went swimming on the first week of summer and because there's no new mystery to solve i'm always at Luke's side when he's here! it's not me because I think of Luke as a Brother and I have no reason to hurt him, heck I don't even care that he and the professor leave me out of the mysteries anymore! It's not you because i saw the cuts before you came...and it's not Luke because Luke can't cut his back, let alone that deep." Flora looked angered but there was something distinct she said that I noticed.

"Flora, you said you're always at his side when he's here.." I said holding onto my tea cup

"Well, yeah I mean Luke does go to his parents house every now and th-" suddenly she stopped and threw her tea cup at the wall,luckily there was no tea in it as it shattered into little pieces.

"That bastard!" She screamed, shocking me because the Professor thought Flora to be a lady and cursing was not what a lady does. Realizing this she covered her mouth.

"Oh, i'm sorry Clive but i think I know who's abusing Luke.." she said.

"Wh-" my question was cut off when I saw a small cut of her hand.

"Flora, you're bleeding." I said taking her hand. I slowly took a shard of the cup out and wiped the cut with a napkin.

"Clive, you have a small cut on you're cheek." She sat up and wiped the blood away. We both heard the door opening and we turned to see a shocked Luke standing in the doorway.

"Oh, I'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt." i swear i heard his voice crack. He quickly ran away.

"Luke!" i yelled I turned to Flora and she smiled.

"Go get him." She said and that was all I needed to Go run after Luke.

"Luke!" I called. i checked everywhere until the only place left was our room. I checked under the bed before i heard a soft crying. It led me to the closet.

"Luke?" i asked. There he was curled in a ball crying his heart out. i knelled down and shook him lightly, he swatted my hand away.

"Luke, come on let's get out of here." I offered my hand to him but he ignored it and walked past me. After i got up I got out of the closet to see Luke glaring at me, tears streaming down his face.

"Do you think this is funny, Clive?" he asked. he voice was weak and he sounded pissed.

"Do I think what's funny?" i asked, having no idea what his was talking about. His hands were in fist. He looked at me anger in his eyes. He grabbed my hand and put it against his chest.

"This isn't a normal heartbeat Clive and I don't get it, I only get it around you and you seem to notice that! You make me feel this way only to crush my feelings that I don't even understand! More tears stream down his face. And he's right, I can feel his heart pounding wildly. I try to speak but he won't let me. he grabs my tie and yanks me down so i'm eye level with him. I can see all the sadness and anger in his eyes now.

"Why do you treat me differently than Flora? You never tease her! Do you love her or something!?" was that a bit of jealously in his voice? I lift my hands up and hold his face.

"I tease you because I love you" I whisper it but he doesn't seem to hear me even though we're so close. He looks like he's about to yell again but instead he yanks on my tie again, closing the space between us. Our lips touch and i'm shocked. Luke is very tense and his eyes are wide open as if shocked by his own actions...but neither of us move...my hands still cupping his face and his hand on my tie. I can see his face turning pink and I feel mine do the same. suddenly he brakes away.

"I-i'm sorry Clive i-i didn't mean to do that honest!" he seems a bit shaken. My heart skips a beat, although he's apologizing about it and says he didn't mean to..if he didn't care about me he wouldn't brother saying that. I ignore his rambling as i walk up to him. I knell down and hug him.

"It's okay Luke." I whisper and kiss his cheek softly.

"Oh thank god.." I hear him whisper as he throws his arms around me and cries softly on my shoulder. And as he does this, I do not feel broken or as if someone has tore apart my heart. because i'm listening to his murmurs and they give me hope.

"thank god you don't hate me.." he whispers and it's how he finished that makes me purely happy.

"I don't know what I would do if you did."

I'm baaaaaaaack :D. I'm so sorry for leaving you guys TnT. I have my reasons for not updating but forget it. I'm just so happy to be writing again! And because I've been gone so long here's is my present to you! The first reviewer for this chapter gets -insert drum roll here- a hug from Clive!

Clive: y-you can't give away my hugs!

CC: I might not own you or the professor layton video games - because level 5 does- but i own this fanfiction! so you shall hug the reviewer because they deserve it for waiting so long!

Clive: fine -_-

CC: okay dislamier time!

Clive: umm you kinda already did that while yelling at me 0_O

CC: oooooh...Well see you guys soon! and i mean it! :D

~Companioncube1498