Chapter Seven
A/N: I'm going to apologise now for some things that happen in this chapter. It's going to go a little different from the game, but stuff already has. Thank you for being so nice about the difference from the game in the last chapter J Thank you for reading and/or reviewing, and as always, please review! This chapter takes place in the Thames Arms. It should be pretty clear what's going on.
"Though some may call it revenge, I prefer to think of it as justice- over single minded scientists," Clive paused, staring at Dimitri. "And corrupt politicians."
"What are you saying, Clive?" Dimitri was shocked. He just couldn't believe it- Clive, his partner in this scheme, building a weapon as Layton described? He had thought that Clive had the same goal he did: the time machine, so go back and stop the experiment, save Claire, save Clive's parents. That was what they had agreed, that was their reason for doing this. But if Clive was building a weapon, with all the scientists and resources available… Dimitri couldn't bear to think of the destruction that could be caused. Betrayal. Betrayal was what it was, and insanity.
"Enough explanations. Let me show you!" Before anyone could pause to decipher his meaning with those words, Clive laughed, and ran forward, grabbing Flora's arm and dragging her away from her chair next to Luke.
"Huh?" Flora tried to pull herself away, but she wasn't that strong, and was useless against Clive, who had both her arms in his grasp and dragged her away to the other side of the room and out of the door. Luke was already running after them- 'Must save Flora, stupid evil Clive, gotta get to Flora' – but was obstructed by a large potted plant that was stationed at the top of the stairs and then pushed down by Clive. Luke had to move to get out of the way quickly, and ended up tripping slightly. But by this time, the Professor, who had been stood further away from the door than Flora and Luke had been, had reached him, and Clive had hopped into a speedboat that one of the thugs (who had supposedly been working for Dimitri) had brought near the door in the river. Flora sat in a seat of the boat restrained by a second thug, who held her arms behind her back in a way that looked quite painful.
'Don't cry, it's fine, Luke and the Professor will come and get you soon, they'll come for you, they always do; but Future Luke, or Clive, as his name seems to be… we trusted him! He had us all fooled. I feel so stupid now, but the Professor and Luke were taken in as well, and they're anything but stupid, and my gosh it hurts, he's bending my arm- are arms even meant to physically be able to bend like that?- and don't think about it, don't be scared, don't cry even though it hurts, dammit it hurts, you're not allowed to be a weak, scared, silly little girl. Admittedly that's what you've been most of your life, but not anymore. Even though you've just been kidnapped by a man you trusted, and… what is that?!'
The mobile fortress rose steadily up from under the river, almost directly above the small boat as it drove through a door in one of the 'legs' of the machine.
'I suppose that's the weapon. It's so big… what are we going to do? Wait, there is no we, it's just me, just me and they've got me and I can't get free and I don't know what they're going to do to me- and that thing, who knows what it's capable of? And Luke and the Professor… God please let them be safe, I don't know… I'm not thinking about it. Everything's going to be fine, absolutely fine, but my gosh I'm scared…'
With tears in her eyes that she refused to let go, Flora watched the door slam as she was dragged out of the boat towards a lift.