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Chapter 10

Reunited with Céline

The following breakfast, was a wonderful relief for both of them, Luke as well as the Professor. Of course the most interesting topic were all those terrible things that had happened to them in the past weeks. Luke started to remember a little, but actually he was very lucky for not being able to remember everything. As least who wants to be remembered of a kidnapping.

It was getting quite interesting when the Professor came to the details of the story especially the fact that Céline had run away .. teary. That shocked Luke.

"Oh no... Céline !... That must have been quite a shock for her. I need to talk to her immediately..!", Luke stood up almost shaking out of anger and visibly concerned about his girlfriend, but suddenly he took a step backwards and seemed to lose his consciousness. It was quite plausible that Luke was still hurt, and until his pain wouldn't have had gone away, it was the best thing for him to stay at home.

"Luke... Please, sit down. Now.", The Professor ordered.

"Wow .. W-what's happening?.", the confused Luke asked.

"I'm afraid, you're not able to go anywhere, but to bed my boy. You're hurt after all and you need to rest."

"No I don't, what I need is to find Céline..at once.", Luke protested

"Alright then let me say it in another way : You are not allowed to go anywhere but your bed.", The Professor said concerned but strict.

Suddenly Luke stood up again, and made his way to the door, but the Professor stopped him

"Like I said Luke. I won't let you go anywhere. What if you fell down again and get hurt even worse." To his surprise Luke didn't stop arguing and said something very interesting.

"You don't understand. Céline is possibly going to ... to ... She will.. ... I just fear that she's going to visit our ..." Luke started hyperventilating out of sudden.

"Luke... Luke !.. Calm down ... What do you mean, what is she going to do."

"I think she will go to our former 'happy place'.", Luke said

"Your ... 'Happy Place'. What is this Luke?", The Professor asked gently

"It's... A place where we ... we ... It's our suicide bridge." Luke said quietly and refused to look in his father's eyes.

There was a moment of silence but then:

"Still my boy. You have to stay here. I'll go and find her you just have to tell me where that bridge is." he answered very concerned

"S-sure .. on the other side of the village. The outcast-part... it is the biggest bridge you can find there and it's pretty recognizable because of all the ...goodbye-letters.", Luke still refused to look in the Professor's eyes. But he had this little piece of hope that the Professor possibly overheard that Luke had been at that suicide-place.

"All right my boy. I'll find her and I'll bring her back. And you should take a nap. you need your rest." Then he stepped to the door and Luke turned to his bedroom until:

"Oh and Luke?", He said

"Yeah?", Luke said turning around.

Suddenly the Professor's eyes wandered from concern to slight anger and disappointment

"We'll talk about this later. Understand?"

"Y-yes .. Okay.", Luke struggled.

They both turned and the Professor head through Céline, while Luke laid down, hoping he wouldn't ever wake up again.

...

It took a while to drive through the whole village, but after half an hour the Professor finally arrived at the bridge.

When he started reading the Goodbye-letters, he was everything but fine... There were just too many ... too many writing...too many poor unfortunate souls and it looked like too many dead teenagers...

It was just terrifying...But scared Layton the most, was this silence ... and the fact that he did not see anyone but himself on this bridge... Slowly he made his was to the small platform, where most of the letters were laying...on every letter stood at least one name...Also the Professor could see some with two or even three names written on it... And what gave him quite a shock were those letter ... MANY LETTERS, on which the name 'Luke' was written...Just by slowly passing Layton could recognize the name Luke about 13 times alone and 7 times with Céline on it... He was pretty sure, that if he would continue searching he would definitely find more of those letters. Oh yeah ... there was definitely going to be a very long conversation with son ...

And suddenly, there was one letter, still wet from tears from someone who had read, or in this case written, the letter : Céline...

"Oh no...", said Professor, more to himself than anyone else... there was just this letter and no one else around...so he started to read it:

My dear friends,

First of all, I have to say: I'm terribly sorry, that it had to come this far, but for the very first time, I had no other choice. When I first came here, I was already close to death, because I felt more alone then anyone else in this world...or so I thought. The second time I came, was with Luke. That day, was the day when I fell in love with him. Yes Luke...I love you,more than you can possibly imagine. And I just can't live without you. You gave me hope. Whenever we came to this bridge, to our 'happy-place' you where the one who didn't let me jump...And I was the one who stopped you from jumping. We were never alone, because we had each other. But now I have nobody. I'm very sorry all my friends:Caty, Pearl, Félippy...Mark and all the others... You were my family. But I think, that you were never enough. I wanted to be loved the same way as Luke, was loved...IS loved... I remember Luke's nightmares and the fact that he always talked about the Professor..whenever He told me about his life in London, I felt so grateful, that there was someone out there, who cared about him. And now, He'll probably never ever remember that love. Goodbye...or better said Fare well... I thank you all, for being my family. I love you all...

I love YOU Luke. . .

"Céline..." The Professor sighed, while standing there in shock, unable to move for a time that felt like hours... "What have you done?"... He asked.. But it seemed pretty obvious, what had happened ... and now it was time to tell Luke about it... Telling the young boy, who had already gone through hell, that his girlfriend, killed herself, because she didn't know, that Luke had found his memory again...

But even though Layton was shocked...and sad... and also scared...He still had this really bad feeling... He still had to talk to Luke about his letters and his intentions about being out here...on a Suicide-Bridge.

This was going to be a very long night...

Author's note:
Hey everyone .. I actually need your help... What do you think ... Did Céline jump? Or did she change her mind and is at the best health? Should she be reunited with Luke? And if 'YES' .. When? And how? ...

By the was: Thanks for reading :D