I can't believe that I finally found the time to go on writing...I just have had too many exams in the past months and unfotrunately they're not over yet ... So please be patient :D ... Enjoy the new Story
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Chapter 11

Letters (Probably the shortest Chapter ever)

Luke sat in his quiet and small hotel room, waiting that the Professor would hopefully enter in with Céline in his arms, telling him that she was going to be just fine...But nothing happened...For a period of time that felt like hours, Luke shifted in his seat. He didn't know what to do. His head told him to stay right here, not only because he felt miserable and was hurt also because the Professor had strictly told him not to leave this room. But on the other hand Luke was forced to listen to the voice, which came from his heart and told him to do anything in his power to safe Céline. And that was what he did. Within a second he had grabbed his coat, put in on and made his was towards the door. When his hand slowly made it's way to the doorknob he hesitated for a moment, thinking about in how much trouble he would probably get for leaving but than his heart' voice convinced him again.

When Luke ran through the foggy streets and finally arrived at his destination, he was shocked to see that nobody was there. Not the Professor, not Céline and not even a tourist. But Luke tried to think about the possibility that probably the Professor could have saved Céline and had already brought her to the hotel, he saw a letter laying on the ground, with a special name written on it 'Céline'.

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After Layton had read Céline's goodbye letter, he felt more helpless than ever before. He had thrown the letter back to the ground and started to slender through the old misty streets of the town that once had been Luke's home. Passing and looking trough the old allies he just did not know what to do. The Professor had promised to Luke, that he would take care of this, he promised to bring her back...But he failed. He had failed Céline, he had failed himself and most importantly he had failed his son. Would Luke ever be able to forgive him. When he had found the ally, that Luke had first showed him after their arrival, the ally in which Luke had to sleep in for months he stopped and took a few letters out of his coat. He had taken some of Luke's goodbye letters with him. Not to confront the poor boy with it, he just wanted to understand why Luke had even thought about doing such a thing... Taking his life, that just didn't seem to make any sense. Of course he had to handle a lot in the past months, but it still hurt the Professor to think about the fact that Luke might have already been dead...How often had this little boy sat there on this bridge, risking to jump. After he had slowly opened the first letter his he could actually feel his heart skipping a few beats... What he read there was..just...- completely unlike Luke.

-I'm very sorry, but it just is impossible for me to go on like this-

-There is nothing in the world, somebody could have done to stop me from doing this-

-Even though I have had some good ...no 'acceptable' times here, I won't ever be able to forget what has happened-

-I do not think that I can handle to see Mark's criminal and empty eyes everyday-

-...by the was, I don't think that there's is even one person out there, who actually cares if I end it...or not-

-See you in hell, guys-

-Farewell-

The Professor scanned passage by passage and couldn't stop. This did not sound like the little enthusiastic boy, who had always run around his office and who possessed the most incredible intelligence the Professor had ever seen.

This was just wrong.

After a while, he couldn't bear to look at them anymore. First the first time in his entire life he was speechless. It was time to confront Luke about this, he was the only person, who could explain this.

When the Professor arrived at the hotel his heart was getting torn. On one side, he wanted to know, why Luke would even consider to kill himself, but on the other hand he was scared of finding out the reason...He was afraid of hearing Luke's arguments...Maybe because he still felt guilty about this. About the fact that he had left Luke all by his own. When he reached for the doorknob, he hesitated for a moment, going through everything he wanted to say to Luke in his head. And he finally showed courage to enter the room he was shocked to see it 'empty'.

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Luke had already read the letter Céline had left for him and the whole 'family'. It was awful, never in his entire life had Luke felt this guilty before. Walking around and slowly heading towards the small apartment, where he was about to meet the Professor he had no idea how he would react meeting his fathers. Would he yell, because Layton was not able to safe Céline? Would he cry, because he had lost her? Or would he be scared, because he had left the hotel without permission and therefore the Professor would be angry with him? Soon Luke stood in front of the apartment's door again. And even though he was afraid of walking inside, he was too tired, too exhausted and definitely too depressed to care so he simply walked inside, with Céline's goodbye-letter in his hands.

He felt relieved when he was greeted by the Professor's worrying eyes looking right at him.

"Oh my boy. Where have you been? You gave me quite a shock,"suddenly his eyes went from worry, to relief to anger,"Didn't I strictly told you not to leave this building?!" the Professor wanted to know.