Who am I? ((A Professor Layton Fanfic))

Chapter 9: Innocence

"No. You didn't, you can't, you wouldn't, you didn't, no." I felt myself getting queasy and nervous and I just felt sick.

"Clive, she lived at The Female Youth Centre for a few months. Once they found her to be stable and safe, they let me take her back. She's fine and healthy, she just goes over there to talk to a counsellor biweekly. I don't know what they discuss, what with confidentiality and such, but I doubt they still talk of you." He was unreadable. I had not a clue as to his emotional state and that's a terrible thing.

Flora is young. She's a young smart girl who shouldn't have been sent to a mental institute. I can see the images of them torturing her like they do to me. She's too young. She's too innocent. She'a too pure.

"This is my fault. This is all my fault. She's suffering because of me. No! I won't take this Hershel!!!" I was crying now, crying and yelling. I had broken this family. I had torn it apart.

"Don't cry. Calm down." He said. When I didn't respond he continued, "Clive! Snap out of it! She's fine. She's happy. She's healthy. And you're only human, my boy, we all make mistakes"

I wiped my face and looked up at him. "I doubt your mistakes hurt people this badly. I'm a terrible person. I'm not human. I'm a monster Hershel, a monster. I don't deserve to live. I'm the most worthless pile of shit that the God I don't believe in put on this earth. And I am a monster." I looked at him straight in the face. I had said it all. I had left it all on the table.

He simply said, "You're forgetting Bill Hawks."

Before I could react I was grabbed from behind as the guard took me. He said my time was up. I will not stand for this!!! I was not done with the great Hershel Layton! The last thing I said before I was out of earshot was, "Some mistakes are larger than other mistakes!" And I was taken back to my room.

That's the night that things changed...