"What If Luke And Clive Were Brothers?" | | AU

| Troubles and Close Call |

It wasn't fair.

Why does it always have to be him to get picked on by the other children?

"You're a twit."

"Teacher's pet."

"Pathetic fool."

Luke walked across the hallway of his school. It was always the same. Every day he had to leave home, it was torture from the students of the school, just because he ended up getting a bit smarter than the rest of the children for hanging around with a professor for few years.

The bullying had gotten much worse after the whole terrorist attack on London when everyone found out that Luke was living with the ex-con, Clive.

Even though Luke, Layton, Flora and the others who are in the Puzzle family forgave the inventor's actions and had him join the family after his release, some of the students became even too scared to come near the boy.

As Luke continued to walk down the halls, he walked past a student who not only gave him a  disgusted look but lifted out their leg which caused the poor child to fall to the ground.

Luke didn't even have time to register the problem when some other group of children walked over and started to kick him.

He began to scream for help but all were fallen silent with the laughter coming from above.

"Oh, Luke. What's wrong with you to think living with a criminal was a good idea?"

"My mother told me that she saw that man Luke lives with doing dangerous things in the alleyways. You know! Selling all that kinds of drugs."

One student began to snicker. "I think assistant boy here has brain problems."

"You think he stole Einstein's brain to be smart just so that he could be close to the Professor Layton?"

"Who knows? If that's true then Luke's just a pussy."

The children began to chant "Pussy Luke" as one of them grabbed the assistant's hat and rushed to a nearby door which lead to the stairs. Luke, seeing this, rushed to get up only to fall back down with a wince of pain.

The chanting got louder, the kicking got worse but Luke had finally had gotten up and tried to run over to the child who grabbed his blue cap.

"S-stop it, please! I swear I-I'll do anything just give me back my hat! My mother got that for me!"

The kid smirked at Luke. "Oh? So you're a mummy's boy now, huh? What a freak." With that, he roughly pushed the hat on Luke's head causing the boy to only see darkness and kicked him down the stairs.

Each steps Luke hit caused his painful screams of agony to grow louder and louder till he reached the bottom of the stairs.

Now with blood and wounds appearing on him, Luke could only lift his head slowly before falling into unconsciousness.

'Am I...Am that bad?'

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The roaring flames took over the once happy little buildings, especially with some of the people living inside who were unable to get out.

With such mass explosion that came from a nearby laboratory, many people were told to evacuate while firefighters came to take down the blazing flames.

Luke was only a baby back then, held in the arms of his brother who wept for their parents while the Professor tried to comfort him, even though he too was in shock of what was taking place in front of him.