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storypaint) wrote2009-01-07 02:57 pm
storypaint) wrote2009-01-07 02:57 pm
Sincerely (Layton gen)
Title: Sincerely
Length: 320 words
Prompt: Professor Layton (Anon) Fan Meme: gen ex-student/mentor interaction between Professor Layton and Andrew Schroeder
Pairing: Layton gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: In April, Schroeder sends him puzzles. "Puzzles keep the mind sharp, my boy," he writes, and Layton never protests the "my boy." There aren't a lot of people who remember when Layton wore short pants, but Schroeder is one of them.
Schroeder writes him a letter every year, around April. If they were women, perhaps, it would be a Christmas card, a given, a short piece about the family and what they've been up to since the last Christmas, but they are both perpetual bachelors.
Layton left Schroeder in the spring, right before graduation, hot on the trails of a mystery, and somehow, he's never managed to come back for a visit. Every year in his letter, Schroeder suggests it, and somehow the proposed visit never coelsces into reality.
In April, Schroeder sends him puzzles. "Puzzles keep the mind sharp, my boy," he writes, and Layton never protests the "my boy." There aren't a lot of people who remember when Layton wore short pants, but Schroeder is one of them. When he reads the letter, Layton hears the man's gruff, cheerful voice, his clipped, professional tones. It never fails to make him feel small-- not in a bad way-- but young and inexperienced and new to the world.
Sometimes the letter itself is a puzzle. One time Schroeder sends it all in code and it takes three days for Layton to figure it out, shouting to himself in triumph in the middle of the night but quickly muffling his glee in case the landlady heard it. He wrote back in the same code, that year, but the next year Schroeder was onto something new.
This letter is different. There are no codes; there are no puzzles.
"Please take care of this for me," Schroeder writes simply. "Please come see me when you can."
Layton has spent fifteen years away from his mentor, and he's never heard worry in the man's letter before. Without protest, without thinking of his appointments and his classes, he packs his bags, and after a bit of consideration, decides to take Luke as well.
Schroeder has one last puzzle for him to solve.
Length: 320 words
Prompt: Professor Layton (Anon) Fan Meme: gen ex-student/mentor interaction between Professor Layton and Andrew Schroeder
Pairing: Layton gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: In April, Schroeder sends him puzzles. "Puzzles keep the mind sharp, my boy," he writes, and Layton never protests the "my boy." There aren't a lot of people who remember when Layton wore short pants, but Schroeder is one of them.
Schroeder writes him a letter every year, around April. If they were women, perhaps, it would be a Christmas card, a given, a short piece about the family and what they've been up to since the last Christmas, but they are both perpetual bachelors.
Layton left Schroeder in the spring, right before graduation, hot on the trails of a mystery, and somehow, he's never managed to come back for a visit. Every year in his letter, Schroeder suggests it, and somehow the proposed visit never coelsces into reality.
In April, Schroeder sends him puzzles. "Puzzles keep the mind sharp, my boy," he writes, and Layton never protests the "my boy." There aren't a lot of people who remember when Layton wore short pants, but Schroeder is one of them. When he reads the letter, Layton hears the man's gruff, cheerful voice, his clipped, professional tones. It never fails to make him feel small-- not in a bad way-- but young and inexperienced and new to the world.
Sometimes the letter itself is a puzzle. One time Schroeder sends it all in code and it takes three days for Layton to figure it out, shouting to himself in triumph in the middle of the night but quickly muffling his glee in case the landlady heard it. He wrote back in the same code, that year, but the next year Schroeder was onto something new.
This letter is different. There are no codes; there are no puzzles.
"Please take care of this for me," Schroeder writes simply. "Please come see me when you can."
Layton has spent fifteen years away from his mentor, and he's never heard worry in the man's letter before. Without protest, without thinking of his appointments and his classes, he packs his bags, and after a bit of consideration, decides to take Luke as well.
Schroeder has one last puzzle for him to solve.