AN: …something about this fandom inspires me to write silly
plotless stories and give them alliterative names. Go figure. Oh
well! I don't own Professor Layton or any of the other
characters.  Teenaged Traumas  Professor Layton had not realized
a few things when he had taken in Luke and later, Flora. At the
time, both had been children, and he was overjoyed to have been
able to help them. But as time went on and they began to grow
up, some things became very obvious to him about his two wards.
Children, he could handle with relatively little difficulty.
Teenagers, on the other hand, were proving to be something
entirely different.  For starters, teenagers were moody.
Constantly. Two teenagers, angsting at varying volumes about
life's great injustices (for example, someone else had eaten the
last bagel), created a cloud of gloom and negativity that would
permeate anyone and anything that came within reach of it. Even
the great puzzle master himself was hard-pressed to calculate
the radius of that.  A favorite