Okay, after several days of revising and help from ArenWolfDemon, Maskalade and my husband, this late in coming part 15 is finally posted. Much brain bashing was done so thanks for the patience and enjoy!

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The day was bright and pleasant, perfect weather for children to go out and play in the park or have a ( Read more... )

This is it! The bridge to the future has finally opened! Now we can move on to seeing if I can properly write Professor Layton's dialogue for more than just a few brief flashbacks. And don't think I've forgotten about Don Paolo; he'll be showing up soon, once everything gets under way.

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Helena and Harold sat ( Read more... )

This hasn't been beta-read by my editor, as today has been really rough on the both of us and neither of us seem to be in the mood to talk to each other. Which is pretty bad since my editor is my husband. Anyway, I vented by writing this chapter, so if it seems bad, that may be the reason why. When things have settled, I'll have it looked over by ( Read more... )

I've seen like 4 pieces of fanart regarding this fic and I feel so loved! Pumping out chapters is easier now that I know short chapters let me release them faster. I should do that with my other fics from now on.

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"No."

The answer came bluntly and tonelessly. Hershel tilted his head and set his arms akimbo, a ( Read more... )

Okay, I tweaked with a few things here, but I looked up some of it on wikipedia, mostly the quantum field theory part, so if it's not exactly right, call it techno-babble and we'll move on. I put in a puzzle to see if anyone else can answer it (since I didn't put in the answer on purpose). Poor Luke is trying too hard to fix something that was ( Read more... )

And now comes the tendrils of things to complicate Luke's mission even further once he finally makes it to the right time. Keep  a sharp eye out and you'll spot the beginnings of the answer to this massive puzzle.

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Hershel returned from school, taking a path that gave him wide berth around the fountain, then ( Read more... )

Helena and Harold Layton take center stage for much of this and one of Luke's memories shows the paradox that was fulfilled by the events in the last chapter.

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Hershel rushed inside the house, crying and shrieking for help, gathering the attentions of a few of the maids in their clean up duties. One knelt and ( Read more... )

And just when we think things are going to be a bit better sailing than before, something else decides to give Luke a hard time. Between fixing time-travel watches, unintentional butterfly effects, casual loops and the occasional puzzle paradox, Luke and Hershel are going to have their work cut out for them. And don't even get them started on the ( Read more... )

This one had to go through a couple of rewrites as well, but I like how it came out in the end. Hershel is just too cute! And he seems to be keeping those light-fingered tendencies, so there could be a chance of him holding those skills in the future.

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Hershel settled himself comfortably on a bench, clutching ( Read more... )

Ahhh! I want this to go so much faster, but I can only type about 60 wpm for a few hours before I have to stop and rest for a while. The ending scene is just killing me and there's so much more fun to be had when Luke gets to where and when he should be.

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Something Luke would remember for the rest of his life ( Read more... )