A/N Wayhay! First PW fic. Please Review!
It was seven in the evening before the three missing members of the party entered Tres Bien. Maya and Pearl were talking excitedly about what they were going to eat, with Phoenix trailing behind, tie wonky and loose.
Maya and Pearl greeted the rest of the group and sat down at the table opposite Franziska and Edgeworth. Gumshoe had managed to book a 'table for eight' that actually just involved sticking two existing tables for four together. Gumshoe himself was sat next to Larry, who was sitting in the corner, grinning at the girls, while Edgeworth and Franziska were sitting opposite. Franziska's hand was moving closer to her whip as she glared at Larry for his dumbfounded stare. Edgeworth just smiled at Maya and Pearl, but continued to look unappreciative of the scene of their celebration. Phoenix slumped down in the seat next to Edgeworth and put his jacket on the back of the seat.
'You alright, Nick?' Maya asked, grinning. She looked so tired, but so upbeat to be back with her friends.
'Yeah, I'm fine, Maya. You enjoy the meal.' Phoenix said, flashing a fake smile. He received a smile back from Maya and Pearl, but a raised eyebrow from Edgeworth.
The group ordered their food and waited patiently, conversing about what Franziska and Edgeworth had been upto, much to the 'delight' of the topics of conversation. Edgeworth let out a sigh of relief when Larry drew the attention onto himself by outlining the ideas for 'Franzy's Whippity-Whip Trip', earning himself a set of daggers from his 'model'.
Eventually the food came and went, and, to Phoenix, it was as disgusting as before. He ate as much as he could of it, about half a plateful of really bad 'French' lasagne. Most of the other's at the table did the same, bar Gumshoe, Maya and Pearl, who ate like it was all you can eat.
'I better not be paying for this…' Phoenix mumbled under his breath, praying that Gumshoe wouldn't go back on his promise.
After all the plates had been cleared away, Maggey came over and handed them desert menus.
'You guys want desert, I take it, sir?' Maggey asked Gumshoe, who blushed and nodded.
Phoenix begged to differ 'I don't think that-'
'Of course we do, Maggey! Two all you can eat ice creams please, for me and Pearly!' Maya said.
Phoenix winced at the kick in the shins he received from Pearl under the table for differing in opinion with Maya.
Truth be told, he wasn't feeling too well still. He managed to hurl himself out of bed the day before, for the girls' sake, but now he just wanted to go back to his flat, and sleep. He felt bad he wasn't too keen on celebrating, but he would rather celebrate when he was more up to the task of at least keeping up with Maya for one course.
Maya and Pearl received their bowls and ran excitedly over to the ice cream machine, where they filled their bowls up to the brim and began decorating the tops with all sorts of grotesquely coloured sweets.
'I'm off to the toilet, back in a tick.' Phoenix muttered to Edgeworth as he stood and almost broke into a run to get away from eating ice cream.
While the three of them were gone, Franziska tapped Edgeworth on the shoulder.
'I need you to do me a favour, little brother.' She said so only Edgeworth could hear her, eyes glistening.
Edgeworth's eyebrows raised, 'Go on.'
'I need you to give this to that Ace Attorney friend of ours.' She held out a white plastic card, plain on one side. 'He would appreciate it more from you, but keep it a secret, understand?'
Edgeworth frowned as he nodded and took the card. His confusion diminished however, when he turned the card over and saw the familiar calling card of Shelley de Killer with the outline of what looked like Phoenix Wright's face on it, 'Nick' was written in one corner in curly black writing.
Edgeworth grinned to himself as he tucked the card back into his pocket. His suspicions about the pair of them were true. He assured himself that he needed to pick the right moment.
Perhaps not when he is feeling so crap, huh, Miles? He thought to himself, suppressing a laugh at the green contorted face of Phoenix Wright walking back to his seat.
A/N Tada! Wow they are actually surprisingly fun to write! Yay I have a new story, I dunno how far I will go with it though…
