Chapter 1 – Realisation
A/N: Set during Turnabout Succession
When a rockstar prosecutor tells you something, you pay attention. Usually.
Klavier Gavin is always happy to tell you (and any nearby Fräuleins) his many, amazing qualities. His music, his hair, his amazing prosecutorial skills, his music, his hair, his confidence, his music, his sharp mind and his hair. He is also not afraid to tell someone exactly how he feels - whether it's that he hated the last song in the third set of a concert, that his rival defence attorney is forgetting something, that his assistant detective is amazing or that he has fallen totally and completely in love.
This particular assistant detective is one of the only people who doesn't always pay particular attention to the words that come out of her assigned rockstar prosecutor's mouth. Detective Ema Skye has better things to focus on, like the chances to use her forensics kit and Snackoos. Klavier should have been focusing on the case at hand but instead found himself focusing on his assistant detective. He knew many things about her – the obvious being that she aspires to do forensics but failed the exam, she eats Snackoos and he is painfully aware that she isn't a fan of him but she does her job well. He also knows the slightly lesser known things – like how her eyes sparkle when she talks about forensics, how she never goes anywhere without her lab coat, her favourite TV show is the Steel Samurai (although she'd never admit it), she loves cool spring days and that her favourite time of day is sunset. He loves how fiercely loyal she is to her old friends and hopes that one day, she can be just as loyal to him. He also hopes that one day, he can wake up to the sun streaming through a window beside the woman who stands before him right now with a forensics kit in hand, and stare into her sparkling eyes forever. Maybe by then, she'd even appreciate some of his music.
It is then, while standing in Drew Studio supposedly discussing the case with his detective, that Klavier Gavin stands staring at Ema with a slightly shocked expression while she finishes up the final points of her investigation as he realises something. He is hopelessly in love with Ema Skye.
'Prosecutor Gavin, do I have something on me? Why are you staring at me?' His blue eyes drift upwards to meet her own as his face flushes slightly with embarrassment.
'Uh…uh…No. My mind was just… elsewhere.' He was annoyed at himself for getting so easily distracted. 'Are we almost done here, Ema?' She widened her eyes at his use of her first name.
'Uh… yeah, I think so. Results show that the victim died of atroquinine poisoning. There's a trace of it there on the coffee cup. There doesn't seem to be any other trace of it. I also noticed that…' Ema was talking away about the case but Klavier's mind was distracting by three things.
Firstly, Ema's eyes. Did he mention he could stare into them forever and not get tired?
Secondly, her lips. Pink, shiny and perfect. Klavier was willing to admit that her smile, although not commonly seen, was just as bright and beautiful as his own. When she got annoyed, her mouth turned into a cute pout that made it hard for Klavier to get angry with her.
Klavier prides himself that he doesn't just care about beauty – he cares about the inside too (say that to enough Fräuleins and it makes you sound irresistible). But watching Ema, he realised for the first time that he was genuinely interested in the Ema on the inside. He only had to see her look at him to know how she felt about working under him, and being a detective instead of working in forensics didn't help either. So while Ema was talking about some interesting points for this trial Jurist case, Klavier was distracted by a different, but in his opinion just as important, thought.
The third thing that distracted him was how he was going to help Ema become a forensic scientist and his friend.