A/N:

This whole thing started out as this silly explanation I gave to someone I know about how the 'Bad ending' in Dual Destinies ( that you get when failing in Blackquill's mood matrix) wasn't as horrible as it sounded. And then I wrote this and tried to keep everyone in-character, which led to this becoming more depressing.

Prosecutor Blackquill was executed as scheduled the next day.

As for Aura Blackquill…

She and her robots took Trucy and the rest of the hostages and vanished without a trace.

Athena left the office… Apollo stopped smiling…

And I, realizing my uselessness as a lawyer, took off my badge for good.

…

However, that was not the end of it.

"OBJECTION!"

I hit the mahogany desk in anger.

"How can 37 people just disappear?!"

"Wright, we are not in court. Stop abusing my desk." Edgeworth reminded me. However harsh his words might have been I could see it was just a defense-mechanism. He didn't want to say what he was really thinking.

I sat down. "She isn't dead, Edgeworth. Trucy isn't dead."

He simply nodded. This wasn't the first time we had had this conversation, far from it. This is how it would go every single time; we would meet in his office and try to gather information on the kidnapping incident where Aura Blackquill had disappeared with my daughter and 36 other hostages, Edgeworth would insinuate that I should not get my hopes up, and I would storm out of the office.

"I wish you're right. I really do." He told me, once again.

"But?" I pressed him, wanting to force him to say it.

"It has been a almost a month."

This is where I would usually leave in anger, but now I stayed.

"I asked Pearls to attempt to channel Trucy."

Edgeworth directed his piercing eyes to me, startled. I expected him to say something disparaging about the channeling technique, how it was all fake and nothing but fantasy for the feeble-minded who were grasping at straws. Instead, all he said was

"And?"

I realized he wanted to hope as well.

If only I could have given him more than what I got. I looked him in the eye, and lied.

"She couldn't channel her. It means Trucy is alive."

A/N: What you can expect from this fic;

Spoilers and references to all AA games apart from Gyakuten Kenji 2, very short chapters, weird stuff and a plot that will go wherever I feel like. I'll make an attempt to keep people in-character, though. Unless I feel like not doing that. This is basically something I wrote in-between all my other stuff.