On A Standstill – x00x
A/N: Hi~! First of all, Happy Birthday, Nozomi! May your boobs grow bigger—and may you not need to chase Nico between parked cars again. On another hand, I apologize very much for A Very Unusual Cat. I'm having a writer's block right now, and I'm not sure how to proceed on with that story. But since Love Live is an on-going kind of thing… let's hope that it'll finish.
Meanwhile, this is a prologue to a slightly more serious story. I want to wrap up everything in 10 – 15 Chapters, and update as frequently as once or twice in a week, unless work kidnaps me and I can't write anything. LOL. I still do have things to write for work, but if I keep my μ's up, I should finish it! (Did you see what I did there *raises eyebrows up and down repeatedly*) Anyway, I really like Mystery/Crime themes, and I always write one for each fandom I've been in. SADLY ENOUGH, NONE OF THEM ARE FINISHED, so here's to wishing I finish this one!
*dogeza for the ultra-long A/N*
Enjoy the prologue! *writes 2k plus word prologue*
P.S. +10years to everyone's ages. Let's do this. ;D
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the love live characters, but the other derps (AKA OC) are mine. Also, beware of extreme OOC, maybe. I tried. Very hard. LOL
Hands were comfortably put inside a lab gown. Dressed in flat slippers, a black pencil skirt, and a violet blouse, Toujou Nozomi slowly strode towards the front desk.
"Is Miss Tashima here?" she asked the desk clerk with a Kansai dialect accent. The desk clerk told her that she had arrived a few minutes early, but was currently on the phone with her husband.
As if on cue, the front doors of the Hibiya Hospital opened. There came in a sophisticated looking blonde in a ponytail, complete with blue eyes, black slacks, a white coat, and a turtle neck inner. She made eye contact with the violet haired doctor and headed her way without hesitation.
"Um, tell her to wait for me, okay?" Nozomi told the clerk, who nodded at her and seemed to have recognized the blonde female. "Are you okay?"
The blonde female extended her hand and Nozomi took it into her own. "Can't I just drop by because I wanted to see you?"
Nozomi frowned at her then looked at the clerk. She waved at her and made her way into her office. The blonde followed her, squeezing the violet haired female's hand. "You rarely do that."
"Sorry," the blonde apologized. They reached Nozomi's office, where the green-eyed female unlocked her office door. They went inside and she locked it. "Nozomi."
"Ericchi, tell me, what's wrong?" Eri only looked at her with an unreadable expression on her face. "Eri—mmphh."
Within a heartbeat, Eri grabbed her face softly and pressed their lips together. Without noticing, the kiss had gotten deeper, and Nozomi had been pushed back onto her room's couch.
"Ericchi—what—is-it?" However, the blonde didn't speak but frantically unhooked the pencil skirt and pulled it down to the floor. "Wait—Ericchi—" She then felt her knees buckle and her behind landed onto the softness of the couch.
Nozomi closed her eyes as her fingers gently stroked her on top of her underwear, her mouth caught in the fiery kiss of a predator. She tried to open her mouth to speak, but a moan came out instead while her last barrier of protection was shoved to the side and a finger stroked her bare.
"Eri—"
Sad blue eyes looked into Nozomi's own green ones, then she lost all the will to even stop her and decided to just enjoy. Eri kissed her jaw, then her collarbone. She rested her face on clothes-covered bosom, then proceeded southward towards her target.
She licked gently for a taste then proceeded with slowly devouring the sensitive spot. A probing finger slowly inserted itself. The blonde felt hands placed onto her head, encouraging her to do more. Unexpectedly, claws slowly dug into her scalp, and Nozomi shivered into an orgasm.
"That was unexpected," Eri said, the first words she had uttered ever since they entered the privacy of Nozomi's room.
Nozomi immediately blushed and looked at her, firmness on her face. "You don't just walk into the front doors of the hospital, get private with me, and push me down the couch. I haven't seen you in two weeks and you call this unexpected."
Eri returned the blush and looked away. "I'm sorry."
The violet haired doctor looked at Eri's sullen and stained face. She picked up a tissue from her desk and wiped her face. She sighed and took a clean pair of underwear from her bag and replaced the one she was just using, folded it, put it into a plastic bag, and tucked it in her bag. She picked up her skirt from the floor and wore it again.
"Don't say sorry," Nozomi told her, sensing Eri's presence on the couch as she fixed herself. Completely giving up on her twin tails, she removed both hair ties and just let her hair flow naturally. "I don't want to hear you say sorry."
"But I'm—"
"I'm happy that you came to visit me. Although I am not very happy that I came," Nozomi cut her off with a sly grin. She laughed heartily at the horror stricken face of the blue eyed blonde. "It's okay though. I've been lonely."
"So—"
"What did I say?"
Eri looked away. "Um, yeah."
"So, what's the matter?" Nozomi walked towards her and stood in front of Eri. She put a free hand on Eri's head and continuously patted it. "Ericchi."
Slowly, Eri cradled her face with both of her hands, elbows resting on her knees. "I…" She swallowed. "I wasn't able to save any of them…"
Nozomi frowned and removed Eri's hair tie to be able to caress flaxen strands in her hand. "You did your best—"
"If only the superiors believed me earlier, we could have—"
"Ericchi—"
"I couldn't save them—"
"It was all you could do."
"I wish I had more power."
Nozomi crouched in front of Eri and grabbed both of her cheeks. "If you had more power, would I have met you like this?"
"But—"
"But if I had more power, I could prevent all these deaths," Nozomi finished for her. She kissed her forehead. "I know. We don't know why there are people as twisted as these criminals, but it's your existence to slowly diminish them and save the world, right?"
"Are you using your psychology powers on me again?" Eri wryly grinned at her.
"No, I'm not," Nozomi answered with a wink. "I'm just saying things, from one heart connected to yours."
Eri blushed and nodded. Nozomi gave her a peck on the lips and stood up. She wrapped her arms around the blonde's head and pressed her face into her breasts.
Ayase Eri wrapped her arms around Nozomi's waist and sighed. Nozomi said, "Now, I need to leave for a few minutes. I need to talk to someone."
"Sorry about that." Eri parted from the hug, then a forefinger was pressed onto her lips.
"Enough about that already, okay? Now have some rest. You look like you haven't slept in days." The violet haired psychologist winked at her. "Wouldn't want my favorite detective to be tired when we pick up the problem she started when she walked into my room later."
Then she walked away. Eri looked at the closed door and her blush slowly crept up to her face. "Nozomi, you idiot."
Where there's an outlet for overflowing love.
A knocking sound came from the door, and a grey haired female with a chicken-like hairdo turned around to look.
"Ah, Umi-chan," she spoke and let the blue long haired female enter her room. Then, she closed the door behind her. "What's up?"
Complete in slacks, white inner shirt, and a black jacket over it, she sat on a nearby chair and looked at what seemed to be a table for dissection.
Umi started making different hand motions, only to settle with, "Oh, I just wanted to, um, visit."
The grey haired female tilted her head to one side and smiled. "I see."
"Kotori, I—"
"If you don't mind being at the place where dead bodies get an autopsy, it's okay," she spoke with a smile. "Where's Eri-chan?"
"She went to visit Nozomi," Umi answered with a sigh.
"And that's why you're here." Kotori thought, an unexplainable feeling crushing her heart as if it was being wrung. "I see. The investigation ended?"
"Yeah. It wasn't… very happy," Umi answered with a wry smile. "And that's why I'm here. I can only feel calm here, when I'm with you."
"I see," Kotori answered in a deadpan voice. "I still have two hours to stay. Is it okay?"
"Don't worry about me," Umi told her with a smile. Kotori nodded and smiled at her.
Where feelings remain parallel.
A twin-tailed female sat at the bar, too close for the bartender's comfort. She ordered for a shot of tequila sunrise, and the violet eyed bartender only looked at her in the eye and made her drink.
After throwing in a calculated mixture of tequila, grenadine, orange juice, and some brandy, she pushed the cocktail towards the lab-wearing black haired twin-tailed female.
She glared at her glass and played with the rim of it by repeatedly hitting it with her nail.
"Don't they have height requirements for dentistry or something?" the redheaded barista said with animosity.
"Don't they give attitude tests to bartenders here? I thought you were supposed to be good at dealing with people," the black haired female replied without even looking at her.
"I'm only aggressive towards you because I worry for whatever is on your mind. Not like I'm telling you that, idiot." the red head thought and continued to clean empty glasses at her bar.
"I'm only here because the only beautiful person I see every day is you. Like hell you'll know about that." The twin-tailed female grabbed her nonstop vibrating phone and looked at her messages. Her eyes widened, and she gritted her teeth. She took out a wad of bills from her wallet and left it on the counter with her drink untouched.
"Wha—hey!"
"Keep it," the black haired female said. "Take everything. I need to go."
The bartender put the recently wiped glass on the counter and picked up a few strands of her shoulder length hair and played with the tips with her index finger and thumb.
"… Whatever." She took the money and put it in the counter, intending to return it tomorrow. "…Whatever, Nico-chan…" She drank the tequila sunrise shot straight and dumped the empty shot glass in the sink before walking back.
Where feelings are real, but there was dishonesty.
"Honoka-chan, can you give this to Eri-chan when you see her?" A brown haired female wearing glasses and the standard police uniform handed an envelope to an orange haired female wearing a "Forensics" Uniform.
"Hm? Don't you see Eri-chan more frequently than I do? Being in the same crime unit and all," the orange haired female, Honoka, answered as she took a bite out of her bread. "Like usual, bread is delicious!"
"Well…" Hanayo then looked behind her where a short orange haired female just put on her white coat.
"There's been a call-nya~" the female said. "Is what I would say. I wish it was a celebratory party, but it's a new murder."
"…?"
"Same method, Honoka-chan. Same method," Hanayo answered, fixing her glasses. "Rin-chan, here." She handed the short haired female car keys. "Umi-chan and Eri-chan should be at the hospital."
"Got it," Rin answered with a cat-like grin and exited the MPD.
Honoka swallowed whole the rest of her bread and ran towards the forensics dispatch department. "… But he was caught already!"
And thus, things remained in a standstill.
(Prologue/END)
A/N: It was an Intro Sexuation -/slapped