A/N: HHH I AM SO SORRY I HAVEN'T WRITTEN ANYTHING SINCE JANUARY. I feel so horrid! I really have been meaning to update a bunch of my stories, but guess who was either too lazy to write, or had writers block? This piece of crap!
Anyways, for anyone still with me (I doubt anyone is aha), I really will be getting back into writing when I can.
This chapter will more or less be Phoenix central just because I will have a chapter revolving around each character each time unless I feel it needs to just not be centered around anyone.
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Phoenix sighed, barely getting any sleep the night before, he was exhausted. He had dialed anyone even remotely like family to him and Trucy to let them know of what happened the night before, and the reaction was the same for each call, crying.
Hearing his phone ring, he picked it up to see who it was. He noticed it was the one person he called who hadn't picked up, Thalassa Gramarye. He answered to the call, and before he could even speak, Thalassa was already speaking.
"Sorry I didn't pick up last night, Mr. Wright, but the moment I saw the text you had sent I knew it was urgent. What happened to Trucy?" She seemed calm, but Phoenix knew she was more worried than anything.
"Coma. Trucy's in a coma." He tried to keep a calm tone, but ended up failing horribly.
"… C-Coma?" Her voice was breaking in worry.
"Yes, coma. … Apollo's taking it a lot harder than anyone at the moment..." He sighed. He hadn't even ended up telling them that they were half siblings yet, and now he might not ever be able to get the courage to say it.
"Have you told them yet?"
"Not yet. But if Trucy wakes up, I will."
"… Even if she doesn't, Apollo deserves the right to know."
"It will just hurt him more." Phoenix knew she wanted them to know, but he couldn't say it.
A sigh came from the other end of the line. "Mr. Wright, I have to take my leave. I will call you back later." And with that, the call ended.
Sighing, Phoenix put his phone on the desk and looked at the clock. 9:30… They'll be here soon. He thought.
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Fifteen minutes later the younger attorneys of the agency came in the door, Apollo not saying a word as he went and sat at his desk.
"Morning, Boss!" Athena made it seem as she was cheerful as ever, even though Widget shone a dark blue color.
"Good morning, Athena." Phoenix sighed and looked at Apollo. "And you too, Apollo."
The lawyer in red, today without his signature hairstyle, just gave a small wave.
The youngest of the three sighed. "He's been like this all morning since I got him from his apartment this morning."
"I can see why… He's taking this hard." The eldest of the three looked at Athena. "How are you doing, though?"
"Better than Apollo, that is for certain." She sighed. "Are you doing any better?"
The lawyer in blue shook his head. "Not exactly… I barely got any sleep last night."
"Seems like the same case for the three of us." Athena made her way to her desk.
Apollo listened to their conversation as he typed something on the crappy computers they had in the office. "… What the actual- Guys, come here." The other lawyers made their way over to his computer and read what was on the screen.
"'Mysterious death in Los Angeles' biggest rose garden, causing closure'." Athena read. "… What even…?"
Phoenix looked at the article itself. "'Madison Curro, age 26, was found dead inside of the rose garden on December 18. Next to her body was a black rose, and no signs of poison were found inside of the garden, nor was there a murder weapon.'" He looked at the article confused. "… How is there a death, no poison, no murder weapon, nothing like that?"
"Unless she had a heart attack, I don't know what to even say this time." Apollo sighed.
"… Tomorrow we start investigating." Phoenix declared. "We will get to the bottom of this."
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Later that night, Phoenix went to the Meraktis Clinic to check on Trucy. Her condition wasn't critical, but he was worried things would change in the blink of an eye.
"Hey, Truce… I know you probably can't hear me, but Athena, Apollo, and I are gonna get to the bottom of this for you… Just hold out for us until then, please..." He couldn't keep himself from letting a few tears run down his face as he looked at her. "I swear we will get to the bottom of this. We will save you."
And with that, he was gone and out of the room, barely able to look at his daughter in the hospital anymore that night.
