Well I'm back and like usual. I do not own Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright, but I do own Greg and Nikki
Miles: Well that was quick.
Katt: Yeah, I guess. Anyway there's yaoi. So enjoy the show!
It's been a couple of weeks since that night and it's been good so far. Phoenix got back into work and already had a couple of cases going for him where it was quick. Though it was weird that it was both for murders of the same profile, but the two clients didn't have any connection to each other. Just as he hung up from now getting his third case of the same caliber, Miles walks in with a couple of bags. Looking at the time he saw it was lunch time and just like clock work they've accustomed themselves to. Everyday they would have lunch together no matter the case. Miles always brought lunch and I clear the desk for us to eat. Usually Miles gives Maya a ten to get herself lunch while they had their alone time.
"So what was that on the phone?" said Miles as he unpacked the bags, revealing two hot sandwiches, napkins and a canister of hot soup.
"My newest client. Same M.O as the last two, but again nothing to connect to the other two." Said Phoenix as he looks at his hot ham and cheese sandwich.
"The police are being sloppy about this. If this is the third case in two weeks then something isn't right about these murders." Said Miles as he removes his magenta coat and places it on the couch.
"Yes, well all I can do is find the evidence to defend my client." Said Phoenix
"So who is it this time?"
"A young college student named Elle Sweets. She's accused of murdering Jane Smith: A girl from a dorm across the campus."
Miles takes a bite of his sandwich as he watches Phoenix shiver slightly in front of him. He puts his hand onto Phoenix's as a way to somehow comfort him, seeing as he hasn't touched his food at all.
"Sorry. This case is abit close to home."
"How? What college is this?"
"The same one Nikki and Greg goes to."
It was true, that was just too close for comfort for either one of them. Miles pushed his food to the side and asks Phoenix to bring up his last two cases and put them up on the desk. They sat there for an hour going through everything, to possibly see if they find any connection, till Miles pointed out something, it was small and not necessarily important, but then again maybe it was.
"See the girl here, her mother went to this college under a science scholarship about the same time this girl's aunt worked there as a librarian assistant."
"So the only real connection is family being at this college, but there's hundred's of students that have gone and going to this college."
"Not much, but maybe once you get this girl's case file and do some digging, we're bound to find something."
"You don't have to help me Miles, your not the prosecutor for this case."
"Give me a minute." Said Miles as he hears his phone rings. A few minutes later he clicks his phone off and smiles at Phoenix.
"Well Wright I believe you are wrong."
"So you are the prosecutor."
"Looks like it. Come on and clean up. We'll head over to the station soon and go from there."
"When do they expect us there?"
"In a half an hour."
"Half an hour? But it only takes ten minutes from here in your car."
"I know, I gave us that much time silly." Said Miles as a very sexy and hungry smile plays on his face as he looks at Phoenix.
He walks back over to Phoenix only to push him against the wall and smash his lips against Phoenix's, devouring the man's sweet taste. Working the buttons on Phoenix's shirt as his kisses travels down to his neck, listening to Phoenix moan as he nips and kisses on the brown eyed man. Once finished with the buttons he explored his chest softly till he found his nipples and starts rubbing the nubs under his fingers, causing Phoenix to moan a little louder.
"Oh….Miles…I, uh…ahh" Moaned Phoenix as he felt Miles hand rubbing against his pants where the bulge was already formed.
With that last moan, Miles had undone the belt and pants, pulling them down to see Phoenix in his blue boxers. Before Phoenix could argue, Miles slid his hand down the man's boxers and started working his fingers around the man's growing member, making him moan Mile's name.
"Please….Miles….I don't think…..I can wait anymore…." Said Phoenix between each breath and moan he made, making Miles own member hard. He knew they wouldn't have that much time, so he would make sure he got his time later tonight.
Miles goes onto sit in Phoenix's chair at his desk as removes his boxers. Pulling him closer, Miles bends down and wraps his lips at the tip and works his way down till he was comfortable and goes to moving at a slow pace, moving faster while his tongue did it's dance on the man, hearing him moan his name he couldn't wait and undone his own pants, removing his boxers only to now be handling his own hard member with one hand while taking care of Phoenix. Both moaning till Phoenix released inside Mile's mouth. He swallowed as he was taking care of his own harden, but Phoenix removed his hand to give back what Miles did for him. Not long from there did Miles return the same favor in Phoenix's mouth.
They ended up sitting at the floor, leaning against each other trying to catch their breaths. Miles was the first one to try standing up to get his boxers and pants back on.
"You know, I didn't expect you to return the favor till tonight."
"Who said this would be the only time I would do this today." Said Phoenix as he smirked while getting off the floor.
They cleaned up the office as well as themselves. Just as they were heading out, leaning against the wall in front of the door was Maya with a large soda and possibly a doggie bag in her hand, smiling away at them.
"You know Miles if you wanted that kind of alone time you should have given me a twenty. Luckily Pearls was there to keep me distracted for a bit."
Phoenix paled a little, not seeing Pearls there he wondered where she went.
"Relax, I just happened to forgotten to buy our dessert so Pearly is downstairs waiting on me to come back on whether or not you two wanted dessert, but I supposed you two already have so it's just me and Pearly then."
Both Phoenix and Miles blushed, knowing very well that she probably caught the last couple of minutes of their alone time. Maya stepped up to Phoenix, looking at him right into his eyes.
"Now just one question and I will never mention this to anyone."
"Okay?"
"How long?"
"Huh" said Phoenix has he blushed.
"How long….have you two been together?"
"Oh, we'll since I got shot sounds correct."
"So for about a month or so huh? So that's how long you've kept it from me."
"Oh Maya."
"It's okay. I already knew you two were together, it's not hard to figure it out. Especially after finding out that you moved in with Miles. Don't worry I haven't told anyone, especially Pearls. I wouldn't know where to begin on that one." Said Maya
"Okay, I'm sorry for not…."
"Hey I told you it's okay. It was kind of romantic, watching you two bloom into this cute couple. Secret lunches, the settle hints here and there, the locking of eyes together into a deep loving conversation that no one else could possibly see. Seeing Miles smile was especially nice." Said Maya as she seemed to go into a daydream.
"I think you watch too much tv Maya."
"Yeah, well I wish it was that way for me and Franny."
"Oh boy. Is she being sour lately?" said Miles
"More so then usual, she knows you two are living together. She keeps asking why I won't, she doesn't understand that I can't leave Kurain Village."
"Explains why she hasn't returned my phone calls. She might be at the station today, I'm sure Phoenix here can tell you whether I do or not." Said Miles
"Thank you. I'm worried she's angry with me and I don't know how to deal with her being angry" said Maya as she sounds a little sad. Phoenix pulls out a twenty he managed to still have from his last case and gave it to Maya.
"Take Pearls to that ice cream parlor around the block and indulge yourselves. I think you need it more then whatever I would with it." Said Phoenix.
Maya hugged him and said Thank you a hundred times as she skipped down the stairs. He could hear Maya telling Pearls where they were going and the joy they both had as they left.
"Well that was nice." Said Miles
"She was sad and I don't like seeing anyone sad."
"So you'd give me a twenty if I looked sad." Said Miles in a sarcastic tone.
"Nope, something so much better that money couldn't possibly buy."
"Oh? And what would that be?"
"Me." Said Phoenix as he leaned over and gave Miles a quick peck on the lips.
"Your right, your lips certainly are sweeter then ice cream." Said Miles as they walked down the stairs to head on out.
They make it down to the station for the file they're after as they hear the crack of a whip and a loud yelp from a certain detective. Making it over to where the noise was they see Franziska in a much worse mood then what Maya said. When she sees them walking towards her, she growled at them as she whips gumshoe again.
"Ouch, please sir it's not my fault I couldn't find her." Said Gumshoe as he puts his arms up to shield himself.
"Couldn't find who Gumshoe?" said Miles
"Oh, Mr. Edgeworth maybe you know." Said gumshoe as another yelp comes out of his mouth after another crack of the whip.
"We heard that your little prodigy goes to that college that the girl went to. I wanted to speak to the little dame, but no one has seen her." Said Franziska
"She should be either at school or home." Said Miles
"Greg told me she was going to the library. That she had some work to do." Said Phoenix
"But we checked the library on the premises. No one has seen her there." Said Gumshoe.
"Are you looking for Nicole Tride?"
They turn around to see a young woman in her early twenties. Possible the same age as Nikki. She had brown hair with streaks of blue and purple in it held up in a ponytale. She was pale with purple lipstick and wore black and blue clothes. Her blue eyes staring at them, waiting for a response.
"And you are?" said Miles
"I'm Rose. I have a few classes with her. She goes by Nikki right?"
"Yes, just strange. I've never heard anyone call her by her full name." said Miles
"Really? Well I guess with a last name like that I wouldn't either, but anyway she said you might be looking for her so she asked me to deliver this envelope to you two after we finished with my tutoring session."
"She was tutoring you?" said Phoenix
"Yeah, at the library just two blocks away from the college. With everything that's been going on, no one wants to really stay at the college, at least not alone."
Then they hear another crack of the whip and some yelling, "Poor Gumshoe." Thought Phoenix as they overhear Franziska yell at him.
"Anyway normally we would study at my dorm between classes, but they cancelled our classes today and honestly I didn't want her walking home from the campus alone so I thought we'd work at the library. Closer to her home, safer to me anyway."
"So where is she now?" said Miles
"Still at the library, I didn't want to leave her alone there, but then her friend with spiky hair came by and said he would keep her company."
"Good boy Greg." said Phoenix as he continues to listen.
Something came up in Miles mind and while they had her here, might as well ask.
"So how did Nikki know we would be here?" said Miles
"Oh, she made a few calls before asking me to come here. Said something about hoping that you two were here and not at home or the office and too busy to answer the phone."
"Would you have gone back to her if we weren't here?"
"No, she told me to then hand it to either a Ms. Von Karma or a Detective Gumshoe and give them the message."
"I guess Nikki thought it was important that in someway get to us" Miles thought.
"Well here, I'm going to head back. We should be there for another hour and go home. I hope whatever is in that helps, she's been working on whatever is in there all morning."
They thanked Rose for this information as they go to a empty room for privacy and opens the envelope to find a piece of paper with seven digits on it and a room number with building name. With it another room number and building name. A tape and another note: Please meet me at the second room number at 1700 hrs. Thank you. –Nikki.
It was already three o'clock so they thought they might as well watch the tape, but then Franziska came in whipping Gumshoe as she did.
"Who was that girl you were speaking with?" said Franziska
"That was Nikki's student. Apparently she's been tutoring this girl and had asked her to deliver this." Said Miles as he showed the envelope.
"Why didn't she bring it down herself?" said Franziska
"Maybe cause she didn't want to be followed if they killer is still out there." Said Phoenix
"That's not possible pal, we got the killer in detention." Said Gumshoe before the whip got him again.
"Quiet, it's obvious that they don't believe so." Said Franziska
"Too much evidence that says otherwise, which reminds me. Gumshoe go get the file on the latest victim and bring it here." Said Miles as Gumshoe salutes him and takes off to retrieve the file.
"Well while we are waiting, how's everything going for you and Maya?" said Miles as he leans against the table with his arms crossed.
"It's going well, as well as the fact that a foolishly foolish fool living with you is." Said Franziska as she stared daggers over towards Phoenix
"So then things are going wonderful?" said Phoenix as he's sweating bullets.
"Why is he living with you Miles?" said Franziska
"Cause I asked him to." Said Miles with a smirk on his face.
"Why are you smiling Miles Edgeworth! Something your not telling me?"
"Franziska! I'm a gentleman, I don't go around telling everyone my business."
"No, but I cannot just assume nothing is going on over there. That's suggesting that Maya and I are only…..friends." said Franziska as she looked at them, getting a good look at them she noticed how disheveled they really looked. Putting two and two together she figured it out. Bringing the whip out she whips it around Phoenix's throat and pulls him over to her.
"You're dating him!" not getting an answer from the barely breathing Phoenix as she looks over at Miles who paled at the sudden reaction. "Your dating him! No you didn't just offer your home, but yourself! You are a foolish man Miles and Von Karma's are no fools."
"Franziska!, this is enough. Let Wright go before I have to charge you of murdering my…boyfriend." He blushed as he said that and Phoenix would too if he could breath.
Franziska unwrapped the whip from Phoenix's throat. He coughed for a moment, but smiled as he looked over at Miles.
"You called me your…..Ouch!" Phoenix tried to finish his sentence till Franziska brought the whip on him, then pulls him by his tie over to her.
"It could have been anyone that Miles chose to be with, but he chooses a fool such as yourself. I do not approve at this time so you better treat him well."
"Yes ma'am." Said Phoenix as he paled.
"Then Franziska I must ask you something." Said Miles as he uncurled Franziska's fingers around Phoenix's tie.
"What!"
"Why have you been sour towards Ms Fey as of lately?"
"What? Did she say I was?"
"She said that you've been extremely angry lately. Is it because she can't move in with you? You do know she is head of the Kurain Villege and couldn't possibly just move away from it. She has her duties, not just to herself and her home but to Ms Pearls as well." Said Miles
"I know that fool, I didn't ask her to move in permanently. I asked her to move a few things into my place so she wouldn't have to live at Wright's office, but she said she couldn't possibly do it. That it was easier for her to just come out of the spare room and go straight into work and that it was close to her favorite foods. Though not in that order." Said Franziska as she seems to calm down, but still seem upset.
"She's afraid your angry with her and don't understand." Said Phoenix
"Well I am! She'd rather stay there mainly cause of the food. I told her I can cook, but she doesn't want to be a bother. I think she's cheating on me."
Both Phoenix and Miles raised an eyebrow at her "Maya! Cheat! Seriously!?" they both thought in some form that it was ridiculous, that there must be an misunderstanding.
"But she would never do such a thing. Why would you think that." Said Phoenix
"Have you seen how she looks at the food…..and the food servers? She's looks like she's ready for more then just what is on the food tray."
"Franziska, that is ridiculous. This is Maya we're speaking of. More or less she's really only looking at the food that way." Said Miles
"She looks at me like that sometimes." Said Franziska with a slight blush to her face.
"Then…..she's attracted to you like she is to food" said Phoenix as he shrugs.
"That sounds more ridiculous then me believing that Maya wants food more then me."
"Have you tried speaking with her?" said Phoenix
"I've been busy with work and my whip. Where is that detective."
Noticing the subject change, Miles glanced over at Phoenix to drop the subject and hope that it works out on it's own and to be just glad she didn't go back to the subject of them being together when Gumshoe walks in with the file.
"Here it is pal. So have you looked at whatever is in that envelope?" ducking as Franziska tries to whip him.
"Get back here and take what's coming!"
"Franziska, let's just watch this and go from there." Said Miles as he has Gumshoe get the tv and VCR ready and plays the tape.
It was one of the hallways in one of the dorms. Close to the camera they saw the victim entering her room, then no more then five minutes a figure in all black as well as a mask comes up to the door, knocking on the door. They couldn't hear anything so they weren't sure if it was a case of knowing the person or not, but when the girl answered the door the figure stepped forwards, pushing the girl and closing the door. A few minutes later the figure is carrying a duffle bag, marking the door with something. Then Phoenix noticed something and asks for it to be zoomed in on the door. A number 3 was what they could make out of it, but felt they would have to go down there and look for themselves. From there, well they knew the details from there.
Phoenix looked through the victims file to read it one more time. Victim's mouth slashed and then stabbed in the heart. Leaving a carved number 3 and didn't think about it till he remembered the other two victims who also had carvings…a 1 and a 2. The other two victims also had numbers left on their doors like she did.
He looked further into her file and gave the final clue to how else they could be connected. Then remembered his clients file and knew for sure.
"Miles, we need to get my client out of there. She's innocent."
"Mr. Wright, we need a trial to prove that." Said Franziska
"And I'll prove it couldn't because she would have had to know the other two girls."
"How would she need to?" Said Franziska
"Cause now they have something in common. The victims father was in delta here at the college."
"Alright, but why is this girl being accused?" said Miles
"Well in the last two cases my clients were related to the victims and this isn't any different, except they didn't know cause my client has a different last name then hers. They're sisters. Ms. Sweets only older by four years."
"But how would they not know, surely your client would have noticed the last name, if she knew who her father was." Said Franziska
"Smith is a common name, she probably never thought that the chances of them being related were that great and my client has already claimed that she didn't even know the victims last name. That she only knew her in class."
"Gumshoe you were the one that arrested her. Why?" said Miles
"Cause she was with the body. She looked pretty shocked and kept saying "she's dead" The blood was on her hands so what else could I do." Said Gumshoe sheepishly.
"So what are you getting at!" said Franziska
"The killer knew that the accused and the victims are related. Knows that they are related to someone who in some shape and form went to this college" said Phoenix
"And the killer has a grudge on them. This is revenge and we need to figure out how those people who were at this college knew each other." Said Miles.
"That might be why Nikki wants to see us." Whispered Phoenix.
"So what to do with Ms. Sweets?" said Gumshoe.
"We'll go through with the trial. I know you believe your client is innocent Wright, but maybe she knows more then she thinks. We can reveal that during court and when it's over the police can give a real search for this person. In the meantime detective go back to where the victim was found and look around for a duffle bag of some sort. The girl was carried in it. He couldn't have kept carrying it around after dumping her body in that ally way." Said Miles
"Yes sir!" said Gumshoe as he took off to collect a few officers to help him search.
In the meantime Miles and Phoenix was starting to leave with the stuff Nikki sent to them when Miles looked back at Franziska; who was still standing in the room.
"Franziska…"
"What."
"Maya is probably still at the icecream parlor down the block from Wright's office. Go see her or at least call her. She misses you." Said Miles as he smiled.
Aggravating Franziska, she pushes through, yelling at Miles "I will do whatever I choose to do, Thank You!" watching her storm off. Miles continues on walking through the station while still walking with Phoenix.
"You think she will?"
"Oh yes, but the only thing I hadn't done was tell her that Pearls was with her." Said Miles as his lips became a bigger smile.
"But if Pearls finds out the truth between Maya and Franziska, she may slap Franziska and I'm sure hell will freeze over when it does."
"That's a sight I would love to see. I don't think Franziska would know what to do from there. Certainly she wouldn't hit a child so I'm not worried." Said Miles.
Phoenix gives a sigh of relief as they reach the car only then did he start to feel some throbbing around his neck. Looking in the mirror on the visor on his side of the car, he saw how bad that whip really got him…and Miles saw it too.
"Now I really hope Pearls slaps her." Said Miles
"Well, it's not too bad."
"She chocked you with her whip and left that as a result. It's bad and it's just going to swell more. Hold on I got a first aid kit in the trunk, give me a moment."
He watched as he saw Miles goes into the trunk and pulls out a small white case. He calls Phoenix to come out and over to the trunk. Phoenix blushed when the silver haired man asked him to strip.
"Just your top half you idiot. I need to be able to put this stuff on it and wrap your neck up without getting it on your clothes."
"What is it?"
"It's for rope burns and such. It'll bring the swelling down and hopefully get rid of the marks. I'm going to have a very long and painful discussion with her about this later or if I'm lucky Pearls will take care of it." Miles smirked at the thought of hearing that bit of news. Franziska would never live it down.
When they were done wrapping Phoenix's neck up, they left to head over to the campus. The Campus for the classes itself was rather large and took a good fifteen minutes to cross through it to get to the dorm building. When they got to the location that Nikki had sent them, they saw the door to the room already open. They walked carefully up to it till Nikki popped out of there and scared both of them.
"About time you guys. Your ten minutes late" said Nikki with her arms crossed.
"Sorry, but the campus is huge" said Phoenix
"Oh, wait you went through the front didn't you. Oh well guess I should of added that you could get through from the side of the college. It's quicker." Said Nikki as she walks them into the room.
"Yes, that might have made it easier." Said Miles
"So who's room is this?" said Phoenix
"Elle's."
"How did you get in though?" said Phoenix
"She gave me her spare. We found it to be easier in case she doesn't answer my wake up calls. I can just come in and wake her." Said Nikki
"Is she a friend of yours?" said Miles
"Sort of, she's a nice girl and on a scholarship. I tutor her as a way to help, her parents can't afford for her to go to college so she can't afford to lose her scholarships if her grades drop." Said Nikki
"That's nice. So why are we here?" said Phoenix
"I'm here to find evidence that she didn't do it. You saw the tape right? There's no way she could have done it."
"Why do you say that?" said Miles
"Well think about it, what was the time of death?"
"Eight-thirty p.m"
"And it showed what time that person carried her out of her dorm room right?"
"Yes, five minutes after. Where are you getting at?" said Miles
"What time did that 911 call come in? and what time was Elle arrested?"
"I believe in Gumshoe's record it said he got there at ten p.m." said Miles
"Wait…..if she was the killer why stick around for two hours?" said Phoenix.
"Probably to try and find a place to hide the body." Said Miles
"Objection!" screamed Nikki as she points at them both "She couldn't have, she has an alibi."
"Phoenix, did she give you an alibi?"
"No, she was still in shock when I went to see her. Her mother had called me about this case."
"So what's the alibi then Nikki?" said Miles
"Me. I was tutoring her for her big Psychology test. From six p.m till eight-thirty p.m. Then we went out for dinner with some of the other study group I help out with and around nine-thirty we left, she walked me home and by the time she left from home it was almost ten." Said Nikki
"Anyone else to prove this story?" said Miles
"Yeah, some of the study group like I said. I can give you their names and I did tell them to cooperate with you guys." Said Nikki as she wrote the names of five of the students as well as the pizza place they went to that's fifteen minute walk from campus for dinner.
She gave them the list as well as the librarian here at the campus to check out a spare book for Nikki to look over with Elle. They nodded as they looked it over, then Miles heard his phone go off and goes on out of the room to take it.
"Thanks Nikki, what time do you think you'll be coming home?" said Phoenix while waiting on Miles.
"Probably as soon as I'm done in here. I haven't found anything that says she did it. I wonder if anyone has been in Jane's room. Can't imagine so, she's the only one with the code to her room."
"Why does she have a code lock for her room?" said Phoenix
"It was rumored that she was paranoid of people and strangers getting into her room while she's gone to steal her stuff or worse. So with permission she was allowed to have the lock thanks to her father."
"Her father?"
"Well he did go here and has pull with the dean and staff."
"Defiantly something we need to keep in mind." Said Phoenix as Miles comes back inside.
"Well that was Gumshoe, they found the duffle bag in a trash can near where the body was. They're going to check for evidence whether this girl did it or not. It's obvious she didn't and more then likely Wright can get her out and not go through trial, but just in case we'll check out the witnesses and that should be more then enough to clear her name. Open and close case before it begins." Said Miles
"That's good. So are we doing that tonight?" Said Phoenix
"No, we'll wait till tomorrow. In the meantime I already managed to get Gumshoe a warrant to check that girl's room. The father will have no choice but go down there and default it so they can search the room." Said Miles
"That's good then. So are you done here Nikki?" said Phoenix
"Yes. I'm just glad she'll be cleared."
"I am going to have to talk to her to get her story too. Hopefully the shock has worn off by tomorrow." Said Phoenix.
And that's it for now.
Phoenix: But…..
Katt: No buts, this chapter ended nicely so you'll just have to wait. See ya.
