Warning, the following chapter contains pure OTP goodness. :)
Disclaimer: Ace Attorney and its characters belong to Capcom. This is just a fanfic made by a fan.
Ema tried to compose herself in her messy apartment, her little bubble. She stepped on old paperwork that caused old memories to flood her mind. The toyish flower pot sat on the edge of a small folding table, away from the sunlight. Even if she liked the hot pink and green colors of the flower pot the meaning behind it still angered her.
The detective turned her table lamp on and placed her pink lap glasses over her eyes menacing over the evidence.
"Alright, time to find the darker side of this story."
Then a knock on the door, a serious one, at least that's what Ema hypothesized.
A groan escaped the detective's mouth, she lifted up her glasses and headed for the door. When she opened the door slightly she was face to face with bright sunlight flashing making Apollo's face look sterner, Ema curled her lips into a pout.
"I expected you."
Meanwhile the exhausted 23 year old man tried his hardest not to nod off during a long bus ride downtown. He wiped off the sweat on his forehead caused by the bright sunlight and wished he had his girl friend to vent to, since he considered her an expert on emotions. Or at least he wished he had a dog or cat to talk to, he felt that maybe it was time to consider a pet to his girlfriend.
But when the bus finally made a stop he smiled, now he and Athena could finally stuff their faces.
Hopping off the bus and thanking the bus driver the young astronaut searched for Athena, she did send her a text saying she would spend time downtown waiting for his return.
He did not see her right away though, he found three girls jumping rope together though. The three of them giggled and noticed Clay quickly because of his uniform.
"Hey there!" Clay waved to the three girls.
After he passed by the 3 girls his line of sight shifted to a woman lovingly holding her footsie wearing baby in the air, but despite being focused on the one woman he saw other people with babies even if they were blurred out from his sight. He heard the cries of happiness and joy. Clay stared blankly and turned around. He walked through the crowd hoping Athena would be by the fountain.
"Something special must be really going down. Or is this because of the new age of law." Clay thought.
Clay would probably never truly know. He did wonder why in this world a career in law was more glorified than a career in space. Clay gave an internal "good grief" sigh from the realization coming to surface.
Finally his train of thought disappeared when he saw Athena sitting on a bench near the big fountain, behind the bench was a secure rectangular flower bed filled with daisies in bloom. Despite young children laughing near her Athena looked a bit down, it wasn't like her.
Clay breathed in and put on his best smile for his "emotionally driven" girlfriend. He walked slowly as to not startle her, but before he could give her a surprise hello she lifted her head up and gave a small smile to him. Widget changed into the color green even if Athena didn't look 100% right now.
"Hey." Athena said softly.
"Hey yourself," Clay smiled.
Athena stood up the bench but groaned slightly. "How was work?" She groaned again.
Clay paused for a moment, now that he thought about it, she looked a bit pale.
"Athena, are you alright?" Clay said.
"Um…" Athena cut herself off.
But Widget was currently the color blue and wasn't looking so hot either, and Clay could've sworn he heard groaning, coming from Widget.
"You look a bit…Green." Clay said.
Clay sat down next to Athena and held her close, Athena complied and rested her face on Clay's chest, it only made her feel slightly better but being with your loved one could only do so much in terms of illness.
"I was going to suggest you, and me, and Apollo and Ema would go out to eat but I think we should go straight home."
"A bug maybe?" Athena finally said.
Clay was slightly startled by Athena removing herself from him, but she looked into his eyes.
"Because I…Kind of vomited," Athena gave a slight blush of embarrassment. "In the public bathroom."
"I'll be fine though, I know it." Athena gave another small smile and gave her signature peace sign, but in a gentle matter.
Clay wanted to stay by Athena's side until she felt better, but then the sudden realization. "But my job is too demanding for me to take you to the doctor tomorrow—"
"It's ok, I can take myself," Athena insisted. She nearly gave Clay a forehead touch, which caused Clay to stroke her cheek. His girlfriend purred slightly.
But Athena broke the romantic moment with a realization of her own.
"But, I haven't seen Apollo at all today, I thought if he didn't show up at work he would at least meet me here."
Clay winced, hopefully nothing went wrong.
An hour later the couple returned to their apartment. Athena sat down in front of the TV in a bean bag chair while Clay proceeded to make chicken noodle soup for the both of them. Even if neither of them were fans of salty noodle soup, but Clay didn't want to make Athena jealous by eating "fun" food while she ate boring sick person food, almost the equivalent of the nasty lunches provided in hospitals. The astronaut knew this too well after barely surviving a fatal incident at the Cosmos Space Center, but that's how he met Athena, so it wasn't the worst time in his life.
The couple sat in front of the small TV making due with just a boring salty soup dinner and practically drinking every last drop of pineapple juice they had because of dehydration. Then, Clay's phone beeped, soon after Athena's phone beeped.
"Apollo?" Clay said.
Clay picked up his blue phone and saw part of Apollo's message through notification, the message was in all caps, which already worried Clay.
Athena clutched her pink phone in disbelief. "Ema messaged me, and she sounds like she recently blew her top."
Clay mentally shook his head, he didn't want for it to come to this for those two. But Apollo said words like, "last nerve," and "ungodly negative" as describing Ema. Athena saw that Ema said words like "second best" in terms of being an attorney and "awful" in terms of feelings and "cruel" in terms of him towards her.
The worried couple tried to calmly gathered their thoughts on the matter until they both decided to turn in for the night. Clay could at least rest easy knowing that Athena looked a lot less pale now, he stroked her cheek and long orange hair before she fell asleep in the dark bedroom. But before Clay fell asleep next to her he made an internal prayer for Apollo and Ema.
"Please don't let them end before they start."