Dreams & Nightmares
Most people try to make their dreams of stardom a realty, most never make it, even fewer have the chance to meet and share a stage with their idols. For a small time band, The Heartbrakers, their guitar player and lead singer gets to meet, Klavier Gavin. However her dream gets twisted as she is meeting her idol in court, prosecuting her for murder!
Turnabout Starstruck, Part 2
"Agh? Did I go drinking with Lin and Katy again?" Acayla Hardiage groaned as she tried to get her head to stop spinning and her stomach not to give up her lunch from earlier. She tucked her head between her knees and took deep breaths, but as she breathed in, she tasted and smelled something off.
Opening her eyes, she could see she was no longer in her concert clothes but in an orange jump suit, with black block numbers on the left side of her chest. "N-no way. This can't be happening." She muttered looking up from the standard prison cot to the iron bars of her cell as the blood drained from her face as she realized she was in jail.
"Please, just let this be a nightmare." She pleaded looking up at the blank ceiling as an officer came to the cell door. "Miss Hariage, Prosecutor Gavin would like a word with you." The man told her as she went shock still at the name, but an icy feeling went up her spine.
"P-prosecutor? W-why does he... want to talk to me for?" she asked nervously as her mind tried to understand what was going on, not having a good feeling when the officer called Klavier Gavin, Prosecutor and she was in an orange jump suit. It had to be either a nightmare or a kinky wet dream since it couldn't be real.
"He would like to get your side of the story about the murder of FBI Agent, Drumm Kit." The officer missed her unease and told her strait and bluntly. She just scared at him like he was crazy. "W-what?"She questioned as her heart hammered in her chest and her whole body went numb.
"At 9:05 PM, the body of the late Agent Drumm Kit was found in a pool of his own blood in the middle of the Heartbreakers dressing room. Along with him, you where found with blood all over your chest and where arrested after receiving first aid and confirming none of the blood was yours. Thus you were stripped, cleaned and placed in this cell to await trial to confirm your guilt or innocents." The officer informed her stiffly as she stared disbelievingly at him, and then pinching herself.
"Ow. Oh crud, this isn't a dream is it?" she asked looking at the officer in horror who then opened her cell door looking to be all business. "No, it is not. Now if you will follow me to the visitors' room you can answer all of Prosecutor Gavin's questions." He told her standing outside the door as just fell back on the cot and curled up into an orange ball.
"No way! I am not meeting him like this! I can't! I'm innocent! Innocent! What would he think of me? What DOES he think of me? I didn't kill Drumm Kit! Why would I!? HOW could I!?That guy was built like a mountain!" she asked, rambling in her fear trying to make sense of it all, but the officer was growing irritated, entering her cell. "You can explain all that to him when you see him. Come on." He grabbed her as she was rambling only to have her violently pull away.
"NO! I can't meet him like this! I can't!" she yelled, getting some attention from the other guards, as they saw her being uncooperative. The officer in her cell reached out to grab her again backing her into her cell wall. "You must, you're in here because you had Agent Kit's blood all over you, and now you will tell Prosecutor Gavin what you did." The officer grabbed her wrists before she screamed loudly.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Her scream shattered anything and everything made of glass in the detention center.
Wright Anything Agency
"No cases again today." Apollo Justice sighed as he just finished cleaning the toilet, noticing no one was in the office but him. His boss, Phoenix Wright had gone to a party with his old partner Maya Fey, who was visiting him for the week. His other boss, Trucy Wright was performing for some old folks home so she wouldn't be back for a few more hours. As for his newest coworker, Athena Cykes, she was off celebrating with Simion Blackquil, as it was the one year anniversary of his release from prison.
Looking at the clock he could see it was already 12:15pm.
"Maybe it would be alright if I left to get something to eat. It's not like we're gonna get a case on a Sunday when the courts are closed." The red wearing defense attorney voiced sadly, putting away the toilet cleaning supplies to go out for lunch, only to be startled by the sudden and frantic pounding on the agency door.
"I-It's open?" Apollo informed whoever was assaulting the poor, wondering briefly if it was a good idea, before the door was nearly thrown off its hinges as four girls ran into the room and at him, backing him up into the corner as her tried to step away, only to notice the girls all towered over him.
"Is this the Wright Anything Agency?" the leader and seemly the calmest off all the girls, asked him, her lips set into a firm line. "Y-yes. T-this is the Wright Anything Agency. H-how can I help you?" he asked trying to stay calm under their glares.
"We need a defense attorney. Are you Phoenix Wright?" another girl asked, looking ready to kill him if the answer was no, the young defense attorney gulped before he answered them. "N-no. He's not in the office right now but if you have a case I can look it over for you." He suggested hopeing he wouldn't get killed by these four girls.
"And you are?" another girl asked, looking to be the oldest of the group.
"A-apollo Justice, Defense Attorney." he said, showing them the attorney badge, which seemed to get them to back off as they looked at each other and then back at him.
"Justice-san, it would be a great favor for you to take our friend's case." The calmest girl asked him, bowing her head to a confused Apollo.
"Um? Okay, so what did your friend do?" he asked relaxing a little before the toughest looking girl got in his face. "She didn't do anything! Their accusing her of murder! She wouldn't kill anyone!" she was then pulled back by the oldest one who gave the other girl a stern look. "Murder? Who did she k-" he was saying before the sweet looking one placed a hand over his mouth and glared at him. "It was a man named Drumm Kit, he worked for the FBI. It's best if you choose your words carefully, Mr. Justice." She told him as she removed her hand, unnerving Apollo.
"Alright, so she's being accused of killing a Mr. Kit is that correct?" he asked, looking at the calm girl who nodded."Hai. That is correct Justice-san. So you will take the Case?" She asked as all the girls stared at him, making the young lawyer a bit nervous but settled his decision.
"Of course, have a seat and you can tell me all about it." He suggested as the other girls took seats around the room and the tough looking one closed the door that was amazingly still intact.
"Let's talk, Mr. Justice." The oldest of the four spoke sitting down in Phoenix's office chair, looking like it was where she always sat, like she was the boss. Apollo then just noticed he took the client's seat which none of the other girls did. "Hinata, make us some tea please. Lily, order in some lunch for all of us. Lin get on the computer and find out what evidence the police have." The older woman ordered smoothly as the others did as they were told.
'How did they take over the office?' Apollo questioned himself as the older female snapped her fingers, and like a trained dog he, looked at her.
"Now Mr. Justice, I would like you to know that Acayla, your client, is my best friend and there no way I'm gonna let her go down for something she didn't do. I expect you to do the same, and make good use of your, Chords of Steel." The unnamed woman told him with a cold smirk as she laced her fingers under her chin with elbows on the desk. "Do you understand?" she asked, a bit much for the young lawyer to handle but he nodded.
"Yes, miss...?" he asked, gaining some confidence, making the woman smile kindly at him. "Katy Bee, but you may call me Miss B." Apollo had a feeling that name was earned and not a reference to her last name.
Detention Center
Apollo walked into the detention center to meet with his new client, getting some polite greetings form filmier guards, as he and the other Lawyers of Wright Anything Agency saw many times as they seemed to be frequent visitors in to the Detention Center that were not criminals.
Sitting down on his side of the visitor's room, Apollo noticed something odd about the room this time, sticking his hand out he was startled to feel nothing as his had went over the prisoner's side of the room.
'T-there's no glass!' he thought in shock as he pulled his hands back. 'I would hate to meet the one who broke through.' He was thinking as the officer brought in his client, already dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit. 'Don't they usually have their own clothes on in here? Or was she wearing the bloody clothes when they arrested her?' The young lawyer thought as Acayla was sat in front of him, looking like she had seen the most horrific thing in the world, she was pale and had dark circles under her eyes, he doubted where from makeup, as her eyes where down cast, not looking at him or saying anything.
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'Well this is awkward.' Apollo thought before he decided to speak first. "Miss. Hardiage, I will be your defense attorney for this case. My name is Apollo Justice." He told her only to get some muttering he couldn't hear or understand. "Excuse me? I didn't quite hear you. Could you repeat that?" he asked her kindly as she looked up with blood shot eyes.
"What's the point?" she asked in a rather soft and horse sounding voice, like she had been screaming or crying for hours. "He already hates me." she told him and then it fell quiet again. Only the sound of the door opening behind Apollo echoed in the room as an officer spoke to the Defense attorney.
"I'm sorry but you'll have to come back another time. We... didn't install the glass in this room." He admitted sheepishly to him, and Apollo sighed as he got up. "It's alright I'm done here." Apollo left the room, hopeing his client would say something more to him but she didn't even when she was escorted back to her cell. He walked away in disappointment and hopelessness with his new client, but he was curious as to who she said hated her.
"Ah, Herr Forehead, what case brings you here this time?" Apollo stopped as he heard a filmier voice. Snapping out of his train of thought he could see the former Rock Star, full time Prosecutor, Klavier Gavin standing before him, bent slightly forward as if to mock the vertically impaired Lawyer.
"A new client. What are you doing here, Prosecutor Gavin?" Apollo asked him as the taller male just surged his shoulders."I was here to interrogate a suspect, a fraülein by the name of Acayla Hardiage, but it seems she does not wish to see me at all. She even shattered all the glass in the detention center just to avoid me." the prosecutor told him with a shake of his head.
"S-she shattered the glass!?" Apollo asked, startled and a bit more scared OF his client then for her. "Ja, thought it wasn't with bruit force." Klavier let out a small amused chuckle, "The fraülein did it with only her voice." He told the defense attorney, a hand touching his own neck as he uttered the last word. Thinking back a little, Apollo recalled that Acayla had said about someone already hating her, a male someone.
"Have you ever met Miss Hardiage, before? Maybe you did something to her or she did something to you. " Apollo helpfully provided, trying to get more information out of the prosecutor that Lin couldn't find in the police reports, how she was able to get them, he wished he didn't know.
Klavier frowned and looked offended at the suggestion. "No. I have never even heard of her until last night." He admitted, confusing the short attorney. "What exactly happened last night?" he asked, getting a sly smile from the prosecutor. "Ah, so you are defending her, are you Herr Forehead?" Klavier asked, having suspected that was the young attorney's new client.
"Y-yes, I am." He nodded trying to sound confident, but with the evidence the police had already gathered, it looked like almost an almost straight shot to a Guilty verdict, if it wasn't for Acayla's friends who believed she was innocent. "So what happened last night?" he asked and Klavier smiled at him.
"A Gavinner's reunion concert."
Apollo blinked in confusion at his words. "A Reunion Concert? But how? Isn't one of your old band mates in prison?" he blurted out, only to see a flash of sadness cross the golden haired Prosecutor's face. "Ja, he is. They let him out just for this special concert, the fraülein's band opened for us." Klavier then pulled out a CD, and Apollo recognized the girls quickly.
"The Heartbreakers?"
Apollo questioned as he took the offered CD from Klavier, looking at the rather amateurish cover art. The girls were dressed in black pants or skirts, with a different colored top for each of them. The Dummer, Hinata, wore a silky Green kimono like top as she was sat at the black and sliver drum set that had a sliver broken heart on the front. The keyboard player, Katy, was dressed in a red suit jacket, with a black cravat around her neck, a sliver broken heart pined to it. The Bass player, Lin, was in a Chinese style sleeveless yellow top with a sliver bracelet around her right wrist, it also had a sliver broken heart on it, holding her yellow bass. The other guitar player had on a blue dress like top with sliver accents, her sliver broken hearts where on her ears as earrings as she held her Guitar like it was a baby. Lastly his client and lead vocalist was, Acayla was dressed in a black tank top with a sliver broken heart at her hip and it seemed she wore a lavender t-shirt under the top, her dark indigo colored guitar held in her arms looked oddly filmier.
"Recognize anything, Herr Forehead?" Klavier asked, smirking as Apollo studied the cover art, the defense attorney nodded before returning the CD to him. "Yes, her band mates where the ones to come to the office. They're all on the CD." He told Klavier who only chuckled and shook his head at the vanilla flavored Lawyer. "Ja, that is correct but any one with eyes could see that, Herr Forehead." The prosecutor mused, confusing poor Apollo.
"What? Is there something else in the picture?" he asked, getting a bit worried about the prosecutor's findings. "Yes, but it's not really relevant to the case." He told the attorney as he slipped the case back into his files.
'Then why did you show it to me?' Apollo questioned in his mind before an officer interrupted them. "Prosecutor Gavin... I'm sorry but... the accused refuses... to meet with you." the man said, sounding a bit out of breath as his uniform also looked a bit disheveled and his right eye was bruised.
"What happened to you, Herr Officer?" Klavier asked, sounding a bit shocked at the officer's state before the officer caught his breath and tried to straighten himself up. "It was the girl, she's a fighter. She just took me by surprise with a left hook while we tried to drag her out into the visitor's room for you to interrogate. She also bit another officer so we had to gag her, and put her in restraints." The officer informed him as both men frowned at the officer's excessive use of force.
"Was that really considered necessary officer?" Apollo asked, back to being worried for his client, and then again he was still scared of getting a black eye like the officer, who glared at him. "Yes it was, Mr. Justice. Your job is to defend these criminals, but it's our job to keep them in line, there is no special treatment here." He told Apollo firmly, but the defense attorney looked at him with half closed eyes, having seen some pretty decorative jail cells of famous people before.
"It would seem she is not to found of me, what a shame." Klavier sighed, sounding genuinely disappointed before turning to Apollo with a confident smile. "It appears we will only be graced with her lovely voice in court then, Ja?"
"Yeah. I would like to get a look at the crime scene if you don't mind?" Apollo asked as Klavier pulled out a slip of paper and gave it to him with a smile. "Ja, here is your permission slip. Enjoy your field trip, Herr Forehead." He teased the shorter man who glared at him but took the paper anyway before leaving.
Wright Anything Agency, A Few Hours Earlier
Apollo was a little impressed with the girls, as Hinata had served them all a nice cup of green tea, Lily had gotten a rather speedy delivery on some Italian food, and Lin had printed out the case file from the police data base, along with a list of evidence that the police collected.
"Wow, do you girls do this often?" Apollo asked, stunned form the service, as his mouth watered at the smell of the fresh plate of Chicken Alfraido sitting in front of him, only to get some collective giggles from them.
"You've never hear of the Heartbreakers before have you?"Apollo gave her a confused look. "Its okay, not many have. We are an independent female rock band that's not in the mainstream yet. At least not is a good way." Katy, or Miss B, informed him with a sad smile as she placed a napkin on her lap before she picked up her fork to eat her own food.
'Yeah, they tend to make a big deal about murder.' Apollo thought, keeping it to himself as he picked up his own fork and stabbed some of his chicken to bring it into his mouth. "It's not only because our Bandmate killed a man." She voiced after swallowing her food, making Apollo choke a little on his in fright. 'C-can she read minds?' He wondered briefly as the woman took a refined sip of her tea.
"Agent Drumm Kit, was a member of the FBI's domestic terrorism task force, but he was also a member of a band called, The Gavinners. Perhaps you've heard of them?" Miss B asked, making something click inside the young attorney's mind as he finally swallowed his food, giving her a nod. "Yeah, I've heard of them. It looks really bad for your band, even if she's found innocent your band is still probably going to be hated by anyone who is a Gavinners fan." Apollo voiced, thinking about how many fans the Gavinner's had, and if he believed the leader of the Gavinners, then the Heartbreakers would be the most hated people on the planet by now.
Miss B looked down at her cup of tea sadly, and the other girl's were quiet as well for quite a while before one of them spoke up.
"Acayla-chan couldn't have done it." Hinata voiced, tears spilling form her eyes. "She knew... she knew I want to meet him... Kit-sama was... was..." She tried to say only to break down crying into Lin's shoulder; Lily tried conferring her by rubbing her band mate on the back gently. Apollo looked at the crying girl in confusion before turning to Miss. B for an answer.
"She was a fan of Agent Kit, he inspired her to play the drums for our band." Miss B told him and Apollo was at a loss of what to do or say to them.
Anther chapter done. Still working on 3 and 4.
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