Of course there's a murder...
"Thanks Apollo," Ema Skye said an hour later after Apollo gave his statement. The dispatcher recognized the address immediately when Apollo gave it to her and Police and Firetrucks arrived less than fifteen minutes later. Ema arrived just before the forensics team after the pool had been designated a crime scene by the Police. Her and Apollo helped with crowd control, but were unable to move Pearl. Ema laid a sympathetic hand on Apollo's shoulder and smiled apologetically. "It's good to see you again, although I wish it was under different circumstances."
"Yeah," The defense attorney sighed. "Me too."
"I haven't questioned Maya or Pearl yet," Ema paused as she looked over at them and tapped her notebook with her pencil. "However...one of the kids here says she witnessed Maya stab the victim, then push him in."
"I...ahhh...yeah," Apollo ran his hand nervously through his hair, which was starting to droop. "The witness was here when we arrived on the scene. But I'm not sure how Maya could have been here and with me out in the driveway at the same time. Arrggh...I'm so confused. Why can't we have a normal murder?"
"Heh, umm...normal murder, Apollo? I'd rather have no murders, but that's beside the point!" Ema cocked an eyebrow at him as they turned to watch the cousins comfort each other.
"OH MY GOSH!!" Came the squeal behind them. Then the rumble of a motorcycle. Ema rolled her eyes. Apollo furrowed his brow at her as Trucy came out of the house bearing water for Pearl. A flustered fan girl suddenly came running over the hill between the pool and the driveway.
"Omigosh, omigosh, he kissed my hand!" She cried breathlessly. Klavier Gavin sauntered his way over the hill and over to Apollo and Ema.
"You certainly know how to make an entrance, don't you?" Ema chided as she crossed her arms.
"Achtung, baby! Loud is the only way I know!" The prosecutor snapped his fingers to some hidden rhythm as he smirked at them. They both rolled their eyes. "Now then, why is it that I have been called to one prosecutor Miles Edgeworth's swanky Beverly Hills spread?"
"I-I...Miles E-Edgeworth?" It was Ema's turn to be breathless. Klavier looked at her incredulously.
"I knew I recognized that giant emblem on the floor in the foyer!" Apollo snapped his fingers. "It's the prosecutors badge!"
"Fraulein Detectiv," Klavier started, ignoring the defense attorney. "If I'd have known that such a name could spark such a response from a pretty girl, I would have used it sooner, ja!"
"Ggrrr..." Ema stuck her hand in her lab coat pocket and produced a Snakoo, which she promptly threw at Klavier. "You only wish your name could make me weak-kneed!" She stuck her tongue at him and walked away towards Maya and Pearl.
Apollo bit his lip to keep from laughing. Klavier didn't notice.
"Mmm...feisty, ja?" He placed a hand on Apollo's shoulder and watched her go. Then turned his attention to the young defense attorney. "Well, Herr Forehead? What's the story here? Is trouble following you again?"
"No," Apollo looked down at his shoes. "At least I don't think so? Ugh, I don't know anymore. It seems where ever I go, a murder is committed."
"Hmm...and who are the two lovely Frauleins the good Detectiv is questioning?" Klavier asked thoughtfully as he played with his hair.
"The pretty dark-haired one that Ema is talking to is Maya Fey and the other is her cousin, Pearl Fey." Apollo gestured in their direction. "I do believe that Cody, our victim, is Pearl's boyfriend."
"Ach! Jilted love, the worst kind of murder." The blond turned his attention briefly to the pool. "Only a woman will stab someone in the back."
"What are you talking about?"
"I've been doing a little study into the psychology of murders," Klavier paused as Apollo glanced at him. "The one thing that stuck out was this. If there is a stabbing, and it's in the back, Eighty-seven percent of the time it's a woman that has committed the crime, ja?"
Apollo gaped at Klavier. He wasn't sure if he was more surprised that Klavier was actually reading something other than paperwork, or at how frank he was being at the moment.
"I've also studied some of your predecessor's cases and the majority of them were stabbings, and they were by women." Klavier started towards the pool, leaving an open-mouthed defense attorney behind.
"I don't know why she's not in handcuffs!?" Apollo's attention was directed towards Ema and the cousins again, as the red-haired girl approached them, gesturing wildly. "She did it! She's the one that stabbed poor Cody!"
"Miss, please step back, I'm trying to conduct-"
"A not so thorough investigation, Detectiv." Klavier appeared holding what looked like a green gem in his gloved hand. Both Pearl and Maya gasped, as they looked down. Maya was missing her Magatama. "I do believe our Miss Fey needs to come down to the detention center for further questioning, don't you agree, Herr Forehead?" Klavier was staring down Ema as Apollo approached them. He thought he saw the red-head smirking out of her corner of his eye. But when he turned to look at her
"But I didn't do it! I promise! Apollo, tell him!?" Maya's eyes were misty as she pleaded with Klavier.
"Klavier, she was with me, and Pearl and Apollo, the last couple hours!" Trucy piped in. "She never left-"
"It would serve you well, Fraulein Magician, not to say anything more." Klavier had a very dark look in his eyes as he spoke to Trucy. She took a step back and her bottom lip was trembling. Apollo went to her side and put his arm around her.
"Klavier what is your problem?" Apollo's chords of steel were starting to kick in, as was his frustration with the events of the evening.
"I don't appreciate the favoritism that is going on here, ja." The blond stepped up to a speechless Ema and dug through her forensics kit.
"What the hell do you think you-" Ema started but answered her own question as he pulled out a plastic baggie and dropped the Matagama in it.
"And I don't think Miles Edgeworth would stand for such carelessness, ja Fraulein?" The fop winked at her as she scowled at him.
"Ooohhh g-g-god-ddd...." Pearl's exclamation startled everybody. She hadn't said a word since coming upon the scene. Her eyes were red and her face was splotchy from crying. Maya knelt and put an arm around her. "M-Miles is supposed t-to b-be coming home to-tomarrow." She managed between sobs.
"Well, it seems he's in for a surprise, ja?"