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Disclaimer: Ace Attorney and characters belong to Capcom. This is just a fanfic made by a fan.
Since today was another day with no case to solve Apollo was busy with house chores at good ol' Wright and Co Anything Can Happen, but when he was tasked to buy food from the store he used this opportunity to speak with his previous client, the woman who gave him the evidence as a gift.
He gave Octavia, as she wanted him to call her a text message, it shouldn't take him too long to plead her case, even so he was willing to take as much time as he needed for this innocent woman. Besides, he always considered Mr. Wright to be a bit of a weirdo.
Apollo turned the last corner and finally got to the convenience store where he said he would meet her. The woman's long white, and surprisingly naturally colored hair kind of glowed with the sunlight.
"Miss," Apollo paused. "Octavia!"
Octavia turned to see the attorney who saved her from wrongful prison sentence, it certainly delighted her. "Mr. Polly!"
"Please don't call me that," Apollo thought.
"I didn't expect to see you again so soon, how is the caritas blossom?" The woman asked.
The firey attorney lost his train of thought for a moment when he finally remembered what the plant was called, but of course he did not want to tell her what happened to it yet.
"A-Actually," Apollo stuttered.
"Actually?" Octavia said.
Apollo clenched his fist, and remembered the bracelet on his left hand. "I know this sounds weird, but can I ask you some questions with obvious answers?" Apollo gave an embarrassed blush.
Octavia giggled. "You're strange, but alright."
"Ok, thank you." Apollo made sure his bracelet wasn't falling off.
If she was lying about anything his hyper sharp eyesight would detect it. He worriedly pressed his finger against his forehead though.
"Miss…Octavia Nox,"
Octavia's smile widened again.
"Were you the one who murdered your own coworker with office supplies?"
Octavia giggled. "You're the one who proved my innocence."
"Yeah," Apollo turned away and blushed.
Nothing, his bracelet did not respond.
Apollo gave an internal sigh, figuring this was pointless and he was just playing along with a foolish game.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable, my friend just thinks you're suspicious because you gave me the caritas flower as a gift." Apollo said.
Octavia gasped, "You should tell her I mean no harm. No offense Apollo, but my heart doesn't belong to you."
"No offense taken," Apollo smirked.
"Besides…That plant is just a gift to remember me by. It's meant to be given away like that."
Apollo bracelet tightened around his wrist, the sudden discomfort he felt caused his heart to leap for a moment.
Octavia's eyes widened for a moment. "Apollo, are you alright?"
Apollo said nothing, he blinked his eyes rapidly for a moment and sweated a bit. "Octavia, can you say that again." Apollo reached for his bracelet.
Octavia breathed out in a nervous matter. "…Ok."
The attorney activated his bracelet's power. Every word Octavia spoke was in single digits. But Apollo's eyes moved quickly to search for her nervous habit. She seemed liked a perfectly groomed kitty on the surface, until he looked below and saw her rubbing her own palms with the tips of her fingers.
"Gotcha!" Apollo cried.
The attorney's yell caused Octavia to cry out in shock and fall over a bit, but then everything moved at normal speed.
"Your palms are sweating!"
"Hmm?" Octavia bit her lip.
"You were trying to wipe the sweat off your palms, which are prone to sweat. Miss Octavia, you're hiding something from me!"
Octavia froze, and took a few steps back, and then looked to the ground.
"I…I wanted you to find romance." Octavia said.
"What?" Apollo said.
The older woman turned away from the attorney. "I didn't want it to seem like I was getting in the way of you and your love interest."
The firey attorney was dumbstruck from this woman's ethic deed.
"You know, you could've just told me."
The woman choked out a slight chuckle and then turned to Apollo again. "I want romance too but I always put others before myself, but being a fan girl who tries to push you with someone else, it isn't the most mature thing."
"Besides, you know my coworker who got murdered?" Octavia paused and blushed for a bit. "He gave me that flower pot, but it was a gift given at the wrong time."
"What do you mean?" Apollo asked.
Octavia blinked for a moment at the confused attorney, and then she felt utterly joyous.
"Apollo, I believe I haven't told you about the power of the caritas blossom."
But before anything could be said Apollo's ring tone went off. It was a miniscule 16-bit guitar rift blared from his pocket. Apollo grabbed his phone quickly and to his shock Athena's name showed up, he answered quickly.
"Hello?"
The first thing Apollo heard was a loud breath.
"Apollo," Athena paused. "I need to talk to you."
The older attorney's heart stopped for a moment, it sounded urgent and he knew Athena wasn't in the best shape right now.
"Ok, where are you right now?"
The orange haired attorney sat on a bench, head in so much pain that she wanted to squeeze her head between her thighs but couldn't. Thankfully it didn't take much longer for Apollo to run to her.
"Athena!" Apollo cried.
Athena lifted her head up and smiled to the sound of Apollo's loud voice, but her vision was still a bit blurry.
Apollo panted, "Are you alright Athena?"
Apollo was about to grab her hand. "Maybe I should take you to a doctor—"
"No," Athena groaned.
"I need to talk about this," Athena hugged herself.
"About what?" Apollo's tone becoming more urgent.
Athena frowned, her eyes in pain as if she were about to cry. …"I'm pregnant." She said softly, but loud enough for Apollo to hear.
Apollo was about to say something but behind him the sharp sound of a balloon popping caused him to violently lose his footing and scream to the top of his lungs, as if every last emotion held inside of him from his frustration with Ema and shock from Athena being pregnant was released from his heart at hyper speed. The laughter of a young boy was heard behind him, and Apollo was completely enraged.
"Come back here you stupid kid!" Apollo yelled.
Athena's face went even more pale at the sight of Apollo's intense anger towards a 7 year old child, even if she felt for her friend she begged Apollo not to kill him, after a couple minutes of drama Apollo finally calmed down when the mother showed up to take her child away.
When Apollo finally calmed down he sat on the bench next to Athena and blushed at the thought of what she did with Clay. "You guys are unbelievable," he said bitterly and sarcastically.