Harry Potter and the Trials and Tribulations
Pt 3
They had lived together for several months. Harry and Hermione now both saw a councilor to help them heal from their pasts. Hermione, from everyone fearing her because of her 'unnatural' tendencies, and Harry from his past tortures.
Over time however, they healed and got better. Yet, Phoenix was a steady support for the two he was entrusted with. He found it odd that Harry and Hermione considered each other best friends while he was both their 'dad'. Maya had become 'Mum', or ever increasingly 'Mom'.
Six months before Harry turned seven Maya's little nine year old cousin came to live with Maya as well. (Pearl's mother was convicted of being an accomplice to murder.) She immediately was accepted into their strange family. The adorable eight year old quickly became enamored with the idea of Phoenix being Maya's "Special Someone" and constantly tried to figure out ways to get the two together.
"Pearly! Me and Nick aren't special Someones!" Maya protested.
"Besides that Pearls, I'm much too old for her." Phoenix later told Pearl after one particularly embarrassing event.
However, this did not deter the determined little girl. Instead she seemed all the more determined.
"However refined her language and table manners are she is still a feisty person!" Hermione whispered to Harry as they watched her run about as she tried to make the table 'Romantic'.
Harry simply nodded in agreement.
Time passed and slowly Harry healed.
They had gathered in the Wright and Co. Law Offices.
"Dad?" the seven year old Harry asked from the couch just off to the side of Phoenix's rarely used desk.
"Yeah son?" Phoenix's attention was drawn away from a document he was currently working on.
"I...I wanna be like you." Harry said quietly.
"Like me?" Phoenix questioned.
Harry nodded.
"Yeah, you saved my life, you protect innocent people, and you accepted me."
Phoenix smiled at his essentially adopted son before he stood up from his desk and sat next to the young boy. Phoenix wrapped an arm around him and spoke.
"I was glad to have you as part of my life Harry. I think I'm the lucky one there." Phoenix said as he ruffled Harry's hair.
"Daad!" Harry protested; laughing.
Phoenix laughed with him for a moment.
"If you want to be like me does that mean...you're wanting to go into law?" Phoenix asked curiously.
Harry nodded excitedly.
"I love watching you! When you shout "Objection!" I know that your going to unveil the truth and save the innocent and even unveil who's the real crook. I want to do that too one day." Harry admitted.
Phoenix was touched.
"Alright. I'll teach you everything I can." Phoenix promised.
"When can we start?" Harry asked eagerly.
"Right away." Phoenix said as he stood and began digging through the volumes of books behind his desk.
"Not without me Dad!" Hermione called.
"You want to join in?" Phoenix asked in some surprise.
Hermione nodded.
"I might not become a lawyer but, I do want to learn more."
Harry and Phoenix smiled in unison. Over the time they had lived together they had become familiar with Hermione's interest; or rather near obsession in learning.
"Up to you son." Phoenix whispered to Harry quietly.
"Who would I be to say no?" Harry whispered back.
Phoenix laughed and nodded.
"Alright Hermione. I'll teach you what I know too." Phoenix said.
"Thanks Daddy!" Hermione squealed in delight and jumped into his arms.
Phoenix quickly caught his 'daughter' and held her close. Phoenix both was excited for the day her parents would awaken and feared it. He was excited because they would wake up and get to see their remarkable daughter and he feared it because he knew that he would probably lose her once that happened. That hurt but he decided to cherish every moment he was given with her. He never knew when her parents would wake up and take her back. He couldn't deny them their daughter but it still....
Phoenix forced those thoughts away from him.
"My pleasure kids." The young lawyer smiled at the two of them.
Another year passed, and Harry and Hermione both shined in the studies that Phoenix offered them.
One night, after an intense game of cards, Phoenix had decided to take a trial the night before it started. He was to defend a man known as Zac Gramarye.
"Dad, I don't like this." Harry said.
"What's wrong?" Phoenix asked.
Harry shuddered.
"I've got a bad feeling. Like you're being set up."
"I'll be careful." Phoenix promised.
Phoenix had become used to the odd powers that Harry seemed to possess. He seemed to be able to sense when something bad was happening and it had saved both Phoenix's life as well as the rest of their odd little family of five.
Over the next couple of days Phoenix faced a prosecutor named Klavier Gavin. After court one day a young girl had run up to him, she had assisted Phoenix several times by offering information and this was no exception.
"Mr. Wright?" Trucy Gramarye asked.
"Hey Trucy, what brings you here?" Phoenix asked.
"I remember you saying something about the journal of the victim and I found this." Trucy handed him a single page.
It was a torn page that appeared to have come from a journal.
Phoenix quickly read the entry and after he did he spoke in an awed whisper.
"This is...the entry that may just end this case." Phoenix whispered in shock.
"That's good isn't it?" Trucy asked hesitatingly.
Phoenix nodded.
"Thank you Trucy." Phoenix smiled at her broadly.
The eight year old girl blushed.
"I'm glad to help." She said honestly.
Hermione was brilliant and managed to figure out several solutions. Phoenix as brilliant as he was knew that in many ways her massive intellect outshone him. However, she didn't have the instincts that Phoenix had and that was detrimental to her abilities.
That day the group of five (Maya, Phoenix, Harry, Hermione, and Pearl Fey) had gathered at the local burger shop.
"Mystic Maya will need to stay cautious Nick! You're her special someone!" Pearl Fey said to him, she had an adorable expression etched on her face.
Pearl was leaning expectantly over her fries and burger.
Phoenix groaned and massaged his temples.
"Pearls, I've been over this a dozen times. I'm just too old for her." Phoenix tried.
Maya merely groaned and hid her face behind her hands.
"Statistically speaking, Daddy's right. He's five years older than her after all." Hermione added.
"You can't put an age tag on love." Pearl replied.
"It would practically be cradle robbing!" Phoenix assured Maya's cousin.
"Hey!" Maya protested at that.
"Not helping Maya." Phoenix spoke.
"But you love her don't you?" Pearl asked.
"I'm not having this conversation." Phoenix said with an eye roll before he grabbed his laptop and began to type away, preparing for tomorrow's court case.
Pearl pouted but got over it quickly.
"Let's let Nick work without any distractions." Pearl suggested in a whisper before she dragged Harry and Hermione away.
"Weren't you the one distracting him?" Harry questioned.
"We don't need to get into the details." Pearl said dryly.
Phoenix chuckled lightly as he finished the sentence on his Toshiba laptop.
"Accused of Murder huh? Why is it that it seems that all my cases my clients are accused of murder?" Phoenix wondered.
"Dunno Nick." Maya said.
Phoenix sighed before he closed his laptop and put it under his arm.
"Since the kids are done we should probably head out." Phoenix suggested as he stood.
Maya nodded in agreement.
The two adults quickly stepped out to catch up with the children.
"You know, now that I think about it we kinda are like a family." Maya said with a blush.
Phoenix groaned.
"Not you too Maya."
"I didn't mean it exactly like Pearly meant! I was meaning that you are those three kids' dad, and I've acted like their mother for so long I guess it's only natural that Pearly thinks that way."
"That might be true, but if you dated some good guys then she might get to accept the idea that we aren't married." Phoenix suggested with a barely detectable smirk.
"Nick! That's a low blow!" Maya's face burned.
Phoenix laughed. However, his laughter was silenced in a heartbeat when Maya spoke again.
"Hey! Who are you to speak about finding someone! Mr.I-Haven't-Dated-Anyone-In-Almost-Seven-Years." Maya retorted.
"I-I'm too busy to be looking for a girlfriend." Phoenix replied.
"Uh-Huh, right. Nick, what would your friends say?" Maya shook her head in mock sorrow.
"Duude, you need to get a girl." Or, "It's perfectly acceptable to wait to find a bride Wright". Depending on the friend I asked. Good Ol' Larry and his obsession.....And incompetence with finding a girlfriend, and of course Edgeworth is above the human desires of companionship....
"I don't think that's relevant Maya."
"Objection!" Maya yelled gathering the attention of everyone around them.
"You were just waiting for that moment weren't you?" Phoenix asked dryly as they approached the three kids.
"Naturally! You get to say it everyday." Maya winked.
Phoenix merely rolled his eyes at that.
On the final day of the three day trial of Zak, Harry had ran up to Phoenix and spoke quietly before they entered for the chambers.
"Dad, don't use the paper that Trucy gave you. If you do....I feel it's a really bad idea to use it. Why don't you have Gumshoe take it down to the station and analyze it?" Harry pleaded.
"Okay." Phoenix relented.
Little did Phoenix know that that changed the course of Phoenix's career...for the better.
Eventually, the case wound down. Zak disappeared right before the case's judgement was passed. Phoenix had known that he had gotten a 'not guilty' verdict for him. However, for some inexplicable and shocking reason; the man vanished. Phoenix didn't understand why. However, a new problem arose. Because of this Trucy had been abandoned, and hearing the pleas of his family, (and being the softie that he was) Phoenix found himself not only with a daughter. "Trucy Wright" But a problem. His former large apartment wasn't large enough for their new family member.
Phoenix was taking care of three children, running a law firm and, he was also looking for a large home that could handle having three kids in a large city.
It was then that Phoenix finally broke down and took a test. He now could legally drive a car. (He hadn't owned one before either.)
Over the next month Phoenix hired a new Lawyer to work at his office; a recent graduate named Apollo Justice, bought a house with a large chunk of the money he had saved, bought a van with another large chunk of his funds, and hired a full time secretary to assist at the Wright and Co. Law offices.
While Phoenix had to struggle to get all of this done in a timely fashion it was worth it. His reputation as a lawyer had soared to even greater heights because of his work in the Zak Gramarye Trial.
While a few had raised their eyebrows at the defendant's fleeing, and the indefinite postponement of his verdict his reputation soared because of the praise of prosecutor Klavier Gavin. Gavin openly defended the work of Phoenix and this was perhaps the one thing that kept Phoenix's reputation as an honorable lawyer from being destroyed.
Phoenix later met Klavier and an unusual friendship was born. A legendary defense attorney and a green prosecutor were friends.
However, Phoenix knew that if it had not been for his son Harry he would have been out of a job and Phoenix knew that he wasn't very good at anything except law. He feared what would have happened should he have lost his job. He couldn't have been able to take care of his children for very long should that have happened, and that utterly terrified Phoenix.
Well, this is a segment (and a huge chunk skipped over...) of what to expect of Trials. I didn't include Harry's healing since that could easily span chapters on it's own. The before Hogwarts years are something I haven't really explored and with Phoenix Wright I can see a very, very different Harry enter Hogwarts. ^.^ (If he goes to that school)
Plus this could actually be merged with Objection! if I wanted since the PW world made the idea of the Magatama that I used in Objection! (I'm not promising that I would since Objection! can stand on it's own very easily.)
No, Phoenix will not be adopting/ gain guardianship, etc over any other children. He also doesn't have any of his 'own' kids.
Q: Does Phoenix Like Maya?
A: I'm only going on what the game implied. Pearl always mentioned the 'special someone' thing in some way or form. It was actually not only humorous but adorable and I'll be shooting for that. Maya/Phoenix shippers...I'm not going to promise that they are getting together. The focus in this story is H/Hr in relationships after all.
In fact this is still majorly a HP fic and only will have PW elements. The examples of PW elements...Characters...The Magatama will be used by Phoenix if he needs to. (Maya/Pearl might Give Harry one eventually)
Yuck...It's 3:30 A.M., I'm tired, and I've had the flu for three days going on four now...Yippie....Please Forgive me if you see mistakes or anything. My brain feels like a company of dwarfs used it as a mine and then made weapons in my head for the fun of it....(I'm having trouble sleeping so I decided to grind this out instead.)
Sorry, Didn't mean to whine. Enjoy.
Defender Paladin
All characters that seem familiar I probably borrowed from somewhere else. HP and it's elements belong to JKR and the Phoenix Wright elements belong to Capcom.
Don't own 'em.
I only possibly own potential new characters, ideas that aren't part of cannon, etc.