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A/N: Whoa! What's this?! Posting early?! Yep. I'm taking a vacation from work and usually post my chapters on Sunday before my shift but, since I'll be off, I wasn't sure if I'd get to post or not, so I decided to do it today before I leave. Enjoy your early posting :)
ACE ATTORNEY SCRAPBOOK
Chapter 34: Bargaining Terms
Case Tag: 1-3 (Turnabout Samurai)
Quote:
Judge:
Incidentally, photographic equipment is strictly forbidden in this courtroom.
Edgeworth:
M-mpht! M-my apologies, Your Honor. He said he wouldn't testify if he couldn't bring it... I'd like special permission, if that's possible.
Phoenix:
Wait, so you're saying you had to bargain terms with a kid... and you LOST?
October 19, 2016, 11:00am
Prosecutor's Lobby No. 1
Miles Edgeworth wasn't usually someone who paced back and forth when frustrated, anxious or in deep reflection. Today, however, he made an exception. Instead of sitting on the couch in the prosecutor's lobby, drinking some fresh hot herbal tea, he was logging quite a few steps back and forth up and down the tiled floor beneath his feet. Edgeworth paused and looked over at the next witness that was to take the stand in the trial of Will Powers for the murder of Jack Hammer. The witness was unrelenting, his face stoic and set in stone. This was not going to be easy to convince him to go into the courtroom to testify.
Fixing his ebony colored vest, Edgeworth wondered to himself if it was just better to give in to the witness's demands (as outrageous as they may be, with their flagrant disregard for courtroom rules and procedures). If that's what it took to get the witness to testify, then it was most likely worth the trouble; lose the battle but win the war kind of mentality?
It was decided then. Edgeworth would grant the witness's demands in order to succeed in the trial.
"All right, witness," he turned to face the young boy. "You can bring your camera into the courtroom."
"Just like I said, I never go anywhere without my camera," Cody Hackins said triumphantly, with his smirk that nearly made Edgeworth's skin crawl.
Edgeworth sighed to himself as the bailiff entered the lobby to inform him that court would be reconvening. I just hope Wright doesn't catch wind of this, he mused as he made his way toward the door. Bargaining terms with a child and losing? He'd never let me live this down.