Chapter Five: A break in the case
Klavier Gavin's office, High prosecutor's office 6:30 P.M
Apollo found Klavier sitting in his massage chair with a guitar in his lap. He was strumming the notes to a song, but they didn't sound very good.
"Klavier, are you OK?" Apollo asked.
"OK. Am I OK. Forehead I hardly know the meaning of the word anymore." Klavier fumed.
"I should have guessed. Can I ask you what happened. Mr. Wright and I are here to help bring Ema back." Klavier shrugged.
"If it might help find Ema. Fine," " I last saw her asleep in our bed when I got up to make breakfast for us both. I went to the refrigerator to get what I needed, but we were out of eggs so I told Ema that I was going to get some and I left on my hog. If I had kept the garage locked, Kristoph wouldn't have came into my house. This is my fault. Isn't it Forehead?" Klavier sniffed before tears ran out of his pale blue eyes. Apollo felt awful for his friend. Sure Klavier was aggravating on occasion, but he was also honest and cooperated with the defense to find the truth. Apollo placed a hand on Klavier's shoulder.
"No, You didn't know that Kristoph would go after Ema or that he'd hide out in your garage. It's not your fault. You're upsetting my closest friend right now and I need you to snap out of it for Ema's sake." Apollo said sternly . Klavier blinked a few times to stop his tears and nodded to Apollo.
"OK I'm sorry, You're right, Forehead..I mean Apollo.". There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Klavier called out. A lab tech rushed in with Phoenix and Miles close behind.
"The results of the tests are in, sir. The sedative is very common in clinics around the city, but we did locate a clinic missing a bottle from its stock. The paint chips on the gloves have a high amount of lead so they would have come from an old building of some sort. There are several abandoned apartment buildings near the clinic were the sedative was stolen from. So we could start our search of the buildings there. We believe that the oldest building in the area may be where Kristoph is holding Ema." the tech said.
"We should get started in searching right away. Who knows what Kristoph has or will do to her." Miles said.
"Yeah, the sooner we find Ema the better!" Apollo said.
Kristoph's hiding place, Ema's "room"*
Kristoph was standing in front of Ema, who was crouching on her mat.
"You aren't giving up hope are you?" Kristoph said coldly without a single hint of emotion.
"No! I know Klavier won't rest until he finds me and you are put back in prison, and given a full sentence. You won't be able to hide behind your poor mental stability now that you've broken out of prison and kidnapped me. Klavier and Mr. Edgeworth will fight to make sure that you get the sentence you deserve!" Ema spat, she was done with this son of a bitch and she hoped that her words had bruised his ego. Six months ago, she had realized that Klavier's foppishness was a defense mechanism that he used to try and restore the little self-esteem he had from Klavier's treatment of him when they were younger. Ema wasn't expecting it when Kristoph's fist hit her cheek full force. Maybe her efforts at offending him had worked too well.
"What makes you think that Klavier would have the mental capacity or the nerve to prosecute me?!" Kristoph shouted enraged.
"He's done it before and I'm sure he'd do it again."
"You have too much faith in my dimwitted brother, he wouldn't have gotten anywhere without me. I supported him while he was at Themis Legal Academy. Hell I got him into that school. If I get the maximum sentence, who else would he have, his band is no more, so he doesn't have their support. He has no one!"
"You're wrong Kristoph, Klavier has me. He has Phoenix Wright, Mr. Edgeworth is pretty good friends with him, and Apollo is a better friend to him than Daryan or his band mates ever were. He's not alone and he has no need for you any more!" As Ema said those words, Kristoph lost every ounce of control and unleashed ever bit of wrath he'd been holding back. Ema tried to curl up to protect herself, but as his fists barraged her body, she felt a few ribs crack, she could not hold through the agony that Kristoph's attack on her small form and she passed out. She didn't know it then, but her rescue party was on its way.
Note: Sorry this took so long to update, but Writer's Block is a bitch. I'm going to get cracking on Ema's rescue A.S.A.P. Please give me reviews, they let me know on what I need to improve or what you guys like.