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Turnabout Matrimony


"OBJECTION!"

Apollo, Juniper, Phoenix, Athena, Trucy and everyone else in the church all turned their heads to face the double doors of the room and they found someone standing there panting with their face red, a look of horror on their face.

The woman standing at the door had long wisps of dark auburn hair that was curled up just for the occasion. She looked sort of like Juniper in a way but she was taller and she had much more plump cheek bones and her pale fuchsia pink lipstick was faintly smeared as sweat covered her face.

"S...Stop the wedding!" The woman cried out breathlessly "...G-Grandma Woods has been murdered!"

Apollo and Junie's faces grew pale as the news reached their ears. Everybody was overcome with a terrified expression as they tried to absorb this new information, their hearts slowing to a near stop. They each felt like they had been stabbed with shards of ice!

Granny Woods, Juniper's lovely and devoted grandmother, was murdered!? Nobody wanted to believe it, this just couldn't be real.

Their legs jerking into motion, Juniper and Apollo and company raced to the scene and they ran back down the aisle with haste as they all abandoned their places at the alter, leaving the crowd sitting in the pews in a chaotic state.

Phoenix nor everyone else didn't know they could run so fast and they doubted that they would again. They could even feel their legs and arms become sweaty from the adrenaline rush they were receiving.

They even used every last drop of it to take them to the room where the wedding reception was originally going to take place.

The doors ajar, everyone burst in and found just the crime scene they expected.

The room was in shambles.

Grape juice was spilt on the floors, broken glass fragments were scattered all over the place. Bowls and tables were turned over and on the floor in an improper manner.

All eyes, however, were on the corpse laying lifeless on the ground with a cold wet patch trailing down from her cut up chest and abdomen. She was laying against another bowl filled with punch and her loose strands of grey hair were tangled in the wet bowl. She had many cuts on her wrinkled arms and her eyes were avoid of all life as tears streaked down her dimpled cheeks.

Juniper was the first to react as she dropped to her knees, her eyes watery and her hands slapped over her mouth in disbelief.

"No...GRANNY!"

Upon shouting this, Juniper raced to her deceased grandma's side and clasped her chilled hand in hers. She broke down into sobs as she wept over the loss of her beloved guardian and role model in life, her face nuzzling the old woman's as if to try and warrant a little body warmth to come out and give her a sign that her loved one would just flutter her eyes open and be alive.

Apollo, sympathetic, slowly started to approach Juniper with a deeply saddened expression on his face. He couldn't believe that this was happening: this was supposed to be the best day of their lives, everything was supposed to be perfect! Now this had to happen...

He knelt down beside his grieving bride and pulled her in to a comfortingly tight embrace. He could feel Juniper's tears stain his chest and ruin his tuxedo but he didn't really care, all he wanted to do was just try and take his wife-to-be's pain away. He couldn't even utter any words to soothe Junie's aching heart and that hurt him most of all.

Apollo held Juniper in his tightest embrace as he ran his hand up and down her back to try and ease her heavy sobs.

He didn't notice that Phoenix, Trucy and Athena all stood by the door with equally saddened expressions etched on their faces. They just couldn't believe that a murder had occurred on this happiest of days! Their sadness was slowly replaced by anger as they wondered what had happened here, why would anyone want to disturb this wedding and why would they kill Juniper's grandmother of all people!?

But the worst of this was yet to come...

Moments after their arrival, the others who were left by the alter had arrived and started to scream in fright of seeing a dead body right there in front of them. They started to become unsettled and nervously shifted on the spot as they started to retreat out of the church to avoid any other killing that might occur.

However, out of the clustered group of people, a certain man came out of the crowd and slivered right passed the formally dressed Phoenix, Trucy and Athena and approached the two grieving lovers.

The man wore a rather sympathetic look but he did tap on Apollo's shoulder, warranting a surprised expression from the man as he looked right into the sunglasses-covered-eyes of the man.

"P-P-Prosecutor Payne...?!" Apollo gasped, a look of fear overcoming his facial features as his thorns of hair dropped a bit. He had a feeling of what was going on here, he didn't want to believe it though. He desperately prayed in his head that it wasn't what he thought it was...

...And it was, unfortunately.

Prosecutor Gaspen Payne peeled Juniper out of her husband-to-be's embrace and got her to her feet. The prosecutor turned the woman so her back was facing him and he motioned his hand so two police officers came forwards before hand cuffing the woman up, surprising her as she wildly looked into the scared eyes of Apollo.

"W-What are you doing!?" Phoenix asked, gritting his teeth in a mix of shock and anger.

Gaspen locked the cuffs in place, this restraining Junie's arms and making it so she was under arrest. He looked almost satisfied with this arrest as he handed the woman to one of the two police officers, not turning to face the group of attorney's.

"I hereby place Juniper Woods under arrest for the murder of Maple Woods." He announced, startling everyone in the church as they watched Juniper being led away but only for Apollo to finally react as he jumped to his feet and scrambled to rip his wife out of the clutches of the police officers.

Apollo looked really wound up as he went to get his wife back, only for Athena to grab his shoulder just in time and making him stop. Although it wasn't a strong restraint, it made Apollo stop with a look of despair on his face. He looked dejectedly at his wife-to-be and they shared one last glance at each other before Juniper was led out the doors.

Apollo read that look loud and clear and it made his heart break, her facial expression clearly said "help me".

The groom's eyes hardened within moments after Juniper had left the building, probably going to the detention centre to be detained and questioned.

Phoenix placed his hand on Apollo's shoulder, looking very sympathetic for his understudy "We'll defend her in court...D-Don't worry."

Apollo didn't seem to hear his mentor. He just kept his gaze longingly on the doors his beloved Juniper was taken out of. He could feel his world crumbling down around him, all his perceptions on the happy reality he hoped to have this day was swiftly and mercilessly dashed. He couldn't believe that Juniper was arrested without any rhyme or reason as to why.

He felt worthless without his lover by his side.

Without speaking another word, Apollo turned away and walked out the door. The fact that tears were falling down his cheeks were obvious due to the fact that his chin was visibly trembling and that teardrops were falling to the floor where he walked.

"I...I...I-I need to be alone for awhile..." Apollo said, his tone broken and hoarse.

After the depressed groom was gone out the door, everyone couldn't help but feel horrible for the groom. He had just lost his partner for life due to some monster killing said partner's grandmother and now the poor bride was being blamed for the crime. He hated that his beloved was torn from his hold.

Phoenix and Athena looked at each other with knowing looks shining in his eyes.

There was no way they weren't going to take this case on, there was so many personal things at stake! They needed to help Apollo out, as well as Juniper! They were basically family, and family help each other!

"...Mr. Wright-" Athena started, only to be cut off by Phoenix.

When he started to speak, Phoenix pointed in his Objection pose with a determined smirk plastered on his lips. His eyes narrowed to show that he was going to defend Juniper until the very end!

"I know, Athena. We're going to help Apollo and Juniper, and they WILL get the wedding they dreamed of. They have my word if my name isn't Phoenix Wright!"


A/N: Awww, poor Apollo and Juniper. Their wedding day was spoilt by someone. Let's see if Phoenix can uphold his promise and make sure that Polly and Junie have a special day worth remembering.

Please review, I hope you liked this chapter.

-Chloemcg