Like I said last chapter, sorry for the delay. :c
Oh, and I also popped in to say that there is TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS SPOILERS FOR THE END OF CASE FIVE.
I have no doubt that you all have played it, but if there's any newbies to the best game series ever reading this chapter, that message was just for them. :)
Diego Armando sat, alone as always, in his solitary prison cell- well, he was not exactly Diego Armando anymore, as he had abandoned that life long ago- and twiddled his thumbs. He listened the sounds of footsteps briskly travelling down the hallways, keys rattling, inmates smoking their cigarettes, the sharp scratching of a stone on a wall to create a tally mark, the low but hurried chatter of the prisoner two cells to the left- who Diego was sure was going mad- and the half-asleep prisoner next to Diego telling the man to shut up, the odd guard barking out orders to both prisoners and other guards, amidst many other things.
It was a surprise, then, when Diego overheard a conversation that two of the younger, newly-recruited guards were having.
"It's the 13th of December today, sir!"
"Yes, it is. What do you want for Christmas?"
"I want a new computer."
"Any in mind?"
"Those Macs are nice. I would love one of those."
"They are very nice, aren't they? I want…"
Diego refrained from listening any further as the fact that it was almost Christmas sunk in. He had not expected that- then again, there had been some talk of the season lately, but that was from the inmates and Diego was, if only a bit, certain that he was the sanest person out of them all. Moving his mask into a more comfortable position, Diego reminisced on days long since past- the days when he was a defence attorney at Grossberg Law Offices. He smiled weakly and chuckled as he remembered the times he had had with the girl he loved back then, the work they had done together, and their colleagues: Hammond, Rachael the secretary and of course their boss, Marvin Grossberg.
Diego wondered how Marvin was doing, and if he still went on about lemons and his intense haemorrhoid problem. It made him laugh loudly until the same sleepy prisoner shouted at him to be quiet, to which he huffed in annoyance and smiled instead. It had been a long time since then, for sure, and Diego had experienced all three sides to the law- he had been a defence attorney, prosecutor, and then a criminal himself.
He would do anything to go back to the days at Grossberg Law Offices. Anything.
As Diego thought about all of his past memories, the two guards split up after ending their conversation on an extremely good note. One of them passed Diego's cell, and without thinking nodded curtly and uttered a cheerful, "Merry Christmas, Armando." towards him. Diego immediately looked up to see that the guard was retreating, and smirked as he wished the guard back, happy memories flooding his mind once more.