A/N: I didn't really know how to do this chapter since Ema was kicked out of court, so I kinda came up with the characters telling her it... She's back in the next chapter though, Phoenix has a sneaky plan.

Disclaimer: If I owned Phoenix Wright I'd put in a lot more pop culture reference jokes.

Crap. Keep your head high Ema, walk calmly and don't make a fuss. Keep what little dignity you have left since this whole thing started, and take a deep breath.

Ema looked around and saw other people waiting for trails, people looking hopeful, vengeful, utterly destroyed. Ema understood the feeling. Even if you got the verdict you've still lost someone forever. Maybe the police force should remember that from time to time, thought Ema. These are people. People with the same feelings and emotions as us. We forget too easily that these are lives that we're investigating, previously secret lives where the worst thing is normally paying your rent or your gas bill. We forget that not everyone can handle murder as we do every day.

We investigate the ruins left over.

Feeling a little slumped Ema closed her eyes and resigned herself to the fact that she would never know the full details of this case now she'd been removed, no matter how much she wanted to.

She took one last sweeping look around the hallway and went to the defence's lobby. She could go in here now she guessed, since she was no longer the prosecution's witness.

...

"I can't believe how happy Gumshoe seemed when you started yelling like that, Polly. And what did he mean what he kept mumbling something about 'the good old days'?"

"I have no idea, Truce, I just hope that he finds out the information we need."

Ema turned her head to the door when she heard voices just behind it. She watched the handle turn and stood up.

"Detective Skye? What are you doing in here?" Apollo asked, "And, are you ok? You kind of blew up in there a bit in there..."

"I'm ok. I have no idea what's going to happen to me at work tomorrow because of that, I imagine I'll have another pay cut coming soon. But, I can be in here now; I'm not an expert witness anymore so... here I am. What did I miss?" She asked, looking at Gavin and hated the feeling she got when she did.

"Oh you should have seen it Detective Skye! Mr Payne was all flustered because of what you said and Polly was amazing!"

"Yes, I understand now why I only ever seem to lose to Herr Forehead." Gavin said with a smile.

"You know, you could just call me Herr Justice... Or just justice. Or even just Apollo."

"Polly?"

"Hey," Apollo said, "if you can get Trucy to agree to using her nickname as well, be my guest."

Everyone turned to look at Trucy, who's expression made it clear that that was hers and hers alone.

"Right... Detective Skye, I'll give you the summery now if you like?"

"Now would be as good a time as any."

"Ok. Well, for a while Payne went on an on-"

"And on and on and on ranting over and over again about you an-"

"Yes, he said many bad things but that's not important." Apollo said, cutting Trucy off while seeing Ema wince at the amount of trouble she was evidently in at work.

"Gavin was called back to the stand. He was asked why he went that night and-"

"I said that I thought it was urgent. She sounded desperate on the phone. Like something was wrong and I thought she might need help. And since she hadn't called me in so long I assumed that she meant it."

"Then he was asked what happened once he was there and he made half the court blush and Polly tried covering my ears when Gavin had to explain how Mrs Green tried to seduce him, but I already know what happens. I am 17 after all."

"Seventeen is still too young." Apollo said, "and excuse me for trying to retain your innocence, I'm sure you're father wouldn't be happy with me if I didn't."

"What wouldn't I be happy about?" Phoenix asked as he walked in.

"N-nothing Daddy." Trucy said with a smile just before Ema could yell out his name, not able to hide her smile either.

"Mr Wright I haven't seen you in such a long time!" She said, clearly excited. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, this case reminds me a lot of a case back in my rookie lawyer days."

"How?"

"Well, I was pretty much in Apollo's position, and a friend of mine was in Mr Gavin's. I can't help but feel this is a little preordained." Wright said, laughing.

"You mean- you don't mean Mr Edgeworth do you? You were the one who defended him?" Ema asked, instantly more interested that she probably should have been.

"What happened? I mean, I know you won and Edgeworth was innocent but no one really knows all the details of that case... it's kind of strange how that happens a lot with cases that you were part of..." Apollo pondered.

"All I'm going to say is that when there's a not so decisive witness to a murder that a prosecutor didn't commit... you're likely to win this trial. And to actually get paid. I'm sure you know how I feel Apollo."

Apollo nodded and Phoenix laughed, a joke that only they could share in.

"Anyway, I believe I interrupted a story?"

"Oh, right. Well after... what Trucy said, Gavin said no basically, and that he isn't stupid, her husband could be back any time and then Mrs Green was called back to the stand."

"Yeh and she was in trouble as soon as she stood up there!" Trucy beamed, "This is where Polly was amazing, he asked her why she would've have called Gavin over if she knew her husband would be back so soon and she kept tripping on her words and jumbled everything-"

"Which, if I may interrupt, is where Herr Forehead really shone. He told her that she must have invited me over to use me as a scapegoat to the real murderer and that she must know him. That it's the fourth fingerprint that we should be searching for an-"

"And that she must have let the real murderer in and that protecting him is a crime and he just kept yelling it over and over until she cracked and said that we couldn't prove any of it!" Trucy finished, beaming with pride that Apollo pulled that off and he in turn looked happy that his Chords of Steel had been recognised.

"And you know what that means right?"

"It means that she has something to hide." Ema said, finally having something to say herself.

"Anyway, that's not the best part." Apollo said smugly, "Gavin told me that he remembered something about her brother coming to visit but not turning up, which is why he was asked over, and it's well known amongst their social circle that her brother has always been cold towards Mr Green."

"It seems you got our reasonable doubt. I take it that a break was called so Gumshoe and his underlings could go check it out? And, don't take this wrong everyone, thanks for filling me in, but maybe it would've been clearer if only one of you had told it?"

"Perhaps. But all of that leads us to right here," Gavin said, "And don't worry Fraulein, I'll make sure that pay check of yours isn't cut."

Ema thanked him, not having anything else to say. She felt as if she had faded into the background for a moment, she hadn't seen the trial properly; she wasn't even involved in it anymore.

"If everyone could- hey- Achtung! May I have a moment with Fraulein Skye? I can't leave the room, but you can." He said, looking at Apollo, Trucy and Phoenix, the latter who could recognise why he wanted a moment immediately.

Ema watched in silence as the three of them trooped out and waited while Gavin seemingly found his words. Impatiently.

"I wanted to thank you, personally, for what you did."

"I didn't really do anything." Ema said, feeling embarrassed.

"No, you did. You risked a lot bursting out like that, never mind your pay check, your job could have been in jeopardy because of that, and you did that for your principles. I'm impressed by your valour, Fraulein."

"I didn't just do it for my principles." She mumbled, looking down to hide the hot feeling in her cheeks. But she couldn't hide them for long. Gavin put one finger under her chin and tilted it until she was looking him in the eye again.

"Is this the moment?"

Crap. I just said that out loud. Why the hell did I say that?

"The moment?"

Crap crap crap.

"For us to, you know, talk about the other night?" Nice save, Ema.

He smiled then, a real smile. She watched his eyes crinkle slightly which matched his soft smile so well. She wished he smiled like that more often and hated herself for thinking that even more than she did for blushing.

"Not yet Fraulein, but soon," He said tilting his head slightly, "When we're ready, ok?"

Ema smiled back. "Ok."

Not such a cliff hanger this time woo!

...Erm... review? :D