A/N: Woo I've finally updated! Three cheers all round!
It's a long chapter compared to my usual chapter lengths, and I've tried to make this seem as much like the cases in the game I can, showing character mannerisms and such.
Well, hopefully I've portrayed them well enough that you recognise them.
Disclaimer: I suck I suck I suck. So no, I don't own anything.
Also, there a tiny tid bit involving Maya and Phoenix :D
They stood there in that moment for longer than they should. Detective and Prosecutor, witness and suspect, Fraulein and fop, Ema and Klavier.
They stood there until they heard a soft knock on the door, both immediately coming back to themselves in time for Apollo to open the door.
"Great news, Gumshoe just reported back with some promising news, we're heading back in now."
Klavier turned to look back at Ema and smiled, "Well... I'll see you after the trial, I guess."
"Yeah- good luck." She said, an echo of her usual brisk self and she watched him walk out of the room with Apollo and Trucy.
"Miss Skye, may I have a word?"
...
"Mr Wright, as much as I want to be here I could be fined for this, so could you!" Ema whisper shouted at Phoenix from as far back in the courtroom they could sit.
"Forgive me, but it was the only way that you could come back in here without being recognised. You do want to watch the trial don't you?"
"I do, but... disguise? Al I did was take my lab coat off and put your hat on. That's hardly a disguise Mr Wright."
"I assure you, no one will recognise you. The same way that people luckily don't recognise me without my old blue suit on. And please, call me Nick."
"Nick?"
"I'm glad my daughter isn't here to hear me say this, because I would hear about it endlessly if she was, but that name kind of stuck with me since meeting an old friend of mine not long ago." He said with a small, short smile. He looked away, bored almost and stuffed his hands into his jacket pockets.
"I hate having my hair out."
...
Watching Mrs Green walk back to the stand sent warning signals all over Ema's body. The first being fear, in that this woman was clearly a little bit of a sociopath; uncaring to the damage she caused and 'played' with people. Hatred for her lying to try and get Gavin put away and intense jealousy that she wished she could shift. Jealousy, because this woman had known Gavin in a way that she never had and never would.
Ema hated everything about this woman and yet was still jealous of what she had. For this reason Ema hated herself even more.
"Mr Justice, your witness."
"Thank you your honour. Mrs Green, would you tell the court about your brother?"
"Of- of course." She stammered. Apollo already looked smug. He must already have the trump card, thought Ema. Relieved that he at least looked relatively calm. Gavin not so, which was to be expected, Ema supposed. Which prosecutor in their right mind would trust the happy-go-lucky attorney who'd only been defending trials for 3 years? Whose mentor was Phoenix Wright?
Ema's thoughts went round and around like that until she realised something. The similarities between Gavin's and Mr Egdeworth's trial was uncanny. Gavin should trust Apollo, just as Edgeworth had trusted Phoenix with only 3 trials under his belt. These were men of truth, not pride.
She snapped herself out of her thoughts once she'd realised she'd missed most of Mrs Green's testimony.
She looked left at Phoenix for help but he still looked tiresome. That could indicate anything though; the man was a professional poker champion after all.
Fortunately for Ema, Apollo, like most defence attorneys she imagined, had the uncanny ability of making the witness repeat their entire testimony again during their cross examination without being cautioned for badgering the witness, so it was only a matter of time.
"Mrs Green, it says here that despite your brother having a job, you sent money into his bank account every month. Why is that?"
"Well, my brother didn't have a good job, he worked as a cleaner so I helped him out." She replied.
"By giving him your husband's money? Did Mr Green know about it?"
"Well, of course he did, how dare you insinuate such a thing!"
"I apologise Mrs Green." Apollo said, he took a second to look down at the papers in front of him. "Tell me, what do you know of your brother's work history?"
"Well, he's been in and out of jobs since high school-"
"Which was considerably more than 10 years ago, correct?"
"Yes."
"Then why is it that there is no record of him ever graduating high school?"
"He didn't-"
"Why is there no record of him at all before 10 years ago!"
"There- there must be a mistake!"
Apollo took this chance to look smug again, knowing that he'd got the witness exactly where he wanted her. "No mistake Mrs Green. We thought there had been a mistake so we double checked, then we checked yours."
"You- you checked my history? What gave you the right to do that?
"Why is it that you seem remarkably tense, Mrs Green? And even more importantly, why is there no record of you before the last 10 years either? How do you explain that?"
"Objection!" Payne had finally piped up. "What does the witness' past have to do with the pressing issue of the murder? This changes nothing!"
"I have to agree, Mr Justice, what does the past have to do with the current murder?"
"I'm getting to it- Since there's no record of either of them past 10 years ago you have to wonder why before then it is blank, so we called up her brother and took his prints. And well, what do you know, he was charged on minor B and E fifteen years ago, but, the prints matched another person."
"Beandy?"
You could feel the face palm of every person in the courtroom at that moment.
"Uh- no, your honour. B and E. As in Breaking and entering."
"Breaking and entering? Why, that's a crime! That's a breach of-"
"Yes, your honour, which is precisely why he was charged and his prints put in the system."
"Thank heavens!"
"That's all very well and good, Mr Justice." Payne said, flicking what little hair he had left obnoxiously, "But as you just stated, the prints were not his."
"Right you are Mr Payne, they weren't the prints of Vernon Books, however the record did match his general and specific appearance, age, and from Mrs Green's testimony regarding her brother, his educational history."
"There was obviously a mistake in your findings, Mr Justice."
"No mistake. Like I said, the prints matched. Which concludes that Mr Books isn't who he claims to be, which further concludes that anyone claiming to be his sister must also be in on this change of identity, so the real question is, is this the real Mrs Green?"Apollo yelled, pointing dramatically at Mrs Green.
The courtroom fell silent.
"I'm afraid I don't follow, Mr Justice." The judge finally said.
Apollo physically flopped. "I meant- I mean I know she's the real Mrs Green, I was just warming up." He turned bright red and scratched the back of his head, "What is meant it, is she really Vanessa Books? And more importantly, as Mr Payne keeps politely reminding us of the murder at hand, why would the witness' brother have fingerprints at the crime scene if he had not been there? Answer is simple, he was there, and therefore we have a duty to hear what he has to say about the situation at hand. The defence requests that Mr Vernon Books be brought as a witness."
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"Tell me, Mr Books, what were you doing at the crime scene?"
"I was visiting my sister."
"But we have testimony from the defendant stating that you weren't there."
"Well he's lying" Mr Books said simply.
"Lying? Saying that you weren't there would help you. Are you saying that my defendant is lying and that you were in fact there? In which case your involvement with the crime may have been heavily overlooked."
"What are you implying?"
"I don't know, what does it sound like I'm implying?"
"Objection! The defence should refrain from being coy!"
Apollo ignored Payne's shrill outburst, as did the judge apparently, because Apollo carried on regardless and the judge did nothing to stop him.
"I'm implying that Mr Books was very much involved. I'm implying that he was the murderer and he plotted with Mrs Green to frame my client and get Mr Green's life insurance money!"
"What! NO! I admit I would do anything to help my sister, but that's too far!"
"Here comes the magic."
Ema almost jumped out of seat. "Mr Wright! uhh- Nick, don't whisper suddenly like that, its creepy!" Ema whisper shouted back, "And what do you mean by magic?"
She looked over at Apollo who was now whispering rapidly with Trucy. Surely, surely Wright hadn't meant magic in that sense? And even more importantly, why do the courts allow such young girls to stand in such an important part of the courtroom? Ema thought back to when she herself was in Trucy's position, at a similar age as well. It seemed normal then, but now she was older she couldn't help but wonder if it was a little bit reckless to let young people see such dealings.
Oh lord, Ema thought, how old am I?
"Tell me, Mr Books, why is it that you grow remarkably fidgety when you mention your sister?"
"I don't, why would I get fidgety when I mention my sister?"
"There it is again! As soon as you say just the word 'sister' actually, you look nervous. There are three reasons why people have the same name Mr Books. One, is that they are related through blood. Two is a coincidence, three, is that they are married into the same name. It's becoming awfully clear why you have no history, why you visit her so often; it explains her sending you money and the last name part. You and Mrs Green are not brother and sister at all are you? You're actually married!"
If Apollo's breakdown of the facts didn't make it clear enough, the look on Books' face made it obvious. He looked desperately towards Mrs Green.
"I'm sorry, Hun, I can't lie like this anymore."
"Your honour, since we can't prove my client did the crime, and compared to Mr Books it's looking even more unlikely that he did it- Vernon has more means, more motive and more opportunity than my client, I call for grounds of dismissal through reasonable doubt."
"Objection!" Paynesaid, desperate not to lose this case. "You said yourself your honour that this case needs solving."
"I was hoping you'd say that. Now you have no objection to a new testimony, to help solve the case?"
Payne looked horrified that he'd fallen into that trap by someone he still considered a 'rookie'. When would the poor man realise that he was no longer 'the rookie killer'? Ema mused.
"What were you doing at your wives house on the night of the murder? While knowing that not only was she married to, living with, and sharing a bed with another man, she had invited round an old flame of hers whom she cheated on both you and the victim with. What exactly were you doing there?"
If there had been chains around Books you would have literally been able to see the drop off him. The change in his demeanour was immediate and drastic.
"I was telling her I want it to stop. We got enough money from Mr Green to last us a life time so we could be together now. She came up with a plan that would get us even more money; she said "Let's kill two birds with one stone." The birds being Mr Green and Mr Gavin. The killing part being obvious. Her husband dead, Mr Gavin blamed for his murder and sentenced to death. She said that it was the only way that we could be together."
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"YOU IDIOT! Why wouldn't you just SHUT UP? This is precisely the reason we weren't together properly!"
"No Vanessa, why don't you just shut up for once? I have one more thing to say, if I could?" Books said, turning to the judge.
"It was her. She made the plan, she executed the plan. She knew Mr Green would be early, and she called up Mr Gavin to set the plan in motion. Then when Mr Gavin wouldn't give her what she wanted and left earlier than she wanted to she did it herself instead of making me do her dirty work. She murdered her 'husband' with an object she'd seen Mr Gavin pick up so she knew his finger prints would be on it."
"You fool! You'll go to jail too!"
"Beats spending my life with you. You murdered Brian, and as much as I wasn't supposed to make it personal, he was a good guy. Vanessa is the guilty one."
There was a visible in take of breath in the court room.
"...Well. I have no other choice then to declare the defendant, Mr Klavier Gavin, not guilty."
Well... yeh I know the ending was obvious but did my best.
One more chapter to go!
Please review! I have a feeling I've got a huge chunk in here wrong, and I cant find it. So if anyone finds anything, please do be telling me :)