A/N: This chapter is exactly 1,000 words in length without all my A/N junk. I raised my hands in the air and declared victory in my manliest voice. Which is similar to my usual voice. Woe. Woe is me.

Pairing: Klavier/ Ema. Been 7 chapters since I wrote about these guys. I surprise myself.

Disclaimer: I don't own Phoenix Wright characters or the actual idea itself OR all the presents I have to start buying if I intend to make the Christmas deadline.

Adrenaline

"We're not in your usual car."

"You say 'usual car' as if I favour one of them more than my other collection of antiques." Ema responded dryly.

"Does the new car have something to do with your sudden change of attire?" Klavier asked, not hiding his eyes sweeping over her.

Ema looked at him for a second before directing her attention on the road again. "Of course it does. I can't go around looking like myself can I? We work together a lot, so anyone after you will know who I am and what I look like. And since it's my case, I've been assigned to keep you safe."

"I bet you volunteered."

"Believe me, if I had, it would be purely to learn more about the guy I'm after."

Klavier looked out of the window and paused his comeback for thought.

"Where are we going?"

"Somewhere safe."

"I asked where we were going, Ema."

"Safe house. Like I said: somewhere safe."

"No, I mean, where is it? Where is this house located"

"Like I'm going to tell you." She said incredulously.

"Why not?"

"Because you'll blab it to someone-"

"How could I 'blab' to anyone my whereabouts when my mobile phone has been confiscated?"

"You'll find a way." Ema said grimly.

Klavier smiled smugly and chuckled a bit. "I'll take that as a compliment."

"It wasn't a compliment."

"I'm still going to take it as one."

Ema groaned in frustration. "Why on earth would you do that?"

"Because I can see how much it annoys you."

Ema rolled her eyes much to Klavier's amusement and wasn't even glad that they were now at the safe house; she still had to stay with him until further notice.

"Stay in the car while I check inside."

Klavier huffed and got out of the car immediately after her.

Ema turned on her heel and glared at him. "I'm trying to keep you alive, Gavin. Would you please do as I say?"

"I need to stretch my legs."

"Oh for god sake, fine. But stay behind me." Ema stated sharply and moved towards the front of the house, ignoring Gavin when he muttered "My pleasure."

"I'm going to do a walkthrough of the house now and I swear to God if you take one step in this house before I say so I will shoot you myself."

Gavin held his hands up in defeat and leant against the gate. He smiled and motioned for her to go onwards into the house.

He watched her disappear into the house and started humming to remind himself that the two minutes she'd been gone wasn't actually two years. His humming was however interrupted when a voice suddenly sounded from inside. Another joined it, then another and they were shouting. Gavin cocked his head to the side, wondering whether it was other police officers assigned to keep him in protective custody.

Then he heard a loud bang. It rang through him like ice and he couldn't move. He heard footsteps pounding inside the house and still he didn't move.

Ema's figure came running down the steps from the front door and towards him.

"What the hell are you waiting for?" She yelled as she grabbed his arm and forced him into a flat out run down the side of the house, a garden and finally vaulting over a wall behind a shed. They landed spread eagled in a bush before Ema forced them both up.

"Are you ok?" She demanded as Klavier sat back and gulped desperately for air, his eyes closed with his head against the wall.

"Am I ok? What about you?" He almost yelled.

Ema knelt on one knee and leaned towards him. "You're what matters right now."

Klavier looked at her and stopped trying to force oxygen into his lungs. "Were- were those the guys you're after? That are after me?"

"Yes."

"Why didn't you get them?" He asked.

"Gavin, there were two of them and they already had their guns drawn. And besides, I didn't want you to get hurt."

They both heard her say it. She didn't 'want' him hurt. She ran out of that house and dragged him to safety not because it was her job to protect him, but because she didn't 'want' him to get hurt.

Ema stared at the pink tinge in Klavier's cheeks and noticed the heavy rising and falling of his chest while Klavier noticed instead how incredibly calm Ema seemed considering the situation.

One second they were staring at each other, the next they had crashed together. Ema gripped his hair and kissed him furiously while Klavier pulled her onto his lap and held her so tight neither of them could breathe, not that either of them would have chosen to right now.

The kiss had started and finished in seconds. Ema put her hands on his shoulders and pushed him against the wall and stared into his dazed eyes.

"You're going to hear more shots." She said while climbing off his lap and crouching again. She checked inside her boot that her jeans were tucked into and pulled out a knife. Klavier furrowed his brows at this. Surely she wasn't-

"You stay here and stay as low as you can. Do not move unless I tell you to. Understand?" She said while stuffing the knife back into her boot.

Of course he understood and he rolled his eyes to indicate this while she called backup. She hung up and pocketed her phone, turning to him once more.

"Understand?" She repeated sharply.

Klavier nodded. She peered over the top of the wall and stood a little taller before crouching next to him again and looking him in the eye.

"We'll talk later about what just happened."

Klavier nodded and couldn't help raise his eyebrows as she pulled out her gun from the small of her back, check over the wall once more before disappearing over it.

There was something about girls with guns.

Next time will be a Lana/OC chapter followed by a Regina with Matt and/ or Max one. Good luck me!