A/N: Extremely short chapter ahead! Really, all this is just acknowledging the rest of AJ as being a game that exists. It's not Trucy had a whole lot to do with the last two cases, to be honest, so her not really being there for court didn't change... anything, really...
July 7, 8:05 PM, Sunshine Coliseum, Backstage Hallway
As far as Trucy was concerned, dinner with (some of, anyway) her family, plus Apollo and Clay, had gone well. As far as Apollo was concerned, it had not. He had had to sit next to Franziska and apparently the whole time was thinking that he would not make it to dessert. Trucy thought it was kind of funny, honestly. Even Franziska wouldn't whip someone in a nice restaurant, unless she really, really wanted to. So, basically, the evening had gone well. Both Apollo and Clay had some pretty funny stories about the Cosmos Space Center (and especially its director, and also the roboticist) that they shared. Edgeworth mentioned a murder that had happened there six years ago, although evidently there wasn't much to it, at least that he was going to go into, anyway.
Somehow, this had led to them discussing Klavier, which Trucy had fun doing, since she was a big fan of his music. Aunt Franziska expressed interest in meeting him, how cool was that! And speaking of Klavier, he had invited Trucy and Apollo to his "Guilty as Charged" Tour for 20% off! Unfortunately for Trucy (and fortunately for Apollo), Franziska had to leave the country (where did she go again? Zheng Fa?) a few days prior, so her meeting with Klavier would have to wait. Trucy really did wonder how that would go.
At any rate, Trucy was enjoying herself. Apollo was not.
"The Gavinners: putting the 'sick' back in 'music'," Apollo groaned. He was rubbing his ears in apparent pain.
"Don't be mean, Polly," Trucy said. Was it just her, or was Apollo kind of jealous of Klavier's talent? There wasn't much romance in Chords of Steel, after all. "I know! Let's go to Klavier's dressing room! Like a couple of VIPs!" Not such a good idea in retrospect, considering Apollo wouldn't stop making snide comments while Trucy gushed over Klavier… or at least he did until they met Lamiroir. Apollo seemed to like her. They also met her manager/interpreter/bodyguard, Romein LeTouse. And Machi Tobaye. Trucy thought he was cute.
Also, Klavier's guitar caught on fire. It was funny until Trucy found out that it wasn't intentional. Whoops. And Romien LeTouse was shot.
Typical.
July 8, 9:45 AM, District Court, Defendant's Lobby #3
Apollo was pretty confident that this would be an easy trial. After all, Machi was only 14. Although the police were probably thinking that if a 15-year-old could be a prosecutor, a 14-year-old could be a murderer.
Speaking of 15-year-old prosecutors, Apollo didn't know why exactly Trucy was in here.
"Don't you have a trial in…" Apollo checked his watch. "Fifteen minutes?"
"I already prepared the witnesses," Trucy said cheerfully, "and I heard you were taking the case Klavier's prosecuting today, so I thought I'd check it out."
"I guess Prosecutor Gavin told you about it, then?" Apollo said.
"Actually, no," Trucy said, crossing her arms, "but I figured he'd be assigned to this case. As soon as Uncle Edgeworth saw the paperwork for it he asked if Detective Crescend had lost his mind."
"…why was he asking you that?" Apollo said.
"I think it was a rhetorical question," Trucy said, "I just so happened to be in his office at the time, since I was taking a nap on his couch."
"He just lets you do that?"
"Yeah."
Apollo stared at her. Granted, he had really only met the chief prosecutor once, but he definitely hadn't seemed as laid-back as Trucy always made him sound. This must be what Ema was complaining about when she said Edgeworth let Trucy get away with everything.
"Anyway, he usually assigns cases like that to Klavier," Trucy said.
"Yeah, you told me," Apollo said, "but Prosecutor Gavin wanted to take it anyway."
"Oh, okay," Trucy said. Apollo checked his watch again. "I should probably go now," Trucy said, picking up the hint. She left, and Apollo sighed. Sometimes he really wondered about her.
October 7, 4:20 PM, Prosecutorial Offices, Trucy Wright's Office
Naturally, Apollo had won Klavier's case. And Detective Crescend hadn't lost his mind, he was just trying not to get caught. But in the end, he had been. And then he lost his mind.
But that was all old news now. What Trucy was excited about now was the end to the secret mission that Phoenix had mentioned. The end being the revival of the Jurist system… hopefully, anyway.
There was a knock at her door. "Who iiiiiis it?" Trucy said.
"It's me," Phoenix said, opening up the door and holding up an envelope and a CD sleeve in one hand. "Got a minute?"
"Of course, Daddy," Trucy said brightly, putting down the file she was going over, "what's up?"
"Just came by to drop these off," Phoenix said with a little half-smile, and placed the envelope and the CD on Trucy's desk. Trucy picked up the envelope - it had a Gramarye seal on it. Huh. "Don't open that until later, though."
"Oh… okay," Trucy said, putting the envelope down again and picking up the CD instead. "What's this, Daddy?"
"MASON System deleted scenes," Phoenix said.
"…huh?"
"Nevermind," Phoenix laughed, "you're not really involved in the trial. Anyway, I couldn't figure out how to turn off the camera," he tapped the face pin on his beanie, "so I ended up with a lot of extra footage. I put all your magic tricks on one CD; figured you might want it."
"Thanks," Trucy said, turning the CD sleeve over. Phoenix had written "Cute magic tricks!" on it in large letters. "So what else was in the extra footage?"
"Blackmail material?" Phoenix said, then laughed again. "I need to get going."
Trucy glanced at the clock. She could probably get away with leaving early, since the case she was supposed to prosecute was still in the middle of investigation. The actual arrest probably wouldn't be made for at least a few more days, actually. "I'll go with you!" she said, standing up.
"If you want to leave now, I won't stop you," Phoenix said, "but I'm not taking you with me. You can hang out at home alone if you want."
"…I could always go see what Polly's doing," Trucy said, crossing her arms, "this is a special case, right? So he could use all the help he can get."
"No objections here," Phoenix said, smiling, "he's probably ended up at Sunshine Coliseum by now."
"Then I'll go over there," Trucy said, sticking her tongue out.
And the rest was history.
Thanks to all the readers and reviewers that made this fic a success! I'm glad you all liked my AU.
Yes, again, I will be doing a sequel to this, but it will be separate fic. It probably won't have the same "prologue - case - epilogue" format, either. Maybe. It is a convenient format if the case is set midway through the game, but Trucy's role in DD was literally almost nothing except for one thing that Trucy being a prosecutor would not affect at all, really, so the next fic in this line will probably just end up being pure casefic with a reference to the aforementioned one thing tacked onto the end.
Oh, and also! I'll be entering Badriyyah Zuvan, Hans Dromeda, Mal Keyway, and Magel Laniklowd into the OC contest at court-records, since this fic is finally finished and doesn't break the length requirement. Wish me luck!