Author's Note: I'm ALIVE~. Just in the process of moving. D: Sorry guys. This is a ficlet (AND I KNOW, YOU DESERVE MORE, but life keeps getting in the way), to make do for now. It's inspired by "Catch Your Wave" by The Click Five. It's a good song to look into if you're into the boy band type genre of music. Another song of theirs, "Summertime", has another KlavierxEma idea floating around in my head, but I need to finish Worst Weekend before I get much farther with anything else.
Also: just something I've noticed- Moving is painful. :(

"Wasn't that just wonderful, Polly?" the defense attorney's younger sister beamed as she dragged him down the hall behind the scenes of the Sunshine Coliseum.
"Hm? Oh, yeah. Terrific." Apollo responded, unenthusiastic. His dower mood did nothing to dampen the magician's glee as she kept speaking.
"He's such a prince. No, a knight, they're more chivalrous and daring. No, wait, he's definitely Prince Charming," She bubbled, eyes gleaming almost as bright as a spotlight.
Oh brother, Apollo mentally sighed. Why had he agreed to come? Oh, that's right, he remembered as Klavier's dressing room door opened in response to Trucy's knocking, it hadn't been a choice.

"Fräulein Trucy, guten abend!" Klavier exclaimed cheerfully. His courtroom opponent thought it was odd to hear him speak in German after he had just given an entire concert in English. Seeing Apollo, Klavier's smile grew a little bit broader. "And you too, Herr Forehead!"

Apollo didn't know if he was being taunted or not. He opened his mouth, but was spared from having to come up with a comeback. At the very same moment a very feminine, all to recognizable scream was heard from the stairwell, followed by a muffled crash.

Suddenly, Apollo was slammed against the wall as Klavier dashed past him at a full sprint. "Fräulein Ema!"

By the time Apollo and a now over-excited Trucy reached the stairwell, the German prosecutor was standing over his subordinate and very edgy detective, who sat on the bottom-most step clutching her ankle and staring, pale faced, at the crumpled figure of the Blue Badger laying on the ground.

It was the same Blue Badger entertainer he had seen handing out balloons outside the Sunshine Coliseum the day before. Except instead of the entertainer he'd expected, the stunned creature removed its plastic and fabric head to reveal the scruffy face of Detective Gumshoe.

"Sorry, pal," the oldest of the assorted company stated sheepishly, taking in the unamused faces of Gavin and the other detective. "It's so dimly lit up there, and in the costume it was getting hard to see. I guess I missed a step."

Apollo lifted his head to gaze up the stairwell. It was true. The upper flights were gloomy and terribly dim, and he could see no less than 8 stairs up a discarded, but not empty, bag of snackoos. He could not help but feel pity for Ema as he ran through the likely scenario in his head. Of the legends of his newest mentor, Phoenix Wright's, circles, some of the more prominent were Edgeworth's fear of earthquakes and Ema's dislike, some would call fear, of the Blue Badger. Not much was said of the latter, but it was noticed that Ema could not stand the emblem of the police force. Walking down the stairs to be broadsided by a life sized, perhaps even bigger then herself, version of the creature in the horror-movie-esque dark of the stairwell must not have bettered her opinion of the Badger. Not in the slightest.

Even now she was still paler than usual. Klavier seemed to notice this too. "Are you alright, detective?"
"Yeah," Ema said shakily. Hearing her speak to her boss without malice was weirder than hearing Klavier speak in German after English songs.
Klavier Gavin's steely blue eyes regarded her for a moment, and her hand still gingerly on her ankle.
"Hmmm...No, you're not. We should go get that looked at, ja?" He said after a moment, the cheerfulness that even Apollo sometimes found annoying creeping into his voice again. Without a word more, he leaned forward and scooped her up to carry her bridal style.

Her screams in protest echoed down the hallway, mingled with his shallow coaxing.
After a rock concert, it was a little ironic that younger people of the Wright clan left the Coliseum to the soundtrack of: "PUT ME DOWN FOP, NOW!" and "Ach, Fräulein! You could make your ankle worse if you start kicking me!"

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Trucy clasped her hands and sighed as she sat at the kitchen table later.
Her father finished off a bottle of grape juice and set it down. "What's the matter?"
"Nothing's the matter. I'm happy I was right. Klavier Gavin is a prince," the teenage girl said. Phoenix was wary.
"What do you mean?"
"He went and rescued his special someone when they were in danger." She beamed, smiling at the memory. Phoenix closed his eyes and sighed. This sounded horribly familiar to him. He glanced over at Apollo, who was cringing and turning the same hue as his suit. Now that was a new development.

Apollo noticed Phoenix's gaze and cut in before anything else was said. "Now, Trucy, Detective Skye could hardly be Klavier Gavin's special someone."
"It was Ema, was it?" the amused poker champion interrupted. Apollo mentally hit himself. Too late.
Truth be told, Apollo had perceived something very strange when they had talked to Klavier earlier. When Ema screamed, the rock star's pupils had shrunk, and he had physically tensed. And unlike normal surprise, his tension did not ease a few moments after the disruption. Speaking of Ema,
he had also slipped and called her that. Apollo had never heard him call Detective Skye by anything other than her title or his own label, 'Fräulein'. In that moment of genuine concern, he had proven himself to have more concern for Detective Ema Skye than anyone knew.

And Apollo's bracelet hadn't had time to react. If he had deduced as much, Trucy's own acute senses must've had a field day.

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It's weird ending it like this I know but if I want to upload anything for you guys before they pack my computer, it has to go up now.
Sorry for the choppiness and for my absence. I think that until July I may just be posting chapter updates into my LJ, as I will have no solid computer w/ normally functioning word processing (doc x doesn't work). However, up until then I can try to mooch of my friends to get it in proper shape, in which case there won't be a hiatus til July. :D Cross your fingers, everyone!