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a word for the defense that’s called flirting Apollo
Happy Christmas Eve if you celebrate it, and if not I hope you have a great day anyway!

Main Points:
Ace Attorney AU Unexpected Evidence series
Summary: Apollo hadn't actually bothered to listen to the entire Gavinners discography, because he hadn't thought he'd like it.
Word Count: 435
Rating: Teen

 

         Apollo learns, much to his dismay, that the Gavinners had a Christmas album. Mr. Wright sounds far too amused about the whole “and she’s playing it all the time, but I’m happy, because it means she loves a gift I got her” thing. He’s contemplating trying to get all his work done at the courthouse, instead, because if it’s the Gavinners’ usual loud over the top punny rock, there’s no way he’ll get anything done.
         He’s utterly taken aback when he arrives and it sounds...vaguely normal? Until Klavier’s voice starts singing and...that’s German. That’s actually German. The over the top rock prosecutor actually knows German.
         Fortunately, Mr. Wright comes out with a seemingly well-meaning remark that’s utterly humiliating, because he really, really doesn’t want to think more about the realization that he’d actually heard this version of the song before at Mr. Gavin’s law office around Christmastime, probably the only song of the Gavinners that he’d ever actually heard Kristoph play in the office. And then, once he’s done protesting that no, he’s not falling in love with the singer or whatever, that’s clearly Klavier singing and he happens to actually know what he’s like, unfortunately, why are you laughing Mr. Wright stop it I’m just surprised he can actually sing, is all, it’s on to the next song, which is actually in English, only Klavier’s having a duet with a woman (probably Lu, given the English accent, who was actually very nice and professional when they’d met earlier), and Trucy’s come out to try the magic trick of not breathing for several minutes as she tells him all about how that, since it’s an international band, there’s two songs per person and they picked mostly common Christmas songs from their country of origin (though they’re not all Christmas songs), just to be a little different.
         It does mean that the next time Klavier’s making fun of him at a crime scene, he actually has some ammunition for once. “I finally found one of your band’s albums I actually like. Besides The Guitar’s Serenade. I’m waiting for you to release that as a single.”
         Klavier pauses midsentence and starts fiddling with his hair, a sure sign he’s nervous. His rings catch the light. “Ah...ja?”
         “Your Christmas album. Too bad they can’t all be like that,” he teases.
         The blond grins back. Not one of his practiced stage smiles, but a kind of goofy, pleased if still a little insecure one that he’s pretty sure is completely involuntary. “Ah, but now that I am not bound by ein Vertrag, perhaps I can experiment a little?”
         It’s...nice.