#Doug Payne

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Gucci ready to wear fall 2017

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Another round of little guys!

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Star Trek Beyond premiered on July 22, 2016. The film was dedicated to Anton Yelchin (Chekov), who died a month before the film's release. The film was used to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise. It was the first theatrical release that protrayed Sulu (John Cho) as being gay, which created some controversy. The move was meant as a tribute to the original Sulu (George Takei), who is a prominent gay man and gay rights advocate. However, Takei responded “I’m delighted that there’s a gay character,” he was quoted by The Hollywood Reporter. “Unfortunately, it’s a twisting of Gene’s creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it’s really unfortunate.” J.J. Abrams handed over directing duties to Justin Lin as he was busy directing Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. Simon Pegg (Scotty) co-wrote it with Doug Jung, Roberto Orci, Patrick McKay, and John D Payne. The film was nominated for numerous awards, but only won a Saturn Award for Best Make-Up. The film underperformed at the box office losing approximately 50.5 million dollars. The events of the film took place in March of 2263.

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I’ve always thought this line from Croz’s book feels perfectly in line with Croz from the show because I bet he’s got tons of anxiety about fitting in with the other flyboys. Like we know Bubbles has no problem making friends and integrating himself, but I bet sometimes Croz just feels like the only reason he’s invited out to the bars with them is because he Bubbles’ friend

What’s especially interesting is Charles Via was also pretty “straight-arrow” like neither smoke or went out to the bars much if at all. So in the show I’d imagine Croz is just filled with anxiety because “what is it about me that this guy doesn’t like? Is it my navigating?? Is it because I’m ugly???”

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I discovered my new favorite hobby but I bring you guys Johns social media presence head canons to life!!!! Likes and reblogs appreciated <3

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Jason’s Lyric, 1994. directed by Doug McHenry, Cinematography by Francis Kenny

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Commercial Photography of Sculptures

Recently I have been working for DeMontfort Fine Art who are agents for many fine artists including Rolf Harris and Jack Vettriano.  I was photographing sculptures by Carl Payne and Doug Hyde for the website and brochure.  Huge thanks to Holly Booth for help and assistance during the shoot!  Thanks also to Banks’ Mill Studios resident, and DeMontfort Fine Art client, April Young, for the…

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Damn, it’s quiet out here.  Should have brought my radio.  Nah, it’s not quiet, it’s full of music.  Just listen.

Jason’s Lyric (1994) dir. Doug McHenry

Cinematography by Francis Kenny

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The School Dance

by purplecandyboy

read it on AO3 here

Anthony doesn't know why Kenny hates him so much but his best friend does. Kenny thinks Anthony sabotaged the sekai taikai for him,

One day suddenly Kenny asked Anthony to their first school dance. Telling him how they should leave old feelings and rivalries in the past. Anthony happily accepted Kenny as his boyfriend naively. Unaware of Kenny's attempt at revenge.

Will Kenny go thru with humiliating Anthony after they fall in love? Will he confront the sabotage shading some light on Anthony's case? Will Devon come clean with what she did?

………

Sam and Miguel's break up might've split up the dojo and they're friends.

Sam turning to Tory, Moon and Yasmine

Miguel to Robby, Demetri and Hawk.

Demetri and Moon plan to bring the two groups together tho. As the peaceful pacifist of the group.

Words: 9266, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Cobra Kai (TV), Karate Kid (Movies), Karate Kid (Movies) RPF, Cobra Kai (TV) RPF

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Anthony LaRusso, Kenny Payne, Nathaniel (Cobra Kai), Miguel Diaz (Cobra Kai), Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz's Mother, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz's Father, Robby Keene, Demetri Alexopoulos, Yasmine (Cobra Kai), Moon (Cobra Kai), Samantha LaRusso, Tory Nichols, Shawn Payne, Doug Rickenberger, Bert (Cobra Kai), Jacob Bertrand, Johnny Lawrence, John Kreese, Amanda LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso, Mitch (Cobra Kai), Big Red (Cobra Kai), Mikey (Cobra Kai), Kyler Park

Relationships: Anthony LaRusso/Kenny Payne, Anthony LaRusso/Original Male Character(s), Robby Keene & Kenny Payne, Anthony LaRusso/Devon Lee, Lia Cabrera & Kenny Payne, Kenny Payne & Shawn Payne, Anthony LaRusso & Kenny Payne, Anthony LaRusso & Devon Lee & Kenny Payne, Demetri Alexopoulos/Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Miguel Diaz/Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Miguel Diaz/Samantha LaRusso, Robby Keene/Tory Nichols, Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols, Moon/Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Piper Elswith/Moon, Demetri Alexopoulos/Yasmine, Samantha LaRusso/Yasmine, Moon/Yasmine (Cobra Kai), Robby Keene/Shawn Payne, Robby Keene & Shawn Payne, Demetri Alexopoulos & Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz/Kyler Park, Tory Nichols/Aisha Robinson, Bert & Nathaniel (Cobra Kai)

Additional Tags: Smut, Fluff and Smut, Teenage Drama, Protective Daniel LaRusso, Protective Samantha LaRusso, Omega Daniel LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso & Johnny Lawrence Friendship, Protective Amanda LaRusso, Eventual Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence, Worried Daniel LaRusso, Alpha/Omega, Teen Pregnancy, Mpreg, Implied Mpreg, Unplanned Pregnancy, Enemies to Lovers, One-Sided Relationship, Alpha Miguel Diaz (Cobra Kai), Binary Boyfriends (Cobra Kai), Cobra Kai Dojo, All-Valley 100 Cobra Kai/The Karate Kid Drabble Challenge, Bisexual Miguel Diaz (Cobra Kai)

[projazznet]

Leon Spencer – Where I’m Coming From

Where I’m Coming From is the fourth and last album by jazz organist Leon Spencer recorded for the Prestige label in 1973.

Doug Payne stated the album was “Another good one from Leon Spencer and, regrettably, his recorded swan song as a solo artist”.

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blackloveeeee

17h ago

ALLEN PAYNE & JADA PINKETT-SMITH Jason's Lyric (1994), dir. Doug McHenry

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My father was picked by a computer in 1964 to become a candidate for a new position, called the reconnaissance systems officer in the new SR-71.

He was picked because of his outstanding bomb record in the B-58. He was the first man interviewed by Doug Nelson at Little Rock Air Force Base home of the 43rd wing of the B-58 because he had walking pneumonia; Colonel Nelson interviewed him first, took him into a small closet, and asked him these questions: would you be willing to fly over Russia or China and are you a volunteer?

The Sheffield family was the first SR 71 family to arrive at Beale Air Force Base March of 1965. My Dad was picked not because he knew someone important. He didn’t know anyone. He came from a small town in Ohio called Rootstown. His father worked at the Goodyear rubber plant in Akron, Ohio. The first group were all like Dad, and they knew what an honor it was to be selected. This was a noble calling. They put the love of their country first in their life. These men were sincere, and their word was so honorable that you knew it was a solemn promise that they would rather die before they revealed it. You could just feel feel the goodness of these men trust honor, faithful, noble, confident, and humility. The tradition of selecting, the very best was continued throughout the whole program.

I would go to basketball and baseball games to watch my Dad and his coworkers play. I was shocked at how aggressive Daddy was. He didn’t act like that at home. They were all aggressive men .

These men knew how to handle social situations expertly. I would go to the officers club with my parents occasionally. Who could turn down a colored TV in the lobby near the bar at the Beale Air Force Base officers club with all the Shirley Temples (7-Up with grenadine ) with cherries on top that I could possibly drink. My friends lived near by they were mostly SR 71 pilots and RSO‘s children. I spent a lot of time eating dinner with them, watching TV , going to the bowling alley, going on picnics, running down the street to Ryan Park. Stopping by the Vicks, the Jarvis’s, the McCallum’s and Payne’s last, but not least I practically lived at Janet Payne’s house.

When I was a teenager, I hung out with Kent and Sherry Collins I would babysat for the younger kids in family. I didn’t know that their father Ken Collins’s was an A-12 pilot turned SR-71 pilot until many years later. I’m sure the postman was confused as an another Collins lived across the street. Charles “Pete” Collins SR-71 Pilot and his wife Shirley and kids Petey, Kim and Kathy they moved back after being away for a year, and now lived across the street from us.

The neighbors and my parents all came around with bottles of liquor. It was getting kind of late and they were getting rather noisy. I thought it would be funny to call the police on them. Just to see what they would do. I had my friend Jeff Anderson, deepen his voice and call the police from my kitchen. The police quickly came. I didn’t know that the phones were bugged. The base police assumed that the call came from my father not from one of his daughter’s friends . Jeff and I and a few other friends that had stopped by were hiding behind the bushes . The police said I heard there was a disturbance up here. As the two young police officers looked at the sidewalk with spilled liquor and bottles everywhere and four couples sitting in the grass !

Ken Collins quickly gets up approach the police car I said “You can move on now we took care of it.” I waited about 25 years before I told my mother that I was the one that instigated the call to the police. I think she was still thinking about putting me on restriction. Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

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The School Dance

by purplecandyboy

read on AO3 here

Anthony doesn't know why Kenny hates him so much but his best friend does. Kenny thinks Anthony sabotaged the sekai taikai for him,

One day suddenly Kenny asked Anthony to their first school dance. Telling him how they should leave old feelings and rivalries in the past. Anthony happily accepted Kenny as his boyfriend naively. Unaware of Kenny's attempt at revenge.

Will Kenny go thru with humiliating Anthony after they fall in love? Will he confront the sabotage shading some light on Anthony's case? Will Devon come clean with what she did?

………

Sam and Miguel's break up might've split up the dojo and they're friends.

Sam turning to Tory, Moon and Yasmine

Miguel to Robby, Demetri and Hawk.

Demetri and Moon plan to bring the two groups together tho. As the peaceful pacifist of the group.

Words: 9264, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Cobra Kai (TV), Karate Kid (Movies), Karate Kid (Movies) RPF, Cobra Kai (TV) RPF

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Anthony LaRusso, Kenny Payne, Nathaniel (Cobra Kai), Miguel Diaz (Cobra Kai), Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz's Mother, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz's Father, Robby Keene, Demetri Alexopoulos, Yasmine (Cobra Kai), Moon (Cobra Kai), Samantha LaRusso, Tory Nichols, Shawn Payne, Doug Rickenberger, Bert (Cobra Kai), Jacob Bertrand, Johnny Lawrence, John Kreese, Amanda LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso, Mitch (Cobra Kai), Big Red (Cobra Kai), Mikey (Cobra Kai), Kyler Park

Relationships: Anthony LaRusso/Kenny Payne, Anthony LaRusso/Original Male Character(s), Robby Keene & Kenny Payne, Anthony LaRusso/Devon Lee, Lia Cabrera & Kenny Payne, Kenny Payne & Shawn Payne, Anthony LaRusso & Kenny Payne, Anthony LaRusso & Devon Lee & Kenny Payne, Demetri Alexopoulos/Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Miguel Diaz/Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Miguel Diaz/Samantha LaRusso, Robby Keene/Tory Nichols, Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols, Moon/Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Piper Elswith/Moon, Demetri Alexopoulos/Yasmine, Samantha LaRusso/Yasmine, Moon/Yasmine (Cobra Kai), Robby Keene/Shawn Payne, Robby Keene & Shawn Payne, Demetri Alexopoulos & Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz/Kyler Park, Tory Nichols/Aisha Robinson, Bert & Nathaniel (Cobra Kai)

Additional Tags: Smut, Fluff and Smut, Teenage Drama, Protective Daniel LaRusso, Protective Samantha LaRusso, Omega Daniel LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso & Johnny Lawrence Friendship, Protective Amanda LaRusso, Eventual Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence, Worried Daniel LaRusso, Alpha/Omega, Teen Pregnancy, Mpreg, Implied Mpreg, Unplanned Pregnancy, Enemies to Lovers, One-Sided Relationship, Alpha Miguel Diaz (Cobra Kai), Binary Boyfriends (Cobra Kai), Cobra Kai Dojo, All-Valley 100 Cobra Kai/The Karate Kid Drabble Challenge, Bisexual Miguel Diaz (Cobra Kai)

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Hello and welcome to my mixed mosh little corner of tumblr. Here I write for a variety of fandoms and characters. Primarily will be featuring drabbles with the occasional longer piece. Headcanons will feature from time to time.

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What I will write:

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Smut

Platonic relationships

Alpha/Omega dynamics

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Snuff

Rape, rape play, non con

Underage

Inc*st

Real person fic

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Stranger Things: James Hopper, Steve Harrington, Jonathan Byers

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Poisoned Heart

Summary: The trial of State vs. Phoenix Wright on April 11, 2014 - he can't ever forget it, it was one of the worst says of his life.

“Mr. Wright!” Ms. Fey shouted in panic, her hazel eyes wide in horror. “Are you okay!?” “Huh…?” “I need to call you an ambulance!” “…why…?” Phoenix felt his legs wobble, the corners of his vision going dark. He coughed again, gasping for air. He had to rip off his mask as it felt suffocating… but it wasn’t the mask that was suffocating. It was the blood that was splattering into his hand. “Uh… M-M-Mia…?” Phoenix softly called out, his legs buckling. “I-I’m s-s-sor…rry…” “PHOENIX!”

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“MIA FEY! MIA FEEEEY!”

            The young, angelic-face of a woman with blood-red hair stood on the witness stand – her hands gripped on the handle of her parasol so tight that she could snap it in half. Her eyes seemed to be almost a spiritual white – full of anger and spite, almost a demonic presence.

            “You. Think. You. Have. Won?” the woman practically growled. “WELL!? Do you, Mia Fey!?”

            Standing on the Defense side of the courtroom was a young woman with chestnut brown hair and hazel eyes, a beauty mark on her chin, and wearing a skirt-suit with a tan scarf wrapped around her neck. Her purple magatama was sitting proudly in the middle of her chest above her breasts. She was considered a very beautiful young woman – but at that moment she looked terrified.

            Literally minutes ago, Mia Fey was fighting for her client’s – Phoenix Wright – life as he was accused of murder of a young college student. The woman on the witness stand cursing Ms. Fey’s name was non-other than Phoenix’s girlfriend, Dahlia Hawthorne.

            Who was planning on murdering him.

            This… this isn’t really happening… is it?

            Phoenix thought the worse of it was when he was accused of murdering Doug Swallow. He thought hiring a decent attorney from Grossberg’s Law Offices through the Law Program at Ivy University on a student discount would be fine. He thought everything would be an open and shut case.

            That’s what Dollie told me anyway… she used to read some of my law texts…

            Dahlia then laughed, a dark, and almost sinister laugh that Phoenix never heard before. “Heh... Heh... Heh... Heheh... That's. Just. Fine! For the time being...” Her voice just sounded so… cold. She then put on her “sweet” façade. “For the time being, victory is yours.” A lovely smile plastered on her face, a smile that Phoenix once would have said he really loved and enjoyed – but this smile… was different.

            Stoney. Plastered. Almost… practiced.

            It looks the same… but it’s not. I can’t really explain it…

            “‘For the time being’”? Ms. Fey repeated, her hands on the desk, her giving Dahlia a hard glare.

            Dahlia tilted her head to the side, her red hair gently falling on her shoulder. “Well... I have a very long memory, you know. You and I will meet again... I'm certain of it,” the woman stated.

            Ms. Fey gave a perplexed look.

            Soon Dahlia Hawthorne was escorted out of the courtroom by officers. She did not give Phoenix Wright another look. She did not say another word to him.

            It was like he didn’t exist.

**

15 minutes earlier…

            “OBJECTION!”

            Phoenix had jumped from his Defendants chair and marched up towards the witnesses stand, ignoring the glares from his attorney, Mia Fey, and the Judge.

            “On behalf of Dollie, I OBJECT!”

            The prosecutor of the case, Mr. Winston Payne, began stuttering, “M-M-Mr. Wright! Control yourself!”

            Anger had boiled in Phoenix. How could he sit there and watch his own attorney bully Dollie like this? Dollie was a petite woman with such delicate skin that she always carries a parasol, so she doesn’t get a sunburn. The girl studies literature so she can choose words over violence as “The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword”.

            “I-I won’t let you bully her like this…!” Phoenix continued, tears threating to spill.

            The Judge slammed is gavel. “MR. WRIGHT!” he shouted with authority. “I thought I had told you to stay in your seat!”

            Ms. Fey slammed her hands on the desk. “Mr. Wright! W-why are you going through such lengths to protect her!?” the woman cried out.

            “B-Because I’m madly in l-love with her!” the young man shouted, his face flushing in a combination of embarrassment and his low-grade fever.

            He’s never said those words out in public. Both he and Dollie had always said and expressed their love for each other in private – either in his college dorm room or in her private apartment she had off campus. Saying it out loud, in front of everyone, made him want to crawl under the desk and cry.

            You’ve always been so sensitive, Ryu. His mother had always told him, always calling him the nickname of his middle name.

            Ms. Fey sighed in exasperation, “Mr. Wright…” she tapped her forehead in almost annoyance. “Have you ever thought about this? Why would a woman like Ms. Hawthorne want to date you anyway?”

            I mean… ouch.

            Phoenix would consider himself… average looking at best. He didn’t really date in high school – it didn’t help that he hung out with Larry Butz a lot and of course “When something Smells, it’s usually the Butz!” Once he started college there were a couple of dates, meeting a couple of guys at a local bar and grill, a girl or two at a movie, and going to a few parties at a frat house and chatting.

            But Dahlia was the first one to willing… throw herself at him? He was the one who would approach others and it was usually the most awkward thing in the world until he had a drink or two in. The young woman literally gave him the heart-shaped necklace, made of glass, and gave him such a smile that he couldn’t refuse.

            Then Ms. Fey mentioned the necklace… it was coming back to the necklace again…

            That damned necklace.

            “Y-you’re l-lying…” Phoenix kept mumbling to himself as Ms. Fey kept pushing about the necklace and how Dollie just wanted it back.

            “You never gave it back to her,” Ms. Fey continued. “And you kept refusing. On top of it all, you kept showing it to everyone you met. That’s why she-”

            “… I don’t… I don’t believe you!” Phoenix finally cried out, tears spilling over his eyes. “NOO! That’s a l…l-lie!” He rushed over by Ms. Fey and nearly tackling her, tears nearly blinding him as he wailed.

            “EEK!” his attorney shouted in panic.

            What she didn’t realize was that Phoenix slipped his hand into her pocket and grabbed the necklace back.

            “The Defendant!” a bailiff shouted. “He’s getting away!”

            Phoenix ignored the shouts as he ran out of the courtroom. As he had ran by Dollie, there was almost a… sinister smile on her face. Was he imagining it?

            He ran down the hall and turned a corner, managing to slip into the restroom quickly before the bailiff could see. Quickly, he locked the door behind him and entered a stall. He opened his hand to see blue and gold pendant, heart-shaped, a glass crystal in its center.

            Eight months… he thought bitterly to himself. I’ve had this for eight months. Ms. Fey says there is poison in this? Did Dollie really… poison that other attorney…?

            Looking in the glass bottle, there was a quarter of fluid in there. Without thinking, Phoenix pulled down his mask, ignoring the cough building up in his throat, and began crushing the glass in his mouth.

            He felt the iron tang along with something else tinging his tongue. But he ignored it. All that mattered was that he was going to prove that Dollie was not hiding poison or had been trying to kill him. Every swallow of the broken glass was tearing his already scratchy, sore throat.

            He felt blood trickle down the corners of his mouth, and with a quick motion of a ripping a piece of toilet paper he promptly wiped  it away. He ignored the bright scarlet. He ignored the iron taste. He ignored what almost smelled like flowers wafting into his nose mixed with iron – an almost bitter smell.

            After a few minutes of breaking apart the rest of the necklace and disposing it (him eating it), he gave a few sneezes and coughs, ignoring the splatter of blood that he sprayed on the wall of the small cubicle he was in, and exited the stall. He made his way to the mirror and saw his reflection.

            It was like seeing a hollow version of himself. He still had his usual spikiness of his hair, but his normally dark blue eyes were almost tinged gray – lifeless. Dark circles were under his eyes, his skin pale and clammy.

            What does a poisoned person look like? He had been fighting a cold for the past three days – of course he looked sick. Is he going to look worse? Is he going to drop dead?

            After a solid five minutes of nothing – Phoenix gave a smirk.

            He finally left the bathroom with his hands up and let the bailiffs take him back to the courtroom.

**

Phoenix Wright was given a “Not Guilty” verdict for the murder of Doug Swallow.

            He should be happy. He was not going to prison. He could still become a lawyer and help his oldest friend…

            But… he wasn’t… Phoenix couldn’t.

            So… it was all a lie…?

            “Oh! Mr. Wright!” a familiar voice called out to him, pulling him out of his thoughts. “Congratulations!” Ms. Fey held out her hand for a handshake.

            For a moment, Phoenix stared blankly at it, but he then grasped it and shook it gratefully. “Th-thank you, Ms. Fey…” he said tearfully. “I-I’m sorry for the trouble I’ve caused…”

            Ms. Fey blinked at him in surprise. “Mr. Wright… I know you must still be in shock from everything…” she began to say.

            “Dollie…” he barely whispered. “I don’t think that was actually her on the stand…”

            “I…I’m not sure what you mean by that, Mr. Wright…” she replied in confusion.

            Phoenix shook his head softly. Why did his head hurt suddenly? Maybe he was getting a headache from all this excitement…

            “The Dollie I knew… would never say those kinds of things…” Phoenix explained, him still feeling bewildered. “She was always so sweet… and… and ca-car-” He gave a rough cough. His throat felt like knives were tearing at it. His stomach was burning. He needed to pick up a not poisoned cold-killing medicine on his way back to the dorm.

            “Mr. Wright!” Ms. Fey shouted in panic, her hazel eyes wide in horror. “Are you okay!?”

            “Huh…?”

            “I need to call you an ambulance!”

            “…why…?”

            Phoenix felt his legs wobble, the corners of his vision going dark. He coughed again, gasping for air. He had to rip off his mask as it felt suffocating… but it wasn’t the mask that was suffocating.

            It was the blood that was splattering into his hand.

            “Uh… M-M-Mia…?” Phoenix softly called out, his legs buckling. “I-I’m s-s-sor…rry…”

            “PHOENIX!”

            The wailing of sirens was the last thing he heard as he crashed into Mia Fey’s arms, coughing more blood onto the white of her jacket, staining it scarlet.

**

He opened his eyes with a loud gasp, the sounds of beeping around him.

            An oxygen mask covered his face, feeling a bunch of wires and tubing covering exposed skin, and something was uncomfortably shoved up his nose. A scratchy blanket covered him, thin and cold, it does nothing for him to contain body heat.

            Phoenix darted his eyes around him, noting that the room was a stark white. Sterile. Unwelcoming.

            It wasn’t his first time in a hospital bed for something dumb.

            It was his first time however in a hospital bed for something idiotic.

            “So, you’re awake now, Mr. Wright?” a soft voice asked.

            Phoenix managed to crane his neck to his left to see his attorney in a chair, wearing casual clothing with a dark purple knitted sweater and a pair of black slacks, and her purple magatama that was almost glowing front and center on her chest. In her hands was a cup of coffee, most likely from a vending machine and from questionable origin.

            “Ms.… Fey…?” Phoenix choked out, his voice dry and hoarse. He reached up to his face and pulled off his oxygen mask. He gave a cough to try to clear it, but when he did, he felt as though his chest was on fire.

            “You were in surgery for about thirteen hours, Phoenix…” she worriedly said. “They actually said that was short.”

            “… I was…?”

            “You are lucky son of a bitch, you know that!?” Ms. Fey then screamed, her standing up from her chair. “You ate a knowingly poisoned necklace!”

            “… I thought… it wasn’t…” Phoenix choked, him feeling tears sting his eyes.

            “You were willing to bet your life on that!?” she furiously screamed, tears in her eyes. “My first trial ended because the defendant committed suicide from doing what your DUMB ASS DID!” She threw her coffee to the ground, it splattering to the floor. “Well… not exactly what you did… he just drank the full dose of poison…” Her hands were balled up into fists at her sides. “Someone… someone I care about is in a room a few doors down was unknowingly poisoned by that bitch! He’s been in a coma for the past eight months! And yet… you were willing to bet your life that she wouldn’t kill you…!”

            Phoenix darted his eyes away from hers. He didn’t realize that’s what happened. “I…” was all he could manage.

            Ms. Fey sighed, her voice shaking. “They said you were lucky… the poison wasn’t as potent due to half-life…” she explained, her voice softer, seemingly realizing she let out too much of her emotions. “The glass… luckily didn’t cut your esophagus… it did cut your stomach lining though and got into your small intestine.”

            “…”

            “They managed to get all the glass out and stitch you up on the inside to make sure there is no internal bleeding,” she continued. She glanced at the I.V. bag and the feeding tube that was going up Phoenix’s nose. “The poison may affect your absorption of nutrients as well…” she added. “It sounds like you may not like eating much anymore…” She gave a morbid chuckle dripping with sarcasm, “Every girl’s diet wish.”

            “Can… I…” Phoenix tried to speak, but his throat was so dry.

            “Do you want water…?”

            He nodded.

            Ms. Fey handed him a cup of ice water that was on a tray next to her.

            Phoenix managed to prop himself up in the bed and gulp the water down in one swig. He cleared his throat.

            “Much better…” he softly spoke. His voice was still hoarse, but at least it wasn’t drier than the Sahara Desert. He then took a deep breath. “I’m… I’m sorry I was an idiot,” he expressed full heartedly. “I… I should have listened to you… Dahlia was right… what use am I to anyone…? Maybe I should’ve just-”

            Phoenix then felt a warm hand on his. “Don’t!” Ms. Fey’s stern voice interrupted. “Don’t you dare say you rather be dead!” Her hard glare was full of determination, confidence, and what Phoenix could describe as… hope. “You are worth it to someone! I wouldn’t have fought so hard for you in court if I didn’t think you were worth it, Phoenix!”

            The young man blinked in confusion. Then he gave a bitter chuckle, “I thought you insisted on being my attorney because she was involved…?”

            Ms. Fey looked startled. “I mean…” she choked out. “It… did start out like that…” she admitted. “But as the trial went on… I realized that you reminded me a lot… of myself. Scared and unsure of yourself. Dahlia mentioned in a testimony that you are also studying law…? Why as an art student are you studying law?”

            Phoenix darted his eyes away. “I minor in law…” he lowly said. “I wanted to be a Defense Attorney when I was kid… I put it on the back burner for a bit and focused on art instead…” He then noticed a newspaper on the table next to where Ms. Fey was sitting, it showing someone very familiar on the front page… “Hey… can I see that paper for a second…?”

            Ms. Fey looked confused as she grabbed it. “Um… sure?” she muttered as she handed it to the young college student.

            Phoenix read the front page, the title reading: “DEMON PROSECUTOR WINS AGAIN”.

            “What… have you become, Miles…?” Phoenix barely whispered.

            “I beg your pardon, Phoenix?” Ms. Fey asked.

            “Ms. Fey…” Phoenix began, him folding the newspaper up, the picture showing clear as day his old childhood friend: Miles Edgeworth. “A lawyer is someone who can help people when they’re in trouble… right?”

            She gave a soft look, almost like an older sister. “I’m… still new to this lawyering thing myself, but I think that’s what a lawyer does,” she told him.

            Phoenix gave her a large smile. “Then that’s what I’ll do!” he said confidently. “I’ll study my ass off! No more half-assing my lawyer classes! I’m going to become a Defense Attorney! Maybe we can meet each other again!”

            “I’ll do you one better…” she said as she extended her hand to him. “I’ll help you get there… you can call me ‘Mia’ for now on.” She then gave him a wink. “Or ‘Chief’. I like the sound of that.”

            “‘Chief’?” he echoed.

            “Yeah… I’m probably going to be opening my own firm… ‘Fey & Co.’,” she admitted slyly as she tapped her chin. “How about I take you under my wing? You can be the ‘Co’ of ‘Fey & Co’.” She was beaming with every word.

            Phoenix felt his face go red. “Wait… what…!?” he stammered. “Even though… even though…!?”

            “You may be a dumbass in social situations,” Mia told him with a smirk. She then pulled out his transcripts from his college courses. “But… you’re actually good with your testing scores – you just don’t like doing your actual work.”

            Phoenix crossed his arms stubbornly. “Well… the tests should be what counts…” he muttered.

            “You’re a straight A student in every test you take – even going past the grading scale with extra credit questions because you think outside the box.”

            “…”

            “So, let’s get your grades up and get you to pass your Bar Exam.”

            “Are… you sure you want to put all your faith in me, Ms. – I mean, Chief?”

            Mia then gave him a large smile. “Phoenix Wright – you may have gotten a poisoned heart from love, but you’re an amazing person, this one incident isn’t going to break you. We Fey’s have this uncanny feeling about this sort of thing. I’m going to make sure you become a damn good attorney – an Ace Attorney if you will.” She winked at him again.

            A smile crossed his face again. “Th-thank you, Mia…” he whispered, his voice wavering.

**

September 10, 2016 - 9:00am

Los Angeles Hospital Cremation Services

It was a little more than two years since that day… since that trial…

            Phoenix Wright stood in the hallway in the basement of the hospital with Maya Fey, the younger sister of his mentor - his old attorney, his friend – waiting for hospital staff to seal the doors of the cremation room.

            She’s right there… on the other side… her body…

            But it was just the night before he heard her voice in the office. She told him that he was finally leaving the nest… that she would always watch over him. Mia had saved him again at the trial at the last moment – Maya being a Spirit Medium-in-training was able to channel the deceased Mia finally gave Phoenix the last piece of the puzzle he needed for Maya – and his – acquittal.

            Miles Edgeworth – the man that was the reason why he even became an attorney in the first place – was the prosecutor in the case. He was even shocked at the turn in of events, and for the first time since 2013, he had lost a trail. The Demon Prosecutor had lost his perfect trial record to a rookie first year Defense Attorney who was only defending his second trial.

            Lost in thought, Phoenix didn’t hear the operator as a switch was pulled. Orange engulfed his view through the window. A small gasp escaped Maya as she then began to mumble prayers to herself.

            Phoenix was not a religious man – he never was. He remembered a few phrases from his Soba Naruhodo that were prayers for the deceased, something they did for their ancestors from time to time, so that was what he prayed to Mia.

            “Don’t worry, Phoenix – we’re not done with each other yet!”

            M-Mia?!

            “Don’t let my death poison your heart, Phoenix – remember, you’re an amazing person! Please take care of each other, okay…?”

            I… we will, Chief…

            Thank you… Mia.

**

Phoenix and Maya had split Mia’s ashes in half.

            Maya had kept her half of the ashes in a purple urn that was the same color as the late Fey’s magatama, her name engraved in the stone. The young Spirit Medium also kept a special hollow magatama and kept a bit of ash in there to carry on her person – she stated it was easier to channel Mia’s spirit and she liked the fact that her sister was always with her.

            Phoenix had a purple urn as well, but it was more subtle looking. In a way it resembled a house plant pot… He had looked into it, a “Living Urn” it was called. At that moment, Phoenix had Mia’s ashes mixed in soil in a biodegradable urn to help lower pH levels and for the soil and ashes to become acclimated with one another. Once all that was said in done – he was going to transfer Charlie the plant into the large purple “Urn” pot so that Mia would help Charlie continue to grow and live in the office.

            Mia was the life of the office. She was the life of Maya. She was the life of Charlie.

            And she was the life of Phoenix - the one who helped heal his poisoned heart.