#Ghost Stories [Ace Attorney AU] | Drabbles

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@hyaciiintho sent CAUGHT for a scene from my muse's past in which they were caught doing something they shouldn't !! Glimpses of the Past Prompt list

"Oi, Wolfsong, can I see you in my office 'or a moment?"

Selena peered up from her computer screen to see Chief Warden looking down before turning toward his office, idly waving a hand to indicate for her to follow.

Odd, I wonder what's going on... She wondered, raising a brow then stood and left her seat. The young officer saw him pulling the blinds down on the singular window and head toward his desk. She silently closed the door behind her.

"Well, we have quite a bit to discuss so take a seat, Officer Wolfsong," the elder says, watching her do before he pulls out her external hard drive out of his drawer, "Must've thought you were slick hacking into our system. That's a crime you know." He chuckled, as if finding some a punchline in his words. Her pale eyes grew wide as she recognized the hard drive and presses her lips into a firm line.

"I could fire you then have you arrested, but...I got some questions of my own," Chief Warden dropped the hard drive on the desk on top of his pile of reports, crossing his arms across his chest, "I noticed that you were looking at our previous cases that we've deemed...cold. And then I looked into yer background and I have ta ask..."

"What is your relationship with the Black Widow?" He asked, studying her and his expression softens, "I've read about the crash that took your father and little sister...And the fire at yer family's bookshop that took your stepmother's life. " He waited. She sighed, running a hand through her hair.

"...My stepmother. The Black Widow and her are the same. But, I realized it too late...Or rather, I refused to listen until it was too late," Selena finally answered, her voice quiet, "I was hoping to find more evidence that could tie her with those cold cases."

"Wait, 'more evidence'? You already found evidence against her?" He asked, incredulous, eyes widening and dumbfounded as she nods.

"Yes, well, it was Solaria who did. It survived the fire and I've kept it safe ever since..." She then explained the fire, the significance of her sister's surviving sketchbook, and how the cases were connected. His brows furrow.

"I see. Well, I've got a proposition for you that would work out for the both of us." Chief Warden stated, flashing a grin as if he were years younger, "I promote you as junior detective and set you with Detective Goldi-" He cleared his throat.

"Detective Dorado, pardon me, to teach you the ropes. At this precinct, we give each other code names to live things up a little," He stood up to pick up the hard drive and lazily tossed it to Selena who scrambles to catch it, "I dub thee 'Bad Wolf' for you blew down our fire walls..."

"Which leads me to another point. I would like you to work with our IT department from time to time to strengthen our systems and with forensics for the occasionally evidence like a hard drive that'll need to be deciphered," He said nonchalantly, "If a talented, young'un officer like you were able to get through our red tape, I can imagine a professional hacker would able to have no trouble at all."

"And lastly, you work with me on those cases. No one will need to know that we've dug them out. " His tone grew more solemn.

"W-wait, you're helping me?" She asked, bewildered, at the proposition. What does he have to gain from this?

"Aye, and this conversation does not leave the room. Otherwise, the alternative is being fired and arrested. Do you accept?" Chief Warden answered, watching her nod, "Good." He stretched out a hand to her as they shook on their agreement.

You weren't the only victim to that slippery bitch. We'll find her and finally have our justice and have her pay for her crimes.

[simonsaysastory]

Minor WIPs- 9/4/17

This post will be about WIPs I have aside from whatever my major projects are at the time! This will be under a cut, as this is bound to get pretty long. If you see something here that’s a WIP you think you’d like to read yourself, tell me! I’d love to hear what you guys are interested in reading from me. They’ll be assorted by fandom, and all of their names are labeled by what the Doc is named (99% of the time they’ll get an actual name once they’re finished/near finished).

Ace Attorney

Apollo Smut WIPs- This is basically small NSFW fics of Apollo with various partners. At the moment I have a finished Kristoph drabble, an in-progress Klavier shortfic, planned ones for Clay and Blackquill, and a potential idea for Wocky Kitaki. I’m not looking for suggestions on these as I’m not entirely comfortable taking peoples ideas for NSFW fics, but I’m open to whether or not you’d like to see them period.

Apollo- Breakdown- This is an Apollo-centric fic filled with self harm, near self-destruction, and overall angst revolving around Clay’s death and Apollo’s guilt over it. Funny story, actually, this fic started out as an idea of Clay’s ghost haunting Apollo and basically tormenting him over Clay’s own misplaced blame and uncontrolled emotions. Now, he only metaphorically haunts Apollo. It has a Klapollo leaning in the latter part of the fic, the first part being specifically about Apollo and the latter being Klavier finding him and attempting to bring him home.

JustQuill- A strange JustQuill idea somewhere between fluff and hurt/comfort, along with some humor in which Athena is simultaneously the worst and best friend. Honestly, anyone who texts “GOOD LUCK AND GET THAT JUSTASS” probably isn’t the best influence, but Simon loves her anyways.

Klapollo A/B/O AU- A completely SFW A/B/O Au, because I was pissed off at not being able to find any of that particular AU that didn’t contain rape or sexual assault in some way, shape, or form. Mostly it’s a fluffy, romantic fic in which Apollo is an omega who goes into heat, Klavier is an unwitting Alpha who’s head over heels for him and had no idea about him prior, and Phoenix is a protective Alpha dad who will probably try to murder Klavier if he even thinks about hurting Apollo. Mostly it’s feelsy fluff because spite, the best motivator.

Dangan Ronpa

KuzuSouda Post-SDR2- A strange, freeverse poetry fic in which Souda is doing pretty badly after SDR2 and Kuzuryuu is concerned. I haven’t messed with Dangan Ronpa outside of the first two games, so I’m not sure what goes on with them, but this might be worth finishing if only because it’s so far removed from my usual fic style that it could be interesting.

KuzuSouDam/SonPeko- This one is a fic with two different ships. The idea is Usami during School Mode having them clean the hospital when a storm comes up because Monokuma is a dick. Gundam’s hamsters were out in the storm so Souda gets sick of him pacing and goes out into it, Kuzuryuu and Gundam chasing after him. Meanwhile, Sonia and Peko remain behind because Peko is afraid of lightning and they have some Total Gal Pal Time™ (That’s a lie, they’re lesbians together, but shhhhhh). Basically it’s all very gay and also discovering some things about Souda and Peko, personal headcanons of mine.

Souda makes peopel gay- Yes I’m aware there’s a typo, but it’s much funnier to leave it in. Basically, this is a fic about Souda wearing this to breakfast one day and a lot of people questioning their sexualities. Completely inspired by that pic in the link.

SouKomaZombieAU- This is basically what it says on the tin, SouKoma in a zombie apocalypse AU. It’s already over 4k words long and just generally planned to be a long fic with somewhat slow burn.

Fire Emblem

LeoKumi-comfort- A LeoKumi fic about how damaged both of them are. Mostly hurt/comfort.

Niles/Takumi/Leo- A fic about pining, self-esteem, and weird love triangles. Leo loves Takumi, Niles loves Leo and ends up falling for Takumi, and Takumi falls for Leo. I think. Basically fluff, really.

Metal Fight Beyblade

SoraRyuu- A fic I’ve written and rewritten for probably nearly 7 years now, and I still can’t seem to finish it. Partially because I don’t think anyone would read it, which makes motivation difficult. Basically, this takes place after the events of the Metal Fight Series and Sora is attacked, saved by Ryuuga without recognizing him. They travel and fall for each other and it’s all very dopey.

SoraRyuu Snow/Lightning- Another SoraRyuu fic, this time centering around them awkwardly dancing around their feelings for one another and comparing each other to their thematically appropriate thing.

RWBY

JauneRen Confession thing- Martial Arcs where Jaune and Ren confess their feelings for one another, mostly fluff and such.

JauneRen SequelTo MaybeNextTime- This was meant to be a sequel to my fic Maybe Next Time, this time on Jaune’s side of things. Still more implied smut than actual smut, though still mildly NSFW.

JauneRenNeptune thing- This time there’s an outline, and honestly, I’m just going to let you look at it because it’s far better than me trying to summarize it:

Nepsage SunScarBG StripperAU- An AU in which team SSSN are strippers and Neptune falls head over heels for Sage while Sun and Scarlet have an established relationship in the BG.

NeptunePyrrha Regal- A small Neptune/Pyrrha fic. There’s not much to it, at the moment, simply fluff between the two.

Voltron

Actual Gay Disaster™ Keith- A fic in which Keith is a Gay Disaster, Pidge gives the worst romantic advice, Hunk is supportive, and Lance has no idea. Generally just a humorous Klance fic.

some rainy klance thing- A much more feel-sy Klance fic, done in a lot of the same style as Intimacy, but not in the same continuity.

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Trigger Warnings: burned skin, arson, poison, illness, murder, death mention, character death, hospitalization, long post

It had begun with the screams and harrowing accusations of the phantoms clinging to the detective. Screaming “Guilty!” and to end this farce of a court deliberation. 

When Selena does open her tired eyes to see the burns of the victims of that apartment complex fire which her memory cannot recall, the scents or smoke and burnt flesh causes her to shakily cough into her own burnt hands.

Accused of arson and the murder of her own boss she is. With the motivation of being slowly poisoned by him and the recovered video footage of the detective’s silhouette not only shooting him point blank but also setting his body on fire with a lighter and a jug of flammable liquid inside the apartment lounge then running up the stairs, the odds are stacked against her and Lady Luck is not on her side.

The faces of the prosecutor and her defense lawyer in their shouting match are blurred. She raises a trembling hand to rub her eyes only to find that her sight is still blurry. She couldn’t recognize who is behind the defense stand. For a moment, Selena could remember the prosecutor’s last name. It is “Paine” wasn’t it?

The detective violently shivers as if the temperature suddenly dropped and coughs into one hand, the other gripping onto the witness stand knuckle-white tight.

She recalls her own illness and calling in sick early before her shift and falling asleep soon after ending the call. Then waking to Umbra barking into her ears and jumping on her as smoke filled the apartment complex. The window leading to the fire escape locked from the outside.

Her dog pulling her sleeve, leading her out and when they reached the stairs, a sharp pain on the back of her head which prompted her to black out and injure herself on the stairs. She firmly believed it had been falling debris that caused the event.

Was this illness really the result of a slow poison that was supposedly found in the coffee he had regularly given her day to day as the prosecutor says? The detective wasn’t even aware until it had been brought up in the court room and appeared visibly shocked by the betrayal.

It takes a moment to acknowledge to deafening silence which now occupies the courtroom. Selena slowly perks her head up to see that the prosecutions and the defense’s mouths were speaking as if they were on mute. The apartment ghosts which once haunted her have suddenly disappeared. Her chest grows uncomfortably tight.

The loud “thud” from behind startles her. The detective slowly turns around to find herself on the floor, lying motionless. Morbid curiosity brings her to cautiously step around to crouch down and study herself, eventually poking her body in the cheek with her finger phasing through the clammy flesh. With a loud yelp, Selena immediately pulls herself to her feet and takes a few steps back out of shock and fright. 

“Am I really...Wait, they’re still arguing.” She stares at both benches for a moment, trying to discern words from their now not-so silent voices, “How long until they notice...?” 

The answer is fifteen seconds. The courtroom becomes chaos. 

Spectators scrambling from their seats in the gallery to leave. The Judge screaming for order and one bailiff giving her body chest compressions. One of the bailiffs rush out, presumably to call emergency services. “Paine” yells, accusing her of taking “the coward’s way out” which earns a scoff from her ghost. 

“And to think that cup of tea was supposed to help keep me awake...” Selena mutters sarcastically to herself, “Then about fifteen minutes later, I drop dead. Literally.” She pauses, as a piece of a puzzle clicks.

“Wait…Wasn’t there an existing poison that once ingested takes fifteen minutes to kill…?” The ghost whispers to herself, beginning to pace, “If that is the case then they wished me dead…I must have known something if they wished for my silence this badly.”

“I want to know how my trial ends. The truth of it all. I hope that they wouldn’t mind if stuck around a bit longer to find out…” The medics rush in with a gurney, immediately taking over. She watches momentarily as if contemplating whether to follow then turns her head.

The trial will be resumed the next day to determine Selena Wolfsong’s verdict in the murder of Chief Warden and the unfortunate souls of the Twilight Complex arson.

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Trigger Warnings: alcoholism, alcohol mention, bullying 

Before Selena grew up to help run the Night-Light Reads with her father and sister [then much later with her stepmother], she was one hell of a delinquent child. 

The Wolfsong sisters’ birth mother, Leliel, died of illness just before Selena reached middle school and her death took a heavy toll on everyone. When their mother died, the warmth of home seemed to have died with her.

Little Solaria learned to fake a smile while their father put up a false cheery front during the bookstore’s business hours then later sank into a bottle in front of a television in the darkness of their living room for hours upon end. 

Selena resorted to anger and all she could do was sink inside her own grief. She would constantly skip classes and when she didn’t, she fought with students and was constantly sent to the principal’s office. Her grades dropped as her interest in learning dwindled. Her mother’s ghost never visited them.

It did not help that her other classmates would recall that she can see “imaginary friends” and constantly talked about her behind her back. Sometimes, they ended up with a bloody, broken nose. Other times, it was she who would get beaten up. The instructors would swear that the girl was possessed by a demon. 

But, the only reasons that she wasn’t expelled was that Principle Jade was a close friend of her mother; and her friend’s daughter’s anger, her lashing out, it broke their heart and worried them sick. They would try to reach out to her except that Selena was blinded by her own grief and rage. But, Selena always kept their business card, with their personal number written on the back, inside her grey sweater pocket.

After hours, she would break into a nearby automobile dump and let it all out. Selena broke the windshields, the mirrors, and the windows of the already broken-down vehicles slated for death row. If there was anything there that can be broken, Selena broke it all with a silver-colored bat. The police were constantly called on her and eventually, they would nickname her the ‘Silver Demon’. 

Selena got away almost every time. The ghosts, those who likely died of car accidents and have nowhere else to go, there acted as her look-outs and informed her when the police were close. She would make it home hours after nightfall and slip in through the two-story window, meant to be the fire escape, without her father ever noticing. How could he when his eyes were always on the television with a drink in his hand?

One night and just before summer vacation kicked off, Selena was betrayed by the phantoms whom she thought were her friends. They were worried about her and they can hear secrets in the air that are beyond their little ghost whisperer’s reach and they learned that there were people who were interested in the Silver Demon. So, to protect her, they did the one thing that she never thought they’d do. The ghosts were silent and hid from her. Because the ghosts weren’t there to play lookout, Selena was finally caught by the police and taken down to their station.

The police would call their father and because they found the business card inside her sweater, went ahead and called the principal over too. Principal Jade arrives first, and she and the attending officer would find her huddled up in the corner of the cell, crying. Selena has finally hit rock bottom without hope. They were able to coax her out and speak with her. 

The girl let it all out and was able to release her tears in front of her while Principal Jade listened. Of how she missed her mother and how angry she is that she’s gone. Her confusion about why her ghost hasn’t come to visit them. The bullying and the fights, breaking into the automobile dump to break the cars. Of home not feeling like home. It was all too much. Selena would cry herself to sleep.

An hour later, her panicked father would arrive with a sleepy Solaria in tow. He doesn’t know the full story and is worried that his eldest daughter was physically hurt. Because Selena was asleep, Jade explains what she has told her and her father broke down.

The police would allow her to go home that night, but not without punishment. Selena Wolfsong would be sentenced to a summer’s worth of community service in juvenile court, but she carried it out with a smile. Not to mention, her father has already grounded her for that summer. He would soften up on occasion and allow her to watch one movie with him and her little sister with a giant bowl of popcorn on his lap.

The Wolfsong family would go to a therapist throughout that summer and Selena’s 8th-grade year through her sophomore year to help process Leliel’s death and their father’s alcoholism. The bottles weren’t put away immediately, but they would gradually disappear. Her father and Principal Jade became close friends and the sisters loved her.

Their broken home is healing and Selena would barely graduate middle school. When she did, her father would gift her and Solaria a silver locket with a small single gemstone, a rainbow moonstone for Selena and golden amber for Solaria, and a Wolfsong family portrait inside. 

Selena would excel in high school and she’d graduate with the only single fight she started being a food fight instead of fists. Those who knew her in middle school would be so confused by her seemingly sudden 180 in personality.