(May 20th) (Bleach / Phoenix Wright) Order In The Court: Part XX
Title: Order In The Court: Part XX
Day/Theme: 20th May / Waiting for the sandbox to blow
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Dahlia, various
Rating: G
"What were you doing outside the Academy?" Apollo demanded.
Dahlia Hawthorne blushed, put the tips of her fingers to her lips, hesitated, and then cast a tearful glance at Yamamoto. "I don't want to get anyone else in trouble -- I'm so embarrassed about the situation --"
"Mr Justice!" Yamamoto snapped. "Refrain from harassing this poor witness."
Apollo tried not to flinch. "With respect, Your Honour, if she could just tell us why she was outside the Academy, it might be relevant."
"I was going to meet someone," Dahlia said. Her blush deepened. "He asked me to come out to meet him by night -- he was so handsome, so commanding, but when I went there he'd never come, and I . . ." She raised a fragile handkerchief to the corner of her eye, and sniffled a sweet little sniffle.
All the men in the audience sighed.
"Perhaps the lovely fraulein would like to tell us precisely what she saw and when she saw it," Klavier suggested.
Dahlia trembled, but visibly steeled herself. "It was somewhere between midnight and one o'clock. I was waiting in the shadow of the corner of the square near the East Tower. I saw Captain Aizen come walking up along with Captain Hitsugaya. They were talking about something --"
"What?" Apollo pounced.
"Objection!" Klavier called. "Let the fraulein finish her statement before you begin the cross-examination, Herr Forehead."
"Sustained," Yamamoto said, with an admonitory wave of his staff. "Do go on, my dear, if you feel strong enough."
Dahlia tossed her hair. Metaphorical white butterflies fluttered around her head. "I didn't like to listen too closely. But then while Captain Aizen was paying attention to what Captain Hitsugaya was saying, this strange man jumped down from the roof and stabbed Captain Aizen from behind! I was too scared to do anything, so I hid there. Then Captain Hitsugaya used his zanpakutou to make ice all over the place to wash off the blood, and he and the stranger carried Captain Aizen's dead body away. I --" She choked, and wiped tears away again. "I ran back to the Academy. I was so scared . . ."
"And can you see anyone in court who looks like this man?" Klavier asked.
Dahlia pointed a trembling finger at Kurosaki Ichigo. "He looks like him -- but the man I saw had a white and black mask over his face."
"And what were Captain Aizen and Captain Hitsugaya talking about?" Klavier asked, as Kurosaki Ichigo attempted to object violently and was suppressed by the court ninjas.
"Oh, but I didn't like to eavesdrop . . ." Dahlia trailed off.
"I'm sure that you didn't, fraulein," Klavier reassured her. "But perhaps you couldn't help hearing something, however hard you tried not to."
Dahlia blushed delicately again. "They -- they were saying something about Hinamori Momo -- and about the Execution Scaffold . . ."
"You know," Phoenix muttered to Mia, "if I didn't know better, I'd say that someone had actually given her a checklist of the most damaging things she could possibly say."
"How do you know they haven't?" Mia replied, keeping her voice equally low.
Phoenix frowned. "But that'd imply someone knew about us, and about our past history with her, and is deliberately using that to get her to provide false testimony, and has some sort of plot that involves getting both those two condemned, and --"
"Yes," Mia said thoughtfully. "Yes, it would, wouldn't it."
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Compilation Order in the Court post.
Day/Theme: 20th May / Waiting for the sandbox to blow
Series: Bleach / Phoenix Wright
Character/Pairing: Dahlia, various
Rating: G
"What were you doing outside the Academy?" Apollo demanded.
Dahlia Hawthorne blushed, put the tips of her fingers to her lips, hesitated, and then cast a tearful glance at Yamamoto. "I don't want to get anyone else in trouble -- I'm so embarrassed about the situation --"
"Mr Justice!" Yamamoto snapped. "Refrain from harassing this poor witness."
Apollo tried not to flinch. "With respect, Your Honour, if she could just tell us why she was outside the Academy, it might be relevant."
"I was going to meet someone," Dahlia said. Her blush deepened. "He asked me to come out to meet him by night -- he was so handsome, so commanding, but when I went there he'd never come, and I . . ." She raised a fragile handkerchief to the corner of her eye, and sniffled a sweet little sniffle.
All the men in the audience sighed.
"Perhaps the lovely fraulein would like to tell us precisely what she saw and when she saw it," Klavier suggested.
Dahlia trembled, but visibly steeled herself. "It was somewhere between midnight and one o'clock. I was waiting in the shadow of the corner of the square near the East Tower. I saw Captain Aizen come walking up along with Captain Hitsugaya. They were talking about something --"
"What?" Apollo pounced.
"Objection!" Klavier called. "Let the fraulein finish her statement before you begin the cross-examination, Herr Forehead."
"Sustained," Yamamoto said, with an admonitory wave of his staff. "Do go on, my dear, if you feel strong enough."
Dahlia tossed her hair. Metaphorical white butterflies fluttered around her head. "I didn't like to listen too closely. But then while Captain Aizen was paying attention to what Captain Hitsugaya was saying, this strange man jumped down from the roof and stabbed Captain Aizen from behind! I was too scared to do anything, so I hid there. Then Captain Hitsugaya used his zanpakutou to make ice all over the place to wash off the blood, and he and the stranger carried Captain Aizen's dead body away. I --" She choked, and wiped tears away again. "I ran back to the Academy. I was so scared . . ."
"And can you see anyone in court who looks like this man?" Klavier asked.
Dahlia pointed a trembling finger at Kurosaki Ichigo. "He looks like him -- but the man I saw had a white and black mask over his face."
"And what were Captain Aizen and Captain Hitsugaya talking about?" Klavier asked, as Kurosaki Ichigo attempted to object violently and was suppressed by the court ninjas.
"Oh, but I didn't like to eavesdrop . . ." Dahlia trailed off.
"I'm sure that you didn't, fraulein," Klavier reassured her. "But perhaps you couldn't help hearing something, however hard you tried not to."
Dahlia blushed delicately again. "They -- they were saying something about Hinamori Momo -- and about the Execution Scaffold . . ."
"You know," Phoenix muttered to Mia, "if I didn't know better, I'd say that someone had actually given her a checklist of the most damaging things she could possibly say."
"How do you know they haven't?" Mia replied, keeping her voice equally low.
Phoenix frowned. "But that'd imply someone knew about us, and about our past history with her, and is deliberately using that to get her to provide false testimony, and has some sort of plot that involves getting both those two condemned, and --"
"Yes," Mia said thoughtfully. "Yes, it would, wouldn't it."
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Compilation Order in the Court post.