How To Save A Life (100moods - Prompt #94: Thankful)
Title: How To Save A Life
Fandom: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Characters: Miles Edgeworth x Franziska von Karma
Prompt: #94 (Thankful) // August 30, 2009 (i wanted to see you walking away from me)
Word Count: 520
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Character spoilers, mentions of death, blood, and violence.
Summary: Miles never says so, but this really makes all the difference.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
A/N: Written for lunareuphoria - request here.
How To Save A Life
As a prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth has seen a lot. Blood and limbs torn from their sockets and frozen bodies and knives and guns don't faze him at all anymore. He'll think it's just a wreck when he sees those things, and he vows that the suspect and the defense attorney he'll be facing in court will fail and be punished no matter what, because that's what they truly deserve.
But when it comes to elevators...
To put it simply, Miles doesn't like elevators.
They crash through the roof and through the floor, crash straight through his heart. Without his permission, they take him up to the highest place they can go with no way to get back down, a place as high as the top of the mountain where everyone's deserted left for dead. They make him pay for his sins, and he has no choice but to hope and pray that he'll be able to open his eyes again and be able to sleep for the next few weeks without nightmares.
*
As a prosecutor, Franziska von Karma has seen a lot, too. Foolish fools with their foolish ideals of worlds with no competition and imperfection aren't something that she enjoys. Defense attorneys with their foolish techniques of finding small and insignificant contraditions in testimonies are people she could live without as well.
But when it comes to her brother and elevators...
To put it simply, Franziska just pretends not to like Miles and his justified fear of elevators.
Elevators don't scare her one bit. They bring her one step closer to victory, after all, and she can't deny such an opening. She's also never had a phobia of heights, and no harrowing experiences that happened inside of them. She pushes the button to signal that she wants to use the elevator, watches the doors open ever so slowly, steps on, selects where she wants to go, and she walks away without a care in the world when it's all over.
*
Since they're both prosecutors and since they consider each other as siblings, they work together sometimes, and they're required to ride on elevators to reach their destinations from time to time.
She tells him that it's all right, and he knows that he can believe her and he steps to face his fear.
He falters and falls, and she doesn't falter, but she falls, too, to make sure that he's still breathing.
He wakes and sees her annoyed and sad expression and turns away to avoid seeing the whip come his way for passing out in the first place.
She threatens to leave him there, but she stays, even when he tells her over and over again that he really does want her to leave.
She says that he can't stay at her place no matter how much he begs, and he says that's fine, because he doesn't want to anyway, but he shows up in the middle of the night for weeks and she doesn't mind.
Her heart breaks silently for his as it heals slowly.
And he never says so, but that really makes all the difference.
Fandom: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Characters: Miles Edgeworth x Franziska von Karma
Prompt: #94 (Thankful) // August 30, 2009 (i wanted to see you walking away from me)
Word Count: 520
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Character spoilers, mentions of death, blood, and violence.
Summary: Miles never says so, but this really makes all the difference.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
A/N: Written for lunareuphoria - request here.
How To Save A Life
As a prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth has seen a lot. Blood and limbs torn from their sockets and frozen bodies and knives and guns don't faze him at all anymore. He'll think it's just a wreck when he sees those things, and he vows that the suspect and the defense attorney he'll be facing in court will fail and be punished no matter what, because that's what they truly deserve.
But when it comes to elevators...
To put it simply, Miles doesn't like elevators.
They crash through the roof and through the floor, crash straight through his heart. Without his permission, they take him up to the highest place they can go with no way to get back down, a place as high as the top of the mountain where everyone's deserted left for dead. They make him pay for his sins, and he has no choice but to hope and pray that he'll be able to open his eyes again and be able to sleep for the next few weeks without nightmares.
*
As a prosecutor, Franziska von Karma has seen a lot, too. Foolish fools with their foolish ideals of worlds with no competition and imperfection aren't something that she enjoys. Defense attorneys with their foolish techniques of finding small and insignificant contraditions in testimonies are people she could live without as well.
But when it comes to her brother and elevators...
To put it simply, Franziska just pretends not to like Miles and his justified fear of elevators.
Elevators don't scare her one bit. They bring her one step closer to victory, after all, and she can't deny such an opening. She's also never had a phobia of heights, and no harrowing experiences that happened inside of them. She pushes the button to signal that she wants to use the elevator, watches the doors open ever so slowly, steps on, selects where she wants to go, and she walks away without a care in the world when it's all over.
*
Since they're both prosecutors and since they consider each other as siblings, they work together sometimes, and they're required to ride on elevators to reach their destinations from time to time.
She tells him that it's all right, and he knows that he can believe her and he steps to face his fear.
He falters and falls, and she doesn't falter, but she falls, too, to make sure that he's still breathing.
He wakes and sees her annoyed and sad expression and turns away to avoid seeing the whip come his way for passing out in the first place.
She threatens to leave him there, but she stays, even when he tells her over and over again that he really does want her to leave.
She says that he can't stay at her place no matter how much he begs, and he says that's fine, because he doesn't want to anyway, but he shows up in the middle of the night for weeks and she doesn't mind.
Her heart breaks silently for his as it heals slowly.
And he never says so, but that really makes all the difference.