Satisfactory (If Not Perfect)
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Satisfactory (If Not Perfect) by griffonage
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
28 Dec 2020
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It had started fairly innocuously. A visit back to Los Angeles for a legal conference. An email, to an old address she barely checked anymore, from a girl she remembered a little too well. A subpar oat milk cappuccino in an over-air-conditioned cafe, and Maya Fey across the table from her, going on about something that foolish man had said while she devoured a cupcake with enthusiasm bordering on obscene.
Franziska can't remember what she had been saying. She can remember how Maya had had a small bit of vanilla frosting on her lip. She can remember reaching across the table to smudge it away with her thumb.
What, exactly, had made her take such a step - Franziska does not know. It doesn't really matter. The frosting had been a promise.
And Franziska von Karma does not make empty promises.
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- Part 1 of Satisfactory (If Not Perfect)
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There is a small voice which tells her, smugly, that there is a reason she is attracted to Maya Fey even in this objectively unflattering moment, and that it has much in common with why Franziska had let herself be cajoled into driving to a fast food restaurant at midnight in the middle of a rainstorm, instead of insisting they go back to her hotel.
It is a singularly irritating voice. Franziska hides her displeasure in another bite of her burger.
"So," Maya says. "Can I ask you a question?"
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Late at night, in one of LA's rare rainstorms, Franziska picks up Maya Fey at a train station. Things develop from there - just not exactly how Franziska expects them to.
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- Part 2 of Satisfactory (If Not Perfect)