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Phoenix blinked awake, staring around himself with blurry eyes. The doors. The guards. The nondescript art dangling over his couch.
"Court will resume in two minutes," the bailiff announced.
Phoenix sat up and noted the papers scattered around himself. The flash of his badge caught his eye. "Oh no," he groaned.
"Daddy! What are you doing?" A blue-caped girl sprinted into the room in a panic. "It's time to go!"
Daddy? Phoenix didn't
Phoenix didn't remember ever becoming a dad. The last thing he remembers is seeing Miles off after the case in witch he fell off a bridge.
He definitely wasn't fond of getting amnesia right before a trial again. "At least this time I remember I'm a lawyer and my name at least" He thought to himself as he looked at the blue-caped girl who sprinted into the room.
"Let me just get the papers together then I can go in. You're not the defendant are you?" He says to Trucy as he gathers the papers spread around him.
"What? Of course not Daddy! I'm here to help you out and make sure you appear in court. Did you fall asleep on the bench again daddy?" The blue-caped girl said as she walked with Phoenix towards the courtroom.
I really need to stop doing that, Phoenix thought to himself. At least he had someone to help him out this time. When it wasn't Mia coming to bail him out, it was a weird little girl, apparently his daughter this time.
"What year is it?" he asked the girl. "And, uh, what's your name?"
The girl clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh no," she gasped. "You don't remember me? I'm Trucy, I've lived with you for nine years..." She reached into her bag. "I have to call someone."
Phoenix didn't know what was going on, but he was glad Trucy