Beware! Here be OOC! Might be...I'm not too sure...

Maya, 19, Pearl, 9

"Maya!"

The nine-year old prodigy hurried through the chamber, arms laden with a plain manila folder in her hands. She had just dealt with a rather...awkward Edgeworth (the man had escape plans almost as brilliant as his prosecuting techniques) and was a little tired; after a grueling argument about nothing, like their conversations always were. Rarely had they ever seen eye-to-eye.

As if sensing her discomfort, Pearl slowed and put the papers down on the table, watching Maya's back intently.

"Maya?" she said quietly. "Are you alright?"

Maya smiled and waved her away. "Oh, it's nothing Pearl, don't worry about it! I was just, umm, thinking about someone-something-and I was-"

Pearl interrupted her rambling. "Someone? Your special someone?" A grin crept slowly upon her face. "Was Mr. Nick here? I-"

"No, Mr. Nick was not here, Pearl. Miles was; we were discussing a case of his because one of the families was interested in the work of a spirit channeller that's all. Nothing like that."

Pearl pursed her lips in contemplation. "Be careful! I know I have Nick's fidelity ensured, but you have to do your part too!"

Maya choked a little, it might have been a cough, it might have been a laugh, she really wasn't sure. She didn't really want to tell the steadfast Pearl about her fantasies with Edgeworth; she valued the little girl too much.

"Of course, I was definitely doing my part-even though it's nonexistent, because we're only friends, and ummm...I was just chatting with Edgeworth, and you know him, he's a little strange like that," she stopped suddenly and frowned slightly, chewing her lower lip. She was beginning to ramble and Pearl's large, brown, seemingly knowing gaze had hardly changed at all.

"I think I'll stop now, yeah?" she smiled, and Pearl beamed back.

"Yup!"

Maya followed Pearl on her journey into the summoning chamber; though the Fey family hadn't had any clients in a while, Pearl loved practicing and as strange as it was to Maya, chatting with her channels. Maya really had no intentions of cutting off the prodigy's experiments and curiosity and easily squashed down the tiniest slivers of jealousy at the nine-year old girl's skills with her abilities. She looked forward to the future when Pearl would take over the clan; but unlike how Maya had been hurriedly rushed into power, she was willing to prepare Pearl for it.

As Pearl set up her papers and sat in a comfortable position in the dim, homely room, she spoke again, breaking the silence that had settle over the two.

"What were to talking to Mr. Edgeworth about?" she asked, not looking up from her materials.

"Eh?"

"What were you talking to Mr. Edgeworth about?" she reiterated slowly and slightly louder. Maya smiled slightly at Pearl's slight sarcasm (though the girl probably hadn't meant it that way).

"Oh nothing. We were talking about our sisters..."

"Mr. Edgeworth has a sister?"

"Adopted. He wouldn't talk much about it, and then he just left," she said, and frowned at the memory. Pearl cocked a dubious eyebrow.

"He left?"

"Yeah...hey, Pearl?"

At Maya's suddenly inquisitive tone, she looked up. "Yes?"

Maya leaned forward from her kneeling position, a mischievous smile creeping up her face slowly. "Do you think you could channel someone from the pasty? If that someone's still alive?"

Pearl scrunched her nose up in contemplation. "Like, a memory?"

"Exactly like that..."

Yeah, this'll be a tri-chapter fic. Sorry. I'm not exactly sure how the channeling process goes...I hope I didn't make tham too ooc, and if I did, boo-hoo. Consider it a canon-AU.`

Originally, Pearl wasn't going to be in this fic but she was so cute I couldn't resist. Special someone indeed~! (I read a little about her and found a clip of where she shows up in the manga) XD

Hope you like it so far Kelley!

YellowWomanontheBrink

Feb.6.2013