“Athena, can you get that?” His eyes continue to follow the words on the report, reading carefully before moving on to the next line. He was glad that he hadn’t powered through and finished his stack of paperwork the night before - he would have gone loopy! However, after a few moments of no responses from the young attorney, he sighs. That probably meant she was either out practicing magic tricks with Trucy (aka being his daughter’s guinea pig) or had dashed out on an errand without telling him.
Peeking his head out his office door, Phoenix finds nobody at her desk. Upon closer inspection, a note is discovered with the words ‘went out for more orange juice! we ran out! >o<’
(Is orange juice really that important…?)
Shrugging it of, he steps over to answer the door. Best not to keep whoever was on the other side waiting. They might be a client! Ah, but it isn’t a client who’s stood there…
“A-Apollo?!” His exclamation could have given the other a run for his money in terms of volume. Almost. “What are you doing here?!” He doesn’t wait for the other to answer as he pulls him into a hug, not even caring if it might embarrass the other. “It’s so good to see you!”
What little of the office he could see over Phoenix’s shoulder looked largely the same. That poor body separation chamber was still a shelf, there were a couple empty OJ bottles, and he spied his own suit jacket hanging over the back of the couch. Home. He was home, even if only briefly. But more than the office, the feeling of the warm embrace from his mentor made him feel more at home than anything in that room ever could have.
He returns the hug just as happily, chuckling as his ears rang slightly. Was this what he put everyone else through? Then he didn’t see anything wrong with it, not when it made him feel this warm.
“Trying to see if you can match my chords of steel. You’re about ten decibels too low, but a good attempt nonetheless” He finally extricated himself from Phoenix’s grasp and flashed him a wide grin. “Well, I got through the first three hundred cases laid on me, and Nahyuta petitioned for a week off from the work with Rayfa, so here I am! It’s good to see you, too, Mr. Wright.”