Behind the Wall
A Collaboration by @mdelpin and @oryu404
Lyoke Week 2020 Prompt: Family Pairing(s): Lyon & Loke (Pre-relationship)
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Summary: Loke is stunned when he finds Lyon sulking at the bar, and learns that he might be a father to a teenage girl. He starts to see the man he’d often thought of as cold in a new light, and is pleasantly surprised to discover that there’s so much more to the family lawyer than he’d ever considered.
August 26, 2020
Loke entered Crime Sorciere after a long day in court. Handing his briefcase over to Natsu to put behind the bar, he took a seat next to Lyon, awaiting some sort of friendly insult in greeting, surprised when he didn’t get one.
“What’s the matter with him?” Loke asked Natsu as he ordered his usual drink, noticing that Lyon was staring off into space. “Did he lose a case or something?”
“I don’t think so. When he loses a case, he just goes off into a rant,” Natsu shrugged, mixing Loke’s drink before walking away to talk to another customer.
Loke decided that if Lyon wanted to talk, he’d do so, and seeing a pretty girl a few stools over, he introduced himself. When he returned twenty minutes later, he noticed Lyon had not seemed to have moved an inch.
Motioning Natsu for another drink, he stared at his friend with concern, “Okay, that’s it! You’re acting creepy as hell. What’s gotten into you?”
Lyon seemed to notice his presence for the first time, startling out of his trance and blinking at him, “Did you say something?”
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