On old stories and gay lawyers

I'm in a full-blown Ace Attorney relapse; I didn't play Dual Destinies or Spirit of Justice when they came out, because I didn't get a 3DS until last year. I'm actually kind of glad I waited, because it meant I was able to play it on a New 2DS XL, which is a vastly superior device compared to what was out at the time. I picked up Dual Destinies again (I actually started it last year and put it down) and have been powering through it. I'm probably going to do a full write-up of it after I finish, but for now I have this anecdote:

Fully 12 years ago, I wrote my first PW fic, Moonlighting. In it, because that fandom was an absolute playground, Phoenix accidentally becomes an escort at a club and Miles finds out and rescues him (my views on sex work were different in 2007, but Phoenix has the job because he's clueless about what they want him to do, not because he wants to do the work). The story ends on a cliffhanger, because I was kind of disappointed with it and never finished it. At the end of what's posted, Miles gets a call from Phoenix, from jail, but the content of the call is not in the story.

I thought, much like other stories I haven't finished, I had forgotten what was supposed to come next. But then I remembered exactly what happens: Phoenix gets busted when the club is raided, because he goes back to pick up his check.

I still find this to be delightfully in character, and now I am tempted to finish it.