Town Meeting

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John awoke at his usual early hour on the morning of the town meeting. He dressed with slightly more than usual care in his suit of clothes from home, broke his fast with a light meal, and headed to the Golden Horseshoe to ensure that things were the way he wanted.

The chairs and small tables were already perfectly arranged, but John dragged a podium he found backstage out to the front of the curtain. Then he bustled about in the kitchen area setting out drinks and whatever small snacks he could find back there.

Before long, interested citizens began filing in and he went up to the podium. There was no microphone because he'd never heard of such a thing, but John Adams never had difficulty making himself heard.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome. If you would please pick up any refreshments you'd care for and take your seats, we'll begin in just a few minutes."

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[demoted-again.livejournal.com]

Gumshoe had, more or less, followed Leon to the meeting, whether he realized it or not. He was sure to keep a great distance away as he wandered over and inspected the snack table, though.
After happily picking away at the little treats all about, he turned back around to see that Leon had already taken a seat. Feeling as though it'd be unfair to his new friend to ditch him, he walked over by Leon with his usual dopey smile.

"Hey! Mind if I come sit with you, pal?" of course, he asked this as he parked his big self beside Leon.

((yay, nay? o_O))

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Leon jumped a little, and then turned to Gumshoe. Being lost in his own thoughts, he hadn't noticed Gumshoe at all. "Uh, no, not at all," he said. "If you wanna sit, go for it.

[demoted-again.livejournal.com]

Dick couldn't help but jump a little as well when Leon did.

"S-sorry, sorry, did I scare you?" he asked, and he made himself comfortable in the seat, hands fully equipped with a little plate of goodies. He smiled again and quietly offered some to Leon.

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"Not at all," said Leon. "Just startled me." He frowned. "I guess I should be on my toes today though, if I intend to speak."

He looked at the plate that Gumshoe offered him, and shook his head. "No thanks, I don't really like sweets."

[demoted-again.livejournal.com]

"Hehe...you'll speak, and I'll agree, okay? I'm not too good at these kind of things..."

He bit his lip and looked around. He shrugged when Leon declined his offer, but decided he would save some treats for him just in case--he hadn't known too many people who would reject sweets, except maybe Mr. Edgeworth, but there were even some things that he knew of that Edgeworth couldn't turn down...at least from him, but maybe that was because he kept trying to push it onto him.

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Carrot arrived, uncharacteristically late because his mun was reading Dumbledore fanfiction yesterday he had been preparing a few arguments that he felt might become necessary.

"Commander," he said pleasantly to Leon, and then glanced at Gumshoe. "Ah, hello, you must be a recent arrival. I'm Captain Carrot, pleased to meet you."

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"This is detective Dick Gumshoe," said Leon, nodding towards Gumshoe. "A Homicide Detective on the LAPD - though in my future - and my roommate for the time being. You ready for this?"

[demoted-again.livejournal.com]

Dick chuckled and nodded, and happily outstretched his hand toward Carrot. "Hey, it's great to meet you, too!"

[kzadbhat.livejournal.com]

Carrot smiled and shook Dick's hand. "It's always nice to meet another officer. If Detective Orcott is any example, you certainly work for a commendable force. If this meeting goes at all well, I hope we'll be seeing you joining us."

Carrot was getting a somewhat 'Sergeant Colon' feel from Dick Gumshoe, but that didn't mean he was being in any way dishonest. Carrot respected Colon, and thought that he was a very good copper if you ignored all the ways that he wasn't. He had been one of the first people to teach Carrot how to really be a police officer, at any rate.

He turned to Leon. "I think I am, sir. Either way this goes, I'm sure it will be for the best to get the people here thinking about these issues."