The Closer You Look.

Jack/OC

Summary: The Atlas siblings were separated by the state when they were young. Now grown, Kenzie is only a little pissed her brother never tried to reach out for her after becoming a slightly famous magician, then they are thrown together by the Eye.

Chapter One: Temperance.

February 20, 2012, 7:45 PM,

The crowd roared as I finished up my simple sleight of hand trick and sent my friend Liza off stage. I turned back to the crowd.

"Thank you! But, the night is not over yet, we have one more trick for you guys since you guys have been such a great audience!" I said, being met with yet another round of applause. I smiled at them.

"I'm going to need my very best friend, and partner up on stage. Please welcome Tyler!" I waved my friend onto the stage, and he ran out.

"Oh Kenzie, you are too kind to me, how are y'all doing tonight?" He greeted, hugging me tightly and then bowing to the crowd. Once they settled down, I continued.

"Now, for the last act, we are going to do something a little…" I looked to Ty to finish.

"Some would call it dangerous; we think it will be fun." He finished with a shrug.

"Yeah, let's go with that!" I agreed, laughing.

"We wanted to try this before, but, we both chickened out." I said,

"But, we have both gotten a little bit more confident, so, we figured, why not tonight?" Tyler agreed. Liza came running back on stage, carrying a box with a padlock on it. She set it on the table that Tyler had brought with him.

"Tonight, you are going to witness me… Catch a bullet… With my teeth." And just when you think the crowd couldn't get any crazier, they do just that.

"Yep, and as you can see, we haven't had access to the gun, it's been kept under lock and key, literally." Liza was handing Ty the gun, having unlocked the box.

"You need a really steady hand for this one, because as you can see, it's life or death." I explained.

"Alright, we need to concentrate for this one, so we will need absolute silence." Tyler added, getting into his stance. I nodded, taking a deep breath, getting into my own correct stance.

"You ready?" He asked. I nodded again, he raised the gun and pointed, my stomach clenched.

"No, wait…" I attempted to stop him, but he had already shot. And I went down. The crowd hushed, and after a second, I hopped up, spitting the bullet out as I did.

"Blech…" I wiped my mouth, and the crowd went crazy. Ty and I both took a bow and invited the other people in our little party on stage. Once the show was over, and the club was cleaned up, I went to grab my bag and noticed a card lying on top of it. Seeing as how I was alone in the room and I had just set the bag down, I was a little alarmed. I picked it up anyway and began to examine it. It was a tarot card, Temperance was written on one side, and on the opposite side was a picture of an eye and, a date, time, and address

MARCH 29

4:44 PM

45 EAST EVAN ST.

NY, NY

"Tyler, is this some kind of weird party invite?" I asked as I walked into the front of the club where he stood, bouncing in place.

"I'm not sure, but I gotta go. Dinner with my Dad and all that." He grabbed my arm and proceeded to pull me out the door. I shook my head at him, but I was slightly jealous. My mom and Dad both kind of went off the deep end…. My brother and I were taken away from them and shoved into the foster care system when we were 5 and 14. I had turned 18 just last year, and I was a little upset my brother never came to get me, seeing as how he was 9 years older than I. Magic was the only thing that kept me happy most of the time in all those homes. My brother and I both loved it, we had always put on shows for our parents. I shook these thoughts from my head and followed after him, bidding him a goodbye as he ran the opposite direction of our flat.

"Well, time to go home." I sighed. I stuffed the card into my purse and began to walk home.

March 29, 2012.

I walked down the street, keeping an eye out for the building. I was at building 50, so 5 more to go. The chilly New York air blew my hair, and I used the hand that wasn't occupied by mocha coffee to pull my beanie down farther down onto my head. I finally found the building, an old, creepy looking apartment building.

"It's all or nothing." I whispered. I had gotten into a huge fight with Tyler about going, he said it wasn't smart. I told him it was my choice, and he just shook his head and told me he would see me at my funeral. I shook my head, no, don't think about Tyler. He was wrong. You aren't being stupid. I took another sip of coffee and walked into the building. I found a room with three people standing in front of it,

"Another one?!" A voice demanded. There was a girl with red hair, an older man with a fedora on, and then the last person I ever expected to see.

"Oh my God…" His jaw dropped too,

"Uh oh… I sense some tension." Fedora Man, who I now recognized as Merritt Mckinney, a mentalist my old foster mother was obsessed with, sang.

"Danny, do you know her?" The red head chuckled, sounding curious.

"She's my…." He was cut off by someone coming up behind me, he was rather cute, a little older than me, and he noticed Danny first.

"No way, J. Daniel Atlas," He went to shake his hand.

"Dude I have seen everything you have ever done, you're like- I idolize you, seriously." He added, I chuckled slightly.

"A true fan," Daniel said and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm Jack by the way," The guy said, a grin on his face.

"Quick question, did you get one of these?" Merritt asked holding up his card.

"Yeah, yeah," Jack said pulling out his card,

"Death." He showed it to us,

"The High Priestess." The red head said,

"The Lover." Danny said as if it were impressive,

"Three minutes!" The girl fake coughed into her hand, causing Danny to glare at her and me to laugh, at which point he turned the glare to me. I merely shrugged.

"The Hermit," Merritt said, and all eyes turned to me.

"Temperance." I held it up, they all nodded, and Jack broke the awkward silence.

"So what? Are we waiting for someone? Why are we just-" He asked.

"The door's locked," The other three replied.

"No, no," Jack smiled, walking forward.

"Nothing's ever locked." He shot me what had to be the hottest smirk ever, I felt my face heat up, and butterflies erupt in my stomach, and the other girl nudged me playfully. I ignored her and watched as he bent down and unlocked the door with two paper clips. Before we knew it, we were in.

"I'm Henley Reeves by the way." The girl stuck her hand out.

"I'm Kenzie." I replied, shaking her hand. She smiled and we passed Jack to walk into the room. Seeing as it was dark, I pulled out my phone and turned on the light, same as Henley, and we walked in front of Jack, who shut the door behind us. As we walked, the whole apartment looked as if it hadn't been touched in years. The smell was awful, and I won't even go on about the bathroom. Just, yuck.

"Whoa, I thought my apartment was nasty," Merritt whistled.

"Is anyone else cold?" I asked. Even with my cardigan and boots on I was still freezing.

"I am too." Henley nodded, we huddled closer together and proceeded further into the grimy apartment. We made it to what looked like the living room, and I noticed a folded card, a rose, and a pitcher of water on the floor, near a strange looking symbol,

"What's that?" I asked.

"I don't know," Daniel said as he stooped down to pick up the card.

"What's it say?" Merritt asked.

"Now you don't…?" I said read over Danny's shoulder, and we exchanged a confused look.

"A rose by any other name," Henley placed the white rose into the pitcher as she walked by it and then things started to get a little freaky, water began leaking from the vase and into the symbol indented on the floor.

"Look at that," Merritt muttered,

"Whoa," Daniel said, and then all the water suddenly dropped and fog started coming up. I jumped back slightly, ready to book it out of there in case I started to feel a little wonky.

"It's gas," Jack sounded like he and I were on the same page of being freaked out.

"Relax it's just dry ice." Merritt spoke up, and I relaxed a little bit

"Cool," Henley whispered. Sure. Cool. I guess if you like creepy apartments, with possible gas leaks, and strange reunions cool.

"What do you think this is all about?" Daniel asked,

"Hang on, hang on," Merritt held his hand to his head, closing his eyes in concentration, I watched in curiosity.

"I got nothing," He said after a minute, I shook my head.

"Thank you for the delay!" Daniel snapped in obvious irritation.

"I'm just trying to create the space for wisdom," Merritt defended himself,

"Danny, be honest! Did you do this?" Henley asked, turning to Danny, who looked up in shock.

"No," Daniel replied, and he turned to me and Jack on the other side of the room.

"Did either of you?" He asked.

"Nope." I shook my head.

"I wish," Jack laughed. And the whole thing was rather impressive, but what the hell was it for?

"Why didn't anyone asked me if I did it?" Merritt asked and I bit my lip to keep from busting out laughing. Danny had since moved on to check a light-switch in the hall.

"Electricity's out," Jack told him.

"Well let's check," Merritt spoke from his corner of a room under a chandelier, and he turned a light-bulb fully into place, and all the sudden blue lights came from different areas in the room, connecting above the symbol.

"They're blueprints." I noted, stepping closer to examine them,

"They're incredible," Daniel muttered, also studying them. We were all slowly gathering around, the prints showed a warehouse.

"Who do you think did this?" Jack asked. I shrugged,

"I don't know, but I really want to meet them," Henley was awestruck, and then the prints started to make some sense.

"It's a show," I grinned.

"Wow," Merritt muttered. Danny leaned in and touched the prints symbol, and from that second, we were on a rollercoaster ride. All for one common goal.

Well... What do ya think? Too lame? I just really loved this movie, and have had this sitting in my computer, forgotten, since the DVD came out, so, let me know what you guys think!

Rhey.