notes: for pearl (lydiamaartin) because she loves this movie as much as i do. i was given prompts, but i really didn't use them (sorry!). hope you like this pearl!
this may or may not be canon because i haven't watched the movie in awhile and wasn't sure if the reason why they were angry at each other in the beginning was explained completely or just implied but here's mine and maybe you'll like it.
disclaimer: disclaimed.
while the fire dies down
daniel&henley
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The first time they try to be more then just magicians working together, they are a month into their partnership. They don't talk, (their mouths are far too busy doing other, much more important things) but instead let their hands roam where they may, a month of waiting finally unraveled in one moment.
He wakes up next to the redhead in her apartment before the sun has even risen and runs before she wakes up.
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She doesn't arrive at the next rehearsal.
She doesn't arrive at the next show and it was stupid to think that she would have and really, he should have just cancelled the whole thing but something about her made him want to hold out, made him feel like it was a possibility that she would forgive him and realize that their magic, the show, is more important then them being on good terms.
He looks like a fool by the middle of the show and ends up walking off the stage before the second act, cursing and swearing he'll never talk to her again, forgetting the part where he ran out on her first.
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Before the Horsemen came up, before he met Jack or Merritt, before he was more than just an alright magician with no friends, Daniel saw her once.
Her back was to him, facing the Starbucks counter, but her curls were unforgettable and he knew the voice that ordered the coffee like how he knew the walk that left without putting any sugar or cream in it. She passed right by him and he looked down, pulling out his phone, pretending to be distracted, while she slid her sunglasses down and takes a sip of her drink.
Daniel does not believe in miracles, but he still thinks the fact that she didn't see him that day was one.
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His lack of belief in miracles is reaffirmed the minute he sees her that first day in front of the apartment. He swears a thousand different curse words in his head within seconds while she scoffs at him and they all try to figure out what was going on here.
(Years later, they would all agree that none of them would have been able to come up with any of it on their own. That them being chosen for the Horsemen was perhaps, in retrospect, the most important thing that has happened to them besides being introduced to magic itself.)
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"Do you think we'd ever run into each other again, if the whole thing didn't happen?" She asks one day, months after the final event. They're in another South American country, Daniel forgets which one, but it's part of staying away from the government while their faces become just one of many unsolved cases. Merritt and Jack are in a bordering country, keeping an eye on each other, close but not too close to Daniel and Henley, all four of them waiting for the clear to return to the country they were born in. But Daniel doesn't mind, not really, not while Henley's lying on a towel in only a yellow bikini, leaning on her elbows and looking at him through those same sunglasses from the day in the coffee shop.
"It's likely that we would have," he replies after a second of thought. "If only to compete for the same venue." She laughs then, her curls bouncing, and she pushes her sunglasses up on her head.
"That," she says, moving closer to him, lips inches away from his. "Is quite possible."
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