Okay this is my first Sorcerer's Apprentice fanfiction. I've actually dreamt this two nights in a row, so maybe writing it down will help me get rid of it, since I've had trouble sleeping. Oh well, shouldn't keep you from the story shall I? I own none of the characters so far.

Dave smiled as he was walking down the street with Becky walking beside him. She was telling him about some new band she had discovered, but he was only listening with one ear. He couldn't believe how lucky he was, Becky had now officially been his girlfriend for three weeks. They had been together almost every day since then, apart from when they got too busy; Becky with her radio show and studies, and Dave with his sorcery lessons and studies. This evening Balthazar had released him from his lessons so Dave had taken Becky out for dinner. The dinner had almost been perfect, naturally he had made a fool out of himself a couple of times, but Becky didn't seem to care. They had decided to take a walk down to the harbour after the dinner, and that's where they were heading now. He looked at Becky again. The beautiful blonde hair almost seemed like gold, and her eyes glittered.

"Hey are you listening to me?" He was awakened by Becky who gently knocked him on the shoulder.

"What? Did you say something?"

"Sometimes I wonder where your head is." She said, mocking him. "I said that there seems to be some street performance over there, you want to go check it out?

"Sorry, my head was… somewhere else. Sure, we can do that." There was a crowd standing in a circle, looking at something in the middle of it. When they got closer they heard a British voice yelling to the crowd.

"Come closer, come closer! You don't want to miss this!" Dave couldn't help but to think that the voice was vaguely familiar, but he couldn't connect it to someone. They pushed threw the crowd to get closer so they could see what was happening. A man was standing in the middle, with various boxes and other things around him. He was wearing a long glittery black coat and shoes with heels. Dave lifted his head and saw the back of the man's head, his hair was black closest to the head but further out it was light blonde, almost white. His heart skipped a beat when he realised who this man was. The man turned around and confirmed what Dave already knew. The man was none other than the Morganian sorcerer Drake Stone.

Drake didn't have seemed to notice him, so Dave desperately tried to come up with some excuse to get Becky out of there. True, she knew that there was sorcery, but for all she knew the evil sorcerers were dead and he didn't want to scare her. Before he could come up with something, Drake looked up and their eyes met. Drake froze and so did Dave. It seemed forever, but in reality it was just a couple of seconds before Drake broke their eye contact and started talking to the crowd again.

"Welcome, I'm Drake Stone. Those of you who have seen my shows before, welcome back, I'm glad you came again. The rest of you, I hope this won't be the only time you see me. Okay, let's start, shall we? For this particular trick I need a volunteer from the audience. Any volunteer? Let's see…" He looked around the audience, and stopped when he was facing where Dave and Becky was standing. "How about you, young lady?" He had been talking to Becky. She started to take a step forward but Dave grabbed her arm.

-"What?" she asked him.

"Don't!"

"Why not?" Dave could see she was clearly confused.

"It… it can be dangerous."

"Oh come on Dave, it's just a couple of tricks." And with that she entered the ring and left Dave perplexed. He could just hope that Drake wouldn't do anything in front of the crowd.

"Give her an applause everyone!" Drake encouraged the audience. "What's your name, darlin'?"

"Becky"

"Well Becky, I need you to take a look at these boxes" he motioned to the big black boxes that were standing beside them. They were about 5.8 feet, and so wide that a person could stand in there. He opened one wall on each of the boxes. "Take a look at these boxes Becky. Go inside, knock on the walls, inspect them." Becky did what she was told, and studied the boxes. "Now Becky, I want you to tell me" Drake started when she was finished. "Did you find any mirrors or hidden doors or anything suspicious?"

"No, I didn't." Becky answered him.

"Great, then let's begin." He closed the door to one of the boxes. "Now if you please, go stand in that box." Becky once again did what she was told and he closed the door behind her. "You okay in there darlin'?"

"Yes, I'm fine"

"Good. Now watch closely people, I will just knock three times" he knocked on the box. "Then I will go open the other box and…. Voila!" There was no one in the other box. Dave could feel his heart pumping very hard right now. "Well that isn't quite right" Drake continued the show. "Maybe something went wrong, let's go check the other box." He left the box open and walked over to the first box. "Are you still in here darlin'?" He asked while opening the first box again. She wasn't there either. "She ain't there either!" He said with faked confusedness. Now the crowd was getting impressed, and Drake enjoyed it. He closed both boxes again. "Let's see, if I do this" He knocked three times on both boxes, "and say simsalabim, do you think we can find anything here?" He opened the door on the second box slowly. Dave thought his heart was going to stop, but then he saw hey blonde hair, and soon all of her stepped out of the box. The crowd roared with excitement and applauded. Drake took Becky by the hand and led her so that she could bow to the audience, while Drake was bowing as well. "Thank you Becky, here take this as a sign of my appreciation." He held out a rose and she took it happily. Drake then let her go and she walked back to Dave.

"Hey, what did he do? I know he put me in the right box but when I stepped out I was in the left one. Did you see what he did? It didn't feel like I was moving…" Becky continued her talking about the trick, but Dave was quiet. They started walking home. Dave turned his head back and saw that Drake was watching them as they left.

Perfect, Drake thought as he watched the prime Merlinean and Becky walk away.