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"I don't think this is a good idea, guys," Jack said as he paced around their small living room for the hundredth time.
After being inducted into the Eye of Horus, the Four Horsemen had gone into hiding for safety reasons – safety for the Eye at least. They could hardly handle being so idle after a full year of mindboggling shows, adrenalin-fueled FBI chases, and magic that was more than what they had ever wanted or imagined. They ended up stuffed away in a tiny cabin in Vermont-basically-Canada with the lock thrown away like a secret locked onto the Pont des Arts over the Seine. Dylan Rhodes had told them they were to 'stay put' until further notice and that they would 'know what to do when the time came'.
J. Daniel Atlas had went from awed to pissed in two seconds flat after being told they weren't going to be shown any 'real' magic until the Four Horsemen were no longer FBI's most wanted and had been even more of a pain in the ass to live with than regular during the past five months in the cabin. Feeding off of Daniel's condescending persona he had revamped over the past four months, Henley Reeves was a fireball of white hot remarks that gave third degree burns while she was in the same room as Daniel. Henley knew she was being undeservedly bitchy to Merritt and Jack and tried to avoid Daniel as much as possible and instead hung out and exchanged lewd jokes and jabs with Merritt. Merritt McKinney was going insane with how little he had to observe here in this little cabin. He felt as if he knew each member of the Four Horsemen more than they did – if his observations were right, which they usually were – and was getting bored of napping and was running out of jokes and pick up lines for Henley. Jack Wilder - after figuring out it wouldn't be any fun to be in Daniels' presence for the near future - was running out of targets to slice. He had already read every book in the cabin; practiced every illusion he knew every day and still had ten hours of daylight to kill; and had even consented to letting Henley teach him a few tricks of her own. He was going insane with the inability to learn and had taken to googling random topics and learning about those – anything to keep from letting his mind wander.
"We really shouldn't do this," Jack reiterated during another lap of the living room.
Henley fidgeted with her gloves a bit and said bitingly, "You can stay here."
Jack's eyes widened and he said, "No, no, you know that I don't –"
"And leave the stupid kid here? He'll find a way to attract the FBI, Ms. Reeves," Daniel snapped, interrupting Jack and not even sparing the youngest member of the Four Horsemen and look nor thought as he ripped apart 'his biggest fan'.
"Aw, c'mon ya' dick, he's done nothing but perform beautifully this past year and you can't pull your head out of your ass long enough to see he can take care of himself. He's a big boy now," Merritt drawled from the couch.
"Oh he can, can he? Great, that's just great. Let's just leave the big boy here and he can answer more phones with blocked numbers and get us roped into meeting with apparently a group more big and bad than the FBI," Daniel spat out. He spoke quickly in the way he did when he was convinced he was right and was getting annoyed that you weren't agreeing with him.
"Look, I said I was sorry, Daniel –" Jack started.
"Sorry doesn't cut it, kid!" Daniel said. "If, for some reason, this causes me to lose my one road to real magic and rendered this whole past year meaningless it is on your head and you can bet I'll take it out on your ass."
Jack exhaled loudly and dropped onto a recliner with a grumble and didn't even bother trying to defend himself. It hurt that someone he had idolized so long turned out to be such a big dick and made him feel like such an idiot. Someone smart had once said that it was never wise to actually meet your heroes…it looked like they were right. Through the big year of their 'test', as Jack referred to it, they had had to move quickly and never had long to spend much time together as a team except during rehearsal during which Jack had only glimpsed Daniel's true colors. Now they were in full view and Daniel couldn't – or wouldn't – stop himself from taking every available shot at Jack. It hurt a lot.
"What can the harm be, Daniel? Let's just go! Nothing's happening here. The dude said he just wanted to meet," Merritt continued from the couch, pulling his hat over his eyes.
"People lie," Henley said plainly.
"We're not going," Daniel replied with a scathing glare in Jack and Henley's direction and turned sharply on his heel to get out of that room leaving behind a man who made himself new after his hardships in life, a woman who used her life experiences to build a shield around her, and a boy who was left broken from his lot in life.
AVENGERS BAM!
"You're kidding me," Clint said as he looked up at Nat from his spot on a couch in SHIELD HQ.
Natasha raised an eyebrow at him as if to ask 'does it look like I'm kidding you?'
"Oh my God you're not kidding me!" Clint said accusingly as he slammed down the book he was reading to get up and pace, complain, fight, anything. Not more magic freaks! He thought. After his round with Loki he had had quite enough magic to last him his lifetime.
"They should be coming in the next few days," Natasha said. "You don't have to interact with them at all, if you don't want to."
"And I sure as hell won't," Clint assured her.
From a distance Coulson and Fury stood and watched the interaction. "Why would you tell Ms. Romanoff about the Four Horsemen?" Fury asked icily.
"I figured if anyone would be able to stand against them and their tricks it would have to be Natasha," Coulson replied calmly and confidently.
Ta da! What'd you guys think?
Ok so this is obviously a Now You See Me/Avengers crossover. I'm not sure what pairings may or may not crop up but you can be sure there will be lots of angst, drama, and possibly a healthy dose of bodily whump! Yeah buddy!
Review, live long and prosper!
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