Hello! funkyhipsta here.
This is my first fanfic on the new account (used to be presonalescpe, but i cant seem to log in the old one).
Disclaimer: I do not own any right to the Now You See Me movies or its franchise. All original characters and personal headcanons will be discussed/explained in the A/N section at the end of the chapters. I will try to make all quotes or references to the movie clear and recognizable.
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Summary: He has a great imagination, obviously, being a magician starts with having enough of it to imagine the tricks in your head first. He knows she's not really there and he can't really comprehend why his subconscious suddenly decided to speak with her voice, but he doesn't dwell much on it.
The first time it happens is after a particularly hard day of rehearsals.
Daniel rubs his tired eyes with a huff, trying to push his raging headache back in the back of his brain.
It had been a full two weeks since he hired Rebecca and Carrie as his new assistants. Rebecca was okay, good looking, average potential and weak willed, which meant she followed easily everything he said, unlike a certain redhead. Carrie was young and starry-eyed like said redhead once was when she first joined him, but he had been a fool for hiring her for her good looks only. She was dull and slow and she managed to ruin half of the numbers he had been trying to teach her.
He sits quietly on his bed and wonders for a second if it wouldn't be better to just go to sleep and skip dinner altogether. He waits for his breathing to become a soothing kind of slow, with his eyes closed, and the lights out except for the one on his bedside table.
He has a great imagination, obviously, being a magician starts with having enough of it to imagine the tricks in your head first. So it's no surprise that he can picture entire scenarios, better yet all scenarios, in his head.
It helps him plan, get ready, be in control of everything.
Tonight is a little different. He's not picturing how he wants things to go, or how they could go.
He's just trying to get some peace of mind after spending the most frustrating and unproductive day practicing.
Maybe, I should just fire her. He thinks looking around the dim-lit room.
- Maybe you should.
He thinks again, but this time it's a familiar sweet, female, singsong voice.
- See… you should have just listened to me in the first place, Danny.
He knows she's not really there and he can't really comprehend why his subconscious suddenly decided to speak with her voice, but he doesn't dwell much on it. (Of course tuning out this Henley is far more difficult counting it's in his head.)
He gives himself the benefit of the doubt, thinking that maybe if he just let subconscious-Henley rant he'll relieve his stress and then go back to trying to sleep. He closes his eyes, imagining so vividly that he almost feels the bed dip on one side.
- I can't believe you even hired them in the first place. Carrie is a lost cause and Rebecca… well she's not that bad, but I don't really see why you should hire her either.
Subconscious-Henley is silent for a moment and he does stop to think why he should hire her.
- Does she have better skills than me? - No.
- Does she seem to have better potential then me? - No, but you're just assistants. You don't need big potential.
- Does she know your eating habits? - No, but she can learn, the same way you did.
- Does she—
He thinks fast before the imaginary Henley can say anything more.
- She's pretty enough to catch attention, but not so to steal it. She doesn't talk back. She's very clearly willing to sleep with me. She's skinnier than you and actually fits in the new trap door.
He waits a couple of seconds for subconscious-Henley to reply in that upset voice the real one uses every time he points out that she needs to keep in shape to fit in the boxes and trap doors and "ridiculous" dresses.
He hears Henley call his name and something about food.
But it's not indignant, it's light and cheerful.
It takes him a moment to realize it's because it's not in his head. He gets out of his room, head still pounding and tired eyed.
He doesn't fail to notice the handcuffs on the couch in the living room, or the copy of Houdini's "The right way to do wrong" on the kitchen counter.
She cooked dinner, she proclaims setting the table, and normally Daniel would have found it nice especially after such a long day. But tonight he looks at her in the eye and an uneasy feeling settles in his lungs.
He looks back at his room and for a moment he can imagine the other Henley standing against the door frame.
She's his subconscious, which means he doesn't really have to read her lips to understand what she's mouthing.
- Rebecca is not a threat to your show, let alone your career.
A/N : Thanks for reading guys! I hope you enjoyed part 1/5. In case you were wondering this takes place two years after Henley becomes Daniel's assistant and a little less than a year before she leaves.
Obviously Rebecca is canon, as she was mentioned in the first movie. I added Carrie because the way they talked about the past I always imagined that at some point it wasn't just the two of them and Rebecca. And to mark the start of Daniel's attempts to push Henley away.
I'll try to update by next saturday, maybe even earlier (depends on how organized i am with my studies).