Summary: There are five horsemen and this one's got a secret that could shock everyone. Jack/OC
Chapter 1- The Card
3rd POV
"So for my final trick tonight, I'm going to show you something that has never been seen on a stage in many years…" A black haired girl said with a bright smile.
She wore all black and red, she had a giant grin on her face. She licked her lips, and the curtains opened to show a man spinning around on a wheel. He looked relaxed as he spun. There was a table full of knives and weapons of all sorts on the side.
"I will be throwing knives blind folded at this man," She said, and the crowd erupted in cheers. She walked up on stage, and a man came up and helped her tie a blindfold around her head.
"I can't see anything at all," The woman said still smiling. She was then led over to the table, and crowd quieted down, as she picked up a knife.
Her ponytail swished back and forth as she decided. She then suddenly picked two knives up and threw them at the man, and the crowd gasped and the man tensed and the sound of two knives hitting wood echoed, cheers rang out.
She took off her blindfold and bowed; the man was unharmed.
In the crowd there was a hooded man that smiled as he clapped.
"That's my girl," He said.
"Ellie, great show," A man said as he walked up to the woman.
Ellie shook his hand and said, "Thanks John. See you later!"
"See ya!" He said with a wave and Ellie walked off.
Ellie headed to the parking lot, and went through her purse looking for her keys.
"Where are they…" Ellie muttered and finally found them as she made it to her car.
She unlocked the door and got in, and as she put the key in the ignition, she was shocked to find a card hanging from her mirror.
Ellie grabbed it, and it had a heart in the middle with a ribbon wrapped around it. At the bottom it said "The Lover" at the bottom. She flipped it over, and it had a giant eye on the back and it said at the bottom:
MARCH 29
4:44 PM
EAST EVAN ST.
NY, NY
She raised her eyebrow and looked around her car making sure no one was inside. No one was.
Ellie put the card in her purse, and drove off to her apartment.
March 29th
Ellie POV
I held my coffee in my hand as I walked down the street, my boots clunking on the ground as I walked.
The building was up ahead. As I was headed across the street I saw a redhead and a curly-haired guy talking.
I smiled as I recognized the redhead.
"Henley!" I said to her.
She turned and a grin lit up her face, and she ran over to me and hugged me tightly. I hugged her back and she said, "Ellie, I haven't seen you in forever! How are you!? What are you doing here!?"
I laughed and said, "I'm okay, and I got a card. I guess you did too."
She nodded and pulled me over to the curly-haired guy saying, "Ellie, this Daniel Atlas. Dani this is Eleanor Wayland; call her El or Ellie or she'll kill you."
He smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Ellie."
I shook his hand and said, "You too," I took a breath and looked at the building and said, "So we all got a card."
"Yep," Henley said.
I smiled and said, "Well come on then!"
I ran in excitedly and I heard Daniel say, "Is she always like that?"
"She looks mean and scary but she's actually really cheery and fun to be around. But don't give her sugar or caffeine or you'll regret it," Henley explained as I ran up the stairs.
"Why?"
"Because I get a major sugar/caffeine rush and it's not pretty," I said with a grin.
"Mentioning caffeine, did you-"
"-It's decaf, I'm just really excited!" I yelled down to Henley as I was already way ahead of them.
"Wow," Daniel said.
"You get used to it," Henley said as she ran behind me.
I stopped as I saw a dude standing in front of the door. Henley stopped beside me and Daniel caught up and we all said, "Oh."
Henley showed her card, and the man said, "Oh, kay, so apparently none of us was the only one chosen. Let me be the first one to kick my ego to the curb."
"Excuse me-"
"-Doors' locked," The man said.
I went and pushed the door really hard, and Daniel watched with a chuckle and I said, "Well I got more muscle than you, noodle arms."
"I have muscle," Daniel retorted. I crossed my arms, raising an eyebrow saying, "Oh really?"
"Wait, hold on, don't tell me…" The man said to Henley and Daniel attempted to open the door and I said, "My point is made."
"It's just a really good lock," Daniel defended. I nodded saying, "Mhm, sure it is."
"Helen?" The man asked and Daniel and I looked over at the two of them, and he said, "No, no, Henley?"
"It's on your coffee cup," Daniel and I said together.
Henley looked at her coffee cup noticing the name on the side. The man nodded and said, "You're keeping me honest. That wasn't mentalism; that was an observation. Second observation is you are beautiful. So is your friend…" The man then looked at me and I said, "Nice to meet you, I'm Ellie Wayland!"
"She's really excited," Daniel said with a shrug.
"I can tell," The man said, he turned back to me, "I'm Merritt McKinney."
"That's nice, very polished, J. Daniel Atlas," Daniel said holding out his hand. Merritt was going to shake his hand but instead gave him the finger. I smiled- more like grinned.
"I know who you are, and I'm not interested in you doing your mentalist thing on me," Daniel said, "Especially since we don't know who brought us here-"
I put a hand over his mouth and I said, "Much better."
Daniel shot me a glare and I gave him a big smile. Merritt then said, "I got it… I'm sensing you're a control freak."
"I-I'm sorry, have we met before?" Daniel asked as I took my hand off his mouth. Henley laughed and said, "It doesn't take a mentalist to figure that out, you are a control freak."
"Well, I take that as a compliment," Daniel said and I shook my head. As Daniel and Henley talked Merritt said to me, "So what do you do?"
Henley jumped in and said, "Ellie mainly throws knives at things."
Daniel looked at me with wide eyes. I rolled my eyes and I said, "I don't do just that. I also catch very sharp things, and I can swallow swords and eat fire. So technically an illusionist."
"She's very dangerous," Henley said.
Then all the sudden there were walking sounds and we all turned and I saw a guy that just took my breath away. He was the definition of tall, dark, and handsome. Henley turned to me, with a smirk, and the guy looked at me with a grin. I turned away with a blush that made me look like a tomato.
"No way, J. Daniel Atlas," The guy said noticing Daniel, "Dude I have seen everything you have ever done, you're like- I idolize you, seriously."
"A true fan," Daniel said and I rolled my eyes with Henley.
"I'm Jack by the way," The guy said, and Henley smirked at me again when the guy smiled at me.
I elbowed her in the side.
"Quick question, did you get one of these?" Merritt asked holding up his card.
"Yeah, yeah," Jack said pulling out his card, "Death."
Henley held hers up and said, "The High Priestess."
Daniel held his up and said, "The Chariot." (I had to change Daniel's because I really wanted Ellie to have "the Lover".)
"The Hermit," Merritt said, and I said, "The Lover."
Before Henley could say anything I shot her a glare and she stifled a laugh.
"So what? Are we waiting for someone? Why are we just-" Jack asked.
"-The door's locked," We all said.
"No, no," Jack said, "Nothing's ever locked."
He bent down and unlocked the door with two paper clips. He did it quickly and as we all walked in Daniel passed me and said, "Why didn't you think of that, Noodle Arms?"
Henley laughed and I smiled and Jack held out his hand to me and said, "I'm Jack."
"Ellie," I said surprisingly calmly.
He motioned for me to go ahead of him, and I went ahead pulling out a flashlight. He shut the door behind us, and I winced as I looked in all of the rooms. It was nasty.
"Whoa, I thought my apartment was nasty," Was Merritt's comment.
"Man it's freezing in here," I said rubbing my arms. I had only put on a tank top.
I was surprised when I felt a jacket go over my shoulders. I looked over at Jack, and he smiled at me and said, "You need it more than I do."
I smiled and said, "Thank you."
We walked until we made it to a room and Henley said, "What's that?"
"I don't know," Daniel said and he picked up a card on the floor.
"What's it say?" Merritt asked.
"Now You Don't," I said with a raised eyebrow.
"A rose by any other name," Henley said and placed the rose that was in the vase of water that was also on the floor.
Water came out of the bottom of the vase, and headed for the indent on the floor.
"Look at that," Merritt said as all the water filled it up.
"Whoa," Daniel said, and then all the water suddenly dropped and steam came up.
I grabbed on to the thing next to me which happened to be Jack, and I blushed bright red, and said, "Sorry."
"It's okay," Jack said with a small smile. He placed a hand on my hand that was gripping his arm tightly and he gently pried my hand from his arm, and he held my hand in his instead. Sparks went up my arm, and I bit my lip and looked away trying to hide the giant blush on my face.
"It's gas," Jack said, and Merritt said, "Relax it's just dry ice."
"Cool," Henley said.
"What do you think this is all about?" Daniel asked, and Henley glanced over at me and she grinned at me when she looked at Jack and I's hands.
"Hang on, hang on," Merritt said and we all watched him patiently.
"I got nothing," Merritt said, and I face-palmed, and when I looked up Jack was looking at me chuckling. I shrugged with a smile.
"Okay, thank you for the delay," Daniel said.
"I'm just trying to create the space for wisdom," Merritt said and I raised an eyebrow.
"Dani, be honest- did you do this?" Henley asked Daniel.
"No," Daniel said, and he turned to me and Jack, "Did either of you?"
"What?" I asked, "Hell no."
"I wish," Jack said.
"Why didn't anyone asked me if I did it?" Merritt asked and I bit my lip and looked down at my shoes that were now being covered in dry ice smoke.
"Electricity's out," Jack said when he saw Daniel messing with the light-switch.
"Well let's check," Merritt said, and he turned a light-bulb, and all the sudden blue lights came forwards, and I jumped closer to Jack who placed a hand on my lower back calming me down.
There were five lights; they were all blue. I tilted my head and said, "They're blueprints."
"They're incredible," Daniel said.
They were making/mapping/showing us something.
"Who do you think did this?" Jack asked.
"I don't know, but I really want to meet them," Henley said in awe.
"It's a show," I said with a laugh.
"Wow," Merritt said.
Daniel leaned forwards and touched one of the blueprint piece thingies that was floating.
AN: I know I'm behind on my other stories but I'm kind of obsessed with Now You See Me, and I started writing and here we are. The story is practically already finished, I've only got like one more chapter to write, so be prepared. :)
