Hello! Welcome to my new story. I have written stories for other fandoms, but this is my very 'Now You See Me' story. This one will be predominantly based on Jack & Lula, but it does include the other boys, especially a little further on in the story, I'm just getting a feel for writing as those two first.

I've written the first couple of chapters so far and have planned for there to be about 13 chapters at this stage, with the potential for more, just depending on the response from you guys.

Now, onto the chapter, I really hope you enjoy it! Don't forget to favourite and follow to be alerted on new chapters.

CHAPTER ONE - Truth or Dare

It was a quiet night at the Horsemen's current share house in Brisbane. So far, this is their fourth move in the eleven months since the spectacular New Years Eve Finale on the Thames. Their current spot in Brisbane had followed their hideouts in Poland, Thailand and Canada. Even though they hadn't had any close shaves, Dylan had insisted on the frequent moves, not knowing exactly how many steps ahead they still were of the authorities.

In that time, over the last eleven months, not much had happened and not much had changed.

Atlas became a bit nerdier, Merritt became a bit less than abysmal at sleight-of-hand work, Dylan became a bit less secretive as more and more information had been exposed on The Eye, while Lula and Jack became a bit cuter than they already had been.

Ever since their very public New Years kiss, things had been on-like-Donkey-Kong for the couple. However, although the two had become quite solid, their relationship hadn't necessarily gone very far, nor had it progressed very much over the course of almost a year.

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"Truth" Lula decides, her taste-buds still recovering from the scoop of Vegemite her boyfriend had commanded her to shovel down as her last dare.

"Truth... Okay" Jack says to himself, assessing what the perfect question to ask Lula next is, what else he wants to know about the girl he knows better than anyone. "Kids... Do you want kids?"

Lula takes a gulp of surprise at the sudden change of course in this game of truth or dare.

"Are we having this talk now?" Lula asks, becoming tenser from where she is lying against Jack's side on the lounge that they are cuddling on.

Although she sighs after her passing comment, Lula doesn't wait for Jack to answer her question before she starts to answer his.

"Um, well I don't know. Maybe... I haven't sat down at given it tremendous thought, to be quite honest. What about you?"

"Well, yeah... Yeah I think I'd like kids" Jacks tries to say coyly. Although Lula can't see the grin on his face as he thinks about the idea, she can tell that there is no 'think' about it for the card sleight.

The two fall to a silence as Lula continues to think about the one question she'd been posed just minutes earlier, which apparently Jack has continued to ponder over too when he eventually presses a kiss to Lula's hair, whispering in her ear.

"You know, I think you would be a great mother one day."

A great mother... A great mother? Do you think that a great mother would stay with a drunken, abusive husband with a child? Would a great mother stab not just anyone in the neck, but her child's own father right in front of them?

What does Lula know about a great mother?

This thought stews within her mind for a few minutes before she presses a kiss to Jack's cheek, while shuffling away from him on the couch.

"I'll be back in a few minutes, babe. My legs are cramping up, I'm just going for a quick walk."

Jack just nods as Lula walks out of the room, both opening and shutting the front door to the share house within a matter of seconds.

He didn't say anything, but Jack can't help but question the curious timing of Lula's sudden 'walk'. He hadn't touched a nerve had he? All he knew was that he could sense that she was nowhere near as enthusiastic as he was.

Then again, it was just a general discussion... It wasn't even specific to them. He hadn't told her that by this time next year he demands to be a father. The conversation hadn't even meant that they had committed to the idea of having kids together. It was just a discussion...

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After she returned from her 'walk' almost an hour later, the night came to abrupt close and Lula announced that she was going to bed. She wasn't frosty or cold towards Jack, but something was definitely up.

The following morning, Atlas was reading the newspaper at the dining table, while Merritt and Jack were 'unloading the dishwasher' (occasionally putting a new dishes away in between their tea towel fights, which the card sleight dominated at).

"Morning boys" Dylan announces as he walks into the large living space of the home. "Is Lula up yet?"

Merritt and Daniel share a look, only just now realising the fact that they had noticed whether or not the woman of the house was up and about yet.

"Jack?"

Looking up to his name being summoned, Jack flicks the tea towel on the bench and crosses his arms in front of himself, his mood plummeting instantly.

"Yeah, she's up but I'm not too sure what she's doing."

"Is there trouble in paradise? What have you done now?" Merritt questions, not needing any special mentalist abilities to deduce the connection to the sudden change in the younger man's disposition.

Jack sighs, rubbing a hand in his face as he is once again forced to revisit the game of truth or dare last night, along with its instant ramifications.

"Don't tell her I told you this, but last night we were throwing around some truth or dares... Anyway, I mentioned kids and then things went down like a lead balloon."

"Kids? Is there something that you two aren't telling us, Wilder?"

Jack lets out a little exasperated half-laugh at his friend's comment.

"It's nothing like that, Lula's not pregnant. Just the topic got brought up and things have been a bit weird ever since..."

"She's probably just having a moody moment" Atlas muses, looking up from the article that he was three quarters through before the discussion broke out. He knows well about her moody moments since her last one a few weeks back was taken out on him for throwing her 'unfinished' bag of chips away (there were just a few crumbs left) when he was cleaning up the kitchen.

"Give her a few hours, she'll find something else to obsess about and it'll be like it never happened..."

Here's hoping, right?

Well there we have the first chapter! I really hope that you all enjoy it and I really hope that there's some more Jack x Lula fans out there. I just fell in love with this pairing from the first time I saw NYSM 2 and this is my way of expressing my obsession!

Please leave a comment to let me know what you thought - it's the best way to inspire me to write more.

Next chapter: The fallout between Jack and Lula continues, leading Jack to confide in Dylan.