Chapter 2
Skip ahead one year: High school Graduation
She was looking in the mirror and fixing her hair, making sure everything was perfect for tonight's ceremony.
I can't believe I'm graduation. Holy shit. She was pulled out of her thoughts by a slight knocking sound on her door.
"Hey S, you ready to go?" Blake asked from the doorway, with her white cap and gown in her hand.
"Yeah, I am." Schuyler sighed and grabbed her cap and gown and headed out the door.
"Why aren't you happy? We're finally done with high school!" Blake said while getting into Schuyler's car.
"Because, it just doesn't seem real. It feels like yesterday we were just starting kindergarten and now were graduating."
"C'mon, you know mom would be proud."
"Yeah, I know."
The rest of the ride was quiet, but it wasn't like an uncomfortable or awkward silence, it was a content one. A silence of understanding.
After the ceremony and everything, Blake and Sky went off to find their father, on his phone of course, when wasn't he?
"Are you trying to tell me magicians robbed a bank?"
"Hey Sky, do you think it's that sexy as a mother fucker Daniel guy you met a year ago?" Blake asked her sister winking.
"No, I doubt it. Plus I haven't seen him since that night and shut up, I still haven't told dad about that." Schuyler said elbowing her sister in the side. "Plus if it is, he's basically a fugitive now. And only you thought he was cute."
"Hey girls, congratulations on finally graduation. My babies are all grown up now." Dylan fakes a cry and pulls them both in by the neck and hugs them tightly. "Mom would have been so proud."
"Yeah.. Dad I'm gonna go find my friends…" Schuyler said kind of distant and walked off. Even though their mom died three years ago because of cancer, it still felt like yesterday because of how close they were. And she knew it killed her dad every day to look at them, not just because they were twins, but because they were both spitting images of their mother, except Sky had green eyes and Blake had brown. No one knew how it happened since both parents had brown eyes.
As Schuyler walked around aimlessly around the campus of her school, her phone goes off, with an unknown number up on the screen.
"Hello..?" She answers, unsure if she wanted to answer it or not.
"Hey, Schuyler?"
That voice, even though it was a year ago she knew exactly who it was.
"J. Daniel Atlas." She said, not as a statement, but as confirmation on who it was. "How did you get my number?"
"I'm magic. I can do anything. Even rob banks. So, since I'm now a fugitive of the law, I'm requesting you to do something."
"What?" She asked. She knew she shouldn't be doing this, but she had to help him out. He was her friend. Kind of.
"I need a place to stay in Chicago. Low key, no one will find us, just for the night."
"Uh yeah sure, I'll get right on it but I gotta go okay?" She hangs up before he gets the chance to say anything.
"Who was that?" Her dad asked walking over to her with Blake trailing behind him.
"Just a friend. What is Blake going on about magicians robbing a bank?" She asked, knowing for sure it was Daniel now.
"It's nothing really."
"Doesn't sound like nothing."
"Sky not here."
"Of course it's not here. It's never here. It's never at home. You told mom everything about your cases. You can't even tell your own daughters when you're leaving or how long you'll be gone." She said in a harsh, hard, whisper and walked off in the direction of her car.
"Schuyler stop." Dylan called out after her.
"No!" She got in the car and slammed the door and drove off to god knows where.
In Las Vegas, the Four Horsemen, J. Daniel Atlas, Henley Reeves, Merritt McKinney, and Jack Wilder were ending their show, with nothing no one has ever before attempted to do in front of a live audience, robbing a bank.
Just when they finished, Daniel snuck away unnoticed by the other three to make a phone call to one Schuyler…. Who's last name he did not know.
"Hello..?"
"Hey, Schuyler?"
"J. Daniel Atlas. How did you get my number?"
"I'm magic. I can do anything. Even rob banks. So, since I'm now a fugitive of the law, I'm requesting you to do something."
"What?"
He smiled.
"I need a place to stay in Chicago. Low key, no one will find us, just for the night."
"Uh yeah sure, I'll get right on it but I gotta go okay?"
"Schuyler wait!" It was too late though since she hung before he told her what he wanted to say.
"Hey man you okay?" Jack asked walking over to him. "We gotta go before the cops and shit get here."
"I'm fine. Come on, we're going to Chicago."
She was driving for what felt like hours when she finally returned walked into the door of her house.
"Where's dad?"
"Out, he left already for that magician thing in Las Vegas."
"B, can you promise me something?"
"Of course S, my lips are sealed." She smiled at her sister.
"Daniel robbed that bank, in Paris... And he needs me to pick him up from the airport and take him to a place where no one will find them for the night until they can get out."
"Holy shit.. Yeah no fucking way I'm telling dad that. Come on. Let's go."
"Let me change first, Jesus…" Schuyler runs up stairs and tosses on a pair of yoga pants and a tank top and heads back down stairs. "Alrighty, let's go." They go out to Schuyler's all black, armored Jeep with blacked out windows. Only the best for "daddy's oldest".
They drove to the airport and just as they pulled up to the doors Sky's phone started going off, a text from Daniel asking where they were.
S: big black jeep, can't miss me, oh and by the way, my sister's with me but I already made her promise not to tell our dad.
Not even 10 seconds after her message sent, 4 bodies made their way into her back seats.
"So, why can't you tell your dad?" Jack asks leaning forward from the spot in between Henley and Daniel, so his upper body was in between the passenger and driver's seats.
"Uh, because he's kinda in the FBI and you guys are fugitives." The twins said at the exact same time.
"Oh, well, that makes sense." Jack said leaning back in his seat.
"Yup." Sky said turning onto a street she knew was full of empty warehouses and parked in a building, since theres every reason to be suspicious of a huge ass all black Jeep parked in an ally way. When everyone got out of the car, Schuyler walked around back to open the back door to her car, and Blake and walked around to the driver's door to get the keys.
"Nice Sky, I like how you think." Daniel said patting who he thought was Schuyler on the back.
"Oh, I'm not Schuyler, I'm Blake." As if almost on cue, Sky walked up and stood next to Blake.
"We're twins." They said at the same time, smiling.
"That's hot." Was said by who Schuyler was guessing was Jack, followed by a smack and an ow.
The twins just laughed and smiled, who in return, received a smile from Jack.
"I don't think we've met properly, I'm Jack Wilder." Jack said to Blake and Schuyler and stuck out his hand. Blake, who was always the one with the faster reaction got to his hand first.
"I'm Blake, the younger twin, but you can call me B." She said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you Blake." Blake pulled her hand away and looked around the rest of the group who were talking about how long they can stay undercover, and walked over to them, seeing if they needed any help.
"So that means you're Schuyler, right?" Jack said looking at Sky with a half toothy smile.
"Yeah, that's me." She shook his hand and felt what was like a chill and a minor jolt of electricity at the same time going up and down her spinal column. Little did she know, at the same time, Jack had felt it too.
