Currently the Four Horsemen were under lockdown. After Danny finished reading the text message, Aria had alerted Dylan and The Eye. According to Dylan, it would be best if the Horsemen and Aria remained locked away in the mansion until The Eye tracked down the sender of the message.

"Don't leave the mansion unless you take Aria with you. And you have to have her tell me you're leaving. Just don't go anywhere alone." Dylan had said. He was in a rush and needed to get back to Alma.

So now the Four Horsemen were playing poker and Jack was winning. Again. Because Henley and Aria didn't want to bet on money, Merritt had suggested they use candy instead and now the dining room table was covered in candy wrappings and water glasses.

"I win!" Danny exclaimed as he looked at the cards his opponents set out.

"Actually," Jack said, turning over his hand, "I win." Danny scowled while Jack grinned. Aria yawned as she slid her cards to Jack so he could put them back in their box.

"I think I'm going to take a nap." Aria said, picking up her water glass and yawning. The girl stood and pushed in her chair, rubbing the back of her head and mussing up her tealy pink hair as she did so. Jack slid the last card into the deck before closing the lid on the box.

The minute the Horsemen heard Aria's door shut, Henley leaned forward and said, "So, do you guys like Aria?"

"She seems pretty cool," Jack said, "plus, she's a lot closer to my age then you three."

"Um, Danny and I are twenty five." Henley said. Merritt frowned, he was in his thirties.

"Aria is impulsive, reckless, and wild, and she doesn't listen to me." Danny scowled.

"Aria is not impulsive!" Henley exclaimed, defending her friend.

"Actually, " Merritt cut in, "she is impulsive. Remember last Tuesday when that girl called her a slut?" The Four Horsemen thought back to last Tuesday, when Aria had beat up a bottle blond. "And," he added, "when I try to read her, she's really impulsive."

"Have any of you seen her illusions?" Danny asked. Henley and Merritt shook their heads while Jack nodded. The other Horsemen looked at him in surprise.

"I've seen her illusions. Their really good. Just yesterday she tricked me into thinking I was in New York." Jack smiled when he remembered how he'd woken up on a bench in Central Park only to see Aria standing over him giggling.

"Well, I still don't like her." Danny muttered.

Up in her room, Aria wasn't napping. She was looking out the window playing with her necklace. Turning her head she caught her reflection in the full mirror that hung on the closet door. Her tealy hair was mussed, she was wearing a white singlet with shorts, and her purple eyes (result of a genetic mutation) glistened. She leaned back on her bed and fell asleep.

The next day, Jack was scrolling through his phone when he saw an odd text.

I told you we're coming. Slowly but surely. When you expect us, we'll never arrive. When you think you're a step ahead, you're actually a step behind. When you're a step behind, you're a step ahead.

"Henley, can you trace this?" he passed his phone to Henley who was ready to do some laundry.

An hour later Henley had identified that the text had come from the US Government.

"So basically, the Raven Keepers are just the US Government trying to arrest us for stealing a bank in Paris?" Merritt clarified.

"Yep." Henley said.

"That was a year ago and that's really stupid." Danny remarked. Jack shrugged.

"I'll tell Dylan." Merritt said, pulling out his phone.

"Hey, has anyone seen Aria?"

Jack knocked on the door to Aria's room. The girl wasn't in the room. The window was shut, the bed was made, and Aria's shoes were by the door.

"Aria?" he called out. He walked across the room to the bathroom and knocked on the door. No response. Reaching down for the doorknob, he found that is was unlocked. Turning it, he saw an empty bathroom.

"Come on Aria, come out." he went over to the closet before opening it slowly. There, was Aria, sleeping in a bundle of scarves of and her leather jacket.

"Aria, what are you doing?" Jack said laughing. Reaching down, he picked her up bridal style. She's really light, he thought. As he crossed the room Aria started to stir, her eyes fluttering. Her eyelids slid open suddenly, revealing the starting purple orbs. She took one look at Jack before leaping out of his arms and landing on her feet.

"Do I want to know why?" she asked.

"I found you sleeping on the floor of your closet." Jack explained, running a hand through his brown locks.

"Oh, I was trying to find my argyle socks." she said, tugging at one of her tealy curls. She walked past Jack and headed for her bed. "Any news on the Raven Keepers?"

"Henley traced the text messages and found out that the US Government is trying to bait us."

"But we're in England, and England has no problem with us."

"They just can't let it go." Jack shrugged.

"Aria and Jack, get dressed! Dylan said you two are doing a street show." Danny shouted from downstairs.

"But I thought we couldn't leave the house." Aria said, skeptically.

"We told Dylan about the message, it's probably safe now."

"Let me get dressed."

Ten minutes later, Aria was standing next to Jack on a street corner in London. Aria zipped up her leather jacket and refastened her gloves, clicking the heels of her boots nervously. Jack fiddled with his card deck before looking across the street to where Dylan had said the supposed Raven Keeper was standing. Apparently the street show was bait.

"What do we do now?" Aria asked.

"Make an illusion or something." Jack whispered. Aria nodded briefly. Waving her hands around, she turned the dreary street corner into an explosion of butterflies and sunshine. That caught people's attentions. Most of the citizens passing through that area stopped for a second to admire the butterflies but the butterflies vanished quickly.

"I can't make the illusion last very long." Aria admitted to Jack. She waved her hands again and turned the London street corner into a beautiful forest. People really stopped this time and the Raven Keeper slowly got closer to Jack and Aria.

"Do another one." he whispered, keeping an eye on the Raven Keeper. He leaned against a street lamp and shuffled his cards in his hands. Aria ran a hand through her tealy locks while the other one moved in odd motions. The dreary street corner went from beautiful forest to Egyptian desert, heat and all. In a flash the desert vanished and the street corner returned. The Londoners were all gathered in a close crowd now, Aria waving both hands to emit a shower of doves. Jack suddenly tossed all his cards in the air, each card turning into a green leaf.

"How'd you do that one?" Aria asked.

"Magic." was the cocky reply.

"Hey," an unfamiliar voice called out, "can the girl get out of handcuffs?"

"I'm not an escape artist." Aria said. She had never ever tried to get out of handcuffs in her life. Jack slid his hand into his pocket, reaching for his phone.

"She should be able to get out of handcuffs." the same voice said, a man stepping out from the crowd. Jack recognized him as the supposed Raven Keeper.

"Call Dylan. Now." Aria whispered, she had one hand on Jack's arm and he could feel her trembling.

"The Eye can't save you now." the man said, reaching out for Aria. Aria threw a puff of smoke in his face before tugging Jack away from the large crowd.

"What happened to you guys? Where did you get that motorcycle?" Henley demanded when Jack and Aria returned home, out of breath and tired.

"We saw a Raven Keeper and he tried to grab Aria. She stole the bike from a dealership." Jack explained.

'Ugh, you two are idiots. Now we have to return a motorcycle." Merritt groaned.

A/N I kinda hate this chapter. I used it as a filler. Can any of you guess where I got Aria's name from? It's a reference to Now You See Me, obviously. Thanks for the feedback! Tell me more!