"Who did you tell?" I demanded, glaring at Chase who was sitting at the dining table of the apartment in front of us.
"I didn't tell anyone." He replied.
"Do you think you might of, oh, let it slip?" Danny demanded.
"Well, I did go out for a little drinky-poo the other night, and some parts are a little blurry." He replied casually.
"Great!" Jack fumed and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
"Chase. Please." Meritt sighed and Chase made a sarcastic apologetic face at him.
Danny clenched his fists as he walked over to the window and Meritt rubbed his head as he sat defeatedly down on the sofa.
I looked around at the defeated group, before also leaving the room in search of Jack, who I found sitting on the front steps of the apartment.
He was staring out into the dull street, which had not a tree in sight and a full skip at the end of the houses, which smelt bad no matter how empty it was.
I sat down beside Jack and put my hand on his knee.
"What are we gonna do?" He asked defeatedly.
"We'll think of something. We always do." I replied.
"How? How do we come back from this?" He laughed in disbelief. "These people outsmarted us with the one thing we know, magic."
I thought over what he'd said before an idea popped into my head. I thought back to all the times I'd seen the Geminis, and not once had they actually done any magic tricks. They'd used computers, hacking and special effects to do their 'tricks', there was no magic skill ever involved.
"That's it. Jack you're a genius." I cried and let up. "Come on." I called back to him as I run back inside the apartment.
"Guys. I've got it." I grinned as I burst through the door.
"Is it catching?" Meritt asked, and then knowing it was the wrong time, held up his hands. "Got what?" Meritt asked instead.
"How they Gemini's pulled this off and how we stop them." I replied.
"Okay." Danny said slowly, but gestured for me to go ahead.
"What if this was always their plan?" I said and the others looked skeptically at me. "What is they hacked those people to attract our attention in the first place? They new the FBI wouldn't be able to stop such a powerful hack, so they assumed they'd come to us." I explained.
"They designed the hack so it could only be stopped from their computer, meaning they could lure us into their trap. They record us messing around in people's bank accounts and turn it back on us, meaning they get praise for 'exposing' us and the spotlight, which they've always wanted." I finished.
"That may be so, but that doesn't help us get our lives back." Danny said.
"Yes it does." I replied, thinking it was obvious. "Look at all the information they've given us. They're jealous, which makes them careless, they're hackers, not magicians and they've willingly given us access to their apartment by setting it up with security cameras." I explained. "We just have to use what we've been given to expose them."
"Yes, but they're jealous because they want people to watch their magic." Jack said.
"No, I know, but if you look at their profiles, they've got degrees in science, technology, and myths and legends in history." I replied, doing a simple internet search on their names. "These are all fields that are constantly having to debunk the idea of magic. They're putting on these shows to prove that magic is just a joke. They're making a mockery of it."
"Alright. What do you suggest?" Meritt asked, and I thought for a moment as a plan formed in my head. I explained it to the group and they nodded as it began to take shape.
"You know, I think that might just work." Jack said.
"But we're gonna need help." I finished.
