The Horsemen's Stories

by MerlinWinchestr

Since the very beginning, the Horsemen have led interesting lives. These are their stories. A collection of drabbles and one-shots rated T and below. UPDATED- 39: The Game-Jack and Lula have an ongoing challenge to see who can steal the others' wallet the most.

8. Street Kid

This drabble was also born from Miss Emeralds last review where she mentioned that everyone thinks of Jack as a street kid, usually with a really awful past. I'm one of those who thinks that (I mean, he does give off that feel, just like Miss Emeralds said) but then I got thinking, what if we're all wrong? It is a possibility (Not a likely possibility, but still a possibility) so here's a short little drabble with the idea that Jack wasn't really a street kid with a bad past. It doesn't fit with what I think, but hey, it was fun to write. I hope you like it. :)

Category: Gen
Setting: Post-Horsemen
Characters/Pairings: Jack Wilder
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: Everyone considered Jack to be a street kid.

Disclaimer: Neither Now You See Me nor its characters belong to me.

Street Kid

Everyone considered him a street kid. Even the other Horsemen, his closest friends, never asked about his background. He knew they didn't ask because they were so sure it would be a background of abuse, neglect, and sorrow. They were being kind, he knew, and trying to avoid opening old wounds.

Of course, that was just their take on his home life. Just because they believed that didn't make it true.

To tell the truth, his background wasn't anything special. He had grown up in Brooklyn, he never hid that fact. But he hadn't grown up on the streets. In fact, his parents were quite well to do. He had grown up in the nicer sections of Brooklyn and, while not rich, he had never really wanted for anything. As an only child, his parents had gone out of their way to give him whatever he wanted.

Everyone thought he had run away, but he hadn't. Not really. He wasn't a child who needed to run away from home. He had simply told his parents that he was going to follow his dream of preforming magic. Like any good parents, they hadn't been too enthusiastic about their only child working the streets, but they had agreed as long as he returned home anytime he needed.

Since becoming a Horseman he hadn't been back home. It was the only thing that he really regretted about joining the Eye, but some things had to be sacrificed, if only for the safety of his parents. If the FBI learned he was alive and who his family was, they could be called in for questioning. So if people still considered him a street kid, well, who was he to argue?