This sort of carries on from the last drabble, but it's another head canon of mine that Bradley was invited into the Eye, but either failed or didn't even attempt the tasks. And so this second part was born. :)
Category: Gen/AU?
Setting: Pre-NYSM
Characters/Pairings: Thaddeus Bradley
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: Bradley missed his opportunity to join the Eye.
Disclaimer: Neither Now You See Me or its characters belong to me.
Opportunity Missed
He was twenty-six when he found the card in his pocket. It was the day after his parents perished in the trick gone wrong in front of hundreds of people. He hadn't been there. He had been on the streets, making a name for himself, not living off the shirttails of his parents. He hadn't been there and now they were dead.
The card rested in his pocket, the Devil on one side and an eye on the other with instructions to a place. The directions were clear, he knew where they wanted him to go, but there was something he had to do first.
The bodies were missing, shredded by the saws until there was nothing left to save. The caskets stood in the front of the church, pictures set inside them instead. People filed by, some with tears, others with morbid curiosity in their eyes. He ignored them all, his eyes focused on the pictures of his parents. They were gone and he hadn't been there.
11:45. The card said 11:44. Thaddeus Bradley's opportunity was missed.