There has to be a reason Bradley is the way he is. It's obvious that he, at least at one time, practiced magic but something made him stop. I've wrote a few things about his parents dying in a trick before, but I took it a step further this time. Hope you enjoy. :)
Category: Gen
Setting: Pre-NYSM
Characters/Pairings: Thaddeus Bradley/OC
Rating/Warnings: T, death.
Summary: Magic had destroyed his life and now he lived to destroy magic.
Disclaimer: Neither Now You See Me or its characters belong to me.
The Darkness Within
Magic had destroyed his life; now he lived to destroy magic. Once, a long, long time ago it had served a purpose, had had that spark, but no more. Now he could see it plainly for what it was: an evil. Pure, unbridled evil. An evil meant to be revealed, to be stopping in the dust. And he would be the one to do the stomping. It was his sole purpose in life. He had promised. He had promised her and he would never go back on that promise.
Her. Jenny. His love. His wife. The only one in his life that he had ever truly cared about, taken from him. Her life cut short by that evil. By magic. His magic. It was what made him see the evil, the sin, he had fallen into. The blades never should had touched her. They had done the trick thousands of times before. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have!
But the darkness within that cruel lie of magic had revealed itself that day. It had taken his everything from him. It had destroyed his life. And now he would destroy it.