five years later

Chapter 17

"welcome to the best show of your lives."

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Mabel's pov:

I watched as Gideon slowly lowered back onto the floor and everybody clapped for him, even me and Logan did. Gideon waited until the applause died down before he continued his act.  "now then, for my first trick i'm gonna need a volunteer."  I looked around and saw almost everyone raise their hands. Gideon pointed to a girl that looked my age and smiled "you there miss, come on up." Everyone clapped again as the girl got up and Gideon helped her up the stairs with his hand as a Bud Gleeful brought out what looked like a guillotine. my eyes widened, was he actually gonna chop this girl's head off for a show? "wlecome up to the stage miss, what is your name?" the girl giggled excitedly "its Angel" Gideon nodded and smiled, turning back to the crowd "Angel everyone!" we all clapped again as he guided 'Angel' to the guillotine. "for this trick Angel here is going to show you how real this is going to be, Angel if youd please knock on the flat of the blade please." she did, and we could all hear the metallic noise come from it.

Gideon nodded "good, now if you'd please, get into the correct position." Angel did as she was asked, and i scooted up in my seat a little. once she was in place Gideon stood off to the side and put his hand on the rope. "alright, im goin to count down from three" he paused "wait a second, dad, bring out the basket, just in case" Bud came back out and put a big basket just in front of the girl who started to look nervous instead of excited. Gideon smiled "alright there we go, now then. three" I took a deep breath and held it. "two." I heard Logan gasp next to me. "one!" Gideon pulled the rope and the blade dropped onto Angel's neck and the whole crowd gasped in shock. Angel screamed for what felt like forever before realizing she was ok. When she did she laughed nervously "Im ok!" the crowd clapped and Gideon raised the blade which had nothing on it. He helped angel up and brought her to the front and raised one of her hands "give it up for Angel folks!" the crowd cheered again and i remembered to breathe and clapped along.

Angel sat back down and I could hear her bragging to her friends about how close she got to Gideon, and how cute she was. I don't know why but hearing her kind of annoyed me. I shook that feeling off as Bud wheeled the guillotine away and the crowd died down again. "alright for my next trick, im goin to come out in the audience, we are gonna do a classic." he opened his hand and a cloud of smoke came out of it, when the smoke cleared, a deck of cards was in his palm, the back of them a beautiful light blue color. "we're gonna pick some cards!" Gideon stepped down the stairs and grinned, shuffling the cards as he walked "now, if I have you pick a card, I want you to memorize it, don't show it to anyone, fold it in half anyway, and put it under your seat."  he walked up to a few people, three of them, who did as he asked. Then he stopped in front of Logan, who picked a card. I snuck a peek at it, the ace of spades. he folded it up and slipped it under his seat. Gideon went back to the stage and put the deck of cards into his jacket pocket.

"alright then now that the cards are picked we can move onto the next part." Gideon smiled at the crowd and i saw his hands glow slightly with that blue color from his bracelets.  after the pause he spoke "alright, on the count of 3 I want you all to look under your seats. if you have all four cards under you,  you will be part of my thrid and final trick of thr night." he looked around the room. "one....two" he locked eyes and he smiled at me "three!" I bent forward, just like everyone else. there they were, all four cards, sitting in a little pile under my seat. I grabbed them and stood up, holding them out. "Here they are!" Gideon smiled and gestured to me. "Mabel Pines everybody!" the crowd clapped and Gideon waved at me to come up. i began to walk towards the stage down the row when I felt myself being lifted off my feet. Gideon was using his magic bracelets to levitate me onto the stage. I landed softly next to him and grinned, dumping the folded cards into his hand which he just threw on the ground as Bud wheeled in a giant human shaped target. Gideon turned to the crowd "for my final trick!" he took something out of his jacket and whipped around and threw something behind him at the target, I turned to look. there in the center of the target's head, was a silver throwing knife. Gideon turned to the crowd with a serious look "knife throwing."

My eyes widened, did he say knife throwing? Gideon turned both me and him around and I whispered to him. "Gid, I don't think this is a good idea" He smiled at me "it's ok, Mabel, you'll be fine" he stopped me right in front of the target and faced me, putting his hands on my shoulders. "trust me" Something about the way he said it must have gotten to me because I relaxed right away. he turned away from me and slipped his jacket off, around his torso was a belt of silver throwing knives. the crowd gasped again as Gideon showed one of them off "I will throw all of these around Mabel here without hurting her. I watched Grunkle Stan stand up "no! you will not throw knives at my great niece you little twerp!!" Gideon slowly started to put his knife down before Logan called out "Mr. pines, you can't let the crowd down, they came here for a good show." the crowd cheered and my Grunkle sat back down. Gideon turned towards me as everyone watched closely. "now Mabel, stand as still as you can alright?" I nodded and watched the silver knife begin to glow in his hand.

then he threw it at me.