The Saviour (Daniel Atlas)

Chapter 8

The show was set to start in 15 minutes and we could already hear the crowd cheering. We were all in the dressing room waiting for our cue to go on stage.    Sky sat on the couch with the iPad looking at Arthur's bank account, shocked at all the numbers that were popping up. To say I was shocked about what Sky said would be an understatement, but I wouldn't be respecting my candour personality if I said it hadn't taken a toll on me. I was sitting alone on the floor in the corner of the room, listening to music and practicing my card tricks for tonight. No one really noticed by odd behaviour most likely due to their own nerves. Tonight we were to rob Arthur Tressler and run from the FBI, which explains my fashion choice. Henley wanted me to be in black and white, that's fine, but heels! I can walk in heels perfectly fine, but don't ask me to run in them. Henley also decided to curl my hairs in tight ringlets. Before long, Merritt and Henley made their way over to me and sat down.

"Okay, you two girls, visualize your most adventurous sexual experience." Merritt said.

"No way in hell."

"No." Henley said simply.

"It's just a trick!" Merritt defended his intentions. Daniel and Jack were looking at us, we'll Danny more or less glaring at Merritt.

"Dude stop, your like a dad to me. It's nasty." I replied and he sighed, then looked to Henley.

"No, Merritt! Stop trying to get into our heads!" She laughed.

"If I don't get into your head, then how am I supposed to get into your pants?" He asked mischievously.

"I'm leaving the conversation." I interrupted while giggling. I made my way to the door to find somewhere to get a water bottle, but was met with another human being.

"Evening, everyone." The other Horsemen got up and came over to me, and Daniel moved me in back of him. "Pardon the intrusion, I just wanted to wish you good luck tonight." Thadeuss Bradley decided to grace us with his presence.

"Hm, coming from you. I don't accept." I replied just as rudely and Jack stepped in.

"What so you're gonna expose us on your little website?"

"And OnDemand."

"Let's think about that, not going to happen. Henley replied. Thaddeus smirked knowingly.

"Oh no? Operating on a special plane because of The Eye?" I gasped flabbergasted that the debunker knew about The Eye. "I heard it's a lovely place. Lots of starshine and moonbeams. Makes any magician's wish come true."

"Sure we'll believe you, because you've actually gone somewhere with magic right? I didn't think so." He disregarded my comment and continued with his little speech.

"You've come a long way. Much further than anyone would have expected from a bunch of wannabes and has-been's." Don't do anything to ruin the Horsemen's reputation. Oh too late the FBI is already after us. Without anyone noticing, I creeped up in front of Danny and slapped Thaddeus- or I was going to, but Daneil ruined it by putting me behind him avian with a warning look.

"Well if by has-been's, you're referring to me, I just want to say that I'm flattered because I always considered myself a never-was. Also do you mind if I do a quick reading?" Merritt asked. This should be good.

"Okay, I'm picturing a little boy. He wants to be a great magician someday and though he's good, he's not good enough. So he ends up at the bottom of the entertainment food chain. Feeding off of those who have the talent that he never did. Now tell me, am I getting close?" Merritt questioned. By the look on Bradley's face, Merritt was dead on. Then Daniel spoke up.

"Hang on, I'm working on a new trick, do you have a second?" Thaddeus nodded and Daniel continued. "Okay name a card."

"King of hearts."

"Knew it!" Merritt and I both exclaimed proudly. Danny went back to focusing on the deck of cards, he snapped his figures with no luck. He proceeded to try and flick the card out of the deck, nothing happened. Then he blew in the deck and still nothing.

"It's up your left sleeve." Bradley said smugly. Danny let us look down the sleeve and there was no card.

"Nope there's nothing up there." I told him.

"You know, why don't you check your unnecessary velveteen pocket?" Danny suggested and Thaddeus's face dropped. He was out smarted! He reached into the pocket and there was the card. He looked at the card and threw it to the ground. I caught a glimpse and giggled at what it said. On the card, in big black letters read, SUCK IT. "Anyways, thank you for stopping by, but this is kinda a talent only area, so.." Danny said and motioned to the door. I just had to say something.

"If you didn't get the hint, that's because you aren't talented." I smirked and Jack laughed. Bradley glared at me and turned to the door but stopped.

"Ah, who's the girl? A groupie? But who's is she, I suppose Mr. Atlas's. Use protection children." He said taking a jab at me, the jerk even looked at me as he said it. "Break a leg." He said and walked out.

"Yeah, you break something too!" Merritt yelled at him. After the little episode, there was five minutes until show time.

"He's gonna expose your tricks!" Sky said nervously.

"Maybe not, I have an idea. Why don't we expose our own tricks so he doesn't get the chance? Not all of them of course, but the little ones." I offered the only solution I could think of.

"Yeah, good idea. Jack go find the stage manager and tell him about the changes. Let the audience do everything from record, tweet, Instagram, anything. Thaddeus Bradley won't be the only one." Daniel added. Without hesitating, Jack left the room to find the stage manager. We were all sitting when Henley jumped up to get to the bathroom. A few minutes later she came out.

"In not feeling to great, guys. I think Phoebe has to take my spot for the bubble trick." She sighed holding her stomach.

"No no no. You know I'm not a fan of heights." I tried arguing.

"Oh don't worry, if the bubble breaks Danny will be there to catch you." Henley reassured me.

"Oh yeah, just like he was there the night at the hotel, when he said he would be. New flash, he wasn't. He left us all worrying. All while making Sky play fake girlfriend." His eyes widened and looked at Sky and she shrugged.

"Sorry, she needed to know." Was all Sky said on the matter.

"What did she need to know?" Merritt asked confused but he was ignored. I looked to Henley and shook my head, how could I not do it for her.

"Fine I'll do it for you, Henley." I replied. Oh gosh. I probably just got Sky into so much shït. "And as for the fake girlfriend thing, why would that stop the fans from trying to get with you? Have you not seen One Direction and Selena Gomez fans? The don't care." I ranted hoping to draw the attention away from the situation. Lets just say Danny looked completely confused. Mission accomplished. Jack came back followed by a stage hand.

"I hope you're ready, because it's show time." He said and escorted us to the stage. Here we go.

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• Two chapters in one night! It's to make up for the 4 days I haven't posted! I feel so bad, but here you go! The next chapter will be up tomorrow!

•Are there any 5SOS fans out there?? I saw the concert last night and it was awesome and now Girls Talk Boys is out! I'm so happy!

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