#dave franco

[sharklover00]

[the-internets-girlfriend]

the magic of love - jack wilder

jack wilder x reader

summary: A decade after the Horsemen fell apart, the world of magic drags you back in. This time, though, you and Jack are hiding a secret.

warnings: female characteristics, small spoilers for nysm3, physical fights, mild injury, mentions of crime.

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It has been ten years since the Horseman last performed a show together. Ten years since the disaster in Russia that fractured the group beyond repair.. all except for the two of you.

Your relationship with Jack had been a slow, steady burn from the moment you met. He’d always had a talent for picking locks, slipping past barriers no one else could manage—and somehow, he’d managed to pick the lock around your heart too. The two of you had been secretly dating, waiting to share your relationship with the others after the big mission to take down an arms dealer. But when a close friend was captured, the plan collapsed—along with the Horsemen themselves.

Afterwards, you and Jack built a quiet life far from the chaos of illusions and secrets. You returned to school to chase the degree you’d always dreamed of, and Jack settled into work at a small local office. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was safe. Predictable. Yours.

Until the night a sudden knock echoed through your home—shattering the calm you’d fought so hard to build, and letting magic slip back into your life like it had never left at all.

The private event was as glamorous as the special guest; the heart diamond. You stood off to the side of the grand room, dressed in a backless black gown. One shoulder was draped in soft fabric, and the hem hovered just above the marble floor as you mingled with guests. You wore your best practiced smile, though your eyes kept drifting across the room.

And there he was.

Jack—sharp in a black-and-white suit reminiscent of the one he wore on your wedding day. He caught your gaze and gave you a subtle wink before seamlessly melting back into the shadows.

A wave of gasps rippled through the crowd. Your head lifted just in time to see an old friend standing atop a pedestal, commanding the room. Danny’s voice carried over the gathering as he teased the diamond’s owner, the so-called royalty of the event, Veronika. With a few taunting words, he coaxed her into lifting the Heart Diamond from its locked case and tilting it beneath the lights.

The gem was breathtaking—though too large for your taste—and you couldn’t ignore the dark history you and Jack had uncovered during research before arriving in Antwerp.

Danny’s eyes swept dramatically across the room… until they landed on you. His expression faltered in a flash of recognition. Caught, you turned your back and pretended to strike up a conversation with the nearest person.

“Hi—have you tried the arancini balls?” you asked brightly, already forming a plan.

The man stared at you, stunned into silence as his gaze traced your dress. He nodded slowly.

You inhaled, locking eyes with him as your hand curled around his forearm. “I think it’d be great if you grabbed me a plate,” you said sweetly. “Though…I suggest you trip and fall onto the table.”

His eyes glazed with compliance. He shuffled toward the serving table. You counted down from five under your breath—

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

A spectacular crash. The man sprawled dramatically across the table, food scattering in every direction. The crowd’s attention whipped toward the chaos—just in time for Danny to reclaim the spotlight with a burst of light as the diamond exploded into dust, then reappeared in his hand.

You rolled your eyes. Of course. Now you understood his angle. And now you needed to figure out yours. Observation—the magician’s greatest weapon.

Scanning the room, you spotted a girl who couldn’t have been more than twenty, moving strangely—eyes darting toward two guards as the mess unfolded. When she stepped toward them with a wine bottle in hand, instinct—or maybe something maternal—propelled you forward.

On the way, you snatched a long silk tablecloth. The first guard was already distracted by the girl, so you focused on the second. In one swift motion, you whipped the cloth around his torso and yanked him toward you.

He stumbled, confused. You winked.

Then drove the heel of your shoe down onto his foot.

He folded in pain, giving you the perfect opening to cinch the silk tightly around him. One hard shove sent him crashing backward into a table piled high with food.

The girl stared at you, dark eyeliner making her eyes appear even wider as recognition hit her. “You… it’s you.”

You gave her a small nod, understanding now—she wasn’t a bystander. She was part of this. Part of someone’s plan.

You jerked your head toward the exit, spotting Danny weaving through the crowd with Jack close behind him.

Without another word, the two of you sprinted toward the grand staircase leading out of the hall. You glanced back to check that she was still with you—

—and collided head-first into something solid.

Fortunately, that “something solid” was the chest of your husband.

Jack’s arm immediately wrapped around you, steady and protective, his other hand instinctively checking you over. “You okay?” he murmured, worry etched across his face.

You nodded quickly and looked past his shoulder—only for your breath to catch.

“Henley!”

She stood a few steps away, looking almost exactly the same but somehow sharper, stronger. You hadn’t seen her in years—not since everything fell apart—and yet instinctively, you pushed past Jack and threw your arms around her.

She hugged you back just as tightly.

The moment barely lasted a heartbeat before a familiar voice boomed across the space.

“Alright, emotional reunion later—we gotta move!”

Merritt. Loud as ever. Unchanged, for better or worse.

Jack’s hand pressed gently but firmly against your back, guiding you forward. “Come on,” he urged.

You followed the group toward the exit, the world suddenly spinning back into motion—the old team, the old danger, the old magic pulling you in whether you were ready or not.

The exit plan was reckless at best, but typical of the Horsemen. You landed hard on the boat waiting below, Jack’s arms catching you before you could stumble. The moment your feet were steady, you moved toward the railing, bracing your palms against the cool metal as you tried to gather your thoughts. The night had been chaos layered on chaos, and your mind was still struggling to keep pace.

Behind you, the others were talking—old rhythms slipping back into place as if no time had passed at all. You leaned back against the built-in bar, only half-listening, until Henley’s voice rose above the rest.

“Wait—hold on. Is that a ring?”

Your breath caught. You looked down at your left hand as if you’d forgotten the band was there, glinting faintly in the boat’s lights. Henley’s gaze was locked on it, her brows high in genuine shock.

The whole deck went quiet.

You swallowed, glancing toward Jack. He was leaning casually against the railing, arms crossed, wearing a smirk that told you he was thoroughly enjoying the show.

“Yeah,” you said finally, your voice steadier than you felt. “I’m married.”

The reaction was immediate.

Merritt let out a whoop. “Little you? Married? No way—absolutely not. Last time I saw you, you were practically a kid!” He pointed accusingly at you before breaking into a proud grin. “Look at you all grown up!”

Henley clapped her hands over her mouth, delighted. Danny gasped. The three newcomers—Atlas’s new recruits—looked on awkwardly, unsure if they were allowed to join in.

Questions exploded at you from all directions.

“When did this happen?”

“Who’s the unlucky—uh—lucky guy?”

“Why didn’t you tell us?”

“Do we know him?”

You opened your mouth to answer, but Danny cut through the noise, eyes narrowing playfully.

“Hold on… Jack, you haven’t said anything.” He pointed between you and your husband. “What’s wrong? Upset your little crush on her from all those years ago didn’t work out?”

Merritt let out a loud laugh.

Jack didn’t.

He pushed off the railing and walked toward you, his stride slow and deliberate. The others watched, confusion spreading across their faces as Jack stopped at your side, his hand brushing your lower back before he pressed a soft kiss to your forehead.

The deck fell silent again.

Jack looked up, meeting every stunned stare with a raised brow. “Why would I be upset,” he asked smoothly, “when I’m the one she married?”

Henley’s jaw dropped. Merritt made a strangled noise. Danny blinked like his brain had short-circuited.

“You—wait—WHAT?”

“We were going to tell you years ago,” you added, sliding your fingers into Jack’s. “But the timing was… complicated. And then everything fell apart. So… yeah. Surprise.”

There was a beat of silence before the entire group erupted again, this time louder—laughing, shouting, cheering, asking ten more questions at once. Even Atlas cracked a rare smile from the back.

And through the noise, Jack leaned toward you, whispering just for you:

“Guess the cat’s out of the hat now, sweetheart.”

mini georgia note x

the fact i was in love with jack wilder ten years ago and the new movie made it all come back!!!

[swiftiesbuddie]

I need a thousand more now you see me movies!

I want this shit to have the longevity and absurd amount of movies as the fast and the furious franchise!

[danielsarmand]

Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) dir. Ruben Fleischer

[gael-garcia]

🎵 Come a little bit closer baby / Get it on, get it on 'Cause tonight is the night when two become one 🎵

Together (2025, Michael Shanks)

[fairyysoup]

so it goes...

pairing(s): jack wilder (now you see me) x fem!reader

summary: You did a number on me, but honestly, baby, who's counting?

(Or, whoever said magicians aren't hot has never met Jack Wilder.)

words: 7.3k

cw: explicit, smut, fingering, piv sex, unprotected sex, biting, scratching, hypnotism, (absolutely unrealistic 'now you see me' style hypnotism anyways), hand & finger kink, forced orgasms, exhibitionism, teeniest bit of choking, alcohol consumption, hook-up, pick-pocketing, card tricks as foreplay, jack steals our heart AND our wallet, we're ignoring red flags for the sake of the porn, takes place sometime post-first film, no nysm3 spoilers because i haven't seen it lol

a/n: This was born from a fanfiction that I began writing, literally, ten years ago to the DAY of my beginning to write this one. I wrote the first version when I was not the seasoned writer I am now, and I was too scared to just write what I wanted. So, this is a very (very) heavily reworked version of the original I started all those years ago, as an ode to my inner teen, who just really wanted dave franco to seduce her with card tricks. Never give up on that old fic etc. etc.

ALL MY WORKS ARE 18+ MINORS DNI

I'm yours to keep, and I'm yours to lose You know I'm not a bad girl but I do bad things with you So it goes...

You clocked the man at the bar nearly as soon as you walked in; you wanted to eat him for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You liked a man with strong, beautiful hands, and his were perfect. He wore a black leather jacket, and his palm dwarfed the Old Fashioned he drank— or was it a Manhattan? Whichever it was that came with a maraschino.

His forefinger tapped absent-mindedly on the rim of the glass. He leaned back in his chair, then leaned forward. He bounced his leg, then cracked his knuckles, then lifted his drink to his lips. It was like he was doing some kind of nervous choreography that you just couldn't land on a reason for.

You singled him out. Maybe he could tell that you did.

Now, when you sit one seat down from him and order a Nikolashka, you see him glance over at you and smirk in the mirrored backsplash.

"Classy." His voice is boyish and light. You press your lips together and turn to find him peering at you over the rim of his glass, and god help you. His eyes are like two smoldering embers.

"I'm sorry?"

"A Nikolashka. It's very… elegant. Refined." He waves his hand. You track the movement with your eyes hungrily, and you definitely catch the twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"And which are you?" you ask him mildly, "Elegant or refined?"

He gives you a slight grimace as he hisses through his teeth. "Neither." His dimples are something otherworldly, and you find yourself wanting to bite the cheek that made them.

"So, what are you, then?"

"Depends," he hums. He looks thoughtful for a moment, and then squints at you. "How do you feel about card tricks?"

Dark eyes, good hands, dimples, and card tricks. He's going to kill you. "Intrigued."

He chuckles, and sets down his glass with a quiet tap onto the mahogany bartop. Somehow, you've whittled down a spot in the middle of the busy bar where the music is dimmed, the energy is more of a steady thrum than the overall chaos around you. As you slide your drink over one space and sit beside him, you enter a bubble that encircles the two of you, alone.

This close, you see the veins on his hands, each freckle on his cheek. He is objectively beautiful, too pretty for you to look at for too long without blushing. He fishes a deck of cards out of the inside of his leather jacket, and glances at you from beneath unfairly long lashes. "You'll have to forgive me if this sucks. I'm nervous."

"Oh, don't tell me that," you mutter, then take a little sip of your drink. The alcohol wips all the moisture from your mouth. "I expect you to wow me."

"All right. No pressure there." With a little smile, he fans the cards out at you. "Pick a card, any card. Don't let me see. Here—" He claps his free hand over his eyes, then peeks between his fingers at you. "I'm not looking, I promise."

You choose from the center and tilt it towards you, careful not to catch it in the mirror behind the bar. Eight of Hearts.

"Okay, now shove it back in there."

You finally let a little giggle slip. It's absurd, like something a boy would do to impress you in high school, but it's… charming. He's charming you. Which is unexpected, at least, but never unwelcome.

He does a little flourish with the cards, impressively shuffling them in an arc, and flips over the top card of the deck before pronouncing confidently, "Is this your card?"

It is, in fact, the King of Spades. "Not a chance."

"Really? Shit." Looking confused, he pats at his breast pockets, his back pockets. "This usually works. Y'know what, check— check your back pocket?"

You nearly roll your eyes. You've been watching his hands since you sat down, and he knows it. He saw how fixated you are on them, so there's no real way he could have put anything in your pocket—

Except, there is. You pull a playing card from your left pocket, completely shocked. "How…?" It's the Eight of Hearts, but this time, there's something written on it. A phone number.

"Is that your card?"

You've actually been stunned into silence. You look at it for a long time, then at his hands, then at his pretty face, smirking coyly at you.

"Well, I guess it must be," you say, looking at him coquettishly over the top of your glass. "And what name do I write under this number?"

"Jack," he says with a grin. "Jack Wilder."

You know his name, but you can't quite put your finger on where you've heard it, yet. It's like a foggy memory, buried deep down beneath years upon years of media consumption and names of people met in passing.

"Well, Jack Wilder," you repeat, putting extra emphasis on his name. You tuck the card into your back pocket slowly, keeping your eyes trained on him. "I'll forgive you for obviously touching my ass during that trick, as long as you let me buy you another drink."

He blinks at you. "Is that meant to be some kind of punishment?"

"It depends on what you ask for."

At that, he finally laughs. He throws his head back in a sweet way, like he can't laugh without putting his whole body into it. It almost makes you feel smug as you take another sip of your drink.

After signaling for another drink, Jack turns to you. "So, what about you? Do you know any magic?" He draws out the word 'magic' like it's a joke.

You think for a moment. "The only thing I can really do is read tarot. Poorly."

"What? That's actually crazy."

"I know, it's weird, isn't it?"

"No, I mean it's crazy because I have a tarot deck. Right now." Jack reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out another card deck, slightly bigger, and sets it on the bar in front of you. The High Priestess stares up at you from the top of the deck.

"How many card decks do you happen to have in there?" You ask with mild amusement.

"About three at any given time." He shrugs when you shoot him an incredulous look. "It's good to be prepared."

You narrow your eyes at him. "You're not some kind of card sharp, are you?"

Jack cracks a wide grin. "Why, would you hate me if I was?"

"No, I'd just be working that much harder to figure you out."

Jack presses his lips together like he's secretly pleased that you're so fascinated with him, and taps the card deck on the counter. "You could always predict my future, right?"

You snort. "Right." In spite of yourself, you pick up the deck and shuffle it with a lot less flourish than he did. "You know how to read these, I take it?"

"Not really, I just like the artwork. The deck gives me something to do with my hands." There it is, the small clue-in to his demeanor. He has to be moving, stillness doesn't suit him. When he sits still, there's a slight tremor that remains in his hands or in his leg, like he's constantly on high alert. You make a note of it as you shuffle the cards, and then set the deck on the counter, face-down.

"Knock on it three times." You watch as Jack does as he's told, his fist tapping lightly on the cards and looking almost comical in their gentility. You flip over the first card. Death, on his pale horse, stands over a battlefield. You blow out a puff of air. "Well, shit. You're dead."

Jack laughs again. "An excellent observation. You're good."

"Thank you, thank you." With a smirk, you turn over the next card. The Eight of Swords reversed. "Aha. You were holding yourself back, but you finally found your freedom from something, and now you're heading down a new path. Does that sound right?"

He rests his chin in his palm, looking vaguely impressed. "You can do magic."

You try hard not to preen in front of him. "Yeah? That's good to hear."

"So, pray-tell, where is this new path taking me?" He continues looking at you, chin in his hand, like he can see into your mind. You feel like every thought you have is laid out in front of him. You wonder if he can read your entire soul on your face.

You flip over the third card and set it down in front of him. The Lovers.

"I don't suppose you need me to interpret that for you," you say, meeting his eye again, your insinuation hanging in the air between you.

His gaze travels down to your lips just once, and lingers there for a long moment. You don't know it yet— and how could you? It's supposed to be a secret, he is supposed to be a secret— but you terrify him. You noticed him when he had just been trying to get away from reality for a little while, trying to forget that he's on the run, that he has to pretend to be someone he's not. He isn't supposed to be telling people his real name. He isn't supposed to be picking people up in bars and doing stupid card tricks to impress them.

You baffle him. You don't even know how right you are about him, so right that you could probably guess who he is without him telling you, given time. And, unfortunately, Jack has always been drawn to things that could easily destroy him.

Held aloft on that suspension, you don't object when he asks to close the tab.

"Bullshit."

"I swear to god! You can even google it, I won't be mad."

Your combined laughter bounces down the hallway past hotel rooms, televisions echoing beyond closed doors. Your arm slung around Jack's shoulders, he bears your weight with one arm while he carries your discarded heels with the other. When you complained about your feet hurting, he had offered to carry you from the taxi up to your room, but you declined. Even so, you appreciate the gallantry.

"That Jack Wilder— The Four Horsemen Jack Wilder— he died. I remember hearing about it." And you remember now, that's where you'd heard the name. It had been all over the news. Even if you weren't keeping up with Las Vegas magic acts, everyone has at least heard about the magicians-turned-thieves. You couldn't get away from hearing about them if you tried.

"You really don't know how easy it is to fake your own death. Here," Jack chuckles, using his free hand to dig out his wallet. "There, under the top one. My I.D."

You snatch it from him, walking blindly as he advances with you down the hall. You find several I.D.'s, each with a different name, each older than the last— but the oldest, with an address in Brooklyn, bears the name Jack Wilder.

"Cute picture." You grunt and hand the wallet back to him. Not to be duped so easily, you pull out your phone to do a quick Google search on the Horsemen. An image search or two confirms that Jack, your Jack (or so you desperately want him to be), is the Jack Wilder. The same stupidly pretty smile. The same mischeivous eyes. The same arch to his brow.

You spin around, squinting at him, flashing your phone in his face. He looks somewhat bemused, like he was fully expecting it. "Okay. So, you're back from the dead. Any explanations, or will I stay in the dark?"

"Ah… I stole a cadaver and made it have a car accident. It's not that interesting." Jack waves it off, as if it's the most normal thing in the world. "Now I'm just staying under the radar, I suppose. Only thing you can do. 'Lotta people want me, few can have me. You know how it is."

"Merritt McKinney, J. Daniel Atlas…" you read as you meander through the Wikipedia article on the Four Horsemen. "Hey, what does the J. stand for, anyways?"

"Jerk-off." He says it way too quickly for it to not be personal.

You cackle, probably a lot louder than you intended to. You lean back against the wall beside your hotel room door. "So you're telling me that you're this… this ex-David Copperfield fugitive from justice?"

"Hey, I'm not entirely out of commission yet," he insists, holding up his hands, your sparkling heels dangling from the fingers of one. "But yeah, I've been ordering pizza under the name 'Kevin' for about a year now."

"And why didn't you tell me your name is 'Kevin'?" You quirk an eyebrow at him. "Seems like if you're in hiding, it would be safer to keep up the charade."

"Maybe," Jack hums, sounding like he doesn't quite agree. "But, I'm not in the business of lying to girls I want to take home, so."

You let out a little puff of air, unsure of whether to laugh or melt before him. You aren't used to men being so candid with you. "And what if I slammed the door in your face?"

"Well, that would be pretty hard," he tells you, looking upwards like he's really mulling it over. "Considering I have your room key."

"What— hey." You feel at the inside pocket of your jacket, finding no room key-card anywhere. When you look back up at him, he has it extended between his two fingers, and swipes it through the card reader on the door. The lock beeps, and the door swings open to reveal the dimly lit room within. "Unbelievable. When did you do that?"

"In the cab."

In the cab. In the cab, when you were so busy trying not to attack his face or otherwise mount him that you were completely distracted. It must have happened sometime when you crawled into the backseat, and his hands guided you in like the gentleman he'd been, up until this point. The ghost of his touch remained on your waist, but you hadn't felt him stealing anything from your pockets.

You realize then, with only a base amount of embarrassment, that you're biting your lip just thinking about his hands on you. It takes all your strength not to pull him in and kiss him immediately, although you doubt he would object if you did.

"So," you say, leaning against the open door frame, your breathing strained from trying not to let it get too erratic. God, he's gorgeous. And it pisses you off that it effects you so deeply, but you can't help how badly you want him. You've been aching for him all evening, fantasizing about him, trying not to squirm too much at the bar or in the taxi. It's getting to be too much for you, the heat between your legs a constant, demanding presence. "You got any other tricks up your sleeve?"

"One or two."

"Will you show me?"

His grin could light up a stadium. "Sure, I can."

Down the hall somewhere, a door opens. Jack turns his head to look in the direction of the sound, and in that moment you snatch him by the collar of his grey t-shirt and yank him full-force into your hotel room. He bashes into you, tripping over the door jamb, and you kick the door shut before you both slam up against the wall.

"Whoa— easy," he chuckles, his nose bumped against yours. "I promise I'll come willingly."

"I'm counting on it."

With that you finally kiss him, tugging his lower lip between your teeth, and you hear the dull thunk of your shoes being dropped on the carpet. Everything about him surrounds you; the spice of his cologne, the warmth of his body, the taste of the alcohol he drank. His hands slide around your waist to pull you close, and this time you feel it when he slips your room key into your back pocket, tucked right against the card with his number on it— although you figure you only felt it because he let you. His hands on either side of your face, fingers in your hair, he backs you into the corner like it's the only thing he's been wanting to do since he saw you.

"You're so fucking hot," Jack breathes into your mouth, his thumb tracing along your jawline. His fingers could burn a line along your skin, like you might just wake up in the morning to find scorch marks where he touched you.

His kiss is frenzied, almost rushed and desperate— when you break away, gasping for air, a string of saliva connects you by the lower lip. His face is covered in your lipstick, your dark red painting a chelsea smile around his mouth.

"You have something…" You swipe your finger along the trail of lipstick, but he just grins and backs away. You don't know how you look, but you swipe your hand across your mouth for good measure.

"Is it my color?" He doesn't look too worried about the state of his appearance. He frames his face with his hands, posing at you with a sardonic smile. "Does it go with my outfit?"

"Yeah, you look real sexy," you snicker, pulling him back towards you by his jacket lapel. You watch his pupils dilate, his smile faltering for just a moment while you bring your thumbs up and wipe the makeup from his face. "You're lucky I didn't just fuck you in that disgusting bar bathroom."

"Thank god for that." His voice has gone a little bit rough, his easy-going veneer slipping as you trace your fingernail along his cheekbone. "Now I can take my time."

"Touch me," you order, leaving no room for argument.

You expect him to go directly for your waist or your chest, to weasel his hands under your shirt, to remove your bra with some kind of abracadabra, or whatever the hell he does. But, he hadn't been joking about taking his time, and you take a trembling breath when he cradles your jaw in his hand, turning your head like you're something precious, and kisses the spot just below your ear. Your eyes fall shut, and you swear that you really are melting, like he is somehow able to dismantle you with a single brush of his lips.

And then you realize that your earring is missing.

"Jack." You don't even turn your head to look at him. You would be annoyed if it wasn't a little bit hilarious.

"Sorry. Bad habit." His words come out muffled as he pulls your earring from between his lips and drops it into your outstretched palm, looking like he's been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. It glints in the light for a moment before you chuck it aside, hearing it plink somewhere on the dresser.

The placing of your hand on his belt grabs his attention. You tug him close, his hips nearly pressed up to yours, your back against the wall. In the stilted air between your faces, you hiss, "Behave."

Jack's eyelids flutter, his gaze raking over your face once, twice. "I'll try my best."

But he won't. You know that he won't, and you hate that you want him even more for it.

Jack drags his hand down, down, down, running along the curve of your breast, the dip of your waist. He traces the seam of your jeans, startling you with his boldness. You give him a tight gasp and arch against his touch, almost embarrassed with how readily you react to him. His two fingers press against your cunt through the fabric, and you moan as you part your legs for him.

"There we go," Jack whispers to you, his voice light as a feather. When you blink your eyes open, you find him searching your face, his eyebrows slanting upward. "Is this where you want me?"

His fingers split into a V, tracing slowly around the seam, bracketing the outline of your cunt. He drags upwards, avoiding all the places you want him most, and then slides down again, pressing harder. Your mouth hangs open, and you stop breathing, stop thinking, stop doing anything of substance.

"Answer me, sweetheart." His whispered inquiry passes through your foggy mind, but it's the pause of his touch that finally snaps you into a response.

"Yes— Jack, please." You're torn between wanting the upper hand and wanting to give it over to him, but from the way he has you mindless with one touch, you're not sure you ever had the upper hand to begin with.

He pops the button on your jeans without further comment, and there's a touch of his lips against your jaw, a hint of a breath on your neck, and then he dips his hand beneath your waistband. You're throbbing, aching for him and frozen under the weight of his gaze. Then the rough, calloused pads of his fingers dip into your wetness, and you both gasp at the same time.

"You can't have gotten this turned on by my dorky card tricks," Jack murmurs, his fingers tracing a delicate path through the soaking heat of your pussy. Without him even urging you, you widen your legs and push your hips against his touch.

"It's just— I— I like— fuck." You can't think straight, not when he's touching you like that. His fingers swirl around your clit with a precision that's completely debilitating, and he watches you with his eyes just inches from your face.

"'You like' what?"

Your cunt throbs at the rasp of his voice, the slow strokes of his fingers, but you can't look away from him. Not even for a second. "Your hands. I like— like your ha—"

His two fingers drive into you to the knuckle, and you cut yourself off on a whine. Jack flexes his hand, nearly pulling you away from the wall with the force of it, and your nails rake down the back of his leather jacket with a noisy ripping sound.

It's good. It's really, really good, and the sounds coming from you are obscene, the air around you already thick with tension and sweat. His eyes are focused in on you, but they're so blown out that they've gone nearly black. You bite back a moan and lurch against him, trying to meet the slow thrusts of his fingers with your hips and only meeting resistance.

"My hands," he repeats, and his voice is disarming, almost lulling. Jack tilts his head and hums low in his throat, moving so that you keep your eyes on his. You practically wither under his stare. "That's it. My hands on you, inside you. Do you think I could go deeper? Would you like that, too? Feel me, deeper."

You hear a snap somewhere in your periphery, a soft ticking in the background of your thoughts. Like the ticking of a clock, this gentle snap—snap—snap— and you realize that he's whispering to you, but it's so soft you're barely catching the words. He does drive his fingers deeper, curling them in a way that has you keening, held captive in his stare. You still hear that snapping, echoing through your head like a gentle refrain.

"What— What are you doing to me?" Beneath the tremble in your voice is a note of suspicion. You feel like you're falling into him, the space between you is electric, everything else is intangible.

"Do you know what the fun thing about hypnotism is?" Jack asks, his voice quiet, just above a whisper, now. Everything within you draws up tight at the sound of it, coiling up like a cobra ready to strike. His fingers move at a steady pace, keeping you rocking against him. The pleasure ebbs and flows like the swing of a pendulum. "I can make you cum with the snap of my fingers."

It's entirely unpredictable. He has you frozen in place, unable to really move or think, except to dig your nails into his leather jacket and accept that Jack is not like any other guy you'd ever picked up at a bar. Your voice comes out strained when you say, "That's not behaving."

"No," he agrees. "But you don't really want me to behave, do you? You want me to show you my tricks. This is number one." Jack crowds close and spread your legs wider to accomodate, until the only thing holding you up is his body. You have no choice but to let go, and trust that he won't let you fall.

"Shit— Jack." You wilt against him. Hands scrambling for something to hold onto, you find nothing but his hair, his shoulder, the wall behind you. You moan pathetically loud— so loud you're sure it can be heard on the other side of the door, but you don't really care. You don't have it in you to care about anything anymore.

You cant your hips toward him, your toes just barely skimming the carpet, but he keeps the pace slow, deliberate. He swirls his fingers around your clit, sending warmth dancing in spirals along your nerves. Your breath comes out in uneven pants, and your fingers tug on his hair just enough to make him purr, the sound absolutely lighting you up from the inside.

"Ready?" Jack whispers, and you nod without even really thinking about it. Ready for what, you're not sure, but you know you're ready for whatever he wants to give you.

He raises his hand in the air, just beside your head, and he snaps his fingers.

And you shatter.

Your cunt clenches down around the stretch of his fingers, and you yank on his collar, trying so hard and still failing to stay quiet. It pulses through you in quick succession, the tension that's been buidling in you all night finally let loose with his one command.

You've never fucking cum on command before.

Jack's hand slows to a stop, and then he withdraws while keeping himself between you and gravity. His hand lingers just at your waistband while you catch your breath, panting up at the ceiling.

"What the fuck," you wheeze in the comedown, your body still twitching against him. "You— did you really just— just hypnotize me?"

"I did." He sounds just as shocked as you are. His voice is still soft, but that cadence of wanting to lull you is gone. "Although, you're pretty agreeable when I have my hand down your pants."

Covered in sweat from head to toe, you have to shed your jacket just to take back a bit of normalcy. You huff a laugh, then level your gaze at him again. "I guess most people are?"

"I, uh— I wouldn't know. That's a relatively new trick for me." Jack gives a small exhale of disbelief, still completely taken aback. He's flushed up to his ears, his chest heaving almost as much as yours. "Was it… was that too much?"

You shake your head. It was, in fact, so unbelievably hot that you're having trouble even forming the words to express it. You grab his hand, still lingering down by your waist, and bring it to your lips. Jack follows your movements with his eyes, those eyes, his fingertips flexing slightly in your hold. You can't help yourself. You part your lips and take his fingers into your mouth, swirling your tongue around the two that had just been deep in your pussy.

"Jesus." He has the decency to look surprised— he wasn't expecting you to do that. It's almost endearing after all this; after you eyeing them all night in the bar, after him making you cum on them, making you admit your fixation. Maybe he thought you were exaggerating when you told him that you like his hands, but you were serious. You're so serious that you could spend hours just tracing his fingers with your tongue. Doesn't matter if you can taste yourself on them or not.

"Do you think you could do that to me in public?" You ask once you pull his fingers, glistening with your spit, from your mouth. You bat your lashes at him, but you feel like your blood is boiling beneath your skin. "Could you snap your fingers and make me cum in a room full of people without them even knowing?"

Jack's eyebrows shoot up. "Would you want me to?"

"Mmm." You're nodding, moving your hands up his chest and beneath his leather jacket. You meet tension when you cup his shoulders beneath the leather, and he finally shrugs the jacket off so that it lands with your discarded one on the ground. "I'd let you do anything you want to me, Jack."

His eyes dart sideways toward the bed a second before he snatches you around the waist. Jack guides you like he's dancing, his feet staggered with yours. Your shirt is forfeit— it lands somewhere across the room, and later you'll find it hanging off of the floor lamp in the corner. Rough hands meet your bare skin, flesh on flesh, nearly burning in the relief it brings you.

He kisses you and it's all teeth, visceral need punching a hole through the thin veil of restraint he'd been operating behind. The easy pace that he'd set, the quip about taking his time, has gone out the window. It's replaced with desperation and blind desire, the limits of what his patience can handle exceeded. He undoes your bra clasp with a single pinch, yanks at your jeans with a demanding huff. Your knees hit the edge of the bed and you plop down, landing on your elbows.

"God— control yourself." Your teasing falls on deaf ears; Jack is much too preoccupied with getting you out of your jeans, and your heart nearly stalls at the sight of him before you, his hands so sure as they tug your jeans down your legs, a low hum issuing from his throat as he presses a kiss to the curve of your stomach.

"Nope. Not happening, not right now." His palm smooths up your bare calf as though he's trying to map out every part of you he can get his hands on and dedicate it to memory. Jack turns his head and presses one kiss there at the plushest part of your thigh, his dark eyes watching you for your reaction. When you don't pull away or object, he parts his lips and nips at the same place he just kissed.

You sigh and run your fingers through his hair just before you snag the collar of his shirt and pull. Thankfully, he finally gets the memo and pulls it off, tossing it the way of your own shirt. His wavy hair sticks up at odd angles now, his cheeks rosy, eyes wide. He looks so sweet like this, biting his bottom lip, his gaze flicking almost nervously over your face.

But then he raises his hand and snaps his fingers.

"Fuck—ing—?!" No, not sweet. Evil. He's evil. And you're cumming again, completely untouched. All your floor muscles clamp down at the sound of his fingers snapping, and you're thrown into an orgasm. Losing your balance, falling back against the mattress while your cunt spasms, legs spread for his view. You try to close them, but he plants his hands firmly on your thighs, shoving them apart before you can manage.

"You're so gorgeous when you cum for me."

He sounds so cheeky, and you have a mind to smack him. You cover your face, shaking and groaning as the aftershocks continue to pulse through you. How the fuck did he manage it? It's not like before when he had his fingers in your pussy, you were perfectly still, just waiting for him to do something—

"Yeah, I could definitely do that to you in public," he concludes, and you hear his belt clink as he undoes it.

"You little fucker," you gasp, pulling your hands away from your face. There's no real malice in it, you're still breathless while he sheds the rest of his clothes. "You think you can— you can just wave a magic wand and make me cum like that?"

Jack snickers at you. "I thought you said I could do whatever I wanted…?"

His hips are between your legs, and for a split second, you consider letting him continue. You wouldn't mind being fucked into the mattress. But something about his voice, how cute he is even when he's being a snarky little shit, fills you with fire.

You throw your legs around his waist and tip him sideways. Jack makes a startled noise that bubbles up from the pit of his stomach, and he bounces onto the mattress beside you. It's a clumsy mess of tangled arms and legs for a moment before you throw yourself over his hips and sit on his lap, hovering above him on the bed.

"I take it back. You're getting too big for your britches."

Jack doesn't say anything, just blinks up at you and suppresses a smirk while he sucks on his teeth. You can feel his cock beneath you, resting heavy against his stomach. It's big, and so impressively hard that you're amazed he's held off as long as he has. Now, the urgency to take your clothes off makes sense.

"Don't look at me like that."

"What? I'm just looking at you—" Jack shakes his head just a little bit, but he cracks a smile that turns into a laugh. He can't help it.

"Shut—" you slap your hand over his pretty mouth, making him snort, "—up." You drop your hips, and he gasps against your fingers when you grind your cunt against his cock. "It's my turn now, and I'm oh-for-two. I don't like that score."

Jack sucks in a breath through his teeth, his hips jumping at your slow glide against him. It's so wet, made worse from all his teasing, and probably so hot that it burns. He groans, grabbing at your hips with a white-knuckled grip. "Not fair. It's easier for you—"

"Right. Because forced orgasms are sooo fair." You hum low, almost allowing yourself to get lost in the feeling of your clit dragging over the ridges of his cock. You bite your lip, dipping low to press a kiss to his temple and whisper in his ear, "No more shortcuts. We're gonna do this the hard way now."

"You think hypnotism isn't hard?" His voice is so strained. Jack lifts his hand, his chest heaving while he tangles his fingers just in the ends of your hair, twisting it around them in small curls. He rocks his hips against you. "Took me a fffffucking— a year to learn that—"

"Only a year?" Your teeth graze the shell of his ear and he shudders, making a sound that should be absolutely criminal with how sexy it is. "Now you can make me cum whenever you feel like it, but I have to work for it. So fucking. Take. What I give you."

You sit up, raking your fingernails down his chest as you go. Your eyes flick down to watch red trails bloom where they'd been, goosebumps raising on his tan skin. Jack has such a nice body, covered in a thin sheen of sweat, his muscles hard and strong. You tremble on top of him, starry-eyed and nearly taken apart by the little bit of friction between you. You're soaking him, slipping along his length and so close to cumming just from rubbing yourself on his cock.

"Fuck—" Jack takes you by the hips as you lift yourself and ease him inside of you. Then, it's all you can do not to cry out towards the ceiling.

And he's up, holding you in a full-bodied embrace, his arms wrapped fully around you, his hands in your hair and on your waist. He's so deep, and his shifting around keeps sending him deeper, like he's trying to carve out a place for himself inside of you. He hisses in your ear and then… presses a kiss to your shoulder. Gentle.

You gasp once, arching into him when he rocks you a bit in his arms, sending shockwaves shooting up your spine. "You're such a goddamn gentleman."

Jack chuckles, and turns his head so that he can speak directly into your ear. "Well, do you want me to behave or not?"

The tone of his voice practically tears you in half. He's being so fucking condescending. It shouldn't turn you on the way it does, but your pussy clamps down around him and your body tenses in his arms, your eyes glued to the ceiling, your breath catching in your throat.

"Not. Got it." And then he sinks his teeth into your shoulder, where he just kissed you.

It takes you by surprise and you cry out, rolling your hips into his in earnest. There will be an imprint of his teeth on your shoulder— something to remind you for days about this, and about him. The thought consumes you, makes you needy, desperate to leave a mark on him that can compare.

Your nails claw down his back— his beautiful, gorgeous back that you can feel flex beneath your touch, now covered in the same welts you'd raised on his chest. But deeper. Harder. Something that he'll be feeling for days, whenever he takes off his shirt, whenever he lifts his arm.

Jack groans like you've punched him, holding you tight to him as though he's afraid you'll disappear. "You have no idea what you're doing to me," he mumbles, just loud enough for the words to rumble across your skin and make you shiver.

Your muscles draw up tight, your thighs locking up with the strength of it. You jolt against him. "Oh my god, Jack—"

"Are you gonna cum again?" He sounds so fucking pleased with himself. "Already?"

"No… no."

"Isn't that oh-for-three?"

"Jack, shut—" A loud moan breaks from your throat, and you snatch at his hair. You're going to cum. Shit, you didn't want to, not before he does, but it seems you can't stop the effect that he has on you.

"Noisy," Jack murmurs, and ruts his hips up into yours just to hear you do it again. "Gonna let all the neighbors know you're cumming for me?"

"They already do," you grit out. You squeeze your eyes shut while your cunt tightens down, and Jack moans into your ear. "They can fucking hear. I don't care."

"You just really—" Jack chokes on a laugh, breathless as you ride him harder, "—really want people to know I'm fucking you, huh? I can make it quicker—"

He raises his hand from your waist, but you catch it before he can snap his fingers in your ear again. You rear back and smack his hand down onto your collarbone, his thumb pressed into the dip just beside where he'd sunk his teeth in.

Oh. He looks completely fucked out. Glassy-eyed, mouth slightly open with each breath he takes. Your eyebrows tilt up slightly just at the sight, and that was the worst thing you could have done if you didn't want to cum too quickly.

Your intake of breath sounds like a sob. "You're so p-pretty—"

He gasps your name, and it's so quiet that you could have missed it if you weren't watching him, staring at his lips with every intent on kissing him. You yank him toward you with both hands, cradling him like he's the most perfect thing in the world, and you plant one on him. His hand tightens just slightly, where it rests against your throat, and you can't fucking believe it.

You cum. Just like that, with his hand on your neck, holding you in place. You moan into his lips, arch against him, and grind down like you can somehow get him deeper while your cunt spasms around his cock.

It's not fair. He can't just— he can't just make you do that by simply existing, by just looking and talking the way he does, it's not fucking fair—

"Oh, fuck." Jack tenses and rocks his hips up into you, his brows pinched together and his eyes tightly shut. He moans so beautifully, his breath sweet in your mouth, and he cums, rutting up into you as hard as he can. Your limbs feel fluid, completely spent, but he holds you to him like he can't get enough.

He doesn't let go, at first. He stays with his hand on your throat and his arm tight around your waist, crushing you against his chest while he gasps for air. His nose pressed into the crook of your neck, just where his bite mark is starting to smart. Your legs feel like jelly, but you can at least lift your hand, dig your fingers into his hair.

Peaceful. It's peaceful, is what it is. It's soft. You wouldn't have expected Jack to be the perfect balance of hard and soft, to change whichever way he fits. He's a surprise from all angles.

Finally, you collapse with him onto the bed, a jumble of boneless limbs pulled down into a sleepy stillness. Except he's not still, not entirely. In the periphery of your awareness, you feel him tracing his fingertips along your spine. He outlines little shapes across your feverish skin, listening to your breathing slow.

"You're not—" Jack begins after a moment, then pauses, and starts again. "You won't be here tomorrow."

He sounds vaguely sad about it, like he'd been hoping you'd stick around for a little while.

"No. Headed to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon. This was just a stop-over." You sigh and curl into him, a little too exhausted by everything to even consider how you hadn't mentioned anything about it to him. You figure he just put two and two together, considering you're in a hotel room and not an apartment.

"Hm. Better get some sleep, then."

You're all too willing to take his suggestion. Just before you drift off, you feel his fingers tangle in your hair, just at the nape of your neck, twisting around and around in tight circles. Never still. Always moving.

You aren't surprised to wake up without Jack in your bed. You're only minorly disappointed, since you stupidly wished that he'd be there to say goodbye with another couple rounds. But it makes sense that he would be the type to leave without saying goodbye.

Figures. You always fall for the emotionally unavailable ones.

You are surprised, however, to be turned away by airport security while trying to get into the gate at JFK. When the TSA agent asks to see your I.D., you grab for your wallet. You don't find it in your jacket pocket, where you were sure you left it last night.

But you do find, in its place, a single playing card with a phone number on it.

"Mother fucker." In spite of your rage, while you pull out your phone to dial the number so you can get your fucking wallet back— because you fucking know he did this just to keep you in New York, just to see you again, the little shit— you can't help but smile at the words scrawled beneath it.

Jack Wilder. Here's trick number two.

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I knew you were trouble — jack wilder

warnings: rookie fbi!reader magician!jack fingering p in v oral (f!receiving)

summary: you’re chasing a magician who steals from everyone, including you.

wc: 4.4k

a/n: took it upon myself to write a jack wilder fanfic cause there’s barely any and it’s criminal I also haven’t watched the movies in a year so bare with me if it’s inaccurate !

“Hey! Stop him, my wallet!”

You weren’t even supposed to be near the docks that night, it was supposed to be a quick walk to clear your head after a miserable day of paperwork at the Bureau. But of course, the second you decided to breathe like a normal human being, someone decided to commit a crime right in front of you.

You turned just in time to see a guy sprinting through the crowd, hoodie pulled up, backpack bouncing against his shoulder. The man yelling after him looked like a tourist, all sunburned and confused, clutching at his empty pocket.

Your brain didn’t think. Your badge was still clipped to your belt, your legs were already moving.

“FBI!” you shouted, cutting across the walkway.

The hoodie guy glanced back, surprised, and you caught a split second look at his face. Sharp features, a wild spark in his eyes, the kind of grin that made you instantly sure he’d done it on purpose.

He ducked left between two food stalls. You went after him, dodging a family with ice cream cones, almost slipping on the wet pavement.

“Stop!”

He didn’t. Of course he didn’t.

He jumped a railing, landing hard, and you followed, the impact stinging your knees. You were close enough to hear his breathing, the scuff of his sneakers against the concrete. You could tell he wasn’t just some random pickpocket. He was fast. Precise. Like he’d done this before, a lot.

He cut down another alley, and for a second you thought you’d lost him, until you saw a flicker of movement by a side door. He was trying to duck through it.

You lunged.

Your hand caught his arm, fingers digging into the fabric of his hoodie. He jerked back in surprise, turning halfway, and the motion pulled you both off balance.

For one dizzy second, the world spun, you caught a flash of his face, that same grin but closer this time, his eyes meeting yours in something that wasn’t quite fear and wasn’t quite amusement. Then he twisted. Smooth. Effortless.

The next thing you knew, he’d spun you around like it was a dance move and slipped free. You stumbled forward, caught yourself against the wall, turned back—

Gone.

No sound. No footsteps. No exit door swinging. Just the faint echo of the city and your own heartbeat hammering in your ears.

You took a few steps down the alley, looking behind dumpsters, checking corners, but it was empty. It didn’t make sense.

You pressed your hands to your knees, catching your breath. “What the hell…”

By the time you got back to the Bureau, you were exhausted, hair sticking to your face, shoes covered in grime. The fluorescent lights inside made you squint.

Dylan Rhodes was still at his desk, jacket off, tie loose, his usual “I’m too tired to care” expression firmly in place. He glanced up when he heard you drop the recovered wallet onto his desk.

“Lose a fight with a trash can?” he asked.

“Funny,” you muttered, brushing dirt off your sleeve. “Caught a thief. Kinda.”

He raised an eyebrow. “Kinda?”

“Yeah. I had him. For like, two seconds. Then he Houdini’d his way out of my grip.”

Dylan leaned back in his chair. “So, you chased a suspect without backup, got thrown around, and lost him.”

You frowned. “When you say it like that, it sounds bad.”

“It is bad,” he said, but his tone wasn’t mean — just exasperated, like he was too used to this kind of rookie chaos. “You could’ve gotten hurt.”

“I wasn’t planning to,” you shot back.

“Pretty sure no one plans to,” he said. Then, after a pause — “You at least get a look at him?”

“Yeah.” You sat down across from him, resting your elbows on the desk. “Young. Mid-twenties maybe. Street type. Hoodie, dark hair. Fast as hell.”

Dylan typed something into his computer, nodding. “Maybe we’ll pull him up in one of the security feeds. I’ll check it out tomorrow.”

You exhaled, leaning back in the chair. “Thanks.”

“Go home, rookie,” he said, already focused on the screen again. “You look like you’re about to fall over.”

You didn’t argue.

Your apartment wasn’t much, one room, small kitchen, view of a brick wall, but it was quiet. You dumped your bag on the couch, kicked off your shoes, and collapsed onto your bed still half in your work clothes.

For a few minutes, you just stared at the ceiling, replaying the chase. The way he’d moved. The twist that had knocked you off balance. The fact that he’d looked you dead in the eye before vanishing into thin air.

You sat up, grabbing your bag to unpack the usual mess, phone, badge, pen, random receipts. You reached for your wallet—

It wasn’t there.

You froze. Checked again. Then checked the couch, your coat pocket, the floor. Nothing.

You dragged a hand down your face. “No. No, no, no.”

Then you realized.

He hadn’t just taken the tourist’s wallet.

He’d taken yours too.

You flopped back on the bed with a groan loud enough to startle your upstairs neighbor. “Unbelievable.”

You turned your head toward the window, watching the faint glow of the streetlights outside. Somewhere out there, that guy was counting your cash and probably laughing about it.

𝜗𝜚 ࣪˖

Down by the river, the air was cool and damp, city lights rippling over the water.

Jack Wilder crouched by the edge, pulling two wallets from his hoodie pocket. The first one, the tourist’s, he opened lazily, sifting through it with practiced fingers. A few twenties, some loyalty cards, nothing interesting. He pocketed the cash and tossed the rest into the river without looking.

The second wallet, though, caught his eye.

He flipped it open, expecting the same boring stuff but there it was.

Your badge. Your name. Your photo.

Jack blinked, eyebrows lifting slightly. “FBI,” he murmured.

He glanced at the photo again. You looked serious, professional, not exactly how you’d looked earlier when you were chasing him down like you meant business. There was something kind of funny about it, though. The rookie agent and the thief.

He thumbed through the rest. Cash, a few cards, a folded-up photo — you and another girl, arms around each other, smiling.

Jack paused on that one. It wasn’t the kind of thing people usually kept in their wallets anymore. It made you seem… real. Not just a badge or a title.

He hesitated, then pulled the photo and your FBI card out, slipping them into his jacket pocket. The rest he could toss.

He stood, watching the empty wallet sink beneath the water’s surface.

“Sorry, ma’am,” he muttered, half-grinning to himself.

Then, as quietly as he’d appeared, Jack walked away.

You weren’t even supposed to be there.

That’s what you kept reminding yourself as the government-issued sedan tore down the street, red and blue lights bouncing off every window you passed. dylan was driving way too fast, like he thought he was in one of those old cop shows instead of a real human vehicle with a very breakable passenger seat.

He didn’t even look at you, just said, “new orleans precinct. four magicians. pulled off a bank heist from vegas. don’t ask.”

You followed dylan through the hallway, fluorescent lights flickering overhead, files clutched against your chest, until you hit a hallway lined with interrogation rooms. voices leaked out of each one.

Behind a one-way window, a lady sat straight in a chair. Reddish hair, black dress, expression like she was extremely unimpressed and unbothered. A detective sat across from her, waving a file around, but she didn’t even flinch.

Merritt McKinney. you knew the face from news clippings. the mentalist.

Then your stomach dropped.

“That’s him,” you said, voice barely above a whisper.

Dylan turned, frowning. “what?”

You pointed through the glass.

“That’s the guy who robbed me.”

Jack Wilder was lying there, legs lifted lazily over the table like the concept of rules didn’t exist. Hands cuffed to the table, but he looked completely at ease.

You froze in the doorway. He hadn’t seen you yet.

“You sure?” Dylan asked.

“Yeah, i’m sure,” you said, still staring.

Ten minutes later, you were in the room.

Well, technically observing, like dylan had told you to. but you were sitting at the end of the table, pretending to take notes while your brain replayed the last time you’d seen him. The chase, the alley, the way he’d slipped out of your grip like jello.

“You like magic?” he asked, grin lazy.

You blinked. “uh—”

“She’s here to observe,” Dylan cut in, dropping a thick folder onto the table. the slap made you jump. “Don’t talk to her.”

Jack tilted his head. “Oh, come on. you bring her in here, sit her across from me, and i’m not allowed to talk to her? that’s kinda rude.”

“What’s rude,” Dylan said flatly, “is robbing a bank.”

Jack smiled. “i mean, yeah, but it was a good trick.”

“it wasn’t a trick,” Dylan snapped. “it was theft.”

“All magic’s theft if you think about it,” Jack said, leaning back in his chair. “Stealing attention, stealing time, stealing the part of your brain that says this isn’t real. We just take it a little further.”

You had to bite your tongue not to say something.

Dylan flipped open the file, the vegas audience, the french bank vault, cash fluttering through the air. “Tell me how you did it.”

Jack raised his brows. “Oh, we’re skipping dinner first?”

The comment earned a small smile from you.

“Wilder.”

Jack sighed. “Fine. We rehearsed, we traveled, we robbed a bank. ta-da.”

“That’s not an answer.”

“It’s the only one i’ve got.”

His eyes flicked back to you again. not in a flirty way, not even smug, more like he was cataloguing you. remembering.

You looked away first.

Dylan kept talking, something about jurisdiction, international theft, and performance law. Half of it you tuned out. you were too focused on the small movements jack kept making, the twitch of his fingers, the restless tapping of his knee.

After maybe twenty minutes, dylan finally snapped the folder shut.

“You think this is a game,” he said.

Jack smiled again, the kind of smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes. “this is the opening act.”

The next half hour blurred. agents shuffled papers and people yelled down hallways. by the time you and dylan made it to the front steps, the sun was already bleeding orange over the city.

The front doors burst open. the four horsemen walked out together, Dylan’s expression immediately went from tired to what the hell, and you just stood there, frozen.

Atlas in front, confident as ever. Henley beside him. Merritt with that same smug tilt to his head. and Jack. Jack at the back, jacket half-zipped, hands shoved in his pockets like he hadn’t just been in cuffs thirty minutes ago.

Nobody stopped them. not the officers, not the agents, not even Dylan, who just stared like his brain couldn’t process it.

“they’re not— they’re not even—” he started.

“cuffed?” you finished.

“yeah.”

“should we…?”

“i don’t know,” he said, rubbing his face. “there’s— there’s paperwork, there’s— god, this makes no sense.”

But you couldn’t stop watching jack. he turned once, mid step, glancing back at the building like he knew exactly where you were standing.

He didn’t do anything. didn’t wave or wink or pull some stupid trick. He just looked at you, one heartbeat longer than necessary, before turning back and walking away with the others.

You stood there until the street went quiet again, until Dylan finally barked somthing about “federal nightmares” and stormed off toward his car.

You stayed a moment longer. The city lights were starting to come on, one by one.

And somewhere in your chest, under all the confusion and the adrenaline, you felt it — the same thing you’d felt the first night you saw him.

the pull.

𝜗𝜚 ࣪˖

You stared at his file, the photo of him taken just yesterday before interrogation. Jack Wilder.

His dark hair was slightly messy and his eyes had that impossible calm about them that made him look like he knew a secret you didn’t.

Cute, you thought. You shouldn’t have been thinking that, especially not about a criminal who had just pulld off a string of high profile heists, but you couldn’t stop yourself. Your stomach twisted with a mix of exasperation and something else, something you weren’t ready to name.

You jumped slightly when the door opened and Dylan walked in. Your hand slammed down on the file before he could see what you were looking at. He didn’t notice the blush creeping up your neck.

He was focused, serious, already running through his checklist in his head. You took a shaky breath and tried to convince yourself you hadn’t just been staring at a criminal’s picture like he was some cute stranger on the street.

Later on your break, you walked to the small coffee stand around the corner from the office. The air smelled like roasting beans and the city, and for a moment it was a relief from paperwork and files and the endless stream of cases that always seemed to pile up.

You were halfway through deciding what kind of latte you wanted when movement caught your eye.

Someone with a hood pulled low over their head bumped into a man walking in the opposite direction. You barely had time to notice the casual apology before your instincts fired.

That bump wasn’t just accidental. The person’s hand had slipped into the man’s pocket with the precision of someone who did it often. You saw the wallet leave the man’s grasp before he even knew it was gone.

“Hey!” You called out without thinking.

it didn’t surprise you who it was. Of course it was him. Jack Wilder. He looked up, eyes lighting up when he saw you, not in a friendly way, not exactly, but in that way that made your stomach twist into knots.

Without missing a beat, he sprinted down the alleyway, hood falling back slightly, revealing that familiar messy hair and sharp eyes.

You didn’t hesitate. Your legs pumped, the streets suddenly smaller, somehow more familiar, as though evry corner, every alley, had been waiting for this chase.

You had done it before, back when he’d slipped from your grasp in the chaos of a different day, and you weren’t about to let it happen again.

He was fast, but you were fast too. You’d grown up on these streets, you knew every shortcut, every corner that might give someone like him an advantage.

You were just one street away from your apartment when you finally started feeling the burn in your lungs and the ache in your legs. Still, there was no way you were giving up. Not this time.

Then, just like that, he vanished around a corner. Your chest heaved as you skidded to the turn, heart hammering, only to see him again. There he was, crouched slightly, hands on the door lock to your apartment building. It wasn’t a mistake, it couldn’t be. He was heading inside, like he knew exactly where he was going.

You ran the last few steps, heart in your throat, and pushed the door open, following him without even thinking.

The stairs blurred beneath your feet as you sprinted, counting the levels, wondering how someone could move that smoothly even after running so fast.

He stopped at your door, hands in the air as if he had nothing to hide, and you skidded to a halt a few feet away, gasping for air.

Your hair was sticking to your forehead, your chest heaving, and you felt like your lungs were going to catch fire any second.

“What? Why did you run here?” You finally managed, voice harsh with frustration and disbelief.

He shrugged, calm as if sprinting through city streets and breaking into your apartment lobby was the most normal thing in the world. He gave you a small smile.

You crossed your arms, trying to seem a little more professional. “Why’d you steal that man’s wallet? Seems like you already have enough money.”

The recent bank robbery, the shows, the tricks — he clearly didn’t need more money.

He tilted his head at you and replied simply, “Why not?”

You narrowed your eyes, taking a careful step toward him. You reached for your cuffs instinctively. “You’re under arrest.”

Jack didn’t panic. He didn’t run. He just started walking toward you slowly, and you stepped back, adjusting your stance.

“Aren’t you gonna arrest me?” He held his hands out.

you snapped the cuffs onto his wrists and grabbed his arm to turn him toward the door, ready to lead him out of the building. The click of the metal hitting the floor behind you barely registered over your own racing heartbeat.

And then they were gone. The cuffs had slipped off, falling to the ground with a quiet clatter, and before you could even act, he tugged on your arm, pulling you toward him. You stumbled, barely catching your balance, eyes wide as your heart hammered in your ribs.

“What are you— you—“ you stammered, trying to regain control, but all your authority had vanished in that instant. He was close, dangerously close, and calm. Hands still holding yours, gaze locked with yours.

The moment stretched long enough that you couldn’t remember if it was seconds or minutes. You could hear your own heartbeat pounding in your ears, and for a brief flash you wondered how this was even real.

Then he leaned in slightly, close enough that you could feel the heat of his breath, and all the logic in your brain started screaming at you, reminding you that he was a criminal, a thief, someone who should never be this close.

His eyes flicked to yours, sharp and calculating, and that little grin tugged at the corner of his mouth. “You really like keeping me on my toes, huh?” he murmured, voice low and daring.

Your mouth opened to argue, to protest, to say something smart, but before you could get a word out, he closed the distance. His lips met yours.

It was long, overwhelming, and impossibly intimate. Your chest pressed against his, knees threatening to buckle, and every sensible thought screamed at you to stop, but your body didn’t care. His hands gripped your arms gently but insistently, keeping you close as the city noise faded into nothing.

your fingers tangled in the fabric of his shirt, tugging him closer still as if daring to bridge every inch of space between them. A low groan vibrated against your mouth when he finally pulled back just enough to breathe—but not far enough for reason or restraint to catch up.

Jack stepped back toward your apartment door without letting go of your arm, his hand brushing the handle. “It’s locked—” you said, breathing a little heavier. But just as the words left your mouth, the door swung open. You stared at it in surprise, then back at him, mouth slightly open.

“Nothings ever really locked?” He frowned, shaking his head slightly, a small, almost mischievous crease between his brows, before leaning in and pressing his lips to yours again.

His mouth was warm against yours, his tongue teasing your lips apart as he guided you backward through the open door. The second it clicked shut behind you, he deepened the kiss, hands sliding down to grip your waist with possessive intent.

You could feel him smirk when your breath hitched at how easily this had happened, and worse? You didn’t even care that he’d just broken in.

The couch hit the back of your knees before you realized it, his arms caging either side of where his body pressed into yours, his warmth seeping through every point he touched.

And yet, all coherent thougts evaporated when those large hands slid higher up under fabric of your shirt, forgetting rules entirely now because oh god, wasn't this better than arresting anyone anyway?

The world narrowed down to just him, the feel of his calloused hands on your skin, and the heat of his body pressed against yours.

He broke the kiss, lips brushing down the column of your throat, and you couldn't stop the soft whimper that escaped you. His hot breath teased your skin, sending shudders racing over your body. His mouth lingered there, as though he was memorizing every dip and curve of your neck, before pressing a gentle, almost reverent kiss to the pulse point.

Your fingers curled into the material of his shirt, desperate for anything to anchor you in this overwhelming moment. He nipped at the sensitive skin just below your ear, eliciting a soft gasp from you.

"God, the way you sound—" he murmured, his voice a low rumble that reverberated against your skin "I could listen to it for days."

His lips continued their path along your jawline while your heart raced as he worked the buttons of your white shirt open, one by one. The way his hands lingered on your skin was so reverent, almost like he was worshipping you.

By the time the shirt was off, you were nearly trembling in anticipation, his gaze holding you captive.

Jack leaned back slightly, his brown eyes dark and full of something dangerous as they raked over where he knew exactly what effect this was having on you. His smirk grew sharper when your hips jerked up instinctively against nothing but air.

"You're so fucking pretty like this," he murmured roughly. He was hard, yhe sight made you shiver. He dipped down again, this time pressing an open mouthed kiss right between your breasts.

His lips continued their torturous descent over your stomach, and then suddenly, he paused.

he looked up at you for a brief moment, a smirk playing on his lips. "Lift your hips for me."

you whined and lifted your hips for him. Jack’s hands slid under you, gripping the back of your thighs as he tugged you closer to the edge of your couch, his fingers flexing possessively.

His smile turned downright filthy when another little sound escaped past your lips.

“So fuckin’ eager,” he murmured before ducking his head lower, still—hot breath ghosting over the damp fabric of your panties in a way that made every nerve in your body light up.

His fingers hooked into the waistband of your underwear, tugging them down just enough to expose what he'd been dying to taste since this whole damn thing started.

The second his tongue dragged up along slick heat? Your back arched off the surface beneath you with a gasp so loud it echoed, his answering groan vibrating against where his mouth now worked in slow, torturous strokes between your thighs that trembled around him.

His grip tightened on your hips, holding you in place as he lapped at you like a man starved.

Every flick of his tongue had heat pooling low in your stomach. You couldn't stop the way your fingers tangled into his hair, pulling, tugging him closer even though he was already buried so deep between those shaking thighs that there wasn’t an inch left untouched by mouth or hands alike.

His eyes flicked up to meet yours in that moment, a wicked gleam in them as he saw what he was reducing you to a whimpering, trembling mess that could do nothing but lay there and take whatever pleasure he deigned to give you.

He knew how much you loved this—how much you needed it. And God, he was so damn good at it, every move deliberate and calculated as he pushed you just to the edge, then his fingers slid into you as he pressed an open-mouthed kiss to your inner thigh. They curled up, stroking, his thumb rolling over that bundle of nerves that set your body on fire.

Then he pulled back.

“Come here.”

your breath hitched and you moved to his lap, your thighs pressing against the sides of his legs. Jack groaned as you settled in, one hand gripping your hip while the other guided himself between your thighs, hot and hard against slick skin.

"God," he breathed out roughly before capturing your lips again with bruising force.

Jack's hands gripped your hips, fingers digging in hard as you rocked against him, every movement drawing a ragged groan from his throat. His head tipped back slightly when the friction of your bodies had him seeing stars.

"Fuck," he growled out between gritted teeth, pupils blown wide with pleasure as watched where two joined together so perfectly beneath dim light above.

The pleasure was overwhelming, every movement sending waves of sensation through your body. Jack's hands tightened on your hips as he guided you into a steady rhythm, slow and deep at first, but quickly building in intensity.

His breath came in rough gasps against your neck, lips brushing over the sweat skin there before his teeth grazed lightly along your pulse point just hard enough to make you whimper again.

Jack's grip on you tightened, his breath coming in ragged gasps as he felt that familiar tension coil deep in his gut. His eyes locked onto yours, dark with lust as the rhythm between your bodies grew desperate, frantic.

"Look at me," he demanded roughly, voice thick with pleasure when his fingers curled possessively around your thighs, his hips snapped up into yours over... over... until neither could hold back any longer

pleasure crashed over both of you, overwhelming, and consuming. It was like fire under your skin — intense and burning and so good you almost forgot how to breathe for what felt like an eternity at the same time that it wasn't nearly enough.

Jack's arms encircled you tightly, pulling you down against his chest as if he was trying to merge your bodies together.

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