You Don't See Me (Now You See Me Fanfiction)

Bonus Chapter 1

Bonus Chapter 1: How The Ship Sunk

A/N: I'm sorry if you ship this. I was having a sad day.

                I'm just...I'm sorry. I wanted to do something sad for once...so here. If I destroyed your feels like I destroyed mine, let me know!!!

                And if you don't care....well....sorry I guess?

                Thanks for reading.

Celine's Point of View.

                He sat next to me on the plane to New Orleans in complete silence as we watched Henley and Merritt interact with each other. The pair were laughing at something Merritt was saying; undoubtedly a perverted joke or comment.

                I knew it was hopeless. Daniel liked her, you could tell. And a bond between an assistant like her and himself could never be broken by someone like me.

                Because he didn't see me.

                No matter how much I helped with the damn bracelets, the year we lived together in my own house, the arguments, the heists...everything... It changed nothing. I was still a shadow like I always was...

                But I don't want to be one anymore.

                I want to be seen. Not by everyone, God no. But by that damn Control Freak with the perfect voice, attitude, sense of humour, hair, eyes...everything. He was perfect, seen, well known.

                Basically, he's the complete opposite of me. I blend, I always have, and I always will.

                "What's got you frowning so hard, Williams?" Daniel asked with actual concern in his voice. That was a change.

                "Do you really care, Control Freak?" I asked, trying to keep my voice light. I knew I failed though.

                "Celine," he said firmly. "What's up?"

                "It's just..." I struggled for a minute, searching for an excuse, before shrugging. "I can't talk about it out loud...I don't know."

                Daniel nodded and looked out the window, so I assumed he was going to let it go.

                That was until he slid me his phone, with a message typed out on a notepad app.

                "What's wrong?"

                I met his blue eyes and he just held the contact, waiting for me to reach for the phone and reply.

                I let out a sigh and grabbed it, starting to type.

                "Tell me I'm stupid."

                "?" was his reply.

                "Tell me I'm stupid, Daniel, for loving someone who would never, under any circumstance, love me back. Someone who knows I exist but doesn't see...me."

                Atlas wasn't meeting my eyes, purposely avoiding them even after he was done typing.

                "Who is it?"

                "I can't say."

                "Surely there's a chance."

                I snorted lightly. I wish.

                "There's days he acts like he hates me, or like I'm some sort of sister or a pet. And he has someone...he's never said it outright, but you can tell. I see it in his eyes every day when he looks at her."

                He typed away quickly.

                "I can't tell you that you're stupid if it's not true. You're smart and funny and beautiful...like a sister I wish I could have."

                My heart couldn't sink any lower. Of course, this was how it was...of course.

                Daniel continued typing.

                "Will it really make you happy?"

                "Maybe not, but it's what I need to hear."

                He looked from my message to my desperate expression, and then back to the phone before slowly typing.

                "Then you're stupid. He'll never return the feelings and you're wasting your time. You need to move on because there is nothing for you with him."

                I took in a slow breath through my nose as I read it. It wasn't too difficult to replace the "he" in the message with "I". I suppose he did give me the answer I needed then...

                I never stood a chance with Atlas, and once my time with the Horsemen is up...I'll leave.

                Merritt and Jack will understand...and Henley and Daniel will get what they wanted...each other. It's not like I've been that useful here anyway.

                I'm just a stage assistant...a shadow. And that's all I'll ever be in their eyes it seems.

                "Come on then, Atlas. We need to get some information out of Tressler."

                And never once would I consider that while I was lost in my thoughts, Daniel was sitting next to me and frowning with his own conflicts running through his mind. I'd never considered that he had one other message typed out on his phone, a message that got typed and erased and retyped over and over again. And I never, ever considered that the final message he was going to show me before thinking better of it and deleting it would change my life and keep me from ever running away from the Horsemen again.

                "Whoever this guy is may not love you...but I do."