December 2012
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layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
Charlie opened his mouth to say the kind of bad guy that’s just lonely but that sounds too much like he’s out looking for just sex, so he keeps his mouth shut, thankful when she continues even if her smile vanishes. Following her gaze down to their hands, he sighs.
“I live a normal and natural life…I’m not like a vampire or anything that needs to kill to...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
OH GOD SHE’S A MIND READER is all that went through Charlie’s mind for a minute until her touch snaps him out of his shock. His eyes follow her thumb like it’s hypnotizing him, wondering if he’ll make things right this life. It’d mean growing old and actually dying, without revival, his magic and Barnum’s legacy coming to an end just so he can wind up burning...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
Charlie turns a shade paler at her words, quickly looking away and internally kicking himself. No wonder he found himself attracted so easily to someone he barely knew. She was practically a female Jay. Bright, noble, kind, and morals of gold. Just like Jay wouldn’t accept others dying for his life, Layla was the same way, and Charlie was back to being the...
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layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
“I’ve tried them for myself…but mostly I just assumed it was-“
He cut off and stared at her awkwardly for a moment before looking away.
“I’m going to go with destiny. Destiny sounds good. Besides, why go looking for answers unless you want to change anything? Do you want to go back to being dead?”
“Because the last time people magically fended off death,...
November 2012
17 posts
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
“I’m not sure either…I thought I’d figured out how I came back but, now if you’re in the same situation as me, I’ve got no idea.”
Now that his giggle fit is over, he takes a deep sigh and glances back at the bar to make sure no one’s doing anything stupid, before leaning back against the table with his head in his hands.
“Maybe someone upstairs watches our...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
He’s about to warn her against wanting someone to come back to life when she continues, and he can’t hide the shock on his face. The shock only lasts a second, realizing that he wasn’t alone in coming back to life, that he’d somehow found someone else who had gone through the same thing and maybe this had nothing to do with his magic and was truly a second...
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layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
That answer at least calmed Charlie’s nerves, even if he would probably try every trick in the book to continue to hide his identity of a witch. Even if he revealed to her that he was a magician, there’d be no reason to tell her of where his magic really came from or that it was real. Her next question takes him off guard, and for a paranoid moment his...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
After shoving the kid facefirst back into his stool and reclaiming his rightful place behind the bar, Charlie kept an eye on the woman for awhile. Stealing small glances inbetween serving beers and setting up hookahs. She seemed safe and sweet and that’s what seemed to scare Charlie the most. Jay had been safe and sweet and look how that turned out. But then...
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layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
“No, I’m trying to not owe YOU here.”
He frowned, feeling slightly guilty for a second as he watches her get the hang of smoking, and at least from the sounds of it this isn’t her first trip around a pipe. Tilting his head slightly, he ponders that for a second as he enjoys her laugh before someone trying to climb over the bar counter catches his attention...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
Charlie’s unable to respond, due to his hand tightly covering his own mouth to keep the hysterical laugh from escaping after her hundred years comment. The poor woman honestly had no idea what kind of creature she just met. When he spots the twenty on the bar, he sighs. No matter what he’d done in his past, he couldn’t accept a tip like that. Looking over to...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
Maybe people were ok with sharing their life stories when they weren’t over 200 years old, an ex-murderer, and witch that had come back to life. But for Charlie, sharing and caring isn’t really an option.
He’s already turned to make her drink when her next comment almost makes him drop the glass, fumbling to quickly catch it before it hit the ground and placing...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
He’s glad she took a seat at the bar instead of one of the dark corners hidden behind curtains. The pillows and scenery may be more comfortable over there, but it was also darker, more hidden, and he found himself feeling protective and not wanting her somewhere that he couldn’t keep an eye on her. Circling around the corner, he leaned across the counter to face...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
He’s taken completely by surprised that someone’s…flirting with him? In this light, it even looks as if she’s blushing. No, can’t be, but still complimenting him without being stoned or drunk or trying to make their boyfriend jealous enough to buy them more drinks. He looks back down at the Celtic cards, and that made more sense to be talking about them,...
layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
“Well…it’ll be an experience all right.”
Speaking for both her and half the other patrons that would probably try to hit on a gal like her by reciting a poem they wrote several years ago but will claim they were inspired by her beauty when she walked through the door and Jesus maybe he’d been working there too long if he could already imagine scenarios like that...
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ginger-fitzgerald:
“We met when we were just kids and all I knew was card tricks…Charlie taught me everything and he pulled me out of more scrapes than I can remember. I’d have been dead by the time I was twenty if it weren’t for him. He was more than just a friend…”
-Jay. Criss Angel is a Douchebag
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layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
The cards she hands him catches his eyes, grateful that she was able to get them before one of them tried to blow away in the breeze. His eyes lingered on which cards they were before snapping out of his state of shock, taking them from her and shuffling them back into the deck.
“Not your fault. Maybe if half the streetlamps around here worked we’d be able to...
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layla-rourke:
notjustamagician:
The turn Charlie’s life took after he came back to life was down low and downright sketchy. No more Jay or Vernon, no more performing in the spotlight, on a stage. No idea how he came back to life or where his old tarot deck that he had used to murder those other magicians went and no idea what to do with his second chance at life.
So he found himself...
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The turn Charlie’s life took after he came back to life was down low and downright sketchy. No more Jay or Vernon, no more performing in the spotlight, on a stage. No idea how he came back to life or where his old tarot deck that he had used to murder those other magicians went and no idea what to do with his second chance at life.
So he found himself bartending in a hookah bar, reading...
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July 2012
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I DON'T EVEN NEED SLEEP
I DOOOOON’T EVEN NEED SLEEP
WHAT IF I JUST
GO OVER HERE
AND DON’T SLEEP
AND ROLL AROUND
AND OH GOD I WANNA DROOL ON PILLOWS
SEFBNDAAAAGYKHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURG
*FLIPS TAROT CARDS*
April 2012
3 posts
Charlie loved coffee. The smell of the beans, the smell of it as it brewed, the creamers, and the first sip that was always too hot. His coffee maker was on an automatic timer, always ready as soon as he woke up, needing at least two cups before he could even think about starting his day.
So he’d always take his first cup back to bed with him and sit there as he enjoyed it, half naked,...
March 2012
5 posts
You’d really think that someone who had been reborn three times now, would have his life back together. After all, he’d had several lives to work things out. But somehow, things always seemed to crash and burn, leaving him feeling lost.
He had worked a few magic shows here and there, nothing special like he had done back with Jay and Vernon, or even back in his days of being in a...
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Me: Hey Charlie! we're gonna write now! Aren't you excited?
Charlie: *faceplants on the floor and curls into a ball*
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