#magic cape

Marvin was showing off his magic tricks to Jamie, who was watching them through a rather critical lens. Everytime Marvin would show him a magic trick, he would tell him exactly what he did to make the magic trick work. Even when Marvin showed him a complicated card trick, Jamie had only smiled and held out his hand to take the card deck. When the card deck was in his hands, Jamie did the exact same magic trick right back to Marvin! Like, perfectly replicated it! 

Marvin chuckled somewhat awkwardly when Jamie visually explained what he had done with the cards. Marvin was originally confused and unsure what to think about Jamie’s perfect replication of his magic tricks. He wanted to get annoyed, but he also thought it would be interesting to have a magician partner alongside him. 

Marvin smirked and decided to test out his knowledge. He pulled out a magician wand, and gave it to Jamie. “Show me what this thing can do.” Marvin told him. 

Jamie smirked and gave the magic wand a whip, revealing the fake flowers that were inside the wand. Marvin nodded with a smile. Jamie removed the flowers from the wand, and gave them to Marvin with a smile. “Thank you.” Marvin replied, taking it. 

Then, Jamie flipped it around and pulled on the white lid. The lid popped off to reveal the rainbow ribbon hidden inside the wand. Marvin raised his eyebrows, showing he was growing impressed. 

Jamie then pulled on the clip that was supposed to hold the flowers, bringing the rainbow ribbon back into the wand through a spinning mechanism inside. Then, Jamie pushed the flowers back into the wand and put the white lid back on. ‘Voila.’ Jamie fingerspelled. 

Marvin laughed as he took the wand back. “Not bad, Jamie.” He admitted. “But can you make things appear in the hat?” Marvin asked him, handing him the hat. 

Jamie nodded his head and took the hat. He used the wand to draw circles, before touching the hat to ‘make the magic happen’. Then, Jamie reached into the hat and grabbed the animal out of the hat. It was a bunny rabbit! A beige bunny with lowered, floppy ears. Jamie smirked and signed the word ‘Voila’ again. Marvin clapped his hands and reached out for the bunny. “Okay, okay. I can take on some competition.” Marvin replied. 

Jamie gave Marvin the bunny before grabbing the wand. He drew a couple circles with the magic wand before touching the hat again to make more magic happen. With the magic finished, Jamie reached into the hat and pulled out a bluebird! Marvin widened his eyes and smiled brightly. “Wait, why is it blue? I usually summon white birds.” Marvin admitted. 

Jamie hummed and put the bluebird onto the table. Then, Jamie put up his index finger to tell Marvin to ‘give him a minute’. He reached into the hat and pulled out…a familiar white bird! Wait…How did- 

“Wait…That’s my bird!” Marvin reacted, watching as the bird flew over to him. Marvin caught the bird and looked at the bluebird. “How did you make the bluebird appear?!” Marvin asked. 

Jamie smirked and signed something while lip-syncing the word. ‘Magic~” Jamie replied. 

“Bullshit. Tell me.” Marvin encouraged. Jamie tightened his lips and shook his head. ‘Not telling.’ Jamie signed. 

“Come on, dude.” Marvin reacted. “At least tell me where you bought the bluebird.” Marvin argued. 

Jamie shook his head. ‘Secret.’ Jamie signed. 

“I’ll make you tell me if you don’t.” Marvin warned. 

Jamie raised an eyebrow. Was he seriously going to ‘punish him’ for not telling a fellow magician his methods? Wow…Low blow, Marvin. ‘Sorry. No can do.’ Jamie signed. 

Marvin giggled and grabbed onto his black cape. He wrapped the one side of it around himself, spinning in a circle before disappearing in a puff of smoke. Jamie’s face changed from confident, to surprised in a matter of seconds. Oh shit…He can make himself disappear?! 

Jamie looked around the room, trying to find Marvin. If he disappeared, he’s bound to reappear somewhere else…right? Jamie got up onto his feet and looked around a little more. The man should reappear in a moment or two. He has to. He can’t stay hidden forever. He had begun backing up slightly to look for Marvin from a little farther away. 

*Squeeze* GAH! WHAT WAS THAT?! Jamie curled into the right, feeling something squeezing his side. Jamie let go of his side, and tried to feel for something…anything! Anything that felt like the Magnificent Marvin. 

*poke* EEP! WHO’S THERE?! Jamie flipped around to find the source of the poke. But no such luck. He was supposedly, completely alone. But Jamie knew better than that. Marvin is playing him. It had to be Marvin! 

Jamie gasped as he felt his sides get grabbed, and squeaked as he felt himself get lifted a couple feet into the air. OH NO! MARVIN LET GO! Jamie started moving himself around right away, struggling and wriggling to get out of his grip. But his wiggles and squirming would change somewhat as he felt squeezes and pokes further into his upper ribs. Oh no! OH NOHO! LEHET ME GO! NAHA! Jamie’s head would fall back as his wheezy laughter filled the room. He could feel rapid squeezes and skitters on his upper ribs, but couldn’t see a hand, let alone a culprit. He squirmed and shook his head, a large wobbly smile filling his face as he wheezed helplessly. It actually felt like the invisible man was tickling him! But Jamie could already tell who this likely was. Marvin had pulled the ‘invisible’ trick on him before. But using it just to tickle him!? What a silly reason to disappear! 

“Kitchy kitchy koo! Are you gonna tell me yet?” A voice, that sounded a lot like Marvin, had asked. 

Jamie shook his head, refusing to admit his secret. 

“Aww, that’s a shame. Looks like more tickles are in order!” Marvin declared to him. Jamie gasped and wheezed again as he felt fingers tickling in his armpits. OH NAAAH! NOT THERE! NOT THERE! Jamie squeaked and lost his balance, falling backwards into the invisible man’s arms. But he yelped again as he felt the hands go away, causing him to fall onto the ground on his back. 

Jamie quickly sat himself up to look around for Marvin. But he couldn’t find him anywhere. But he didn’t need to look around for long…because Jamie’s attention turned to the ticklish drilling into his hips. He bucked his hips in shock and threw his head back, kicking his feet as he yelped and squeaked amidst his wheezy laughter. 

Gosh, why the hips!? Why would he go for the hips?! His hips are way too ticklish for this! Why must Marvin do this to him?! All this just because he’s following a rule every other person follows?! How is this fair?! 

“I love your laugh, man…It’s so cheerful and silly.” Marvin admitted. 

As much as he enjoyed being tickled to oblivion, he wasn’t enjoying not being able to see the person that was tickling him. So, he used his own conjuring magic to conjure up floating, gloved hands. With those made, Jamie snapped his fingers in the middle of his struggle. 

“Ohoho, is that you trying to stop- WaaaAAH! What the- HEY?!” Marvin yelped. 

The tickles had completely stopped, allowing Jamie the chance to recover. He calmed himself down and turned to look at Marvin. Using his hands, Marvin removed his cape hood, revealing Marvin’s head from inside an invisible cape hood. Jamie removed the rest of the cape, and unbuttoned it from Marvin, revealing the rest of his body. 

Marvin grunted and pulled on the floating hands. “Let me go! No fair! Whose hands are these?! Explain yourself!” Marvin ordered pulling on the floating hands.

Jamie shrugged his shoulders in response, before wiggling his fingers at him to hint at his inevitable revenge. ‘Tickle tickle~’  

Marvin widened his eyes in surprise, and began to grow nervous. “U-Uh…” He mumbled. 

Jamie started on Marvin’s neck. He tickled up and down the sides of Marvin’s neck, making sure to tickle the back of his neck a few times too. 

“eeeEEHEHEEK! Jahahamihihieeee nahahahaha!” Marvin giggled, twisting his head left and right. “Ihihihit tihihicklehehes!” Marvin told him. 

Jamie gasped and cupped his own cheeks in false shock. Then, he made his head ‘explode’ with surprise, before going back to tickling Marvin’s neck. 

“NAHAhahaha! Cohohome ohohohon, duhuhude! Ihihi dihihidn’t tihickle you thahahahat bahahad!” Marvin argued, wriggling around. 

Jamie raised an eyebrow as he smirked slightly wider and moved his fingers to his armpits. 

“OHOHOKAHAHAY! HAHAHAHAHAHA! OHOKAHAHAY, MAHAHAYBE IHIHI DIHIHID! IHIHI’M SOHOHOHORRYHY!” Marvin shouted. 

Jamie giggled silently and dug 2 fingers each into his armpits. ‘Coochy coochy coo.’ He thought.

Marvin threw his head back and cackled helplessly, pulling on his arms and legs helplessly. “SOHOHORRY WOHOHON’T CUHUT IHIHIHIT?! SEHEHERIOUSLYHYHYHY?!” Marvin shouted. 

Jamie smiled and shook his head in response, telling Marvin everything he needed to know: Jamie was gonna tickle him regardless of protest. It was really weird being held by unattached arms. Did Jamie’s body hold some sort of magic as well? Or was Jamie capable of more conjuring abilities than he lets on? MARVIN WANTS ANSWERS!!!

Jamie backed up, stopping his attack for a moment. He lifted up his hand and snapped his fingers, showing Marvin things were about to change. 

Marvin’s giggles turned breathless and calm right as he watched the fingers snap. Uh oh…What’s about to happen? Is he gonna change the hands’ positions?! Or are more hands gonna show up? 

In two moments, Marvin would get his answer. Two more hands would suddenly appear in front of him…one hand free to tickle with its fingers, and the other hand holding a bouquet of feathers. 

No, not a feather duster. It was literally a bunch of real feathers, tied together into a ‘bouquet’ using an elastic. It looked terrifyingly ticklish, and it made Marvin lean his head back as skittish giggles left his mouth. “Ohoho gohohod plehehehease nooo.” Marvin giggled. 

Jamie snapped his fingers again…and the hands flew up to him and started tickling him! The hand with the feathers moved to his belly to flutter them there, while the free hand went for Marvin’s armpit and upper ribs. “Nohohoho! Gohohod dammihihihihit! Hahahahahehehee!” Marvin giggled helplessly. But things only grew worse the moment the feather bouquet fluttered into his belly button. “No! NO! NOT THE BEHEHEHELLYYY BUHUHUHAHAHAHA! NAHAHAHAHA! PLEHEHEHEASE NOHOHOHOHOHO! IHIHIT’S SOHOHO BAHAHAHAHAD! GAHAHAHAHAHA! EEEEHEHEHAHAHAHA!” Marvin cackled helplessly, wiggling as much as he was allowed to.

Jamie made an ‘oooooh!’ reaction with his face, showing amusement with this new discovery. Jamie snapped his fingers and made the second hand disappear, so it was just the one hand with the feathers tickling him silly. 

Eventually though, Jamie knew he had to stop so he didn’t kill the man. He made all the floating hands disappear when he felt he got his point across: That Jamie doesn’t tell secrets about his magical abilities. 

And newsflash for Marvin: tickling him while invisible, won’t make him reveal his secrets either. Jamie is just too stubborn to tell such secrets! Even if Marvin and Jamie have similar magical abilities, Jamie will refuse to tell anyone about how he got them…