Root's POV
Short drabble on our favorite, drunken, out-of-work actor.
Disclaimer: I don't own them, I never will. Yeah, I'm coming to grips with reality.
Rating: PG, wow...
Really, I don’t understand this whole business between Angier and that Borden fellow. I’ve never even seen the chap, but I don’t ask too many questions. I’m just here for the money; at least I’m honest.
Angier is a gorgeous man. I don’t mean to be narcissistic, even though I am. I mean his personality, his mannerisms. He’s Magic in himself. He is the act. I think half the people show up at his performances so they can watch him rather than his tricks. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a talented Magician. But even if his act was terrible, everyone in the audience would still be in love with him.
I am quite jealous of my employer. Being an actor, it is always an asset to attract people like that. I have striven for this ability for some time and have only occasionally been able to capture it. Angier breathes it.
Maybe that’s why I’m blackmailing him. He gives me what I ask for, but the one thing I want, the one thing that he so utterly possesses, can never be given to me, even if he could part with it.