Time travel Challenge : Once Upon A Time...
This is a challenge fic suggested by vampygurl402 . If you're inspired or have an idea for challenge, PM or REVIEW, and we'll see if we can make it work. Better yet, add/post your own story to the Challenge
WARNING: this is an M- rated, time-travel story. There will be lemony goodness!
I do not own Sabrina: the teenage witch or any recognizable characters, places or events.
Chapter 1: Trouble in paradise
As the series ends, Harvey and Sabrina ride off on a motorcycle.
Sabrina continues to live in her aunt's former house, having taken her cousin Amanda who has decided to try a mortal collage. Sabrina and Harvey are together, and although he sends a lot of time together and around the house, he does not in fact live there.
However, being young things change. What seems like a perfect match, doesn't alw ays stay that way. Harvey, having been unemployed and spending all his time over visiting watching TV at Sabrina's was starting to get on her nerves.
Sure he would help out his dad as an exterminator from time to time, mostly when he wanted money, but he seemed to lack drive. Fed up Sabrina seeks advice from Salem. "Not that I want him to you know take over the work, or turn Westbridge into a smelly garbage dump but how can I get Harvey to... you know have some drive?" Sabrina asked over breakfast.
Amanda rolls her eyes, "Just brew him a potion."
"Tried that once," Sabrina shuddered. "Didn't end well." Thinking back to the business mogul future Harvey. "Salem, what gave you drive?"
Salem looked up from the paper. "I found something that I loved." He looked away, dismissing the topic.
"You two are no help." Sabrina huffed.
"Whatever, I have class... and not popping takes like forever." Amanda complained. She headed out, Sabrina sighed. Salem looked up again.
"I thought you decided, the boy was your soul mate." He watched her pause. "If that's true you shouldn't try to change him."
"I don't want to change him," Sabrina protested. "I just want him to... you know, grow up a little. I mean he needs to find a purpose for his life. Direction. Drive." She set the water bottle on the counter.
"Hey, Sabrina!" Came Harvey's call from the living room. He came in and gave her a hug. "Mind if a buddy and I watch the sports channel? There's the draft on today."
"Go ahead." Sabrina smiled. "I'll be upstairs finishing my article for the Boston Herald."
"Great, thanks." Harvey kissed her cheek and left.
"See he loves me." Sabrina said.
"Or he loves, your cable package." Salem countered.
"Shh... and I love him." Sabrina stated.
"Sabrina, could you bring in some drinks?" Harvey called. Salem cast her a glance, and she held up her finger.
"Shh!"
Sabrina pictured a future with 4 little kids running about the house, which was in a state of chaos. Harvey flopped out on the couch calling for her to get him a drink, as she was trying to work on an article. The kids screaming, and still Harvey doing nothing but asking her to handle it.
Sabrina woke with a start, drooling over her notes.
"No... that won't happen." She told herself. She'd seen Harvey with his little brothers, and he was great. He wouldn't leave thing all to her. But then again, he was rather passive and laid back. Which is why we work, she argued to herself. "But maybe a little kick couldn't hurt." She mused, "Right after I finish this."
She put her head down to work. Amanda came home to the sound of the guys making a fuss over something yelling and hollering. She went into the kitchen, which kind of looked like a tornado had gone through. She looked to the noise, "Oh hell no!" She growled. "The mess you've made; you men must clean; before you can see sports again; so says me." She pinged with her finger.
Instantly the cable went out. The boys, like drawn on a string flooded to the kitchen and bustled about, cleaning and setting things right. Sabrina came down the stairs, to see the sight of Amanda watching the men rush about the kitchen. "Amanda!"
"What? They made the mess," She sneered. "They should clean it." They finished, and the sound of the game drifted in from the other room. The 3 guys filed out, not even showing that they had noticed anything happened. Harvey lingered behind.
"You could have just asked." He told the young witch.
She shrugged, "My way was faster." She headed up the stairs, "At least I didn't turn them into pigs, or something."
"Not funny." Sabrina sighed. Amanda rolled her eyes and headed up to her room. "Sorry about that. How are things going? I was kind of hoping that your friends would be gone so we could spend some time together."
"Great, there is a Japanese baseball game on." Harvey smiled. "Can't we do that tomorrow? I mean you had writing to do, right?" He gave her a kiss and headed to join his friends, that were calling him.
"I finished it." Sabrina pouted as she sat down at the table looking very depressed. Amanda, who had seen this from the stairs, narrowed her eyes. She went up to Sabrina's room, taking fugitive look about as she opened the door, headed in.
She found the "Spellman Magic Book", her sister had the "Wiccan Magic Book" or she would have use it, and started to flip through the pages. A bit surprised at how different the "Spellman" book was from her family book.
"You shouldn't be in here." Salem said jumping up beside her. "Did you ask Sabrina to look at that?"
"My Family book isn't here, I was looking for something to help." Amanda rationalized. "Sabrina is miserable, in case you didn't notice." She looked at Salem. "I thought that getting her together with her soul-mate would make her happy."
"You can't rush things." Salem sighed. "What is right in one century doesn't work in another." He sounded very sage and actually showed his 500+ years of experience. "Face it her soul-mate being mortal, that isn't a for-always... witches have many soul-mates in a lifetime. We change, so does our heart. "
"Still there has to be something we can do to cheer her up," Amanda moaned. "To help them. " She flipped a few pages. "What about that motivation Sabrina wanted for him?"
"Why do you want to do this?" Salem questioned. Not his usual inquiry; heck normally they'd be knee deep in a mess by now.
"Sabrina was the only one that never gave up on me." Amanda said. "I kinda want to.. you know, like show her the same. I want to see her happy." She paused. "You tell anyone I said that, and I'll make you a hypo-allergenic hairless."
"You could brew a potion, for drive, page 378." Salem offered. "Last time Harvey went overboard, but he's aware of spells now, so that shouldn't happen." He stopped as if deciding something. His tail did a slow flick, the equivalent of a human licking his lips. "Or you could go back and find what inspired someone else." He seemed to be suddenly very careful in the choice of words. "Best to pick someone who's qualities you want to learn about."
Amanda thought on that, apparently missing the hesitation Salem was giving. "That sounds good. Then she can like choose if she wants to." She was smiling. "And she'll get a little vacation." Amanda pondered that a moment her smile growing. "Where would that spell be?"
"In the appendix." Salem replied. Sure enough, written by hand was a time travel. She read in and then looked at him.
"This is a personal generated spell..." She started surprised. They were more powerful than incantations, and not tested and tried like most of the formal written spells. It was complicated, a potion component, temporal phasing, and incantation. "Who wrote this?" It was brilliant, and powerful.
"How should I know," Salem snapped. "It's not my family spellbook."
Amanda entered the kitchen a short while later, Salem close on her heels. The noise from the guys was gone. Sabrina sat alone at the table, sulking into a chocolate milkshake. "Okay, I have an idea to get you out of this funk."
"I'm not in a funk." Sabrina protested.
"Please, you get any more depressed and you'll turn blue." Amanda returned. "You wanted to get Harvey some drive and focus. Why not go back and see what gave drive to someone else in the past? When you come back you can use it to help him."
"Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen." Sabrina sighed. As she did her hand went blue. She looked down. "Am I really turning into a smurf? I thought they were like super happy."
"Fake happy. The kind for others to see." Salem said. "Think about it, that many men and only like one chick..."
"Salem!" Both witches scolded. The blond looked to her blue hands. "I've sent my article off, why not."
"Great!" Amanda said. "According to the spell, it needs to be cast on a full moon. And I need to brew a potion." Sabrina looked at her.
"That's a lot of work." She poundered.
"I know, but if it cheers you up," Amanda shrugged and smiled. "Okay, while I do that. You think who you'd like to shadow. What qualities you want to instill in Harvey so you can find the right time and place to go and watch."
"Um ok." Sabrina looked to Salem then back to her cousin. "Where did you find this spell?"
"In the magic book." Amanda said. She quickly held up her hand and added, "I'm sorry that I went into your room, but well it's better that me making an incantation right?"
Sabrina nodded accepting that logic.
3 days later, after having Salem's birthday party, things were ready for the spell. And none too soon, Sabrina was now sporting blue arms. This was all made worse by Harvey not noticing any difference. Sabrina was more than ready to try this.
"Okay, you drink the potion, and think about who you want to see." Amanda said. "Meanwhile, I'll be chanting the enchantment."
Sabrina took a deep breath and thought of what she loved about Harvey, and what she really wanted for them in the future. What was Harvey missing to be that man? Focussing on that, she swallowed the potion. They list of things seemed grow larger and larger.
This line of though made her sad, so reflexively, she thought of something happy. Being with her family, Amanda and Salem, how they had tried so hard to cheer her up the past couple of days. She wondered how Salem changed from the Geek for his high-school years to the confident leader of word domination plans.
The world about her started to spin. Her eyes blurred then she blacked out.
So what do we think?
I know, I know... no smut! It's coming I promise... just trying to work into it.
Drop me a review, with suggestion if you like.