Author note: obviously, this story is a bit au. I'm combining bits from Freak Show and Coven. One of the main things is Maggie Esmerelda=Madison Montgomery.

Some other background info for this AU:

-Maggie Esmerelda did NOT work with Stan, and she really is a psychic. A witch to be more precise, and the reason she did not foresee Stanley hurting the other members of the freak show is because that is not her strongest gift. She is just coming into her witchcraft abilities and it just happened to be one of the first gifts that manifested for her.

-Maggie ran away from her family, who wanted to exploit her 'pretty face' and stage talents such as singing and acting. They didn't actually cared about her, just wanted her to make money for them. They were abusive, and she just couldn't stay there anymore so she ran away after her powers started manifesting.

-Jimmy is angry that she didn't foresee the tragedies Stanley was causing.

-After His hands got cut off she retrieved them and somehow magically repaired them onto his body, he doesn't know because she did it after he yelled at her to leave. (She came back when he was asleep.)

-Ethel is alive, she was just badly injured and didn't remember what happened the day she got hurt.

-She has her guesses that Maggie is the one who 'miraculously' fixed her son, but no proof.

-Maggie was still sawed in half, but the withes who became her new coven somehow saved her with magic. (That doesn't make sense, I know. But it's AU, so who really cares?)

-Ethel didn't tell Jimmy she had been killed because she didn't want him hurting, he had told her to leave and go back to her abusive family. Go back and 'be a star' and all kinds of hurtful things like that. Ethel doesn't know she is alive again.

-Eventually other members of the freak show troupe told him, but his mother doesn't find out he knows until one night he gets drunk and it slips out.

-Her family did find her after she was brought back to life, and they made her go back into show biz, so she's famous and living at Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies. She goes by Madison Montgomery to the world, and keeps her real name- Maggie Esmerelda, private. (She's not going to be that much of a brat in this fyi, sorry.)

-She still loves Jimmy even though he said all those mean things to her, she knows he was just hurting because he was losing family and just lost both of his hands. He still loves her too, just doesn't admit it to himself yet.

I think that's most, if not all, of the relevant changes I'm making for my story idea to, sorta, work.