Love Spell
Chapter 2: Casting the Spells
Theresa smiled when she saw Brady sitting all alone in a booth at The Brady Pub. The "Show Me" spell had never led her astray. Brady had no idea that she was a witch. Why would he? In fact she was pretty sure he didn't even believe in real life witches.
She pretended like she was going to head to one of the tables then she casually looked over at Brady and pretended that she had just noticed him. Putting on her best look of surprise, she stopped in her tracks. "Brady! Funny running into you here."
Brady looked at her. "Really Theresa? You're stalking me now?"
Theresa let out a forced laugh and slide into the booth; across from him. "I'm not stalking you Brady. Believe it or not, I do eat too. It's not just dinnertime for you."
"But of all places you chose to come here," Brady said, still not buying it.
Theresa rolled her eyes. "And how in the hell would I even know you're here, huh? Don't be paranoid. Anyway, it's not like Salem is swarming with tons of places to eat."
Brady nodded. "Fair enough. Even so, there are plenty of tables and booths that aren't already occupied." He motioned to them. "Have at one of them."
Theresa rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on, Brady! I've already apologized profusely for what I did to your father. How long are you going to hold this grudge against me?"
Brady shot her a look. "Actually, Theresa, you never did apologize sincerely. And anyway, please forgive me for not being so quick to forgive and forget after you nearly killed my father and then tried to pin it on me."
Theresa winced. "Well, when you put it that way, it sounds bad. "But in all fairness, I never meant to kill him, and I only pinned it on you because I knew you wouldn't go to jail for it. I, on the other hand, would have."
Brady crossed his arms over his chest. "Still, you saw how torn up I was over thinking that I could have possibly killed my own father, and it didn't get you to tell the truth!"
"Because I knew you would eventually get over it!" Theresa snapped.
Brady's eyes bore into hers. "If my father had died, I never would have gotten over it. How could you have ever thought I would?"
Theresa sighed. "Look, I was a different person back then, Brady. I've made a lot of mistakes but I've changed. I'm a totally different person now!"
Brady laughed. "How many times have I heard that from you before?"
"Well, you used to be a druggie and an alcoholic, and you've changed," Theresa reminded him.
"I'm not you, and you're not me, Theresa," Brady said calmly.
"Clearly," Theresa said. She sighed. "Look, can't you just give me a chance to prove to you I've changed? Come with me to the Halloween bash. I promise you'll have fun with me. We can dance, and pig out. We don't have to drink or fight. We can have fun just talking, dancing, eating, and getting to know each other again. I even made us both costumes. How does Morticia and Gomez Adams sound?"
Brady took Theresa's hands in his from across the table. He looked deeply into her eyes. "Theresa…"
Theresa smiled big. This was it! He was going to accept! This could be a new start for them, Theresa thought with excitement. "Yes, Brady?"
"Dream on," Brady said coldly.
Theresa blinked in surprise. "Excuse me?"
"I said dream on. Never in a million years will I ever go to some Halloween party with you. You are toxic for me, Theresa. I'm always at my worst when I am with you, and it needs to stop! Maybe you have changed. Who knows? But what is best for me is staying the hell away from you, and I am asking you—no telling you—to stay the hell away from me." Brady's eyes turned cold and he let go of her hands.
"And what if I don't?" Theresa defied.
"Then I will go to the authorities and get a restraining order against you," he said calmly, yet coldly.
"It's not like you have any grounds. I'm not threatening you in any way," Theresa muttered.
"Are you forgetting my granddad is Victor Kiriakis? Trust me, if I want a restraining order against you, I can get a restraining order against you," Brady said to her. He raised an eyebrow. "Anything else?"
Theresa nodded. "Yeah. Go to hell." She got up to leave.
"No, because you'll be there!" Brady shot back.
Theresa let out an angered, frustrated cry, and stormed out of the Brady Pub. Suddenly, the only thing she was hungry for was revenge.
Theresa got home the same time Nicole did.
"You look as miserable as I am," Nicole said to her.
"Brady is an ass. I don't him anymore," Theresa grumbled.
"He turned you down flat, huh?" Nicole asked. "Open!" she then commanded the door. It opened for them, and they walked in.
"Close and lock," Theresa commanded the obedient door. She then turned to Nicole. "He said I was toxic to him, and that if I don't leave him the hell alone, he'll get a restraining order against me."
Nicole smirked. "So I take it that's a no to the Halloween bash?"
Theresa scowled at her. "Shut up!"
"I tried to warn you," Nicole stated.
"Whatever. What's got you in such a mood?" Theresa asked.
"I caught Daniel cheating on me with some redheaded skank," Nicole said bitterly.
"Who was he cheating with? Did you confront him?" Theresa sounded interested now.
Nicole shook her head. "I saw him in the park. He and the slut were all over each other. He doesn't know I saw him."
"I'm surprised you didn't go over there and give him a piece of your mind. Not that you have that many pieces left to give," Theresa quipped.
Nicole made a face at her and sarcastically mock-laughed. "You're hilarious! And I didn't confront him because I have something much better in mind—revenge."
Theresa raised an eyebrow. "What did you have in mind? Are you going to turn him into a toad too?"
Nicole shook her head. "I'm not sure yet. But whatever I do, it will leave him wishing I had turned him into a toad instead. No. This will be a lot worse. Trust me."
"Well, maybe we can come up with something together. I'm looking for a little revenge on Brady," Theresa said, rubbing her hands together.
All of the sudden, they head the basement door unlock then Kate's voice loud and clear. She had clearly just cast a loudspeaker spell. "Ladies, you are needed down in the lair—now please."
Nicole rolled her eyes. "'You are needed down in the lair—now please,'" Nicole quietly mocked.
Theresa snickered. "It's a stupid basement. She needs to stop trying to make it sound so important."
"Need I remind you that I am capable of not only performing the Old Hag spell, but I can also prolong it as long as I'd like—forever even?" Kate asked.
Theresa and Nicole looked at each other. Apparently, Kate had also cast an eavesdropping spell.
"Coming!" Theresa called out.
Both women headed down to the basement then, wondering what exactly it was that Kate wanted now.
"I see you both also have problems with men," Kate said without turning around.
"How did you…" Nicole trailed off.
"The 'Hear All' spell," Theresa explained to her.
"Oh. Right," Nicole said; getting it now. She looked at Kate. "You already had it cast before we even got home, didn't you?"
Kate turned around and smirked at them. "Indeed I did." The "Hear All" spell worked similar to the "loudspeaker" spell, only it had the reverse effect, where the person being spied on could be heard.
"That's kind of an invasion of privacy, you know," Nicole complained, crossing her arms over her chest.
Kate rolled her eyes. "Deal with it. We can't let our men get the best of us, you know. No man will ever take any of us seriously if we keep letting them screw us over."
"Well, I already have a plan to get revenge on Brady," Theresa stated.
"What is it?" Nicole asked.
Theresa grinned. "I'm going to make a love potion to get him to fall madly and deeply in love with me."
Nicole smirked. "Yeah, that definitely is a punishment worse than death."
Theresa pinched her thumb and pointer finger together, and made a zipping motion in front of Nicole's mouth.
Nicole cried out a muffled cry. Theresa had just performed the "Zip It" curse on her, which literally sealed her lips together.
"Now try to make a smart comment!" Theresa said, a satisfied smirk on her face.
Nicole cried out again, and widened her eyes at Kate. Unfortunately for Nicole, the "Un-Zip It" spell could only be performed by another witch. You couldn't unzip your own lips even if you yourself were a witch.
Kate sighed, and did the unzip motion with her thumb and pointer finger in front of Nicole's face.
Nicole sucked in some air and slowly let it out as she rubbed her lips. She whipped around to face Theresa. "Do that again, and I swear I'll turn you into a toad!"
"Cuz that's all you know how to do," Theresa quipped.
Nicole got her spell casting finger ready. "It is not! Oh, you're going to regret—"
Kate cut Nicole off by grabbing her hand, and gently pushing it away. "Stop acting like children, you two! We have more important things to discuss. Now. Theresa, do you mind telling me how casting a love potion on Brady is getting revenge?" She glanced at Nicole. "Don't you dare say something smart. You know what I will do if you do." She turned her attention back to Theresa.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted—she glared at Nicole, then turned her attention back to Kate—I'm going to cast the "Puppy Love" spell on him. I'm going to make him fall so hard for me that he can't imagine life without me. Then, once he has completely fallen under the spell and simply cannot live without me, I'll break his heart just like he broke mine. I'll do that by treating him like garbage and kicking him to the curb just as he did to me," Theresa explained.
"That's actually a brilliant idea," Nicole stated.
Theresa smiled, and did a slight curtsey. "Why, thank you!"
"I'm impressed!" said Kate. "We'll have to add a hyper-speed on it so that his feelings for you progress quickly."
Theresa nodded. "That's what I was thinking."
Kate turned her attention to Nicole. "Nicole, do you have a plan yet?"
Nicole sighed. "No. Nothing I can think of seems heartless enough."
"How about we cast a 'Charm School Drop Out' curse on him?" Kate asked.
"What's that?" Theresa asked.
Nicole grinned. "When all the cursed one's most charming qualities suddenly disappear and get replaced with something not so charming."
"Oo, like a good smile turns into a toothless smile?" Theresa asked.
Nicole nodded. "Exactly! Let's see Daniel get women to cheat on me with when he looks like an old bum off the streets!"
"Honey, we're going to make Daniel Jonas look worse than an old bum off the streets!" Kate assured her.
All three women cackled, sounding exactly like the witches that they were.
"And what do you have in mind for Clyde, Kate?" Nicole asked.
Kate smirked. "I have a perfect potion all set and ready to go for him. All I have to do now is get him to drink it, then let the magic do its job."
"What will it do?" Theresa asked.
Kate smirked. "You'll see soon enough. Now, let's get to making that love potion of yours and then casting that 'Charm School Drop Out' curse!"
Theresa and Nicole grinned, and then headed to grab their special spell-casting cloaks. It's not that they needed them to cast spells. They didn't. It just made them get more into the spirit of spell casting.
The cinnamon hearts, rose petals, musk, Chanel ˚5, vanilla, strawberries, chocolate, and cinnamon had all been added to the boiling cauldron. Now all that was left to do was cast the spell.
They ran their hands over the cauldron as they cast the verbal spell.
"Brady Black, Black like his heart," they chanted together.
"From me, he'll never want to be apart," Theresa said by herself.
"Let the love run deep," they said together.
"Let him see me even in his sleep," Theresa said by herself.
"Let him be head over heels," Nicole and Kate said by themselves.
"And when I break his heart. Let him know how it feels," Theresa added.
"Let it burn and hurt like fire," Nicole and Kate called out.
"When he realizes he's no longer my object of desire," Theresa finished.
They then held hands and walked around the cauldron in circles as they chanted. Kate and Nicole chanted, "Love her," while Theresa chanted, "Love me." After chanting the words thirteen times, they stopped.
Kate handed Theresa a baggie of silver dust.
Theresa dumped the dust into the potion, and the dust it immediately denigrated into the potion. It was to make the potion clear and tasteless so that Brady wouldn't see or taste it when she sneaked it into his water.
Kate then gathered some potion into a small potion bottle, corked it, and handed it to Theresa.
"Thank you," Theresa said with a smile before dropping the bottle into her purse that a few yards away. She then headed back over to the cauldron. Kate had already snapped her fingers, which had immediately cleared out the cauldron. It was time to start Nicole's potion for Daniel now.
"Nair to lose his hair," Kate said as she squirted some Nair hair removal into the hot cauldron.
"A Sugary Heath to rot his teeth!" Theresa said with a cackle as she tossed in a Heath candy bar.
"Oil—a whole case—to ruin his face." Nicole said, as she took out each bottle of motor oil from the case she was using to transport them and poured them into the now bubbling cauldron.
Kate poured in some glass shards. "To give him scars," she said.
Theresa poured in a jar of dead frogs. "To give him warts," she said with a smile.
Nicole grinned biggest of all as she tossed in some mushrooms she had gotten off a tree in the woods behind their home. "To give him fingernail and toenail fungus!"
All three of them cackled. Then, they each took a turn stirring the cauldron. Finally, they all gathered around the cauldron holding hands and chanting over and over, "Curses be to Daniel Jonas. Let him be a charm school dropout. No longer let him be a knockout. Turn him ugly and undesirable. Make him un-admirable. If anything else bad should happen to him, let it be a bonus. Curses to Daniel Jonas!"
They then smiled at each other, and released each other's hands.
"It's finished. He is cursed," Kate announced.
Nicole grinned. "Let the fun begin."