Ch 8.
"Corpus maxima!" Sabrina finished the last part of her spell and looked at the one she cast the spell on, namely Harvey.
And then the coughing didn't come.
"It worked! The healing spell worked! I DID IT!" Sabrina said in a great war whoop as she ran towards her boyfriend, hugged him and smothered him in kisses.
Harvey returned her affections but all through their make out session he knew of how this would end.
And after they both made love that night, Harvey got up bright and early and immediately started preparing emergency supplies for all sort of emergencies.
For if his heart stopped, if he was suddenly bleeding heavily, gas masks, he set up an emergency paging system with the nearest hospital that if he didn't sent a constant ok signal every 15 minutes an ambulance would come.
For Harvey remembered his first life, he remembered the world that was and he knew that the healing spell that Sabrina made would not last long, and that when it lost its effect Harvey would suffer more pain than before as a way to compensate for the period where he was healed.
It was the way magic worked, a lifetime of seeing Sabrina perform it had drilled into its head that there was always costs for every spell.
But as he still had the wisdom of his first life, instead of trying to dissuade Sabrina from pursuing this path and wasting time and spells on his sickness, Harvey chose to let her do it, help her and then prepare for when the spell failed and for the consequences.
"What are you doing?" Sabrina said, coming out of Harvey's room and catching him red handed.
"Oh you know better safe than sorry, so I'm preparing for every possible scenario." Harvey said to her as she came near him. Harvey didn't even bother to try and lie to her, it was his best and worst feature, he always was honest with her.
"Harvey, the spell worked. You're healthy again, don't you think this is unnecessary ?" Sabrina said teasingly though Harvey detected an edge to her voice, one that was that was a bit miffed that he was acting like her spell was gonna backfire on them.
It was , but Harvey knew Sabrina would only react badly to it.
"Yeah, but even at full health I could get hurt. I mean I lost count of how many broken ribs, bones and bruises I had over the years with the Fright Squad. I mean I'm not invincible, I'm not you, you know." Harvey replied with eyes full of honest admiration, and that did manage to put her in a good mood as she crossed her arms from light embarrassment from the compliment.
"I'm sorry for offending you Brina. I'm just not as baddass as you, so I compensate a bit, can you forgive me?" Harvey pleaded bit his best puppy dog eyes.
To which Sabrina could not resist for long.
"All right, I forgive you. But only if you stop putting yourself down so much Harvey! No more of this whole 'I'm not as good as you' hogwash, promise?"
"I promise Brina. And again sorry for all the useless precautions."
"They're not useless, just a bit too much." It was then that Harvey knew that he managed to somehow gain a favorable ceasefire to his round of verbal sparring Sabrina, it was hard since she was a handful, but a small victory was better than none at all.
After that they had breakfast, and then went on to the rest of the day's planned events.
Or rather they would continue what they had been doing for the past several days. Using his knowledge of the world that was, Harvey was leading them on a hunt for all the evil men and women, surrounding Greendale.
"I can't believe that the old dude in the park who plaid chess is gonna go to hell." Roz said as the foursome, and Salem, where all relaxing at Dr Cerberus after a long day of defeating evil.
"Me neither. We have to make sure that he goes to heaven this time as well." Sabrina added to the conversation.
"We could get him to repent and become born again, that usually works, but only is he's honest about it." Harvey replied.
"How does that work?" Theo asked, Susie was now becoming Theo.
"He would have to renounce all the accomplishments that the deal with the devil gave him, and from then on he must spread good into the world. Think Darth Vader becoming Anakin again, but surviving Ep 6 and spending the rest of his life helping the rebellion destroy the Empire." Harvey replied.
"What?" He asked to the surprised looks that the group gave him.
"Nothing, it's just that you're so sexy when you talk like that." Sabrina teased.
"About Star Wars?"
"That too. But what I meant was having all that knowledge about the False…sorry, I mean the God of Light. Where did you get it from?" Sabrina asked.
To that Harvey lowered his gaze in shame and regret.
"From…from the witchunter tomes that my ancestors left."
"Why do you always talk about that with shame in your voice?" Roz asked.
"How can I not? They killed men, women, even children, and their only crime was being witches! They killed innocent people!" Harvey replied, his voice rising from anger.
But then Sabrina put her hand over his, which managed to calm the beast that was rising inside Harvey.
"They are not as innocent as you might think Harvey." She said to him.
"I know about the harrowing at the Academy and the Feast of Feasts. That still doesn't make what my ancestors did right."
"But it doesn't make it wring either. Did you know that my Aunt Hilda is an expert on poisons, the kind that don't kill but leave them all in horrible pain."
"She is?"
"Yes Harvey. Also, do you know the corridor where all those shelfs in our house where a woman's shoe is placed on each shelf? Well, each one of them is a curse placed on a witch that tried to do her in. And most of them where in self-defense. That's the witch world Harvey, it's like a pack of wolfs, they zero in and rip others apart for their own amusement. And guess what all the decent witches and warlocks, none of them lift a finger or even care when the bad ones go out to torture others for fun and games. So while I can't say I that your ancestors where in the right fully. I can say that men don't become beasts like that without a reason too." Sabrina replied, taking the wind out of Harvey's sales.
Even now, even now Sabrina could still surprise him, for never once had he heard of a witch defending witchunters before.
"You do realize that you just plaid 'Devil's advocate.' "Harvey teased her. To which Sabrina gave him a glare and a slap on chest, which made Harvey giggle.
Theo and Roz did the same and after a moment Sabrina joined in as well, she then leaned her head on Harvey's chest.
"It's so wonderful to hear you breathing properly." Sabrina said while closing her eyes and listening to his lungs.
Harvey said nothing, he only caressed her hair and gave her a kiss on the forehead. He knew that it was only a matter of time before the spell would backfire and he would be in horrible pain once more. But even so he remained silent, determined not to spoil her joy.
For Harvey loved seeing Sabrina smile and be happy.
After the finished their celebratory snack they all went their separate ways, which in Harvey's case meant he and Sabrina went back to Harvey's house, where they were live in boyfriend and girlfriend in all but name.
Tommy was in New York not mostly because of his work with the Yankees and Harvey's dad was there with him as his manager. Which left the house to the couple to enjoy.
Once they got there Sabrina remembered that she forgot a book at her house and went to get it, this left Harvey alone, and he decided to take a bubble bath.
The soothing warm water and calming aromas helped him relax and forget about his worries for a while.
But the sound of a bathroom door opening slowly and the image of Jimmy Platt the ice cream man standing before Harvey, holding a long butcher's knife pointed at him quickly brought him out of his relaxed state.
"Well, well, well, so you're one of the enterprising group of youths that's been cutting down folks from the underworld left and right. I have to say that I am a bit disappointed. Considering the reputation you have as a ruthless hunter, I am shock that you'd leave yourself so vulne-*BANG*." The sound of gunfire cut of the gloating serial killer, as Harvey used the gun that he had placed on the bath's soap rack, which was obscured by the bubbles to secretly shoot Jimmy Platt.
"When you got someone cornered, don't stop to brag just shoot." Harvey said to the moaning and groaning, injured ice cream man, who was holding his injured left leg.
Harvey got up slowly from the bath, keeping his revolver aimed squarely at his downed foe.
"You know the leg shot is criminally under appreciated. I mean the headshot gets all the glory, and the chest shot is the go to for any top marksman. But it's the leg shot that deserves more merit, for starters body armor is always on the chest and head, but when you get him in the leg, it's an instant down. The injured party has nowhere to go and the shot is so painful that they use both hands to try and stem the pain, making them defenseless. And since a leg shot is the most survivable of all, you can use the injured target as bait for others as he screams in pain for help. And best of all you get a better target, see when you aim for the legs you have a bigger target than the head or chest. So that way even if you're tired, injured or about to pass out, that way you can make every bullet count. Simple, efficient and economical. You see why I have such an appreciation for this technique?" Harvey asked, feeling a bit sadistic as he made himself comfortable until Sabrina returned.
"YOU SHOT ME IN THE LEGG!"
Sabrina heard screaming from the bathroom and rushed there.
Once she arrived she saw Jimmy Pat and Harvey with a towel around his waist and his gun pointed at the injured ice cream man.
She gave a death glare to Jimmy before she rushed to Harvey, running her fingers all over his chest to make sure she was allright, before turning her gaze back to their enemy.
"Looks like his right leg is shot." Sabrina said.
"No, I shot him in the left one." Harvey replied, a bit confused..
At that Sabrina took out both guns that Harvey gave her and emptied one volley of each into Jimmy Patt's right leg, making the man scream in even more horrible pain.
"See, now you can't call me a liar." Sabrina replied cheekily, and despite it being a horrible thing to do. Harvey could not help but laugh.
Jimmy soon collapsed in pain, and when he woke up he found that he was tied to a table, in what looked to be a morgue room.
"Ah, you're awake. Then we can begin." The voice of Zelda Spellman was heard as Jimmy saw her head looking over his.
"I usually let Ambrose do the nitty gritty, but considering your actions, I will gladly make an exception of this. You have been a horrible man Mister Patt. One of the worse I have ever had the misfortune to meet, and now you will pay for your deeds against my family." Zelda said as she put on some surghical gloves.
"I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE!" Jimmy screamed before a cloth was put in his mouth to gag him.
"But I know you mr Patt, and I know pain. Let me share it with you." Zelda said as she held up a bone saw in one hand and a pair of plier in the other.
Upstairs Hilda put on some loud music on their phonograph to muffle the noises, as she happily continued knitting a sweater.
After Jimmy Pat was taken away Harvey returned back to the bathroom and saw that Sabrina had refilled the tub with fresh hot water and was getting into the bubble bath.
"Care to join me?"
She asked seductively as one of her legs dangled outside the tub.
Harvey smiled and moved to join her when suddenly he felt pain in his right hip.
Horrible intense pain.
Searing pain that made him scream out from its intensity.
Harvey collapses on his side from the pain as the coughs return there and then.
Sabrina immediately jumped out of the tub and ran to his side and immediately gave him the breathing mask for the oxygen tank that Harvey prepared for such an occasion and pressed the emergency button for the hospital.
Harvey was rushed to the hospital where he was anesthetized to remove his appendix.
After the operation Harvey was lying unconscious in the recovery ward and Sabrina looks over him.
"It's weird, the boy had no signs of an appendix about to go. It's like it just became swollen for no reason, I've never seen anything like this!" Sabrina heard one of the doctors that operated on Harvey said from across the hall.
At that she felt her heart bleed out, this was her fault!
The healing spell she cast not only didn't work, but it backfired and put Harvey in a worse shape than before.
The sound of his collapsing in pain and that horrible cough coming back, but much more intense than the night of her failed baptism, would haunt her every waking moment. The fact that Harvey was in such a horrible state because of her only intensified the heartache she felt for brining such suffering to the man she loved.
"Excuse me dear, but visiting hours are now over. Family only after 10 o clock." The nurse said to her.
"That's not a problem. He is mine." She said with a Geass spell in her eyes to the nurse.
"He is yours." The nurse replied in a monotone voice.
"You will leave us to be alone, as any other couple."
"I will leave you two to be alone, like any other couple."
After she leaves Sabrina gets up, walks towards Harvey's bed, there she gets under his blanket, snuggles up and rests her head next to his.
"All the things you told me, all the stories of the world that was before, I am sorry for all the mistakes I made, for all the pain I caused because….because of not being strong enough to see my plans to end. I wasn't wrong, it worked, they all worked. I just didn't have the power to make them all permanent. I was just weak. I will never be weak again! I promise you that from now on they will not fail, that this time 'my desire, our desire will be full filled' Harvey'." Sabrina wowed and gave him a kiss, and it was a good thing that Harvey was unconscious, for if he was awake he would have seen that when Sabrina made her wow, for a brief moment there where horns on her head, shallow yellow eyes and as she adjusted the blanket her bare feet took the shape of cloven hooves for a moment.
As all of this happened in Greendale, another event took place in Vatican City.
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"What is the progress on your end?" The Archangel Michael said to the Pope of the Catholic Church.
"200.000 units are ready, with a million more in their way, and all of it has been done in absolute secrecy, not even my own bishops know of the forces we have amassed. We await only your command to strike." The Pope said to the Captain General of the Army of Angels.
"Excellent, send a company of your best hunters to Greendale, make sure that they are all young, virile, and alone in the world. There is a issue there that needs to be dealt with before we make any further moves."
"Greendale is at the very center of the where the Mornigstar fell, if our spies are correct then there is where we shall draw first blood my lord." The Pope said to Michael's orders/
"First deal with the Spellman clan first, after that you will have no difficulty in establishing a beachhead for our troops. The time to strike it now, the Church of Light has been pretending for too long that it has forgotten the existence of witches, time to return to the laws of the Lex Alamannorum."
Michael replied, which made the old Pope swell with joy from the anticipation for what was to come.
"At last we shall reveal ourselves to the Dark One, at last we shall have revenge for all the suffering he has brought on this earth for his own amusement." The Old Pope said with joy in his voice.
"You have done a most spectacular job your eminence, go and rally the armies of man, I now return to heaven to muster the Heavenly Host." Michael said, to which the Pope of the Catholic Church bowed his head in suplication to the Arch Angel and both left to prepare for what was to come.
As they did so Roz went to bed that night.
During which she closed her eyes and had a vision of the future, of a possible future with her cunning.
It was the sight of Harvey, lying naked on a table.
His whole body was battered and wounded, open cuts with blood and burned flesh was everywhere, next to the table robbed figures moved all around him doing all sorts of strange things.
And next to Harvey's head was Sabrina, who was strangely dressed in a golden queenly dress, with a grand hairdo and white makeup on her face.
All around his body Harvey was patched up, ointment placed on his forehead and then it came!
Then the table was lowered until Harvey was dipped into a great bath of water. A powerful light shinned from Harvey's submersed body and took the shape of his body.
Then the light faded and darkness reigned. Roz then heard them speak for the first time
"Harvey?"
"Yes, Brina?"
"Rise!"
At that the table rose up from the water and with it there was Harvey, no longer wounded.
He was now enclosed in a great blue colored armor that covered him from head to toe, with red decorative lines that started at his wrists and ended at his feet, a skin tight blue head and neck hood covered Harvey's head, and from Harvey's back there was two angelic like wings that where made of metal feathers.
Still weak and with his eyes closed Harvey laid there on the table, Sabrina walked over to him and started gently caressing his head in a soothing manner.
"Do you hate me now Harvey?" She asked.
"Never." The weak boy replied and at that Sabrina smiled.
It was then that Roz woke up, just as the sun rose up on what would be Chinese new year's, just as the Pagans arrived in Greendale, Caliban started rallying his supporters and the Dark Lord finally recovered from the wound Sabrina inflicted on him. Meanwhile Blackwood formed an alliance with two another coven to team up to destroy the Spellman's growing powerbase.
It was time for a new beginning.