Ch 12.

Zelda took a long sip of her tea cup, she needed the extra time to calm her nerves and formulate a proper answer after hearing the revelation of what Sabrina, or rather another version of Sabrina did.

"Oh all the irresponsible things. I was bracing myself for when the consequences of changing the past hit, but this….this….I thought it was bad enough when I heard that in the future you played with the laws of the universe Sabrina. But now I see that at least three of them have been chosen to be your personal amusement." Zelda said, anger clear in her voice.

"I didn't do….I didn't mean….for it to go this way." Sabrina said, not bothering to deny that she did this, for even though it was technically a future version of her from an alternate reality, she had no doubt in her mind that she'd do something like this if given the chance.

"I know you mean well love. But this…I have to agree with my sister here, this is just….." Hilda tried to come up with a full sentence, but found herself wanting.

"How do we fix this?" Sabrina asked, and immediately Hilda pulled out a bottle from her purse and placed in on the table.

"Memory reforming potion! You want to erase Harvey's memory? Aunties, you can't be serious!" Sabrina said in outrage.

"We are deadly serious Sabrina, this is not laughing matter! Creation itself has been ripped apart and restructured because of your stunt, or the stunt you pull in the future. Do you know what the combo spell effect was? It ripped Harvey from his body, put another Harvey into him and then threw him into the first universe that would not implode from doing so. And you want us to do that a second time, do you have any idea what can happen when you keep slicing up the multiverse like Swiss cheese? Cause I don't and I certainly don't wish to find out!" Zelda said and took a deep drag of her cigar.

"But we have to help Harvey!"

"Which one niece? The one who's been you boyfriend for a year was banished that day before your failed baptism, the one that you knew since then is not him, but another. Who do you intend to help? The young one and have him be ripped through dimensions once more and then condemn the older one to return to his world and then death? Or perhaps leave the older one here to go mad from the revelation?" Zelda said and Sabrina had no retort to that.

"How has he been since he discovered the truth?" Ambrose asked Sabrina.

At that the young witches cast her eyes down as she could not look them in the eye as she answered Ambrose question.

"He's been there where he collapsed on his knees and just kept staring off into the distance, he doesn't talk, , he hasn't slept or eaten anything since yesterday. I put a sleeping spell on him."

"You really love him don't you?"

"Of course I do Ambrose!"

"More than the other Harvey?"

"There is no other Harvey! He's Harvey, he's my Harvey! He's…..he's my Harvey…!" Sabrina said as with each time she uttered his name, her words lost their strength and conviction, it felt like she was trying to convince herself rather than her aunts.

"So what do we do now?" Hilda asked.

"You undo the spell." A voice came from their living room, and the door way came Harvey, he looked horrible, Harvey had strong dark shadows under his eyes and the eyes itself where bloodshot red, as if he just wrestled a nightmare. He probably did.
"B-but I, I left you under a sleeping spell!" Sabrina asked in surprise.

"Yeah, and my first….in my world you also taught me how do break sleeping spells. Or rather the Sabrina from where I come from did. But, that doesn't matter. What matters is that we set everything back in order, and undo the spell that brought me here."

"NO! ABSOLUTLY NOT!" Sabrina shouted, her tone angry, one that argued to opposition to her statement.

"Brina." Harvey said using that very same defeated tone that he used the day he came to ask her to disperse the storm curse she placed on him, this stopped any tirade or angry retort in her tracks.

"I told you that this would end in tears."

Despair gripped Sabrina upon hearing Harvey's words.

"B-but y-you'll die!"

"I died once already Brina, and every moment I spend away from the Silver City, is a moment where your Harvey isn't here."

"I won't let you do this!"

"Then you'll see me died latter rather than sooner." Harvey said, his voice devoid of any fear or emotion, except with resigned amusement to his fate.

"What?"

"Don't you get it Brina. The coughing, the way my body jerked when you used a healing spell on me. I don't belong in this universe Brina, and both the natural and supernatural is trying to get rid of me….cough…..cough…" Harvey said and coughed once more, this time with blood, but it was a dark sickly blood, one that showed that his body did not have enough oxygen.

"I…I can't…I won't!" Sabrina said, shaking her head.

"I had a feeling you'd react this way." Harvey said and pulled out a gun from inside his pocked.

"You're not gonna shoot me Harvey." Sabrina said with certainty, as she crossed her arms and glared at him, she was more annoyed than anything else at his stunt.

"This isn't for you." Harvey said and pointed the gun at his own neck, making the whole Spellman clan jump from the table in surprise.

"Harvey!"

"Easy there mate, don't do anything rash."

"This isn't rash. It's a simple no win scenario. Either you break the spell, let me go back to my own dimension where I can rest in peace, or I pull the trigger, my soul goes to hell for suicide and you get to see me burn. Either way…..this ends now. I won't spend another moment stealing another man's life."

BANG!
But it was not the gun in Harvey's hands that caused the sound!
A great tear was heard through the Spellman house, then a wave of light and a portal trough time and space appeared, trough it came two figures.

One was a woman whose dress and hair just screamed 60s, and the man next to her was dressed in a get up that made you think he was in fact Superman in disguise.

"That's me!"

"And me too!"

Sabrina and Harvey exclaimed as young Harvey, now years older and an older Sabrina, had come from the universe where blonde Harvey died in the woods to this one.

"I'd suggest you put down that gun." 60s Sabrina said.

"I agree." Modern Sabrina replied

Both Sabrina's then crossed their arms and gave a stern glare at both Harvey's.

And both Harvey's gave a shake of the head and breathed out an exhale of exasperated breath.

Once more the universe itself would bend over, speak, beg and play fetch, all because Sabrina thought that she was entitled to such a privilege.

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