me when I first joined fandom: *always enjoyed the most popular pairings, happily went about my fandom life with five thousand fanfic options available to me at all times*
me now, alone, crying, in a corner: no pls listen I know these two characters are only paired together by like three other people but they're actually soulmates ok, listen,
Sabrina waited anxiously outside the doors of Riverdale high. It had been a few weeks since her first date with Reggie and everything went way better than expected. He was pretty cool with the whole witch thing, obviously, and he was very okay with being able to play tricks on others as the two saw fit. She felt the anxious feeling that she felt that first night with him disappear more and more as the two talked. That was until he invited her to his homecoming dance at Riverdale.
"Are you sure?" Sabrina recalled asking while she looked for the familiar face of the almost man she had been talking to and petty much dating. "We are suppose to be rivals...sort of."
"All the things we've done and you're scared of a little dance?" Reggie tsked in her head, shaking his head playfully. "Brina, I'm so disappointed."
Sabrina remembered rolling her eyes, making her shake her head at the memory before she looked down to adjust the small black dress that she was wearing for the occasion. It was more frilly on the bottom, it resembling spider webs thanks to the material and the top part that covered her shoulders were more lacy. She leaned over slightly to adjust her boots, something she had to hide from her aunts because it was not something they approved of. It was pretty much flowered straps with a bow in the front with a huge heel for the bottom. She didn't mind wearing it, but she couldn't in front of her aunts. Her signature necklace was still on, but for the occasion, she wasn't wearing her head band.
She finally saw Reggie walking up in a black pant suit with black shirt and vest with a tie that matched the gemstone on her necklace and had a corsage in a plastic container in his hand.
The two walked up to each other and before Sabrina could open her mouth, he said "I know corsages are for prom, but you should wear flowers with your outfit since it only adds to your beauty."
Sabrina smile and blushed slightly as he took the corsage out. She noticed it was one that goes around her wrist so he softly put it on her wrist. "Thank you," she said softly before taking his hand into hers and moving to give him a kiss on the cheek, leaving a kiss mark there. "I actually was going to say that I like you tie."
His cheeks went pink for a moment, not expecting that as her response, before going back to regular demeanor. "Thank you, thank you." Reggie's eyes were looking over every inch of Sabrina, getting wide when he saw her boots. "Oo I love the boots. Maybe now you'll be able to match my stride." he teased, moving his arm to wrap it around her waist. "Want to head in?"
"Sure." Sabrina said with a grin, following him close by since she really was only a guest.
As the two walked in, the music blared into their ears, and Sabrina could feel the entire room's eyes on them. She gave the room the best grin she could muster as they walked in, keeping her eyes on Reggie and his attitude. He was high-fiving and mingling with football players he saw, introducing her as "his girl from Greendale". She wasn't expecting a label at all, much less that one, so her face went red slightly the first time.
After a few minutes of mingling with her pretty much sitting in silence, Sabrina bit her lip before asking "Reggie, want me to go grab you some punch?"
"Yeah, sure." Reggie said absentmindedly as he got back into the conversation. She let out a small huff before heading over to the punch bowl and pouring them both cups. The drinks reeked of alcohol and it made her stomach lurch. She looked around before zapping hers free of the alcohol and took a sip of it. Little did Sabrina know a certain red head had seen her and they were immediately whispering around.
She looked over at Reggie while she took her sip, hoping that he would at least look over to her and see her getting a little irritated. Sabrina looked over his drink and pointed while chanting softly "Make this drink help Reggie be a better date/Since on thin ice he starts to skate/After this dance he can chat with pals/But as of right now eyes should be on his gal" letting the small dust change his drink.
Sabrina grabbed his cup and walked over with both of them, sitting next to him at the table and putting his drink next to him. She absentmindedly drank her drink, keeping an eye on him to see when he would lift his.
It wasn't long before she saw Reggie drinking from his punch and she could see the magic change his expression in his face. He looked over at Sabrina and gently took her hand. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Sabrina. Would you like to dance?" he asked with a sweet grin.
"Yes, please" Sabrina said before the two got up and headed out on to the floor. He kept his hands on her while they danced that evening, only stopping their dancing when the music stopped to announce homecoming king and queen.
She anxiously looked over at him when the dance came to a close, seeing if the magic wore off. He shook his head slightly and looked over at her, his face turning into one of slight anger. "You could have said you wanted to dance. You didn't have to put magic." Reggie said after a few moments of silence, his hand tightening around hers, making her wince slightly. "I-I'm sorry," Sabrina said, biting her lip. "Could you let go of my hand?" Reggie sighed softly and removed his hand from hers. "Sorry." he mumbled softly. "Do you want me to leave?" Sabrina asked, clutching her purse slightly to her. "Not yet." Reggie said with a slight smirk. "You told me you always see Greendale at night on your broomstick so now let's go see Riverdale." Sabrina sighed softly as she took the broomstick off her keychain, not really trusting the look Reggie had in his eye.
Sabrina tossed her bag to the side when she entered her room before laying face down into her bed. It had been an off day. Not even magic could help her pass tests, she had heard no word from Reggie, and everyone she passed by at school, she heard whispers up and down the hallway.
She hadn't laid there a moment before she felt Salem get on her back and started kneading her back with his paws. Sabrina moved her head slightly to the side to answer him back after he asked "Rough day?"
Sabrina nodded. "Mortals are so weird. Reggie isn't speaking to me and everyone at school is looking at me like I have food stuck in my teeth." she said, before pulling her head up more to grab her phone and turned on the camera part to check.
Her phone vibrated as she looked at herself in the camera to check her teeth, making her raise her brow to answer.
"Is it Reggie?" Salem asked as he moved to lay beside her.
"No...it's Jughead." Sabrina said as she went to her messages.
"Has he talked to you since-" Salem asked.
"No, he hasn't. This is the first time." Sabrina interrupted before putting her phone down and putting her fingers to her temple. "He's asking if I know what's up with people over in Riverdale?"
"That's rather vague. Why won't he-" Salem started before Sabrina stopped him.
"Reggie's telling everyone over some app and in person that I'm a witch. It's how people in Greendale knows too." Sabrina said in a worried tone. She quickly got up and start pacing her room. "Okay okay okay. What am I going to do? Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda will freak if they find out I told a mortal our secret."
Salem watched her pacing before finally answering "Sabrina, you know there are memory erasing spells for a reason, right?"
Sabrina stopped dead in her tracks. She knew about memory erasing spells, but much like other powerful spells, there always comes a negative result. She let out a shaky breath as she kept pacing.
"I couldn't do that. I've never done that without Aunt Hilda or Zelda unsupervised." Sabrina said before sitting down near her desk and putting her elbows on her knees with her hands under her chin.
"You won't be unsupervised. I'll be watching you. I wouldn't let you do a memory vanishing spell without an adult...well mostly adult." Salem said, climbing up on the foot board of Sabrina's bed. "It's either that or risking you and your aunts' secret even further."
Sabrina sighed and anxiously looked at the floor, trying to figure out in her mind if there was any other option at all. After realizing that was the only option, she nodded and let out a shaky sigh before standing up.
"Go grab your cauldron and shut the door. You're also going to grab your magic book and any physical memories of Reggie. Pictures, key chains, whatever you've got." Salem said as Sabrina was already gathering what she said. She put the book on a book stand and opened up to memory loss spells. She grabbed the ingredients that she could find in her room before sneaking around downstairs grabbing things quietly so her aunts wouldn't hear.
After setting up everything, she looked at the pictures that she had taken at the prom of her and Reggie before he saw his friends. She was biting her lip to prevent tears from falling on the pictures. Sabrina looked up at Salem and nodded. "We better get started." she said as she put the pictures down and followed the set up for the spell.
Within moments, the cauldron was ready and Sabrina felt her heartbeat in her ears. With a deep sigh and holding the pictures of her and Reggie, she said out loud "Let this spell wipe not only Reggie Mantle's mind of me but any secret that he spilled of mine/Let us all forget what I said as if I could go back in time/" She dropped the picture into the cauldron and immediately the mixture in the cauldron was gone and her head began to hurt.
Sabrina laid down on her bed, gripping the sides of her head, tears streaming down the sides of her face. "What's happening, Salem? Why does this hurt?" she asked, feeling Salem on her said.
"You're getting the memories from his view too. It's a side effect of a memory erasing spell." Salem said, trying his best to not be in her way.
The memories flooded her brain of their first date, him nervously picking an outfit with his dog, at prom of him trying to look perfect, the texts, everything. Her eyes kept flowing with tears and her head pounding. When will this end? When will the torture end?
Time passed and Sabrina didn't remember falling asleep. She awoke and saw that it was morning the next day. She quickly got dressed to go to school and noticed that no one was speaking about her or glaring. She was finally invisible again. She even checked her phone and all the texts had vanished from her and Reggie.
When the time came again for another game of Riverdale vs Greendale, she could see winking and trying to get her attention, shouting "Hey blondie!" and clearly not remembering her name. Sabrina took all her strength to not cry at the sight. Her heart almost felt like trying again, but she knew better. Memories flooded from both sides when she saw him and all she could do was turn away to face the crowd again.
Also casually tagging @emoreggiemantle so that way she can see it when she wakes up ;)
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Sabrina stood in front of the restaurant, his jacket on her shoulders again, looking around for him. She looked at the time again on her phone and thought about heading back home. While she put her phone in her purse, she noticed him walking over. For a split second, he had a slightly nervous look on his face while looking over the small rose in his hand, but it quickly disappeared when he saw her standing near the door.
The two walked towards each other to meet halfway. Sabrina couldn't help but smile at the outfit Reggie was wearing. His jeans were cleanly ironed and he was in a nice white button up. He was also holding an orange rose, making her raise a brow at the color. Reggie was clearly looking over her outfit, making her worry that she might not look "fancy" enough. She was in a black sundress that had red poppies all along the edge of the skirt and at the chest with a black shirt paired underneath and her signature headband in her hair. Saabrina was also in black skinny jeans and black converse with her signature necklace which had her gemstone in the middle and had two moons and stars beside them.
When the two met halfway, they both smiled awkwardly and laughed. Regigge offered up the rose and Sabrina took it gently from him.
"Why orange?" Sabrina asked as nicely as she could, hoping she wasn't being rude.
"It's for enthusiasm about the relationship we're attempting to start." Reggie said with a small blush, trying to hide it.
"That's...very sweet." Sabrina said, switching the rose to her free hand to offer up the other hand to him. He gently took her hand into his as they walked into the restaurant, Sabrina having to practically run for Reggie's one step since he had long legs.
The two were sat in a booth near the back beside each other. Sabrina put the rose on the table before awkwardly trying to pick up the menu with one hand. Reggie noticed the awkwardness and removed his hand.
"Sorry for holding on to your hand too long." Sabrina said, moving her free hand to hold on to the menu.
"I understand. If we were revered, I'd take advantage of touching me too." Reggie said before looking at the menu.
"I have a feeling you touch yourself plenty." Sabrina said, trying not to laugh at her own comment.
Reggie tried not to bee too angry at her since it was pretty funny, laughing softly to himself. He looked over at her while she was figuring out what to order, nervously wiping his hand on his pants.
Once the two decided what to eat and ordered, Reggie moved slightly closer to Sabrina. Sabrina looked over to him and smiled softly over to him. "So...you know how I said last night I have a secret that I had to show you in person?"
Reggie's expression turned to one of a mix of worry and intrigue. "Are you sure it's something you should do in public?" he asked, cautiously putting his hand on her back.
Sabrina shook her head and looked her lips. "It's nothing like that at all!" she said with a nervous laugh.
"Oh!" Reggie said with a nervous laugh as well. His hand softly began to rub her back. "What is this secret then?"
"First, you have to promise that you won't tell anyone of my secret." Sabrina said softly, lifting her hand up to do a pinkie sweat.
Reggie's face clearly showed that he was thinking it over. He lifted his hand up and linked their pinkies together. "I swear I'll never tell." he sad softly, looking into her eyes while he did.
She kept their pinkies locked before Sabrina said "I'm a witch."
"Don't call yourself that! You seem very nice." Reggie said, his face turning to a look of worry.
Sabrina smiled softly and blushed. "No, Reggie, I have magical powers." she said quietly.
"Prove it." Reggie said softly, moving his hand from hers.
Sabrina looked around the restaurant before grabbing the rose off the table. She pointed at the flower, a small line of dust coming from it, and changing the rose to be white with red on the edges. Reggie's eyes went wide at the sight, looking at her when she was done.
"You weren't joking..." he said while she put the rose on the table. "I won't tell anyone, but...why tell me?"
Their food arrived before she could answer. The two of them took their first bites before Sabrina answered. "I wanted to tell you because I feel like you would be of help with my magic mischief." she said honestly.
Reggie finished the bite in his mouth before smiling wickedly. "What kind of mischief? Like what are the limits?" he asked before getting another bite in his mouth.
"No killing people, bringing people/animals back from the the dead, no time messing, things like that." Sabrina said in between bites.
Reggie nodded and lick some of the food off his face. "Hmm...I definitely have a few ideas." he said with the grim again. He moved close to whisper in her ear. "Trip up that waiter." he said, pointing ot the young man who was taring down at the customer's chest while she was ordering. Sabrina noticed this and discreetly pointed at the writer, making him spill her drink on his chest. Sabrina and Reggie tried to hide how hard they were laughing. Sabrina even had to hide her face to hide how hard she was laughing as the waiter was trying to clean up and trying to wipe up the customer's chest.
The two finally calmed down and finished eating, Reggie being kind and taking care of the check, something Sabrina wasn't expecting. Once they left the restaurant, the two went to a nearby empty park, hand in hand.
"I have a really nice spot in mind that we could be at, but I would need to call an Uber." Reggie said, kind of thinking aloud.
"You don't need one." Sabrina said with a slight smirk.
"You drive?" Reggie asked, raising a brow.
"Not quite..." Sabrina said. She moved to look around before reaching for her keys and pulling off what looked to be a broomstick key chain. She pointed at it with the gold dust being released from her finger to make the broomstick normal size. She put her keys back in her purse before getting on the broomstick, putting it between her legs.
Reggie looked over her and raised a brow. "You're joking, right?" he asked skeptically.
"No?" Sabrina asked before she started to levitate off the ground, her feet not touching the ground.
His eyes went wide before she got back on the ground. "Is it safe?" he asked.
"Yes, Princess Jasmine." Sabrina teased, sticking out her tongue. She put her tongue away before asking "Do you trust me?"
"Yes.." Reggie said, Sabrina helping him on, and having him hold on to her before she slowly lifted them off the ground. He wrapped his arms around her middle tight, bringing her closer to him, making her hold on to the broom tighter.
"Be careful!" Sabrina said in a worried voice. "I've never driven this with two people on it."
Reggie looked more nervous as the two were high in the ground and off into the sky. Sabrina looked behind at him slightly and asked "Where did you want to go?"
"Atop that hill." Reggie said nervously, pointing to where he was talking about, making him be even closer to her. She could feel his breath on him and her cheeks went red as she flew in that direction.
It wasn't long before they got to where Reggie pointed. Sabrina slowly got the two of them on the ground. Once their feet touched, Reggie immediately got off and kissed the ground, being melodramatic. Sabrina rolled her eyes and got off the broom, using her magic to make the broom smaller and put it on her key chain again.
"Was it really that bad?" Sabrina asked as she sat on the ground, her face turning one into worry.
"No, it was just...scary. I've never flown before." Reggie said, sitting next to her. He noticed her face and wrapped his arm around her. "Hey! You did fine. I'm just..being a baby."
Sabrina scooted close to him and smiled softly after being reassured. She finally looked at the view from the top of that hill, feeling her heart skip a beat. Sure, she flew at night and could see the whole world from above, but it was usually at night. It was rare for her to see across the city. The sun was setting on them as they looked, lights scattering on.
"This is a beautiful spot, Reggie." Sabrina said, looking over at him, wrapping her arm around his middle.
"I'm the best that way." Reggie said with a shrug, making Sabrina shake her head. "Do you think I earned that kiss yet?"
"Hmm..." Sabrina said playfully, tilting her head slightly before nodding.
Reggie smiled brightly and gently put his hand on her cheek before leaning in and kissing her deeply. Her eyes went a little wide before she kissed him back, big grins on both of their faces. Sabrina moved her arms to wrap around his neck and it was long before the two pulled away, her putting her forehead to his.
"That good, huh?" Reggie teased, laughing softly.
"You little shit!" Sabrina teased, moving to gently push him, barely moving him, before snuggling up to him.
