This Spells Trouble - A Riverdale Fanfiction

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Sabrina the Teenage Witch huffed into her pillow. She'd had the worst day, and she wasn't concealing the fact to her cat, Salem, who couldn't care less.

"There, there," Salem murmured disinterestedly, too busy licking his paws to bother with her problems.

She pulled him into a hug, causing the feline to groan irritably as she sobbed into his fur.
"I can't believe Harvey broke up with me for saying I was a witch. I thought he'd at least allow me a chance to explain. Not only that, Hilda and Zelda are going to kill me for even trying to tell him. I hate magic sometimes. I need a break from it."

Salem struggled out of the hug and leapt to the edge of the bed, his yellow eyes falling on Sabrina.
"Next your going to say you wished you didn't have magic."

She sat up, her pale blonde bob swaying with the movement, her mouth open.
"Great Marie Laveau! Salem, that gives me a great idea."

Salem rolled his eyes.
"Why do I even try to help?"

"No, no, you did help. I know how to get over this."

"And that is?"

"I need to get out of this dimension, "Sabrina declared.

Salem gave her a look.
"Uh-huh. Then what? You going to have a detox from magic or something."

"Yes, exactly. You know what, I need a detox from my whole life for a bit. I have an even better idea."

"Oh, goody," Salem muttered sarcastically. "Pray tell me, what that is?"

Sabrina stood up, and began pacing, a cunning smile present on her face as she brainstormed.
"I'm going to not only go to a dimension without magic, but I'm going to leave Greendale altogether! I'm going to go to Riverdale. It'd be great. I can see Jughead and Betty again. Oh! And Archie. Oh my gosh, why didn't I think of this before!"

"Maybe because you were never this desperate."

Sabrina shook her head stubbornly.
"Nope, nothing you can say will stop me. I am doing this."

"Let me guess. I'm coming too."

"Yeah. Don't you want to see all of the Riverdale gang again? It's been forever."

"Ah yes. I love being treated like an actual cat by them," he said caustically.

Sabrina smirked.
"Don't lie. You love it. Come on. I think I know the spell."

"You think? Wow, I feel reassured."

"You can't be sincere, can you?"

Salem shrugged his haunches.
"Why start now?"

"So are you coming?"

"On your quarter-life crisis? Sure, why not. I'd like some time away from your aunties anyway."

Sabrina smiled.
"Thanks. I'll pack and then let's find a mirror."

Sabrina didn't pack much in her small bag, throwing in a few clothes, some toiletries and her phone. She did so quietly, wary of her aunties, who she could hear pottering around downstairs. Salem guarded the door with as much attention as a child. The cat trotted behind Sabrina when she left the room and tiptoed to the bathroom. The mirror inside was a good size, and Sabrina thanked the universe for it, happy she didn't have to delay this expedition. Her enthusiasm to get away was insatiable, obviously a buildup of stress and annoyance towards all the magical problems she and her aunties had caused. Harvey's disregard of her powers was the last straw. She needed something real, someplace where magic wasn't a big deal and it didn't control her life.

Riverdale sounded like the best place, and she knew the people. She had gone there many times, and it never failed in lifting her spirit. But her aunties would find her easily if she went there in this dimension. Sabrina needed to get away from them too. So, this idea was the best of the best, and she was beginning to quiver in excitement.

She stood in front of the mirror, staring at her own intrepid face.
"Ready," she said to Salem, who nodded.

She held up her hand, and they began to glow pink with energy, the misty tendrils cascading through the air is lazy loops. She began to chant, filling in the bits she couldn't recall with her own additions.
"In this mirror are reflections cast
This spell I make to make it last
To open up a world in which wishes
Made from magic and hexing swishes
Are not true, instead a bedtime tale
In that little pep town of Riverdale
In this mirror I open that dimension
To escape my magic woes and frustration"

The mirror folded in on itself, beginning to swirl like a vertical whirlpool as she chanted. The whirlpool kept wounding until a circle opening began forming, spreading outwards. Sabrina smelt the aroma of trees before she saw the world on the other side. The opening soon had replaced the entire mirror, and she could see a panorama of Riverdale. The sky was grey with heavy clouds, and rain was imminent. The opening she had created was just in front of the school, but it was empty, for even in that other dimension, it was too late for it to be open.

Sabrina looked to Salem as he stared suspiciously into it, his eyes narrowed.
"A dark shadow is over this place," he murmured cryptically.

Sabrina ignored his dramatics, to preoccupied by the opening, it's edges beginning to waver.
"Quickly, before the portal closes, Salem."

He nodded, and leaped into the other world. It appeared as if he had just jumped out a window and not into another dimension. Sabrina took a steadying breath before she too entered the magic-less world of Riverdale.