#practical magic au

You come from a line of witches with a curse that any man you fall in love with dies… but what if you fall in love with something else entirely..

"The reason you're here and you don't know why is because I sent for you. When I was a little girl, I worked a spell so I would never fall in love. I asked for qualities in a man that I knew couldn't possibly exist..                                    

Practical Magic AU | Rhett Abbott x Witch!Reader

“Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen."

For the 5 facts ask game!

There's a reason you're Chief Enabler, and now everyone can see WHY

The whole fic is predicated on one scene from Practical Magic, which is the one where Sandra Bullock's child character makes a wish/casts a spell to fall in love with an impossible person

Clint picks the MOST impossible traits he could possibly think of, including "old and young at the same time" and "better aim than me".

For the next thirty years he runs through a string of "it's not you, it's me" relationships, knowing he cursed himself to eternal loneliness

There's a short, horrifying period of time where he's worried he wished for Steve

There's a much longer and even more horrifying period of time where he's horrified to realize that actually, he wished for Bucky, and maybe all the horrible shit Bucky suffered through was Clint's fault

Bonus fact: Bucky wished for him too

Hey bestie this is a deeep cut. I had to go reread it for myself!! 🤣 charmed/practical magic tag

Soooo I don’t recall what I had been thinking about this au and I didn’t leave myself notes. So I scribbled something just now

Max looks from Grace’s kind face to Daniel’s excited one. Mindlessly, Max takes a sip of his tea, not paying attention to the taste. He was a witch or something? Daniel made the world freeze around them. Grace changed a mug of hot tea into a glass of cold tea.

Max felt like he’s taking this pretty well.

“So I’m a witch too?” He asks.

“Maybe.” Grace says with a shrug.

“Maybe??” Max is confused.

“Maybe you’re a witch. Maybe you’re a shapeshifter. Maybe you’re an elemental, a faerie, a necromancer. We aren’t quite sure. The only thing we do know is that you’re not fully human.”

Max felt the bombshell like a weight in his belly.

“How do you know?” He whispers, worriedly.

“You didn’t freeze when everything else did.” Daniel pointed out and Max swings to look at him. “My power is new and it kinda just exploded out of me when we bumped into each other. But unlike all the other humans, you didn’t freeze in place. That means you’re magical in some capacity— certain types of powers won’t work on people like us.”

Max is overwhelmed and maybe Grace sends him to lie down, made the tea strong so he’d relax. Daniel is curious and drawn to him, wants to keep Max around. Wants to know everything about him. He also wants to play with his power but he doesn’t know how. Also doesn’t want to scare Max

So like of course Max is at the ricciardo house all the time now, right? He has to know. Has to learn. He also has this huge crush on Daniel. Daniel who is hot as hell, super kind and apparently knows other kinds of magic. Max just wants to learn how to do cool shit like make his spoon swirl in his cup on its own.

And then it happens, Max and Daniel are studying in the garden. Well Daniel’s laying in the grass, they’re under the shade of a flowering tree. Max is supposed to be reading and he’s too busy pining after Daniel. Crush on display. And then maybe all the flowers from the tree above them fall off the tree all at once.

Daniel freezes time out of shock and they’re surrounded by petals and Daniel is beautiful and Max wishes he’d kiss him.