queenslayerbee: the white silouettes of three women in a circle on the grass with the sky behind them, with their arms raised to it and their heads thrown back, as if performing a summon. the image blends with black smoke that raises from the ground. (coven (the wicked witches of trickstown))
escritorzuela ([personal profile] queenslayerbee) wrote2026-04-29 07:19 am

FANFIC: on a high note (Practical Magic)

A drabble I wrote for [personal profile] silveradept, and the last one I wrote for Snowflake Challenge 2025.

Title: on a high note.
Fandom: Practical Magic.
Character/Pairing: Gillian Owens.
Rating/Warnings: M, none.
Summary: For the prompt: "Practical Magic + Crescendo."
Word count: 100.

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Gillian went through life in a constant chase for change, for love, for movement. She aspired to a state of genuine crescendo, each day higher and brighter and louder than the last.

That’s what being with Jimmy had been like. It could never remain static, it would always escalate. He would always escalate. But then there was the letdown, the anticlimax, tricking her into pondering whether that would still be better than stagnation.

He nearly, almost made her lose the taste for it. For change and brightness and explosive colour.

Only almost. Sally and Gillian refused him that much power.