Little did either Jonni or "Nora" know that the fountain had not been destroyed by a normal bolt of lightning. It was "Jack" who had been buried there... in fact, Nora in Jack's body, with the powers Jack had given himself. At some point, Jack's body had recovered even from death, and when DeMorrell visited the fountain, it woke up.
The wish that had made her evil had been undone, and the lawyer-like wording about a play had explained why she could stop being evil now. But in this case. just because it stopped didn't mean that it stopped retroactively; there was no big change in history caused by Nora never having been evil in the past. So Nora woke, history intact. Then she killed DeMorrell--she didn't have to be unalterably evil to know that she was the only person who could stop him--and flew off.
Flying back to DeMorrell's realm shortly afterwards to search for a way to return to her own body, she realized the thoughts she heard. DeMorrell was alive! But she had killed him. Had someone used the stone?
Jonni opened her bedroom door and pushed the stroller in. Lucien had caused her so much pain, but he would never do that again. He was there in a wheelchair and...
Wait. Didn't she wish him into the medical center?
Lucien pulled himself to his feet, out of the wheelchair. His legs were shaky, and he had to steady himself by grabbing the edge of a dresser, but they supported him. Jonni backed up and yelled. "You can't walk! I wished you wouldn't!"
"It's Jack's fault I couldn't walk," he said. He didn't know that the person buried under the fountain was Nora in Jack's body, nor that s/he had killed him and Jonni had just rewritten that into a spinal injury. "He came back to life, somehow. He nearly killed me! But I heal fast. You know, Jonni, I wished that when we're married we'll share a bed as husband and wife. How would we do that if I stay paralyzed from the neck down?"
Shocked, Jonni realized that he did wish that, and she hadn't worded her own wish to prevent it from causing trouble. She probably could do something to fix that. She got out the stone and thought. "I wish that we shared a bed once and that's enough to satisfy the wish."
"Nice try," said Lucien. "Fine, next time I get paralyzed, I won't come back from it. But next time isn't going to be by you. You can't hurt me." Lucien charged Jonni. Jonni ran--she had the stone, after all. Which would have been good except that she tripped over the stroller. Lucien caught up with the girl lying in a heap on the carpet and took her hand, which was tightly gripped around the stone. Instead of trying to take it, he said "You're attracted to me. I know you are. We arranged it that way."
Jonni knew that she was attracted to him. That wish was still there, too, and it was a reminder of how in one way she had changed from being Jon, not that having twins wasn't a bigger reminder. Lucien kissed him and she found herself wanting him even more, but she was only attracted to him, she wasn't devoted to him beyond all reason. She needed to stop him. She began to stammer out a wish, which might have worked if Lucien hadn't touched the stone and said "I wish you'd give me this stone and can't take it from me."
Jonni gave Lucien the stone.
"I wish you gave birth long enough ago that we can have sex right now," he said. The stroller disappeared to some closet somewhere (it was wished for so it couldn't vanish completely), the babies got older, and Jonni was no longer sore from the birth.
Fortunately Lucien didn't have time to make any more wishes. "Jack" levitated his way through the mansion and in through the open door of Jonni and Lucien's bedroom. "Die!" s/he said. She spotted the stone and threw a bolt of bioelectricity right from her open hand, burning DeMorrell's arm. His hand fell limp and he dropped the stone where Jonni picked it up; she hadn't taken it from him, after all.
"Jack" was ready to kill Lucius, but Jonni said "Wait! You can't kill him. A wish means that... Never mind." Jonni realized that she could only hurt him by having him be killed and her restoring him with injuries. She needed "Jack" to kill him.
A few moments later and "Jack" had blasted Lucius so badly that his corpse was barely recognizeable. The carnage didn't make Jonni as sick as it might have, because she knew that it was over, again. Could Jonni keep it that way?
