Sarah was unyielding while pointing the gun at the two of them, there were tears in her eyes as she glared at the man who stole her body.
"How dare you steal my body? How can you live with yourself?" Sarah demanded through the tears that welled in her eyes.
Jon was trying to put himself in the way of Karyn so that Sarah wouldn't shoot him, "We didn't plan it this way Sarah, it just happened. We're sorry"
"You're sorry? YOU'RE SORRY! Oh that's supposed to make it all better then?" Sarah replied blithely, "You're sorry you stole my body, abused it and left me with your rejects?"
"Sarah, no one knows that anything ever changed, as far as everyone knows you've always been that way. What has possibly driven you to do this?" Karyn asked carefully.
"I knew something had changed", Sarah replied, "Oh and it wasn't easy either, just after the birth of my son Christian. She said, "It's funny you know, how old fashioned photos in national archives turned up when you least expect them"
"What?" Jon asked, confused, "What are you talking about?"
Sarah grunted angrily, "One day, I received a letter from the British national archives, all the way across the world, they were asking about me. They asked if I had had a sex change and hadn't updated them for my dual passport", she said, "I've been a British citizen for as long as I can remember and always had a dual passport. People I spoke to on the phone said that nothing was wrong, my passport photo said nothing was wrong but the archives themselves had a photo of me as a young blonde girl, the same young blonde girl I'm sitting across from!"
Jon realized what had happened, while the swap wish seemed to work and blinded everyone around them to any changes, along with actual records locally, since the photo itself was in another country, it wasn't affected by their perception wish until Sarah was contacted by the British government.
"Do you have any idea how humiliating it is to find out you've been living a lie for the last four years?" Sarah said, "And now I'm going to make sure that you don't do it to anyone else", she raised the gun and pointed it at Jon's head.
"Sarah don't!" Karyn cried out, "Think of your children!"
Sarah was holding the gun, blinking back tears, "How can I even look at my children knowing I'm not their real mother! Or that they'll grow up to learn their mother is some sort of freak!"
"Sarah, anyone you talk to will immediately think you are normal, any documents you see will change to show you as you. If you look at that photo now, I bet it'll show you now as the kind mother of three that you are, not the blonde haired woman you aren't!", Karyn said, "Please, don't do this. Your children deserve their mother"
Sarah's gun wavered; Jon reckoned he may be able to grab it off her if she broke her concentration again. Karyn stood up from behind Jon, Jon tried to move himself in her way again, but with a reassuring hand on her shoulder, she pushed Jon aside. Karyn walked over to Sarah and sat down, putting her arms around Sarah. Sarah dropped the gun and collapsed into Karyn's shoulder.
"Oh, God, I'm sorry", she said, "I'm so sorry, I don't know what I was doing"
Karyn let Sarah cry on her for a good while, Jon just sat there silently. After a while, Sarah recovered a bit, she stood up from the lounge and put the gun away. Sarah slowly walked to the door, with Karyn guiding her.
"I'm sorry", Sarah said, "I didn't mean to do any of this", she explained, "I was just so upset at myself"
Karyn nodded in understanding, she opened the door and let Sarah out. Sarah walked slowly out the door and turned around to face the two of them.
"For what it's worth, you two make a good couple", Sarah said with a sad smile, "Jon, take care of my body, will you?" she added.
Jon nodded and watched as Sarah turned around and walked away. Karyn waited for Sarah to disappear and then turned to Jon; she broke into tears and sobbed against his breast.
"Oh God, I thought I was going to lose you", Karyn cried.
Jon put a reassuring arm around Karyn, "Don't worry, we're fine. And I think Sarah will be too"
Jon led Karyn to the cabinet that was the current resting place of the wishing stone. He opened the cabinet and withdrew the rock.
"What are you going to do?" Karyn asked.
"I'm going to wish Sarah's problems away", Jon said, picking up the rock.
Jon looked at the rock, "I wish that Sarah was comfortable with her body, no matter what it looked like", he said.
Jon then replaced the stone in the cabinet and closed the door, "I hope that helps her", he said to Karyn
In the car on the way back to the airport, Sarah suddenly felt a new life wash over her. She didn't care about the fact that she had a warped body anymore, she was grateful for the body that gave her her three beautiful children, Sheridan, Brett and Christian. Sarah couldn't wait to get home to see them; she was so grateful for letting the dirty laundry air with Karyn and Jon and was thankful she didn't shoot them as she had originally planned. Sarah couldn't bear to think of her children growing up without her or depriving Jon and Karyn of their own children someday. Sarah straightened her jacket on her broad shoulders and fixed her ruffled shirt, she couldn't wait to get home.
