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, "I'm doing this for my children, getting revenge on the one who wrong their mother"
"No!" Karyn screamed out as Sarah fired.
The first shot narrowly missed Jon as he managed to duck out of the way; the bullet whizzed past his head and hit the wall behind him, ejecting plaster into the living room, stirring up a small amount of dust. Sarah aimed again at Jon's prone form and fired, Jon managed to roll onto his toned stomach just in time to see the second bullet hit the flooring and tear up the carpet.
Karyn leapt on Sarah with the gun and wrestled it from her grip. It wasn't easy considering she had the strength of a well exercised man behind it, but Karyn was able to use the distraction to grab the gun off her. Sarah managed to fling Karyn off her but she managed to hold on to the gun, which was now safely out of Sarah's grasp.
Sarah looked at Karyn with a rage, as Karyn aimed the gun at Sarah's male form. She shot a quick glance at Jon on the floor and rage filled her mind, Karyn blinked back the tears as she envisioned Jon dying in front of her. It was very easy for her to pull the trigger on Sarah and get revenge.
However, Jon stopped her, "Karyn", he commanded, "No"
Karyn glanced Jon's way, she was still ready to pull the trigger and kill her future husband's would be murderer. Jon got up and walked over to Sarah.
"Sarah, I can't give you your body back", Jon said plainly.
Rage filled her eyes, if it weren't for the gun, she probably would have torn Jon's throat out with her bare hands, "Then shoot me now because I will kill you", she cursed.
Jon sighed and looked at Karyn; she was still ready to shoot, "Sarah. This is my body now, I won't give it up, but you've been treated unfairly and it's not right to you that you be stuck like that forever"
Karyn knew what Jon was going to do; Sarah looked at Jon slightly confused but still very angry. Karyn let Jon pass her and get to the cabinet that contained the wishing stone.
"What are you going to do?" Sarah demanded, very wary of the gun pointed in her direction.
"I'm going to give you something you should have had a long time ago", Jon replied, as he removed the stone from the cabinet.
He walked over to Sarah and stood in front of her, holding up the rock, "This is the wishing stone that gave me the swapping power, it gave me the ability to steal your body, and now it's going to give you something too", Jon said.
Sarah flinched, "If you're going to do something to me, forget it", Sarah said.
"I am going to do something to you Sarah, and you will love it, guaranteed", Jon said.
Karyn looked at Jon, "Jon, just be sure you want to do this, you won't be able to ever go back to your normal self again without the stone again", she warned.
Jon smiled, "Karyn, this IS my normal self now", he turned back to Sarah.
"I wish that Sarah McMillan would turn into an exact physical duplicate of myself, including voice and that her wardrobe was filled with clothes that matched her tastes and body. I also wish that anyone Sarah comes into contact with will remember Sarah as always looking this way and anyone she speaks to will also know this"
Sarah's eyes widened as she realized what Jon had done
Jon watched the rock glow in his hands. He looked over to Sarah and watched her change. Her hands became smaller and more slender, the skin softening and he watched as her fingernails elongated, quite literally polishing themselves with a hot pink colour.
Looking down at Sarah's chest, he watched as her hips expanded and waist contracted, the skin on her stomach stretched and warped under his clothes as it became softer and slightly less toned then Sarah's male form. Further down, Sarah's legs became longer and more athletic. Further up, Jon watched as Sarah's chest exploded out from under the shirt she was wearing, becoming the more familiar bust he'd lived with for the last four years.
Jon watched the hair on Sarah's head growing longer and rolling down her back before doing itself back up into a knot on the back of his head, then its colour shifted to platinum blonde. Jon could see Sarah's face change, it became less masculine as its stubble retracted into the skin and the face shape elongated slightly. Jon watched Sarah's brown eyes become the crystal blue eyes that greeted him in the mirror every morning.
Finally, Jon watched as Sarah's shirt and jacket contracted, the shirt closing itself around her breasts and becoming a pink cotton bra, with the jacket closing up around her and becoming longer, turning itself into a white blouse with frills. Further down, Sarah's male underpants changed themselves into white panties, of the same variety as Jon was wearing that morning, and Jon watched as the pants that she was wearing merged together into one large hole then shot up her legs into the elastic skirt he was also wearing, he managed to catch a glimpse of Sarah's shoes changing into zip up, knee high boots too.
Within a matter of seconds, Sarah was an exact physical duplicate of Jon in her body, right down to the clothing choice. She looked down at herself and patted herself down, not believing her eyes or her hands. Tears welled in her eyes as she realized she was back to her old self.
"Oh god, thank you!", Sarah wept as she through herself at Jon, wrapping her arms around her exact twin and weeping into his shoulder, "The nightmare is over", she whispered to herself.
"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. As Karyn was leading Sarah out, Jon made a quick wish to repair the damage that the gun did to their flat, and returned the wishing rock to its place in the cabinet before meeting Karyn at the dor.
"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"
"Sometimes I know exactly why I fell in love with you", Karyn said, kissing Jon on the nose.
In the car on the way back to the airport, Sarah suddenly felt a new life wash over her. She had her body back, or as near enough as she remembered to it. So what if it wasn't exactly like the one she gave birth to her children Sheridan, Brett and Christian with. 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 blouse; she couldn't wait to get home.
Karyn grabbed Jon by the hand and led him into their bedroom, closing the door behind them.
