"You wished for WHAT?!" screamed Karyn.
"I did some thinking, Karyn..." said Jon, now stretching out his new supple body, "I just sat there, going over the options again and again... and I couldn't think of anyway to undo this. I couldn't outwish the wand or the stone... or create a new artifact with the stone TO undo the wand... because we precluded it from the definition of the wand."
"And I looked at myself, Karyn... and I realized what I was, now, I was an extremely attractive woman... and there was no way I could change that, especially without changing the past. And then I looked at you... and I realized that the wand didn't change the past, I still had my mind... and there you were, caring for me, worrying about me, looking like a goddess..."
"I didn't want to change the past... there's too much danger in that... and I couldn't do something like making myself think I was always a woman to blot out the pain... because I wanted you so much..."
"I love you, Karyn"... Jon said, in a tone that, except for how fucked up a situation this was, would've sounded creepy... "And I think on some level, you've always loved me. Maybe like a brother... but hell, you can't love me like a brother, anymore, that's for sure..."
Jon laughed just a little bitterly...
"And I realized that the reason you didn't love me the way I wanted you to love me was... well... I wasn't attractive to you. It's sad but it's true, I wasn't that attractive a man..."
Karyn tried to process this all... "Jon, it wasn't like that..."
"Stone, I wish for you to tell us if it was like that."
"-IT WAS LIKE THAT-"
"Stone, I wish that my legs and armpits were shaved, my nails were neatly trimmed and painted in clear gloss and I was cleaned up from the fall in the dirt... that my hair was now shoulder length... and that the interpretation of gay in the previous wish was most definitely to mean 'lesbian' and not 'happy'..."
Jon's cleaned body and long hair swayed in the breeze, radiant...
"And I realized... I didn't want to change you. I didn't want to change your past because you're so perfect..." okay, it's kind of creepy either way "...and I didn't want to force you to fall in love with me with a wish..."
Jon put her new hands on Karyn's hips and slowly moved them up Karyn's body... "But I knew... I knew that there was one thing I could do to overcome your finding me unattractive... because now I was a near perfect woman..."
Jon brushed her hands along the front of Karyn's breasts, causing her to quickly intake air... her viseral sexual response surprising her so completely... yet feeling so right...
"Because... Karyn... I can easily wish for the world to just suddenly accept 'well, Jon's a woman now because of magic' and I can easily wish for the world to never look upon our love with prejudice... hell, I can always wish up a pregnancy for you with half my genetic code, if you want it..."
"Because I can do ANYTHING..."
Jon now took Karyn's hands and ran them down Jon's new body. That felt good too... for both of them... very good...
"And anyone attracted to human females will have to be attracted to me."
Jon's new nubile body rubbed up against Karyn's... and Karyn knew what she wanted, knew what she wanted, knew what she wanted...
"Hell, Karyn, I can smell on you how right I am... mmmmm..."
And just before Jon kissed Karyn...
