Dear Readers,
thank you for reading these stories thus far, this chapter took a while to appear and I should warn you it's a long one. However there were several things mentioned in previous chapters all of which I felt I needed to bring together in this chapter. I am mixing several mythologies and taking ideas from a variety of literary sources to create this story and before anyone comments, I'm not sticking to historical accuracy or keeping 100% true to classic stories, I'm very interested in taking a lot of things, sticking them in a melting pot and going my own way. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this, the ending was particularly emotional to write and re-read when I was proof reading.
John awoke, his eyes were bleary and his muscles felt tired, he felt warm, especially against his chest, his eyes settled on the beautiful being that slumbered in his arms and the previous day's events returned to him. That had happened, that had actually happened, he also remembered Hazel, she was upstairs, presumably still sleeping, what happened to her last night?
He managed to move around on the sofa and disentangle himself from Rose's embrace without waking her, she looked so peaceful, she lay there, breathing deeply in her sleep, he leaned over and softly kissed her cheek before getting up and stretching.
His morning wood was too big to miss but he remembered a power he'd requested the previous day and willed his erection away. It was not his normal reaction but this was no normal morning, it didn't even seem natural considering he had two women in the house who were ready for him basically 24/7, but he needed to think.
He headed towards the shower, he had work to do on his book, housework was calling and he had a few hobbies that he wanted to catch up on. Truth be told none of that was going to get done because he needed to do it, it would get done so he had something to do while he was thinking.
Too much had happened last night for him to simply brush it under the proverbial carpet and he needed to think, he needed to give the genies time to recover and then he needed answers. But before all that he needed a shower and some breakfast.
He wandered slowly towards the bathroom, not bothering to pick up his clothes. He slowly opened the door to his room and slipped in, coming around to the side of the bed on which Hazel was lying he stood over her just watching the movement of the duvet in response to her breathing. She was still sleeping pretty deeply and he had no intention of waking her, he simply knelt down and kissed her temple before grabbing a towel and heading to the bathroom.
As he showered the smell of the shower gel reminded him of his plan for the day, a trip up to London, shopping to get the genies some stuff of their own, real clothes instead of the magicked on ones they'd worn up until now. He didn't see any real reason to alter those plans, the discussion that was going to take place this morning when the two genies were awake and recharged was going to be longer than any he'd anticipated when he'd first decided on a trip to London but it was still early and they could go in the afternoon.
He got out of the shower and towelled himself off as he walked towards one of the spare rooms. Instead of going into his room again and potentially disturbing Hazel's much needed sleep, he remembered that a few boxes of clothes had been left in one of the spare rooms.
He pottered for a while, he'd gone for jeans and a plain black t-shirt today, wearing his battered old trainers instead of boots. He made breakfast and sat in the office towards the back of the house eating his cereal and checking emails on his laptop. When the bowl was empty he opened up the novel he was currently working on and surprised himself with how easily the narrative flowed this morning. He'd filled a good few pages by the time an hour had passed and he thought it best to leave it at that for this morning, he'd finished a chapter and was making good headway with the next, his publisher should be satisfied with that.
He got up and headed to the basement, moving boxes around, putting empties into one of the cupboards and placing various items into piles on the tables he'd had assembled against the wall, the piles were just easy ways for him to remember where things were meant to go, as he bottomed his third box he felt it was time to start putting stuff where it was needed.
The next half hour was spent moving up and down stairs taking items to the bathroom, the kitchen, working out if he really wanted certain things, he'd had a few house warming presents from people who really didn't know him, they knew his family and they thought by extension they must know him but their presents reflected their lack of imagination. Of course a smirk spread across his face as he realized that his former landlady had accidentally given him the best house warming present any man could want.
He stood in the kitchen three hours after he'd woken, his arms were extended as he propped himself up against the breakfast bar and stared into the granite work top, his mind was still coming up with blanks as to what had gone on last night. Hazel had had an orgasm, he knew that much, he and Rose had cum together, extremely powerfully, he knew that, what else was there? Rose had essentially attacked him, his sex session with her last night had been a new experience for him, she'd been all over him, as if she couldn't get enough and something in his mind tugged at him, his subconscious was aware of how little of that seemed fuelled by the genie-master bond, the passion and intensity were very real, indeed more than he could wish for, in fact he was pretty sure that was the sort of sex you only have when the connection is unbelievably strong, it's not the kind of sex he could have just wished for, so where did it come from? Why did it happen? His mind was awash with questions and completely devoid of answers, he would have to wait until he could pick the brains of a genie.
He was still stood there having a staring contest with the kitchen work top ten minutes later when a chin appeared on his shoulder, he felt waves of hair brush against his cheek and arms wrapped around him, her breasts pressed into his back as she greeted him in a voice that still suggested she was tired.
"Good morning John" said the sultry red head, planting a kiss on his cheek, "that's for the one you gave me earlier."
"You were awake for that?"
"I wasn't exactly awake, but I sensed it when it happened, a little perk of the genie-master bond," she smiled a warming morning smile as he looked at her, she was still naked, well except the riding boots which he realized she hadn't taken off when they'd fucked last night.
"Would you mind taking a shower and maybe getting dressed?"
Rose looked a little confused.
"Nothing I can do for you this morning master?" she inquired, her voice still with a hint of tiredness.
"You make a very tempting offer," he laughed as he turned to look at her and held her sides in his hands, "but there are things I want to talk about before I do anything like that today."
"What sort of things?" Rose looked concerned, like that of a genie concerned for the well being of her master but more so the concern of a woman for her lover.
"I need to know what happened last night," John explained, "I mean with Hazel, and with us, I need to talk about why it happened, something tells me that even sex genies can't manufacture experiences like that, I doubt a wish can produce that level of passion when we have sex. I need answers but I'd like to give Hazel a chance to be in on the conversation, she's still sleeping but I think she should be a part of any discussion we have, so can you shower and get dressed, hopefully that'll give her time to come round, when she's awake I'll make you both breakfast and we can talk."
Rose smiled that same warm loving smile he'd found so adorable on her, she leaned in and kissed him, it felt like a normal kiss, but at the same time to have that level of normalcy with a woman who wasn't even 24 hours old felt distinctly abnormal.
"You're a good man and a wonderful master, we're so lucky, Hazel and I, to have been released and claimed by someone so kind, thank you" she leaned in again and kissed his lips before turning and moving towards the stairs.
He heard the shower start up and went back to pottering around the house. As he finished the hoovering in the living room and switched the vacuum cleaner off he heard a door open upstairs and light footsteps padded towards the bathroom, the shower door opened and then closed and he heard a squeal of delight, Hazel was up and Rose was obviously pleased to see her sister up and moving about. John did a bit more housework before heading upstairs to check on the two of them, he thought Rose might want a bit of time to reconnect considering the loss she'd felt when Hazel's experience knocked out their connection.