Disclaimer: While this specific entry does not contain examples of sister/sister incest, it is a theme throughout the story.
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Jaya's laughing got so bad she started having trouble breathing, and then she started hyperventilating. She ended up on all fours and began to feel nauseous, which at least stopped her rapid breathing. She felt a soft hand on her back.
"Mistress? What's wrong?" the genie asked.
Jaya recoiled and almost hit her head on the desk. "No! No no no no no," she stammered, "You can't be real. You can't. Please. Please don't be real. I...I wish you weren't real."
The genie looked at her with teary, pitying eyes. "I am sorry Mistress; that is not-"
"I can't. I just...you don't understand. They're going to take me away. My life is over. Make me someone else. Make me forget everything," Jaya pleaded.
"I cannot make you forget, Mistress. Genies are unable to alter their master's memories. Other people's, perhaps, but that is difficult, especially for me. Although, I could make the man who was here before forget details, since that was about sex."
"Make me someone else then," Jaya said.
"That I cannot do either," the genie said, "I could alter your appearance or your body, but I cannot make you take the place of someone else, or make you an entirely new person."
"You can't do anything except ruin my life!" Jaya screamed. She had the bottle in her hand and threw it at the genie. The genie didn't flinch or block, she just had a sad expression on her face as the bottle hit. When it did, her body seemed to collapse as if it were being sucked down a drain. The bottle bounced off the desk and clattered to the floor.
Jaya didn't really acknowledge what happened, she just crossed her arms over her knees and sobbed into them. That lasted until she heard pounding feet on the linoleum floor outside. She sucked in a breath and suppressed her sobbing as she looked around.
The room looked like a fight had taken place, if she ignored the actual explanation for the mess. The artifacts might be okay, but she doubted her monitor was intact. And of course she was basically naked on the floor, her bra bunched up by her neck and the ruined shirt the only coverings she had.
She heard someone fiddling with the door and instinctively scrambled over behind the desk to block her view. She expected whoever it was to burst in immediately but they were having trouble with the door. Then she remembered she wished it to be locked.
"No...no no you made it up. They just...they don't have a key. Someone's going to find a spare and come in. Fuck fuck fuck I wish I was still home in bed."
Suddenly the floor gave way. Jaya spread her arms and legs out for balance and encountered fluffy softness. She whipped her head back and forth and saw her bedroom, back in her apartment.
"Did...was that a dream?" Jaya said aloud, half hopeful, half afraid. But then she took stock of herself. She was still mostly nude, her shirt was still ruined...and she'd obviously had sex. Recently. She didn't have her phone, but the older alarm clock she still kept in her room read 9:48. She scrambled off her bed, her heart pounding in her chest, and ran through her apartment desperately hoping to find evidence of a one-night stand, but everything was exactly as she remembered it, and no one else was there.
Her heartbeat jumped from her chest up into her ears when she returned to her room. The bottle sat in the middle of the bed, lying on its side.
Jaya resisted the urge to throw it out the window, knowing it would just shatter the glass and probably wouldn't do anything to the bottle; she'd slammed it down on a metal table five times and there wasn't a scuff on it. A fifty foot fall onto the sidewalk wouldn't be any more destructive.
Jaya thought she might have just misremembered, or imagined it, but then she remembered what her sister had said once, right after their parents died and Jaya had broken her tablet in a fit of misplaced anger.
"We're all we've got. When you're in trouble it's up to you to fix it. Don't make excuses, don't assign blame; it doesn't matter whose fault it is, it only matters that you need to fix it. Don't deal with how it happened, deal with what you need to do to move forward."
Jaya briefly considered calling her sister for help, but then she realized that was exactly the opposite of what her advice had been. Still, she closed her eyes and imagined how restful it would be to just sink into one of Jasmine's hugs. Then she remembered the last time she'd dreamed about hugging Jasmine and that snapped her back to the present.
Time to deal with this. I'm awake. I'm not drugged. I'm not drunk. If I'm insane then I can't tell and this doesn't matter anyway.
Jaya reached forward and unstoppered the bottle. Smoke poured out again and the woman...
the genie
...appeared. She looked wary and cautious.
"Mistress?" she asked tentatively.
"I'm...um..." Jaya stammered nervously, suddenly feeling like she was on a blind date. Then she remembered what she
wasn't
wearing and scrambled for the robe hanging on her closet.
"Sorry," she said to the genie.
The genie smiled as if she were a mother looking at a cute child. "I have seen you naked, Mistress. The sight does not offend me. Quite the opposite; you have a beautiful body," she said.
Jaya blushed but still pulled the robe tighter. "I...I'm sorry for what happened earlier. I shouldn't have made you do that, and I shouldn't have thrown the bottle at you."
Jaya saw the genie's face get more guarded again. "Sex is my purpose, Mistress. It hardly makes sense for you to apologize for including me."
"I didn't include you. I used you, I never thought of what you liked or wanted, I just told you what to do. And God, Lincoln. I wish-"
"Mistress!" the genie almost yelled.
Jaya stopped, confused, then put her hand over her mouth in shock. She was about to say something when a pounding on her door startled her.
"Miss Gazdar? This is the police. Can we speak with you?"
"Shit!" Jaya said in a soft but harsh whisper, "I can't go with them."
"They will capture you?" the genie asked.
"Probably. I don't know if they're here because of what I did to Lincoln but your bottle is technically museum property."
"Miss Gazdar we do have a warrant to search. We can enter without your permission but it'll be easier if you cooperate."
"Dammit," Jaya said, "I need to get out of here."
"Wish for it, Mistress," the genie urged her.
Jaya looked at her with a desperate expression. She was trying to come to terms with the genie but she wasn't sure about the wish part yet.
"Mistress," the genie said pleadingly.
"But...I don't want to make them all start fucking outside."
"There is...you would call it a loophole...in my powers that allows me to help you avoid capture and harm with much less energy."
"I'm sorry Miss Gazdar," the policeman called out.
"Fine, I wish I was somewhere nice, miles from here, without anyone knowing. Oh, with clothes for both of us...that we can rip off each other later."
Just as Jaya heard the sound of her front door being broken in, she was suddenly on a balcony somewhere downtown in the city. She quickly backed off of it into whatever building it was attached to, but noticed she was now wearing a nice silk blouse and a loose linen skirt. She also had the genie's bottle clutched in her hand, and that reminded her to look around for the genie.
The genie was..."posed" was the only word that came to mind...on the balcony. She leaned back against the railing, her blonde hair draped down over the edge, a sparse diamond shaped halter barely doing the job of containing her chest. She had a thin, modern style gold belt holding up a black skirt slit dangerously high, showing off most of the legs she had crossed in front of her. On her feet were killer heels, in the sense that they had an equal chance of killing anyone who tried to walk in them or used the spike back as a weapon. Of course when the genie straightened up and began walking toward her she didn't have any trouble at all.
"So do you want me to rip your clothes off now, mistress, or is 'later' more in the future?" the genie asked with a smile.
"Oh, um, no, I thought it had to be sexual for the wish...I mean if you have to for the wish then...God I'm stammering. I wish...no, shit."
Jaya sighed and collapsed to the floor, which was covered with a very thick off-white carpet. Genie was there in a moment, rubbing Jaya's back gently. The gentle touch broke something in Jaya. She was suddenly sobbing into the genie's shoulder. She wanted to stop but she lacked the energy all of a sudden. The girl enveloped her in a hug and just let her cry.
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Jaya woke curled up next to the genie, resting her head on the genie's breast. The genie's halter was gone, leaving only the dangerous skirt, and even in Jaya's distressed and exhausted state she had to admit the girl's body turned her on a bit. She'd cried for probably two hours off and on, and then napped in the genie's embrace.
"I looked up the answer to your question," she finally said.