The widow who gets three wishes

Melissa was absolutely devastated. She and her husband had been in a near perfect relationship. They had rejected the modern directive and embraced a traditional marriage. She was the home keeper, and he was the one who went out and worked. She had a large garden and had kept the house clean and always had dinner ready when her man came home. Granted, they had had some… less traditional elements to their relationship. The small circle of girl friends had often had 1 or more join them in their bed. Her husband had joked her job was maintaining a free-range harem.

Then it had all imploded. Her husband, the traditional man he was, had sacrificed himself to save others. She couldn’t even be mad at him. Had he not done as he had he would have not been the man she loved. But her hart had gone with him.

The burial ceremony had been the week before and she was going through his effects now trying to decide what to give away, what to sell, and what to keep. That’s when she found it.

It was an old bottle. Old as in this thing was probably around when the great pyramids were still shiny and new. The stopper was sealed with led and strange runes were pressed into the glass and led. There was a note on the bottle.

“For when all else fails.” Uncle Joe.

She had to search her memory for a bit before she remembered. Her husband’s great uncle Joe had been a wealthy eccentric who had made his fortune during the wars after spending time as an archaeologist. She looked the bottle over and couldn’t see through the opalescent glass. “Well not sure all else has failed but close enough.” Melissa had a streak of reckless curiosity, and her shoulder demon won this decision.

Grasping the stopper, she twisted and pulled. As the led seal broke and fell away a billowing plume of blue smoke exploded from the bottle.

Melissa held her breath and tried to back out of the smoke cloud. Fortunately, the smoke cleared magically fast. And Melissa found herself no longer alone. Standing before her was a Persian woman. She had that traditional hare and skin tones here eyes were a bright gold and her outfit… R rated Disney princess came to mind.

“You have freed me mortal and in accordance with the ancient pact I will grant you three wishes. Know this I can not take a life, restore a life, or sway a heart to love.”

Melissa was in shock. A Genie, she had found a Genie in a bottle. It was to much and she passed out cold.

“Oh, welcome back.” Melissa woke up, slowly coming back to consciousness. She was on her couch with a cool cloth on her head and a blanket on the legs. A mug of tea was on the coffee table next to her. The source of the voice and presumably her current condition was now floating in the middle of her living room.

“I hope you don’t mind; I had a bit of a look around while you were out and I’m sorry for your loss. From what I found your husband was a wonderful and wonderfully kinky man. Before you ask, I decided to call in a favor owed and you should be pleased to know that he was picked up for reincarnation. He actually got quite the deal and is well on his way to becoming a dragon god harem king!”

“And I don’t get to be his harem queen.” Melissa sighed.

The Genie blinked. That had not been the reaction she had expected. Anger, despair, cursing him for leaving her and finding other women sure. Not a wistful want to join in.

“Um, where you two?” “Yes” Melissa gestured to a set of pictures on the wall showing a small group of women with the married couple. “Our girls, we would have been having children as well, but I can’t have them, and I hadn’t been able to talk any of the girls into having one yet. And now he is gone.”

“Wew, wow. You would have been the perfect queen to so many rulers in the past you know.”

“We used to joke about that.”

“Hmmm, maybe… it would take a lot… but it would be worth it…”

Melissa looked at the muttering Genie. She couldn’t help but notice her perfect per portions and wonder how fun it would have been to sandwich her with her husband, to have her writhing between them and hold her as he pounded them into the mattress. “Hay, hay, anyone home?” Genie snapped her fingers to bring Melissa back to the present. “Ok so here is the deal. If you wish it, I can send you to be with your hubby. It’s really far and you won’t get the local character creation chance so you will need to have some other source of power, or you will be completely reliant on him when you get there. But I can reunite you two, what do you say?”

Melissa sat in stunned silence for a moment. She could get him back, she could reunite with her beloved. Then she exploded into motion. First, she grabbed a sheet of paper and wrote a note to her girls, they would need to know what had happened when they came over and found the house empty. Then she ran over to grab their gaming file. Quickly leafing through she found her favorite character. The Half elf sorceress she had just gotten to level 20 in their spelljamer campaign.

“Ok I have three wishes, correct? You said I’d need power to stand alongside my now dragon husband. I need you to turn me into this character with all her equipment.” Melissa handed the character sheets over to Genie for a reference.

“Ok I can do this. What’s wish two?”

“Isekai me to my husband.”

“What about me?”

“Wish three, your free to find love of your own. Please don’t cause mass chaos or anything.”

The Genie was surprised. Up till now everyone had used their third wish to seal her back in that bottle. At least the last person had used one wish to turn it into a comfortable home rather than a prison. One of the gifts on the Gen was an understanding of the nature of the person they were granting wishes to. The pure goodness, love for her husband and their harem, and the honest desire for the ancient spirit to find love for herself overwhelmed the ancient spirits jaded heart.

“Fine, hear you go. But, your probably going to get in trouble along the way so I’m going with to help. And your husbands new world looks fun.” The Genie added her bottle to the listed items in Melissa’s bag of holding.

With a snap the wishes were granted and the two, now companions, headed of into the space between worlds tunneling to a distant world of magic, gods, and Dragons.