Silver and Gold

A/N: I’ve got a new story up at Fanfiction.net! It’s
called All Bottled Up. style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Check it out at: href="http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1822466">http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1822466
I’ve put some of it here.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> I might put the whole thing at aff.net, but I’m
not sure. Right now the rating is PG, so it’s astyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> no-go at the moment. But, who knows,
the rating might go up enough to put here.

All Bottled Up style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Sneak Peek

Jack found at
the back, a curtained section with a sign at the top of the curtain reading:

Middle
Eastern Goods

*~*

Being curious,
Jack went behind the curtain.  There were shelves filled with shatooshes,
lungis, turbans, drawings of Chimæras, and at the very back, a tall, slender
indigo glass bottle with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, pearls, gold,
and silver decorating it.  The top was a heart shaped piece of rose quartz
on top of a cork.

*~*

Without
thinking, Jack grabbed the bottle and went to the old man at the counter in the
front of the shop.

“That’s a
genie bottle,” said the old man.

“A what?”
asked Jack.

 class=GramE>“A genie bottle.  You open the top, and nie nie grants
you three wishes, if you agree to set it free after your wishes are fulfilled,”
replied the old man.

“How much?”
asked Jack, not believing the old man.

“Two
shillings,” the old man said.

Jack gave the
old man the shillings and went back to the Black w:st="on">Pearl. 

*~*

In his quarters,
Jack admired the beauty of the bottle for a moment or two before pulling the
cork off the top.