My Jeannie dream...

[tnjsdaughter]

A week or so ago, I had a dream and it had to do with IDOJ. I was Tony and Jeannie's daughter and they called me Jennie because that was close to being Jeannie without being Jeannie (that's where I got my screenname LOL) and TJ was my twin brother. I looked more like my daddy Tony and TJ looked more like our mommy Jeannie but I was the one with the powers. LOL. We were both just 11 years old; like TJ was in the original "IDOJ:15 Years Later".
My roommate and best friend was the Bellows' son and he kept trying to hit on me and I would do things to him with my powers.
The only one who knew was my twin brother TJ but our mother found out and told me only to use my powers when necessary and to not let anyone know outside the immediate family and close friends. But, sometimes I would disobey and use them and get myself in trouble.
Our parents were still very much in love and were thinking about moving back to Cocoa Beach.
Our mom didn't wear her harem costume anymore but she kept her bottle and told us kids all about it and her history and life as a genie. TJ was interested in flying, just like our dad.
It was really weird. LOL.
I was thinking of making it into a fan fiction. What do you think?

[jeannietonyfan]

What a dream! I think it would make an awesome fan fiction! Go for it!

[Subspace]

jeannietonyfan said:

What a dream! I think it would make an awesome fan fiction! Go for it!

Geez, yeah, what a dream! I wish I had dreams like that!

Honestly! ;D

And yeah - go and write it up, we can always use IDOJ fanfiction. There's not enough and never will be.

[theduck]

Oh my word, I dream of Jeannie all the time! When I fall asleep with Jeannie playing on the TV, I always dream about what is going on in the ep.

The Duck

[jeannietonyfan]

theduck said:

Oh my word, I dream of Jeannie all the time! When I fall asleep with Jeannie playing on the TV, I always dream about what is going on in the ep.

The Duck

Wow how lucky! I watch IDOJ a lot before I go to bed but I hardly ever have a dream about the show... at least not one that I remember.

So is it just pretty much the episode rerun in your dream or do you make up different stuff in your dream that wasn't in the episode?

[tnjsdaughter]

jeannietonyfan said:

What a dream! I think it would make an awesome fan fiction! Go for it!

Would you like me to post it on here?

[jeannietonyfan]

tnjsdaughter said:

jeannietonyfan said:

What a dream! I think it would make an awesome fan fiction! Go for it!

Would you like me to post it on here?

Absolutely!!
Looking forward to reading it!

[tnjsdaughter]

Introduction

It is now 1985. Tony and Jeannie are still happily married. In 1974, they had twins Jennie (me) and Anthony, Jr. (TJ). They are now 11 years old.
The Nelsons are living in Houston, Texas. Tony is a colonel now and Jeannie is a housewife and mother, something that she has always wanted to be ever since Tony found her and she became his genie.
Jeannie is very involved in the twins’ lives and their school.
She no longer wears her harem costume but she still has her bottle. She tells the twins how Tony rescued her, how they eventually fell in love, got married and had them. The twins never get tired of hearing it.
Jeannie was the exception to the rule. All genies lose their powers when they marry a mortal, but Jeannie didn’t. She still uses her powers but is more careful with them now. Most everyone knows she is a genie, anyway so it is no longer a big deal if she uses them. The twins’ friends don’t know she is a genie, though. She tries not to use them when they are visiting. Tony has never tried to stop Jeannie from using her powers. Being a genie is who she is, just like being an astronaut is who Tony is.
Dr. and Mrs. Bellows and their 12 year old son Tyler come to visit during summer vacation. Eventually, Tyler takes a liking to Jennie and won’t leave her alone. After she discovers her powers, she does things to him so he will leave her alone. (Those will come later.)
Roger still lives in Cocoa Beach and is engaged to a girl named Julie. They come to visit The Nelsons quite a bit.
Tony and Jeannie have been thinking about moving back to Cocoa Beach. The twins know nothing about it yet.
The twins are both very smart. Jennie is more into dancing and theatre than sitting with her nose in a book. She likes to write though and keeps a journal and writes in it everyday.
TJ is more into reading. He also likes aeronautics and planes like Tony. Jennie looks more like Tony, she has his brown hair and hazel eyes, (I really do!) But has Jeannie’s personality and stubbornness. TJ looks more like Jeannie; he has her blonde hair and blue eyes but has Tony’s personality and perseverance.
They are beautiful children. Exactly what you would expect Tony and Jeannie’s children to look like.
Jeannie is the only person who gets away with calling TJ Anthony. Everyone else calls him TJ.
Who would have known that when Tony found that bottle on the beach back in 1965, containing a beautiful 2000 year old genie he would eventually marry her and have children with her?
Nobody.
Some things have no reason or explanation.
Tony and Jeannie were meant for each other, that’s all there is to it.
This story begins at where The Nelsons would be in their life 20 years after they first met. Sit back, relax, and enjoy…


Chapter 1

Saturday April 5
Hello, my name is Jennie Nelson. I am 11 years old. My parents got me this journal for my birthday because they know how much I love to write.
There is so much on my mind so I’m glad I finally have something to write my thoughts and feelings down in.
To start of with, I’m a normal girl with a loving family. But both of my parents aren’t normal. My mother is a genie. It is a secret I have been keeping from my friends for a long time and it has been weighing on my mind a lot lately. Most if not all my friends have normal parents, but I don’t. My parents love me and have raised me in a good home. That much I know and am glad about but it doesn’t change the fact that my mom is a genie.
I love my mom very much. She is smart, beautiful and funny but the fact that she is a genie is sometimes hard for and 11 year old girl to deal with. Like we don’t all have problems to deal with anyway at that age right?
Sometimes I just wish my mom could be like everyone else’s mom. My dad is a regular, everyday astronaut. Why can’t my mom have a normal job, too?
My parents don’t realize how much this weighs on my mind. Don’t get me wrong, having a mom who is a genie can be pretty cool sometimes. Like when I was sick with the flu last winter, she blinked and made me well, or when I forgot my dance steps at my dance recital once, she blinked and helped me remember them.
Other than that having a genie for a mom kind of embarrassing. For example, when I forgot my homework once, I had to call her at home, and instead of driving the car to school and coming in the front doors like a regular person, she blinked herself right into the office!
People were looking at us like we were crazy. My friends even asked me later how my mom got to school so quickly, since they didn’t hear the door open or close. I made up some lame explanation that she was a fast driver and a quiet person so you couldn’t hear her enter a room. They seemed to buy it, but it was still really embarrassing.
I really can’t say anything to her about it because that’s who she is, a genie. That’s what she does, blinks herself and objects in and out. She doesn’t know any different.
That would be like her telling me I couldn’t be a dancer anymore. I’m a dancer, so it would be hard to hear her tell me that and accepting it.
Maybe I’m just making too big a deal about it and maybe I shouldn’t let it bother me so much but I can’t help how I feel. Am I being a horrible daughter by feeling this way?
I can’t talk to a counselor about it, I mean how would it sound, “I’m here because I’m having trouble dealing with the fact that my mom is a genie.” The counselor would definitely think I was crazy and send me to the mental hospital.
My dad tells me stories about when they first met and nobody knew about my mom yet. She would do things he couldn’t explain, and most of the time it was in front of Dr. Bellows, his boss from Cape Kennedy in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Dr. Bellows thought he was going crazy all that time until my parents got married and my mom was no longer a secret. The whole truth came out during a hurricane.
The only one that knew about my mom almost from the beginning was Uncle Roger, who kept her a secret himself. He even tried to take my mom from my dad before they got married but we see how that turned out.
I wish I had a normal problem like everyone else but I don’t and that’s what makes it hard.
Maybe I could talk to my dad about it, I know he would understand. He’s been there and back with my mom and he married her. If he can do that, then I can talk to him about how I’m feeling. My dad’s such a sympathetic person, I can tell him anything.
Thanks for helping me, even if you are just a book with blank pages I fill up with my thoughts and feelings.
I will write more later after I talk to my dad. Bye for now.
Jennie

Stay tuned for Chapter 2 when Jennie and Tony talk…


TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!!

[jeannietonyfan]

Wow that was fantastic! I really enjoyed it... I love hearing about Jeannie and Tony from their daughter's perspective! I'm really looking forward to the next chapter!!

[tnjsdaughter]

Hmmm...I'm not getting much feedback for my story. I am glad at least one person likes it.

Chapter 2

Jennie puts her new journal in her desk drawer and then goes to look for her father.
Once she gets downstairs, she runs into her twin brother who is sitting on the couch reading an airplane magazine.
"TJ, have you seen daddy?"
He looks up for a minute.
"I think he and mom are in their room."
He then goes back to his magazine.
Jennie decides to go look in the study first and finds that her father isn't there so she goes back upstairs and heads for her parents' room.
She gets to the door of their room and can hear her parents talking in muffled tones. She can't quite make out what they are saying.
She decides to go ahead and knock. Their conversation stops abrubtly.
"Who is it?!" Jeannie asks.
"It's me, mommy!" Jennie replies.
Jeannie unlocks the door and opens it.
She greets her daughter with a bright smile while looking just as pretty as ever. Sometimes Jennie is amazed at how beautiful her mom still is. Her blond hair frames her still youthful looking face and cascades down to her shoulders. Her blue eyes sparkle. Her smile makes her look even more beautiful, if it's even possible. Tony tells Jennie often that her mother is just as pretty as the day he met her. Jennie believes it.
"Hello, sweetie. Please come in." Jeannie tells her daughter.
Jennie quickly obeys and enters her parents' immaculate bedroom.
"What can we do for you, darling?" Jeannie asks.
"Are you and daddy really busy, mommy?"
"No, we were just talking. Why?"
"I need to talk to daddy about something important."
"Sure, I will just go and fix lunch and leave the two of you to talk."
"Thanks, mommy."
"You are welcome, daughter." Jeannie says as she leans over and kisses Jennie's cheek and then leaves closing the door behind her.
Jennie walks over to where Tony is sitting looking at his newspaper.
"Daddy, may I talk to you about mommy?"
Tony looks up from his paper and looks at his daughter. He smiles.
"Is that my daughter Jennie standing there? It can't be, my daughter is a little girl, you are a young lady." Tony teases.
Jennie laughs.
"Yes, daddy it's me."
"Come here and give me a hug. I leave for a week and miss so much."
Jennie hugs her father. He always gives the best hugs. She smiles and then pulls out of the hug.
"What did you need to talk to me about?" Tony asks.
"I need to talk to you about mommy."
"You need to talk to me about your mother? What about her?"
Jennie sits on the ottoman in front of her dad's chair.
"I am having a hard time dealing with mommy being a genie."
"How so?" Tony asks.
"All my friends have regular mothers. Mothers that don't pop in and out at the wrong time. Keeping the secret from my friends has been hard, daddy. I just don't know how to deal with it anymore."
"Do you love your mother, Jennie?"
"Yes, very much. She is a wonderful mother, it's just her being a genie is hard to deal with. Is that bad?"
"I wouldn't say it's bad, per se, but I can definitely see where you are coming from. It's not easy living with a genie but you get used to it."
Jennie shrugs.
"I guess."
"Your mother can't help who she is, Jennie. She's a genie. I couldn't change that and neither can you. I fell in love with her and learned to accept what your mother is. I'm not going to disagree with you if you tell me that she's stubborn and headstrong; I know she is. That's a lot of what made me fall in love with her."
"I get that from her, don't I?" Jennie asks, her face turning red.
"Yes you do. You have a lot of your mother in you and it's beautiful."
Jennie smiles and then puts her head down.
"Why am I having such a hard time dealing with the fact that mommy's a genie?" I really can't tell her it bothers me because it's who she is. I can't make her change."
"No you can't but remember, she's not just a genie, she's a mother too. That's the one thing that's she's wanted to be all her life. If she found out that she's disappointed you, it will crush her. She loves you so much, Jennie."
"I know, daddy."
"I'm sure if you sat down and talked to her about how you feel, she would understand. She would be happy that you came to her and talked about it. She's a genie, yes but she's also a mother and her children are the most important thing to her."
"You're probably right, daddy."
"Of course I am. You think I could have lived all this time if I was always wrong?" Tony jokes.
"No, daddy. You are very smart."
"I was only kidding, Jennie."
"Oh, sorry." Jennie says embarrassed.
"It's okay. Don't worry about hurting your mother. I'm sure you two can come to some kind of understanding and compromise if you sit down and talk like mother and daughter."
"That's what I'm going to do after lunch, then. Me and mommy will have a nice talk."
"Good." Tony says and smiles as he pats Jennie's knee.
"Jennie, Tony! Lunch is ready!" Jeannie yells upstairs and through the closed door.
"We better get downstairs and have our lunch before your mother blinks us down to the kitchen."
"Okay. Thanks, daddy."
"You're welcome." Tony says with a smile as he puts his arm around Jennie's shoulder and leads her to the door.
They go downstairs and join Jeannie and TJ for a nice family lunch.

Stay tuned for Chapter 3 when Jeannie and Jennie talk...

[jeannietonyfan]

Awww... what a nice father-daughter chat. You've really got a good grasp of the characters... it sounds exactly how Tony would talk! Nice work!

[tnjsdaughter]

Thanks, I love to write so it comes pretty easily to me. The characters and scenes just pop into my head and I write them as they come.
I had always wondered what it would have been like if Tony and Jeannie had had a daughter. I write it like I felt it would have happened.
I am thinking about making a page with nothing but IDOJ fanfiction, so it will be easier to find and read. It is going to take some time, though because I don't own a computer right now.
I will have chapter 3 up soon. Thanks so much for your feedback jeannietonyfan. ;D

[jeannietonyfan]

An IDOJ fan fiction page would be great! And you're welcome for the feedback! I so enjoy reading your work.

[Subspace]

Oh, this is so great! I love it. BTW I don't know if it's just me, but in your Introduction & Part I post there were some formatting errors, but I still got the gist of it.

In any case I think this is a great story. As I said earlier we can always use more good IDOJ fanfiction and this definitely qualifies!

Perhaps you should also post this over at FanFiction.net, I believe they have an I Dream of Jeannie category and you might get more exposure and more reviews there.

But definitely do continue posting here. In any case, I look forward to seeing more.

[tnjsdaughter]

subspace said:

Oh, this is so great! I love it. BTW I don't know if it's just me, but in your Introduction & Part I post there were some formatting errors, but I still got the gist of it.

In any case I think this is a great story. As I said earlier we can always use more good IDOJ fanfiction and this definitely qualifies!

Perhaps you should also post this over at FanFiction.net, I believe they have an I Dream of Jeannie category and you might get more exposure and more reviews there.

But definitely do continue posting here. In any case, I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks for your compliments! ;D Please tell me what it is I could fix with the formatting so when I post it, everything will be correct. I appreciate you pointing out the errors I made, because I want people who read it to understand and enjoy it.