I Dream of Toni:
What You Don't Know
Sequel to I Dream Of Toni
By Scarlett Elizabeth Cooper
Rated: PG (K+)

Summary: When Glenda Gilford refuses to tell her future husband who she is, trouble ensues for her family as they try to beat the clock and convince her to reveal all before it's too late.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of IDoJ, they belong to their creator. This story is written purely for entertainment and not for profitable purposes. I do, however, own all original characters and the plot. If you would like to use the characters I have created, please ask first.

Archival: Here, Livejournal (username: maurreyaugust) and elsewhere with my written permission. Just ask:)

Author's Note: I have revised the first 3 chapters of this sequel. It may have changed the plot outline somewhat, but hopefully not significantly.

Timeline: Since this story is about Tony and Jeannie's grandchildren, it would have to take place no earlier than 2012 (using the date of the episode "The Wedding" (1969) and having Toni's father born in 1970). In order to give some room, though I'd say it was set in 2015. I'm giving this information mostly as an FYI in case someone wonders how it could all fit together :).

Character list: Visit the IDoJ page in the Fanfiction Archives on my website for a list of all original characters in this story.

Chapter 1
Engagements Announced

What Leif Yahn needed more than anything else was a nice long afternoon to relax. The week had been a hectic one, and this day in particularly. He was glad that the whole fiasco with Ace Goldwyn was over. He had been anxious about revealing what he and Antonia Nelson had discovered, but now it was done and justice had taken place.

Now, he could sit back in his recliner and watch a movie. Vaguely he wondered where Toni was. When he'd left work she was still there. Though the whole Goldwyn affair had been nerve wracking, it was mostly because of Toni that he needed his relaxation time. He had learned too many things this week. And far too fast. He had never realized until that moment the true meaning of when it rained it poured. But he did not know how true that statement was. He was about to find out.

He had known for quite some time about the growing relationship between his best friend, Keith Dalton Lance, and Glenda Gilford, who it turned out, was Toni's cousin. He'd expected an announcement from KD any day that the two were engaged. And when KD knocked on his door that evening, he should have known what to expect. But his head had been so clouded that it did not even cross his mind.

"You'll never guess what I've done," if nothing else, KD's face splitting grin should have warned him. He looked happier than Leif had ever seen him.

"You're right," Leif responded, while folding his arms. He sincerely would not have guessed at that moment what he was about to say. "I won't."

"I got…"

"…engaged," Glenda Gilford's smile was bright, her eyes sparkling with excitement. She was dressed in a yellow harem outfit and her folded arms were in position for her to blink something into the room.

"You got what?" Toni stared at her. She'd heard exactly what she'd said. She rose from her seat and was now standing in front of her younger cousin. "To…?"

"Yes," Glenda answered the unasked question.

Toni whirled around and stomped back to her desk. "Yi, yi, yi, yi, yi," she exclaimed dropping into her chair. "Well," she said after a moment of recovery. "How did he take it?"

Glenda swallowed and stared at her. "You did tell him didn't know?" Toni stared at her with shock. "Didn't you, Glenda?" she raised her voice. Her cousin swallowed again.

"No," she sounded small.

"But Glenda, you have to!" Toni exclaimed, flying out of her chair. "Do you realize what this means?"

"I was going to tell him, Toni, a long time ago, but I kept putting it off and putting it off. Then he asked me and I kept thinking about you…"

"Me?"

"Yeah and how your mom left you and your dad and…and I just couldn't bare it if Keith did something like that to me."

"How do you think he's going to react when he finds out your kids are genies, Glenda?"

"What would I do if he rejected me now?"

"Do you think it'd be any less painful if he rejected you later?" Toni's voice kept rising with silent fury. "Do you realize where you might end up if you don't tell him before you get married?" She had risen from her seat and Glenda shrunk back as if she were afraid her cousin might strike her. But instead Toni passed her and poked her head through the door looking down the corridor. Pulling her head back inside she blinked and disappeared. After a second Glenda followed, right to Toni's apartment.

"If KD really cares about you Glenda, he won't care that you're a genie."

"What if he's…what' if he's the kind that can't control his human nature against that much power?"

"And marrying him is the solution?"

"You just don't understand," Glenda turned away, folding her arms against her chest, an almost pout puckering her rosy lips.

"You're right, I don't," Toni turned in the opposite direction, staring towards her kitchen. "What about friends you've told? Do realize I would never do that no matter how close I was to them? Yet you somehow had freedom and courage to tell them. What if they'd been the selfish kind?"

"That was different!"

"How?" Toni demanded, turning around and whirling Glenda towards her so that they had to look at one another.

Just at that moment Toni's bell rang. Without hesitation she blinked and the door opened. Leif Yahn strode in, "Do you know what your cousin…?" he trailed off when he saw Glenda standing in the middle of the floor, dressed in a yellow outfit that matched Toni's blue one. Glenda's mouth was formed in a perfect O as she stared at him with wide blue eyes. "I see you've heard," his tone was a bit miffed.

"Yes," Toni threw her hands up in the air with an exasperated sigh. "I suppose KD told you?"

"Yeah," he paused. "But, does he…know?"

Toni stared at him. "No. She didn't tell him."

"Can she…" he turned to Glenda. "Can you do that?"

She swallowed. "Do what?" she said weakly.

"Not tell him."

Glenda's eyes shifted to her cousin. "Does he…know?"

"Yes, he knows," Toni snapped. The whole ordeal of the past week was beginning to wear on her. She hadn't had time to sort out her feelings about Leif with sorting out the trial information, and now Glenda had to add another problem for her to try and sort out. She began pacing between the kitchen and living areas while she spoke. "I took a nap in my bottle. Muriel stopped up my bottle. Leif came by and opened my bottle. And the rest, as they say, is history." During the course of her tirade she had been waving her arms at intervals to enhance the expression of what she was saying.

Both Glenda and Leif stood next to one another, staring at her as she paced and recounted the incident. "Are you all right Toni?" Leif asked.

"I'm fine," she snapped. He decided that now was not the time. "Glenda," she turned towards them, staring at her cousin. Her tone had changed. "Do you remember when you told Candi? You two were always close before hand, but you didn't stop to think how telling her your secret might change your relationship with her and it didn't.

"And do you remember the time Robin, Riley and Rory Healy stayed with grandma while Uncle Roger and Aunt Sody took Rose to her college? You thought it'd be great fun to play tricks on them without thinking about the repercussions it might have on us if they found out…thankfully they already knew.

"And what about Mia? You told her when you were in high school! I thought you'd gone out of your mind. Little girls can get away with such secrets, but two high school students! Glenda, why have you suddenly changed so drastically? Do you realize what will happen if you don't tell KD? I don't mean just the obvious…I mean do you realize what," she lowered her voice to a whisper. "Hajji will do to you?"

Glenda swallowed, her arms still folded. "He won't find out."

"How are you going to stop him from it?" she demanded. Glenda studied the rug.

"Hajji's the master of all genies, isn't he?" Leif asked. Toni nodded.

"He is. He enforces the Laws of the Djinn. And if Glenda doesn't tell him, she's breaking one of the laws."

"I know that," Glenda responded. "But what am I supposed to do about it?"

"Listen to me Glenda, I never wanted to be 'Mastered,' yet here I am, with a Master. This was the one thing I swore would never happen to me!" she paused, not knowing how to proceed. "You're the one who always wanted a master, you dreamed about it…almost drove me crazy with your desire to have a master sometimes, but now you have the chance."

"It was a daydream Toni, not reality."

Toni sank onto her couch. She was out of arguments for now. Her cousin was being…what did Uncle Buck call it? Bullheaded. That was it. Briefly the thought of what Aunt Carrie and Uncle Buck would have to say about all this flashed through her mind. "Have you told your parents?"

Glenda stared at her. "Yes, of course." Toni raised an eyebrow. "Well they know I'm engaged." Toni waited patiently. "Nothing else."

This was not good at all. How could Glenda have done this? She knew the laws as well as Toni did, and she knew them thoroughly…probably better than any djinn. Yet her cousin was blatantly disobeying one of them, unless she had some secret plan of telling KD sometime before they actually married, and the way she was acting Toni was sure that was not the case.

After a few more minutes, Glenda decided that she needed to go. That left Leif and Toni alone. Neither of them said anything, both absorbed in their own thoughts. "Are you hungry?" she asked after several minutes had passed.

"Hmm? What?" Leif asked, awaking from his reverie.

"Do you want something to eat?"

He paused as if the thought had not occurred to him. "You know what, I am a bit hungry."

She blinked in a table and sub sandwiches. "That looks good," he admired it.

"We still need to work out a few more things on the Capp case," she mentioned as she sat down at one end of the table. "When are we supposed to go to court on that one?"

"Next Wednesday, I believe," Leif responded. He wondered if Toni were talking about something else to get her mind off the subject of her cousin, or to get him off the subject. He wasn't sure which, but either way he was glad. He didn't want to interfere in the Laws of the Djinn where he was not supposed to, but he felt that someone should inform KD that he was about to get more that just a wife when he married Glenda Gilford.

(To Be Continued…)