No really

Hayley and Max both stared at each other for a long moment from across the room. Max is the first to break.

"What are you doing here?" Max asks Hayley.

"Fuck" Hayley says again clenching her fists.

"How did you get my lamp?" Hayley asks annoyed.

"I don't know, it was in the box of stuff you gave to me earlier, I'm guessing you put it in there for me," Max said.

"No, no, no, no, no. You have to give that back to me, I hid it in the back of my wardrobe. You can't have it, Master, you have to give it back!" Hayley didn't notice her slip up.

Max's stomach tightened and he felt himself blush as he heard her call him Master. He'd asked to roleplay some sub-games with her in the past but even when she'd let him tie her to the bed she was still her usual controlling self and refused to call him anything like that.

There was a pause as Hayley realised what she'd said. She tried to ignore it and push through as she picked up the lamp that was laying at her feet.

"Master... mast... for fuck's sake!" Hayley shouted as she found herself incapable to call Max anything other than Master.

She tried again with her face getting red now through embarrassment and frustration.

"You can't have this lamp, it belongs to me." She said trying to control herself.

"I'd better go, Mas..., I'd better go, I've got a date, don't contact me again," she said heading for the door.

"What the hell is going on with you?" Max yelled at Hayley as she headed for the door.

Ignoring him she let the door close behind her, the moment it did Max saw the lamp reappear in its usual puff of smoke, this time next to Max on the kitchen counter.

Max heard a loud banging at the front door, it was Hayley shouting for him to give it back to her.

Max was dumbfounded. He wanted to try something, he picked up the lamp and rubbed in his hands, again smoke poured out of the spout, this time he held onto it firmly, the sound of Hayley banging at the door stopped and she stumbled in front of him knocking on thin air once the smoke vanished.

"What the hell is going on?" Max asked again.

Hayley lunged for the lamp but Max held it away from her, pushing her away with the other hand to stop her from grabbing the lamp.

Max looked at Hayley panicked as they both notice him pushing at her soft but firm chest to keep her away, she started hitting him as she told him to give her the lamp and stop touching her.

Max looked at the daggers that were coming from Hayley's eyes as he felt himself lifted up by some invisible **** before being thrown across the room and into a wall.

Laying on the ground dazed and in pain, Max saw Hayley come over to him and take the lamp from him again before she once more headed for the door.

Clutching the lamp to her chest as firmly as she could Hayley ran as fast as she could to get away from there but once again not long after she'd left the lamp appeared next to Max.

Max sat on the floor listening to Hayley banging once again on his front door as he gathered himself. Hayley's demands were turning into pleas as she realised she couldn't just take the lamp back and hide it again. She sounded **** as she pleaded for him to give back her lamp and then they could just forget anything had happened.

Max gets up and goes to the front door just in time for Hayley to throw it open with her powers, knocking Max back into his small flat.

Hayley grabs the lamp from Max once more and as she tried to leave, he shouts "Wait" after her and Hayley to his surprise does indeed wait.

"I'm going to ask you one more time, what's going on?" Max asks still in pain.

"You're going crazy over this old lamp, that you put into a box of stuff you gave me and now all of a sudden you're magically appearing places and throwing magical powers around. What's happening? Is that really a magic lamp?"

"Look, Master..." Hayley says instantly enraged at her lack of control over her own voice.

"Argh, for fucks sake. Look, I've got some stuff going on, and I'm handling it okay, it doesn't involve you, and you just need to stay out of it okay? We're not together anymore, and you're not involved in my life. I need you to just give me my lamp and leave me alone, okay?" Hayley states.

Max is once again hurt by her reiterating the end of their relationship, he wasn't talking about that.

"Yeah, I know we're broken up, you've made that abundantly clear, but why did you give me that lamp? Why did you magically appear when I picked it up and why does it keep coming back to me when you try to take it. And for good measure, why do you keep calling me master? Are you trying to prank me into thinking you're some sort of fucking genie?" Max asked, pissed off now.

Hayley looked at Max enraged, she exploded in his direction throwing him against another wall.

"I didn't give you the lamp, you stole it from me, and I'm not a fucking genie, I'm me, I'm a real woman, a hot, smart, free woman, not a **** to a lamp and you are not my master! Just give me the lamp and leave me alone!" Hayley was breaking down as she finished her rant, Max could see that she was clearly upset by what was happening.

Max asked Hayley if she wanted to sit down, she looked at this man she'd pitied for loving her so singularly, but right now she needed his help.

Max sat across from Hayley as he asked her what had happened.

Distraught Hayley told Max the whole story, from her getting back after a night of anonymous sex with someone from a club (Max didn't feel hearing that wasn't needed to tell the story but fine, she was getting laid), to the lamp showing up, to John tricking her with his wishes to trap her and make him her master with unlimited wishes (leaving out that it was because she used all three wishes) to his accidental **** and her hiding the lamp.

She genuinely didn't know how Max had gotten the lamp, she could only think that with all the magic going around the lamp must have put itself in the box because she'd been hiding it for so long.

Max couldn't believe what he was hearing. He looked at the blond. She was a mess, her mascara was running, her foundation was streaked from her tear and she'd never looked more beautiful to him. Hayley saw how much he cared for her and she stopped hating him for just a moment knowing that he would do whatever he could to help her.

Max asked, trying not to get thrown against a wall again, "So you really have been turned into a genie?"

Hayley relaxed and smiled as they both laughed at the absurdity of the question.

She turned to Max and said, "Yeah, and you get your three wishes I guess", not mentioning that the third wish would set her free and trap Max.

Noticing this Max's heart sank, she just wanted to use him.

He smiled and said softly "I wish you couldn't use your powers without me wishing for you to".

This surprised Hayley, she assumed that he was going to wish for her freedom or at least a pile of money or the body of Adonis or something, what was he doing?

Panicked, Hayley tried to use her powers on Max but they didn't work.

"Why did you do that?" she asked concerned that her only perk of being a genie had been taken away and she was now powerless against Max.

"You said I have three wishes, right, not two," Max asked.

Hayley looked concerned, she knew she'd fucked up, she didn't know how he knew but she could tell that he knew she was trying to trick him into taking her place as a genie.

"Just wish for me to be free Master," Hayley said closing her eyes as she heard herself call this little prick Master again.

"I wish that all of my wishes would be granted in the way I intended, no monkey paw business"

Hayley recognised the wishes as the one's she'd just told him that John had made, she closed her eyes praying that Max would screw up and make one more wish bringing her time as a genie to an end.

"And, I wish..." Hayley held her breath as Max finished "For unlimited wishes".

Hayley's eyes snapped open, "Noo, Master, please!" Hayley begged.

Max looked at Hayley, he told her that the only thing that John had done wrong was to get himself killed, the rest of his plan was sound, now I have unlimited wishes and without your powers, or the ability to manipulate my wishes you can't threaten me". Max smiled.

Hayley looked at Max, infuriated by what had just happened, her last best chance of getting free of this curse had been uncovered, she was still trapped as a genie and short of Max choosing to give up unlimited power or dying she was trapped for the foreseeable future.