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I'm sorry if some of you were confused by the first chapter. I wrote one of the later chapters first, meaning for it to be a oneshot, and then I started adding more chapters, so it would make more sense, so I'm sorry if I confused you!

So...I wrote this chapter so it will hopefully sort things out. Lily and James are 20, they graduated from Hogwarts 3 years ago. I know I really didn't write ages or anything in the other chapter, meant to{it was actually in the oneshot chapter, so I forgot to add extra details in the first chapter}

Anyway, I know I'm rambling, I tend to do that, so I'm going to cut myself off now...

"That little bitch," James swore as he stared at the spot that Lily had been a moment before. She always ruined everything with her nagging.

James rubbed his temples; he felt a little dizzy from all the drinks he had in the bar. Is that why Lily was able to break the charm, and disapparate? Because he was drunk? But no, he had been drunk before, and that never happened. She never got away before.

Maybe she was finally becoming immune to the charm. After three years, James could see how Lily could begin to fight it off.

The charm was a rather ingenious find of Sirius'. It resembled the Imperious Curse, but not many people knew about it, so it wasn't illegal. They first found the charm in a Dark Arts book that they were using for research from the Hogwarts library.

It was an old charm, simply titled 'Mind Control Spell,' that bound one person to another, by the mind. One person was the controller, while the other was the follower. You simply shot the spell at the person you wanted to control while they weren't looking, and you just had to strengthen it every few days. The follower would be completely normal able to act on their own will, except when they were in your presence. Then you would be able to control that person with your thoughts, no wand needed.

That was the charm he had on Lily right now. Although, when they first started going out, James didn't need a charm to control Lily, as she followed him around like a puppy dog, willing to do what ever he wanted her to do. She was infatuated with him. He had that effect on people; they would simply melt under his presence. He didn't know why he had never noticed Lily before, perhaps because she wasn't nearly as important as him, but he had to admit she was very pretty. So he asked her out, and she had almost fainted with delight. The honor of being asked out by James Potter! That was fifth year. They continued going out together for the remainder of their two years at Hogwarts.

After they graduated, James started drinking, and went into rages, which almost scared Lily off. But he wanted to keep her around. He loved her unique beauty: her flaming hair, her sparkling emerald eyes. He desired her. So he remembered that charm from Hogwarts.

James felt immensely powerful when he first cast it on Lily, his wand hidden under his robes as he pointed it at didn't even flinch as the spell hit her, but James got a jolt, like an electric shock to his brain. And he decided to test it.

They were alone in his apartment that night. He could try anything he wanted! A series of dirty images flashed through his mind. No, he would start with simple first just to make sure the charm worked. So James made Lily drink until she was so drunk she couldn't stand up. He laughed inwardly as Lily struggled to remain upright, but failed, falling on the floor and slurring incomprehensibly.

From that night on, he could control Lily, get her drunk so he could do whatever he wanted, flirt with other women in front of her, hit her, and she would never leave.

But James had noticed in the past week that she was disobeying him in little ways, not drinking that fourth cup of wine, not picking his trash up off the floor. He could feel her negative thoughts about him breaking out, wondering why she was with him. And tonight, well, she had ignored his mind command to shut up, and the verbal command, too. She never shut up, she kept flapping that trap, nagging him to leave, to stop flirting with other woman.

It must be that she was becoming immune to the spell. Or fighting it off without realizing it. Or it could just be a fluke, a weak casting of the charm.

"No," James thought. "Nothing I do is ever weak. It has to be Lily."

He would have to find a different method of controlling her. But first, he needed some more drinks to take his mind off the embarrassment Lily had just caused him.

And so that's why James was sitting in a different bar from the one they just vacated, slugging down shots of firewhiskey, at the same time Lily was reading the letters from Severus.

So, send some reviews my way, please!

This story is intended to be totally AU, abusive, evil James, different Severus. Imagination gone wild. Lily's basically the same, I guess.