"It's you...!" Abel growled, his eyes burning with hatred. The boy who he had seized didn't struggle beneath his strong grasp, and rather just hung limply with a baffled expression on his face. Prying pedestrians strained their necks to see what all the fuss was about, and frivolous teens begged for a fight.
"I-I'm sorry? But do I know you?" asked the boy.
"You better know me you... you... bitchy witchy piece of crap-!", Abel clenched his teeth so much so that they began to ache a little, "Five years. Five years I've had this goddamn curse you put on me. You little shit."
"Woah, woah. Mind the profanity, there's kids nearby." chirped a group of quippy teenagers. After Abel promptly - but not politely - suggested that they 'keep their filthy mouths shut', he resumed to yelling at the 'bitchy witchy piece of crap'.
"Curse?", the boy pondered, "Oh! I do know you. But that curse only lasted a week, right?"
"A week? A week!? I still have it! And for five years since that day I've been searching for a way to get rid of it, but here we are."
"Oh. Oh my god. I am so sorry." He looked genuinely distressed, and so Abel let go of him with a sigh.
"If I didn't know better, I would burn you alive, just like old times." Scratching the back of his head, he turned around and began to walk back towards his flat, but a small hand reached out to stop him.
"Wait. I might be able to help," suggested the boy, "It's the least I can do. If I was the one to cast it then surely I'm the one to get rid of it, right?"
Abel pondered on this for a while. Should he trust him? He was the one who put the curse on him in the first place after all, though, he did look tremendously apologetic. With a grunt, he reached out his hand, requesting a hand-shake. "It's Abel. Abel Kenneth."
A friendly smile curling on his lips, the boy didn't shake his hand formally, but instead slapped it in a gregarious manner. "Tobias Blackburn, at your service. You can just call me Tobi though. Or 'bitchy witch' if that's more to your liking."
"I think I'll stick with Tobi."
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