“Look, all I’m saying is that…if this is the path that you go down, these curses, it’ll fuck you up too. It’s not going to see you as a person getting revenge–hell, it won’t see you as a person at all, really. These curses have a target, and everyone else is just a tool it can use to bring about that target’s downfall.” Jack paused, and stared his client in the eye. “Look, why not just cast this curse, or something like it, on him and one of his lovers? Because trust me…I ended up getting sucked into one of these myself a little while ago, it isn’t…fun. And I can reverse the effects–mostly, but I still…nevermind, that’s not important. Here’s the point: you’re never going to be able to back out of this, if you make this choice.”
The older man, Walter, sitting across from him in the cafe nodded along, but Jack could see in his eyes that he wasn’t changing his mind, but Jack was still hesitant to give the man the curse he’d requested, in the manner he’d requested it. Fuck, he still couldn’t break himself of that fucking pig Clyde. No matter how hard he tried, he’d go back there every few weeks, rent that pig for a weekend, and…and go back to being that brute all over again. Jack shook his head, his cock rock hard in his pants, the need to see that fucker growing again at the thought of him, but he had other shit he needed to focus on.
Walter wanted a curse cast on his boyfriend, Donny. They’d been in a relationship for close to five years, and Walter had just found out that Donny had been seeing a variety of other men behind his back, despite his promise to be monogamous. This had especially hurt Walter, because, well, he’d always secretly suspected that Donny was with him more for his financial security than his looks. Walter was by no means bad looking–no, he’d met Donny at the local gym, shortly after Donny had moved to the city. Most men over fifty would kill to have a physique like Walter, and both he and Donny were muscular and built. Walter had done his best to keep himself looking attractive for his younger boyfriend, trying to keep up with a more modern styling–goodness knows, there had been plenty of time when he could have picked up an admiring young boy from the gym for an afternoon. But none of this made Walter’s case unusual. If anything, stories like this gave him the majority of his clients. No, what set Walter apart was that, while most people wanted to curse them and get them the fuck out of their lives, Walter was asking Jack to channel the curse through him.
This was no minor matter. If Jack did what Walter was asking, he would be cursed as well–or as he’d been trying to explain, the curse would be using him as it’s primary tool to do as much damage to Donny as it possibly could…and given how hurt Walter was, it meant that the curse would likely end up becoming quite powerful if it did use him. Whatever the result ended up being, they’d both be stuck–and he was trying to convince Walter that being stuck with one of his curses wasn’t something most people wanted to volunteer for.
Walter sighed, “I understand” –he didn’t, Jack thought– “but I…look, it’s hard to explain, but I want it to fucking ruin him. I want to be there when it happens. I want him to know that it was me.”
“This is going to sound mean, but you’re way too emotionally involved in this–”
“‘Emotionally involved’? He’s my fucking boyfriend? What did you fucking expect?”
“These curses feed off that, and if you put yourself in a room with him, with a curse guiding your hand, you will end up in a situation you’ll regret.”
“What if I don’t care?”
Jack sighed, “Maybe you should care? Why in the world would you want to ruin your life for the sake of his shitty behavior?”
Walter didn’t reply, but the answer was there, in his eyes. He still loved the fuck. More than that even–he still wanted to be with him, but more than that, he wanted to bring him to heel. Feeling the emotions swirling in Walter, Jack could feel the curse beginning to form inside him, taking shape, responding to the emotions between them. It was too late now, in a sense. Whatever curse Jack ended up making, it was going to be tainted with this emotion. Walter would probably end up pulled into the vortex no matter what he did–still, that was no reason to put him at the eye of the storm…or maybe, that was the exact reason to put him there. If this is what he fucking wanted, why not just give it to him? He wasn’t sure he would have protested this much in the past, before he’d been sucked into one of these himself. He knew what it was like, how much power you felt like you had, even though everything was out of control. Fuck, he needed to fuck that pig–he had a feeling he should cancel his appointments this weekend, and reserve his usual 72 hour rental. It wasn’t the pig he wanted–it was that sensation of…as that brute, Jack was in complete control, but no longer able to choose for himself. Power without responsibility. That’s what Walter was searching for, he realized. That’s what he needed, and if Jack could give that to him…who was he to deny him, when he himself couldn’t seem to kick the habit himself?
“Fine,” Jack said, “I get it. But I warned you. It’s going to be a rush, but there will be a moment when that well runs dry, and you’re going to realize what’s happened to you both. That this curse is what you both will have to live with for the rest of your life.”


