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It had somewhat been quiet the past two years since Allan's side lost the war and well it felt odd to be back at a camp he had betrayed two years ago. Allan walked around camp feeling rather at war with himself. On one hand he was glad to be back, but on the other he was feeling alienated because he could feel the stares and the mean looks from those he had fought against. The camp was a nice warm fall day though given that it should be getting colder due to the oncoming winter. Allan made his way to the field of Mars, a place he ventured to a lot because it helped to clear his mind. Even though Allan was welcomed bakc to camp and partially begrudgingly, it didn't feel like home anymore. He had betrayed it and was trying to go about as if it never happened. Allan pulled out his smaller dagger he now kept on him at all times, since he didn't know when he would be attacked.

The war had somewhat changed the son of Cupid. He was more serious about training and well the bouncy personality at times was just a ruse to cover up how he felt miserable for his actions. However now he heard rumors of his old leader returning and well the boy didn't kow what to make of it since he had promised camp jupiter to remain loyal. However he was not entirely pro-god for it took Cupid way too long to claim his own son, as far as Allan was concerned. He finally made it to the field of mars he began to strap himself up for rigorous training because it was what he mostly did now a days. Allan sighed as he thought about the name of these fields because he was injured by a daughter of mars and well here he was training in mars field.

Allan swiped at targets and began to tear into them with such vigor that he was working up a sweat. Allan knew now his dad did care but really it didn't help that he was still bitter over being forgotten for three years. Allan had spoken to Jason the other day and he was talking about how making friends could help not turn people to the other side. Allan even noticed the stare, Jason had given him because he had to plead his case before the praetors and well tthey knew his past. Allan was just enjoying being back even if it didn't entirely feel like home now.

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After a 48 hour drill in the fields of mars, after half of the first cohort was sent to the infirmary and the other half was almost dead in their barracks, anyone couldn't imagine that someone in that cohort would still have some kind of energy to be back to the Fields to train. but Christopher Ashby wasn't a common camper, he used to get his body beyond its limits, he wanted to be stronger, to protect the ones he loved, the ones that mattered to him. He wanted to be able to stop enemies of Rome in a better and accurate way. For that he knew he needed to train more.

That day, he was tired and his muscles ache, but he forced himself to go back to the Fields after he left a young kid of his cohort in the infirmary, the kid had a broken leg so he thought it would be better to take him to the infirmary instead of forcing him to walk with a leg like that, Apollo healers were miraclous but he didn't want to push the kid's luck that much. But even when his cohort could have some moments of peace before the next training session, he couldn't, he needed to be stronger and amore accurate.

He passed by the armory and grabbed a shield and a long sword, the highland kind, the one that the ancient celtics used. He walked to the fields and made his steps went to find a good spot with some dummies, he for sure had a broken rib, but he could manage the pain, it wasn't that much, a twisted shoulder and a gash on the same shoulder, his left in facvt, so his defense would be low in that moment, but his offense would still be good and strong.

He swang some moves against the dummies with his sword and decapitated two of them. but then when he moved and spinned, he noticed someone that he thought he knew. He looked at the guy and frowned for a moment glaring at the guy. He saw him moving and suddenly the image of a younger guy flashed his memory, he remembered him from the battle field, from the time The titan was attacking them in Mt.Othrys. He was a traitor, why was he back in camp? "hey... you!... the traitor!..." He walked to where the guy was. "what do you think you are doing here?" he asked in a mean tone.

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Allan was busy fighting a dummy and preparing for anything that might come his way and given that he had left camp, back when saturn was gaining power, Thee son of cupid needed to defend himself at a moment's notice. Many wouldn't understand his complete change of heart, and would still seeing him as the demigod who decided to betray camp and join the enemy. Allan was younger then and well little naive because his dad had not claimed him in three years and he resented the god for it. Now he was older and had seen the outcome of the war and how it destroyed people, his friends and those he cared about died. All because of his anger and bitterness, in the end it wasn't worth it to lose so many. Allan felt horrible to betray campers and eve having killed a couple in the battle just because he had daddy issues, which he learned in the end dad loved him.

Saturn had manipulated Allan and made him think the gods hated him and all those demigods who said they cared for him were lying. It was a dark time in his past, and one he was tryinng to make up for. He was training quietly when he heard a man yelling at him. His instincts told him to turn and point his weapon at the man. War had changed him and he was alert to danger a bit more and if he was yelled at he feared an attack. He then looked over the man and instantly recognized him as a man on the side of the olympians. He swallowed his breath trying to remain calm not lower his weapon trying to keep distance between him and this man now callign him traitor. "I am back because i am truly sorrry for what i did! i swear i am loyal to camp. I am not going back to him, I don't evene know if he is coming back. I hear rumors he is but I am not going back there. I mean no disloyalty to camp but if you attack me i swear i will not hold back my attacks." Allan spoke with a slight quiver in his voice.

He was scared and he wondered if killing a camper in self defense actually broke his river styx promise. He was neither with the gods nor against them anymore but he would remain loyal to his fellow demigods and legacies. "I am here training same as you. I pleaded my case to the wolf house and the praetors. They see fit ot let me return, I implore you not to attack me." Allan commented more steeling his courage. Allan had learned in battle,, it was fine to be a little scared but it shouldn't stop one from doing his duty to his leaders and his legion. It was people like this man which made it not feel like home to Allan, yet he shouldn't be surprised given hee was on the opposite team during the war. He wasn't just going to be welcomed back with open arms. He would need to show his loyalty. Hopefull would do it in time, if he lived that long. It sounded like he might not get the chance to because someone recognized him and were now going on the defensive with him. This hard just gone from bad to worse.

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As the guy turned to look at him, he noticed how each of the guy's muscles were preparing for battle, he may not be a son of Mars, but he was well trained by a son of Bellona who had been his adoptive father, he was in First cohort where you breathed, ate and dreamt trainings and war. So he was sure when someone right in front of him was about to attack him or at least was preparing to attack. But why was the traitor holding back? Would that be his cover? He didn’t like to have a traitor in camp, it was a risk to have in there someone that served The Titan not so long ago!

He frowned at the guy when he talked to him. He claimed to be loyal to camp, to have regret what he did almost three years ago. How could he think that everything would be forgotten after all what happened in that war? So many good loyal legionaries died that day and this traitor was alive! How would that make it right in any dimension?! He should be dead roaming the fields of Punishment, while the legionaries that died back then should have been where the traitor was.

“Oww… don’t tell me, you are so repented, you forgot your old master and now you’re just another common average legionarie now…” He glared at the camper and shook his head, he got a step closer and then smirked at his next words, Did he really think he was afraid of a traitor? Not even if he had been the closest to Saturn or the last in the army, he would fight all of them and kill them if it was possible. A traitor didn’t deserve to live. So he just stood there as he tilted his head and smirked again.

“Stone and Kyoto let you come back… well… then you must be of some use to camp and Olympians…” He walked closer. “don’t beg for your life! A roman never begs for his life! How can you even pretend to fit here once more if you can’t live like a roman? You threaten me to attack me if I attack you, well a legionarie don’t just know how to fight well and live well, but also to die well!” He swung his sword against Allan. It wasn't a deadly one, he only wanted to see how would the traitor react at a real attack.

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Allan stood there watching this man and he didn't want to attack him. He would fight him off but Allan would feel horrible if he ended up killing the man. Allan listened as the man tormented him about his old master and how could a man with his past just forget Saturn, the titan was not one that a personally forgot even if you fought in his army. "I have repented, but no i didn't forget the titan. Many good demigods died in the war and some by my hand and i am deeply sorry for what i did. I will never expect you to understand. I am not begging you for my life and i never will. i have already done that once to the daughter of Mars i lost to. I am merely stating that attacking I could end up killing you. I don't want it mistaken for me breaking my pro....." Allan was about to talk about his river styx promise when a sword was swung at him.

The son of cupid had but seconds to react and he took a step back panting, wondering why he was being attacked. He had done nothing but train and eat sweets. He had not even reconciled with old friends. He did have a couple but it was hard to deal with the fact cupid took too long. He wanted to know why he was being attacked but right now wass not the time to wonder. He got in an offensive attack his sword being his weapon of choice for this battle but his dagger securely at his side should he get close enough for close combat. Allan sighed and swung aiming for his opponent's side, he didn't want to kill the man but hopefully this swipe would drop the man to the ground long enough for Allan to seek out a praetor. It would probably be good to save his life, which is what he wanted right now.

It was people like this man whom made this place not feel like home. He wanted to feel welcomed back he also knew it was hard to do when in the eyes of many you were a traitor and killer of your friends. Allan would do anything to prove them that he had changed, however it seemed like it would take a long time to prove it.

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When Allan start talking, it had been in many ways as if Chris had been listening to himself talking, not because he had ever betrayed camp, no, it was because he had also killed in that war campers with his powers. in war was called friendly fire, well it wasn't friendly at all and it wasn't fire, He could still remember the electricity flowing by his limbs, he felt each volt and then shoot it at his enemies back then, but his enemies hadn't been the only ones who died by it, he was tired and almost fainted after using his lighting for so many times. Still he used it once more... he couldn't control the last one and it killed 5 loyal campers besides the traitor ones.

Listening to allan, he could see himself, two, almost three years younger, in a bed of infirmary, begging the gods for forgiveness after what he knew he had done. He didn't know if they listened to him or not, he didn't know if they granted him with it or not, but he knew he would never let that happened again, no matter what he needed to keep the campers safe, even if that was from former traitors or even himself. when Allan said that he might ended killing him if he attacked him, Chris couldn't help but laugh... and laugh really hard, it was half because he didn't think someone like Allan capable of hurting him even less to kill him and also because he kind of admired his strength.

"you may try to kill me, but let me tell you traitor, that you would have to be a son of Fortuna, Mars or Bellona to be able to kill me, because I'll do anything necessary to either be sure of your loyalty or unmask you, either way it will hurt..." He said and then he swung his sword. Allan moved fast and Chris noticed it. the former traitor was well trained, he at least could move fast and in firm movements, like a true warrior, but would he be able to defend himself and even more important, be able to attack? His answer to that question got there soon.

Allan swang his sword against Chris's, it was a thud hit, firm and without hesitation, which Chris admired, but it wasn't strong enough to make Chris fall back. He twisted his wrist and comfronted Allan's blad with his, the blades clashed and a few static was felt around them, in many ways Chris was excited for a real fight, he was very competitive. "you must do it much better if you want to defeat me... lad." He said and smirked at Allan, but his smirk was... excited one, not a mocking one.

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Allan expected a blocked attack from his opponent. In fact he knew that anyone who were in the war they knew how to think on their feet and how to block an attack anticipating an opponents moves. Allan was the same way he anticipated what this man had coming but he couldn't predict it all. Allan listened as this man spoke about the gods of war and the goddess of luck. Allan couldn't happen but just chuckle, ever since this battle happened this man never took time to ask the son of cupid important questions like his parentage. Since his granddad was Mars he felt it entitled him to some ability in war and so not only could he win the fight he could kill. He had killed before when he was in battle. " I can win, I am a descendant of Mars. You were in such a rush to attack to learn my dad is cupid! You jerk!" Allan snapped as he backed up and considered how to attack next. Allan bit his lip and turned around swing towards this man's head now. He didn't want to kill but this man was giving him little options.

Allan suddenly stopped his attack as visions of his past flashed in his head. He remembered people pleading not to be killed and how in coldblood he attacked people. He attacked the innocent and none deserved to die by his hand. Allan sighed and slowly lowered his sword. He wasn't one to show people mercy but this man had it set in his mind, that allan was a traitor unable to change and attacking back was not aiding to his plan of proving he had changed. He was stooping to this man's level attacking without reasoning. Allan tossed his sword on the ground and held up his hands in defeat. "Look I am changed but you have made up your mind on me. I am not going to attack anymore, it is doing nothing but proving to you i know how to find and willing to fight my fellow campers and it can be used against me to prove i am a traitor for i attacked someone else who was loyal to camp. i refuse to contribute to it. You may attack and even kill me if you like. I will not plead for my life but know if you do kill me, that you killed an innocent boy. A boy who was young when he betrayed you and others. A lad who was blinded by his anger towards his own father." Allan commented slowly walking away. The lad was not entirely unarmed but he was tired of fighting. This had proved nothing and this man had made up his mind on who Allan was.

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"Grandson of Mars? come on!! I'm son of all mighty Jupiter! you can't compare yourself to me!!" He was being already nasty and behaving as a mini Jupiter, that wasn't good, he hated Jupiter for that and many other things, so he wouldn't really like himself at that moment and maybe after the battle he would feel like a horrible person, but he would never admit it, he was too proud to admit that he was wrong at some point.

Chris was really excited about the fight, he loved to fight! maybe it was only that Jupiter DNA in him that made him be so competitive, the feel that he must be the winner all the time and that for some reason he felt the need to be on top of each battle and fight, he felt the right to be the winner, the leader... But he also had that slight, tiny feeling that he should give Allan a chance, if Remus and Jason trust him, well it should be for some weird reason or because the kid was telling the truth.

But that fraction of second where his mind traveled to the small possibility where Allan might be telling the truth and might really be loyal to camp again, he was distracted from the fight and Allan's sword aimed for his neck! Chris pushed his sword up and grabbed it by the blade with a hand and the other only supported the handle so it could stop Allan's sword. But as soon as the move and motion started, as soon as it ended too. Allan stopped his attack and told Chris he wouldn't attack him more, that he would respect what he had said before.

Well, Chris was confused. if Allan was a traitor, he could kill him with no remorse, right? Or maybe he was just waiting, because the fields could have external eyes... He breathed deeply and the sky over them got cloudy, the electricity up there was heard and seen in slight flashes of tiny clashes of electrons and protons. Suddenly he frowned feeling how sweat started rolling down his temples. a lightning fell a couple of feet from Allan, but he didn't move, then other lightining closer to allan, a common human would have got thrown away by the impact on the ground, but not a demigod!

Then Chris moved again and waving his sword with a hand, he then aimed directly to allan's heart, he even cut the cupid's son's shirt and the first layer of skin of his chest, a third lightning fell right behind allan, if he had moved because of it, He would have stabbed his heart with Chris's sword, but he didn't move. Well or he was a very good performer or he was really telling the truth, Chris stood back and lowered his sword, still panting, and feeling how his knees trembled, bringing three lightinings in a row wasn't something easy to do. "I think... I see no traitor here, but a lad who is just a fellow camper..." he was willing now to give him a chance to really prove that he was loyal to camp and Olympians.

NOTES: Tanner allowed me to godmod a bit Allan for this post.

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Allan stood there waiting for the end, since this boy was determined to have Allan either killed or hurt for things he did in the past, without even considering that Allan had change. Allan listened to this man torment him and talk about being the son of Jupiter and if this was the case wouldn't a wise leader take into consideration that the man had indeed changed. Allan could see that by the sudden lightning, that indeed this man was a son of Jupiter. He stood there unflinching as the lightning struck near his feet. The air felt pure around hm and clean. The son of cupid loved thunder and lightning but in this instance it was being used against him and it could kill him even if he was a demigod.

Allan felt the cut to his chest and winced barely moving as the wound began to bleed a bit. "....I ......told you... I have changed." Allan huffed Allan smiled a bit when the man finally said he didn't see a traitor. It was moments like this that Allan had worked hard for. The son of cupid was working on trying to prove he was no longer the killer boy he once was. In the titans army, he had become meaner and crueler. Before he had even left he was a hyper bouncy boy and everyone seemed to be amused as he was bouncing all over and hugging people. However war changed people, and those who were bouncy could now be plagued by visions of those they are had seen die. Allan knelt down and looked at his dropped sword. Part of him wanted to grab his dagger and stab, this boy for injuring him but to retaliate would prove nothing.

"I am sorry,you fail to see my loyalty.I regret the things i did and I deserve this cut, but you have attacked an innocent boy without totally listening to him. I mean no disrespect to you, but you are much like your father. You will dish out what you think is deserved punishment without letting other plead their case. You made up your mind that i am a traitor and were willing to attack me without listening. I was merely training and you came at me, when i never made a move at you. I implore you to think more rationally next time or you could end up killing an innocent boy. I would hate to see a person of your strength mistaken for a traitor." Allan spoke boldly without hesitation. His words harsh but true for he was not meaning to be disrespectful but this man did come at him when he did nothing.

Now Allan needed to end his training early and seek refuge inn the infirmary for injuries done by someone unwilling to listen. Allan often wondered if all this torment was worth it. They were supposed to be his friends and legion but instead they were pushing him away. Allan wondered why did he live in the last fight and brought back. He was truly sorry but at times it seemed not worth it. Maybe he would be better in little Rome and not fighting for titans or for the gods but tryig to live a peaceful life not dealing with all this prejudice. Allan was honest contemplating leaving again but this time hiding somewhere in little Rome.

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Chris looked how Allan knelt in front of him, but he would never think that it was that allan was kneeling before him, no!! he was no one to be treated like that! Although the feeling of it was amazing, Chris would never fall into what his father was. So he just sat on the ground right in front of Allan, so they would be at the same level and Allan didn't have to feel more agrassions from Chris, not even the body language ones. but then he listened to Allan's words and they were like a weird combination of satisfaction and acid in his stomach. He hated when people compared him to his father, he just hated it! But the Cupid kid had a point, he did acted like Jupiter and he would hate himself for that.

He half smirk and then replied to allan's words. "hey!" he chuckled. "you can't ask campers to believe that you are loyal only because you say so... even less in times like this one. besides... you speak about being innocent... " he breathed deeply and shake his head. "non of us are innocent, not you, not me, not more than half camp. I also have blood in my hands, you said you killed campers in war, enemeies for you in that moment... but I killed fellow compers when I was killing enemies. So believe me, I know about dark past and blood in your hands... but you can't expect people to believe that you are innocent and loyal just out of your word."

Then he stretched out and looked back at Allan, the cut on his chest wasn't deep, it wouldn't even need stitches, so he wasn't worried about it. "about Jupiter..." he said and the static around them started to mess with their hair. "I think you are right... I'm more like him that I would ever want to admit, but it had nothing to do with how I attacked you. if you realy want to be accepted, start with helping around, don't train by yourself, but help others to train, tell us the way the titan think inside his rows, and get close to your old friends too, they will help others to see that you have changed..."

then he got up again and put his sword in its sheath on his back, then stretched out his hand, to help allan to get up. "come on, you need to get that cut clean and maybe we can talk a bit more... I'll tell you why I attacked you like that and you may tell me why you joined my grandfather in the past war." he smiled at allan and waited with his hand stretched out at the cupid Kid.

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Allan knelt down looking over his sword, slightly scared because the old him had slightly resurfaced. He had thought about kiling a boy after he had attacked him. The cupid shook a bit and sighed not looking up when the other man knelt down beside him. The son of cupid didn't trust him and just backed up slightly. He listened softly as the man talked to him about no one being innocent and everyone had blood on their hands. Allan growled a bit for this man didn't really understand. The campers that for camp, was somewhat considered innocent.They may have killed someone but to them they were enemies. The same could have been said the same for Allan, but it was other demigods. Some of them had been his friend before he took off. Even in battle they tried to reason with him, tried to let him know he was brainwashed but Allan, Much like how this man did earlier, wouldn't listen. "No you are considered slightly less guilty than me. You killed enemies and those who would destroy your camp. I attacked out of bitterness and being decieved. I attacked anyone whom would stand in the way of Saturn's goals. I even contemplated becoming a spy to take down camp from the inside out. I didn't expect you to believe words alone. However I dd expect you listen to me,and decide for yoursef if my words were true but you wouldn't listen before you swung your sword." Allan spoke more explaining that people would just listen to his reasoning and then watch his actions, then they would see. Alan hated the fact everywhere he turned, he seemed to get curses thrown at him people wanting to atttack him. Even within the third cohort Allan felt unwelcomed at times. He feared his own cohort wanting to kill him. He couldn't go to his centurion about it, because he too was one of the very people he feared attack from.

Allan listened to the man speak about his cut, what he didn't know about the cut was that it also had some slight burns to it too. The lightning having traveled up the metal blade, and given Allan a little shock. Allan shrugged as he hear this man speak about not attack because he was like Jupiter."Oh it wasn't? I clearly remember that i was training minding my own business. You yelled at me and called me traitor. My warrior instincts kicked in and I got into a defensive mode. I didnn't swing at you and you took the first strike. I merely felt like i was being attacked, Which proved to be true. "Allan snorted. He didn't feel like heading to the infirmary right now but he knew would need to soon. The son of cupid took the man's hand and sighed. " I don't even know you and I will go get my wound cared for but really my past is not one that I like talking about. You are pretty much asking me to relive the pain of why i ran away. I can help with sharing how Saturn works to some degree and I will share why i did it. However i do not expect you to fully understand. I will not share the horrors i experienced among Saturn's ranks. Those memories will die with me." Allan nodded as he prepared to head to the infirmary. This had bee a crappy day for Allan and with his luck probably was going to get worse.

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Notes: sorry the delay, his muse had been low, but now that I threatened him to kill him in war, he's working again XD

Chris looked at the young man in front of him. Well, to say that he was a young man when Chris was barely 19 years old, was too much, but when you were a demigod your life was shorter, so at a young age, an age when other teens would be starting their lives, for them was to be an adult and more, so... even if it was only one year of difference, for Chris that gave him the permission to call him young man. He looked at him and glared but not angry just... exasperated. "you don't listen much, right? I know you killed demigods and for sure some of them were your friends. you were on his side, that was your job, to kill as many as you could of us. But I killed fellow campers... people that was on my side! only to kill traitors."

He said and then breathed deeply, it wasn't pleasent to remember those days and the faces of those who he killed, those who had trusted him as a leader and a fellow soldier. But he wanted to trust on Stone and Kyoto's judgement, so if he was going to consider Allan a fellow camper, he also needed the son of cupid to know him, to know that not even that was considered good and in the gods' side, was free from blame and blood in his hands. "I don't care about the horrors you lived with my old gramps... you can hold them dearly in your heart till the day you can drink from Lethe. and no matter how horrible that time was for you, I won't feel pity, you made your choices and you live with them. But I do want to know about his strategy, how his ranks moved and acted. maybe you told that to the Praetors, but I need to know that too, so I can train my cohort in a proper way, I don't want as many deaths among our ranks as there were three years ago."

He meant it, he was really interested on knowing those things, then he would be able to prepare in a better way his cohort and they would be prepared to fight, he didn't want to lose any one in that war. "and don't think this is something about weakness from me, if you really are part of this legion, you need to be in optimal conditions, so even if you get cut with a blade or electrocuted by me, you go to the infirmary and get those wounds treated."

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Allan rolled his eyes when the man spoke about not listening.He was a hypocrite For he didn't know Allan had done. He too killed people those on his side and those against him. This man was an idiot and now he wanted to just warm up to him and tell him all that he knew about the titan. The man could kiss his rear for Allan cared, he had taken worse shot and was cut in battle he would be fine and was not going to the infirmary. " I listen you dolt, it is you who does not listen. I killed people on my side too and the people I was against. I do not need your pity nor did i ask for it you imbecile! I merely asked you to believe my loyalty and my word when I said i had changed. However now I see you are so egotistical and stubborn like your dad you attack first ask questions later. Well kiss my ass! I am not telling you a damn thing about the titan. I will train with my own cohort tell them what i know but as for you! Centurion or not I will not share My information. As for the Praetors they believed me and I swore on the river Styx to never go back! You attacked without believing in you leaders!" Allan growled looking down at his wound and not caring anymore.

Allan returned to work on his dummy part of him wanted to teach this centurion a lesson and make him fall in love with a unicorn. He wanted to laugh at the man as he would walk up and kiss a unicorn. However knowing Jupiter kids it wouldn't do any good and the boy would learn no lesson but also it was an abuse of his power and he wouldn't do that again. Allan was not a fan of manipulating people's emotions and controlling their love. He had done that to a couple boys and well he began to fall in love with them but when the power faded they left him. He vowed to never do it again. It was just his luck the boy was cute but Allan's sense of love power was going off. He got a gentle burning in his ears and knew his new enemy was in love but he didn't care. He was not going to help out with Saturn knowledge or with any love problems. This boy had made Allan's bad side and no amount of commanding would make him listen. "Go away, I am not giving you the advice you seek and I am not going to the infirmary." Allan Growled slashing dummies with the confidence and skill he learned in war. This had been the worst day ever.