Up All Night To Get Lucky {OPEN}

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Ah, the coliseum. Home to bloodshed in with gladiator battles but also home to the works of Apollo when it came to artistic performances. Which was what had brought the son of Bacchus here, after curfew mind you. The local play troupe in New Rome was performing a play that was some olf Greek Tragedy since everything around these parts had to correlate with mythology. At least this one portrayed his dad, and in two different lights too, which he was interested in. Honestly, he didn't care much for the play, he just wanted to see what these mortals back during the Greek era thought of his dad. After all, The Bacchae, the name of the play, was actually kinda lame in his opinion. However, Kyle sat through the entire longevity of it and once it was over he made his way through the small crowd of mainly elderly people. Wow, the old people in New Rome needed a life.

Kyle found himself in one of the exit tunnels looking at the posters for upcoming events. Maybe he would find another reason to sneak out and see something. He couldn't do it too often but he really wasn't fully concerned about getting caught either. This was his last year in the legion so what was the worst they could do? Kick him out? Please, they lost so many legionnaires during the war they would probably hold on to all their delinquents. Besides, it's not like Kyle had anyone follow him out, at least none that he knew of. He wouldn't be surprised if they did though. Curfew was a pain in the butt and some nights you just couldn't sleep and you needed to leave the camp and just wonder a bit to tire out your body. No real harm in it. It's not like Kyle was a son of Mercury and going to steal from the closed shops that lined the forum.

Plus, Kyle didn't do bad all the time. He was raised in the legion and respected the way it worked and he did work hard. He wanted to protect his fellow camps and make sure they can live a nice long life, but he also wishes they would enjoy their young life and seek out some fun. Throw a party in the barracks or with your cohort, sneak out into the town. Be a normal teenager for once. After all, a life of a demigod is short and you need to live while you're young.

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notes: OPEN THREAD WITH KYLE. HE'S AWESOME! I PROMISE!!!

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Tag: @alyssa

Word: 420

Notes: Short, sorry about that!!

Days had been much better after war ended, people went out more and tried to get back to their normal activities, even when it was impossible to do it completely at a 100%, still people tried.  Among them was Terry... he had lost his baby brother, and he was sure he was going to fall into a mental hole of madness and insanity, but then an angel saved him, Sam was that angel and he was really glad she had been around as a friend and later as a girlfriend. Well, soon she was going to be if she accepted him.

that very day, they had had a wonderful date, he had taken her to the forum and then to watch some Ludii, dinner and a nice walk around. It was a blessing that he wasn't attached to the curfew that ruled in Camp, he remembered that in his days of camp, he had had a lot of troubles. He never could stay in bed at that time! As a son of Bacchus, he was meant to have fun after sun was down! but praetors and centurions never got it. So he got into a lot of troubles back then. The memory made him smile while he was walking back home, then he looked around as he walked by the Coliseum and something or better said, someone caught his eye.

"Kyle..." he thought and decided to follow the young man into the colliseum. Terry looked at his watch and he noticed curfew had passed like some time ago, so what the hell was his brother doing in that place?! Well it was kind of hypocrite that he thought like that, after all he used to do the same when he was in the legion, still he got worried about his brother, he had already lost one, he didn't want to lose another one even if that thought was way too exagerated.  He saw some people that looked at his brother and he simply used his powers to make them think they had been really drunk to know the truth from the lies.

after some time he decided that it was enough, he needed to know what his brother was up to.  "so..." he said and smiled at his brother. He had been really careful that there was no one else around, so neither of them got into troubles. "what's worthy to be seen in the magnificent Coliseum these days?" he asked and waited for him to look back at him.

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Kyle had heard footsteps behind him but shrugged it off as nothing. After all, the citizens of New Rome seemed to enjoy the night life, the younger adults at least, those with children were probably enjoying their silent down time this evening at home instead of going to the bar or club that was here, or even the numerous late night cafes. Despite it being apart of the camp they still tried to make it a lot like the real world outside of the camp, which Kyle gave them a lot of credit for, after all, not many demigods would be lucky enough to live outside of this camp, but he was just happy there would be the opportunity for him to open up his own bar after his service was up. He had it all planned out too.

His thoughts were cut short by the familiar voice. Kyles mouth stretched into a sly grin as he turned. Yep, just as he thought, his favorite older brother, Terrence. He could recognize that voice from across the forum if he needed to. That man was who Kyle looked up to when he first came to the legion. Granted, Kyle's first year in the legion was Terrence's last, but that was besides the point. "Looks like there's going to be a fight later this week. Two retired praetors going at it. Oh, and that silly play going on again next week." Kyle said with a slight shrug, but he was more happy about seeing Terrence. Perhaps he was going to go have fun or something tonight and Kyle could weasel his way into joining him. Man, that sounded awesome, a night on the two with his big bro. Although, he was also worried about him from time to time, he knew he had lost his younger brother before, all the Bacchus kids knew that.

"What's brought you out at this hour anyway? Isn't it pat your bed time old man?" Kyle joked, kinda, Terrence had almost ten years on Kyle, he was old. He would be thirty soon, gross, then again, Kyle would be twenty next year, double gross. Getting old was not fun. Although, nineteen to twenty-three seemed like the perfect ages to be for Kyle. Not too old and not too young. Kyle just had a weird way of thinking. He had a Peter Pan conflict about not wanting to grow up. "Going to go have some fun, get some drinks? Because, ya know, I'm not doing anything and it's always good to have a wing man, help you pick up the ladies." Kyle added, starting to already try to weasel in a more fun night rather than go back to the barracks and get a failed attempt at trying to sleep early.

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notes: Brothers ^_^

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Tag: @alyssa

Word: 415

Notes: sorry so short XD.

little joker he had of a brother, he knew him very well and no matter what would happen in the world he would protect him, because he was his baby brother... well his blood brother died and he couldn't save him, but it was something that would eat his soul slowly till the day he died and had to meet the judges for his crimes. then it was Kyle, he made him smile again, he and the one that had died had the same relationship that Kyle and himself had once. Jerry looked up to Kyle. But that would only open more the already healing wounds.

"mmm... well the fight sounds promising, but the play... please don't tell me is the greek drama! I really don't like greek stuff I don't know why they still play those things!"  He said making a dramatic face about the fact that the romans had to play some greek plays! then he looked at the poster and then nodded at the fight... "promising..." he said and then at the play one, "no way..." his voice was barely audible, but it was so deep that it seemed a bear or a moose growling underneath the voice. Then he looked at his brother again and chuckled at his question.

"Old man?..." he asked with some fun in his eyes, in a way he had all the right to call him like that, but then how would Terry call him?... young adult? NAH!!! that was too much!! "well the same I could say about you baby bro, isn't curfew already in camp? I'm sure your centurion must be looking for you right now." smirks and then crosses his arms over his chest.  He would never turn his brother in, and Kyle for sure knew it, but he had always tried his siblings to be good romans, obeying as much as possible the rules and regulations of the Legion.

About going out on skirts hunting, well that was something he had always been good at. Bacchus son, good looking and good talk... it was almost impossible for them to say no. Kyle for sure had the same atributes, so as Jerry when he was alive. But he was already dating Sam, and he wouldn't cheat on her. "Well... it is for sure tempting... but I can't go this time bro. I'm dating someone now and... you know me, I would never cheat a girl." even more after his ex wife cheated on him.

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A chuckle escaped Kyles lips as his brother ranted about the Greek production. "Well, maybe they were running low on plays. Either way, they performed it well." Kyle said as he tapped the poster. "It was tempting to mess with the leads head while he was doing this huge monologue, but I was a good boy and kept all my tricks to myself." Kyle said with a slight smirk.

Kyle scuffed at the comment about his centurion looking for him. It was a little kid. He was probably already tucked into his bed fast asleep clutching a teddy bear. Kyle wasn't worried at all, besides, even if he did get caught breaking curfew what would happen? Extra laps, clean up in the kitchens? Please, not like Kyle wasn't use to all that already. It was his final year in the legion, he had fought two wars and had the goal to just take it easy this year, kick back, relax, and enjoy the ride basically. "Honestly, worrying about my little kid of a centurion is not at the top of my list. You think it was past my bed time, well I am fairly certain that kids was hours before mine." Kyle said with a laugh finding a joke in almost everything. Why take anything too seriously? It took the fun away from living your life and wasn't that the whole point of being alive anyway, to experience new things? If you don't you're going to wake up one day and realize you're fifty and wonder what could have been, and that's never a fun road to lead down. Kyle wanted to be that fifty year old with countless stories he can tell and get a smile out of folks. He just wanted everyone to have a good time. Life was just a long party. His dad would probably be proud of his life motto.

Finally what Terrence said registered. He was dating someone? Hold the phone, back up, repeat. "You mean you actually found a girl who could put up with you?" Kyle said in jest, leaving the again part off because he wasn't about to make his brother feel like crap. "Now this is something I am going to have to see to believe. Tell me about her. How'd you meet, what's her name, and all that nonsense. Come, we can talk over a drink. I know the guy who runs one of the bars in New Rome." Kyle said with a proud smirk. Yeah, he knew the guy who worked the bar, an old friend of his, and Kyle helped out there from time to time. Technically it was Kyle's bar too, but the guy got out of the legion before Kyle did so he went ahead and opened the business, Kyle will get his share and full time position after his last year was up.

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notes: It's okay. ^_^

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Notes: sorry delay and shortness.

Terry looked at his brother and when he saw that smirk on his face, he couldn't help but to remember in that moment the funny kid he was when he was younger. Alsways smiling and playing pranks around, he had loved that of his baby brother, Kyle was something special. And he hadn't really changed within the years. 
"So you think it's decent enough to bring a lady to see it?" he smiled at his brother and then looked at the poster again. Kyle also had the power to mess with the mind of others, but he had learnt not to do it always and not with everybody.

Then he talked about his centurion, well indeed he was a kid, but why wouldn't he be good for the cohort? He had been good in two wars, and he had worked with Lord Mercury, he helped to dstroy the seats of power, so maybe the kid was more than just a simple kid. "be careful with the baby centurion, maybe he's just acting like that and he is a dwarf!" then he laughed a bit and calmed down after a moment. It had been a joke, but a hidden truth in it. "but you're right some fun from time to time isn't bad, people need to relax and learn how to be cool."

He then half laughed at his comment, well he was right which girl would really want to be with him?! he was crazy and always in troubles, well when he was a teen at least. Then he chuckled and looked at his brother, he knew that Kyle knew about his past wife, maybe he didn't know how he had got ridden of her, maybe he thought as any other that she had just cheated and left, well... maybe no one would ever know about how he driven them both crazy and put them in an asylum. Well it was for the best.

"her name is Samantha Mason, he is a civilian like I am, a beautiful kindergarten teacher, and also helps me in the coffee shop in the afternoons." He smiled at his brother and then nodded as if he had just perfermed the best act in his life, but the fact was that the best performance would be the day he could really tell her how he was someone that no one should have around... the worst part is that it wouldn't be a performance, it would be true.

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Kyle gave a shrug. Not like it was a bad play or anything but, if the lady was into that kind of thing then yeah, take her. If not, doesn't really matter how decent it is or not. "If she's into that kind of thing, then yeah." Kyle said on that question. Before he nodded off it seemed pretty alright, very long winded though but it was a comedy and he did chuckle at the parts that didn't put him to sleep.

He grinned at his brothers dwarf comment and then at the last statement. See, Kyle wasn't the only one who believed people needed to take a desperate chill pill. Honestly, he got it. People were still strung up over what happened with the war but now, things seemed to be settling down quite nicely. People were moving on and the daily grind was continuing again. But it was just more tense. You could especially see it with the campers who've done two wars that it was getting to them. They seemed harder, more on edge, not sure how to get back to being anything but a rigorous soldier. That's where Kyle came in to purposely call attention to some idiotic thing to make people laugh and relax. Getting pizza for people, playing arcade games. Even little things. Just as long as it reminded the young ones that they were still very young and deserved a break from time to time and to let their imagination and creativity fly and to never let it fully die off to the Roman way of life. Hello, it was the twenty-first century. You can lighten up.

"Samantha Mason, huh? Hot name. But is she hot, because ya know, with teachers it can go two ways. You can either have the sexy teacher you wouldn't mind some after school time with, or you get the one nightmare one." Kyle said with his cocky smirk playing upon his lips. He didn't exactly have a verbal filter and he of course, being the guy he is, thought things in a more provocative manner. If he got punched by his brother, well, it happens. He chuckled a bit. "But no, I'm happy for you. And I'm happy you have extra help in your shop. Don't need you working too hard. No fun in that." Kyle said as he walked out onto the sidewalk of New Rome. Hopefully his brother followed along. He honestly felt like a drink.

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notes: Sorry it's so short

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Tag: @alyssa

Word: 419

Notes: super delay! so sorry!!!

Terry looked at the poster one more time, he read the names of the actors and he could recognize one or two from his time as a legionary, some of them were children or legacies of Apollo, but not all of them he was glad to see that one of the names he got was a daughter of Mercury and other was a legacy of Venus, he knew them, they had been older and younger than he was back in the time of the legion, and he was happy because they not only got their dreams come true, but also because they were alive, that is something good to see, good to know for any demigod, it gave hope to the rest and even more to the younger ones that were still in the legion. "Then I think I might invite her to see it, I think she will love it." It was an ancient greek show, well maybe she would know it and remember it from when she was a common girl in her father's house, before the huntresses, before Diana and before all of that.

He then looked at his baby brother again, well baby was excesive, Kyle hadn't been a baby in years, but Terry liked to think that he was and that maybe he could still help him and guide him. Terry couldn't help it, but he laughed when Kyle mentioned the two options with a teacher. He laughed because he couldn't really imagine Sam as a nightmare, one of those poor imitations of the wicked witch of the west kind of teachers! No! Sam in fact would have been like the awesome and sweet south faerie, the good witch. "If you only knew her Kyle, she is a really nice and sweet lady, so I think she is the good kind of teacher, not the wicked one.

He looked at his brother and chuckled whn he mentioned that she shouldn't be working too much. well, he was right, he wasn't going to work that much, at least not since he hired that new guy, he made delicious bread, and helped from time to time in the coffee shop too. Sam worked hard too, but they were almost always talking when the shop wasn't crowded, that only happened around 2 or 3 times a day. "She is a nice help, she helps me to relax. bro, she is perfect!" he said and for the first time in months, he didn't think about his past wife.