Aurion was stumbling through the halls of Sanctuary, stumbling, falling and barely catching himself, and trying to hold back the retching his gut wanted to do. Though he had done plenty of that when he had first woken up, his body apparently was ready and able to continue. Aurion didn't know if he had anything left in his body except for his innards. 'Can you puke those up?' He thought darkly.

Aurion wasn't sure what he was doing, his first thought as he left the cafeteria was to find Allison and apologize, but as he started to look for her and head towards her room, he began to think that was a very bad idea. There was no way he was going to be able to face her. That was, if she would even have seen him or talked to him or anything. "Heh." Snort. "Might just have Aura kill me, not that I'd blame her." In fact he felt it would be what he deserved.

But something in him wouldn't let him go to her, wouldn't let him get on his knees in front of her to plead for her forgiveness, to say how sorry he was. No, whatever part of him that wouldn't let him do that was a jerk. A jerk that wanted him to suffer. It did give him another thought, an idea that could be just as bad, possibly worse.

An image of a red tail smashing through a door to kill a man popped into Aurion's mind. He froze where he stood in the hallway. Yes, he deserved to be punished. He had done Allison wrong, had nearly done worse. While some part wouldn't let him go to her, it was directing him somewhere else, to someone, a group of someones perhaps, who could give him what he deserved. Probably the only ones in Sanctuary that could do it, at least to Aurion's knowledge.

So he trudged along only half seeing the world around him. He checked the living area, asked around for the Red men, got an answer and followed the directions. They were not in the Training room as he had been told, so he made his way to the Gym. There was a lot of activity there, but he couldn't see any of the Red men. Not that they weren't in there, but in his slight daze, it was possible he didn't see them.

So he went to the Rec room thinking maybe one of them might be playing pool, watching tv, or something. Walking in, he wasn't quite all there. He didn't see Abyss or his brothers. He turned to leave.

"Hey, Greenie, you need somethin'?"

Aurion turned his head slowly, mechanically to the speaker. His eyes narrowed a bit.

"Woah." The girl, one Aurion had seen before but he didn't know the name of, put her hands up quickly. "Sorry, I couldn't remember you name. Look kind out of it ya'know? Looking for something, someone? I could help ya, maybe..." She trailed off a little unsure. When Aurion didn't answer right away, he looked at the others that were near her and shrugged.

Just as she was about to dismiss him and return to her seat, "Abyss, or his brothers." Aurion said in a half voice. "See him tell him Aurion's looking for'm, could ya?"

She and her companions looked at each other to see if any of them had seen any of the big men. When negatives came from all around she spoke again. "Yeah sure, will do. Maybe you should go to the infirmary, don't look so hot." There was genuine concern in her voice.

"Heh. Maybe." Aurion mumbled as he stepped out. In the hallway he turned in that direction. Perhaps a stop at the infirmary would do him good.

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A minute or so after Aurion left, a friend of the girl came to join them. He had come from further in the Rec room. Seeing the look on their face and catching a bit of their conversation on his way to them he asked what was up. They told him, with a little embellishment as teens were prone to do. "Oh," He turned and pointed back from where he came. "Right back there. I think it's Jupiter, maybe Saturn." Shrugging, "It's hard to tell them apart sometimes." He laughed as he ran back to tell the big mutant Aurion had been looking for him.

Jupiter Streched and yawned rising from a room that had been taken over by teens doing karaoke...He raised an eyebrow at the obvious absence of post apocolyptica, damn the muffin man, wait no the muffin man was the body switcher. What had they called him after the last round of future dreams? the sand man. thats what he and his brothers decided after the fact that the weird visions while sleeping were, and had to be induced by a mutant, they went with the sand man because there weren't any cool dream related female names...Venus said Succubus, but he then conceded that not everyone had as good a time as he did in the future.

He hated the guy, he would kill him if they guy ever gave him the chance, but seeing as he had premonitions he doubted he would ever get the chance.He set up and rubbed his temples as some lilac teen with feathers belted out a rendition of another bites the dust in the only way that karaoke was meant for. terrible.

He levered him self up and out of the room wearily making his way out of the rec room. A group of teeneage girls waved at him, and he raised a hand reluctantlyin response. this couldn't be good.

"Hi, um, Im Tina." she said in a peppy voice that instantly made him want to find a bottle of liquor, she had so much nasal in her voice added onto a high pitch that made him want to put his head through the wall.

"Uh huh?" he replied.

"Well, I was just wanting to let you know, that big green tail and teeth guy was looking for you. he went to the infirmiry but he said tell any of you big red muscley tail guys that he was looking for you. Kay?"

"Yeah." Jupiter said with a stunned voice, she said a hundred words in what would typically take him the time to say three. she needed less caffine.

Jupiter made way into the hallway fairly quickly a trip to the infirmy had him concerned, whoever messed with Aurion would find a reckoning coming.

He quickly made way to the infirmary catching up before his fellow giant entered into the room, he looked nauseated but other than that, no worse for wear.

"Aurion a girl that sounded like that little yellow bird on loopy tunes told me you were looking for me?"

Aurion stopped quickly when he heard the familiar voice. He hadn't expected that girl or her friends to actually find any of the Abyssi. Nor did he expect to make it to the infirmary, he had just been plodding along in that general direction. If he was in a better mood, that might make him laugh, since it was such a fitting place. At least it would be as long as the big man worked with Aurion and did what he wanted. If he didn't. . . Well, Aurion was no slouch, even if he was sure he couldn't really hurt the man, he was sure he could get that massive fist to hit him a few good times at least.

Aurion turned to look at the man, to look up at him in face. Aurion was hunched over quite a bit, shoulders sagging, even his tail looked pathetic as it dragged along the floor. "Jup." Since he was the first of them he met, Aurion defaulted to that one. He was also the one he felt most comfortable around, probably for the same reason. "I want you to hit me. Please. Hard." There was nothing in his voice or posture that said he was trying to pull Jupiter's leg, nothing to suggest he wasn't serious.

“You realize that, me hitting hard isn’t like anyone else hitting hard right?” He was pretty sure he did, but with his posture he was almost wondering if the lizard man wanted to die. “Are You feeling suicidal?” He wasn’t being cocky; he had hit people hard before they ended up as a questionable mess up against a nearby wall or floor. The kid had body armor and he wasn’t a delicate flower by any means but he saw no reason he should blindly hurt him.”

He would have to do better than that. “Tell you what, you give me a reason worth hitting you over and I’ll do it.” Jupiter rolled his neck and shoulders limbering up for what might turn into a serious fight depending on Aurion’s survival instincts.

Aurion's eye twitched at Jupiter's words. He was right, and Aurion knew it before it had ever been said. The big man's 'hard' was probably equivalent to a human hitting a mouse with a sledgehammer. Aurion might rate as high as a watermelon or even a cinder block instead of a mouse, but in the end the result would be the same. He wasn't feeling suicidal, but he did feel like crap and feel like he deserved to be hit. "No, not especially."

Aurion gaped a bit at the red man, "Wha?" There was no way he was going to tell him what had happened. "Common Red." His voice was almost pleading. "I deserve it, okay? Is that good enough?" He sounded pathetic even to his own ears. "You're the only person who can do it and make it hurt. Okay? So please..." Aurion felt like he was drenched in pathetic.

“You deserve it…” Jupiter shrugged his shoulders. Put one hand on his shoulder and let loose a solid hit to his chest, it wasn’t hard per se, but it would hurt. Without killing him. “Is that enough?” Jupiter looked him in the eyes. He wasn’t going to make him beg to be hurt. He trusted him enough to do so.

“Now then. What happened?” He was going to beat an answer out of him if he had to. What would possess someone to ask to be beaten by him, he didn’t know, but the kid had moxy and if he survived he hoped he would learn to better choose he choice of punishment.

Aurion nodded when he saw Jupiter ready a punch. When it hit, Aurion let out a grunt and a small rush of air. It hurt, but not as much as he wanted it to. Heck it hadn't even moved him beyond a rocking of his torso. He needed more, needed harder hits. There was no way he was going to be satisfied with just that one. "Again. Harder this time."

When the big man didn't immediately hit him again, which he had tensed for thinking it was coming, he looked at him. "Huh?" 'But I already told him!' He thought quite loudly. "I already told you. I deserve it. Isn't that good enough?!" Aurion couldn't help it, he growled the last bit out. Pulling his shoulders back as he stood up straight. Jutting his chin out at the man, "I'll make you do it. I don't want to, but I'll make you hit me." It would be obvious to anyone he was avoiding the 'Why?' question. Normally Aurion would never threaten like that, even though he didn't think he actually could get himself to attack Jupiter. He hoped the man wouldn't call his bluff.

"You think you can make me hit one of my own with out wanting to?" a wry grin came to Jupiter's face, He just might be able to but he sure as hell wasn't going to let the fact show. He could wrestle him to the ground if needed. "Why don't you just convince me you deserve it. what could you have possibly done?"

Aurion was sweet to his own kind, he hated humans, just like any sane mutant did, but beyond that he was a gentle giant. He highly doubted he deserved what Jupiter could dish out. Still Jupiter tensed for the potential skirmish. fist to claw, tail to tail, it would be the most fun he had in some time.

'DAMMIT!' The mental voice was very, very loud in his guilt ridden mind. Aurion couldn't help the tiny smirk that tugged at the corner of his mouth when he saw Jupiter's smile. Yes, they both know forcing the blows might not be possible. Physically Jupiter could easily restrain him, and that was not what he wanted or needed just then. Mentally, Jupiter had it right, Aurion didn't like hurting mutants. Especially when the mutant in question didn't do anything wrong. Jupiter had never insulted him, hadn't ever hurt him (the punch he asked for didn't count), never did anything to threaten any of the Sanc residents or any other mutant (unless they stood in the way of Order business).

He had no reason whatsoever to try and harm the big man. And they both knew it. That knowledge really make it difficult to try and hold that threat. It wouldn't be so hard if he could drudge up some anger within him, but all he could feel inside of him was remorse, disgust, self-loathing and hatred. 'I don't care if it was a dream. It was real enough to me, real enough for others to have the same dream. Real enough to remember dying. Real enough to change people, to change me.' Felling his breath catch in his throat he tried to swallow it away.

"Alli." Her name was choked out. Saying her name made his heart skip a beat before it kicked into gear. The negative emotion he felt for himself welled up to the surface. Instead of being aimed at Jupiter, it became self destructive. Bellowing "Hit me!" point blank at the red man, Aurion punched at him as hard and as fast as he could. He deserved to be hit, to be beaten. If he hit, not even hurt, just hit Jupiter, it would just mean he deserved it more. Which his sudden shift to self destructive was completely okay with.