"If I could tell you I would have, no one's allowed to tell their p- anyone- anything about. People are supposed to think we're dead. For their own safety." Not that Ares was really at all that much risk. It was more the other way round with him.
"No, but I just- I'm- I have to be there. That's the way it's supposed to happen, and I can't change it," he pushed, not sure how to explain. He might be a little more willing to believe the whole...seeing the future thing, but no father was going to listen calmly to their son telling them 'I have to be a secret agent so I can get killed.'