They started planning a life together, which included buying a condo. When that didn’t work out, they moved in with Chris’s parents. Then, on the eve of their wedding, Aaron announced that he was in love with her! If that wasn’t enough, on their wedding day, Chris called off the whole thing, sadly announcing that he’d been fooling around with Alli’s sister Emily. This proclamation not only threw Allison into a tailspin, it pretty much ruined Emily’s marriage to Hal Munson. Allison went off to Seattle with Aaron, and Chris left town too, eventually ending up in Africa.

We now fast forward to the current time, when Allison returned to Oakdale as a meth-addicted porn star, and Chris returned as an egotistical doctor, with Emily at his side. What better set-up for romance? Chris dumped Emily when her prostitute secret came out, Alli gave up meth and porn for a job as a nurse’s aide, and the attraction between these two came out again. Chris has been SORASed to the age of 31, and Alli is now 23, so they are closer in age than they were before. 

Allison has tried to be upfront and honest with Chris, confessing all her sins to him. But Chris has been, imho, rather demanding and controlling. Allison has grown, gained depth, and is not the little airhead teen she used to be. Chris, however, returned to the hospital, tried to push through reforms when his father, the chief of staff, didn’t want them, and when Bob had a stroke, Chris seized power and rammed through the changes, even though they almost ruined the hospital in the end. Chris does not want to listen to others, to draw upon their wisdom and experience, and believes he is always right. So when he and Alli went to his hotel room after he helped her study for the nursing program, and she refused to sleep with him, he became angry. Alli went to the home of her old friend Aaron, and when Chris found her there, he jumped to the erroneous conclusion that she’d slept with Aaron, and Chris was then out for blood. Nobody tells him no then runs to another man! Allison soon found herself washed out of the nursing program.

Allison has filed a lawsuit, claiming that Chris caused her dismissal from the program out of jealousy. She wants back in school, and she wants Chris fired.  But the story isn’t as simple as that. Allison struggled in nursing school. Chris pressured the instructor to give her a makeup test, which normally wasn’t done, after Allison missed it by falling asleep with Aaron. Allison barely passed that test, and also the second one. She didn’t know that Chris was pulling strings to keep her in school. Did he want to be her ‘hero’ and then accept her thanks and possibly her body in bed? After he assumed that Allison had slept with Aaron, he went to the instructor and told her if she thought Allison needed to be dropped from the program, Chris would no longer give her any arguments. He told the instructor that their conversations about Allison were to be forgotten as if they’d never happened, and the woman agreed. That made me wonder if the two of them had talked but we viewers didn’t get that scene; maybe something will come out in the trial that we don’t know yet?

So Allison wasn’t the best student in the class; she was pretty much the worst. I would not want a nurse who did that poorly to be taking care of me. Instead of getting her thrown out of the program, Chris just withdrew his support of her, and quit trying to influence the instructor after he thought she’d dumped him for Aaron, which meant that Allison had to make it on her own as the other nursing students were doing. So I can’t fault Chris as the reason she was dropped; her poor performance did that, and Chris was only trying to keep her in the program.

But Chris did cross the line by insisting that he did not want Allison the nurse’s aide working with his patients. Removing her from patient care had nothing to do with whether she flunked out of nurse’s school or not. She had done that job for a while, and was good at it. Chris’s complaint about her was unfounded and designed to damage her reputation. Also, he should have never ever locked her in the break room and forced her to listen to him; if I had been Allison I would have started screaming the second he clicked that lock. Chris’s arrogance has caused him to look guilty in this lawsuit, even if Alli WAS a poor student.

And of course, if Allison and Chris are involved, that means that Bob, Kim, and Susan are all in it too. Susan is defending her daughter even though she knows that Allison is not perfect, and Bob is caught between protecting the hospital and protecting his son. Kim just knows that her family is again caught up with the Stewart family, and things are going to just keep getting uglier and uglier before this is all settled. Hopefully it will give us more scenes between Susan and Kim, and Susan and Bob!

One final note, Susan, Emily, and Allison always make it a point to mention that they are the Stewart women. Technically, only Emily is a Stewart; her father was Dan Stewart. Susan was only married to him for a while, and Allison’s father was Larry McDermott. Yes, I know Allison came from Emily’s egg donation, but did you know that Dan Stewart’s biological parents were Ellen Lowell and Tim Cole, and that he was adopted by Betty and David Stewart? So in reality, there is no Stewart blood in any of these three. But it does give the show a more historical feel to call them the Stewart women, even though Susan’s last marriage made her a Decker, and Allison’s birth certificate shows she’s a McDermott!

Chris is not necessarily the doctor we think he is, as viewer Lori pointed out, “in Monday's (5/5) episode while he and Alison were in bed, Chris was kissing Alison's leg.  He said "this is the ankle bone, which is connected to the leg bone, which is connected to the knee bone..." 
That is not true. The knee bone (patella) is the only bone in the body that is NOT connected to another bone.  It is held in place by the patellar tendon.”  I would think a doctor should know that, wouldn’t you?

LL commented, “I totally agree with you about Liberty and Janet and after watching this week’s episodes I have to wonder WTF was Brad thinking? His wife is away and he moves Janet in, not only their home but their job. I am telling you, I am going to stop watching this show until they are gone. If I have to hear another ‘try a little Italian’ or ‘you’re going to love my sticky buns’ I’ll scream. I was really hoping (when it was mentioned that Libby’s mom would be coming to town) that she would be a potential love interest for Jack. I just never expected the woman to be so loud and annoying. She needs to take it down a couple of notches.” 
ITA, and it looks like Janet may be turning her lasagna towards Jack, after she showed up at his door this week and wanted to clean up his kitchen.

Linda said frankly, “The question of the hour is this: Does Proctor and Gamble want to remain in the soap business? Given the current state of ATWT and GL one has to wonder.” 
After Chris Goutman’s interview where he stated he goes on his own feelings and doesn’t consider the viewers, I hope P&G has noticed that Goutman’s feelings has taken the ratings into freefall. Goutman needs to go.

Sandra said, “I absolutely love, love, love your writing in-turn idea. I am one that wrote to ATWT and suggested something of that nature. It just doesn't make sense to me that these people (writers) are being paid and doing a lousy job when the viewers know what they want to see and I can guarantee you it will be far better than what we've seen lately. I hate the show so much that I just stopped taping it. There are just too many characters that just suck (storyline wise): Janet, Sophie, Cole, Liberty. Plus, I don't even understand how the writers could write such a dreadful s/l about rape. If you're going to explore something that sensitive, do it right. I'm so disgusted with the writing, I would sign a petition to get all the writers FIRED.” 
If someone, anyone, could tell me why Cole has been brought back to the show, I would really appreciate it. Of course, the explanation would have to be logical.  He and Sofie came on last August, and they have both been a waste of time from day one. They bring nothing to the canvas, and I put them in the same category as Jade; they are useless. If the writers need a bad guy, Cole isn’t it.  Bad guys are like prime rib, whereas Cole is merely an undercooked hot dog.