Marth's POV

Panicked, I grabbed hold of her shoulders. "What happened to Roy?!"

She started to cry and I couldn't make out what she said. Ike pushed me aside.

"Rosie! Get a hold of yourself! Tell us, what happened to Roy?"

"H-he woke up!"

I practically fell over when she said that and I realized that she was smiling. I grabbed at my chest. "Oh man… don't scare me like that."

Anoi laughed at me. "You wouldn't have had to panic if you'd just asked me to wake him up a long time ago."

"Yeah, well, you always manage to screw something up. Like that time I asked you for a cat. You got me a freaking lion."

"A lion is in the feline family!"

"You knew what I'd meant!"

I ignored Anoi's laughter as Ike practically flew inside.

"Come on Marth! You heard the girl, Roy's awake!"

I smiled and ran after him.

Ike's POV

I was the first in Roy's room. He was lying down rubbing at his eyes, but he was awake.

He looked up at me as I leaned over his bed.

"How are you feeling?" I asked him.

His voice was rough as he answered, "Tired. Really tired. How long was I out for?"

Marth had already walked up. "About a year."

Roy's eyes widened. "Seriously?!" His half shout brought on a fit of coughing. I hovered over him, unsure of what to do. Marth did the same, but I suppose he managed it with a little more composure than I did.

When Roy stopped coughing he started to talk again. "That's a bit longer then I thought… What happened?"

"You had been poisoned," I answered him.

He gave another cough, but I think it was supposed to be a laugh. "Like I didn't figure that one out already. I meant what happened while I was out?"

Roy started to rub at his eyes again. Marth reached out and, with a bit of a guilty look, pulled Roy's hand away.

"You shouldn't rub at your eyes…" He muttered.

Roy put his hand down, but then tried to sit up. I could tell he had a hard time with it, but when I moved to help him he glared at me.

"So, going to tell me what I missed?" he asked, sticking his tongue out at us.

"Y-You haven't changed a bit…" I said back. He really seemed to be the same old Roy even with what had happened.

"Hmph. Fine. If you won't tell me I'll guess. Ike and Samus have a kid now, and I bet it's a girl. Sounded like one anyways. Marth, on the other hand, is girlier than ever and-"

"I'm not girly you little brat!" Marth shouted.

I scratched my cheek as I laughed a bit, "Yeah, Samus and I have a baby girl. But we had twins, so one is a boy. Oh! We're married now too, see?" I held up my hand so that Roy could look at my ring.

Another cough sounding laugh before, "You're getting kinda old, aren't ya?"

I gave Roy a small, playful shove in response. It was a bad idea because even the small force knocked him down onto his back.

He groaned a bit. "Roy?! Are you alright?! I didn't mean to-"

Marth's POV

I saw it coming as Ike gave Roy a small shove. I could tell Roy was having a hard time just sitting there, but Ike didn't even think about it.

"Roy?! Are you alright?! I didn't mean to-"

I cut Ike off, hitting him over the head.

"What are you, stupid? Roy, you alright?"

Roy nodded, but didn't say anything else. I watched him for a moment and realized he had gone back to sleep.

Ike had come to the same conclusion it seemed as he said, "Jeez… Out like a light. I hope he doesn't sleep for a whole year this time. It was sort of lonely without him." His hand scratched the back of his head as he added on, "I sort of needed a baby sitter a few times too."

"Like I didn't help you and Samus out?"

"You're too… motherly. It was weird."

"That does it!" I started to beat Ike up when a pillow hit me in the back of my head.

"Hey…" I said, turning around. Roy had rolled over on his side, but his pillow was gone. "He threw it at me…"

Ike laughed a bit. "Come on, let's let him have his sleep."

Rosie's POV

I had been waiting outside for the boys to have their "heart-to-heart," even if guys would never call it that.

When Marth and Ike exited I walked past them, ready to clean up the food I had almost forgotten that I'd dropped on the floor. (1)

It was a little strange to see Roy tossing and turning as he slept. He had just been so still while he had been out.

As I left his room, out of habit I bent over and gave Roy a small kiss on his bad eye.

Roy gave a small, sleeping protest from being touched. It made me jump, and blush as I realized what I'd just done. I walked out of the room about to help make dinner for the whole gang. I'd make sure to give Roy something a little extra since he seemed to be skipping lunch today, not to mention that he'd finally be able to eat his food on his own… probably.

It's a shorter chapter, clocking in at just over a 1,000 words (the last few have all been somewhere near 2,000 words). I hope you enjoyed it. I totally freaked you all out at the end of the last chapter didn't I? Mwahaha. Well, Roy is weak and he'll get dizzy from time to time, it doesn't mean anything bad is about to happen (mwaha, at least not that time)!

(1): lol, I actually did forget about it, but then I remembered… Roy must be hungry don't ya think? Totally missed his lunch.

By the way, if you couldn't guess or never really thought about it Rosie is based off of Amy Rose, from Sonic. Needed a tomboy girl with a giant weapon…