Alex's PoV

We just got the call that they had found a girl, matching roughly Julie's description, claiming to be Julie Molina and that they were waiting to match the DNA results with Carlos. The test would take a few hours so they were wondering if we could fly down to have a look at her while we waited. I had taken the call on speaker and everyone had heard except Luke so while everyone got dry and dressed, I ran off to find him.

"Luke man, where are you, they think they found Julie!" I called, Bobby's mansion was huge and he could be anywhere. I headed to the bar then checked the washroom. I headed up to his room but nothing.
"Come on Alex, let's go! Bobby already left with Sarah and her friend" called Reggie from down stairs.
"I can't find Luke and he isn't picking up his phone, help me look?" I called from over the stairway.
"Shit, Bobby's room, run!" called out Carlos as he started racing up the stairs like his life depended on it. I walked behind him not sure why Luke would be in there but sure enough there he was, laying on the floor of Bobby's bathroom, passed out with an empty pill bottle in his hand.
Carlos got up after checking his pulse and ran to the banister to scream at Reggie.
"Reggie, grab my backpack, run!"
I started trying to wake Luke, he could only have been up here for twenty minutes. Carlos pushed me out of the way and slapped Luke as hard as he could across the face several times to wake him up. Luke started mumbling and trying to shield his face.
"You idiot, Julie might be alive!" growled Carlos. Clearly this had happened before or Carlos had planned for this because I had no idea Luke would even consider something like this. Reggie showed up with Carlos' backpack and passed it to him. He quickly rummaged through his backpack and pulled out a tube and a syringe.
"Alex inject him with this in the arm please, Luke, you mother fucker better swallow this or your in so much shit when we get you to the hospital, Reggie, call an ambulance please".
I followed instructions wondering when Carlos grew up so fast. Luke seemed to have new energy all of a sudden after I injected him and Carlos started feeding him some black liquid through a syringe into his mouth. Once it was finished Luke started vomiting his guts into the toilet. I had to step away as that was gross but Carlos stayed, held Luke's long hair back while ripping him a new one about how idiotic he had been.
"Okay Carlos, what am I telling them?" asked Reggie.
"That this idiot consumed way too many pills, I've injected him with adrenaline to get him moving, then gotten him to consume activated charcoal forcing his body to vomit up the toxins that would bind with the substance. I just need to know if there is anything else that I can do besides beat his ass up" he replied.
"They said good job, just bring him into the hospital to be checked up but he should be fine if he only consumed the tablets within the last two hours" Reggie replied.
"Okay, tell them thanks. Here you can deal with this, I need to step away or I'm going to strangle him" He said as he indicated for Reggie to hold Luke's hair back.

I followed Carlos since fresh air sounded good right about now.
"How did you learn how to do that, why did you have that stuff in your backpack?" I asked as we sat down outside.
"You guys assumed he was doing alright, it was for show, it was why I never left his side, I had a gut feeling and I knew Bobby had a bunch of pills up there, we all did so one day while I knew Luke was at the movies with you guys, I went into the hospital and talked to them. I explained the situation and they told me if I was brave enough, this is what I should do so I've kept that stuff on hand for the past two years, watching, waiting for his dumb ass to do it. I knew it would be a matter of time. I just didn't think he would do it at a pool party" he confessed.
"That's why you insisted on sharing a room with him, not wanting your own space?" I asked.
He nodded and took a swig of some water.
"You're one hell of a brave fourteen year old to have that conversation, why didn't you tell me or Reggie?" I asked.
"Would you have believed me? I had no proof I just had a gut feeling as time went on without Julie being found, it would be something he would do, sorta like Romeo and Juliet" he replied.
"Well i'm glad you thought of it because right now, we would still be freaking out and waiting for an ambulance to arrive"

Reggie eventually helped Luke down the stairs and came up to us, Luke was wrapped in a blanket and looked like hell.
"I'm sorry Carlos" he whispered.
"Save it, I'll chew your ass later, let's go see if they have my sister okay"
Luke nodded with guilt on his face as he followed behind. I helped support his other side since Reggie was struggling as we followed the hot headed teenager.

Bobby had left a note that he was taking everyone else home and would meet us at the hospital. He had to have left before hearing the commotion but it meant we didn't have to worry about sixteen year old's breaking anything at least. I got into the front seat to drive with Carlos next to me and Reggie and Luke in the back. We took off for the hospital as soon as everyone was buckled in. If this girl was Julie, she had been found in Alberta but had been flown all the way down to California as soon as she was stable enough to make the trip so that we could see if it was her or not.
Luke still looked like hell but looked like he was beginning to regain some of his strength at least. Carlos pulled out a bottle of water, some beef jerky and some muesli bars for him to consume on the way which he gratefully accepted and started working through. I knew he had grown so much over the past three years but it made me wonder how much we didn't know about this kid.

A call popped up on the screen while I was driving so I quickly accepted it and put my eyes back on the road.
"Guys where are you? I dropped off Sarah and Jane, I'm already at the hospital. I got a glance at her, it looks like her guys" Bobby's voice said over the speaker. I resisted the urge to not speed, a ticket wouldn't help us right now or been held up by the police.
"We are nearly there, just a few blocks away," said Carlos, answering for me.
"Alright well see you soon then"
Bobby hung up and I looked back at Luke through the rear view mirror at a red light. He looked mostly back to himself and was tapping his foot up and down.

I pulled into a parking spot and we made our way inside. We couldn't see Julie yet as she was currently having a cast put on so we got Luke checked out. The nurse checked Luke out and said he was fine, just needed to take it easy and maybe eat something sugary or fatty. We were hoping to see the girl quickly but we kept being told we had to wait as more and more tests were done so Bobby had ordered Mc Donalds to be delivered since we hadn't eaten and were getting snacky. Luke had fully recovered after that and tried to say sorry to Carlos.

"I'm sorry you had to do that Carlos, I'm sorry that you had to have a plan just in case to begin with" said Luke as he stood in front of Carlos's path of pacing with tears in his eyes.
"It's alright Luke, just don't do that to me again alright, I get how you feel but without her, you guys are the last connection I have to Julie, if you die, it's like losing her all over again" he said as he pulled Luke into a bear hug. The two held each other for sometime which was nice to see as they were always very close.

Finally a nurse came out and announced we could see her.