A/N: Just giving some heads up that I'm a little more than halfway through Chapter 27 of Have a Goode Year, and hopefully I'll actually get my act together and finish it sometime this week. Here's hoping.

Alice

As I was checking in on one of the newer arrivals, I heard him let out a long groan, and turned to face his bed. It seemed he was waking up, as he'd been out of it since he arrived here, carried by a few other boys with a group following worriedly. They hadn't been able to give any clue as to what had happened to him, saying that he'd gone out for a walk and not come back to their hotel, so they'd went looking for him, and found him in an alley nearby like this.

The group claimed to be vacationing here in Malta together, and had given names and numbers, but they visited every day anyways.

Back to the patient, he slowly squinted an eye open, "Where am I?" he croaked.

I patted the top of his hand lightly, "You're in a hospital, Mr. Valdez, your friends say that you went out from the hotel for a walk and never came back. They found you in an alley, and brought you straight here."

His face scrunched up in confusion, eyebrows tweaked up at the bridge of his nose, "Wait, what?" he said at last, "how…"

I quieted him, "You suffered a concussion and may have a few memories missing from the altercation, just relax." He seemed to let things go for the time being, and shifted in the bed slightly so he was sitting up a few inches more. "Are my friends here?" he asked me.

I smiled, "They've visited every day, it's still fairly early in the morning, but they should show up soon." He seemed to be put at ease by that, "I'm just going to go let the doctors know you're awake, and then I'll be back to check in on you, okay?"

He nodded distractedly, seeming to be getting lost in thought. Something I had to say was common for cases such as these, with memory loss.

I came back about ten minutes later, with some news for Mr. Valdez. He looked up the second I opened the door, looking a little crestfallen when he saw it was me, but also relieved.

"Oh, hi" he said quietly, fiddling with his hands.

"The doctor will be in later to check in on you and assess your condition" I informed him, giving a polite smile in reply to his greeting. He nodded, not seeming concerned about it. "Also, your friends arrived just a minute or two ago, they're on their way up now."

This got his attention, he perked up and his eyes widened marginally, glancing at the door fleetingly. A small smile crossed his features, the first I'd seen from him.

Not even a minute after this, one of his friends tumbled through the door. It was the very tan skinned one with eyes that seemed to be changing colours constantly. "Leo!" she exclaimed, making subtle effort not to say it too loudly, being aware that her friend had a concussion.

Leo grinned widely and lifted his arms up in a hugging gesture, "Beauty Queen!" he replied, with equal excitement. She laughed and moved forward, giving him a big hug like the ones my brother sometimes gave me. I stayed quiet, remaining at my post and letting him have his time with his friends. He'd obviously missed them dearly.

"You guys just had to bring me to a hospital, didn't you?" Leo said, in a mock scolding tone. His friend rolled her eyes, releasing him from the hug and standing up fully. "We didn't have a choice, we tried first aid, but nothing was working." Her words sounded a little forced, with a hidden meaning to them. Whether Leo understood or not was beyond me, but it wasn't my business.

"That's weird." He replied, sounding mystified.

"Annabeth and Percy both think it was because of where you were." The friend said, with an expectant tone now, the hidden meaning still there, by the sounds of it.

Leo stayed silent for a few moments, "Piper, did I – "his anxious voice was cut off by two more figures appearing in the doorway, they were brushing against one another and blocking the view behind them.

Leo's eyes focussed on them, "Percy, Annabeth!" he exclaimed, taking a very obvious stare at the boy, Percy, who had a knowing smile on his face.

"We brought you a recovery gift, Leo" Annabeth said, offering a small smile. Percy grinned wider, "Well, sort of."

Leo's demeanor changed, "Guys, you didn't have to – " his words died in his throat as Annabeth and Percy separated, revealing another girl, with Almond coloured eyes and long waving cinnamon hair, braided over one shoulder loosely. She was in a simple white shirt and jeans, smiling at Leo's expression.

"Calypso" he breathed, I swear I heard his heart monitor skip a beat or two. I even shifted to glance at it and make sure he hadn't flatlined.

The girl – Calypso, apparently – Smiled sweetly at him before walking into the room, right to the side of his bed, where the other girl, Piper, stepped aside.

Leo met her as close to halfway as he could, sitting up fully in his bed and leaning forward, wrapping his arms around her in an embrace that wasn't even remotely similar to the one he'd shared with the other girl earlier.

He held her tightly, and if I wasn't mistaken, was crying into her shoulder. Though she was crying as well, so it hadn't been commented on.

I noticed the others slowly shifting to the doorway, and got up from my stop, walking over to them and ushering the group outside, without much resistance. "Perhaps they need some privacy" I noted, getting some agreement from the group outside.

I noticed the other three friends were in the hall as well, they hadn't gone in yet.

The blond haired boy was grinning, "I bet his face was hilarious" he joked, eliciting chuckled from the others.

The other girl, Piper, nodded in confirmation, "The heart monitor actually stopped for a few seconds, It was so hard to keep from laughing" They moved to some of the benches along the walls near his door. I gave them all a polite smile, "Your friend Leo is in good enough condition that he can have visitors pretty much all day, so you can all stay here and go back in whenever him and your other friend are done with, well, whatever their little moment was."

The blonde haired girl nodded in thanks, "He hasn't seen her in quite a while, so we'll probably be waiting out here for at least twenty minutes."

The boy beside her, Percy, I remembered, smirked, "Leo might even try to convince her that he can just see us all tomorrow."

I laughed a little, before walking over to the reception desk to see where else I had to check in on patients. I got the feeling that Mr. Valdez was in good hands.