Now Luke was really bored. He was glad Ryan was being seen by the doctors, but now he and Marissa were gone, and he was all on his own. As if to make up for her earlier behavior, Marissa had been hovering intently over Ryan, and bombarding both him and Luke with questions.

"Hey," Oliver appeared suddenly. His arm was in a sling and his neck was in brace, he was moving stiffly. Suddenly Luke found himself questioning his earlier "faker" judgement.

"Where's Marissa?" He asked.

"She's around here somewhere," Luke said vaguely.

"Oh," Oliver straightened up, and took off the neck brace- with his bad arm. "God, that thing is hot." Luke tried not to stare at him. "Yeah, don't tell Marissa, she's a great nurse."

"Sure thing buddy," Luke smiled. Just wait until Oliver encountered the injured Ryan. "So the car's totaled?"

"Yup," He seemed unconcerned.

"Sucks, didn't think a deer could do that much damage."

"We didn't hit a deer. We hit a tree."

"Oh, so you swerved to avoid hitting the deer?"

"Not really… I uh…" He glanced around and lowered his voice, "I guess I was driving a little fast and the car fishtailed. I didn't want anyone to know the accident was my fault so I told everyone there was a deer. That's good thinking, right?" He elbowed Luke as if he was pleased with himself.

"Brilliant…" Luke tried to smile, but inside he wanted to strangle Oliver. There had been no deer. The crash had been Oliver's own damn fault. He'd had to drag poor injured Ryan all the way up here and now it was nearly 3am. There was no way he was going to be able go snow boarding tomorrow. Although, if they hadn't come out here for Marissa and Oliver, Ryan never would have entered the ER.

"I thought Ryan came with you," Oliver looked around, and picked up his neck brace and put it back on, again with his supposedly bad arm.

"He did…"

"Is Marissa with Ryan?" Oliver's face suddenly darkened.

"I think so," Luke said, trying to sound innocent.

"Well where are they?" He's voice suddenly sounded ominous.

"I don't know, they went back there." He gestured to the double doors.

"Oh, to look for me?" As if this was the obvious answer.

"No," Luke told him.

"I told Marissa earlier she needed to have her neck looked at…"

"Marissa's fine. She'd probably be better if you hadn't driven a car into a tree…"

Oliver ignored that comment, "So why are they back there?"

"It's Ryan, the doctors wanted to have a look at him."

"What for?" Oliver looked confused.

"To look at his knee, what else?"

"What's wrong with his knee?" Oliver looked scared for a moment.

"Oh, that's right, you haven't seen him. " Luke said, as if he had forgotten, but he was enjoying torturing Oliver. "He hurt his knee skiing today, and we were here for so long waiting for you, Marissa convinced him that he mind as well get it looked at." Luke shrugged, as if he hadn't been the one behind the whole thing, and he thought Marissa was just being silly. "I'm sure he's fine,"

"Good," Oliver looked relieved, but Luke didn't think it was out of concern for Ryan's health. "So where are they? I'm tired, I'd like to go home."

"I'm sure they'll be out soon…" Luke said, although he wasn't sure.

Oliver flopped in the chair and hurrumphed, "So can we go? Send Seth back for them?" He asked. "Or maybe I should call Seth, have him bring me and Marissa home, you can wait for Ryan right?"

"Call Marissa and ask her if she wants to go home," Luke said, he wouldn't mind Seth taking Oliver home. The kid was slime. They had waited for him for hours! He was relieved when his phone buzzed with a call, interrupting their conversation.

"Hey, where are you guys?" Her voice sounded sleepy. "I just got a text from Marissa… The reception here sucka… I just got like six texts from Coop all at once. You're at the hospital? Is Coop okay? Is Oliver? I tried calling calling Marissa, but she's not answering." Summer's voice was raspy but high pitched at the same time, like she was nervous and still half- asleep.

"Yeah, Marissa's fine, Oliver seems okay too."

"So are you guys coming home?" He heard Summer yawning, and he suddenly felt a sudden strange desire to wrap her in a hug and brush her tousled hair out of her eyes, and kiss her good night.

"Uh, actually, I convinced Ryan to see a doctor…"

"Really? Good… I'm glad."

"Yeah, Marissa's in there with him now."

"Do you think I should tell Seth?" Of course, that was her first response. Seth. Well, Ryan was Seth's brother.

"Uh… Maybe we should wait until we know something?" Luke suggested, but it was too late, he could hear Summer yelling.

"Seth! Seth! Wake up!" There was a pounding then some muffled conversation. Luke heard Seth screech, "Ryan's in the hospital and nobody thought to tell me!" There was some more chatter and then Summer was back on the line, "We'll be right there."

"Looks like you got your wish," Luke told Oliver. "Everyone at the lodge is coming."

"To come and get me?"

"No, to make sure Ryan's okay." Luke couldn't help but turn away and smirk a little to himself.