Whee, picked up by Matt again. (Eugh.)

Yup! And then slowly brought closer to the house. And then a bit quicker, 'cause there's no point prolonging the suffering, and then he'll just keep going.

Well, it acts like expected at first, with him just being sort of not inclined to go towards the door, and then it gets worse, like before, and then he says that Matt should probably put him down—

— Matt ignores this.

And then they get closer and they're still a few meters away from the door and Theo is really kinda suggesting that Matt should probably put him down now.

(He doesn't. He almost does one time but then remembers that, like, that's not the goal here. Stupid sway.)

Theo starts poking Matt. To get him to put him down. Because like, Theo doesn't want to hurt him.

(There is an implied threat-or-prediction here.)

And one of the sets of steps and smells in the background gets close enough to ask, "Is there something you want to tell me, Sadde?"

Theo pokes Matt slightly harder this time, hissing at him to let him go–

– which he does, surprised –

– and Theo runs over to the smell and bites down.

"Let go of my mother!"

He– sort of slows down, confused?

"Person! Stop!" shouts Matt, hoping that will get through better.

By the way Theo stops and lets go of her and moves backwards, slowly and looking at the blood and then shaking his head and moving back some more, speeding up and then noticing that there's a building and changing directions to try to get away from both of them – yeah, it probably got through better.

"Jesus Christ am I gonna have to associate the word mother with person to you are you stupid," he says in a bit of a panic as he runs towards his mother—

—who's surprised and faint and terrified but otherwise not too bad off. "Is your friend a vampire," she asks in a low voice.

No response from Theo. He's just– sort of crouching down, a fair distance away, hoodie still hopefully covering his face.

Matt follows over with Sadde, gets out his phone in case she needs the hospital, leaves Sadde to communicate things to her.

"Mom, let's get you inside so the vampire can't get to you, yeah?" He blinks and looks at Theo. "And I think collecting some of your blood would be a good idea."

He starts leading Laura inside.

Matt looks between Sadde-and-mom and Theo, not really sure what to do.

He settles on going over to Theo because it would probably be worse to leave him there unsupervised and, uh. There are no containers or anything, how is he meant to get blood, uh.

He goes to the door of the house and asks Sadde for some sort of container or something, keeping an eye on Theo as he does so.

Theo stays crouched in the same position.

Sadde goes inside, provides one, then goes back inside.

So Matt takes it and goes to Theo and– finds that Theo has already cut himself, so, okay.

He'll just collect some blood and go back to provide it to Sadde, then. While keeping watch on Theo, somewhat worriedly, and hoping Sadde's mom is okay.

Sadde wordlessly accepts the blood, and goes back inside yet again, and gives it to his mother.

And starts explaining.