And Willow's there waiting when they arrive!

Matt too. Tiredly.

Theo puts Sadde down in the backyard, opens the door, and hops into the kitchen out of the way of the sunlight.

"… Hi."

"Hi! What were you doing?"

"Not realizing you were here," he says. "Because otherwise I wouldn't have looked." Pause. "Sorry?"

"Wouldn't have—oh. Oh. I'm mind controlled. Fuck I'm—I don't feel mind controlled. What's it feel like?"

"Like you need to pay attention to Theo and like him more and he's prettier and you won't question things he does or asks you to do."

"Of course I'm paying attention to Theo now, he's a vampire, and—Okay this is. Creepy."

"… Do you have your phone on you? 'Cause if so, just, like–" Pause. "Sadde or Matt can send you a thing and it'll stop."

Sadde sends.

"That was weird what just happened."

Theo looks at Willow. Pause. "Yeah."

"So apparently when he looks at people they get all swayed by his gaze but if we have, like, recordings of him it goes the other way around, or even a picture, so we recorded his voice just enough to kinda balance it out, but not totally balance it out."

"Yeah," he says.

"It could, um." Pause. "Maybe be abused. Which would obviously not be good."

"Explain?"

"You know, someone could take video of Theo and that would be not great because, you know, vampire. So while it's not good to let random people get swayed, it might not be best to tell everyone about it because, well, I'm sure they don't all have the best interests of everyone at heart." Pause. "I'm sure Willow is fine."

"Oh, yeah, that, I have about five hundred contingency plans in my head if Theo ever goes rogue."

Nod. "Not necessarily his fault if he goes rogue, though, might just need to be, like, shouted at to think about what the hell he's doing and that he shouldn't just pay attention to people because they seem attention-grabbing or whatever."

"His fault or not, damage control is a thing."

"Yeah," he nods.

"Sounds like great fun," says Theo. "And maybe we should move on from this topic before I start, like, trying to find out about the plans, since that's probably a thing that should not happen."

"It probably shouldn't," she agrees, "though I might want to share them with Matt and Willow when you're not in earshot. Sorry."

"You might want to keep some to yourself, in case I somehow get directed to get information out of them or such. You know, since we're doing information security and whatever."

"Hmm, yeah, we might want to develop stuff that requires us to be together, or at least two of us."