"Mm," he agrees.

D'aww.

"Anyway, uh, were there any other blood tests?"

"We haven't tested how it deals with sunlight, which might be interesting, nor have we tested it in heat – should denature and then burn if it gets high enough, if it's regular biology stuff – and also we should see if you drinking some while you're okay has any effects – it didn't last time but you only drank a small quantity, maybe try a bit more this time – and likewise see if me drinking more than a small amount does anything even though it tastes disgusting."

"Okay, these sound like easy enough tests."

"They do! And it's probably been like three minutes now so I could bite you again, then we can get on with them?"

"—which of those tests needed you to bite me again?"

"– Well first of all I'm kinda surprised you're asking, and second of all it's the one we were doing originally, the one to see how long my refrigerated-and-left-a-while blood kept you healing up."

"Right, yes, sure, that." Wrist?

Theo bites it and does the thing. For another ten seconds, ish.

Ten seconds of bliss.

Matt rolls his eyes but checks his watch when Theo detaches.

Heals pretty fast again.

"Hasn't changed much," reports Matt.

"And now I'll put some of my blood into a container and see how it deals in the sunlight, unless there are objections…?"

"None whatsoever."

So he performs the tests!

The blood does: absolutely nothing in the sun. Upon being heated, it doesn't do much up until it reaches boiling point at which point it bubbles. Almost as if it's water. Doesn't seem to solidify or congeal or anything.

Theo tries drinking some more of his own blood, but doesn't get through much before he decides to stop again – it's extremely disgusting, isn't having any immediate effects, and when he tests if it screws with his regeneration, the results seem to be consistent with it having no effect on him except 'tastes bad'.

The other test, seeing how long the refrigerated blood keeps Sadde healing for, seems to take longer than these tests. There's no noticeable difference after about five bites – about half an hour – but then after about ten it's slowed down and it seems to stop almost completely after an hour and a half, though precision is a bit hard what with the healing-from-a-bite being faster than normal anyway.

Theo tries, since he joked about it earlier but they hadn't actually tested it, putting on some SPF 50 sunblock and going outside. The sun seems to have the same effect on him as before.

Texts and emails from an unverified source don't seem to get the 'trustworthy' aspects of sway, so a text from Theo's phone to Sadde (when he's swayed) has no effect, whether Theo or someone else sent it.

And then it's getting slightly dark.

"So what should we do first?"

"Options include: derelict houses a town over, Matt's house to see if invitations carry over to vampires, blunt impact trauma, eyeballing projectiles, and going to the hospital."

"– I am kinda curious about the 'carrying over to vampires' thing."

"But on the other hand the hospital thing might just be the highest leverage thing we can do right now to get some good out of all of this."

He shrugs. "Did you two work out a plan for going around and feeding his blood to people?"

"Some, but we need some more information on how the hospital's security's run and such, camera placement, et cetera."

"Oh, this might just be recon stuff tonight?"

"Yeah, depends on what we do find. If it's easy enough we could go in and out, save someone dying of something there."