That evening, in the hospital's morgue, Theo finds himself naked on a metal table and much less dead than most people had been led to believe earlier.
In fact, he's feeling quite alive.
"I–" he frowns. "Yeah," he says, then looks at the floor a bit distractedly.
There might be a mark.
"You should probably pick one emotion and feel it rather than be all conflicted all the time," he advises.
"Myself. Because I knew I'd trip and I even said that and then you told me to do it anyway and I did it."
"To have to go trip. I was thinking I would just, sort of, you know. Not have to go trip. And then I did."
"I'm still confused, it sounded like a good idea even if you ended up spinning towards a wall. I mean, it's what I'd've done in your place."
"I mean, I'm not sure what we've actually learned from making me trip here, except for that my estimate that I would trip if I got slightly faster than last time was accurate."
"You learned what your threshold for dizziness is with more precision," he shrugs. "And I have a lower threshold for silliness than you do."
He giggles. "It is! I'm about the silliest and most shameless person I know or know of."
"Nope," he says, sighing. "I honestly have no idea who would be best to call with the news that 'by the way I'm a vampire' and who I would probably least hate having a weird vampire thing for. I can probably pick someone since I kinda have to but I haven't gone 'oh yes this person would be awesome for it' or anything."
"Matt would not be terrible, I am really not sure about Owen, various other people in my group that you've probably seen me with are automatically a no because I don't think they would deal properly, then this leaves us going out of my group which gives a couple of people who I think would deal and are not horrible but I would feel vaguely weird talking to – like Evelyn, we went to her party, she would probably deal okay and I doubt she'd be horrible and leverage this over me but it's probably not the best idea."