—clatters to the ground.

Sadde stops. "Wh—what happened?" He looks around and—" Mum! Mum, mum, oh fuck, mum!"

Trap the Sword before it does anything. You can berate yourself later.

Still remaining focused on the weapon, Theo says the capture phrase, "Sword, I command you to return to your power confined," and then taps the Sword with his staff.

It returns to its card form.

And Sadde has called 999 and is getting an ambulance. She's been pierced through her belly, and is bleeding pretty badly.

Theo jogs over to Sadde and takes off his jacket, holding it against the wound. You're supposed to apply pressure, aren't you?

"Try Changing the wounds to be covered over, at least temporarily. We can undo it when the ambulance gets here," he suggests, voice somewhat off-key.

He looks at Theo and furrows his brows a bit, then shakes his head. "Right. Yes. Good idea. Change!"

It works. She breathes more easily and opens her eyes. "Sadde? Baby? Are you alright?"

"It probably isn't a good idea to let the Change become permanent. It might stop us from doing it again in the future," he says, not taking much effort to soften his words. "Sorry about that," he says to Sadde's mum.

"I understand."

"What happened? I blacked out and—What do we tell the doctors?"

"The Sword attacked her," he says vaguely. "We could say she was stabbed by a random lunatic. Or there might a confidentiality of treatment thing that she can lean on."

"The... Sword. Fuck it was me wasn't it? I found a brooch and—"

"Language!"

"I'd say this is a situation that warrants swearing!"

Theo just looks on blankly, though he's stopped applying pressure since the wounds don't currently exist.

They can hear the sirens of the ambulance shortly. "Sadde, go flag it down and show them where we are. Undo the change when you're nearly back," he suggests, uncharacteristically taking charge.

He says, rather obviously, to Sadde's mum, "This is going to be unpleasant," then gets his jacket ready for when the wounds reappear.

Sadde looks at Theo for a second, a bit unnerved, before he goes and does that. When he's returning—

—Laura's wound reappears, and she passes out again.

Theo reapplies the pressure with his jacket, and successfully appears to hyperventilate. "Ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod! He just came out of nowhere!" he babbles. "I had no idea what to do!"

The paramedics are following with a stretcher, and rush to Laura, taking over from Theo. They load her onto the stretcher and take her back over to the ambulance, allowing Sadde to ride along.

"I'll be along in a bit, okay? I'm sure she'll be fine," Theo says quickly to Sadde, in a way that's probably convincing if you've never interacted with him before.

Sadde, however, has, and he's... "Okay." Way too worried about Laura to think much about why Theo's acting weirdly.

Theo doesn't notice how weirdly he's acting, so he wouldn't expect there to be anything for Sadde to comment on. He goes in the direction of the hospital, a bit cold; he's now a bit underdressed for April, seeing as he no longer has a jacket.

Eventually, he arrives. The hospital, fortunately, wasn't too far from the park. He goes to the ER waiting room and looks for Sadde.

Sadde is there.

Sadde is not okay.

Theo goes over to Sadde and puts an arm around their shoulders.

Sadde looks up at him.

He has been crying.

In response to this, Theo feels he should pull Sadde in for a hug, and he does so, though the action is a bit forced.

"Have you heard anything?" he asks.

"She's in surgery." He pulls away and furrows his brows, as if he's trying to pinpoint something but can't. "What's—up with you?"