"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?"

"What do you mean?" Theo asks, sounding somewhat surprised.

"It's like you're—faking it or something. I dunno. Your eyes and the way you're saying things and—did the Sword do something to you?"

"No. I'm just... tired," he says, which is at least partially true.

"I've seen you tired, this is not it."

"I just can't process things right now, so I'm a little on edge," he amends.

"...okay."

He doesn't pull Theo in for a hug again.

That's okay. Theo will just sit here, making sure he's available if a need for him arises.

Oh the need's there. It very very clearly is there.

Well, that's... sad.

Theo frowns, a bit off-kilter.

Sadde sighs. "You don't need to be here. You should go home, get some sleep. It's been a busy week and stuff."

"No, I..." – he frowns even harder, here – "... I want to stay."

"Okay."

Still no hugs.

Something about that seems wrong to Theo. He still seems to be frowning.

Oh well.