"You're allowed to be weird."

Hug.

"I suppose I am. Stupid cards."

Theo doesn't disagree.

Sigh. Sadde gets up and plops down on the lil' sofa over there and then extends his arms forward and closes his hands a few times in a 'gimme gimme' gesture.

So Theo goes over and sits on Sadde's lap, then continues the hug.

And Sadde wraps his arms around Theo and sighs. "Bloody stupid cards," he repeats.

"Yeah. I wonder if we'll ever get one that goes around being an untrained puppy by making people happier instead," he says, not really optimistic about his chances.

"Glow makes floating balls of light and Flower makes flowers."

Sadde snorts. "Clow was insane."

Theo laughs. "Maybe we'll meet one of those next. Didn't Kero say Clow didn't get to pick what he made, though?"

"More or less. It's complicated, and the process of creating a thing often creates something to balance it."

Theo nods, then continues hugging Sadde, resting his head on their shoulder.

"I'm not going home tonight," he says.

"... I should probably text my dad."

Snuggle. "What are you gonna tell him? I don't know if you're allowed to stay here."

"I don't know. Just that... this happened, and that I'm going to try to stay anyway? He'll probably get the idea."

He's still snuggling. Maybe he'll wait a bit before doing it.

Sadde won't complain. Snuggle.

Kero is sitting on Sadde's head.

The door opens, and in comes a nurse. She seems surprised to see both of them there, looks at the bear on Sadde's head a bit weirdly, and guesses that Theo is not a family relation from the way he and Sadde are interacting. "Visiting the patient at this stage is for family members only," she says to Theo, rather pointedly.

Theo pulls his head away from Sadde's shoulder to look at her, and doesn't seem to know what to say.

Sadde's head snaps up to look at her and he furrows his eyebrows. "My mother has been stabbed by a lunatic, you are not taking my boyfriend from me, I don't have anyone else!" He squeezes Theo.

Theo looks at her pleadingly, obviously not wanting to cause a scene and hoping she'll just let it go.

The nurse looks at Sadde and sighs, acquiescing. "Okay, but make sure you don't disturb the patient."

She has a quick check to make sure the patient's okay, then leaves. Theo puts his head back on Sadde's shoulder.

Good. Sadde can get back to cuddling his boyfriend on this very very tiny sofa which will be very uncomfortable to sleep on.

...having The Little or something like that would really come in handy.

Kero doesn't need it! He's already little! And has stopped pretending to be a stuffed toy to continue hugs.

Theo grabs his phone from his (fortunately) nearby bag, texts his dad, and then resumes cuddles.

Cuddles. Prolonged cuddles.

Eventually: Zzz.

Very uncomfortable and fitful zzz.