Sadde reaches out and pulls Theo in for a kiss. He's still not exactly back to full strength, so he'll need Theo's cooperation and/or the element of surprise, but.

Oh, okay. Sure. He's down with that.

Mmm.

Somehow he wasn't expecting it to be this.

Willow clears her throat.

Sadde lets go of Theo, giggling a bit. "Sorry. Just, the way you said that thing was hot."

Theo starts laughing too. "The way I said that I should mistrust the whole school but I'm not was hot?"

"The way it occurred to you to mistrust the whole school. It didn't occur to her," he says, gesturing at Willow with his head.

"I'm sorry I'm not completely paranoid."

"Besides, it's probably not likely that half the school is composed of soulless demons. I say 'probably', because again, I have no proof of any statistics if they're all good at acting."

"You are tempting me."

"How aboooout we continue the history of the evil soulless monsters while you recover and you don't eat each other's faces until I'm not here?"

He snorts at that. "We're not eating each other's faces, Willow. Honestly."

Then something occurs to him. "Um. In the ritual..."

"Yeah?"

"You... gave up your soul? Or a bit of it?"

He looks a little bit worried.

"...yeah. Kinda. Just a little piece of it."

"Do you have a percentage?"

Okay, make that really worried.

"Supposedly I should be able to perform this ritual more than a hundred times..."

"Before what? You keel over from lack of soul and spontaneously vampire?"

"Well, no, there'll be no demon to make me a vampire, I'd just become a sociopath."

"... Which isn't really much better, is it? Not if you're vampiric levels of sociopath!"

"No, this is not the best solution. But a couple of nights ago was the first time I used this spell, I try to make do with stakes and holy water and crucifixes and garlic. And each vampire I dust adds to my fighting skills, lacking proper training."

"... Garlic works? Okay, I guess if you're not using it anywhere near that frequently, a hundred times is probably okay, but it still doesn't sound healthy. Nor does being eaten by a vampire, but ugh."

"Garlic works. And no, it's not healthy."

"He forgot to mention the part where magic is addictive in addition to how each bit of soul he loses makes him less reluctant to lose the next bit."

"What?! Okay, why the fuck— no, no, I know why the fuck you'd keep using it, but still, why the fuck."

"Because it's what I can do! Whoa, dizzy spell," and he hangs his head back on the couch and closes his eyes again.