His dad can be found rather easily! In the living room.

"Hey," he says. "You're back a bit late."

Theo squirms a bit. What, no, no he's not. He's back at a totally normal time. And not just about to have this conversation.

Right?

Not right.

Okay.

"Hi," he says. "Um, there's something I need to tell you."

Well, that's a bit worrying.

"Uh-huh? So, are you going to tell me?"

He really doesn't want to have to.

So he looks to Sadde for help.

"Well, we're kinda dating," he says, smirking.

He takes a sharp intake of breath, and his eyes flash a bit.

Then he takes Sadde's hand, turns back to his dad and smiles. "Yeah. We're dating."

The smile is looking pretty strained.

"Oh, that's so ni–" he starts to say, then notices the look on Theo's face.

He gets up and starts again. "That's nice, but what's the actual thing you need to tell me?"

Still looking pretty strained, he squeezes Sadde's hand a bit.

Wow, that's really quite a strong grip he has there.

"You're squeezing a bit too hard," he tells Theo.

"Oh, am I?" he asks.

The squeezing continues, as does the strained smile.

"Theo, come on. Are you okay?"

He's starting to get quite worried.

Sigh. "Magic and demons are real, his mother was probably at least partially one, he was almost eaten by a vampire the other day, we're telling you this so you can carry stakes and crosses and holy water around, here's some evidence that I'm not making it all up," he says, gesturing idly at a pen over there on a table and making it start floating.

He raises an eyebrow, and looks disbelieving until he sees the pen.

"This is a really weird dream."

Theo laughs nervously. "Ha, yeah."

... Seriously, what the hell is up with him.

"Yep, it is. You should probably pinch yourself to check that you're really dreaming. I'd also suggest trying to take flight but actually don't." He brings the pen to himself and twirls it around his hand without actually touching it.

Still watching the pen, he tilts his head. "Yeah, maybe I should."

And so he does. He pokes himself, feels it normally, then pinches himself, and still feels it normally. He also looks at his watch, reads the time properly, tries to fly, fails, and then looks at his watch again and sees it's the right time.

"Okay, so, tentatively assuming this isn't a dream, what's this about demons and magic? And vampires?"

... His expression changes a bit. "And Theo nearly getting eaten by a vampire?"

Theo starts to back away a little.

Sadde can deal with this, right?

... Right.

Right.

"There are thousands upon thousands of species of demons, some of them are cross-fertile with humans and slash or each other, many are evil, many just stay away in their demon dimensions and rarely come around, some like coming around and causing problems, there are a lot of standard precautions against vampires... We just spent the afternoon encyclopediaing Theo about this. And yeah the other day at the Bronze this hot vampire was seducing him and then whisked him off to a side alley and almost ate him but I killed the vampire."

"... And how exactly do people not know about this?"

Shrug. "My best guess is conspiracy, and I don't have enough information about it to know how safe it is to go public with it nor am I sure it's the best of ideas."

Well, this is going better than Theo had expected.

He slows his backwards movement.

"Mm," responds Theo's dad.

He looks over at Theo, and tries to ask gently, "Are you... okay after being almost eaten by a vampire?"

Nyeh, can he just get out of here?

He doesn't know why but he reaaaaally does not want to be here.

Sadde looks at him. "I cannot keep answering your questions for you."

"I'm fine," he says, trying to sound convincing.