"Good morning, darling."

Sadde's eyes open immediately and he tries to get up, but there's way too much unexpected Theo on the way for this to be wholly successful.

Oops. Theo gets out of the way.

And Sadde flutters around Laura. "Mum? How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, baby. And you two? Are you unhurt?"

"We're fine, you're the one on a hospital bed! I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have—" He stops.

"Shouldn't have what? Sadde, this is not your fault, and I won't have you blaming yourself."

"She's right; you couldn't have done anything to stop it," he says, trying to be reassuring. He puts a hand on Sadde's shoulder. His actions are a bit off, again, though Sadde would be forgiven for not noticing.

Sadde looks thoroughly unconvinced.

Laura sighs and looks at Theo's hand, then Theo, then Sadde. "Let's talk about happier topics, given that I'm not in fact going to die anytime soon. When were you two planning to tell me about this?"

Theo looks at his hand, too, then realises what she means and says, "Oh. It only happened... yesterday."

"I see. I confess I didn't even know it was a possibility," she says, giving Sadde a probably meaningful look.

"It, um, was kinda surprising. Turns out what upset him about the kiss thing was that we didn't."

She looks at Theo again. "Hmmm."

Theo doesn't see an obvious response to that, so he just nods hesitantly.

She continues scrutinising him.

He stands here, being scrutinised.

She turns back to Sadde. "And you're happy?"

"Yeah, I am I guess," he says, looking up at Theo. He furrows his brows a bit, but puts his hand on Theo's and squeezes it anyway.

"Then I'm happy."

Theo smiles when Sadde looks at him, then at Laura, then continues to remain in the same position.

"Well, I think it's about time you two stopped spending so much time with a temporary invalid and got on with your lives."

"Mum—"

"Honey, I'm not going anywhere, you need a shower and a change of clothes and to brush your teeth and to get breakfast. Now chop chop, you can come back later to pick me up, I'm pretty sure I'll end up having to leave on a wheelchair."

He sighs. "Fine."