And by the time they wake up, Laura's awake, eyeing them speculatively.

Unngh. Theo lifts his head off Sadde and turns around. He's got a bit of a mark on his face from his irregular pillow.

"Good morning, Theo."

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"Uh, morning. ... How are you doing?"

He looks contemplative; should he wake up Sadde or not?

"I'll be fine. How are you?"

"I'm fine..." he responds.

Sadde stirs.

"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.