[BTR] [RP] The future teaches you to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold.
{{OOC: Backdated to Ianto's retrieval date.}}
Certain people's relationships can best be destroyed as "mutually assured destruction." Call him rather all-or-nothing in the pursuit of fatalism, but Jack frequently has the feeling that his relationship with Ianto, apparently in whatever universe or set of circumstances it occurs in, is one of those.
He's prowling around the periphery of his second-floor office - rather, the second-floor office which was once Gwen's - and reflecting that, of all the people in his long and storied past with Torchwood to come through, Ianto is a close second only to Suzie in terms of how awkward timing and circumstance makes this. To be honest, he'd prefer if he'd never come through. He'd prefer if he never had to look at any of the faces he betrayed again - not for a long, long time, if ever again.
Chicago emphatically does not care what he wants.
So he's here. Prowling like a caged animal, watching the door.
Waiting.
Certain people's relationships can best be destroyed as "mutually assured destruction." Call him rather all-or-nothing in the pursuit of fatalism, but Jack frequently has the feeling that his relationship with Ianto, apparently in whatever universe or set of circumstances it occurs in, is one of those.
He's prowling around the periphery of his second-floor office - rather, the second-floor office which was once Gwen's - and reflecting that, of all the people in his long and storied past with Torchwood to come through, Ianto is a close second only to Suzie in terms of how awkward timing and circumstance makes this. To be honest, he'd prefer if he'd never come through. He'd prefer if he never had to look at any of the faces he betrayed again - not for a long, long time, if ever again.
Chicago emphatically does not care what he wants.
So he's here. Prowling like a caged animal, watching the door.
Waiting.