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If I did, I wouldn't offer. Let me get you set up with a hop, okay?

[After Sulu's hopped Jack up to the ship and the pair of them have made it to Sulu's botany lab:]

...thanks. For, y'know. Having me over. Going back to the Hub didn't seem very appealing, all things considered.

[Sulu shrugs, locking the door behind them so that nobody could wander in unannounced.] It's... kind of my fault, anyway. I was being a little overzealous, earlier.

Yeah, well. I listened to your advice knowing that it probably wouldn't work, so. [Jack runs a hand through his hair, shrugging his jacket off and tossing it across the closest chair] He's just so goddamned stubborn. I should've realized...

He's also tired, too. I didn't really think about it. ...What happened, exactly, anyway?

[Jack shrugs] I tried to talk to him. He said he didn't want to. I... Might have pressed a little, but. Then he seemed to think that you'd put me up to it, and that was the end of that.

[Sulu doesn't want to say that, well, he sort of did put him up to it. That's probably not what Jack wants to hear. Instead, he goes to check on a few plants that he's been caring for since the shoreleave.] He should know you don't get put up to doing things. You're a little too stubborn for that.

[Jack flops down in the chair he'd hung his coat over, sitting back and pinching the bridge of his nose, slightly] Yeah, well. Apparently the fact that I never talk to him means that when I do try to talk to him, it's obviously not my idea and therefore it's not worth his time, so...

I hate to say it, but he does have a sort of point - I mean, you don't think about it until someone mentions it. Not that it's not your idea. [Sulu sighs.] It doesn't help that he was already tired, that's for sure. But, I'm still... [He frowns and shakes his head,] I'm still disappointed in Ianto. He said he'd try to listen.

Yeah, well. He didn't. [Jack rubs a hand over his face, sighing] I guess you're right, though. About him being tired. He'd been at work for a while, and he's not always at his best when he's sleep deprived. Still though... He really pisses me off, sometimes.

Yeah, well. [Sulu shot Jack a grin, though it was a little less than his usual caliber of cheerfulness.] He still keeps us coming back for more, irritating or not. For good reason, too.

Yeah, well. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it or not...

You don't really mean that. [Sulu states it more like fact than anything - Ianto can be a chore sometimes, okay, he knows that, but. ...He was Ianto.]

Don't I? [Jack runs his hands over his face. No, he doesn't really mean it. But he is upset with Ianto at the moment, and that means that he's up for saying anything he so desires about it]

I know I'm not good at this. And he knows it too. [He pauses for a moment, before:] But I'm trying. The least he can do is acknowledge it...

I'm sure he knows that you're trying. He's just... kind of an idiot when it comes to these kinds of things. But that doesn't mean you should give up on him. [He moves down the workbench a little to check a plant sealed in a glass tube.] He's going to feel kind of like an ass for having kicked you out once he's got more sleep in him. But that's his thing. Neither of you are good with communication. [He chuckles a little,] I'm not even that great at it, myself. It's just going to take time and willingness, I guess. [Like he's one to talk, not talking about the occasional moods he gets.]

Yeah, well. I've got all the time in the world, so. At least there's that, I guess. So long as he's got the time as well...

He does now. Thanks to you having all the time. And he knows that.

Does he? And you know that for a fact, then, do you?

[Sulu gives him a slightly bemused look.] He has to. He knows how we got him back, and he knows it's because of you we could do it at all.

But he doesn't know that. Does he? [He turns to look at Sulu.] Not unless you told him. He just thinks that it's the amulet...

[Sulu can't really remember whether or not he'd told Ianto about how the amulet worked. He doesn't think about it enough to know for sure.] ...I don't know. I... haven't told him a lot about anything like that.

Then he probably doesn't know much about anything in regards to that. Because I certainly haven't told him much about it either.

Edited 2011-06-06 12:34 (UTC)

[It's Sulu's turn to pinch the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes briefly before looking to the readouts offered to him on the contained plant.]

Like I said, [he says, wryly,] I'm not great at communication myself.

[Jack sighs, heavily] D'you think he minds? That the pair of us are...well. That we haven't told him much about anything that happened during that time?

I don't know what he minds, most of the time. He hasn't said anything, so I don't know. Probably not. I'm not even sure he wants to think about it, let alone talk about it. [He makes a face at the readouts,] God knows I don't.

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