[filtered] this is my smug face

[likesthecoat]

[Filtered to friends]

You know those good cop/bad cop routines you see in movies?

I make a kickass bad cop.


(Just had to pop in and gloat. Back to fighting the bad guys.)

Comments

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

Well, good. We'd have some problems if you minded me flirting with you.

And I realized the other day that it's really only you that I've stopped flirting with. Which is ridiculous, really.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

We haven't stopped flirting. We just don't flirt where other people can see it very much anymore. (And it usually goes somewhere when we do.)

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

[ooc: this conversation makes me laugh, given martha and lorne's thread]

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Martha and Lorne's thread was a big contributor to Lorne's flirtiness in this thread.]

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

[ooc: well, glad we could help :)]

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Ianto was wondering where that came from.]

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Well, Lorne was enjoying himself so much, he just sort of thought, "Why don't I do this with Ianto?" And the bad cop line was just too good for him to pass up once he got his flirt on.]

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

That's what I mean, though. I never should have stopped flirting with you where other people can see. There's definitely a point when it should be moved to a private thread, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun in public.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

Shep came and we both got nervous. It happens. I suppose now it doesn't matter, unless you don't want McKay to get any ideas.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

McKay's pretty oblivious to just about anything to do with human interactions. And he's the sort of guy who, even if he suspected something, the most he'd do would be to ask Sheppard about it (in a conversation I would pay good money to laugh at), and Sheppard would handle it very carefully if that happened.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

Okay.

. . . though I hope at some point soon it won't matter.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

So do I, darling.

Do you still want me to wait before talking to Sheppard about this?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

No. Whenever you think it's time, go ahead.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

All right. I'll try to talk to him tomorrow.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

Okay.

I haven't talked to Jack about this yet.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

Okay. Are you going to do that soon, or do you want to wait?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

I don't know.

I have to admit that I'm a little nervous about his reaction.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

That's understandable. Will you have to take that pill, do you think? Retcon?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

If I present it to him as research into possible threats to Earth, probably not.

I mean, we're doing the same thing, just from different perspectives.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

That's an interesting way of looking at it.

I guess we are, aren't we?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

Despite everything, at its heart Torchwood is here to defend the Earth. We've got distracted sometimes but that's the fundamental principle.

I think we are. Just you're out there and we're down here.

...and there are so few of us. There's that, too.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

...we aren't just protecting Earth out here. I mean, that's our primary purpose, and that's what the IOA is concerned with, but...we've taken a stance pretty strongly against protecting Earth while neglecting the rest of the humans out here.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

That's a good stance to take.

We don't have quite the budget for that, though.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[Private to Ianto]

I'm glad you think so. I guess I just get a little nervous about Earth-based organizations protecting the planet. They have a tendency to think that Earth is the most important planet in the universe and everyone else can just fend for themselves.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[Private to Lorne]

When Torchwood was founded--back by Queen Victoria, I should add--no one knew there was anything else out there. Perhaps we are a bit geocentric but this is home.

Torchwood 1 was a lot more mercenary than we are now.