don't be a fool
"And I let you because it bothered you. If you recall we were sort of more than what we are now at the time." Ianto was looking firmly away from Remi by this point - and perhaps it was a habit picked up from watching the other man, but there were feathers sprouting in his hair now too, deep and crimson among the copper.
"Why not, Remi? What do you owe me? Before that barrier fell I was here, and then it did fall and I was just happy not to have been dropped into this world alone. Whatever choices I made to survive that long were mine, and you have no right to try and fix them, like they were wrong." Yes, he was getting defensive. And yes, he would have done things differently if he had known.
But that was a regrettable fact of life. "I only suffer when those I care about get too close, and get hurt," he said pointedly.
"Why not, Remi? What do you owe me? Before that barrier fell I was here, and then it did fall and I was just happy not to have been dropped into this world alone. Whatever choices I made to survive that long were mine, and you have no right to try and fix them, like they were wrong." Yes, he was getting defensive. And yes, he would have done things differently if he had known.
But that was a regrettable fact of life. "I only suffer when those I care about get too close, and get hurt," he said pointedly.
