I'M WORKING ON IT...

[tencrush]

Just rewatching some episodes to get some inspiration re. Ianto and what I am now calling his alpha-in-training-ness. Wow. He is the weirdest character, dudes. He's never on screen, he's always physically reserved and he doesn't say much, but when he does he COMMANDS attention, it's way more blatant than I thought it would be.

But anyway, I'm getting a bit distracted, so I'll just post random things in the meantime.

Watch this scene from Day One again.
"None of you have partners?" says Gwen. And LOOK! Jack was totally going to say something and then he shuts his mouth and changes his mind.



He's so doing the teaboy already at this point in time.

Comments

[antelope-writes.livejournal.com]

Possibly.

It could also mean that there was truly genuine affection and attraction between them, and now that both the elephants are out of the room (Lisa and the Doctor) they are free to follow that attraction wherever it leads.

I vote for some combination of the two.

If you go by tencrush's hypothesis that Ianto's family is dead and make the likely assumption that most of his friends were killed in TW1, and by extension that he has serious death/abandonment issues, Jack is the ideal man for Ianto. He can't lose him to death and in S2 at least Jack follows him like a lost puppy so he won't lose him to abandonment. I think that's part of why Ianto is in such an incandescent rage at John.