Captain Jack Harkness | Torchwood (thedashinghero) wrote in aternaville, |
He could pretend, couldn't he? Lose himself in what had always been so close and pretend that nothing existed outside of the two of them. There was the nagging sensation in the back of his mind that it was too soon, that if anything happened between he and Rose it would somehow cheapen what he felt for Ianto. But, at the same time, this was Rose -- not some random woman he found in a pub. Besides, it wasn't as if Jack had come downstairs looking for her with the intention of jumping her.
"You never noticed it," Jack pointed out. "The point of a good leer is to do so when the woman isn't looking. Otherwise you get smacked." Jack winked. "Not that I've ever been smacked, of course. I'm much too good to get smacked."
The teasing and light conversation helped. It let him forget for a few moments and that's what counted, right?