[That is definitely one of the things that's not helping this not be awkward. Generally, he feels they're managing pretty well to ignore it, but there are just those odd moments where it slips out and threatens to upset everything.
Luckily, he's not the only one capable of relieving the tension with a joke, even if unintentional. He chuckles.] Unresolved sexual tension. Where two - or more - people really like each other but can't or won't do anything about it.
[Okay, so that completely failed at steering the conversation away from their relationship, didn't it? He makes his own attempt at levity.] Actually, it's probably not that accurate for Torchwood. The sexual tended to get resolved pretty quickly there. It's just that it didn't always reduce the tension...