Bucky & Jack
While what he'd done in the past wasn't something he would have willingly admitted to Gwen or Ianto, afraid of how they'd see him, it seemed like a smaller thing to tell a fellow soldier. Gray, Toshiko, Owen--them, he'd keep held tight to chest as long as possible, but the man he'd been had died long before he actually had the first time, hopefully laid to rest for good now. It felt right to clear out his skeleton. Still, he drew a breath when Buck gestured to his arm, understanding too well. He may never have experienced quite that, but he'd seen it--in lovers, or men he'd just cared for. Maybe not to that extreme, but he'd seen plenty of them never really come back all the way, even if their hearts were still beating.
"Not gonna say I quite understand it--been a long time since I've had someone try to mess with my mind like that, and none of 'em ever got that far in the process, but…" he sighed. "I know what it's like to lose the man you were, couple times over. Can't say for sure you'll ever get him back all the way, but," he managed to smile, "I hope you find someone you can live with. Seems to me you're doing a damn better start than I did a few times." He'd tried not to give into what the old Torchwood wanted him to be, nearly decking Gerald when he'd burned those babies alive because 'they're not children, they're aliens'--but he knew he'd failed in some regards. There were too many things he'd done, for all the things he'd changed, that he knew the Doctor would have been ashamed of.
Jack shook his head, dismissing Bucky's sympathy--he could hardly remember the boy's name, a boy he'd killed as much as if he'd been the enemy himself just by staying silent. He couldn't afford to forgive himself for that one. So instead, he chose to latch on to Bucky's softer words, a quiet smile blossoming back to life on his face.
"Yeah? Hope you both had a good time. You don't want to kiss and tell, I totally understand, but you also need someone to gossip to about it…" he rose an eyebrow, hoping he wasn't coming on too heavy handed to scare the poor guy off. He hard almost forgotten how hard it was for some of them, to even try to be honest with that part of themselves.