“Humanity’s a beautiful thing, it adapts and grows and changes. But yeah, the bad goes along with it obviously. You can never get rid of it, its there as much as the good is and I suppose we wouldn’t grow without it. As for the labels, well no, not those ones. Other ones, maybe there’ll always be some labels. But sexuality, no ones really as bothered anymore. Unless you’re like one of my exes and actually addicted to...well everything. Most of it illegal. But he’s a story for another time.
And yeah, he was pretty sure Becker was thinking a lot of things were hot. Flirting, he was doing it right. “If it’ll make you feel better. I will, I promise, find you a crazy genocidal maniac to punch in the face.” But there was seriousness to the man too, loss of friends would never be easy, and it had hit Jack harder, and in more ways than he could name.
Danny in some ways reminded him of how they’d picked up Gwen. “Had that, a cop, or whatever, police woman, caught wind of Torchwood, my team, and wouldn’t let go, kept at us, trying to figure us out and eventually I hired her. We’d had a vacancy come up fairly unexpectedly.” he added, his mouth set in a grim line at the thought of Suzie Costello. “Hard job you see, and sometimes people get...caught up in it, let themselves get lost in what they think is a noble cause.”
She’d been a good woman once upon a time.
“But enough of that. We can get reminiscey later. For now I’m pretty certain you’re waiting for a say so to kiss me, you have been for a while now, so let’s say you’ve got ten seconds or I’m just gonna go ahead and kiss you instead. Your call?”