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[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[Ianto is currently out cold, but slowly showing signs of coming round.  He's not exactly in his best state; his nose is shattered, and he has a stab wound in his chest.

For once?  This has absolutely nothing to do with the Master.]

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[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[Ianto's pretty confused too; he has no experience with Contractors so he really doesn't know what to make of it.]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

...what makes me like you?

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever asked.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Oh. [Must think about this.] Then if I've no reason to like you now... what does that mean?

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You could try and find a reason?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Frowns, considering.] ...you didn't shoot me.

...why? Because we were friends?

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

That was a part of it.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Only part?

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Killing people... it's not something you're supposed to do.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[And that? Totally doesn't click. So have Misaki eying you with something like suspicion.]

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[Just looks at her in confusion.]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She sounds a little more cool and a little more distant when she says,] Why?

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[And Ianto doesn't have an answer to that.]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

...I suppose that's the difference between us, then.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

...what is?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Flicker of a smile] That humanity that kept you from pulling the trigger.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You held back as well. You could have killed me.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I... [STOP DOING THAT IANTO.] I'm not human. I'm a Contractor. I had a reason.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[Ianto says no- he likes logic just as much as Contractors. :|b] What reason?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I had to have a reason.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Threatening you wasn't reason enough?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Staring at you, Ianto, hai.] I'm a Contractor. I had to have a reason. I had to have a reason for not killing you.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you, then?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

...

..............

...I don't know.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You don't have any ideas at all?