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[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[Ianto's holding a more than slightly bloodied tea towel to his stomach, and is crouching over a first-aid kit,  rooting through it slightly shakily.  He eventually manages to find a painkiller.  He tears of the wrapper, jamming the syringe into his leg before starting to search through the first-aid kit again.]

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[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

I still don't know yet.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

And the day you do, I'm not going to be there to stop you from throwing your life away.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

I'll come back if I die. And if I don't then you'll be safe.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Do you know what happens to people that get brought back to life by the Twins? And safe from what, being able to go back home?

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

What happened to Misaki, most likely. And if I did save you I'd take you back to Cardiff. Unless you don't plan on staying, then it'd hardly hinder you.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Cardiff is my home, Ianto! I have no way of getting back to my own time, the Doctor makes sure of that every time, and even if I could there's nothing waiting for me but a family I no longer have and an Agency that no longer exists.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

So why can't I get you back?

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Because there's no way you'll even get close without dying.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You don't know that for sure.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Yes I do, because I know the Valiant's security. Even if you managed to get inboard, survive the armed soldiers, the Toclafane, there's still the Master to deal with, and trust me; he'll be more than happy to kill you if he gets to show me the corpse.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

I have the Plane. He doesn't know about that.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

It'll only do you so much good, and you know it.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

But it still gives me a better chance.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Not good enough!

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You don't know that.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

Stop saying that! You're going to die if you try Ianto, any idiot with half a brain could see that.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Which is exactly why I haven't decided yet.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

There shouldn't even be a choice there for you to make...

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Waiting around for a year doing nothing isn't as easy as you seem to think it is.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

I never said it was.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You implied it.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

I never said or implied that what I'm asking you to do is easy, I know it's not.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

You act like it is.

[itsthecoat.livejournal.com]

I act like I need you to listen to me because otherwise you're going to get yourself killed over something that's going to happen regardless.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

But if I can find a way to do it without getting killed?