“He’s missed you, probably as much as I have,” Ianto responds absently. Good luck getting him to admit it though. Still, he knows Spike always gets excited to have Jack around.

And honestly he doesn’t know what else there is to say on the matter of changing him. They talked it over when they first got back and he was overruled, convinced to wait a bit. Maybe that was the right call at the time, but he can’t wait forever. “I know neither of you are particularly comfortable with the idea of it all but it needs to happen, Jack. As soon as we leave this place. You both need to accept that, because I can’t put it off much longer.”