"Don't fucking apologise," Ianto snapped. "I'll be your good soldier and I'll save your life, Jack, because I like Lo and what happened to him shouldn't have happened to anyone. I will make him what you are. I'll go back to my time and smile at you like I don't know I'm dying and I'll die when I'm supposed to die, because there are things that are more important. You taught me that. So don't apologise to me."

Jack closed his mouth.

"Now leave," Ianto added, and he was actually stunned when Jack stood and tucked the folder under his arm and left, swiping his porterminal for payment as he walked out the door. Ianto sat over his coffee for a while, then bent his head and rested it in his hands.

AUUUUUUUGGGGGGGH. Punch me in the heart, why don't you.

Still, I recall a passing reference in a previous chapter to a -- I think the term was "gentleman adventurer"...?