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[torchwoodteaboy]

"This is Ianto Jones. Sorry I missed your call, but if you leave a message after the tone, I'll be sure to get back to you."

[VOICE (MAIL) | TEXT | VIDEO | PICTURE | INSTANT MESSAGING]

Comments

[impavid]

Well actually I sit in a big chair which lights up and then tell it to do pre-flight stuff, start the engines, check power levels and stuff.

Then it takes off, yeah.

[torchwoodteaboy]

I suppose that it's comforting there is at least more involved than simply sitting there and thinking 'Fly'.

[impavid]

Well it's probably easier to learn than a real aircraft but you need the gene and yeah, there's a little more to it than just 'fly'.

[torchwoodteaboy]

I can't imagine that you really had that much practice with it, ahead of things.

[impavid]

You can't exactly pick up a city and move it to practice now. If nothing else it takes way too much power.

[torchwoodteaboy]

I'm going to assume that there was a very good reason for picking up the city and flying it off into the clouds as well.

[One you have yet to supply him with.]

[impavid]

Yes! We were moving it to a new planet.

[torchwoodteaboy]

Right. Just felt like a change of scenery, then? Bit of a road trip?

[impavid]

No, we were trying not to die.

[torchwoodteaboy]

[Ianto had figured as much, but you know. Getting information out of John can be something of a challenge sometimes.]

I can see what you mean by it being a stressful situation then.

[impavid]

Yeah. There were, you know, a lot of people in the city at the time. And it steers like a truck.

[ You know. Big, heavy, slow to adjust. ]

[torchwoodteaboy]

I can't imagine that there is such a thing as a seatbelt for such an occasion either.

[There... Weren't seatbelts, were there? He said it was a city ship but that's only because it can fly, right...?]

[impavid]

Cities don't really have seat-belts, not.

[ Even if they are city-ships. ]

[torchwoodteaboy]

No, I thought not.

How'd it go, then? The journey? The, ehm. Landing?

[He's obviously lived to tell the tale so it can't have been that bad, all things considered.]

[impavid]

Are you doubting my ability to pilot a city?

[torchwoodteaboy]

More doubting a city’s willingness to be piloted, really.

[impavid]

It was designed to have a pilot. I'd show you if I could.

[torchwoodteaboy]

[Oh. That's actually kind of sweet, in a way.]

I would have liked that. To get to see Atlantis. You know, outside of. Whatever the Storm did with our memories.

[impavid]

Weather is normally better for one thing. I'd say we're not normally being invaded either, but that's not strictly true. People do shoot at us a lot. Guess I've got one of those faces people like to shoot at.

[torchwoodteaboy]

Of course. You would never do anything to provoke them to shoot at you, would you?

[impavid]

I have no idea what you're implying.

[torchwoodteaboy]

Of course not, I'm certain you were always a model of good behavior. Especially while under duress.

[impavid]

Employee of the month six months running. It was record.

[ No. ]

[torchwoodteaboy]

That is quite impressive.

[And improbable.]

[impavid]

I've been told I am.