Ianto shakes his head again, though he offers the other man another smile. Grateful for the question and the -- interest? At least it makes him feel like John's interested and that he's not just spouting random facts about his former life at him like some sad sack. John knows that he lost it all after all, when Torchwood fell.
"I doubt it," he replies. "They were always offsite and Yvonne wasn't really the sort to pack a thermos." He takes another bite of his sandwich, glancing down at it in his hands, thinking back on his time there, all the people he'd worked with. Pippa, Tommy, Dan, Dean, Kieran. Lisa and Rachel. Some of them had lasted longer than others. Some of them hadn't even made it to the Battle, as they called it.
"Everyone else couldn't get enough, though," he continues, flicking the other man another smile. "Interrupting the actual work I was doing most of the time. I'd be in the middle of trying to negotiate a mass public Retcon situation in the center of London and up comes a member of the team, Ianto, be a dear..." Okay, so that line had mostly been Pippa's, but they each had their own version they used.
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"I doubt it," he replies. "They were always offsite and Yvonne wasn't really the sort to pack a thermos." He takes another bite of his sandwich, glancing down at it in his hands, thinking back on his time there, all the people he'd worked with. Pippa, Tommy, Dan, Dean, Kieran. Lisa and Rachel. Some of them had lasted longer than others. Some of them hadn't even made it to the Battle, as they called it.
"Everyone else couldn't get enough, though," he continues, flicking the other man another smile. "Interrupting the actual work I was doing most of the time. I'd be in the middle of trying to negotiate a mass public Retcon situation in the center of London and up comes a member of the team, Ianto, be a dear..." Okay, so that line had mostly been Pippa's, but they each had their own version they used.