"But you've had to be careful all your life," Ianto infers for him. His eyes are a deep blue as he sits back to study him, observant and watchful. Looking for any sign of regret or frustration. Reaching to take the bottle for him after a moment and taking another healthy swig of his own before taking a breath to respond.

"It's not stupid," he reassures him quietly. "I wish you'd have told me earlier, so that maybe we might have found a better way to have gone about things, but. I'm not angry at you for it, or anything. It's not like. That's exactly me either, you know? Groping you in the hallway and. Honey."

He swirls the drink around in the bottle a little. Really starting to feel the warmth of it now and maybe it's that, that gives him the courage himself to go on. "No matter what you might think, I'm not asking for you to be someone you're not, you know. Believe it or not, you're the one that interests me."