Ianto didn't miss the change in tone halfway through Sulu's last statement, how it switched a little too quickly from serious to joking to be completely smooth, but he wasn't going to push it. He nodded at what Sulu had to say, though, about McCoy not turning him down. "So...he's good then? At what he does? I mean, he must be, I just. I only met him that once, and he doesn't even remember that, now, not to mention the fact that we weren't meeting as doctor and patient, there. Is... Is there anything I should look out for, if we end up taking a trip to his sick bay?" Ianto asked.

At the little bit of boasting that Sulu threw in there to change the tone of his statement, Ianto smiled at him little bit. "The best helmsman in Starfleet?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "You do realize you're going to have to prove that to me sometime, yeah? I've never gotten to see you fly, yet, and well. I should. Sometime. So you can prove that you're not just all talk there, yeah?" There. Mentioning future plans. That was optimistic, right? No way Sulu could become emotionally compromised so long as there was a future to talk about, right?