[Jack blinks at the sensation of lips on his skin, though it's the less familiar touch of fingertips to his no longer flat stomach that snaps him fully back to the present, to realize they were Ianto's lips touching his face.
His expression clears, the boy who had cared for a girl who had her future stolen away in an instant falling back into the past where he belongs. He's still smiling, though it shrinks to something almost embarrassed as he's hit with the reminder of just how much attention John and Ianto are paying to him at all times, now.]
I was [he says, softly] Don't think I've been awake that long. Just..woke up from a good dream for once, someone I hadn't thought about in awhile, guess I got lost thinking about her again. I'm fine.
[Which is at least mostly-true, even as he finds he's also thinking about how he'll one day be the only person in the universe who remembers Valeria, if he isn't already. And while that's true for lots of other people, for some reason his mind's particularly hung up on in regards for a girl he only knew for one day and who never said a single word to him.]
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His expression clears, the boy who had cared for a girl who had her future stolen away in an instant falling back into the past where he belongs. He's still smiling, though it shrinks to something almost embarrassed as he's hit with the reminder of just how much attention John and Ianto are paying to him at all times, now.]
I was [he says, softly] Don't think I've been awake that long. Just..woke up from a good dream for once, someone I hadn't thought about in awhile, guess I got lost thinking about her again. I'm fine.
[Which is at least mostly-true, even as he finds he's also thinking about how he'll one day be the only person in the universe who remembers Valeria, if he isn't already. And while that's true for lots of other people, for some reason his mind's particularly hung up on in regards for a girl he only knew for one day and who never said a single word to him.]