Jack grinned at John's half sentence, trying to figure out what the other man had actually wanted to ask, and failing. "'How many hostile aliens'...what? Do we have downstairs? Not too many. Weevils aren't really hostile, they're just... Well, kind of like big, dumb, humanoid pitbulls. How many have we faced? Quite a few. Everything from Daleks to Cybermen to Sleeper Agents. How many are there that we haven't caught yet? Way too many."
There Jack went with the whole not being very reassuring part again. If Ianto had been standing closer to the other man, he might have given him a well-timed elbow jab in order to make him be quiet, but obviously there was no such luck there. "There... They're not just hostile, you know. Some of them are actually quite nice. Perfectly integrated into society. You wouldn't even be able to tell that they were any different from the rest of us. Ehm," he said, realizing how that might sound, "there's a process. Not every alien that doesn't come through the Rift shooting things ends up being able to stay. Only the ones that show the most promise in becoming an upstanding citizen of Planet Earth, really."
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Date: 2010-10-20 04:30 am (UTC)There Jack went with the whole not being very reassuring part again. If Ianto had been standing closer to the other man, he might have given him a well-timed elbow jab in order to make him be quiet, but obviously there was no such luck there. "There... They're not just hostile, you know. Some of them are actually quite nice. Perfectly integrated into society. You wouldn't even be able to tell that they were any different from the rest of us. Ehm," he said, realizing how that might sound, "there's a process. Not every alien that doesn't come through the Rift shooting things ends up being able to stay. Only the ones that show the most promise in becoming an upstanding citizen of Planet Earth, really."