John silently reminded himself that this wasn't his Earth, not really, and so the chances of there being aliens running amok in his own life were stunningly small. Unless Sherlock was an alien, but no. That really wasn't possible. Right? God, okay. Focus on the here and now. He looked at Ianto. "...So, you're... the UKBA for aliens. Right. Got it." Which was simplifying the matters a bit too much, and he knew it, so he added, "Not exactly, I know, but. Go with it, yeah?" Because he really was going to have to come up with an analogy to make this make sense, and if Jack or Ianto took that from him, so help him...
"And," he said after another pause, "You've got aliens in the basement, and a pterodactyl, and you pretend to be a tourist office so nobody bothers you. And," he finished, because this was him bringing himself around to the beginning, "You're okay with telling me all this and showing me any of it." Right?
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Date: 2010-10-20 10:54 am (UTC)Okay.
John silently reminded himself that this wasn't his Earth, not really, and so the chances of there being aliens running amok in his own life were stunningly small. Unless Sherlock was an alien, but no. That really wasn't possible. Right? God, okay. Focus on the here and now. He looked at Ianto. "...So, you're... the UKBA for aliens. Right. Got it." Which was simplifying the matters a bit too much, and he knew it, so he added, "Not exactly, I know, but. Go with it, yeah?" Because he really was going to have to come up with an analogy to make this make sense, and if Jack or Ianto took that from him, so help him...
"And," he said after another pause, "You've got aliens in the basement, and a pterodactyl, and you pretend to be a tourist office so nobody bothers you. And," he finished, because this was him bringing himself around to the beginning, "You're okay with telling me all this and showing me any of it." Right?