At least that's something, he supposes. That he hadn't gone up there on his own, even if it had been a pretty foolish idea. What if something had happened to him? What if he'd run into trouble? Would he have let him know? When? Before it was too late? God, he hopes so.

Ianto's brow furrows as John keeps talking, though. When he mentions Jim again. He isn't sure why it bothers him, but it does, and it has him shaking his head at the other man as he speaks up to say, "John, stop bringing him up. I mean it. He's got business in Olympia and at the station and you and I have got business of our own with this dragon, and if this date happens then it happens and if it doesn't then maybe we'll plan something else and maybe we won't, and that's okay, alright?" Jim is a good man but Ianto knows himself and he doesn't know what Jim wants and until he has that spelled out for him he'd prefer not to think about it that hard.