[RL WITH SULU]

[torchwoodteaboy]

Ianto sat at Jack's bedside, with a mobile in hand, much like he had earlier with his call to the Doctor. Only, instead of calling for help this time, he really just wanted to call to have someone to talk to. He was going to drive himself mad, just him and Jack's unconscious, trance-like form in the bed in front of him, with only his thoughts to

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[takeitoutofpark]

The time on the Enterprise was actually late enough that Sulu wasn't awake when Ianto called; he'd managed to pass out maybe an hour prior to his comm going off. The sudden, loud beeping from his bedside dresser woke him with a start, and it took him a good fifteen seconds to realize that it wasn't his alarm going off.

Still disoriented and generally addle-brained, he almost opened the line with a harsh word to Jim, who he was certain would call him at the most inappropriate hour possible. He recognized the number from Earth just as he was opening his mouth, so he managed to cut the sharp retort off at, "Uh-!" Rubbing his eyes, he followed up that really inarticulate noise with, "Ianto?"

In Sulu's defense, it was awfully late for him to be coherent.

[torchwoodteaboy]

Ianto recognized the sound in Sulu's voice as one of fatigue, which was odd to hear--he didn't think he'd ever heard Sulu being anything other than his normal, pretty energetic optimistic self. Then again, he hadn't known the other man for very long, but still.

"Oh, god," Ianto said, helpfully. "God, I'm sorry... Did I wake you? I can just, er. I can call you back in the morning. Or, whenever," he rambled, knowing even then that he was being silly. He wasn't one to just call out of the blue, especially not at this sort of hour, not without a reason and a good one at that, and Sulu probably knew that fact. Still, he couldn't help but apologize for himself. What could he say. It had been an incredibly long...day? Couple of days? Ianto was losing time, sitting here by Jack's bedside. All that he knew was that he hadn't slept in a while, or left, or probably even eaten properly, not since this had all started.

[takeitoutofpark]

"What?" It took Sulu a second to follow what Ianto was saying, "No - I mean, yeah, but no, it's all right, really." He shook his head and kicked off the sheets, getting up to stagger into the bathroom. He really wasn't the most coherent in the first half hour of coherency.

He took a second to splash some water on his face, then leaned against the counter and frowned at his comm in thought. Ianto really wasn't about to just... call him to shoot the breeze, he figured. "What's going on?"

[torchwoodteaboy]

Ianto sighed into the mobile. He wasn't a talker about things that actually mattered, nor was he very great at sharing much of anythign about his life with other people, but this was important, to an extent.

He took in a breath, and then couldn't figure out what to say to Sulu. 'Please come keep me company because I'm scared' sounded too forward and dumb to Ianto's head, but just calmly stating the facts was a bit too impersonal for him and the situation as well. Ianto realized that he'd been pausing for a while, and Sulu was probably waiting to hear why he'd called at such an hour.

"I... It's Jack," Ianto said, turning to look at the man in question in the bed in front of him. "He's, well... It's kind of impossible, but. He's dying and I..." Couldn't even find the words to express how lost he would be if he lost Jack.