kali

We feel very strongly that while Ianto is a big love for Jack, nothing's that big and Ianto comes quite at the beginning of his larger story. As of this point in the arc, they've had a bigger chunk of time together than pretty much anyone we know about from Jack's back catalogue with the possible exception of the wife (we don't know) and John Hart (he's about tied with Ianto at five years here). But still, that's not much in the scheme of things, and people do heal, do move on, do get over it. Losing Ianto in anyway would be a big bad for Jack to get over, but he would, and eventually not even remember the grief of it, or it at all.