"Play the martyr," Ianto answered. "Kill yourself, change yourself for everyone else's benefit, do whatever it takes to make other people happy when you don't even know what makes you yourself happy."
"And they are," he continued after taking a breath. "The Doctor's destroyed more lives, directly and indirectly, than it's possible to even count probably. And House is just a pathetic bastard with a desperate need to stroke his own ego by berating and dehumanizing other people. And I know, I know you see something in him," he said, lifting a hand before Jack could talk. If he was going to speak the truth, he wanted to get it all out and understood. "But I don't know what it is. I've given up on ever knowing and just try to take your word for it but you should be with someone extraordinary and if he's only that in your company then he's not extraordinary enough."
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Date: 2008-05-02 01:13 am (UTC)"And they are," he continued after taking a breath. "The Doctor's destroyed more lives, directly and indirectly, than it's possible to even count probably. And House is just a pathetic bastard with a desperate need to stroke his own ego by berating and dehumanizing other people. And I know, I know you see something in him," he said, lifting a hand before Jack could talk. If he was going to speak the truth, he wanted to get it all out and understood. "But I don't know what it is. I've given up on ever knowing and just try to take your word for it but you should be with someone extraordinary and if he's only that in your company then he's not extraordinary enough."