Summery: Ianto somehow comes back to live, body and all, completely healed and left without a scratch or scar or anything. With the help of the young women currently living in his flat, he tracks down Jack and they are reunited... But, what is the condition of Ianto's return.

Chapter One - The Return:

Efa Disgleirio walked up to the door of her haunted flat. She turned and waved goodbye to her friend Mari as she took out the keys. Ever since she moved in two years ago, she'd felt the presence of a ghost, she'd never seen it, she'd only noticed things getting moved from one place the other, going missing sometimes the objects turned up again and sometimes they didn't. Every now and then she heard the ghosts voice. It would shout or whisper, sometimes it felt like it was just talking, causally. She's heard it say 'Jack' that was the one she heard most, usually it was a shout, as the ghost was looking for someone. It was a sad presence. Not threatening which is why she contuied to stay there, that and she didn't really have anywhere else to go, her mother was dead and her father had no desire to see her since she came out as bisexual a few weeks ago. She put the keys in the lock and turned it, pushing the door open. She stopped dead in her tracks. There, in the middle of her living room was a man. Looking down at his hands, putting them to his face. He didn't seem to notice her and she knew that she should call the police and runaway but she was frozen to where she stood. Her golden eyes fixed at where this man stood. Was this man real or was he the ghost she'd been longing to see. He looked up at her, as if finally noticing she was there.
"Good morning" he said, smiling nervously.
"Afternoon" she replied still not moving from the doorway. "Who are you?"
"Jones, Ianto Jones" he waved and took a few deep breaths. He looked at his hands once more and touched the table by his side. He put a hand over his heart, there was a heart beat. "I'm alive again!"

A few minutes later they were sitting on the sofa, at opposite ends, sipping tea.
"This is nice tea" Ianto told her, looking at her with a nervous smile.
"How are you alive?" she asked. "I mean, you were a ghost, you haunted me for two years, since I moved in. How are you alive? Don't you remember being dead?"
"I remember dying and I remember suddenly being here, but I don't remember the time in between. I have to find Jack... What, what year is it?"
"2012"

"three years... I've been dead for three years."
"Who's Jack? I heard you calling for him sometimes... Was he a friend, brother?"
"He was my boyfriend... Well, we never really spoke about what we were, he hated the word couple. We went on dates and we... Slept together. There was love there, he never said it but I could feel it"
"Wow. Well, now that you're alive again, go find him and be with him again. Leave me alone" she set her mug down and tucked her dark red hair behind her ears.
There was a moments silence as Ianto went over how real the situation is. What if Jack had already moved on and got someone else, what if there was no position for him at Torchwood? What if Gwen was dead too? What happened after 456 invaded? Who else deid? Did they get any knew members? He was afraid that Jack wouldn't want him back.
"If he loves you like you say he loves you, he won't be afraid to take you back no matter what" for the first time since they sat down, Efa looked up at him. He looked back at her for a few seconds but eventually he looked away, back at his empty mug.

"I'll need a ride" he said timidly.
"You've got to be joking" sure she had a car and she was aloud to drive it, but he was a stranger... Though there was nothing he could do to her in a car that he couldn't have done to her now, sitting here, in her living room drinking tea. With a great sigh and a racing heart she nodded and picked her handbag back up, it had her car keys in it.
"Thank you" he was beyond grateful but he still wasn't sure he wanted to see Jack, he wanted to go to Roald Dahl Plas and keep an eye on the entrance, maybe even pop down the Tourist Centre and see if anyone goes in or out. The car ride was silent. Efa couldn't remember when it had ever been this quite in her car. She always at least had the radio on but she didn't think appropriate to put it on in a situation like this.
"I'm sorry you got dragged into this" Ianto apolaigzed as they drove.
"It's okay" she lied, it wasn't okay but she didn't mind. She'd needed some adventure in her life. This was just it. "You don't seem like a crazy psychopath to me." She didn't say it but she was interested. This guy used to be a ghost, he used walk around in her house shouting for someone called Jack and now her she was, driving her now alive and well ghost around to Roald Dahl Plas to see who this Jack was.
"I'm sorry that you can't have your flat back, I'd be more than happy to give it back to you but, I don't have anywhere else to go."
"You can keep it, maybe Jack will let me stay with him... If he doesn't think I'm some kind of alien or something."
Efa laughed but she didn't realize how serous all this was. That would be exactly what Jack would think, he'd have several test done on Ianto and then maybe, just maybe let him come back into his life but there's no way to know for sure that Jack would be able to open back up to him and let him in the way he did before.

"We're here" she said, parking up and looking out across the landscape.

Ianto's blue eyes darted across the ground and up to the sky, looking at each building and remembering the events that happened there while he was alive. 'No much has changed' he thought to himself. He didn't see anyone he remembered from Torchwood but it was unlikely that -even if they were out- that he'd see them. If they weren't in the hub then they were investigating something and he wouldn't know where to find them anyway. He was trembling. He wasn't sure that taking the invisible lift was a good idea but they wouldn't let him in through the tourist center. What was he going to do. Efa noticed his hesitation and said
"Would you like me to go with you? Just until you find Jack?"
"No, it's not a good idea."
"Are you sure, maybe they'd want to talk to me anyway, after all, I did find you and bring you here."
Dammit... She was right.
"There's way to know I'll even be allowed in. Follow me, stay behind me, do not speak unless I tell you too" he ordered.
She nodded, now scared of what kind of people Ianto used to hang around with. She walked behind, kept quite and aware. Putting on a brave face, she didn't want him to think she was scared, she was but maybe that's what he wanted. Maybe he wanted to scare her. She cursed at herself for getting into this mess. She should have moved out when she realized the house was haunted. She should never have agreed to drive him here, or ask if he wanted her to go with him. Why couldn't she have just let him go? Why did she always have to go and stick her nose where it didn't belong.

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