What can I say? I'm a sap for happy endings. But if someone ever dares to call me a romantic, may they be dragged down to hell, screaming, by a lavender farting hellhound named Jimi (Lampito's character.) ;P
Happily Ever After
Jack gasps his way back to life, he's on the floor of a warehouse, all around him are bodies covered in white sheets. Gwen is waiting next to him and Ianto.
'Nononono...not him!' Jack thinks desperately, and before he realizes what he's doing, he's leaning down over Ianto and pressing their lips firmly together.
When Jack leans back from the kiss, he has tears streaks running down his face, he looks down at Ianto, who promptly gasps back to life much in the same way Jack did only moments before.
Jack, Gwen and Ianto's eyes are as round as saucers.
"Jack?" Ianto asks breathlessly.
In that moment Jack doesn't care how it happened or if he did it. Ianto's alive and that's ALL that matters. He places his palms on each side of Ianto's head and firmly kisses him.
"I don't know, and I don't care. You're ALIVE that's all that matters." He whispers into Ianto's lips.
Gwen's still just sitting there, shell shocked.
"Gwen?" Ianto asks worriedly, she looks a little pale…paler than usual anyway.
Suddenly she snaps out of it, roughly grabs Ianto in a hug and says fiercely into his ear, "don't you ever do that again. You hear me?"
Ianto just smiles slightly and says, "with our jobs? Not possible.'
Gwen just snorts and playfully slaps him on the arm. She then turns to Jack and asks, "what now?"
"We end this." He says fiercely.
His grandson is dead, but the world's children are safe. He has to think of the bigger picture. He looks over to Ianto, who is trying to calm down his grieving daughter, and the answer hits him like a gust of wind knocking the breath out of you. He rushes over to Steven, bends down and presses his lips against the boys while tearing up, trying to recreate the exact same situation there was with Ianto. When he leans back Alice is furiously trying to get him to move away from her son when Steven suddenly gasps back to life. The entire room stops.
"Mum? Uncle Jack? Wh-what's going on?," asks Steven while trying to sit up.
"Oh my God! Steven!," Alice exclaims grabbing her son into a hug, she turns to Jack and says breathlessly, "thank you."
Jack just looks at her sadly and says, "I'll stay away from you and your son from now on."
With that he gets up and walks over to where Ianto and Gwen are waiting for him. "Come on, we've got a lot of work to do."
"What do you mean?," asks Gwen puzzled, they just saved the world…again, couldn't they rest for ten seconds?
"Well for one, Lois is still in jail and I'm thinking she would be a good Torchwood member. Which brings me to problem two, we still have no base, it was blown up remember?" Jack asks sarcastically.
Ianto and Gwen snort in response. "So even after we save the world… again might I add, we still don't get a vacation?" Gwen asks mockingly annoyed.
Jack just smiles and replies, "nope."
"Huh. Typical." She says while crossing her arms over her chest and rolling her eyes.
"Well look at the bright side." Ianto tries, and Gwen gives him and incredulous look, "at least we won't be bored."
Gwen smiles at that, she doesn't even want to think what Jack would have done if he died.
The End.