About an hour later, and Jack had finished his story. The team waited for the girl's reaction. It was not exactly what they expected. She laughed. And laughed. And laughed. Jack looked on disapprovingly.

"Done?" He asked as her laughter finally faded into giggles, and then stopped completely.

"Aha, yeah, just about." She said to him, still grinning.

"What was that about?" Jack asked her. Clearly the girl didn't just burst into hysterics at anything.

"I was just imagining the look on his face when he realized you were immortal. God, that must have been hilarious. Poor John." She started giggling again after this, until she received an angry look from Jack. "Sorry, sorry. Of course he was completely out of line." Jack sniffed at her.

"Of all the things…Him paralyzing Gwen? Nothing. Shooting Owen? Nothing. Pushing me off a building?!? Nope, still nothing. I tell you I can't die and we get hysterics? What is wrong with you?" He complained at her. She gave him a calculating look.

"So you don't know then?"

**********

"Know what?" Jacks tone must have been one that convinced the girl of his ignorance, because now she was the one frowning.

"Ever since the Time Agency closed down, he's been searching for a way to stay alive. Forever." She told them. Jack look stunned.

"What?!?" He exclaimed.

"Mmhm. Especially since the others were killed. He's obsessed. Keeps trying to screw me again as well. Says we've got to carry on the line now we're the only one's left. His pick-up lines are getting worse and worse. Didn't think it was possible" Jack looked even more shocked, if that was achievable.

"What do you mean? He told me there was 7 of us!" Jack was visibly struggling from going over there, taking her shoulders and shaking them until she answered.

"There were," she replied, sadness filling her voice. "The Juddoon caught up with us though." An unconscious shiver ran through her body, and now Jack only wanted to hug her.

"What were you doing?" He asked, voice dropping to a whisper.

"Smuggling," The girl answered bleakly.

"They were executed for that?" Jack was looking confused.

"Not exactly." Jack asked the question with his eyes.

"It was Red." She smiled softly. "You know his temper. He fought back…"

It was Jack who shuddered this time.

"Idiot," He muttered. "How-how did you-?"

"Escape?" She completed for him. He nodded. "Sope. Shoved me in an escape hatch. Disabled it so I couldn't go back for them. I-I couldn't save them Jack. I couldn't help." The girl was holding back tears now. She nearly succeeded, but a singular tear escaped.

Ianto suddenly felt a wave of sadness overcome him. He gasped, as guilt abruptly exploded inside him, breaking his heart with the pain. Although nearly crippled with his emotions warring inside, he managed to see the girl through his tears. And another emotion appeared. But this was more like a need. A need to hold the girl in his arms, to protect her, to tell her everything was ok. Ianto suddenly found himself staggering towards the girl, not knowing what he was doing, or about to do.

**********

Jack was concentrating on the girl, working out what the hell to do, when Ianto crossed his vision, staggering towards the girl. Jack was about to call out to him when he saw the tears pouring down Ianto's face and stopped, too shocked for words. He watched disbelievingly as Ianto bent to crouch next to where the girl was sitting on the sofa. Ianto's hand crept forward and gently wiped the tear from her face. The next second, he was slumped on the floor, leaning against the sofa with the girl cradled in his arms. Jack suddenly realized she was crying. 'No, she can't be!' he thought, 'She never cries!'. But she was. She was sobbing into Ianto's shirt, whilst he talked at her, soothing and comforting her. Owen and Tosh were alternating between flashing questioning looks at Jack and staring, confused but fascinated, at Ianto and the girl. Jack was having a hard time looking away as well. He had rarely seen Ianto this out of control, not since the fiasco with Lisa and the issue with the cannibals. Jack was captivated by Ianto, and the way he was holding the girl like he was never going to let go of her. He was still trying to calm her, and Jack stepped closer to hear what he was saying.

"Shhh, it wasn't your fault, you couldn't do anything, please Keira, its ok,"

Jack gasped. How did Ianto know her name?!?

**********

The second Ianto had uttered her name Keira had wrenched herself out of his grip, and stumbled away from him. She continued to back away until she was a few metres away from any of the team, eyes fixed on Ianto. At first he had pulled himself up, arms outstretched trying to get her back, but as soon as she was 5 metres away he collapsed into the sofa.

"Ianto!" Jack was over by his side in seconds. "What have you done to him?!?" he yelled at Keira over his shoulder. She didn't answer, still trying to control her breathing. Suddenly Ianto took a deep breath and shot up in the sofa.

"JACK!" He cried out. Jack immediately wrapped his arms around him, soothing him exactly how Ianto had been doing a few seconds ago. Jack glared at Keira again.

"What the hell did you do?" He hissed at her. Keira had finally regulated her breathing, and could answer.

"Sorry, sorry, I completely forgot, and I thought he was further away, and then he was there and I couldn't stop, sorry, sorry sorry-" She gabbled at Jack at high speed. He frowned at her.

"What? Slower, and make it make sense!" He said, calmer than before, now that he'd seen that she hadn't done on purpose. Keira exhaled slowly.

"Ok, sorry. Here goes."

**********

"It started after I was in the escape pod. Passed through some kind of asteroid field. Got a bit smashed up. Crash landed."

"Where?" Jack interjected.

"Omega 6. Couldn't think of what to do, so I contacted you and John. Next thing I know John's arrived, apologizing for you not being there. He said you had said you had more important things to do. I got a bit…upset at that. Next thing I know, John's started screaming and throwing things around. Shocked me a bit, I can tell you. So I tried to calm him down. As soon as I was calm so was he. It was strange, but we just ignored it. That night, John tried it on with me. It ended up very…steamy. Second best sex of my life, can tell you that now-"

"What was the best?" Jack interrupted again. Keira rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, we worked out-"

"What was the best?" Jack was clearly not letting this go. Keira gritted her teeth.

"Why do you care?"

"What was it?" Jack insisted.

"Fine! It was the waterfall!" She told at him.

"The one at Aspartamine?" Jack was still questioning her.

"YES! How many times do you think I've had sex in a waterfall!?!" She was nearly yelling now.

"Alright, alright. Just wondering," He muttered. "Same here though." He added with a lecherous wink.

Keira ignored the statement and decided to continue with her story.

"Anyway, as I was saying, afterwards we worked out that the asteroid field was actually a cluster of Arcadian diamonds,"

"What?" This time Tosh interrupted. "Isn't that what John was looking for?" Jack nodded.

"So he did manage to track it…" Keira mused. "But yeah, it was Arcadian diamonds. Which have been known to have-"

"Psychic powers! Of course…" Jack interrupted yet again. Keira growled at him. "Sorry, sorry, you were saying?"

"They've got psychic powers." She continued. "Which somehow got passed along to me. Did all sorts of crazy things. Amongst them, is that."

"Right…so what exactly is 'that'?" Jack demanded.

" 'That' was emotional transfer. First thing we noticed." The team still looked very confused. Keira tried to explain it in simple terms. "Basically, if I get particularly emotional about anything, anyone within 5 metres immediately feels the same. Exactly what I'm feeling at that moment in time."

Jack instantly turned to Ianto.

"What did you feel Ianto?" He asked, sounding intrigued.

"Pain," Ianto whispered. "So much pain. And guilt. Like it was crushing me." He shivered and Jack tightened his arms round him, whilst sending a questioning look at Keira.

"It magnifies it as well," She lied quickly. "But Ianto did something different." She said, examining him from her perch on the stairs.

"What do you mean?" Everyone was looking confused again.

"Its almost like he was reflecting it back to me again," Keira said, still eying him curiously. "No one else has ever done that before. Magnified it again as well." Another lie.

There was silence for a few minutes while everyone looked at Ianto, trying to work out what was different about it. Ianto was getting very uncomfortable at the stares, so he decided to try and distract everyone by suggesting the first thing that came into his head.

"Maybe its because you're injured?"

"WHAT?" Jack shouted. Keira wasn't sure if Ianto ignored the glare she sent him, or if he missed it because he was struggling with the now uncomfortably tight arms wrapped around him. In any case he still answered Jack.

"She's been shot."