A/N Spoilers for COE well sort of

"You said he was dead?" Mickey said in surprise.

"King of the Weevils?" Lois said at the same time.

"He's back? Lord help us!" came John's voice over the comms.

"Look calm down." Martha said taking control of the situation. "Owen died two years ago, but we brought him back to life. Then one year ago today Owen Harper died in the Nuclear Power plant when it vented its radioactive waste into the chamber he was in."

"Gwen."Owen said barely moving his mouth. "Where the HELL is Tosh?" he yelled at her.

Gwen's eyes filled with tears silently as she tried to answer him. "Tosh no longer works for Torchwood. She retconned herself, she forgot the past three years. She forgot Torchwood"

"Why?" Owen demanded. "What happened to her? Where is Jack and Ianto? Why is John here?"

"Owen relax. I'll tell you what happened to her if you come back with us to the hub." He nodded and Gwen and Martha helped him to his feet and they set off towards the SUV.

Gwen and Martha walked into the conference room and headed towards the table. She and Martha sat on one side and Owen sat down opposite them. He watched them carefully, Gwen looked tired, and her eyes had shadows under them. Martha's hand now born a wedding ring Owen noticed but she had a professional look on her face as they studied him.

"Owen, why aren't you dead?" Martha asked sharply. "I can see that you're breathing." she added as an explanation.

"Look I don't really know, and right now I don't care. WHAT HAPPENED TOSHIKO?" He yelled. They looked startled and he realised they needed an answer to their question. "The rift healed me. Then brought me straight back here. I have been gone a few hours. You said it was a year?"

"The rift healed you we'll have Martha check for any radiation or problems like that." Gwen said as calmly as she could. "As for Toshiko as I said she retconned herself. But I am rather glad she did what she had to do. Ianto and Jack would have broken her heart again."

"Ianto and Jack? What happened? Again, who broke her heart before?" Owen spoke quickly unable to keep his silence.

"Ianto died six months ago. Jack left soon after that, he came back a month ago and said he was leaving Earth. Then I had my baby and everything got harder. I had to rebuilt the Hub and hire a new crew by myself." Owens's face had several emotions on it. There was anger, sorrow and sympathy which was something you rarely got from Owen.

"Owen, did Tosh say anything to you while you were trapped in the Nuclear Power Plant?" Martha asked.

He thought about this for a moment and as he ran through the conversation in his head, he remembered something else, a man with blond hair and dark eyes. It wasn't just the man that distributed him, in his memory he was watching as the man snogged Toshiko. He shook his head savagely, he didn't know who this guy was but he had been in the Hub. A name came to his head easily though it meant nothing to him, Adam.

"Owen!" Gwen had noticed his face losing focus and she tried asking him again "Did Tosh mention being shot?"

That snapped Owen out of his thoughts about the mysterious stranger, Adam. "She was SHOT!?" he shouted. "Who?" Then he remember the minute where Tosh had been unable to breath and he had heard her whimper in pain.

"Gray." Came a new voice from the door Owen whirled around. Captain John Hart stood there leaning against the door. "She almost died. And she spent what could have been her last moments on Earth talking to you."

Owen thought about this. He shuddered he had screamed at her, never had it occurred to him, that she might have been hurt. "She said it was her arm." He said sadly.

"We found her just in time and Jack was able to save her. Though she never seemed herself after that. She couldn't work here anymore. She was too heartbroken. Owen she couldn't really live without you. You may have never shown her any kindness but she needed to you. She refused to eat. I don't think she slept unless Jack gave her sleeping pills. She couldn't even work. She just sat there and stared into space. It drove her asked for retcon after three months. She couldn't live with Torchwood without you."

Martha had tears silently streaming down her face and as Gwen told the story her voice was calm yet her knuckles were white, as he clenched his fist under the table. John was the only one who didn't seem broken hearted.

"I want to see her" Owen said.

"You can't. She's finally happy. And she's loved. Owen, Tosh is engaged."

TBC

Next chapter will be a long one.