My Immortal

Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or Doctor Who.

Summery: Ianto Jones isn't an ordinary Human. He needs answers. Only the right kind of Doctor can give him those answers.

Authors Note: Couple of things, Ianto was the one that is immortal. He travelled with Nine and Rose. Jack's 51st Century Human, his episodes with nine happened it's just that they happened when Nine was Ten instead.

Chapter Two

He hung on as tightly as he could; he wasn't going to escape him this time. He needed answers damn it. So he held on to the blue box as tightly as he could avoid being thrown off in the process. He felt her land with a shudder and then it was dark.

As he came too he thought he felt lips on his mouth. His voice with a difference but it was still painfully him, a female's voice that wasn't Rose's and then Jack's voice? So he said the first thing that came into mind. A dark skinned woman reminding him so much of Lisa looked up at him looking at him in shock.

"Did someone just give me a kiss?" laughter came from Jack as the world came into more focus he gave her a smile.

"Ianto Jones"

"Martha Jones" He could almost feel the eye roll.

"No relation." They said as one and then laughed.

"Stop it," The Doctor protested and at that Ianto really did give an eye-roll.

"Honestly I'm not Jack, Doctor. I was just saying, hello."

"Hey!" Jack protested but Ianto chose to ignore him as Martha helped him up and he gave a reassuring smile to Jack and then stared at him.

"Doctor." He said almost coldly feeling resentment bubble up in him.

"Ianto looking good, though- have you had work done?" Ianto raised an eyebrow and he could see Jack holding back laughter in the corner of his eye.

"You're one to talk" The doctor looked at him with confused eyes, "different face." Ianto motioned and he couldn't help but wonder how Rose had reacted to that- no wait how his Aunt had reacted to that.

"Oh regenerated a while back. How'd you know it was me?" Ianto gave an eye roll.

"The police box kind of gives it away, sir." He paused finally deciding to lay it out there "You abandoned me."

"Did I?" He asked and Ianto nearly wanted to pull out of his pocket his gun and shoot him, "Moving along."

"Doctor…" Ianto started and he could feel eyes on him, "at Canary Wharf… I saw the list of the dead… Rose… Aunt Jackie are they really?" He didn't want to say he had been there.

"Aunt Jackie?" Ianto made himself look at The Doctor steadily and ignore Jack for the moment. He had to know. He'd been so focused on getting Lisa out he hadn't realised that Rose and his Aunt had been there. If they'd been turned into Cyberman he'd never forgive himself. The doctor's face looked sad for a moment and Ianto nearly held his breath, but then he smiled. That fantastic smile that made Ianto feel all right.

"No, no they're fine. They're living with Parallel Pete and Mickey Mouse in another universe safe and sound. I believe you have another cousin as well."

"Aunt Jackie didn't" Ianto couldn't help but say with a slow smile dawning on his face, "and with, Uncle Pete?"

"Parallel, Uncle Pete." The doctor corrected.

"Wait Jackie had another kid? I didn't think she had it in her." Jack interjected and then nearly melted back when Ianto shot him a look.

"Careful or I'll give you a slap worthy of hers." He warned, "That's my aunt you're talking about."

"Speaking of which- Your related to Rose?" Ianto gave a shrug. He thought he heard Martha mutter something about good old Rose at the same time but he wasn't sure.

"Through my Mam's side- she and Aunt Jackie are sisters."

"You've got a lot to explain to me later you still haven't explained the whole not dying thing" Jack said.

"Will do, when we've got time and not a whole lot people watching us. Jack I keep my promises."

"So how did you get back to earth?" The Doctor couldn't help but question, "and the 21st Century no less?" Ianto bit back a small smile.

"You know I'm curious about that too" Jack said, Martha nodded looking curious as well.

"Okay so I woke up on the game station surrounded in Daleck dust. Just in time to watch the Tardis and this daft sod disappear." He shot the Doctor a look who admittedly looked somewhat sheepish, "then some Time Agents came along to do a clean up they'd heard of the Dalecks being there and wanted to check and see if there where any survivors. So thankfully because The Doctor isn't the only one with a time machine I hitched a ride with one of them."

"Please, they" The Doctor waved at Jack who scowled and Ianto looked somewhat surprised, he'd known Jack wasn't from this century but a Time Agent? It seemed like he had a lot to explain as well, "Don't have time machines it's like saying I've got a sports car and he's got a space hopper" He gave a smile while he shared a look with Martha

"Boys and their toys" She scoffed. Ianto cleared his thought.

"Unfortunately he miss calculated and we landed in 1892" after a five year time loop he added mentally in his mind, "after a few tries he managed to get his hopper to work and I never did saw him again."

"He abandoned you as well?" Jack questioned softly, Ianto shrugged.

"Quite honestly if I see him again it would be too soon." He admitted.

"But that would make you over a hundred years old" Martha protested and Ianto gave a grim smile.

"And looking good don't you think?" He watched as Jack gave him a grin, "So I told you my story how'd you meet up with him?"

"Not as long as yours Met up with him and Rosie in the Blitz actually found Rosie first hanging from a blimp in a union jack tee-shirt, no less." Ianto snorted.

"Why doesn't that surprise me?"

"-anyway I went on a couple of trips but then something happened while we where fuelling up in Cardiff on New Years eve in two thousand and well I made a minor mistake and he left and I stayed behind to help fix it." Jack explained somewhat sheepishly, "been waiting for him to come back ever since."

"Minor-"The doctor spluttered, "You caused the Y2K bug!"

"But the Y2K bug was a hoax," Martha protested and Jack gave a small smile.

"Like I said fixed it." Jack pointed out reasonably.

"So is this what you do?" Martha suddenly demanded looking steadily at him, "take us on adventures and then ditch us when you get bored of us?" Ianto's heart went out to her but she had to realise, he reasoned with himself. It never lasted forever, "never contacting us again?"

"Not if you're blonde," Jack stated in a matter of fact way that Ianto couldn't help but glare at his captain, no matter how true it may or may not be. He then walked up to him, raised his hand and gave him a slap worthy of his Aunt.

"That's my cousin you're talking about." He stated coldly also sending a warning glare to Martha who just nodded wordlessly. Even if it had been over one hundred years since he'd seen his present Rose (the one that coincided with him) he was still vastly overprotective of her. He'd been devastated to learn that she'd been at Canary Wharf with his Aunt and had never quite forgiven himself for not seeing things sooner.

"Stop it all of you. Look at you your at The End of The Universe and your fighting over being left behind?" And Rose Ianto could hear the unspoken accusation, they where at the top of the hill.

"Where are all the stars?" Martha couldn't help but question.

"Burnt up, faded away into nothing."

"This doesn't make any sense." Ianto spoke up, "The earth should be completely frozen we should be frozen to death."

"Us maybe." The Doctor said motioning to Jack and Martha, "I'm not entirely sure about you, Ianto." Ianto looked up shared a look with the Doctor and he just knew The Doctor knew the truth about him.

"Well he seems to be doing pretty good for himself," Jack pointed out and they watched as a human ran as fast as he could as he was chased by what looked like to be a mutated version of Cannibals causing Ianto to groan.

"Why did it have to be Cannibals," Ianto exchanged a look with Jack and nodded that he was fine.

"Is it just me or does that look like a hunt?" The Doctor questioned, "Come on!"

"Oh, I missed this" Ianto stated as he ran Jack gave him a huge grin.

"You too?" They caught up to the hunt with a surprisingly amount of ease, however just as they did one leached forward. Ianto pulled whipped out his gun.

"Ianto!" He heard the Doctors plead into not killing them and inwardly he had a fast battle of morals. His twenty first century mind knew it was wrong but these where Cannibals like the ones back in the bloody countryside the ones that had almost killed Tosh and had killed him.

Finally he cocked his gun and shot one bullet above their heads.

"Consider that your warning shot." He told them firmly and when they didn't move Ianto moved to aim the gun at them, "Do you want to try me?" He growled out, cocking the gun.

"Why can't you be more like this at work?" He heard Jack wine from behind him.

"Now is not the time, Sir."

"You work for him?" Martha's voice sounded surprised. However he kept his eyes firmly on the Cannibals in front. Then he heard a truck come up and minuets later Jack was pulling him up.

"Captain Jack Harkness," Ianto rolled his eyes as Jack introduced himself to Chan-to.

"Stop it." He and the Doctor chorused as one, and for a brief moment shared a smile.

"Can't I say hello to anyone?" Jack questioned, causing Ianto to roll his eyes once more with a slight sigh.

"Chan, I do not protest" Chan-to spoke up and Ianto silently rolled his eyes for a third time while Jack sent her a wink.

"Maybe later, blue"

"Just get over here," The Doctor said and Ianto watched as he gave Jack a fond look, without realising that Martha was getting close to his backpack until he heard her shriek.

"Yo…you…you've got a hand in jar. A hand in a jar" She reiterated again and Ianto couldn't help but think she sounded slightly like Gwen.

"Th-that's my hand." The Doctor stated in astonishment.

"That was The Doctors hand? All this time?" Jack's face was one of plain shock. Ianto decided to go for dry sarcasm.

"Didn't I say I had a Doctor detector?" He questioned.

"Chan- is this a tradition among your people- to?" Ianto opened his mouth to reply but was bet out by Martha again.

"Not on my street. What do you mean your hand? You've got both your hands, I can see them" Yep defiantly reminded him of Gwen at this point.

"Long story, Christmas day lost my hand in a sword fight" The Doctor said with a slight shrug of his shoulders. Ianto knew that there had been more to it Yvonne had had the hand for a while until he'd managed to …. Borrow it from Torchwood.

"What and you just grew it back?" She questioned with a slight roll of her eyes and Ianto couldn't help but give a smirk.

"Yep," Martha shot The Doctor a look of disbelief while Jack snorted while the Doctor gave a slight wave of his hand, "Hello"

The next few things went by in a blur for Ianto. He was electrocuted and brought back to life in front of Jack, Martha, Professor Yana and The Doctor. Not to mention Chan-to who he was growing to be quite fond of. Then he was taking his jacket off and heading into the chamber.

"What are you taking your jacket off for?" The Doctor questioned in astonishment, "The radiation doesn't effect clothing…"

"And on the off chance that it did? I'm not ruining a perfectly good suit, Doctor" He made his way to the chamber in his shirt and pants, "How long have you known?" He couldn't help but question.

"Ever since I ran away from you, Yan" He bit his lip but continued on without reacting. The mask needed to be in place. "When did you find out?"

"Earth. 1892. Elis island. Got into a bar fight and a man shot me through the heart." Ianto admitted, "then I woke up, thought it was kind of strange but then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, electrocuted a couple of times, World War 1, World War 2, poisoned, tortured, a stray javelin"

"Ouch" The Doctor's voice sounded a little sympathetic there but sympathy wasn't what Ianto wanted. He needed answers.

"In the end I got the message. I'm the man that can never die and all that time you knew?"

"That's why I left you behind, Ianto. Because you're wrong."

"Gee, I knew there was a reason I liked you" Ianto said dryly refusing to admit that the remark had hurt him a little.

"I can't help it, I'm a time lord just looking at you make sick, Ianto. You're a fixed point all of time and space runs right past you"

"The last thing I remember…" Ianto said trying to change the subject trying to shake off the little hurt that he felt, "death by extermination, then I came back to life… what happened?"

"Rose" Ianto's eyes widened in shock.

"I thought you sent her back, with Aunt Jackie…"

"She came back. Opened the heart of the Tardis and absorbed the time vortex"

"What does that mean?"

"No one's ever meant to have that power. If you do it as a Time Lord you become a vengeful god. But she did it as a human. She brought you back to life, but she couldn't control it. She made your timeline last forever Ianto, she loved you that much"

"I went back to see her and Aunt Jackie during the 90's, watched her grow up. I never went up and said anything to her timelines and all but…" He trailed off with a slight fond look on his face as he worked.

"Do you want to die?" The questioned stumped him for a moment.

"This ones a little stuck" He deflated, knowing that it wouldn't work for a second.

"Ianto" He paused unsure how to answer.

"I used to. Especially after Canary Wharf" And Lisa he added mentally in his brain, "but… now… seeing how everyone managed to survive out here?"

"You know… you could be out there"

"I could have an argument with myself," Ianto said with a laugh.

"The only man who could ever win against you,"

"This new regeneration of yours… kind of cheaky"

Ianto watched in slight horror as The Doctor stared at shock over something. He wasn't sure what was going on but he found for once he didn't mind. Suddenly The Doctor snapped back into reality.

"Ianto, go to back to Professor Yana's office. Stay there guard the Tardis. Make sure he doesn't open a fob watch. If he does protect Chan-to and the Tardis" Ianto nodded going into a sprint, "Oh and Yan?" Ianto turned back for a moment.

"Sir?"

"Be careful," Ianto nodded and made his way to the office, getting in to the Tardis just before the door slammed shut and he fell on his side. Then it all went blank.

To Be Continued.