"So what were you doing in the middle of road anyway?" They were driving back to the office. Jack still hadn't told Ianto where he was, he knew he had to, he would work it out when they turned up at an office, and not the Hub like Ianto was expecting. But Jack kept putting it off.

"I was crossing it, and then this maniac appeared out of nowhere. Next thing I know, I'm in hospital. I hope they got him. What are you doing?"

Jack pulled over at the side of the road. He couldn't lie to Ianto any longer.

"I know where the car came from. It was there all along. It didn't appear from nowhere, you did."

"Jack what are you talking about?"

"I should have told you straight away, but I just wanted a bit of time, just to pretend that everything was normal."

"Tell me what's going on."

"Ianto," Ianto just stared at him, it looked as if whatever Jack was trying to say was killing him. "You're dead."

"No. I'm here Jack, you're confused or something, I mean, getting a phone call saying I had been hit by a car must have worried you, but I'm fine. Look we'll get Owen to check you over when we get back to the Hub and-"

"He can't. Ianto he died too, and Tosh. You're all dead."

Jack could see how confused Ianto was, he knew he needed to try and explain what had happened, but the thought of going over it again was awful. He never spoke about the days that they had all died. It still hurt.

"I can't be dead Jack, I'm here. Look at me, I'm here and completely real."

Jack shook his head. "You're not from here. I think..."

"What?"

"I think you're from a parallel world. You've fallen through the rift Ianto. Because in this world, you died in Thames House, and I couldn't save you."

Jack could see that Ianto was beginning to realise what had happened.

"The car." He said. "That's why I didn't see it, and why you looked so strange when you saw me there."

Jack nodded. Ianto looked at him, and gently took his hand. They sat in silence for several minutes, neither of them sure what to say. Then Jack spoke.

"We see people, aliens, objects, so many things. We see them fall through the rift all the time. I just never expected it to be someone I knew." Jack knew it was a lot to take in, for both of them, but there was something that had been on his mind since he had realised where Ianto seemed to have come from. "What happened?"

"What do you mean?"

"In Thames House. You didn't die, but here, here you did. What was different?"

"I never went in, you went alone."

Jack nodded, of course, he had always known about parallel worlds, and the possibility that in one of them he had made a very different decision that day.

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