"Ianto, what can you remember?" Gwen asked in the meeting room of the 'new' hub. It looked a lot like the old one in the same place under the water tower. Jack had helped build it so he said what he wanted.
"I remember actually dying and that..." Ianto trailed off.
"It's all right you can say it we heard it enough of Owen and Suzie." Jack said Ianto nodded and continued. "There was nothing just darkness. And voices, voices of people you lost in the past. Like I wasn't all the way dead and they were calling me."
"Well that's new. Who was there?" Gwen asked.
"There wasn't Tosh or Owen or Suzie. It... It was my mum and dad."
"It's alright, maybe you weren't actually dead. Maybe you were just that little bit still alive." Jack said with hope in his voice.
"Jack I know you don't want to hear this, but what if he is like you? That he can't die either?" Gwen asked. Jack turned around looking like he was deep in thought.
"He can't though I mean I would love to have someone to spend it with but I was a fix point in time. I was created by Rose when she looked into the heart of the TARDIS. Until then I could die, in fact I did." Jack said still deep in though.
"Ianto give me your hand." Gwen said and Ianto gave her his hand. "He's got a pulse. Jack he is alive. He isn't the dead walking like Owen, he is really alive."
Jack nodded. "Right so it's like he never even died. Why don't we just live for the moment like we always did? I know it sounds weird but I don't want to dwell on this any longer. We have Ianto back that's all that matters right now. Isn't it?" They both nodded as Rhys walked in with pizza and Anwen. Rhys handed them the pizza and then asked. "So what me and Gwen move back to Cardiff? And yes I heard you talking."
"Why not?" Gwen asked looking a Jack.
"Hey I'm in." Jack said.
"Like old times" Ianto added.
Rhys sighed. "Okay I'll call your mum get her to get some house for sale leaflets." Gwen smiled it really was going to be like old times.
"Ianto have you got a house?" Gwen asked. Ianto put down his pizza and thought about. "Erm what do you think Gwen I have been dead for about a year and a half." Jack laughed
"He can stay with me." Jack said "Although I live here. At the hub it's quite good actually you're never late for work"
"Okay sorted." Gwen said smiling. "Me and Rhys will find somewhere cheap, then yeah we know the rest."
"Gwen you don't need to find somewhere cheap living off a Torchwood salary." Jack said.
"Fair point." Rhys said.
Rhys and Gwen had gone home to her mother's house and there was only Ianto and Jack on the couch. Ianto had he head on Jack shoulder for the simple fact he hadn't seen him in ages. "What was it like?" Jack asked breaking the silence. "What haven't you died enough?" Ianto asked back but not sitting up. "Yeah but I always know I'm going to wake up. So?"
"Sad, weird, again sad that you'd be on your own well with Gwen but... I don't know. I meant what I said though." Ianto said sitting up and stretching.
"What? Oh right yeah. About the voices?" He asked he had another idea but wasn't sure, but just to be sure he mentioned the other one. "Oh and I love you too."
Ianto turned to him and smiled. "Really, even though I might be able to die?"
Jack laughed. "Yeah. Come on, it's been a long day." He stood up and offered Ianto a hand. He smiled and gladly took it.
I hope this was okay. Please can you tell me what you think.
To be continued