The next morning, when Jack woke up, Gwen and the rest of the team were already at their stations in the Hub. Gwen appeared to be doing her best to hide the effects of a hangover, which was easy enough, because Owen and Tosh were clearly nursing their own hangovers as well.

He walked downstairs and saw Gwen waiting for him. It had been easier for him to sleep with Gwen being there too. He usually had so many things buzzing around in his head, centuries worth of guilt and secrets. He could forget about those for a little while with her.

Maybe last night hadn't been just about Gwen.

"Morning," Gwen said, walking to the base of the stairs.

"Morning," he replied, kissing her. He didn't want last night to be a one-time thing.

"Jack." She whispered. "Everyone else is here."

Without missing a beat, he turned around and in sequence, kissed Ianto, Owen and Tosh good morning. Tosh raised an eyebrow at him.

"Well, I couldn't exactly kiss one of you good morning and not the others! That would be favoritism." Jack responded, as if kissing all his employees good morning was something he did on a regular basis.

At the stairs, Gwen was trying to not completely bend over laughing. It wasn't really successful.

"Really, mate?" Owen shot a disdainful glance at Jack as he finished the autopsy of a body that had been killed by a rogue Weevil.

"Really what?" Jack continued to play off the morning kiss as nothing, maintaining his whole "I'm not sleeping with Gwen Cooper!" pretense.

"I shagged Tosh last night, and you don't see me kissing her good morning." He rolled his eyes.

"Well, that's because I'm a gentleman." Jack smirked.

A/N: If you're a Janto shipper and you're coming on all my stories to bash on Jack/Gwen (you know who you are) kindly leave. I don't particularly care for your opinion and if you're going to spend your time bashing on mine a) you're kind of pathetic and b) I don't want your opinion on my corner of the Internet.

Besides, we all know whose kiss brought Jack back to life in the finale of Series 1. And who is still alive. :)