I'm posting this early cause I'm nice. It's kinda short so I'll post again Monday.

By the time they had Jack settled again, Tosh and Owen were rubbing their eyes wearily.

"Do you want to go home?" Ianto asked them.

"If it won't be too much trouble," Tosh smiled.

"Course not," Ianto replied. Tosh turned around and left, leafing Ianto and Owen standing by Jack.

"What time is it anyway," Owen yawned.

"Half past two," Ianto replied.

"Usually I'd be fine with this but the past week has just been a killer…" Owen eyed Ianto suspiciously. "You're not tired?"

"I'm used to it,"

"How much sleep do you usually get?"

"Two to four hours a night," Ianto replied.

"Well that's what we've been getting recently. Hope you don't mind if I go home,"

"Not at all. Nothing big is going on right now, and Jack's out so I doubt he'll be a problem," Owen nodded his thanks and stumbled out the door. Ianto looked down at Jack before going to clean the base. He rearranged the papers into neat piles, picked up the discarded cups and plates and threw them away, he cleaned up all the random crap lying around the Hub and checked his watch, which read quarter past three.

"Now what am I supposed to do?" Ianto asked himself. Looking around he walked up to the monitors and checked the scans Tosh had running on the substance they injected Jack with. Ianto looked over the scans and tried to figure out what else they injected Jack with, besides the Vikatin. He hadn't been working ten minutes when someone started screaming bloody murder. Ianto jumped up from the seat and raced over to the med center, where the screams where originating. Jack was thrashing around on the table, knocking over devices and messing everything up. Jack threw himself side to side and would've fallen off if Ianto wasn't there to push him back up on the table.

"Jack calm down. It's just a dream," Ianto whispered to him. "Come on, wake up. Jack, wake up." Slowly the thrashing stopped and Jack opened his eyes.

"Dead," Jack whispered. "They're all dead. Dead and gone. Everyone, not a thing I can do. Never can join them, can't… Jack trailed off.

"It's ok, they're not dead. That is just a memory from the paradox, it got erased, never existed. We're all alive-" Ianto tried to comfort him.

"No, this wasn't the paradox. It was worse. Much worse. All of you were tortured in front of me, and I had to give information I didn't have to keep them from killing you. You were the last person, and before I had been lying and they figured it out, they took it out on you and… I wanted to stop them! But I was in chains and I was forced to watch as they slowly tortured you to death. And the screaming, the screaming, I couldn't do anything…" Jack stiffened as a spasm gripped his body. "No one could save you…" the sentence ended in a moan of pain as Jack was tortured by the images.

"Jack, open your eyes, just open them, the images will go away. Just open your eyes," Ianto murmured, trying to help. But Jack rocked back and forth, moaning and groaning and all Ianto could do was watch. Ianto looked around frantically, trying to find something that would calm Jack down, when he remembered the SUV. Jack had been having a panic attack and Ianto brought him back from that. Ianto turned around and marched over to Jack, Ianto grabbed Jack's shoulders and planted a firm kiss on Jack's mouth. He stopped thrashing and froze, before relaxing and lying down. As Ianto broke away he saw the smile on Jack's face, and Ianto smiled back, knowing the nightmares wouldn't come back.