Author's Note

I do not own the rights to torchwood if I did then Ianto Jones would not have died and there would be no need for fanfiction about him coming back.

Well here's chapter 4 guys – hope you like it and keep reviewing =)

Chapter 4

Captain Jack Harkness was a man of many mysteries. For one Jack Harkness wasn't his real name – Jack wasn't even sure if he would even remember his original name if he tried.

It had been a year since Jack had left Earth. A year since, he had lost his lover and murdered his grandson. He laughed – they had both been murdered – both his fault. Ianto Jones had been his lover, his friend and it had been Jack who had recruited him. People always died around him, Suzie, Tosh, Owen, Steven and…Ianto. He remembered every time he closed his eyes. If only he'd said it – he never admitted it – he hoped Ianto had known at the end how much the young Welshman meant to him but he had never said it. Not once in the three years they had had a relationship – not once and now he was gone because of Jack. He'd lost everything the moment the 456 had returned to earth – that's why he knew he had too leave – his daughter hated him, he didn't have Ianto and Gwen…he couldn't put Gwen through that pain – he couldn't lose Gwen as well. So he left Earth vowing never too return.

"Oh I'll miss that – the welsh complaining!" Jack said with a slight smile, "You look good!"

"I look huge!" Gwen said sighing.

"She's bloody gorgeous!" Rhys said grinning as Gwen laughed.

Jack gave a small laugh in response too what Rhys said as Gwen walked towards him – her hand resting on her stomach.

"You okay?"

Jack gulped as he looked at her, "Yeah!"

"Did it work?"

"Troubles all sorts of places!" he said taking a deep breath in, "This planet is too small – the whole world is like a graveyard!"

"Come back with us!" Gwen said looking at him.

"Haven't travelled far enough yet – got a lot of dirt to shake of my shoes!" Jack said as he looked up at the stars, "And right now there is a cold-fusion cruiser surfing the ion reefs just at the edge of the solar system, just waiting to open its transport dock."

Jack looked at Gwen – she looked as if she would cry, "I just need to send a signal!"

Gwen pointed up at the sky and smiled. She produced Jack's Vortex manipulator.

"We found it at the wreckage – indestructible!" she said sighing, "Like its owner – I put on a new strap for you!"

"Cost me 50 quid that!" Rhys shouted

"Bill me!" Jack replied

"Are you ever coming back Jack?" Gwen asked hopeful.

"What for?" Jack asked hesitantly.

"For me!" Gwen said simply.

Jack looked at Gwen – tears in his eyes as he began too shake his head. Gwen had tears in her eyes as well. Her eyes pleading with him too stay.

"It wasn't your fault!" Gwen said – tears rolling down her face – her welsh accent thick with sadness.

"I think it was!" Jack said quickly.

"No!" Gwen whispered shaking her head.

"Steven and Ianto and Owen and Tosh and Suzie and…" Jack trailed off as he shook his head, "All of them because of me."

Jack turned his head away from Gwen as she spoke.

"But you saved us." Gwen said as she took Jack's hands, "Didn't you?"

"I began to like it and look what I became!" he took a deep breath in as he stopped, "Still I have lived so many lives. Its time to find another one!"

Jack's voice was barely a whisper now – Gwen's face was full of sadness as Jack stepped back from her. He touched a button on his vortex manipulator. The machine began to beep as it sent out the signal.

"They died and I am sorry, Jack, but you cannot just run away!" Gwen tried one final time, "You cannot run away!"

Gwen's tears were rolling down her face as she looked at Jack shaking her head.

"Oh yes I can." Jack said simply, "Just watch me."

And with that Jack disappeared into the stars in a beam of light…

Present Day….

Jack woke with a start – it had only been a dream. The idea that it had just been a dream was laughable to Jack – it had been a nightmare of one of the worst days of his life – the other being the day he had lost Ianto. Saying goodbye to Gwen had broken his already fragile heart. The look on her face – her begging him too stay but he'd left anyway – left her and Rhys alone.

"I couldn't say!" he said punching the wall of the room he was staying in, "It was all my fault!"

Jack was on some distant planet – trying so hard too stay away from Earth – far from her galaxy. He kept running – running from his past – from his memories. He couldn't go back – too many people – good people – had died because of him. He could still see Ianto's face – him begging Jack too remember him. Jack had promised he would never forget him – that he couldn't forget him. In the short 3 years they had been together Ianto Jones had made a big impression on him. On his life. So that was why he would never forget Ianto. His Welshman.

Jack was trying so hard too forget his memories when he heard a familiar sound outside – he looked out the window and saw the blue box – the Tardis. That meant one thing – the doctor. He didn't want to see the doctor either – it brought back the memories too. He decided the doctor had probably tracked him here and wouldn't stop till he said or did what he wanted to say or do. Jack got up and pulled his shirt and Jacket on. He pulled his trousers on. As he put his boots on he felt tears on his face. He quickly dried his eyes as walked out of the room and over too the Tardis.

"JACK!" the doctor called in his hyper sounding voice, "Good too see you Captain!"

Jack grinned as he saw his friend – he walked over and hugged him.

"Hello Doctor!" he said smiling, "What's brings you here?"

"Well you Jack!" he said hugging him back, "I got a message from my daughter!"

Jack looked confused, "Daughter?"

"Well…More like my clone!" he said laughing, "She works with your Gwen Cooper at the new Torchwood!"

Jack was now even more confused. Gwen had rebuilt Torchwood. He suddenly felt pride for his old friend.

"Okay and?" he asked the doctor waiting for him too elaborate.

"Well she says that…uh….that Ianto Jones is alive again!"

The doctor didn't say anything after that – the look on Jack's face was enough too tell him that he had to process this.

"I…I…Ianto….Ianto's back?" he asked in disbelief, "How?"

The doctor shrugged his shoulders, "I had nothing to do with it Jack – I swear – Jenny thinks that maybe the rift has something too do with it!"

Jack looked even more confused, "Why would the rift…" he trailed off as the doctor interrupted him.

"Maybe as a reward for you?" he suggested.

"What a year later?"

"Maybe it was the only time it could?" he said looking at Jack, "But anyway Jenny says that he's a mess and that Gwen wants you back on Earth so you can help him!"

Jack stepped back – he couldn't go back – it was too hard.

"I…I….I can't Doctor!" he said and for the first time since he had been a boy he felt unsure about himself, "It's too hard!"

"Well Jack I'm going back tonight so you have about six hours!" the doctor said heading back into the Tardis to give Jack time too think, "You've got that time too decide!"

Jack stood in the same spot for over an hour – his thoughts going round his head at 100 mph. He looked at the Tardis door and knocked.

"I'm coming with you!" Jack said quietly.

The doctor smiled as he opened the door – he walked over too the consul and started flicking switches – heading for 21st century earth.

"I'm coming back Ianto…" Jack trailed off speaking to himself.

Author's note

Well that's chapter 4 – I'll be writing Chapter five and will hopefully have it on tomorrow – Jack and Ianto meet for the first time since Ianto's been back…