When he figured they were back in their own time, he let Ianto move away a little. The Hub was silent, seeing as there was no body there.
"Don't go far." He told Ianto as the young man moved away.
"I won't sir." Ianto smiled at him before a bullet pierced him in the chest.
"What the fuck!" He shouted as he ran over to Ianto. It was that moment that Gwen decided to come out of a doorway with her gun outstretched. He just stared at her, then at Ianto who had just died in front of him.
"Oh god, I'm so sorry Jack." Gwen said as she came up to him.
"Where are the others?" He asked quietly.
"Oh, they went home a few hours ago, I've been waiting for you two to get back. We were all worried about you."
Just then Ianto took a shuddering breath, opened his eyes and reached for him so he took Ianto's hand and pulled the young man to him. He hugged Ianto close to his chest to face the ordeal of returning to life for the first time, god knows it scared the hell out of him and he had had no one to help, Gwen had slumped to the floor, utter confusion reflecting in her eyes as she looked at him, then at Ianto who was clutching his shirt like a lifeline.
"How, I shot him, he should be dead Jack?" Gwen asked, surprise and confusion in her voice.
"He's immortal now, he can't die."
"Just like you then?"
"Yeah, just like me."
"When did it happen, and how?"
"About a day ago, and I'm still trying to work it out myself so I can't help you on the how bit," He said as he turned to Ianto. "Are you okay now?"
Ianto just looked back at him, tears forming in his eyes. "Is it always like this Jack?"
"Yeah, but you get used to it after a while," He wiped some of the tears off Ianto's cheeks. "But I'm not gonna let you have the chance to get used to it okay."
Ianto just nodded and tried to get out of his hold. "I think I need a change of shirt," He finally looked at the bloodied shirt Ianto was wearing so he helped Ianto up and led him into the room under his office. He picked up one of his white shirts and a handed it to Ianto; he then went to get a damp cloth so he could wipe the blood off the young man. When that was done he let Ianto change into the fresh white shirt. "Thanks Jack, is it always this weird when you come back to life?" Ianto asked, sitting on the small cot.
"He looked up from looking underneath the bed. "Like I said before, you get used to it, although it took me about 7 times in order for my mind and body to register what was happening and notice that it had been done before." He went back to looking under the cot.
"What are you looking for?" Ianto asked after nodding.
"The crystal that Syder wanted, I know it isn't in the archives or they would've taken it from there, not take you."
He heard Ianto chuckle after he had said that so he looked at Ianto, who in turn was looking at his dresser, so he looked and didn't notice anything so turned back to Ianto who looked back at him and pointed to the dresser and said. "Look Jack, I mean really look."
So he looked really hard, and there was something there that hadn't been before. It was a bright purple and wasn't round or smooth, it was the exact opposite, it was pointy and rough to the touch, it changed colour when you moved it to a certain light. "The crystal of Sureatrinum." He breathed out, he couldn't help it, he'd finally found it, the thing that had been cast away from it's people in order to save themselves was right here in his room.
Ianto looked at him. "Now you know what happened to it, it was with you all the time."
He got up and went over to Ianto and kissed him. "You're amazing, you know that."
"It did cross my mind sir."