I was still half asleep when we walked into the autopsies room to see John putting some weird triangle into a triangular shape with a hole in the middle made of three pieces on the table. I hardly knew what was happening. There was this beeping sound, I assumed it was just in my head, as side effect from being paralyzed. Gwen had told me to just point my gun at him and crack the back, so that's what I did. We all did it at the same time.

"Okay…" John said and looked up at us. The beeping stop. Was that triangle making the beeping? Or am I crazy? Nope…I'm just crazy. I shrugged to myself.

"Pretty and resilient." He commented and looked over at me. "Is that even fair?" he shook his head and looked to the side.

"Maybe you didn't realise." Gwen started from next to me. "You can beat, shoot, threaten and even poison us," Gwen glanced at me from the corner of her eye, "and we'll keep coming back, stronger every time."

"Well, I think you ought to know, your boss is splayed out on the…" John starts, then I hear footsteps behind me. Jack. John froze at the sight of seeing Jack alive. "…pavement." I finally said and Jack stood behind to me. "Now that's impressive." And Jack slightly chuckled. "Seriously, you can earn a fortune in the Vegas galaxies with an act like that." John was now noticeably anxious. What the hell are the Vegas galaxies?! "Go on, how's it work?" he asked.

Jack huffs and puts his foot up on the railing and leans on his elbows over the edge. "I can't die." I answers, with a little bit of pride.

"No, but really…" John says. He was now nervous and maybe even a little bit scared.

"No, but really. You can't kill me." Jack replies. "No matter how many times you try, I can't die." Jack explained and John got even more nervous. "Ever." He added just to scare him even more.

With that, Jack started to descend the stairs, to John, and everyone put the guns down.

"Hey, but what does it cost you?" John asked as Jack came face to face with him. "Every time you have to drag yourself back, how does it feel?"

Like shit probably.

"All that pain and trauma." John continued. "Plus you're reborn into this godforsaken mess. I pity you" He adds. Well, aren't you a ball of sunshine, Johnny?

Jack chuckles slightly again and says, "These people, this planet, all the beauty you could never see." Jack leans in and John takes a step back. Jack smiles and continues, "That's what I come back for."

"Well, goody on you." John says.

"What's in the canisters?" Gwen asks. I'm dying to know. What is so important that he would kill Jack for it?

"Come clean time, Captain." Owen says, he still has his gun raised. That's when I realise I'm not holding my gun up anymore and I quickly bring it up to shoulder level. You can never be to save with this guy.

"Yeah, all right. That woman I told you about had herself an Arcadian diamond." A whata-ma-ding diamond? "It's the rarest gen in the Damascene Cluster." Can someone please at least give me a map, so I can at least know where in hell the Damascene Cluster is! "Just when I get my hands on her. She only generates her own personal rift storm." He explained further. "God, I hate technological geniuses." He hands Jack the strange triangle.

"You said this was a dying woman's request." Tosh piped up from the corner. He lied, Tosh.

"Yeah, she was dying. I shot her."

God, this guy is a psycho.

"I thought my luck had changed when I found it had ended up here." He looked at Jack then look at the rest of us. "So, I'm thinking 50-50? Even split, good deal." He asks us. "Or if anyone fancies an orgy?"

Well…to be honest…

Jack sat at his desk, one foot on the desk and his fingers on his chin. The triangle sits on the desk next to his foot and beeps. I stand next to Gwen and closest to John. John holds the triangle with the hole in it.

"Open it." Jack orders.

"What, not even a please? Don't your manners get brought back to life, too?" John says in response and I have to smile. He might be a perverted psychopath, but he's funny.

"NOW!" Jack commands.

John starts to lower the triangle with the hole over the solid triangle and says, "This should give us the location of the diamond." Then there's a click and beeping. Then a hologram pops up on Jack's desk.

"There she is." John says and smiles and the hologram.

"The woman you murdered." Gwen adds. Who's the ball of sunshine now?

"You traveled several galaxies for this. Well done." The woman in the hologram says.

"Thank you, gorgeous." John replies.

"Except, there's no diamond." The woman says and John's smile vanishes in a split second.

"What?" he says.

"Only this." The woman carries on. The triangle bursts open.

"No, no, no." John says and looks at the triangle. Something flies out of it and turns into a circular disc with claws around the edge. "No, no, no, no, no. Where's the diamond. It's all about the diamond." He shouts and the disc flies towards him. "What the hell is that?!" and it latches onto his chest. It starts beeping and John staggers back, in pain.

"It's an explosive device which will latch on to the DNA of whoever killed me. It'll detonate in 10 minutes." The woman explains and John cringes in pain. "It can't be removed without exploding so don't bother trying." She says.

I see Ianto set a timer on his pocket watch.

"Goodbye, lover. See you in hell" she says and disappears.

"She can't be serious? 10 minutes?" Gwen asks.

"Get it off me!" John shouts.

"Actually. 9 minutes 40, 49, 48…always at the ready." Ianto says looking at his pocket watch.

"Oh shit!" is all I can say.

"Okay. How big is this explosion likely to be, Jack?" Gwen asks and walks to his desk.

"That technology, that size, big." Jack answers.

"So we should really get him out of the city." I say.

"9 minutes 37." Ianto tells us the time left.

"You've got to help me. Please." He desperately asks Jack.

Jack stands up and leans on his desk. "Why?"

It all happened really suddenly after that word. John punched jack, then quickly spun around and grabbed my arms and a clump of my hair. I gave a high pitched squeak almost as he grabbed me.

"Let her go!" Owen screams. Everyone had their guns out and pointed at us.

"Back off!" John shouts and pulls me out of the door and into the main hub.

"Jack, help me!" I shout and look for Jack. My heart was beating really fast now and I was close to crying. Come on Em, pull yourself together. Nothing will happen. You've already been in a near death situation and you're still breathing! Everything's going to be fine, I reassure myself.

"Get back!" John shouts and pulls me harder. I give out another cry as he pushes me away, but I don't fall far and I feel a cold steel strip around my wrist pulling me.

"What is this?!" I shout.

"It's hypersteel, impermeable, deadlock sealed." He explains, causally. "Impossible to undo them. Unless you have this key." He holds up a key but quickly puts it in his mouth and swallows it.

"No, no, no!" I scream and pull at it.

That's when I know, I'm not coming out of this alive. There's no why of undoing the cuffs now.

I scream "I'm not dying, you goddamn son of a bitch! You fucking idiot!" I scream and hit him over the head with the cuffs and we fall to the floor. I climb on top of him and punch him in the face. "You stupid ass motherfucker!" I throw another punch at him. "I'm going to fucking kill you before that stupid explosion does!" I punch him again but with the cuffs this time. "You're so damn fucking unbelievable!" I punch him again.

"But you still find he strangely attractive, don't you?" he says and grins back at me, blood on his lip.

I lift my hand up to punch him again.

"Emily, stop!" Jack shouts and pulls me up and John coming up with me too.

"Now you better find a solution pronto, or she'll be blown up with me, and you don't want that, do you?" John spits the last words at Jack.

"Would shooting him stop the DNA trigger?" Owen asks and aims his gun at John.

"NO" Jack says, sternly.

"So what are we going to do now, team?" John asks. "The orgy's still an offer, by the way."

"You fucking disgusting son of a bitch." I shout and kick him in the 'place where the sun don't shine'.

"Argh!" he screams and falls to the floor, taking me with him. I didn't think this through.

"8 minutes 36 seconds." Ianto says, anxiously.

"Tosh, the rift predictor programme, have you perfected it yet?" Gwen asks. I get up and pull John with me.

"Pretty much." Tosh replies.

I know where this is going…

"Anything in the next few minutes?" Gwen asks.

"Gwen!" I warn. "I don't want to die!" I whine. God, I'm being a baby. JUST MAN UP, FOR GODSAKE! I scream at myself

"Neither do I." John says sternly and looks at Jack.

"Okay…Okay" I calm down and take a deep breath. There is only one way out of this. "So when this thing explodes and we're in the rift, then the city is save?" I ask Gwen and she nods.

"How does that save us?" John asks.

"It doesn't." Gwen replies, quickly.

I look over at Jack and bite my lip. "We're going to die either way." I say softly a look back to John.

"NO! You're bluffing!" He looks and Jack, angrily. "You wouldn't let her die!"

"The car park where he arrived. The crack in the rift is still active there." Tosh yells from her computer and Gwen looks at her.

"That's where you're going!" Gwen says and pushes us towards the door.

"Someone better start doing something!" John yelled over yelled over all the rushing and fussing.

Once we got outside, Gwen pushed us into the SUV. Ianto sat in the passenger seat next to Gwen, who drove. I sat in the middle on the backseat, between John and Tosh.

"I can't believe you, you dick." I mutter to John.

"Oh sweetheart, my dick can do many wonderful things, wanna see?" he says and tries to pull me onto his lap.

"Fuck no!" I say and hit his chest and he lets go. I lean over to the back of the passenger seat to speak to Ianto.

"Hey, do you have a pen and paper?" I ask and he pulls a pen and a little notebook from inside of his suit. "Thanks" I say and flop back onto my seat and start to scribble down a letter…to Jack. I then feel John's eyes waving over the paper and I quickly hold it to my chest.

"Can you fucking not?" I ask rudely.

"I'd be a bit nicer to the person you're going to die with, if I were you." John snaps and glares at me.

I just ignore him and fold the paper and write Jack's name of the one side and lean back to Ianto.

Ianto, can you do me a favour?" I ask

"Of course." I replies and turns his head to me.

"Can you give this to Jack, please?" I ask him and hand him the folded paper.

"Of course." He repeats and takes the paper and puts it inside his suit jacket. How many pockets does he have inside there?

"Okay, here we are." Gwen says and stops the SUV.

"Here we go." I say and lean over John to open the door.

"I like you in this position." He grins down at me and I notice where my head is on his lap.

"Fuck you." I say and push him out the car.

"Let's get this over with, shall we?" I say and walk towards the rift. It's a strange orange glow in the air.

"45 seconds." Ianto says from behind us.

"You're not really going to sacrifices yourself, are you?" John asks me.

"Well you didn't really give me a choice when you put these on, did you?" I snap back at him and waved my cuffed wrist at him.

"Jeez, but you're mean."

"You have to go now." Gwen says from my side. "I'm going to miss you." She says and hugs me.

"Okay, here we go." I tug John with me, over to the rift. I take a deep breath.

"What about a last minute rescue?!" John yells pulling me back. "What's the point of being on a team if you don't get a last minute rescue?!"

"Come on!" I shout at him and pull him to the rift.

Then I hear tyres screeching and I turn around to see Jack and Owen jump out of the car. Jack runs towards us and knocks us to the ground. He then pulls out a giant injection and stabs it into Johns chest. John runts through his teeth in pain.

"Get off me!" he yells and pushes Jack off.

"Owen, it's not working!" Jack yells. The thing on John's chest is still beeping.

"15 seconds!" Ianto shouts.

"What did you do?!" I shout at Jack and sit up next to John, who squirms on the ground.

"Trying to confuse the disc." Owen yells in reply.

"Why hasn't it worked?" Jack yells to Owen.

"I don't known!" Owen shouts, panicking.

"12 seconds!" Ianto says.

"Jack, do something!" Tosh shouts at Jack. Everyone was clearly panicking like it was the end of the world…well…technically…

"We got to go!" I try to yank john up. When he sits up the disc falls off his chest and instantly Jack grabs it and throws it into the rift.

"Three, two, one." Ianto says

"Go!" Owen shouts and we all run in the opposite direction of the rift, which swells up and explodes. Which cause me, jack and John to fly into the air and fall onto the ground.

"Ouch!" I yell as I land on my uncuffed hand.

"Why's everything dark?" I ask as I get to my feet.

"The rift's reverted to the moment he came through." Jack explains.

"Everything's jumped back to the beginning of the night."

I look over at everyone to check if they're okay.

"Now, we have to avoid ourselves, great." Jack says.

"It's a temporal displacement." John states. "Makes your tongue tingle. Lovely, isn't it?"

"What was in the syringe?" Gwen asks.

"Torchwood DNA." Owen answers.

"What?" I ask.

"DNA samples from the 6 of us, fused and injected into his heart." He explains. "Temporarily corrupted his DNA coding, confusing the disc."

"You mean there's a bit of all of you inside me?" John asks, distastefully. "Sweet goddesses, that's all I need."

"Thanks Owen" I thanked him. He saved my life. Owen of all people, you wouldn't of thought it.

"You're welcome, but this doesn't change anything, I still hate you." He grinned and winked at me and a smiled back.

"I want you gone." Jack orders John.

"Well, there is this tiny problem with that." I say and hold up our joined wrists.

"Actually…" John says, he raises his head and puts his hand in his mouth and pulls out the key.

"You evil, son of a gun." I say with a smile that says I'm going to kill.

"Old Artesian trick." He explains and unlocks us.

"If my knuckles didn't already hurt so much, I'd punch you again." I say and rub my wrist. Oh this feels good. I'm not dying anytime soon.

"Oh you just don't want to hurt me." John grinned. And then my fist met his jaw.

"I change my mind." I turned around and walked towards Owen and Tosh.

Jack cleared his throat and held out his hand. John sighed and took Jack's wrist band out of the inside of his jacket.

"Definitely bigger." He says and straps it on.

"If you ever need a new team member." John starts

"NO"

"Really, I could—"

"No"

"But—"

"No"

John looks at Jack and gives a huffed out chuckle.

"Go now and you can harness the residual rift energy." Jack says. John sighs.

"Listen—"

"—goodbye." Jack interrupted him.

"Okay." John finally said and looked down. Then he put his hand on Jack's neck and brought his lips up to his and kissed him. Suddenly I felt a tinge of jealousy in my stomach.

The John patted Jack's chested and walked towards the rift and presses a few buttons on his wristband.

"Oh, by the way. I meant to tell you," Jack turns to him, "I found Gray." I see Jack's body tense up. Jack turns around and walks away, into the rift and he's gone.

"Jack, who's Gray?" I ask as I walk up beside him and rest my hand on his shoulder. He doesn't respond he just stares straight ahead and mutters something I can't hear under his breath.

"It's nothing." He finally says and places his hand on mine. I know that it's really not nothing, but I don't press for answers.

"Let's get back to work." He says, squeezing my hand gently and then let go. I pull my hand away from him when he turns around and starts walking towards the cars and the rest of us follow.

"Jack?" I ask softly as I push open his door little. I look inside to see Jack sitting with one of his feet cross at the ankle on his table and he was reading something. I opened the door further and then I recognize the paper. It was my letter! I sprinted up to him, ripped the paper out of his hands and scrunched it up in to a little ball.

"I was reading that!" Jack protested.

"You don't need to read it anymore." I say and shove the paper ball into my pocket.

"Well then I should tell you his is the third time I've read it." He gave me a devilish grin and my mouth drops open.

"You're lying!" I say and bit my lip. He read it…

"Dear Jack, I lov—" he starts to recite the message in the letter.

"Oh god, shut up!" I say and put my hand over his mouth. I then felt something wet under my fingers and I quickly pull my hand away from his mouth.

"Ew, did you just lick my hand?" I ask him in disbelief, wiping my hand on my jeans.

"Don't tell me you didn't like it." Jack says. I give out a little cry when Jack pulls me onto his lap. "There's other things I can do with my tongue."

"Whoa!" I stop him. "Not today, buddy." I say and try to get off but he holds my hips so I can't get off him. "Jack!" I warn.

"What?" he asks as if he isn't doing anything.

"Jack, I nearly died—twice—today!" I say to him.

"Twice?" He asks and that reminds me that he didn't know about the first time.

"Yeah, I nearly had all my major organs shut down." I reply.

"How?" I could hear the worry in his voice.

"Well…I got paralyzed and if the others hadn't found me in time it would have been bye-bye." I say and I start playing with the hem of his waistcoat. I know what's coming next.

"And how did you get paralyzed?" he sat up straighter on his chair.

"John poisoned me…" I say. There's no avoiding it now.

"How?" Jack asks, sternly.

"He…kissed me." I say, softly, and look down at my hands as I fiddle with Jack's waistcoat. He slowly moves his hands over mine and squeezes them.

"You didn't listen to my rules." He said even more sternly and moved his one hand to my chin and raised my head to look at him and to my surprise he was grinning. "And do you know what people who don't listen to me get?" He asks me and I bite my lip.

"Jack, I—" I was cut off as he crashed his lips to mine.

"Is that strawberry?" Jack asks as we break the kiss.

"Yeah, I had a milkshake before we got back here." I reply.

Jack licked his lips and look up at me as I sat on his lap, my hands on his shoulders and his on my waist.

"…and vodka?" he asks, raising an eyebrow.

"At a bar." I confess and grin down at him.

He grins back at me and presses his lips to mine again.