Gwen's and Rhys's house was a two-storied white and old house, nothing like Ianto would've imagined Gwen to live in. It was in a middle of nowhere, the closest house Ianto had seen during their drive here had been miles away and it had looked deserted. He smiled when he imagined Owen complaining about countryside and how unnatural it would be to live in there. Ianto would've agreed with him, not just because he was raised to never speak ill of the dead but also because he still had nightmares about the harvest.

"This should be it. At least the car is outside so they should be home." Rhiannon examined the yard from her side of the window. "I still don't understand why she couldn't just give her phone number. Imagine if we came all this way and found out they weren't home."

Ianto had had time to think during the drive there, and he had a bad feeling about why Gwen had moved here and kept secret her phone number as well. He took a deep breath. Facing Gwen would be one of the hardest things after Rhiannon. He was certain she would really blow up his head. Ianto was sure he saw a curtain move in one of the upstairs windows when they parked the car.

"Okay, let's get this over with." Ianto got off the car and walked after Rhiannon to the door. She pressed the doorbell and they waited anxiously for someone to open. Ianto moved a couple steps further from the door so he wouldn't be the first thing Gwen saw. "Don't frighten if she pulls a gun at me."

"What?" Rhiannon didn't get the answer when the door was pulled open and Gwen stared at her with wide smile. "Oh… hello!"

"Hello, Rhiannon! It's so nice to see you." Gwen beamed at Rhiannon and gave her a hug. "I saw someone else in the car with…" Gwen's eyes spotted Ianto and her smile faded to a terrified expression.

"Hello." Ianto said care freely and waved his hand at her.

"Rhys!" Gwen yelled without taking her eyes off of him. Slowly she moved her hand behind her back.

"What is it?"

Ianto saw Rhys standing in the end of the hallway with Anwen in his arms.

"Take Anwen safe!" Rhys didn't ask any questions before disappearing out of their sight.

"Gwen, it's okay. I…" Ianto took a step forward but was faced by a gun. Rhiannon screamed next to him.

"Stay right where you are!" Gwen shouted at him. "Now tell me who you are."

"Gwen, for god's sake, stop it!"

"I'm sorry, Rhiannon, but this thing can't be your brother even though he looks like him." Gwen knew that it would be tough to get Rhiannon inside. She had taken this alien, wearing Ianto's skin, to her doorstep so she must believe that it's really him. "Just please come inside and we can talk there, okay?" Gwen tried to guide her inside with her free hand but Rhiannon wouldn't budge.

"Okay! This has gone far enough." Ianto looked Gwen straight in the eye. "Gwen, ask me anything. Absolutely anything, something only we know. You can also check if I'm armed, because I am not." He held his hands up so Gwen could body check him.

"Okay, but no sudden moves or I will shoot." Gwen stepped carefully forward and started to pat Ianto's pockets and waist all the while pointing the gun at his face. When she couldn't find anything she quickly backed away again. "What you and Jack could've used me for?"

It took a moment for Ianto to realize what she was talking about. But when he did he glanced at Rhiannon, hoping she wouldn't understand. "Naked hide and seek." He then answered, annoyed at Gwen for asking about that and made a note to himself for getting back at her.

"Okay, from whom did Tosh save us after her death?"

"Dalek."

"The last place we had ice-cream together?"

"Nowhere, I don't eat ice-cream."

Gwen sobbed loudly and covered her mouth with her hand. "Is it really you?"

"You don't get rid of me so easily." Ianto had barely time to steady himself when Gwen threw herself into his arms and hugged him tight.

"How is this possible? You were dead. I saw your body! Did Jack bring you back?" Gwen pulled away from the hug just to kiss both Ianto's cheeks. "I can't believe this."

"No, I haven't seen him since… you know." Ianto saw Rhiannon look at them with a frown on her face. His cover had been blown. She wouldn't believe his theory of faking his own death anymore.

…

Ianto told them everything: from the day he had died to the day he had returned back on Earth. Of course he left some bits away such as his little trip to young Jack's apartment.

"No way!" Rhiannon had exhaled at least five times during Ianto's story. Gwen had asked specified questions but Rhys had just listened and looked like nothing could impress him anymore.

"I've just come to terms with aliens after Gwen's stories. But time traveling? No way!"

Sixth time, Ianto counted in his mind. "I know it can be… very confusing." Ianto wasn't sure even he knew all the rules of time traveling… or the Doctor ether in that matter.

"So you met teenage Jack?" Gwen sat in front of Ianto in the kitchen table. She leaned forward in her chair, overly excited.

"He was 26, so not really teenager anymore, Gwen." Ianto smiled to her.

"No but… blimey! So tell me! What was he like?" Gwen hadn't even realized how much she had missed Ianto. They had used to talk about Jack and Rhys after long day at work at the hub's couch. They had grown so much closer after Tosh and Owen's deaths.

"It was weird. He didn't wear his greatcoat but a leatherjacket. Otherwise he was pretty much the same."

Gwen burst out on laughing. "A leather jacket? You're kidding me!"

Rhys and Rhiannon shared a look with each other. They felt like outsiders and had no idea why the pair was having so much fun.

"Nope, a leatherjacket and guess what else?" Ianto waited for Gwen to stop laughing. "He had short, spiky hair."

"No!" Gwen couldn't even imagine what Jack had looked like. The thought itself was so absurd.

"It was like running your hand through a comb." Ianto continued before he realized his error.

"You didn't!" Gwen gasped.

"Just once." He quickly defended himself. "And technically it wasn't cheating…"

"Okay, too much information." Rhiannon quickly interrupted him. Ianto had almost forgotten that she was sitting right next to him. It wasn't like her to be so quiet for so long.

"Right, you finished catching up yet?" Rhys stood up and brought more coffee to all of them. Gwen grinned at Ianto who smiled back. It was good to be home… almost home.

"So… do you know where he is?" Ianto had wanted to ask that from the moment they arrived at Gwen's house but he feared the answer aswell. Gwen's good mood seemed to drop in a second. She glanced uncomfortably to Rhys who gave her a tiny nod of encouragement.

"He ran away." The sadness poured out of her voice and Ianto felt a stab of pain in his chest. "Six months after you were gone, he just got up and left us. To find a new life, that's what he said."

Rhiannon glanced at her brother. He looked like the world had just ended.

"He came back though, when the miracle happened." Gwen realized Ianto had no idea what she was talking about. "I'll explain it all to you later but he didn't stay long after it. I saw him last time a month ago and he told me he was leaving again. Haven't heard of him ever since."

Ianto tried not to let his emotions show from his face. He felt sad and angry that Jack had left him behind but of course he hadn't known that he was alive. "So you don't have any idea where he might be or any way to contact him?"

"No, I'm sorry." Gwen felt really awful. If she had known that Ianto would be back, she would've forced Jack to stay but then again he would've staid even without forcing. There was a heavy silence after the revelation. No one really knew what to do or say next, a dead-end.

Rhys cleared his throat before speaking: "Gwen? Didn't you tell me once that this girl, Martha was she? That she had a way to contact the Doctor?"

"Yeah, I did." Gwen thought for a moment. "Oh, Rhys, you're brilliant man!" She kissed her husband's cheek fondly. "That's it, Ianto! If I can get in contact with Martha and she to the Doctor…"

"…he can find Jack, yes." Ianto finished her sentence. Letting only a bit of hope rise in his guts, maybe it could really work. The other options was that he would have to wait for years or even longer just to see Jack again.

…

Gwen put the phone down and smiled nervously to the others. She hadn't told Martha why they needed the Doctor to find Jack but she hadn't asked questions either. She had sounded so happy to finally hear about Gwen and Rhys. They hadn't been in contact with her since Ianto's funeral where they had told her that they would go underground for a while.

"She promised to call him. The only thing we can do now is wait." Gwen sighed and sat down by the table again. Anwen's cry reached her ears and she was just getting up when Rhys gently pushed her back down.

"I go." He smiled at her and walked towards their princess's room.

"I'll come with you! Can't stay away from babies, they are so adorable." Rhiannon quickly followed Rhys and they disappeared to the second floor.

Ianto stared outside the window as if the Tardis could appear behind it at any minute. He hadn't even realized that Rhys and Rhiannon had left until Gwen took hold of his hands. "He'll find him. I'm sure of it."

Ianto attempted a smile. "Yep, well he has all the time in the world to hunt Jack down."

Gwen laughed. "That's the spirit!" She squeezed his hands before letting go. For a moment they sat in silence and Ianto continued to stare out of the window. Gwen eyed Ianto carefully before asking the question she had been thinking ever since his death: "Why did you lie to us?"

"What?" Ianto looked at her with surprise. He had no idea what she was talking about.

"About your father? Being a master tailor?"

Ianto saw the hurt in Gwen's eyes even though she tried to hide it. "But... he was a master tailor."

"I talked with Rhiannon. She said he worked in Debenhams." Gwen was disappointed that he still tried to tell her otherwise.

Ianto ran a hand through his hair and closed his eyes for a minute. He had never thought she would ever confront him about the subject. "Look, Gwen, me and Rhiannon… we have different kind of notion of our father. She… has always seen him as a good father who worked hard to support our family. I knew only the one who had to give up his dreams and hopes for us and grabbed the bottle at nights. And that's not the father I wanted to remember."

Gwen frowned at him but didn't say a word.

"Our dad did work as a master tailor, for a while at least. It had always been his dream; his granddad had been a tailor too. But when Rhi was eleven years old and I seven, our mother died and dad… he took it hard. He got depressed and started to drink, eventually unable to keep his shop up and ended up in Debenhams."

"Oh, Ianto, I didn't know. What happened to her?" Gwen felt awful for bringing the subject up. She felt the pain that Ianto and Rhiannon must've felt very vividly. It was only few weeks ago that her father had passed away and she still cried at nights, wishing she could just call him.

"She had a brain tumor. She died three months after the diagnosis." He didn't tell her that their mother had taken her own life, not been able to cope with the doctor's diagnosis: six months to live. Ianto hadn't known it until he was much older. He had argued with his dad one night and it had just slipped out of his father's mouth. "As you can see Rhiannon has much realistic visualization of our family than I, but I never thought that I was lying to you… any of you."

"Ianto, I'm so sorry for bringing that up. I should've thought before…" Gwen wiped her eyes and quickly hugged Ianto across the table. "Did you tell even Jack?"

"Yeah, he knows the whole story." Ianto smiled weakly at her when she pulled away.

"What's wrong? Did Martha call?"

They turned to see Rhys standing at the kitchen doorway looking alarmed when he saw his wife crying.

"No, no, haven't heard from her. We just… had a little talk, that's all." Gwen patted the seat next to her and Rhys sat down. Then, as on cue, the phone rang. They all just looked at the ringing phone on the table before Gwen hurriedly answered it. Rhiannon joined them in the kitchen with Anwen on her arms, smiling like she had never seen a baby before, but her face turned to excitement when she saw that Gwen was on a phone.

"Who is it? Did they find Jack?" Rhiannon whispered to Ianto who just shook his head at her.

They all just stared at Gwen who seemed to listen intensively to whoever was on the other side. Then her eyes widened and she put her hand against the phone and whispered: "It's the Doctor."

"What does he want?" Rhys quickly asked and waved his hand for Gwen to continue.

"He wants to know why we want to get in touch with Jack. What do I tell him?" Gwen still heard the Doctor talking away in the phone but she didn't listen to him anymore.

"Ask him why he wants to know." Ianto cut in; sure that Doctor had failed to find Jack and was now curious of what was going on. "Put it into a speaker."

Gwen did as she was told and put the phone down to the table. "Umm… why do you need to know?"

"Well, no reason really, just curious."

Ianto rolled his eyes.

"But I found Jack and he refuses to come with me unless I tell him what's going on."

This time Ianto's heart jumped and his throat felt suddenly really dry.

"Great! I mean… I can talk to him if you want?" Gwen smiled widely to the good news.

"Alright! I should warn you: he's in a bad mood today." The Doctor's voice muffled down but they still heard him calling out to Jack: "Jack! Gwen wants to talk to you. Oh come on, if you don't take it I'll put it into a speaker and you know I can do that!" There were more muffled voices and this time they couldn't make out any words until Jack's voice came to the line: "Gwen?"

Gwen almost jumped in delight. "Hi, Jack! Listen, we really need your help back here."

There was a loud sight. "Gwen I told you. I'm not going to come back. I'm sure you can handle it by yourselves."

"Jack, please, I need to speak with you."

"Then speak now." Came a stern reply. Jack sounded really pissed-off.

"Just come back on Earth."

"Why?"

"Please just trust me on this. Just one little visit that's all I ask." Gwen was getting tired of the conversation.

"I'm sorry, Gwen. I… don't feel like coming back yet. Was that all you wanted?"

"Jack, please…"

"No, Gwen!" Jack's sounded broken to Ianto's ear. "I have nothing to come back for. I'm hanging up now."

Gwen looked pleadingly at Ianto. She knew that they had agreed not to tell Jack why they wanted him back because it would've been better for him to see with his own eyes but if they didn't tell him now they were going to lose their contact on him.

"Come back for me." Ianto then said, his throat even drier than before.

There was a heavy silence at the other end of the line.

"Ianto?" Jack's voice was silent and trembling.

"It's me, Jack. Please come back."

"But it can't be…"

"I'll explain everything to you later, okay?" For a moment Ianto feared Jack wouldn't believe that it was really him but then there was a barely audible 'okay' and the line went down.

Before any of them had a change to say anything a huge crashing sound came from the living room, like a glass had been chattered. A cloud of smoke filled the house in seconds.

"Out!" Gwen managed to shout and they all started to back away to the door. Ianto was first one to reach it but before he could even touch the handle the door was kicked in and armed soldiers stormed in. The front door was forced open as well and soon they were surrounded by them. First soldier took hold of Ianto and placed linen to his face. He tried to fight back but the smoke and smell of chloroform made his efforts fruitless. He still heard Gwen's shouting and Anwen's cries when he slowly passed out. Rhiannon yelled his name from somewhere but he couldn't react to it. Rhys had been able to hit some soldiers as he tried to protect Rhiannon as she had his baby but he was soon outnumbered and knocked out as well.

"No don't take her she's just a baby!" Rhiannon tried to keep Anwen to herself but two men yanked her away from her arms.

"If you touch her I'm going to kill all of you! Let go of me!" Gwen kicked and screamed as one soldier tried to keep her in place. She kept on screaming as they all were dragged outside.