Chapter 7Explanation and old friends

Summary:Time to stop remembering and start sleeping.

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The memory ended and Gwen looked at Aroura in shock, "Don't worry, Jack can't see what is in here until you put it on the stand. The orb waits for your mental consent to show others the memories. Even when on the stand you must touch it in order to let others see the memories. And if you don't want people to see certain parts, just see those parts in your mind and think STOP, and the memories will stop playing when they come to that memory," Aroura explained with a comforting smile

"Why did that last scene happen?" Gwen asked

"It's what your heart wanted," Aroura said with a smile as she disappeared and Gwen opened her eyes to see Jack.

"Here, drink this," he said, handing her a large cup of tea.

"Everything that happened felt one hundred percent real," Gwen said as Jack wrapped a blanket around her. He remembered feeling cold after going through the process himself.

"I remember. Everything was there down to the smallest details even Ianto's stop watch," Jack said with a wicked grin.

Gwen chuckled and pulled Jack close as tears slid down her face, "I miss them so much," she said.

"I miss Owen being a pain in the ass," Jack said with a smile

"And Tosh being a know it all," Gwen said.

"And the love they could have shared if only they had had time," Jack said.

"The man Stephen would have become," Gwen said looking up into Jack's eyes.

"I wish at times I had died with them," Gwen replied.

"I know the feeling. I wish death would have come to me a thousand times but I don't die. I just live and live. But Aroura taught me something when I was with her that will help with the pain in the future," Jack said, rubbing Gwen to warm her up.

"What's that?" Gwen asked.

"Once you have a place to call home and people who know your secret and will keep it and welcome you home even after years away, the burden of being a fixed point isn't so heavy," Jack said with a light grin.

"Did you shag her?" Gwen asked, with a cynical look on her face.

"NO! Not that it didn't cross my mind, she was a beautiful woman," Jack said with his typical Jack smile. Gwen had to finally admit she had missed him, especially this part of him.

"I know. I met her," Gwen said, and with a look from Jack, she knew he didn't know what she meant, "She said she gives a piece of herself to every orb to help those the blank orbs are given to, to free their minds and put inside them the memories from their hearts," Gwen explained.

"Sounds like her," Jack smiled as he held Gwen close to his heart just savoring the feel of the two of them together. He eyed the box at the end of the couch and remembered reading the note that came along with a final orb at the bottom of the box. "Gwen and Jack: Together, one year to the date after Jack returns, hold this orb. I would make sure you're sitting down for this. It's a special gift from me to you and Gwen," he recalled reading. Jack wondered, as he heard Gwen snoring, "What's so important in one year?"

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