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The companion piece is written and ready to go, one chapter a day for the next week whilst I work on Jaffa Cakes!

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Epilogue

Jack opened his eyes with a start. He'd been scrutinising each memory hard, thinking through the possible meetings, but when he triggered the vault of details about each, they bombarded his mind, like paintings clambering to be completed. It was coming up for six in the morning, and Jack scowled to himself.

He pulled himself out of bed, leaving Ianto's sleeping figure curled in the sheets, and sat down on the edge, thinking hard about his memories. How could he possibly have forgotten about the young man he'd been with for the past few months? He began to analyse the memories and realised, apart from the meeting in the coffee shop when Ianto had looked nothing like he did today, he'd deliberately tried to avoid thinking about the situation again.

The more he thought, the more he marvelled at how, in a way, he'd watched Ianto grow up. It was a strange feeling. It was a feeling the spurred him to twist round and punch Ianto hard on the arm. His lover jerked awake and hit his head off the wall, groaning as he desperately tried to sink back into his sleep. When he wriggled in the sheets so that he was facing Jack, there was a very dark expression on his face.

"What was THAT for?" His voice was indignant, but Jack just ignored it.

"You were one of the hit men last time I was at Torchwood Tower!" Jack growled, he couldn't contain the annoyance he felt at it, but then he saw the young man flinch and noticed the expression of guilt on his face. It was then that he remembered just how deadened he'd been. In a complete turn around of emotions, Jack bent his head down and kissed Ianto hard on the lips, conveying his apologies for his actions as best he could. The young man pulled him closer and Jack lay back down next to him, pulling his lover into his arms with a sigh.

"Thank God you got out of there alive…" Jack kissed the young man gently again. "How come you didn't tell me how much arms training you had?"

"You didn't exactly give me a chance to say anything, sir, between yelling at me to get out of Cardiff and falling out of the sky onto me." Ianto met the Captain's eyes with a dry smile on his face, making Jack chuckle.

"Oh yeah… How about we pick up where we left off?" His eyes lit up and Ianto grinned at him, pulling him into another heart-stopping kiss which lead the way to a memorable hour before the rest of the team showed up for work.