This is a short chapter but hopefully a strong one. There is worse yet to come so stay with me and i will take you on a roll coaster ride, hopefully.
It's Too Late Jack.
Ianto puts the pill in his mouth and gets a good mouthful of water from the bottle Owen gave him and swallows the Retcon and turns to Owen.
"If there is anything you want to say to me, you had better say it now as tomorrow, I won't know who you are," Ianto tells him with a strange smile on his face, realising what he had done.
"You know that we quite often butted heads at work and I know that I was an annoying prick at times but you know that whatever I said, I didn't mean it. I can tell you this because you won't remember this in the morning but I quite admire you. You were always calm in a situation, always had a cool head and always looked ready for anything always dressed in a clean, pressed suit," Owen starts and then looks at Ianto, the Retcon working faster than expected as Ianto gets drowsy.
"For what it's worth, I think Jack is nuts. Love is hard to find, I know. I had it and let her go. I still think about Diane, Diane Holmes. You loved him and we all knew it, pity that Jack didn't see it before it was too late. It's his fault what happened, all of it. I don't think Retcon was the way to go but I understand why you are doing it. You loved him so much but you couldn't face the heart ache any more. I wish you hadn't fallen for Jack and then you would still be at Torchwood with us," Owen finishes and he looks over to Ianto and he had gone, unconscious and asleep from the Retcon.
Owen leans over to Ianto and kisses him on the forehead.
"Bye mate. See you around some time," Owen tells him.
He gets out of the car leaving Ianto in the passengers seat, sits on the bonnet of the car and thinks about what Ianto must have been going through for him to do this to himself. He hears a vehicle approaching and as he turns around, he sees that it is the Torchwood SUV coming towards them at speed. He gets off of the bonnet of his car as the SUV rocks to a stop and Jack jumps out and runs to Owens car and sees Ianto inside, asleep.
"It's too late Jack. He's gone and it's done. He Retconed himself," Owen tells Jack, anger in his voice.
Jack turns from looking at Ianto to looking at Owen and from nowhere, punches him knocking him to the floor.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE OWEN?" Jack screams at Owen, as loud as he possibly can.
"What have I done? This was all you Jack. This is all your doing. You just couldn't leave him alone. You just had to keep pushing him. How did you think this was going to end? You had broken him down so much, it was this or suicide. You pushed him that much that he had to destroy you the only way he could by forgetting you, forgetting us, forgetting Torchwood," Owen shouts at him, getting up off of the floor holding his jaw.
Jack opens the car door and pulls Ianto out and sits down on the floor, holding Ianto in his arms.
"I didn't want this Yan. This isn't what I wanted. I wanted you to come back to me. I wanted you to be my partner, my companion. Oh god Yan. This isn't the way it was meant to be. I love you so much and now I have lost you for good," Jack tells Ianto, holding him close, tears streaming down his face.
The tough arsed, emotionless Owen, stands with tears in his eyes and running down his face as his fearless leader sits on the floor holding his friend, Ianto, in his arms, holding him so close and kissing him, getting no response from Ianto. The sedative in the Retcon, keeping him asleep as his memories of Jack, Owen, Tosh, Gwen, Rhys, Suzie and Torchwood are wiped from his memories. Owen couldn't do anything but stand there and watch as his leader losses the man he loves and falls apart with Ianto in his arms, as though he had died. He might as well have for he wouldn't remember any of them when he woke up.