A/N: Set: Everything Changes. Ianto/Tosh friendship/comfort. It's kinda deep and philosophical, about weather or not there is a Heaven, so don't read if you don't want your views to be questioned. Um…that's it really. Let me know what ya thought!

Everyone filed into the Hub, and Ianto slipped coffees into their hands without even having to be asked, and going equally quiet – more than normal – when Jack filled him in on Johns' words.

They were all thinking about what John Tucker had said: there was nothing after death. Just blackness.

Of course, no one felt obliged to admit their concerns to each other. Death was a constant part of everyday life for them. It was the air they breathed, the gravity that tied them down and got them up every day. Torchwood was just another word for 'Abbreviated Lifespan', and they all knew that.

Tosh sat at her computer, Johns' words and expression cutting into her mind whenever she blinked or paused. Was he right? Was there really nothing?

" Maybe he was wrong."

Tosh jumped at the voice, and turned to see Ianto sat next to her, calm and collected, coffee in hand and hot chocolate for Tosh. She didn't even hear him move the chair.

Upon noticing her shock at being crept up on like that, Ianto simply remarked: " I'm part Ninja" and passed the hot chocolate over to her.

The words floated in the space between them before Ianto repeated his entering words. " Maybe he was wrong."

" How?" Tosh asked, begging for an answer, and not really expecting one. But Ianto knew everything, or at least had the confidence to look like he did.

" Well, you know how Jack can't die?"

Toshiko nodded. She too had found the many files all moving to that decision, and she and Ianto had spent many over-night dull hours pondering on the How and Why of such a statement, but had vowed to each other never to tell the rest of the team, or Jack especially.

" Well, he's written that there isn't anything either."

" How is that supposed to help?"

Ianto smiled as if it was painfully obvious, but managed somehow to make it still a kind smile, and not patronising at all.

" Maybe both of them just weren't there long enough?" He paused and, seeing it needed more explaining, continued. " Maybe whenever Jack dies, he just goes to limbo, or the space between our universe and Heavens universe – provided you believe in Heaven. And John, he was a fresh corpse, so maybe there wasn't enough time to send him to the next universe, and he was just waiting. If it'd been dead longer, he would have seen something. I mean, that might well be all Harps and Clouds, or just whatever your personal desire truly is, but there's gotta be something. God wouldn't just leave us."

" I never took you as the religious type." Tosh smiled.

" I don't think that's possible in Torchwood, with all the aliens and death, you tend to loose faith. But I am with the theory that there are hundreds of universes stacked up against each other, and in the gaps between them, is nothing. That is where John Tucker and Jack ended up. The next universe to us, well that would be what we all call Heaven."

Toshiko nodded. " So John wasn't right. There's something else?" Good, because she didn't like the thought of her mother just resting in that blackness, with no one.

" Perhaps. Nothings definite. But don't give up hope Tosh." Ianto stood up and paused only briefly before kissing her forehead and turning round as Jack called to tell them about their new victim-um, sorry, guest.

Toshiko smiled to herself. Iantos' way of thinking really did seem to work, and it at least helped her to keep going, and get on with saving peoples lifes, and stopping them from ever having to pass into Heaven.

A/N: Um…don't really know about that one. It kinda wrote itself. I was watching Everything Changes, and this little ficlet smacked me in the face with a gun and threatened me if I didn't write it up. So here, please let me know what you thought! But generally nice only please, I can't quite handle criticism yet.