Jack looked at the three of them as if they were mad.

"You're joking right?" He asked sure that they must be pulling some cruel trick on him for abandoning them.

"No, Jack," Gwen shook her head sadly glancing at Tosh. "After you left… Owen had to force Ianto to look after himself, force him to get better. But… we don't know what happened, he seemed fine and then he just… died."

"What of?" Jack said heart thumping. Part of him still refused to believe it. It couldn't be true.

"We don't…" Tosh paused looking confused. "We don't know. He just died."

"People don't just die Tosh!" Jack shouted down at her. "What did he die of?"

Owen pulled Jack back into his office and made him sit on the wrong side of the desk, Owen taking the chair that Jack usually occupied.

"Jack you have to understand, we didn't think you wee coming back," he began.

"What?" Jack couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I don't care about that I want to know what happened to Ianto!"

"And what about the rest of us Jack!?" Owen snapped. "We didn't have a clue what had happened to you! I had to take over; Tosh had to hack into all those files you wouldn't let us near just to stop the world collapsing without you! How could you do that to us? You've been gone almost half a year, anything could've happened in that time and all you want to know is how the stupid tea-boy died?"

"HE'S NOT A STUPID TEA-BOY!" Jack roared. "He was a beautiful, gorgeous, Welsh…"

Jack suddenly trailed off. The Doctor. The Doctor was still waiting, maybe he could help? They could go back in time and save Ianto!

Jack stood up and headed for the door. Owen seemed confused by the sudden change that had come over Jack and followed him.

"Where are you going?" He asked confused.

"I'm going to save Ianto," Jack said.

"You can't Jack, he's dead!" Owen growled.

"No he's not!" Jack called back.

"I've already lost both of you once I'm not losing you again," Owen called. "You're not leaving the Hub!"

"I don't need to," Jack replied from the bottom of the stairs. "Don't you dare stop me from doing this. I have to save Ianto."

"Why?" Owen asked. "Because you love him?"

"Yes, something I wouldn't expect you to understand," Jack shot back.

"You bastard," Owen followed him down the stairs. "You don't get it do you? You don't get why it killed me so much when you were stuck in 1941. You don't get why it hurt to see you die again and again or to see you go off with Ianto, or to see Ianto trying to kill himself because of you!"

"Why then Owen?" Jack rounded on him. "Why did it hurt? Why did something so trivial bother the Doctor of sarcasm so much?"

"Because I love you!" Owen exploded. "I love both of you! You treat us like shit Jack, even Ianto who you claim to love. You didn't notice half the stuff going on under your nose because you were too busy living in the past! Ianto bought his cyber girlfriend into the Hub, I had an affair with Gwen, Tosh bought her alien girlfriend here, and Gwen had an affair with Tosh and finally shoved Rhys off the scene. None of it mattered to you as long as you were happy. The rest of us just had to suffer."

Jack looked at Owen, shocked. Of all the things he'd expected to come out the other mans mouth, what he'd just said hadn't been one of them.

"You… you love us?" Jack asked a little flabbergasted.

"Yes, so don't ever tell me I don't know what it feels like," Owen panted, out of breath.

"Then you'll understand why I have to do this," Jack continued, heading past the base of the water tower, where Gwen and Tosh had been watching the argument.

"What are you gonna do Jack?" Owen called after him. "You can't turn back time!"

"Yes I can!" Jack replied, ignoring the rest of their protests and he headed up to the reception area and flung open the TARDIS doors, stepping in and running up to the console.

The Doctor looked up startled by Jack's sudden arrival. When he noticed the ex-Time Agent was alone and looked upset he wandered over and turned Jack to look at him.

"What's wrong? What happened?" The Doctor asked.

"He's dead," Jack looked up at the Doctor, eyes shinning. "He's dead and it's all my fault."

"Who's dead?" The Doctor said gently.

"Ianto… I left and he… and Owen… what have I done?" Jack looked at the only other person who could possibly know what he was feeling. The only other person who knew how it felt to be responsible for the death of a loved one.

The Doctor pulled Jack into a hug. He guessed this wasn't the reunion Jack was hoping for. He felt the American pull back and looked at him carefully.

"But we can put it right," he said wiping the few tears that had fallen.

"Jack," the Doctor knew what Jack was thinking and he couldn't. It was against so many Time Laws and would upset the Space Time continuum. He should know; he'd tried to give Rose her Dad back.

"We can go back and save him," Jack said firmly. "It shouldn't be hard, just a few months in the past."

"Jack, you cannot go back and save him," the Doctor replied in the same firm tone.

"We have to," Jack snapped. "Otherwise my life is pointless destruction."

"Welcome to my world," the Doctor said bitterly.