A/N: Wow, it's been ages. I'm sorry it took so long. This chapter broke my heart to write so I kept putting it off. Jack gets a little OOC but I think it's understandable, considering the situation. I think I did alright with Tosh-it was my first time writting her-but please tell me what you think. Depending on the feed back there may be some more from her later.

Thanks to Rude and Not Ginger and gaia-x-goddess for reviewing.

As always, please review! I really need to know what you guys think because I'm kind of confused. I don't have a beta so reviews are really important.

So this is it, Jack leaving Torchwood.cries and damns self for writting such an awful thing

On another note, should I put the rating up?

Saying Goodbye

Jack pulled the Doctor down into his sleep space.

"What happened to the tour?" the Time Lord asked, raising an eyebrow in the oh-so-sexy way of his.

"Later." Jack breathed.

He looked around the small space. It was cold and un-lived in. He hadn't been spending much time there recently; he'd been spending the nights at Ianto's. Ianto…shit.

His thought was cut off by the Doctor's lips on his own. Suddenly the world melted away and this was all that mattered. The Doctor, his beautiful Doctor, just then nothing else mattered.

The Doctor's kiss was strong and passionate, claiming. Jack chuckled against the Time Lord's lips.

"What?" he asked breathlessly, pulling back a little.

Jack smiled "You're jealous."

"Jealous?" he asked, trying his best to look innocent.

Jack wasn't fooled. He raised his hand from where it rested on the Doctor's hip and buried it deep in his unruly hair.

"Yes, jealous."

He then rapped his other arm around the Doctor's waist and pulled him closer, rubbing their growing erections together. The Doctor gasped and Jack took the opportunity to recapture his lips.

"Well is it any wonder?" the Time Lord asked when they broke apart again. "I want that talented tongue of yours all to myself."

"A tongue this talented needs to be shared." He rolled his tongue between his teeth to prove his point.

The Doctor sighed. "I know." He rested his forehead on Jack's.

"I'm not going to make you stay with me. Forever is a long time and you're hardly one to commit."

They both laughed.

"Damn right I'm not." Jack confirmed. "But I do love you, Doc. I'm not going to leave you."

"That's what Rose said…"

Jack sighed. "Okay realistically, I can't promise I'll be with you forever. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. But I can promise you one thing."

"What's that?"

Jack looked him straight in the eye. "I'll always love you."

"Jack…"

"Hey don't blame me." he backed up and raised his hands in mock surrender. "I tried not to love you but I couldn't do it. I belong to you whether you want me or not."

The Doctor suddenly pushed Jack up against the ladder. "Oh, I want you."

Jack raised his eyebrow. "I can tell."

He thrust against the Doctor enticing an encouraging moan from his lips. He pulled his lover flush against him and started kissing the path from his ear, across his jaw line and down to his neck.

"Jack." the Doctor mumbled against Jack's ear.

The small sound of the Time Lord whispering his name was enough to send Jack over the edge. He reached a hand into the Doctor's pants and rapped his strong hand around the Doctor's hard length. The Doctor bit down on Jack's lower lip the way he loved…and then they heard the sound of the Hub door opening signalling Tosh and Ianto's return.

"Shit!" they swore in unison.

Jack and the Doctor climbed out of the hatch just as Ianto and Tosh were making their way across the Hub.

"Jack, you're back!" Tosh called when she spotted him.

Ianto looked up at Jack and smiled. Then his gaze settled on the man standing beside his lover. Ianto's expression fell and he quickly disappeared into the kitchen. Jack would have followed him but Toshiko was beaconing him over so he put Ianto on hold, momentarily.

"Look at this device Ianto and I found. It's emitting emezic energy at levels I've never seen before. I haven't been able to decipher the function of it yet but if I had to guess I'd say it was a partical-restorating sub-atomic generator. But like I said that's just from what I've gathered so far, I could be completely wrong."

Jack opened his mouth to ask Tosh what the hell she was talking about when the Doctor piped up behind him.

"Oh, that is fantastic!" he'd put on his brainy specs and come to join them at Tosh's workstation.

"Toshiko Sato, this is the Doctor." Jack introduced them. "Tosh is our resident genius." he informed the Doctor, beaming. The Doctor just smiled and shook Tosh's hand.

"Jack likes to exaggerate." she told him.

He nodded, knowing only too well how Jack liked to exaggerate. It had been a very bad idea to let Jack talk him into playing 'Have You Ever…' especially since they had been drinking hyper vodkas…never again.

"So have you seen something like this before?" Tosh's question snapped him from his thoughts.

"You're basically right, although it's probably more for channelling then generating. Still, for a first guess, for a human, that's pretty amazing." That made Tosh blush, but she beamed at the Doctor all the same.

"What did I tell you? Genius!" Jack was immensely proud of Tosh, he really should tell her more often. Not that he'd be able to now.

Tosh ignored his last comment and focused on the Doctor. "So if it's channelling the energy, where is it coming from?"

"Well," he said as the whipped out his sonic screwdriver. "The universe is made up of energy. Millions of different kinds all reacting with one another…"

Jack sensed the oncoming storm of tecnobabble and saw his opportunity to slink away unnoticed. When Jack entered the kitchen Ianto kept his back turned to him, so really-Jack reasoned-he had no choice but to go up behind him and wrap his arms around his waist. Ianto sank back into his embrace and sighed happily.

"The others were worried, they thought you'd run off again." Ianto moaned as Jack kissed his neck.

Jack sighed. He had run off, he'd left them. It hadn't been for a year this time but even a few weeks were too much.

"I did." he could admit these things to Ianto, Ianto wouldn't turn on him.

"I know."

Jack's breath caught. "But you weren't worried?"

Ianto turned in his arms and looked him in the eye. "I was." he confessed. "Just a little." he added quickly. "But you're back now, everything's fine." Ianto kissed him. When he pulled away Jack had tears in his eyes.

"Oh Yan, I'm so sorry."

"Why? What's wrong?" Ianto's eyes were full of concern that he didn't deserve.

Jack pulled away; he couldn't look his lover in the eye anymore.

But Ianto could guess what was happening. The anger started to flare within him. It was much easier to deal with then the sinking feeling of despair building in the pit of his stomach.

"You're going back to him, aren't you? You're leaving me for the Doctor, AGAIN!" he didn't mean to shout but he couldn't help it.

Jack spun around. "How did you know who he was?"

"I was at Canary Warf, Jack! Did you forget?"

"Well I'm sorry if it momentarily slipped my mind! There's kind of a lot going on!"

Jack was shouting now too, although he wasn't entirely sure why.

"Oh yeah, it must be really stressful to abandon your team for some alien who doesn't give a shit about you!"

In hindsight, Jack probably shouldn't have punched him. But at that particular moment he wasn't thinking straight.

"For your information Ianto" he said in his most dangerous voice "he loves me."

"Oh yeah?" Ianto challenged, pulling himself up off the floor. "Is that why he left you?"

The noise Jack made could only be described as a growl.

"It stings doesn't it? Now you know what it feels like." Ianto's voice was venomous.

"What what feels like?"

"WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO LOVE SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T LOVE YOU!"

Ianto screamed.he was vaguely aware that he was shouting again but he didn't care.

That snapped Jack out of it pretty fast.

"I do love you." His voice was barely more then a whisper. As with the Doctor before, this made Ianto turn. But unlike the Doctor his eyes weren't full of apologise, just sadness.

"How can you say that?" he asked. "When you're leaving with him."

"Loves a complicated thing."

This clearly wasn't the right thing to say. Jack could visibly see Ianto putting his walls back up.

"If you'll excuse me sir, I really should get back to work."

"Ianto…"

But Ianto pushed past him and fled to the safety of the archives.

When Jack re-entered the main part of the Hub, everyone was staring.

"You're leaving?" Tosh asked. Her voice was so small.

This probably hadn't been the best way for them to find out.

"Yes." and what else could he say?

Gwen stormed up to him, slapped him hard across the face, then broke down in tears and fled the Hub. No doubt she was going home to Rhys for some comfort.

Jack looked to Owen, but all he got from the medic was a look of anger before he too fled down to the autopsy bay.

Tears were now flowing freely down Jack's checks but he couldn't bring himself to care. He had one hope left.

"Tosh?" he looked at the Japanese woman, who was still standing where she had been, at her desk beside the Doctor, who also hadn't moved.

"You should do what you think is right, Jack." she told him, but there were tears in her eyes.

Jack ran to her and pulled her into a hug.

"I love you Tosh, you know that?" he told her when they broke apart.

She smiled at him. "I love you too, Jack."

He glanced over at the autopsy bay and then at the door that lead to the archives. "Take care of them for me."

Toshiko nodded. "Of course I will."

He moved away from her and over to the Doctor, who hadn't said a word this whole time.

Now he said. "Time to go then?"

"Yeah." he turned back to Tosh. "Goodbye."

"Goodbye Jack."

"Tell the others I said…tell them I said 'sorry'"

"I will."

"Goodbye Toshiko." the Doctor nodded to her before making his way over to the lift.

"Bye Doctor."

Jack followed the Doctor but paused just before stepping onto the lift.

"I come back, to check up on you."

"Of course you will." she assured him.

She watched as the lift ascended to the street above and only then did she allow herself to cry.

Up on the plaza Jack was sobbing onto the Doctor's shoulder. The Time Lord stroked his hair and guided him back to the TARDIS, his hearts braking with each one of Jack's sobs.