They walked back to the hub, after getting desert – some ice cream. Jack was nervous. He felt like he shouldn't be around Ianto after that kiss, because he didn't want to rush him into anything. But Ianto didn't have a place to live, and as much as he wanted Ianto with him all the time at the hub, he knew Ianto needed some where to call his own.

"Hey, Ianto..." Jack started, they had both fallen onto the reasonably comfortable coach that was in the hub. Ianto was sat close next to him, but not close enough for them to be touching. Jack figured that was probably wise.

"Yeah?" Ianto smiled.

"I think we should find you a place to live," Jack said, Ianto's facial expression changed and Jack wondered if he had said something wrong.

The proximity alarm rang around them, signalling someone was on the lift. Jack headed towards the computer screen, a look of confusion on his face as he saw Suzie and Gwen standing there. Suzie on the lift. Once she moved away, Jack realised she had done something wrong.

"Ianto, stay here okay," Ianto nodded his head, there was something in Jack's voice. It was stern and harsh. Jack headed towards the lift, he stood on the stone panel and looked over at Ianto, he smiled encouragingly at the younger man, who smiled back as the lift started moving.

Ianto watched as Suzie pointed a gun at Gwen. But she shouldn't be there. She was supposed to forget. Forget Torchwood, forget Jack. But there she was. Her eyes wide. But everything changed. The gun wasn't aimed at her any more. It was aimed at Jack.

Words were exchanged but all Ianto could focus on was the gun, and how her finger was so tight around the trigger. And there it was. The gun shot. Jack's body fell limp on the floor. Another gun shot. Ianto couldn't look at the screen. He heard the screams from above him. Gwen, she was still alive.

Ianto turned his attention back to the screen, and Jack woke up. A sharp intake of breath, and he was alive. Staring at Gwen, a cocky grin on his face. Ianto felt tears on his cheeks and wondered when he had started to cry.

He sat back on the sofa, and held his body in his arms, letting the grief rush over him. He had no idea why he was crying, Jack couldn't die; Jack wasn't dead. But he got shot. He heard the lift and looked up to see Jack standing there, Suzie's body in his arms.

"Ianto... what's wrong?" Jack placed Suzie's body down on the floor next to the lift and rushed over to Ianto.

"You got shot," Ianto sobbed. Jack cursed inwardly. He had never wanted Ianto to see him die. To get shot by the hand of someone they both knew.

"I'm okay," Jack smiled. "Can't die remember?"

"I thought you were gone," Ianto held onto Jack with as much strength as he could muster up. "I thought you were going to leave me here in a place I don't fit in, with no one."

"Hey, I'm not leaving." Jack said strongly, but his mind wondered back to the conversation he had with Ianto about his doctor. He cursed himself again, he knew he shouldn't have told him that. "And when my doctor comes, if he comes. I'll be back. I wont leave you for long. I can't leave you for very long."

"I'm scared, Jack."

"What are you scared of?" Jack asked. He knew he should be sorting everything with Suzie out. But he couldn't let his mind dawdle to her. She had killed so many innocent lives. She was just as bad as Torchwood one and she had always preached against them. But she had killed, just to test some technology out.

"Not belonging. I don't belong here. I wasn't made to belong here."

"You might not feel like you belong now, but you will. Everything is so amazingly new for you right now. And you're feeling things you've never felt before and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to want things and not understand them Ianto." Jack took his hands in his and squeezed them tightly. "You're going to be okay, because I wont leave you. Not really. I'll always be here, even if I'm not physically here."

"Promise?" Ianto asked weakly. He was still trying to absorb everything Jack had been telling him, his words where swirling around his mind, trying to find the right folder to be stored in.

"I promise." Jack said strongly. He placed a chaste kiss to Ianto's lips as though it was a confirmation of their promise.

"What happened?" Ianto asked staring at Suzie's body. A bullet hole under her chin. He didn't want to look at her. But he couldn't tear his eyes away. There was just so much blood.

"Torchwood happened," Jack sighed. "I should take her body to the morgue, and then I'm going to have so much paper work to do. So much for a nice night in."

"Do you want any help?" Ianto smiled.

"Honestly yes, but this is something I have to do alone." Jack said.

"Okay, I'm going to go down the archives, finish working through some folders."

"Do you think maybe you could read through some in my office? I don't want to be alone right now..." Ianto knew it took a lot for him to say it. He hadn't known Jack long, but he could tell he had a hero persona. Always needing to be in charge, always the one who was strong and there for everyone else.

"Course. I'll be up in five minutes," Ianto smiled and headed down to the archives.