Hey guys, I am so so so so so sorry about not updating this story for so long. I've been having some family issues recently and have been super busy with school and honestly I didn't really know where I was going with this story. I'm still not quite sure where this is going but I had this idea and thought I'd throw it up here. Again I apologize for the wait. Enjoy and please review.

The team plus Rose got to work on figuring out what the bad guy was up to. They were all seated at their respective stations while Rose and Jack sat on the couch pouring over some reports. Rose looks up and stares at Jack for a minute before he realizes what she's doing.

"What? What are you staring at?" he asked.

She took a breath and said simply, "You've changed."

"Have I?"

She nodded, "You used to smile. All the time."

"I smile. I'm smiling now. Seeing you makes me smile." He told her.

"Yeah, seeing me makes you smile. There's a reason. You never used to have a reason. You never needed one. No matter where we were or what we were doing you were always smiling. Even if we were about to walk in to certain death you were still smiling. Like you were having the most fun in the world." She explained.

"Well that's 'cause I was."

She grinned, "Like when we first meet. 1941. Height of the London blitz. During a German air raid, bombs going off all around us and what were we doing?"

Jack chuckled and shook his head, "Rose…"

"What were we doing?" she persisted.

He looked at her before replying softly, "We were dancing."

"We were dancing the night away on your invisible space ship tethered up to Big Ben."

He smiled at the memory, "Yeah."

They got back to work completely unaware that the rest of the team were watching and listening to this exchange.

About an hour later everyone was getting restless and had not found any information about Sean Brooks. Rose excused herself to go to the bathroom but instead of getting back to work after she decided to wander around. She wound up in the archives where Ianto was busy sorting files.

"Hi there." She said.

Ianto turned, surprised to see anyone down there, "Oh, hello. Are you lost?"

She smiled, "Can't be lost if you don't have a specific place to go. I'm just having a look around. Is that ok?"

"Uh, yeah, sure it's not a problem." He went back to his filing expecting her to leave and keep looking around. When she didn't he turned toward her again. "Are you alright? Um I'm sure Jack's probably wondering where you are."

Rose looked at him for a long minute in a way that made Ianto feel like she was reading his soul. "I get it, you know. Your fear."

"Fear?" he replied confused.

"I know what it's like to be in love with an immortal man." She explained. "To know that you're going to grow old and die while the man you love stays the same. Forever. It's not easy."

Ianto looked away sadly. What she'd just said really hit home. He'd always tried not to think about that particular aspect of his relationship with Jack. They had more natural problems to deal with without having to worry about the inevitable separation that would occur due to Jack's special ability. Ianto looked back up and asked, "Then why do we do it?"

"Because some things are worth getting your heart broken for." She told him simply.

Sorry again about the delay. Hope you enjoyed and please review.