Merry Christmas to all the TORCHWOOD fans out there. Thanks to everyone who has read this story and taken time to review. I think this will be my first and last TORCHWOOD fic. This is the final chapter.

Homeward Bound.

"Rose." Ianto hissed as he rested the young blonde woman on the table in the med bay. It seemed achingly familiar to when Owen had been left on the same place. Only Rose wasn't moving. "Come on Rose." The younger woman lay still in front of him as Ianto stepped back.

"Yan." Jack rested his hand on Ianto's shoulder. "The man that shot her appeared from no where and vanished."

"But Rose is still hurt." Rhys stated. "Bloody bullet didn't just disappear, did it? She took the bullet that was. That was."

"Meant for me." Gwen stated calmly as she placed the now sleeping baby on the black leather sofa. It surprised her that the Hub was almost the same as the day they had run from it as they had run for their lives. She had seen it destroyed, blown to smithereens in front of her eyes. Now she was stood in a room that was achingly familiar to her. It was insane but she wasn't going to question it.

"Yeah." Rhys walked over to her and tilted her chin so he could assess the bruises. He knew she was lucky not to be more injured than she was. She glanced towards her husband as his eyes held her gaze. She knew he worried about her but she had to go on. She was as much Torchwood as Jack. Now she knew the family connection she understood why.

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"C'mon Rose." Jack brushed her blonde hair back away from her face. "You are going to be fine." He hated the way his voice cracked with emotion. He had promised the Doctor that should his paths ever cross with Rose again he would look after her. She had barely been a teenager the first time he had laid eyes on her in wartorn London now she was a woman approaching her 30's and probably the strongest woman he had ever met.

"They have got the Huon particles now." Rose sighed as her breathing laboured. "Jack?"

"What does that mean?" Rhys barked. The dim lighting of the Hub was beginning to give him a headache. Rose sighed audibly as Ianto ran towards her with the first aid kit he had retrieved from the 4x4. He felt sick at the sight of the blood now running down Rose's top onto the floor beneath.

"Where's bloody Owen when you need him?" He whispered under his breath as Donna shot him a look.

"Dead. That's where he is." She answered.

"Yeah." Jack pushed a cloth to the wound, trying to stem the bleeding as he thought of the cheeky, abnoxious doctor that had worked for Torchwood until his death and beyond. "Seems to be an occupational hazard wherever I am. I can't die but people I care about seem to drop dead."

"No." Rose smiled slightly. "I'm not going to die. I have to go back through the Rift. I have to keep fighting that version of Torchwood."

"You still haven't told us much about them." Donna searched frantically through the first aid kit as she spoke. Both were oblivious to Gwen who was marching up and down the Hub, talking frantically on the phone as Anwen rested on her shoulder.

"Right." She walked towards her friends as Anwen slept peacefully. "We finally have a stroke of luck."

"Which is?" Rhys smiled slightly. He knew his wife well enough to know when she was on to something.

"Martha Jones. Doctor Martha Jones, currently attacked to UNIT."

"Yeah, I know Martha. She travelled with the Doctor before me. Crackin girl. Married that idiot."

"Mickey." Rose answered.

"Yeah, that's 'im."

"Well, she's on her way over here. I explained we couldn't take Rose to the Royal so she's on her way. Says we are to get her laying flat. Give her painkillers and keep pressure on the wound." Gwen smiled as Donna retrieved a vial of morphine from Owen's old medical kit.

"This do?"

"Yeah." Jack smiled. "I knew I kept you around for a reason."

"Apart from my sense of wit, ability to remain alive despite remembering things and not having my brain implode?"

"Yeah" Jack smiled as Ianto rolled his eyes. Having Donna around was certainly going to be interesting.

"Excuse me." Rose lifted her head slightly. "Bleeding to death here."

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"So that's it?" Rhys asked as he sat on the sofa. "That's it?"

"Yeah."

"Bloody Hell."

"Well, what do you want me to say?" Jack asked as he sat next to him and rested his elbows with his head in his hands.

"Nothing." Rhys answered. "But you have to admit, it is wierd. You being my father in law."

"Yeah." Jack answered. "Yeah, I know."

"What about your other kids?"

"Only got one other. And things are a work in progress. I'm a grandfather."

"Yeah." Rhys smiled as the baby opened her eyes and stretched her arms out for Jack. "Don't mess it up."

"I wont." He picked up the little girl as Gwen and Donna looked on from the sidelines. Both women were exhausted. "I promise you, Anwen I won't let you down."

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"I can't believe it's over." Ianto stated as he walked across Rold Dahl Plas next to the team. It was already daylight. Gwen smiled slightly. Rose had gone home to her family only an hour beforehand. The gunshot wound cleaned and dressed by a very annoyed Dr Martha Smith. Jack shoved his hands in the pockets of his great coat as he watched his friends and family chatting away. The danger had passed into the Rift right under the noses of half of Cardiff. He shook his head, still unable to believe what the general public missed.

"So, they got the Huon particles when that witch shot Rose?" Rhys asked as Ianto nodded.

"Yeah."

"So she saved you lot?"

"Yeah." Gwen answered as she slipped her hand into his. "Yeah, she did."

"And they all went back through this Rift thing?" Rhys was genuinely still trying to understand what he had jus tlived through. "So there is no one chasing you?"

"At the moment, no one is chasing us." Jack stated as they reached the car. The 4x4 stood forlornly covered in bullet holes as Ianto swore and walked around it. He knew Owen and Tosh would have been arguing already as Gwen chipped in to defend her friend. Now that the new team was all stood talking quietly it seemed wrong. He couldn't get used to it.

"Er, slight transport problem."

Jack walked across to Ianto as he surveyed the damage to the car. He swore as he walked around the 4x4.

"So it seems."

"Well." Rhys pipped up. "There's a bus from the station in about ten minutes. Might catch it if we get a move on."

"And if it isn't crowded with rugby fans."

"Rugby?" Donna pulled a face.

"Yeah, Wales are playing today." Ianto smiled as Gwen rolled her eyes. "Might even have some tickets left."

"You really want to go and watch a match? After what we've been through?" Donna pulled a face as they walked through the crowd. The sea of red jerseys began to become more and more obvious.

"Yeah." All the men looked at her aghast as she spoke. Gwen rolled her eyes once more.

"You should go with them." Gwen smiled as she kissed Anwen's hair. "It's quite an education going to the match with my husband, Ianto and my father. Isn't that right, Jack?"

Jack stopped in his tracks as Ianto and Rhys laughed. He had never thought Gwen would just accept him as her father as readily as she had done.

"Yeah." He coughed slightly. "You ready for it? I mean chasing aliens and fixing dimension jumpers with bullet wounds is one thing. Cardiff with these guys on the day of a rugby international is another."

Donna laughed as she linked arms with Ianto. For the first time since he had plundered back into her life Gwen couldn't help but think things were going to be alright. Torchwood was back together, she wasn't the last woman standing.

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A/N Thank you for reading.