Author's note: I don't own Torchwood. BBC does.

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Since Diane needed to sleep, she got a room under a fake name paying cash. Owen joined her in the room and said, "Tosh had used CCTV to follow people around town. We should stay put until Ianto calls, again."

"So we wait," said Diane.

The next day and no phone call. Owen said, "You stay here while I get food."

"Won't they be expecting you at work?" asked Diane.

"I told them I was sick before the bomb went off, so if the people, who planted the bomb, phone work they will know the two things aren't related," explained Owen. Unless the time wasn't recorded. At least, he had phoned about missing work yesterday, so he didn't have to borrow a stranger's mobile to make a call without it being traced to the hotel room.

"Go," said Diane.

While Owen was shopping, Ianto called from a pay phone, "I found where they're keeping Jack. I haven't heard from Gwen since last night, so it's up to us to rescue Jack."

Owen found a private area that was marked "Authorised personal only" and asked, "Where are they keeping him?"

A few minutes later, Ianto picked up Owen from the grocery. Since phone calls could be traced, Owen didn't call Diane and hoped she would understand. While driving to the military compound, Ianto said, "For a split second, I think Jack thought he was carrying our child. Can you imagine me a father?"

"You would make a great father."

Ianto blushed. "Thanks."

"Jack mentioned he had been pregnant once. The perineum separating the vagina from the anus is very small. Jack's perineum could be internal with the vagina connecting to the anus." Owen always imagined Jack as topping. That meant Jack bottomed, at least, some of the time. Owen didn't take Jack's off-hand remark about his previous pregnancy seriously because Jack was standing in the rain complaining about the hormones in the rain water. If Jack had female organs, they were part of him/her/it because Jack restored himself back to life from being dead and an implant wouldn't come along for the ride. Jack was a him, not a him/her or it - no matter what organs he had.

"I don't want to talk about Jack's anatomy at the moment," said Ianto. "The people holding the love of my life see nothing wrong with implanting a bomb in someone's abdomen. They could be torturing Jack as we speak."

When they arrived at the compound, the woman Ianto saw last night was pouring concrete into a cell. They needed to get some heavy equipment and fast. Ianto stole then operated the heavy equipment, leaving Owen at the car by an old quarry. A short time later, Gwen and Rhys were running to the car while Ianto dropped a cement block into the quarry pit. After the block dropped Gwen ran into the pit while Owen stayed in the car with Rhys.

"Told you I'd be back." said a naked and very dusty Jack.

"With no help from us," teased Ianto.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Jack.

"Don't know yet, but the latest from the kids is it's happening tomorrow," said Gwen.

"Just in time then," said Jack.

"Get in the car." Gwen said, handing Jack a coat. "Come on. We got work to do."

Jack got into the car in the backseat beside Owen. "You're here, too."

"Ianto insisted," said Owen. "I told Diane I was going out to buy her food; that was hours ago."

With Gwen also in the backseat, it was a tight squeeze. This one time, Owen was glad he was dead because of a naked Jack squeezed against him still holding the coat Gwen gave him over his shoulder. You didn't need to be gay or bisexual for a naked Jack to give you a hard on, only alive, which Owen wasn't. Jack was definitely he - not the generic it - like some of the aliens Torchwood dealt with.

"Jack, if the world survives this, we can have that baby," said Ianto.

"What baby?" asked Jack.

"I could see from your eyes, you thought it was a baby for the briefest second," said Ianto.

"Did not," said Jack. "The people, who implanted the bomb in me, killed me first and all my children are mortal."

"Then you can get pregnant," said Ianto.

"Ianto, our child would be as beautiful as you," commented Jack.

Gwen said, "We can raise our children together."

"Diane and I can't have a child. My sperm was in the hub and that was destroyed." Since Owen had talked to Diane about artificial insemination, Owen had put aside his sperm, so whenever she came through the rift even if it was 200 years later, she could have his child. Tommy had lasted almost a 100 years frozen in the hub freezers and Owen's sperm didn't make 2 years.

"Owen, I'm sorry," said Gwen.

"We lost all that alien technology," said Owen. "Much more important than my sperm, besides no one wants little Owen Harpers running about."

"It matters to you," said Gwen.

"It was a gift for Diane," said Owen.

Owen borrowed the mobile phone of a store employee while Gwen bought Jack clothes with the cash Diane gave him. He didn't like that a rich client had paid Diane in cash that spoke of drug money, but tonight he was grateful. Then drug runners would know Diane was a lady with an iffy background that didn't exist until a few months ago. Diane would get killed one of these days and it would have nothing to do with Torchwood. "You can leave the hotel," whispered Owen. "You're safe."

"I've been sitting here all day sick with worry," said Diane.

"They can't kill a dead man," said Owen.

"But they can hurt you and you don't heal," said Diane. "Please, be careful. I love you."

"Sweetheart, I love you, too. Bye." Owen went back to the service desk and handed the clerk her phone. "Thanks."

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Ianto took them to a warehouse that was used back in the Torchwood One days. Clothes did make the man because Jack looked much more vulnerable in a tee shirt and jogging pants. The period clothes weren't a gay thing like Owen had told Gwen. The great coat and the other period clothes told people that Jack was out of time. It said in a subtle way that he was one hundred and sixty. Was that now 2160? Or did Jack's time buried underground not count?

After Rhys made a fire in the oil drum, Gwen complained about the cold. Being numb meant Owen didn't feel the cold. He also didn't feel heat. That's why he stayed out of kitchens and Jack thought making coffee was a good idea for his first day back at work.

"That voice thing said today and we're stuck in the back end of beyond," complained Gwen.

"But we're together," said Jack. "The old team."

No Tosh, thought Owen, not saying it out loud.

"All together: the old team." Ianto had sadness in his voice. He missed Tosh, too.

With Diane's money, they had enough for another laptop and some food. All the credit cards and mobile phones could be traced; thus, useless. The Torchwood software was still in the cloud and not lost when the hub was destroyed. After they got the lights on, Gwen went off to talk to that Lois Habiba person.

While using Ianto's sister's laptop. Jack said, "Frobisher's the key to this. He's just a civil servant, he's nothing. What makes him start authorising executions?"

Gwen went out with the new laptop since Ianto was very protective of his sister's laptop. Then he, probably, had promised he'd return it in one piece. The car was hidden kilometres from the warehouse, so it couldn't be used to find them. Gwen would be heading to that car now, leaving them without a vehicle.

"What did it feel like?" asked Ianto. "I mean, getting blown up?"

Owen was just listening, feeling like he needed to run home to Diane. And thinking about Martha asking him how it felt being dead. One thing he knew, Jack wouldn't quote Monty Python.

"Wasn't the best of days," said Jack.

"No," said Ianto. "But did you feel it?"

Owen and Rhys could hear Jack's intake of breath.

"Or did everything just go black?" asked Ianto.

"I felt it," said Jack.

"Shit," said Ianto.

"Yeah," said Jack.

"Do you ever think that one day your luck will run out? That you won't come back."

After taking another deep breath, Jack turned his head to face Ianto. "I'm a fixed point in time and space. That's what the Doctor says. I think that means it's forever."

"So one day, you'll see me die of old age, and just keep going?"

"Yeah," replied Jack.

"We'd better make the most of it then."

"I suppose."

"Like right now?"

"Ianto, the world could be ending."

"The world's always ending."

"Except when the multi-verse is ending," said Owen.

"You went for a planet-light swim while Gwen and I had a Dalek blocking the door," said Ianto.

"I didn't know about the Daleks when I went for that swim," Owen said in his defence. "Jack was the only one who knew about the multi-verse ending. But the Earth is my home and where I keep all my stuff."

"The Earth ending is kinda bad," said Jack. "I need the names of the other people Frobisher ordered killed."

While Ianto repeated the names, Owen took over the computer.

"I don't recognise them." Jack looked over the computer screen. "Show me them 40 years old. Old photos."

Owen bought up the old photos.

Jack then said, "I didn't know their names."

Then just like that Jack ran out the door, leaving Owen, Ianto and Rhys staring at the door. Well, not Rhys, he was still cooking his beans.

"The beans are done," said Rhys.

"Ianto, enjoy," said Owen. "You have Jack here and Gwen. I'm happy Diane is home - safe." If Diane was flying for some other person paying in cash, safe was a relative term.

"But you miss her." Rhys poured his beans onto a plate and started eating.

"Yeah," said Owen.

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Author's Note: Since Owen took over the computer, I paraphrase Jack instead of the direct quotes like with Jack and Ianto since Owen would influence Jack's reactions. :) Also in case, you haven't noticed Jack is still wearing the tee shirt and jogging pants. I didn't find transcripts over the Internet. And I'm not a secretary, so I had to stop the video, take notes and move it a few seconds ahead. Very tedious. The last time I did an AU, it was for a book series. Copying from a book is easier then copying from captions. I hope you enjoy. Please, review.