Janto oneshots

Second chances

A/N:
Oof I'm sorry for all of your hearts in advanced
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He had died. He knew it was for good this time. But there wasn't the usual blackness he was used to. Maybe he had been wrong. Maybe there wasn't nothing when you died after all. He looked down at his hands. He had a body and ... he ran his hands through his hair... he was young again. Hadn't he been the face of Bo when he died though? Yes that's right the doctor was there, he sat with jack as he died. Obviously he didn't know it was jack, for the doctor that day was to come and for jack it was long gone. He glanced around for a second it looked like earth, but it felt even more beautiful. It felt like a second chance to jack. He bent down. Yes! the grass, he could feel it! It wasn't like he was a ghost or a mere souls floating about in the abyss. This was better than any heaven he could wish for. He glanced around for a second taking in all of his surroundings. Everything seemed so full of life for a land that was supposedly for dead people. He watched mothers tend to children and he watched new children being greeted by new parents until their real parents could rejoin them in the afterlife.

"I told you one day you're luck would run out. You never listened, typical jack harkness". Jack spun round, he knew those welsh vowels. "Ianto" he breathed at the man in front of him, not looking a day older than when he had last seen him. He just stared at ianto. He couldn't help it, and finally ianto couldn't stay still much longer. He ran straight into jacks arms breathing in the pheromones he had missed so much over the years "took you long enough" Ianto lightly scolded him, huffing out a teary laugh as he did so. Jack shook his head "I don't understand... this is...". Ianto smiled and leant to stroke jacks cheek "I was confused too" he said softly "the best way I can explain it is.... welcome to your second life". Jack smiled tearily "but how haven't you aged I mean you look the same and... and I well I look way different from when I died but I look the same as before all that" he babbled. "Well..." ianto reasoned "there is no aging here well not for the people who get here if they have kids here then the kids will age to a certain point that point being around 30 years old and then they won't age physically. obviously there's no deaths but we look how we did at the best point of our lives.... for some people that's how they died for others they're younger". Jack shook his head slightly trying to process the information "how were you here I mean here of all places when I got here" he asked still full of questions. "We all got a call" ianto explained holding up a small device "you'll have one I'll take you to get yours later it tells us where to meet and when but they dont tell us who we will be meeting. It's so the person can be greeted about those they cared about on earth". Jack nodded swallowing "wait ... we?" He asked finally looking over Ianto's shoulder. Ianto had been the first there but now a crowd of people had gathered. Fresh tears threatened to spill as he recognised them all. There was martha jones, rose tyler, Gwen Cooper, countless other previous torchwood members, Harriet jones, and many others but the two that cause his eye the most were Tosh and Owen with a young dark haired boy who looked rather like Owen tucked safely between them. He was going to like this new life very very much.

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Yes I know I included characters who's deaths we didn't see but please remember that jack was thousands of years old when he died for real.   Everyone we know from the shows will have been dead by then.