"I'm immortal? Jack, are you kidding me?" Ianto shook his head his eyes wide. This couldn't be happening, it shouldn't be happening, it was impossible!

"No, you're not immortal. That isn't what I said. I made you like me." Jack repeated trying to keep his voice soothing.

"You're not immortal? But then how do you keep not dying!? And what about the 456!? How'd you take care of it?" Ianto questioned.

"Rose, Bad Wolf killed the 456, Every last one just turned them to dust, but the Universe demands a balance be kept so she put there lives in you and gave you life again. Except now you have all of those lives."

"What?" Ianto breathed his eyes widening.

"I know this is all a bit of a shock, but Ianto you have to understand, I couldn't live without you..." Jack explained his hand sliding up to cup the other man's cheek.

"So, your solution was to make it so I'd outlive my family? All my friends?" Ianto questioned pulling away from Jack's touch. "Turn me into some kind of freak like you?"

"I'll try not to be offended by that." Jack muttered a bit stung by his comment. Ianto placed his head in hands.

"Jack...What's my family going to think?" Ianto wondered looking up from his hands. Jacks hand tubing soothing circles into his back.

"They already thought that you were dead. They still do think your dead. You don't have to worry about all those goodbyes now. I-It's like they've already been said." Jack explained.

"What if I wanted those goodbye's Jack? So, now you're saying what? That I'm never going to see any of them again?"

"Ianto, you can't. It's better this way, I promise. Take it from someone who's died so many times already. Goodbye's are nothing but a cheap trick at closure, a bandaid to mask the pain, but you're never ready, not really. You don't have to say goodbye, you'll always have me, and I'll always have you now, Ianto. We can give each other forever." Jack promised.

"I think I might like that, sir." Ianto leaned into him resting his against Jack's shoulder. Jack wrapped his arm around him, his arm a comforting weight upon Ianto's shoulder. He pressed his lips gently against Ianto's temple.

-meanwhile with the Doctor and Rose-

"No, no you need to swish and flick! Not flick and swish." The Doctor shook his head with a laugh as Rose took her sonic out of her jacket pocket with a flourish.

"I'm doing exactly what you did!" Rose replied defensively trying to fight down her laughter.

"You most certainly are not." The Doctor denied his eyes widening just the slightest bit in indignation.

"Fine then, maybe you're just a rubbish teacher." Rose smirked.

"Oi! Me? What about you? It's not my fault you're an awful pupil." The Doctor huffed shaking his head.

"Maybe you should alter your teaching methods." Rose suggested.

"Alright, but only for you, Rose Tyler." The Doctor smirked pocketing his sonic. He walked behind her til he was pressed right up against her, he wrapped his arms around her settling a hand on each of her wrists.

"I like this teaching method much better," Rose smiled looking back at him.

"I thought you might." The Doctor smiled pressing a quick kiss to her cheek. "Now, remember, swish and flick." The timelord moving her wrist around in the correct motion.

"Doctor?" Rose asked after a few moments of silence.

"Hmm?" The Doctor questioned.

"Are we..." Rose trailed off unsure how to really phrase her question. She didn't want to say dating, because that would make the Doctor her boyfriend, and like she had told Mickey so long ago he was so much more important to her than that. Plus she wasn't even entirely certain timelords did date. She couldn't say partners, because that sounded more married than anything else, not that she didn't want to be married to the Doctor again. Though she was unsure if it was really technically him since the half human version was a metacrisis and he didn't even remember the event.

"Are we what?" The Doctor questioned his mind whirring with possible endings to her sentence that threatened to come tumbling out of his mouth, but he bit his tongue to hold his rambling back. Now didn't seem like the right time to go on one of his tangents.

"Are we a thing? Like uh...together? I uh" Rose cleated her throat. ".. this is a trickier question to form than I thought it would be?"

"Are you asking if we're a couple now?" The Doctor questioned hoping he had understood what she was getting at.

"Yeah," Rose nodded turning around tucking her sonic away. "I am."

"In that case, Rose Tyler-" whatever the Doctor was about to say was cut off as the tardis lurched suddenly sending them both falling to the floor.

"What was that!?" Rose wondered.

"No idea, let's go find out." The Doctor told her. The two racing out of the library to the console.

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