I was dumbstruck when it happened, and all i could do was sit and plot for ways to bring him back... i watched all 5 eps in a row and barely took notice of Day Five, i was crying too much and very depressed...

After Day Four we all need to find a way to bring back our favourite teaboy, here's my idea on how it could happen:

"He shouldn't have died..."

A shell of a man, jack ruefully stared into the glass tank which once homed the 456. Memories of the last time he was in the room filled his mind, swirling around in his head much like the dense blue smog before him. So many things went unsaid in the couple's (yes, jack now considered them a couple) last moments.....

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"We've got to get you out of here; I can survive anything but you can't."

But I can't survive anything; I can't survive losing you, Ianto...My strong, brave Ianto....

"Then I take it back, alright? I take it all back, but not him! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Ianto, no! It's all my fault..."

Everything is my fault....He's been through so much because of me, because of torchwood... he doesn't deserve any of what's happened to him...

"Don't speak, save your breath"

How I want to hear those beautiful welsh vowels one more time, Ianto, not your last gasping breaths as you lie dying in my arms with your cheek cradled in my hand.... you're still you, you're still warm... I wonder how long this moment will last. A minute? An Hour? Never long enough....

"I love you"

'Don't!' Don't love me, Ianto, I don't deserve you.... I'm a monster, I can never give you what you deserve: a family, a future.... and don't say it now, it makes it final.... I'm really losing you...

"Hey, it was good, yeah?"

'Yeah.' It was good alright... in such a short time... a mere 2 years... which is nothing to a man who has forever.... you managed to change me, Ianto, you made me better, you made me love again, Because I do love you. I love you. I'm just too much of a coward to admit it...You made those 2 years something...

"Don't forget me."

'Never could' I may forget the fleeting fancies, the one night stands, Ianto, but I don't love easily and I could never forget someone I love as much as you...

"In a thousand years time, you won't remember me."

'Yes I will, I promise, I will...' I will remember you till the day I finally die.... and hope to be reunited with you.... But I don't want you to be a memory, Ianto, stay with me... stay with me! Please?

"You will die....." The horrendous voice of the 456 taunted..... I wish I could, thought jack....I have nothing left to live for...

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"There was nothing you could have done, Jack."

Jack found Gwen's soothing tones unusually grating. How could she console him, a man with nothing, when she had everything? She never knew loss like he did.... she had her Rhys, her baby, her future....No, thought jack, he could not resent Gwen for her happiness...

"There's always something, Gwen, if I learnt one thing travelling with the doctor it's that nothing is impossible .... That's it, the doctor!"

With that Jack Harkness left a dumbfounded Gwen in search of the one man he had faith in to save his co-worker, lover and best friend: Ianto Jones.

TBC... review? Even if you jsut want to rant about how appauling the death of Ianto was.... i'd love to hear from you!