Author Note: Thank you all so, so much for the amazing response to this story and I hope that you enjoy the ending. Chapters 10 and 11 have been put up together. Keep an eye out for the sequel 'Coming Back Home'. Torchwood is owned by the BBC.

Chapter Eleven, Epilogue

Ianto sat on the bed in his new flat, holding the small square package in his hands. He had been staring at it for hours, putting off opening it in favour of unpacking his belongings.

He started his new job tomorrow and he could honestly say that he was excited, new faces was what he needed right now, his new project will help him forget.

Ianto carefully unwrapped the box, smoothing out the paper carefully as he knew that Jack had touched it last. As he lifted the lid, Ianto's heart constricted painfully, on top of an old battered stopwatch was a small note. It was the stopwatch that they had broken that first time they slept together after Suzie's second death. Ianto didn't even know that Jack had kept it, he read the note carefully:

This stopwatch broke the minute I began to really care about you; it will never start again, meaning that my love for you will never end. I will never forgive myself for what I did, but I hope one day you can look past what happened and remember our happier times. Be happy Ianto, live life to the full. I love you will all my heart, Jack.

Ianto tried to hold back the tears but they rolled down his face anyway, but this time with a smile, he remembered his good times with Jack and for now that kept him happy.