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The twenty-first century is when it all changes.
He'd been saying it for years, but now, walking through the frost in the deserted – destroyed – streets, he realised its truth.
His life had certainly changed. He'd found the Doctor – finally – and yet had chosen to leave him again.
He'd built a team – a family, really – and lost them again, one by one.
He'd found love in Ianto, welcomed it for the first time in decades, and now… that too was lost.
A lone bird sang in the distance, but Jack heard not its tale as he wandered the departed city alone.