"I know. That's what everyone says," Owen said with a dull hint in his voice. "Either they have to leave, or I have to go. For my own good, for their own sanity, for...something," Owen said before diverting his eyes and stepping away from her.
It hurt too much, after everything that he'd lost, after being really and truly alone, it hurt too much to have her standing right here in front of him. Having Tosh, Gwen, Ianto, and Jack back and whole was like a blessing, a true relief, this...this was a curse, a nightmare of something that he'd tried to put behind him so long ago.