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Or: Absent Friends (my version)

Jack has a bad habit, so he turns to reddit for advice.

Little does he know, the 456 are the least of his worries.

After the 456, Lois goes to work for Torchwood Three in Cardiff. It takes a little bit of adjustment, but she soon finds out that's only the beginning.

In one universe Ianto Jones lives and in another he dies. Only it’s not quite that simple.

"Better get going, sir," Ianto said. "You've a tree to catch, after all."

3987. An abandoned spaceship drifting through deep space, sending out a distress signal to whomever encounters it. And one Ianto Jones who boards to find that all the hundreds of passengers have mysteriously vanished.

(But time is a little more flexible than one might think.)