This was just aching--all the moments when you draw our attention to how different they are then-and-now, before-and-after, and all of the moments when you don't point it out but just let them go on being brave and miserable and cruel or kind to each other--Ianto is gorgeous here, so brightly hopeful before Lisa and so understatedly broken after. And the last line is just perfect. Just perfect.

Thank you for writing this. It was a real joy.