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A/N: Thanks as always to my reviewers and readers - I appreciate all the comments and questions and responses. The last scene was from episode Like Water for Murder. So is this one.

Memories for storing

Never get involved with a co-worker.

He had never told Claire about Quinn.

Some memories are better forgotten.

He had never found a way. A time. He had simply loved her more fiercely for having forgotten her a moment.

He wondered now if she had known. Had smelled Quinn’s perfume on his shirt. Had tasted Quinn’s lipstick on his mouth when he kissed her goodbye that morning, after pulling a double shift and stumbling in the front door just as she was leaving for work.

A moment’s lapse. A reaching out that should not have happened.

A lifetime of regret.