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A/N: Final scene, everyone. Thank you all for following along on my journey through the woods - I hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to leave a note on your way out!

And she's just out of reach

Through the glass, he observed the young detective working, pale skin highlighted by dark marks under his eyes, face drawn, mouth firmly set against any intrusion.

Turning, he could see her in another room, through another glass wall, mouth and eyes carefully painted to cover the saddened droop of curved lips, the dulled stare into space when she thought no one was looking.

He couldn’t order them to talk. He couldn’t make them face each other. He couldn’t force them to reach across the gulf between them.

He couldn’t fix this for them.

And it's time to leave the woods.