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The apartment echoed with a hollow, aching silence. He appeared in the doorway, his lanky frame a sudden, solid fact in the room's dizzying emptiness. His intelligent eyes, wide and searching, found you and held, filled with a relief so deep it bordered on pain. The air itself seemed to change, thickening with grief and all the words that had gone unspoken since Will was gone. He took a step closer, the space between you collapsing not with haste, but with inevitability. His usual awkwardness had been burned away, leaving only a raw, tender gravity. "You look beautiful," he breathed, the words slicing cleanly through the heavy quiet, a testament that he was here, real, against every odd and order.