A/N: Post-"The Hole in the Heart".
He has never seen anyone look so small and sad, like she just wants to shrink into the chair and disappear.
"Lily?"
She looks up at him, her eyes red and swollen.
"W-Wendell?"
He sits down next to her, and wraps his arms around her. She sobs into his chest and he lets her, and he rubs her back, and lets a few tears of his own drip into his hair.
After a few minutes, she stops shaking, but he keeps holding onto her, and she keeps holding onto him.