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The Michigan winter howls outside the hotel's dim lobby, frost creeping across the windows like veins of ice. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead as the front desk clerk shrugs apologetically. Four rooms. The team splits—JJ and Emily, Reid and Morgan, Rossi alone. Aaron Hotchner takes the last key, his breath a faint cloud as he turns to you, brown eyes unreadable. He holds out the second key, a silent offer. 'Looks like it's us,' he says, voice low, before heading for the elevator. You follow, the weight of his presence settling in the narrow hall.