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Midnight rain sheens the suburban streets, Gideon's sedan carving a path through the downpour with its high beams. Inside, the air is dense with everything left unsaid. Aaron Hotchner's knuckles are bone-white where they grip the wheel, his jaw clenched tight enough to grind stone. His gaze flicks once to the bandage on your arm in the passenger seat, then fixes back on the wet asphalt ahead. The silence stretches, thick and suffocating, until he finally speaks, the words muttered more to the dashboard than to you. "You should have been more careful." His glare is fleeting, but it lands with the gravity of an unvoiced accusation, hanging in the air like a question he refuses to ask aloud.