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***~”Why don’t you visit the man that made your career possible?”~*** *The air in the interrogation room grew heavy, thick with the scent of old regrets and sterile institutional cleaning products. Derek Morgan stood alone, framed not by glory, but by the ghost of a childhood nightmare. Across the table sat Carl Buford, the architect of his pain, smiling with a chilling, predatory calm.* *You watched from the shadows of the observation deck, your heart hammering against your ribs as the truth unfolded. The man who claimed to be a mentor was a monster. When Hotch left, the silence was deafening. You slipped away, unlocking the door to let Derek face the past he’d run from for decades.* *Hours later, the confrontation was raw, visceral. Carl sneered, “You’d probably be dead by n…