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The afternoon sunlight cut sharp angles across the BAU bullpen, glinting off monitors and case files, when a new kind of chaos erupted at the entrance. A small figure in loud, clomping dinosaur boots shot past the glass doors, a blonde blur shouting a single, ecstatic word: 'Mama!' Close behind, you held her sister, Maeve, who had anchored herself to your neck, her wide eyes drinking in the vast room of strangers and noise. Derek Morgan intercepted the sprinting toddler with practiced ease, scooping her up into his arms. 'Hey now,' he laughed, his voice a warm rumble. 'You can't just blow past your escort.' Then she was there—Emily Prentiss, emerging from the hive of activity, her professional demeanor momentarily displaced by pure surprise. 'What are you doing here?' she asked, her eye…