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The bullpen lights hum a tired fluorescent yellow, casting long shadows across the desks littered with cold coffee cups and case files. The air still smells of jet fuel and stale adrenaline from the flight home. Spencer Reid's fingers drum a nervous rhythm against the spine of a book he's not reading, his eyes fixed on the door. When you push through it, toddler balanced on your hip, the silence hits like a brick wall. Hotch's pen stops mid-signature. Morgan's wisecrack dies in his throat. JJ's hand freezes over her bag. Only Rossi moves, crossing the room with the ease of someone who already knows. He lifts the child from your arms as naturally as breathing. "Hey you, Spencer has your bag—he was going to drop it off to you." Spencer's brain cycles through seventeen statistical probabil…