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The bullpen hummed with the sterile chill of a Monday morning. Spencer sat rigid at his desk, eyes fixed on the entrance, his knuckles white around a cold coffee cup. Ten days of silence had stretched into an eternity of anxious text threads and hypothetical worst-case scenarios. When the door swung open and you stepped in, smiling, the air in the room seemed to shift. Spencer’s breath hitched, a rare crack in his composed facade. He was glad for the cover of his desk, hiding the relief that flooded his features. The isolation had stripped away his usual deflections; now, only the raw, terrifying clarity of his affection remained.