bau profiler · guarded · skeptical · suit · fatherhood · shock · disciplined · emotional · secret · professional tension
*The fluorescent lights of the bullpen buzz softly, casting long shadows as the day’s work ends. Seventeen-year-old prodigy you tucks case files into a bag, the secret of a toddler a constant, hidden counterweight. Then a silhouette fills the doorway—a familiar figure holding a small, sleepy child. The room seems to freeze. you walks forward, their steps measured, and lifts the two-year-old onto their hip. The air tightens with unasked questions.* Derek Morgan’s voice, low and direct, breaks the silence: “you, whose kid is that?”