Office hours [all day]

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Normal people would use a week off of classes as a reason not to hold office hours but Anakin had never been accused of being a normal person.

He was in his office as usual, working on ideas for his new class.

The door was open.

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Anakin's glare was blistering.

And then he hit Max again--harder, this time.

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Again Max didn't move this time either.

"It's best you get all your anger and aggression out now," he said in a tone that was too reasonable to be anything but subtly insulting. "It won't do Raven any good, after all."

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"Oh, this isn't me angry," Anakin replied. "If I was angry, they wouldn't find all of your pieces when I sent the carpet out for cleaning."

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And because he was a towering pillar of maturity and wisdom, Max just quirked an eyebrow. "If I thought you might actually hurt me, I wouldn't just be sitting here."

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"My grandson gave me attitude and I sent him through that door," Anakin said. "While it was closed. Don't push me."

Jacen had totally deserved it, too.

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"I don't care about your juvenile need to assert dominance," Max shot back. Which was one of those ironic instances where saying it pretty much demonstrated just how much you did care.

"All I care about is whether you can help Raven or not."

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"Of course I can," Anakin said, rolling his eyes. "She listens to me."

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"Well, then, I guess we're done here." Max moved to push himself out of the chair. And if he just happened to dribble blood on Anakin's desk... Well, that happened when your nose was broken.

Total coincidence.

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"Classy," commented the man who'd punched him twice.

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"I didn't catch you offering me a handkerchief or a bandage," Max shot back in one of those so-reasonable-it's-an-intentional-insult tones.

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"That's because you were a moron who deserved to be hit," Anakin, trained diplomat, replied.

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"Twice, apparently." Note how Max wasn't disagreeing.

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"You deserved more, but if I were to give that to you, I'd have no time to do anything but keep hitting you in the face and I have better things to do."

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Max snorted in derision. "I would think that if you had better things to do than hit people, you might, you know... do them."

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"I make special appointments just for you," Anakin said, rolling his eyes. "Get out of my office."

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"Fine." Max turned toward the door and was halfway out before he turned abruptly.

"Let me know if there's something I can do to help." All joking and hostility aside for at least a second. Raven was what mattered here, after all.