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2021-07-15 15:36:03When the building was cleared for everyone to get their things, a campus-wide alert was sent out as to why people would be late to their classes. Max went into the building and took the stairs up to the hall and then back down to the basement. He overheard the Dean of the department talking about how some of the classes would be changing over the next year.
The admin would be reaching out to all the students affected. Max knew what that meant. People would be out three years of work or so. He felt bad for the students. He was wondering what things were going to be cut. He figured it would be something like his classes. The admin had vetoed all the things that he had wanted to do. Though he tried over and over to get his new ideas passed through, nothing seemed to work. He wasn’t good at politics.
As Max went to his office and opened it and saw there was no d
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Max left the building later, and though he wanted nothing more than to go home and to bed, he drove over to the town his friends lived in and went straight to their house. As he knocked, he was greeted by a horde of tiny versions of his friends as they all opened the door. The kids all were so excited to see him. It brought a smile to his face.“Max!” one of the twins said. Though Max was a visitor, often, he still had trouble figuring out which one was which. He solved that by calling them both buddy. He really hoped that it wasn’t ever needed that he needed to know how to figure out which one was which. He didn’t think he could do it.“Hey, guys. Is your dad home?” Max asked as he smiled at the horde of children before him.“Let Max in.” he heard from behind the group. He then saw the tiny woman that his friend had married. Though at thirty, she was still lo
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“And I picked her up, and though she was pretty, I could see she really wasn’t the type I was looking for. I did see, though, she was the type my father would want to be associated with.” Max said, and Henni looked at him a little funny, “She had money. My dad was a working type. He was a man’s man from that time. To have his son connected to that family would have made all his dreams come true.”“Oh, I see,” Henni said. “So what happened next? I didn’t go to a prom. I didn’t even go to high school.”“Lucky.” He said with a smirk. “We went to the dance. The more I got to know her, the more I knew this was a one-time thing, but she kept talking about how this was going to last forever and ever. It seemed she had mad
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“I understand how that works,” Henni said. “Even though it all comes out, no one believes you still.”“Yeah,” Max said with a sigh. She was good. He knew that she could see everything. Now came the hardest part. He already knew what she was going to say. He hoped with everything that was in him, Mack came home soon.“Mack when through that, but it was fed by someone else,” Henni said.“I always thought my brother had something to do with it. He was pissed off that my dad picked me to go on that date. I heard someone of the worst things from him.” Max said. “It wouldn’t be out of the normal to be him somehow. Though he was the favorite, I never understood why. He was lazy and never really did anything but start trouble. I trie
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Mack and Max went into the office after Christian arrived, and even though the kids were all outside, the noise was overwhelming. Mack laughed as Max looked at him with widened eyes. “You learn to live with it.”“It is making me rethink the fact I want a few of those monsters,” Max said.“Well, if you want a few of those, you do have to do what Henni said,” Mack said as he looked at the younger man.“I know,” Max said as the thought passed through his mind. He didn’t want to think about how she was so preceptive that she could see the entire thing without even really trying. That was a problem and a solution at the same time.“We all have our issues, Max.” Mack said, “Now, what brought this all on in the first place. Though I know my wife often know
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“I think I know what you're talking about,” Max said with a sigh.“I know that face.” Mack laughed as he looked at the other man. “You already know someone like that, don’t you?”“I do.” He said as he shook his head. “But I can’t do anything about that.”“Why not?” Mack asked as he settled down into the chair. He could see Max getting uncomfortable, and he knew this was going to be good. Though he didn’t want to make the man in front of him feel that way, but it was a way to get the other man to finally open up. He had alluded to one woman for years now but never said anything about her. Everyone was starting to think she was not really real.“She is a student,” Max said as he swallowed. “I had her in my first yea
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Max went back to his house again. The silence met him like an old friend. He started his normal routine of removing his clothes in various places of the house to make it easier to know where they were for the next day’s use. Though it was the weekend, he knew that he never really had any time off. Sometimes on Sunday, he had a few hours to unwind, but this pace of pushing himself was getting old.The words that Mack had said to him were still echoing in his mind. He couldn’t get rid of them. No matter how hard he tried, he kept hearing them over and over. It was when he sat down on the couch in his boxers, and he looked around to the emptiness of the house, and he closed his eyes for a minute he really knew that he wanted something different than what was in front of him.This was stale, and he was tired of it. Though he also knew that that meant he needed to figure everything out l
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Max rolled out of bed in the morning. He had made up his mind the night before. This was it. This was half a life for him to live, and he didn’t want to continue this. Henni and Mack were right. They had put it right in front of him, and he wasn’t dumb, so he saw it clearly. He went to go start the pot of coffee and put something on. As he was the one who could basically handle a case any way he chose, too, he knew that he would be driving out to the small town that he grew up in.That was the only way forward. He also knew that was the last place on the face of the earth he wanted to go to. This was for himself, and on a different level, this was for the victim. He knew that he had to separate the two things. He had to start thinking of the victim as that. She was just the victim of a crime.When he normally caught a case, he had to get to know the victim to understan
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“Well, that explains some of the change in you. Definitely, more than you used to be.” Harry said as he looked at him. He looked Max up and down, trying to size him up. “Why did you leave the military?”“I was medically discharged after being shot in the shoulder,” Max said as he looked at the other man. Knowing that sometimes having such a relaxed conversation, he could learn a lot more about the people involved. He looked at the man as he offered him a spot on a very well-used couch as a few of the kids came out of the hallway off t the side. They had to be the older kids that Samantha had before she was married to Harry. They were close to nine or ten.“Dad, can we go out and play?” The oldest girl asked. As Max looked at the girl, he could see why people might have thought she could be his. There were a lot of resemblances. Though he could see some of his brother in the gir
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The next few days Max was completely engrossed in going over the course from the beginning to the end. He had already rewritten at once and now he was going to make it more specific period he was already looking up case files and everything else that he could possibly do to get everything completely set. Though the paperwork Adam actually come in yet he was betting that it would any day now. He was OK with the fact that it wasn't totally official because he had the men’s word and his own captain's word working for him. He knew that they just had to make it more transferable on paper. He would leave that to them knowing that that was what it was going to be.the next few days he was also dealing with Deanna who is still in the middle of her grief. Though it seemed to hit her at random times it was still hitting her out of the blue. She was dealing with everything as she always did with her head held high even if she had tears in her eyes. She was really try
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Max stop Deanna and the kids off at the university and then he went to the Academy. He knew that it wasn't going to take very long for him to go over everything. When he did get there he was ushered into their conference room and he passed out the folders to the three Deans of the different academies. He knew that that was going to be the number one thing that he had to do was make sure that he sold the program. He was good at selling himself as well. He had been doing it for years since he left the military. One of the things that he had to learn that in the civilian world it was his reputation that was going to get him very far. The fact that he had been in the military and woon did in battle wear something that people wanted to know about. So he had found a way to tell them without actually telling them anything.He had a normal way with words that was able to make the most complicated thing seem uncomplicated. That was also one of the reasons w
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“what did she mean that it's part of the code?” Dana asked when they got into the car and Max had already started driving back to their house.“law enforcement spouses usually stick together. just like they say that there is a blue wall sometimes meaning that officers will stick with each other and not let the civilians know what really goes on. The same goes for their wives. Despite the fact that penny is also a part of it she is add detective wife. She knows all the rules in jazz who knows what it's like to be a new mom. And also have things surrounding you that you don't particularly want there. When they got married it was pretty rough. however I really didn't know them then I had only just heard what happened. It's not a pretty story but one day maybe I'll tell you. For right now just know that you always have her friend in her. So you can tell her anything that you need to plus she's a doctor so she can help out at times.” next said
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Max had been surprised the entire night. Everybody had been on their best behavior when they actually saw Deanna standing next to him. And then of course the two kids. Henny was smiling like there was no tomorrow because she knew that he had finally gotten what he always wanted. Mac kept smiling too but it was for a different reason and Max knew that as well. This was definitely going to be one of those things that they were going to have to do frequently enough that Deanna needed to feel comfortable around them. He didn't actually believe that couples should have too many friends that were not other couples. He was kind of old fashioned in the way that he thought. She could have as many friends as she wanted that was perfectly fine but they would probably spend more time with other couples. It just seemed not to cause as many problems in any relationship. At least that was his view of it and like he knew he could learn something else.Mac was more
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Max knew that he had to explain a few things on the way over to the other couples house. So he began to give them a rundown of everybody that was there including the kids. He also explained how him an Mac were friends to the point that it was like Max was one of their kids as well even though he was pretty much the same ages them. it was one of those interesting relationships that Max had filled his life with before he was able to deal with anything really personal.He also then began to explain slightly how they knew about her well before they had become a couple. “so just so you understand that they're going to probably be teasing me a lot and giving me a lot of crap. It's going to be because of you but that's OK.”“what do you mean it's because of me?” Deanna asked if she looked at him she was slightly surprised after being very amused with the way that he was explaining his friends to her. It wasn't like she had a
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Watching the man storm out of the room and go upstairs with something that Max was going to take huge amount of pride in doing. He was more than happy to sit back and wait for the repercussions to actually happen. None of that actually mattered to Max right now. The way that he had thought of it was it was going to be something that they were going to have to deal with anyway period now the fact that he possibly had another job waiting for him that was going to be better would be the absolute feather in his cap right now.that happened to be the moment that his phone rang right before Deanna could actually say something to him about what had just happened. “hello this is detective Anderson.” Max stated into the phone as he had an idea of what the number actually was. It wasn't the one that he had called before but it was a very similar number so he had to assume that it was a police Academy calling him back.“detective Ande
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After about 10 minutes of trying to get around exactly what the man was saying Max had enough. He was absolutely just thoroughly enjoying the fact that the man was so flustered that Max kept coming back with something else. It was like none of the other professors actually never questioned him. Or the fact that he normally had a few students going into his office for a few hours every day period of course those particular students were young females who had no business going into the Dean of students for the department’s office period of course Max wasn't actually going to bring that up but he was alluding to it. The only female that he wanted in his office. Was the one who was sitting in the corner.he looked over to Indiana who was watching the whole thing trying not to laugh as she was continuing to fake read whatever she was reading. Max knew that the man was not gonna give up very easily. And of course then the veiled threats that his course was proba
