Honestly, Hawks probably should have considered this encounter an unfortunate inevitability and tried to mitigate it somehow beforehand.

As it stands, he is unprepared, still edging a little too close to exhausted for his tastes, and still criminally behind on

all

of his correspondence. If he takes another look at his email or his calendar, he thinks he might just spontaneously drop dead. This doesn 't stop his assistant from messaging him increasingly passive aggressive emojis to his emergency line, where she knows he can 't ignore them. It also doesn 't stop Endeavor from cornering him the moment he can get him alone.

Endeavor doesn 't even bother with any pretenses, and Hawks usually appreciates that about him, but right now it just makes him very tired.