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If you have Archon diversion you can . . .
1/rnd when using Archon Style, if have at least one hand free, divert 1 melee weapon attack that would have struck an adjacent ally and take the hit instead, using your own AC to determine whether the attack hits (see text for more details.)
If your a Swashbuckler you can . . .
At 1st level, when an opponent makes a melee attack against the swashbuckler, she can spend 1 panache point and expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If her result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack automatically misses. The swashbuckler must declare the use of this ability after the creature’s attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful parry and if she has at least 1 panache point, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action make an attack against the creature whose attack she parried, provided that creature is within her reach. This deed’s cost cannot be reduced by any ability or effect that reduces the number of panache points a deed costs.
So could a Swashbuckler who invested the large amount of feats necessary for Archon Diversion use that feat to divert a melee attack and now knowing exactly what AC it'll hit choose to use Panache to parry then counterattack? Especially if they have Archon Justice as well so even if they fail the parry being hit would give all the other party members a free AoO on the opponent?
Or even better if you have the rogues redirecting strike . . .
Benefit: Once per day, when a rogue with this talent is hit with a melee attack, she can redirect the attack to strike at an adjacent creature with a free action. The creature targeted must be within melee reach of the attack that hit the rogue, and the creature that made the attack against the rogue must make a new attack roll against the new target.
redirect it from an ally, parry/attack if they don't hit you, redirect it into them if they do as they are an adjacent creature within melee reach of the attack that hit you.