Maybe we can have everything.
It's a little after 5pm on Friday when Dana Scott exits the elevator on the 50th floor.
The offices of Specter Litt are still buzzing. No one appears to be getting ready to start there weekends just yet. Scottie knows this is the norm for high profile law firms.
Scottie can remember exactly where the managing partners office is. She hope's that he has moved into Jessica's vacated office when he took over as managing partner. She really doesn't want to be roaming the hallways too long.
When she arrives at the office Scottie smiles to herself seeing his name on the door
'Harvey Specter Managing Partner'. They both graduated Harvard the same year but Harvey has steamed through his career. No one else from that class has came close to what Harvey has achieved over the years. Scottie isn't even a named partner yet in her firm. Smiling she sees him behind his desk. Harvey Specter has always commanded every space he has been in. Sitting behind that desk as managing partner was always going to happen for him. Scottie watches him for a moment as he stands and starts to clear his desk, organising files into neat piles. Harvey looks up feelings someone's eyes on him.
Harvey knows straight away why Scottie is here.
Business dinner Dana assumes as she enters the office. It's only just after five and every lawyer that knows Harvey knows that weekends and days off, hell even leaving the office at 5 only happens to meet a client.
Dana Scott learns in the next 45 minutes that the Harvey standing before her is no longer the Harvey she left 6 years ago after he revealed to her Mike and his secret.
The biggest shock comes when Harvey reveals that Donna no longer works for him or at the firm. Smiling so wide Scottie sees all his teeth as Harvey informs her that Donna moved on to bigger an more important things.
Dana doesn't leave with what she came for. Named partner. Harvey and Louis have built the firm up stronger than ever. There is no need or room for another name on there door. Harvey can offer her a senior partner position but informs that would be as far as she is getting.
Scottie remarks that he seems changed she cant put her finger on it but he laughs and informs her that his priorities have changed since they last seen each other, he has more purpose for success.
She knows it's time to go when he glances at his watch for the 5th time in as many minutes. Scottie remarks that she has kept him from his meeting long enough to which Harvey responds that its something more important than business.
Harvey leaves the office soon after Scottie has left. She has an offer to think through.
Ray is waiting outside for him. He knows the Friday routine. Straight home for the boss.
As soon as Harvey opens the front door his ears register the noise. Keys threw in the bowl on the entrance table he makes his way to the family room where he finds two of his girls 4 year old twins. Well they will be 4 in 3 weeks. Scarlett and Madison, identical in looks miles apart in personalities. They most certainly chose right naming Scarlett. Fearless and headstrong, bossy and domineering everything her 8 minute younger twin is not. Madison likes the quiet and tranquil . Harvey sees Madison sitting on the floor beside the baby soothing chair that holds the youngest Specter 8 month old Aubrey. Both girls engrossed in the TV while Scarlett twirled in circles around the room still dressed in her ballet outfit she has a tendency to not sit still for more than one minute. As soon as Harvey makes his presence known all three girls abandon what they where doing and embrace there father. Little Aubrey bouncing hard in her chair. Madison is the first to her father so she is in his arms while Scarlett pulls her father's suit jacket talking a mile a minute about what herself Madison and Abigail learned in ballet class. Speaking of Abigail, Harvey turns his head towards the joining kitchen only separated by the child's safety gate and meets eyes with his wife of five years. Harvey does not envy his wife's full time job at all. Dealing with 4 little ones all under the age of 4. The twins where planned both deciding that once they where married they would no longer use birth control and see what happened. Two beautiful girls joined them two months after their first wedding anniversary. They soon learned that birth control didn't really work too good for them when they discovered Abigail was joining them over two years ago.
There first proper date night that they felt comfortable leaving the three girls with Mike and Rachel when Abigail was six months old. They indulged too much in Mcallan and wine and a whole night to themselves without interruptions and a forgotten condom or two because there was more than one round that night the youngest Specter was conceived.
Harvey smirks at Donna that smile reserved only for her and their daughters and let's his eyes roam over his wife's body as she stands at the kitchen island organising dinner for the family of six he doesn't miss the two year old attached to her mother's leg screaming for a cookie.
Once Harvey has greeted all his girls in the family room with kisses and hugs he makes his way to the kitchen to feel up and greet his wife. Harvey never understood men who would explain to him years before the joy and happiness of going home to a woman you love unconditionally and children of your own who you would hang the moon for.
Donna fills him in on her day. Getting the girls organised and out of the house is exhausting enough without a full day of activities. They decided that Donna wouldn't return to work once Aubrey joined them. They had a full time nanny and where considering a second nanny but when Donna weighed up the pros and cons she decided against going back to work. Instead focusing on raising the girls because lord knows with the genes of Harvey and Donna mixed together a handful wouldn't even describe them. When the first meet all them years ago Donna did a fine job convincing Harvey and the rest of the world she knew all and little could rattle the strong woman. But a husband and four kids later Donna often admits to her husband that she feels most days she doesn't know how she has survived the day without pulling her hair out or dropping Scarlett and Abigail at the offices of Specter Litt to spend the day with there father. The four girls certainly balance each other out two who have all the energy the world can offer and two who love the easy going way of life. Donna wouldn't change a thing but like most mothers who have a significant other for support she loves the texts or calls from Harvey informing her that he is on his was home because she knows when daddy gets home mommy gets at least an hours peace as the girls fill there father in on the daily happenings.
Once dinner is eaten or in Aubrey's case rubbed in her hair. Nightly routines done and dusted and all Specter ladies under 3 feet tucked warmly in bed Harvey heads for the scotch and pours Donna some wine and heads to the living room hoping his wife isn't too tired to keep him company for a while. He finds her curled up on the sofa with the latest TV show they have been watching already to go on the TV. Before he can sit Donna declines the wine and tells him to grab her a bottle of water. Donna never declines wine unless... Harvey's eyebrows reach his hairline and his wife informs him its time for him to look up vasectomies because this will be the last pregnancy she will be going through. The pill has failed them aswell. Harvey makes a bad timed joke that his swimmers are obviously too strong and can withstand all forms of birth control, he also says a silent pray for a son this time to maybe help him out with all the girls that have taken over his life. Maybe this time he thinks as there have been no sickness scenes to rival lips from the exorcist. Donna suffered terrible morning sickness in the beginning of all three of the pregnancies the last two times was the indicator before a late period.
Later that night after they have made love and redressed with Donna pressed up against his side he lays awake thinking and forever grateful of the joy his life has became. It seems a lifetime ago that after a day at the firm he would return to his condo in the sky alone or with a nameless woman he picked up in a bar and thought he was living life to the fullest until he stood in Donna's apartment and told her she knew he loved her and as he turned to leave she stopped him and revealed she loved him too. But not as a friend. No she was in love with him. Everything else faded away the rule, the years lost, the relationships they both had with other people. None of that mattered anymore. He stayed that night and every night since. Well now they stay the night in there townhouse with children that like to wake them up in the middle of the night just to inform them that one of there socks has come off.
Harvey was a changed man. In work he was as ruthless as ever he had a name to live up to and a managing partner at New York's top law firm could not seen to be soft. But in his personal life his priorities did a 180, he no longer cared solely for himself he had five people soon to be six that relied on him. During the week he tried to be out of the office no later than six thirty but things came up and he sometimes he got home long after all his girls had went to bed. But Fridays he was out of there by five. Five thirty at the the latest and didn't step foot back inside until ten am Monday morning. He was now a man that spent weekends at ballet class or picnicking in the park. He was also now a man that took his annual holiday leave.
Two weeks after Harvey would be a typical dad pushing a double stroller around Disneyland he put his foot down on dressing as prince Eric but adorned the Mickey mouse t-shirts and cap. Mike and Louis couldn't believe the pictures Donna sent them both. Donna may also have considered sending the picture of Harvey and the four girls she had taken in front of the magic castle to DILFS of Disneyland. But opted not to on the basis of he was her man and not for anyone else to drool over.
Seven and half months later Gordon Michael would join the family.