Early mornings, crappy coffee, corporate offices and late nights. Those were pretty much the words that summed up Lennox Cameron working with one of the biggest law firms in New York City; Pearson Hardman. You could say that it was Lennox's place of business but that was stretching the truth a bit as Lennox was an investigator, she did most of the hard work for lawyers so they didn't have to but she didn't exactly work for Pearson Hardman. She would consider them to be her clients in a weird way as Lennox was more of a freelance investigator but primarily most of her work was for Pearson Hardman. Lennox occasionally did work for other individuals but most of her work derived from the business that she did with Pearson Hardman or more importantly Harvey Specter. Most of the work Lennox did was for Harvey, she was his go to investigator and he was her boss in a round about way, at Pearson Hardman there was only two people who Lennox answered to; Harvey and the managing partner Jessica Pearson. It was all a bit confusing but Lennox knew where she stood, she knew who she reported to and she knew that she would help out the other partners and their associates on cases but whatever Harvey needed came first and took priority over everything. That's what brought Lennox to Pearson Hardman this morning and as the elevator doors opened she stepped out onto the floor humming along with the music that was currently playing in her ear curtsey of her earphones and the pocket sized ipod that was nestled into her jacket pocket. Like always the offices of Pearson Hardman was bustling as always but Lennox paid no attention as she coasted through the office hallways, well aware that she was a stark contrast to all the lawyers in their overprices suits, very well groomed appearances compared to Lennox with her plaid shirt, leather jacket, ripped jeans and beat up boots. Not to mention Lennox's blonde hair that was pulled into a messy ponytail and the chipped nail polish on her nails, they weren't exactly signs of a professional. Lennox definitely stood out from the crowd here at Pearson Hardman but if Lennox actually cared about what people thought of her appearance, she wouldn't be making the big bucks. Sometimes Lennox found it hard to believe that she was working for a bunch of overpaid lawyers as she pretty much hated lawyers growing up, she had quite the complicated history with them in her past.

Skulking down the hallways of Pearson Hardman, Lennox couldn't help but let out a stifling yawn as she could have done with another few hours of sleep. God Lennox hated early mornings, she much liked her sleep but for every early morning that Lennox had, there was always a late night to go with it. But that was all part of the job and Lennox wouldn't be getting paid the big bunks and be able to bill her clients such hefty sums if there wasn't any sacrifices on her part although given how little of a real life Lennox had, you couldn't really say she sacrificed much for her job. Workaholic and married to the job were strong words that could be used in associated with Lennox, not that she minded as this was the life she had chosen for herself and from day one she knew that this life would entail. Sure this life hadn't been the life that Lennox had imagined for herself as a little girl but back then, Lennox hadn't even been sure that she would make it to twenty six when she was a kid. Funny how things turned out and it was all down to one Harvey Reginald Spencer, which was exactly the man who Lennox was here to see. However to get to Harvey, she needed to get past the woman who stood between them as of this moment.

"Morning Donna, you are looking as radiant as ever if I may so, it seems like life as the executive assistant to the newest senior partner seems to be suiting you rather well." Lennox began in a warm manner as she approached the cubicle where Harvey's loyal assistant Donna worked from, Lennox smiled at the brilliantly quick witted red head who she had known almost as long as she knew Harvey. Donna was more than just an assistant to Harvey, she practically ran the man's life and knew Harvey better than the man himself. Donna was a force to be reckoned with and Lennox knew it, which is why she always made an effort to stay on Donna's good side.

"Oh Lennox! You always know exactly the right thing to say, so go ahead the big man's waiting for you." Donna replied with a bright smile and Lennox gave the red head a mock salute before moving past Donna's cubicle towards the glass door that led to Harvey's office. As Lennox moved to the door, she couldn't help note that the door now read under Harvey's name Senior Partner. There was this odd feeling in Lennox's chest, it was warm and fuzzy and she could have sworn that she was feeling pride over the well deserved promotion that Harvey so truly deserved and why shouldn't Lennox feel proud? After all Harvey had pretty much saved her skin twelve years ago and straightened her out so that she resembled something of an actual person. She owed that man big time in more ways than one. Glancing through the see through door Lennox caught sigh of Harvey who hadn't noticed her as he was too busy talking to some scrawny brat in a suit to take notice that she was there. Lennox couldn't help but take a brief moment to reminisce as she looked at Harvey talking away, Harvey was a far cry from the man that she had met all those years ago. He was older, mature and even more arrogant if that was even possible and Harvey was sure dressing a lot more sharper than he did back when he was working in the district attorney's office.

Having enough of her sentiments about Harvey and his new promotion, Lennox pushed open the door to Harvey's office without bothering to knock as she always did when she came to see Harvey. Lennox never understood the whole knocking on door thing as the way she saw things, doors were meant to be opened and gone through and not knocked on. That way of thinking hadn't served Lennox in the best of ways given that she had run into trouble with the law with her in regards to trespassing but that was all in the past and more importantly there was no trace of it on her records. Once again that was due to the work of Harvey Specter.

"Harvey." Lennox greeted in a rather curt and formal manner as she strode into the spacious office and went about making herself settled and rather comfortable on one of Harvey's couches. This was going to be one the few times today that Lennox was going to be able to sit down for a small while as Lennox currently juggling five cases and on her way out of Pearson Hardman she needed to swing by Louis Litt's office as word had gotten to Lennox that the junior partner had wanted to see her. Lennox knew that Harvey and Louis weren't exactly the best of buds and whilst Lennox's loyalty did lay with Harvey and whilst his cases always took priority with her, it didn't mean that Lennox couldn't take Louis' money especially since that every time Lennox helped Louis out with a case, she was allowed to take certain liberties with her fee and often got paid in the five figure region.

"Lenny." Harvey replied in an equally curt manner but Lennox could see that small smile in the corner of his mouth that let her known that Harvey was happy to see her not to mention he was using his personal nickname for her. Never in a million years had did Lennox think that she would end up being friends with a man like Harvey Specter given that she hadn't exactly been too fond of him the first time they met. Well that was an understatement as Lennox had very much disliked Harvey for the first six months she knew him as he stood for everything that she hated. The two of them were complete opposites and everything about them suggested that the two of them shouldn't get along as Harvey was a real smooth operator, a pretty damn good lawyer who was known as the best closer in New York and earned more money than Lennox would ever earn in her next two lifetimes, then there was Lennox. She was more scrappy, more unpredictable of the two, who did things to the beat of her own drum regardless and gave little to no thought to much in her life. Lennox was a bit of a wildcard who was only well mannered towards people she liked and she didn't have quite the impressive reputation as Harvey did. Lennox's rather lax manners weren't the only thing that separated her and Harvey, their worlds were so different in every single way. Harvey had attended college and then gone onto graduate 5th in his class at Harvard Law whereas Lennox hadn't done either, her education had been pretty spotty as best and her job wasn't as glamorous as Harvey's with even less perks but she knew that Harvey had never once looked down at what Lennox did for a living. Lennox knew that she was smart enough to become a lawyer and could do it if she wanted to but she liked what she did for the most part and Harvey was one of the few people to understand. Most of the other lawyers that Lennox helped out couldn't understand why anybody wouldn't want to be a lawyer, it seemed like having a huge overblown ego with a god complex to boot came with being a lawyer especially when you were a Harvard Law graduate which was the case with every partner or associate at Pearson Hardman.

"So whose the baby in the suit?" Lennox questioned tilting her head to the side, in the direction of Harvey's companion who had been in here having a conversation with him prior to her arrival. At first glance Lennox had thought of him as a scrawny brat when she saw him through the glass doors and Lennox could she that she was still right as this guy was on the skinny side with a skinny tie to match his skinny frame. He was pretty cute with short brown hair and blue eyes that seemed to twinkle, that much he had going for himself Lennox couldn't help but think to herself however she quickly moved on from that as lawyers were so not her type and she kept business and pleasure separate as she had a pretty good gig going for her here at Pearson Hardman and Lennox wasn't going to screw it up for anyone.

"My new associate."

"I guess it's not worth me learning his name then?" Lennox questioned with a raised brow as normally she didn't like to deal with the associates as they were pretty low on the social/career totem poll at Pearson Hardman. But that didn't mean that Lennox didn't have any interactions with them although she tried her hardest to keep them to a minimum, preferring to deal with the partners of the firm as it meant that Lennox didn't have to hold their hand and wipe their snotty noses when they couldn't figure things out. Not to mention it was the partners who were paying for Lennox's services. However most of these associates never seemed to register on Harvey's radar but yet this particular one had and it piped Lennox's interests as if Harvey was giving this associate the time of day then maybe he was worthy of her time despite looking like a scrawny college kid in way over his head. Looks could be deceiving as Lennox well knew.

"Ordinarily that would be the case, you known that I don't like spending time with the associates Lennox especially first years but this kid? Not so bad, in fact I think you may actually like him."

"Is that so?"

"Would I ever steer you wrong?" Harvey questioned and Lennox pursed her lips together as Harvey did have her there. She trusted this man with her life and Lennox would follow Harvey to the end of the world without him having to ask her.

"You guys do realize I'm here? I can hear you both."

"He speaks! That's a very good sign Harvey, normally these associates just squawk in fear until they finally learn how to use their words and that's normally for another year or so." Lennox quipped with a small smile as she looked over to the so-called new associate, despite his babyface Lennox knew that there had to be something special about him for Harvey to take him on as his associate. For someone like Harvey Specter who had such refine taste and a rather demanding attitude along with the need to be the best, his associate couldn't be some wallowing shrinking violent. Harvey Specter's associate had to be made from something special.

"Mike Ross meet Lennox Cameron, Pearson Hardman's go to investigator and one of the few people here besides me who have the ability to make your life a living hell if you get on her wrong side. Now don't be fooled by those angelic good looks as behind that blonde hair and that butter wouldn't melt smile, is a woman who is no angel. Now Lennox can be the difference between winning a case and epically losing it. Whilst Lennox is here to help out the firm she does not work for you and if you treat her right then she will give you everything you need but if you don't treat her right then the shit's gonna hit the fan and I'll be pissed. Not only because you've pissed Lennox off but I'll have to clean up your mess which I really don't want to be doing. Other than that Lennox will do whatever you need her to do within reason. Any time your in trouble or you think that your going to be in trouble, don't call me. Call Lennox and she'll get you out of it and depending on how bad things are then she'll call me, day or night she's your go to girl." Harvey explained making the introductions and then some and Lennox was very pleased to hear that Harvey was explaining to Mike how she operated because Lennox didn't have time to be explaining everything as in her line of work, time was money and she didn't have money to waste.

"Shark attack? Call Lennox, got it." Mike replied with a small nod of his head and Lennox couldn't help but laugh as most people wouldn't have realized that was a joke. Most of the laywers that Lennox came across were pretty stuck up and in a dire need of having a large stick pulled out from their ass. It was nice to see a lawyer who was capable of taking a joke, Lennox found it rather refreshing.

"I think your right Harvey, he's not too bad for an associate although I'll hold off on saying anything else on the matter." Lennox replied with a wry smile before she noticed from the corner of her eye that Mike was looking at her, or rather her ear in a not so subtle manner. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Mike was staring at her hearing aid, it wasn't anything new to Lennox as people couldn't help but stare at the hearing aid, it was as if they couldn't believe that someone like her required a hearing aid. "You know Mike, I may be deaf in one ear but my eyes work perfectly fine."

"Sorry."

"Don't be, it's fine." Lennox quickly replied, brushing the whole thing to the side as she was fine with the whole deaf thing and went to a whole lot of effort into not making it into a big thing. So Lennox was deaf in one ear, it didn't mean that she couldn't function just as well as another person. As long as people didn't start speaking with raised voices when they spoke to her, like she was hard of hearing or some kind of idiot, then Lennox could deal with people starting at her and the hearing aid that was nestled in her right ear.

"So what do you have for me Lennox?" Harvey questioned and Lennox let out a low whistle as she reached into her messenger bag and pulled out a file before holding it out for Harvey to take it and have a look. Lennox couldn't help but note the surprise look on Harvey's face over the size of the file which was quite thick in size, even bigger than usual as when Lennox did a background check she dug deep as her job required her to dig deep so there wouldn't be any surprise come up if Harvey went to trial.

"Well your guy's a bit of dick but I'm pretty sure we all knew that before I looked into him and putting my personal opinion aside, I think you'll be happy with what I have. Your client is Gareth McKeen born here in Manhattan on 06/22/1954 to Brandon and Lois McKeen who were owners of a hardware store. Mother's maiden name is Hewitt, parents were married in Atlantic City in Summer of 1947. McKeen is the youngest of three, has an older brother Clark and older sister Nora borin in 1948 and 1951 respectively. McKeen attended public school before going on to Yale to get his bachelors degree in business followed by his M.B.A at Columbia. McKeen married first wife Julia Mayfield, daughter of Rupert and Sandra Mayfield in 1979. Unlike her husband, the first Mrs. McKeen came from money and McKeen used a hefty sum of her inheritance to bankroll the first of his real estate companies. The McKeen's have three children Edward, Susan and Allison, born in 1982, 84 and 87. Background checks on the kids came back clean enough, some minor stuff but nothing of real interest. Julia McKeen filed for divorce in 1990 on the ground of adultery, in the first of what would be repeated behaviour, McKeen was having an affair with his assistant. McKeen then went on to marry the said former assistant Fiona Marsden in 1991, marriage was over by the spring of 92'. From there on it was numerous court appearances for McKeen over lack of payment for child support, alimony and all that kind of stuff which got pretty messy and cost McKeen a lot. Come late 2000, McKeen meets Jane Cooper who soon became the third Mrs. McKeen after a whirlwind romance of four months. Since then McKeen had been keeping his nose down, trying to keep his personal life out of the papers…"

"And?"

"Like I said, the guy has a thing for assistants and it seems like the current Mrs. McKeen is well aware of that as his last five assistants have all been fired and according to the office rumor mill, it's all due to McKeen's wondering eye. Apart from the fact that McKeen can't keep it in his pants, there was nothing of real interest about him. But then I looked deeper as like I said the guy's a dick and he is not the squeaky clean family guy he makes himself out to be. Some of it's your general Mickey Mouse stuff, a few tickets here and there for speeding, weekly appointments with a woman called Miss Crystal - Not exactly a high end call girl but your guy is pretty cheap from what I've seen when he was been taken to court by the first Mrs. McKeen over failed child support payments. The guy could afford to cheat on his wives with secretaries in high end hotels but wouldn't hand over a dime in child support. Instead of handing over the money, McKeen would just chose to fight the matter, hiring the most expensive lawyers he could buy to make sure he wouldn't have to pay a cent. Never worked as the judges always sided with the former Mrs. McKeen but that didn't stop your guy from trying. Oh and most importantly your guy is broke and I mean broke as in MC Hammer broke. His company may have a face value for $120 million but McKeen himself doesn't have a dime to his name. I'd have to call in a few favours but I'm guessing that McKeen has to be taking money from the company to keep bankrolling his lifestyle. I told you he was a dick…"

"Wow, that's impressive." Mike said with a small whistle and Lennox allowed herself to smirk as that was nothing. Lennox had gotten all of that information on Gareth McKeen in just over thirty five hours and she had to admit that it wasn't some of her best work. Although she would take the praise, as a little praise was good for the soul. Too much praise and Lennox's ego would get a bit too big for her to handle.

"When I do a job, I don't do it half arsed." Lennox quipped from where she sat before idly looking down to her chipped nail polish. Work was the only thing that Lennox pretty much in her life, she had no family and no actual people she called call friends baring Harvey and maybe Donna. Lennox had nothing except for work and because of that she took her work seriously. The only reason Lennox had this job was because Harvey offered her a second chance if she fixed up her act and she wasn't going to let him down. Her strong work ethic was due to Harvey and if he hadn't drilled that into her years ago, Lennox knew that she would have probably ended up back in jail or dead like some of the people she used to hang out with

"Do you have the proof?" Harvey questioned and Lennox looked away from her nails and back over to Harvey. She knew why he was asking this, Harvey wouldn't be able to use what she had given him unless Lennox had proof as Harvey wouldn't risk perjuring himself. He wouldn't do anything with what Lennox had given him unless she had the evidence to back it up.

"There's proof in the file that McKeen's broke, all those alimony and child supports payments have taken a lot of his money, along with numerous settlements in the six figure regions with his former assistants. Apparently those were severance packages yet they were coming out of McKeen's personal accounts and not the companies accounts but McKeen was paying them off to keep quiet about being fired by his wife over his indiscretions with them. I don't have the proof that McKeen is stealing from his own company but I can get it, I'll just need a little bit of time…" Lennox wearily said as she scratched the back of her head before waiting to see what Harvey would say, to find out what he wanted her to do next.

"Mike give us a moment." Harvey said after a moment and Lennox watched as Harvey gave Mike some look that she couldn't deceiver but his tone suggested not to argue with him. Lennox couldn't help but let out a sigh as she was pretty sure that she was in trouble although she wasn't exactly sure what she was in trouble for, although she knew that she would be finding out soon. All Lennox could do was sit and watch as Mike wordlessly left Harvey's office without even a second glance at her, just leaving Lennox alone with Harvey. Here came whatever lecture was coming Lennox's way. It had been a while since Lennox had been on a receiving end of a Harvey Specter lecture. "How did you get this information?"

"You know how." Lennox retorted as she didn't like where Harvey was going with this, he was asking her without actually saying the words, if she had obtained all this information illegally. Lennox actually felt offended by that as she did her job within the letter of the law or coloured within the lines as it was quite often described by Harvey. Lennox had a history that was pretty colourful and she had been in trouble with the law previously and one of the conditions of her working for Harvey was that they did everything by legal means, there was to be no tampering with any facts of evidence or breaking the law as means to win a case. Lennox understood that as it was one of the many reason why Harvey was perhaps the only lawyer that Lennox trusted. It was that trust that Lennox had in Harvey which meant that she would always do her job the way he wanted, sure there were a lot of easier ways for Lennox to do her job which some ways were illegally and the others morally questionably but she never did as long ago, a much younger Lennox Cameron had promised Harvey that she would be good and she had meant it and had no intention of breaking that promise.

"You went off the grid, you can't blame me for asking." Harvey admitted and Lennox just pursed her lips. She couldn't believe that all of this was over her being unreachable for a few days? Lennox had this thing where sometimes she wanted to be left alone, sometimes it was because she was working on a particular case for the firm, sometimes it was simply because she needed to get out of her own head for a while and to do those she had to disappear. Harvey referred to it as Lennox 'going off the grid' as at those time Lennox was damn near impossible to reach, you could only find her when she wanted to be found.

"I was gone for three days Harvey, I would like to think that it would be no big deal anymore considering that I am no longer a child anymore. If you case you've forgotten I'm twenty six years old. It's been twelve years Harvey, I'm not the same person I used to be. I've changed, you made sure of that. I've just got a lot of cases on my plate at the moment and I needed some time to get them done without having someone here calling me every ten minutes because they can't get off their ass and do something for themselves instead of calling me to do it. I'm not a performing money Harvey, there's only one of me and about god knows how many lawyers outside this office all wanting me to do them some favour so they can win their cases. I didn't get into any trouble if that's what your worried about Harvey, I didn't do anything illegal. I kept colouring within the lines and behaved myself." Lennox replied in a venomous tone of voice as she awkwardly tugged at her right ear lobe.

"Lenny you know I didn't mean it like that–"

"Sure you didn't. No matter how old I get, no matter how much I've grown up and changed, there will always be a part of you that will always see me as that troubled street kid who you found in juvie and felt bad for because life had handed her a crappy deal before she lost her hearing in one ear." Lennox retorted and the look that Harvey gave her, let Lennox know that she had just hit him with a low blow.

"Hey! That is not fair! I have never seen you as just some deaf kid and you know it Lennox." Harvey quickly replied and Lennox just sighed before she rose to her feet and walked over to Harvey and she looked at him momentary before quietly starting to chuckle.

"Harvey Specter! When will you ever learn? You always fall for the deaf kid line, even after all these years…" Lennox quipped with an over exaggerated manner and a wicked grin which just caused Harvey to roll his eyes and Lennox to laugh. Sometimes it was too easy for her to wind Harvey up and push all his buttons.

"You think you are so funny Lennox but that joke got old years ago." Harvey drily said, trying to keep his composure but despite the façade he was putting on for her, Lennox could see the small smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. He was amused.

"Correction, I think you'll find that we both know that I'm funny but you just won't admit it because you like to put up this aloof front for everyone Harvey. I know that you worry about me when I take off but there is no need to anymore Harvey. I have no intention of going back to the person that I used to be. So relax Harvey, lighten up and spend less time worrying about me and focus on that associate of yours as he is a reflection on you whereas I'm not. So have fun with potty training him and wiping his nose because the perks of me not officially working here at Pearson Hardman, means that you have to take of the baby suit and not me!" Lennox stated in a singsong manner which caused Harvey to roll his eyes at her in bemusement. Now that Lennox had done her job and given Harvey all the information she had got on Gareth McKeen, it was now time for her to get going as she still had a few more cases on her dock and she still needed to go see Louis Litt and the sooner she saw him, the quicker she could get the meeting over and done with and leave Pearson Hardman. Chuckling to herself, Lennox reached into her bag and pulled out a rather flat squared shaped objected that was in a brown paper bag and she handed it over to Harvey.

"What's this?" Harvey questioned as he looked at the item that Lennox handed him and she had to resist the urge to roll her eyes as it was clear to both of them that the said object was a vinyl record in a paper bag. Lennox knew that she probably could have wrapped it up a lot nicer but she wasn't really the kind of person who kept wrapping paper around nor was she the kind of person who put much effort into wrapping gifts. Regardless of how it looked, a gift was still a gift.

"It's a gift for you. Did you really think that I wouldn't get you anything for making senior partner? I just had to make you sweat a bit." Lennox quipped with a wicked smile which caused Harvey to quietly laugh. Knowing that she had her fun with Harvey for the day and they both needed to get back to work, her more so than Harvey given that Lennox's billable hours were nowhere near as high as Harvey's. Giving her only friend a warm small and a small wave, Lennox made her way past Harvey and headed out of his office. Lennox allowed herself to take a moment to watch as Harvey opened the paper bag to see what record Lennox had given him – he'd like it, that much Lennox knew as even though she didn't know everything about Harvey Specter, she knew that he liked good music and that was perhaps the only thing they had in common so Lennox knew that record she brought him would soon enough be joining all the other records that Harvey kept in his office.

Walking away from Harvey's office, Lennox reached into her bad and pulled out a notepad and pen and quickly scribbled down something that she needed to remember to do, once she got out of here.

Look into Mike Ross – ASAP.