Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
AN1: So it's been a while since I wrote a Suits story, and while I was tempted to deleted The Secrets We Keep and re-write/improve I wanted to write a new story more, so that's what I did. Though I may do that in the future if people are interested.
This is a post 6x09 story that may or may not include things that happen in 6x10, specifically the major departure, I haven't decided yet. THIS WILL BE MARVEY.
On twitter Patrick J Adams said that Mike spent about three weeks in Prisons, I've pushed that up to one month.
Even with his memory Mike Ross has been called stupid more than once in his life. Though, it is usually because of things he's done, or decisions he's made, rather than what he knows. As he sits in the jail cell that he could have left hours ago Mike knows that he is once more doing the stupid thing, though he also knows that it is what he has to do.
Looking around his cell Mike can't help but wonder what it's going to be like when he's out. Intellectually he knows that people find it a challenging too re-enter society after being in prison, but truthfully, considering he's only been in a month Mike finds himself hoping that he doesn't have too much trouble.
With ever second that passes Mike feels his worry grow, he knows Gallo is going to come, there is no way he won't, he just doesn't know when and truthfully Mike would rather get it over with as the waiting is so much worse.
Ten minutes later Mike sees movement outside his cell and thinks one thing, 'it's Showtime'. Seconds later the door opens and Gallo appears.
"Thanks Jimbo, why don't you go ahead and give Mike and I a little privacy." Gallo requests, talking to the guard that is in his pocket, and as Gallo steps into the cell the door behind him closes.
"What do you want, Gallo?" Mike asks as he gets off his bunk, knowing that he doesn't want whatever is about to happen to happen while he is sitting down.
"That's a stupid question after what you pulled at my parole hearing." Gallo comments, and Mike knows that is the truth, he's just trying to stall.
"You didn't deserve to get out." Mike says, believing that completely and also knowing that there is no way he would have let Harvey do what he was going to do, not for him, he doesn't deserve that.
"Neither did you. Now you're not gonna." Gallo says.
"Why? You going to kill me in this cell? There are guards out there." Mike says, allowing a little bit of fear to slip into his voice as the truth is he is afraid as he knows that if he is wrong things could go very, very badly.
"It just doesn't sink in to you, does it?" Gallo asks, "Those guards out there work for me. See Mike, I wasn't going to let what happened last time happen this time." Gallo says, taking a step forward, "No one's going to come running to help you at the last second because they're all locked tightly in their bunks, and irony of all irony because of some prisoners' rights lawsuit way back when there are no cameras in cells." Gallo says, saying what Mike already knows, as he pulls a knife, a knife that is honestly a lot bigger than Mike was expecting, and thanks to a book he read when he was a teenager Mike knows just how much damage a knife like that can do.
"Wait, wait, wait." Mike says as Gallo takes several steps towards him.
"No, the time for waiting is done." Gallo says as he charges at Mike with the knife. Acting on instinct Mike moves and dodges, never looking away from the knife as he manages to push back and keep the knife from piercing his skin, though it is dangerously close to doing that very thing.
"No, no, no, I mean do you want to hear about the camera that's in here?" Mike asks, needing to distract Gallo so that he doesn't push back harder.
"Bullshit." Gallo says, refusing to believe that.
"Smile, you son of a bitch." Mike says as he feels the knife slash his arm, something which, despite the jolt of pain, allows Mike to push back and push Gallo towards the camera while he goes towards the door of the cell.
"You did not keep yourself in here just to do this." Gallo says shocked, turning to look at Mike.
"Yeah Frank I did." Mike confirms, "And now, all those guards who aren't in your pocket are watching this right now." Mike says, and the second he does he realises how much of a bad idea it was as Gallo charges at him.
Once more Mike tries to block the attack and he does for a few seconds but then Gallo pushes on the slash on his arm which he can't help but react to, which is exactly what Gallo needs.
Getting around Mike's block Gallo thrusts the knife up into his ride side and torso, causing Mike to know nothing other than overwhelming pain as he falls to the ground, or more specifically slides down the wall.
Gallo is clearly about to do more, clearly about to pull the knife that is still sticking into Mike, but then the door opens and guards hurry in, one hurries over to Gallo while the other hurries over to Mike.
"Ross, Mike, can you hear me, keep your eyes open." The guard says, kneeling down in front of Mike, "CALL MEDICAL." The guard yells to the others as he does what he can to help Mike.
"Call Harvey…." Mike says forcing the words out with extreme difficult as he feels more pain than he's ever felt before and then all he knows is darkness.
When he stormed into Sean Cahill's office a little while earlier Harvey couldn't help his angry, he couldn't believe that he once more went back on his deal with Mike, but having gotten the whole story Harvey has felt his anger turn to worry.
"How the hell could you agree to such a stupid plan?" Harvey asks Cahill once he has finished explaining what is going on.
"It's not a stupid plan, it's a smart one." Cahill argues.
"Any plan that involves Mike alone in a locked room with Gallo isn't smart!" Harvey says, actually sounding worried which is something Cahill didn't think he would ever see.
"There's a camera, Mike just has to stall long enough for the guards to get to them." Cahill explains to Harvey.
"What if the guards don't get there in time? What if Mike calculated wrong? What if Gallo manages to do something to him anyway?" Harvey asks his voice sounding incredible pained.
"I would expect you more than anyone to have more faith in the kid." Cahill says, standing up, "It was Mike's plan, from what I know the damn kid always knows exactly what he is doing." Cahill says, there being some level of annoyance in his voice.
"Not always." Harvey says, "And it doesn't always mean that what he is doing is smart."
"Harvey…." Cahill starts to say, but before he can say more Harvey's phone starts to ring
"Harvey Specter." Harvey answers, pulling his phone out of his pocket, without even checking the caller Id.
"Mr Specter, it's The Warden from Danbury Federal…." The man starts to say.
"What happened to Mike?" Harvey asks worried, cutting the man off, needing to know what happened as he knows that this is the phone call he has been fearing would one day come since he watched Mike walk into the prison, a fear that only increased after Gallo's threat.
"Mr Ross was stabbed in his cell tonight." The Warden answers.
"How bad is he hurt?" Harvey asks, trying to stay calm as he ignores the look that Cahill is giving him.
"Mr Ross was stabbed in the torso, and has a slash on his arm. Due to the injury he is being taken to Danbury Hospital, he is currently alive but unconscious, he asked for you to be contacted before he lost consciousness." The Warden says, and honestly as soon as he heard the words stabbed in the torso Harvey felt like his whole word stopped, he felt like he couldn't think or move or even breath.
"I'll be right there." Harvey says before hanging up, "The plan backfired, Mike's been stabbed." Harvey tells Cahill, his voice breaking not that he would ever admit that, before turning and running out of the room, not even noticing, or caring, that Cahill is right behind him.
As he runs out of the Cahill's office, not giving a crap about how it must look, Harvey knows that he would like nothing more than to get Ray to just speed to Danbury as quick as he can, and not stop until he is there, but he knows that there is one stop he has to make, for Mike.
A couple of minutes later Harvey pulls open the back door to Ray's car, probably harder than he should, and basically throws himself in the back seat.
"Harvey?" Ray asks, concern in his voice as he is pretty positive that he has never seen his boss and friend like this, as the other back door opens and Cahill, who is holding a file, also gets in the car.
"Mike's, then Danbury; as fast as you can." Harvey requests.
"Of course." Ray responds.
"Harvey…" Cahill starts to say.
"I don't want to hear it." Harvey snaps in anger before he turns to look out of the window, not giving a crap about anything other than getting to Mike and making sure he is okay, because honestly he wouldn't be able to handle it if he wasn't.
Not long after he and Cahill got into the back of Ray's town car Harvey is walking towards Mike and Rachel's apartment, a sense of dreed filling him as he walks towards the door as he knows how much he doesn't want to be doing this.
Getting to the door Harvey reaches out and knocks, as hard and loud as he can.
After about a minute the door opens to reveal Rachel tying up a robe, which is the only thing she is wearing.
"Harvey?" Rachel asks confused, surprised to see him, "What…" she starts to say, but then as she notices the look on Harvey's face she knows exactly what's going on, "No…" Rachel says, tears coming to her eyes, "What happened?" she asks, pain in her voice.
"He was stabbed. He's being taken to Danbury hospital." Harvey explains, it being incredible hard for him to admit that.
"Okay, I…." Rachel starts to say, but then is cut off by a voice coming from behind her.
"Rachel…" The voice says and a man, about Rachel's age, with short dark hair, only wearing underwear walks into view.
The second he sees the man Harvey knows exactly what is going on, and a thousand thoughts come to his mind.
"Harvey…." Rachel starts to say, wanting to defend herself as she didn't mean to happen she just went to a bar after her fight with Jessica and one thing lead to another, but Harvey just turns and walks away, honestly not caring about anything that Rachel has to say.
"To Danbury hospital, Ray." Harvey requests the second he gets into the car a little while after.
"I thought we were getting Mike's fiancé." Cahill comments as Ray pulls away from the curve.
"She's busy." Harvey says angrily, and Cahill gives him a questioning look, "Screwing some other man in Mike's bed." He explains, as he turns away from Cahill, not wanting to talk about it, or think about it as at the moment the only thing he wants to think about is seeing Mike again, alive and well.
After one of the longest hours of Harvey's life, where he kept checking his phone, to be sure he didn't miss any update, Ray stops the car at Danbury hospital.
"I'll go to the prison, handle things there." Cahill tells Harvey as he gets out the car, and in response Harvey doesn't say anything, just hurries inside.
The second he walks through the doors and into the hospital Harvey starts to looking around for some kind of answer about where he should go, what he should go, and as he does he spots the welcome desk so he hurries over to it.
"How…." The person starts to say.
"Michael Ross, where is he?" Harvey asks, cutting the person off before they can even finish the question.
"Give me a second." The person requests typing into the computer, "Michael Ross, brought in over an hour ago from the prison, is currently in surgery." The person informs Harvey.
"Surgery." Harvey repeats, feeling for a second that his legs are made of jelly, so he has to reach out and grab the desk so that he doesn't fall, "How bad is it? How is he?" Harvey asks quickly, needing to know.
"I'm sorry I don't know, there are no details." The person answers after checking the computer.
"Where can I get details?" Harvey asks, his voice forceful, putting all his fear and pain, into trying to find out how Mike is, "Who can tell me whether Mike is okay?"
"A member of his medical team will be able to tell you, but for now you'll have to go to the waiting room."
"No. I need to know how Mike is!" Harvey says, his voice full of anger and not even giving a crap about that.
"I'm sorry Sir, but for now there is no news for you so you will have to go to the waiting area and as soon as they can a member of Mr Ross's medical team will give you an update." The person responds, their voice forceful.
"Where's that?" Harvey asks and the person writes something down and hand it to Harvey and without another word Harvey leaves, following the directions.
A couple of minutes later Harvey arrives at the waiting room, that he is thankful is completely empty and as he looks around he realises that he has no idea what to do or what to say, all he knows is that he needs to see Mike, he needs to know that he is okay.
"Don't do this to me Mike." Harvey says, tears coming to his eyes as he sits down in one of his chairs, losing his tie as he puts his head in his hands, "Just hold on, please." Harvey begs, his voice breaking.