Hello my lovelies! I absolutely adore alphabet prompts, they're so much fun! This first set is all gen/no pairings so its safe for everyone! The second chapter is all SLASH! Please don't read if that offends you =/
Special thanks to LiliFayre for allowing me to use her super adorable idea about the briefcase! XD
I own nothing! *le sob*
1) Advil
Harvey frequently gets headaches when he's in the middle of a big case. They usually start off small, somewhere in the base of his skull, and work their way up until its encricling his brain like a vice. He's taken pain killers before but they never seem to do any good. The only thing that ever works is to stop working and leave his office for a while. Unfortunately, during big cases he doesn't get to leave the office very much and he's usually stuck with the on coming headache. It still doesn't stop Mike or Donna from leaving a tiny bottle of Advil on his desk in the mornings.
2) Briefcase
The messenger bag was one of the first things Harvey noticed about Mike when he first started. While everyone else at the firm had their fancy briefcases and purses that cost a small fortune, Mike carried around this worn, dust-colored messenger bag. It held practically no support for the contents inside and it was well-worn and flimsy. Not only that, it didn't have a lock; someone could easily take whatever was inside just by opening the top flap.
Harvey asked Mike once why he didn't shell out for a briefcase and was even prepared to demand he buy one before their next meeting. Mike just shrugged and told him the messenger bag had belonged to his father. Harvey never brought it up again.
3) Coffee
Donna likes her coffee black. Her preference in the drink's color has nothing to do with the way she likes her men or her stilettos. She likes black coffee because cream and sugar either make it taste like crap or like something that came out of a vending machine and Donna has had enough vending machine food in her life to write a book about it.
Besides, why ruin a perfectly good cup of coffee by dumping in processed sugar and something that came from the underside of a cow?
4) Dark
For the first month he works for Pearson Hardmen, Mike almost forgets what the sun looks like. He leaves his house before dawn every morning to get across town before rush hour traffic and usually doesn't leave the office until sometime after dark. Usually the sun has gone down and the streetlights are coming on by the time he hops on his bike and pedals his way home. The first time he gets an afternoon off, he's nearly blinded when he walks outside.
5) Efficient
Jessica has been called a bitch more times that she can remember. She's been called a bitch in more languages than she knows. She's been called a bitch in sign langauge. She doesn't care though. The men and women who work for her are the best of the best and they're damn good at what they do. They're efficient and hard working and and they know that she's willing to break the rules for them to get shit done. If that qualifies her as a bitch then she'd wear a sash and a crown proudly.
6) Flowers
Donna prides herself on being able to whip out some tears at a moment's notice. She'd been in several school productions when she was younger and before she worked here, she'd had aspirations to become an actress. She gets off on the startled looks people give her when she randomly bursts into tears and fake-cries her way through meetings.
One day she laid it on a bit too thick because Mike had a stricken look on his face before he disappeared off to his cubicle. Less than an hour later there was a vase full of flowers on Donna's desk.
7) Grandmother
The first time Harvey meets Mike's grandmother, she berates him for fifteen minutes about working her grandson too hard. Mike was currently still at the office and had had to cancel on his weekly visit with her for the second time in a month. Harvey had taken it upon himself to go visit her personally and meet her face to face.
She scolded him very thoroughly about him being the reason Mike had canceled on her. For the first time in a long time, Harvey felt ashamed. After she finished her tirade though, she offered him a cookie and asked him about his day.
8) Hair
Louis had always been very sensitive about his hair loss. He was very keenly aware of it and had tried several treatments and remedies that were supposed to take care of said hair loss. All to no avail.
Everytime Harvey seens Louis, he makes it a point to run a hand through his thick, dark hair right in front of him just to piss him off.
9) Irene
Quite by accident, Mike finds out that Rachel's middle name is Irene. He rolls the name around in his mind a bit one day at his desk, trying to decide if it flows or not. It shouldn't matter, its her name after all, but still. Now everytime he sees her he thinks of the Sherlock Holmes movie.
10) Jack
Rachel can hold her liquor better than most men twice her size. When she finally agrees to go on a date with Mike, they end up in a drinking contest at the far corner of a bar. She orders a bottle of Jack Daniels, ignoring Mike's horrified look, and sets it down on the bar next to two shot glasses.
It takes about five shots before Mike relents and gives her the title of Biggest Badass in the Bar. He can barely walk once they leave the bar and Rachel is right beside him, walking in high heels, and she never even stumbles.
11) Kirk
Harvey is a Star Trek fan. Mike had known that for a while now and it still surprised him. He began to think about the designation of characters within the firm. Obviously, Harvey was Kirk. He figured Donna would be Uhura and Jessica would be Captain Pike. He had no idea who Louis would be...probably something annoying like a Tribble. He guessed that made him Spock, what with his eiditic memory and all.
When he presented this theory to Harvey one day, the older man just rolled his eyes, called him a Red Shirt, and sent him back to his desk.
12) Leather
Donna has a leather chair that she keeps tucked safely against her desk at all times. Its soft and well cushioned and molds itself perfectly to her body. Its a dark, chocolate brown, shiny but not slick, and its a perfect compliment to every outfit she wears.
She had been absently complaining about the chair she had when she first started working at the firm and then one day, out of the blue, there was a brand new, beautiful leather chair sitting at her desk. Harvey never said anything about it and she never asked. She still thanked him though.
13) Mustache
Mike has always looked young and probably always will. People often underestimate him because of his appearance and his height and it gets really freaking annoying most of the time. Harvey calls him "kid", Donna still refers to him as a "puppy" and Louis actually called him a child one day.
He's talking to Rachel one day about this problem, questioning what would make him look older, when he brings up the idea of a mustache. Rachel nearly chokes on her soda before she shakes her head vehemently. She tells him he'd look like a child molester and that she wouldn't walk down the same hall as him if he ever grew a mustache. Mike drops that idea like its a lead balloon.
14) No
Louis has lost track of how many times he's asked Jessica out on a date. Its been everything from a casual drink after work to a full on dinner after a sucessful client and she always politely but firmly tells him no.
The one and only time she's ever said yes was when she'd given him the tickets for the play. She'd agreed to go with him and even sit through dinner once it was all said and done. It had been one of the best nights of Louis's life.
15) Orange
Rachel's favorite color is orange. She'd never told anyone and no one had ever asked. She had a single orange high lighter in her desk and one orange file folder she kept in the bottom drawer for important files. She didn't have that many orange shirts nor did she had very much orange jewelry. Still, orange was her favorite color. It was happy and bright and reminded her of the Spring.
One her birthday there's a single orange Gerber Daisy on her desk. She knows its from Mike. She doesn't know how he figured it out.
16) Polite
Harvey often accuses Mike of being too polite when they're dealing with clients. He's told him countless times that if he wanted to make it in this type of profession, he was going to have to start being more agressive and cut throat or he'd get walked all over.
Mike takes his advice to heart and becomes very agressive while questioning a client one day. When she starts to cry, Mike's agressive behavior drops immediately and he apologizes profusely for making her cry. Harvey just rolls his eyes and calls him hopeless.
17) Quiet
Jessica likes her corner office with its spectacular view of the city outside. She likes that she gets just enough sunlight to stay warm but not enough to overheat the office. She likes that there's enough room for everything and she's not forced to deal with a space that's little more than a closet with a window. But what she likes the most is the quiet.
She likes that she can close the door and the entire office disappears on the other side. She likes that she can concentrate at her desk without hearing the telephones ringing out in the other offices. She likes the quiet because it means there's nothing wrong.
18) Rain
The only problem with riding his bike to work is when it starts to rain. Mike had rushed out of his apartment that morning, not even thinking to grab an umbrella, and had gotten about two blocks in before the sky opened up. By the time he gets to Pearson Hardmen, he's soaked absolutely to the bone and dripping wet.
Harvey says nothing when he walks by his cubicle but less than fifteen minutes later, he's called to his boss's office. Mike is mentally preparing himself for Harvey's lecture about him being wet and late but when he walks in, there's a clean, dry suit laying on the couch. Harvey barely looks up at him when he tells him to have it cleaned and pressed and returned to him the next morning.
19) Stiletto
How both Rachel and Donna manage to walk in stiletto high heels is a complete mystery to Mike. He has no idea how they can balance on the tips of their toes while walking on heels sharp enough to be used as a weapon without falling over. Plus, they look like they hurt.
He knows better than to bring it up though. He likes his body just the way it is without stiletto-heel-shaped holes in it.
20) Tall
Jessica is tall and she uses it to her advantage. She'd been literally looked down on her entire life because not only was she an African-American woman, she was a lawyer, a position that was held by a predominantly male dominated census. She liked being tall because it meant she could be eye-level with anyone who tried to look down on her.
It galled the shit out of Harvey every time he walked past her and had to look up to meet her eyes. Jessica loved it.
21) University
Until the case with Lola, Mike had lived in fear of the day when Louis would show up at his desk and demand to see his diploma from Harvard. For the first month he worked at the firm, he lost sleep at night worrying about that scenario in and of itself.
When Louis did finally slither by and ask to see it, he pulled out the (remarkably) forged diploma and showed it to him. Louis sneered and Mike smiled. He could kiss Lola if he ever saw her again.
22) Vest
Harvey is always so strict with Mike's appearance that Mike actually started to play a hypothetical "what if" game with him when they were on their way to meet with a client one day. It started off simply enough; "what if I wore purple socks?" "what if I dyed my hair black?" "what if my tie was lime green?"
It wasn't until he got to the part about wearing a vest to work one day that Harvey truly looked terrified. For a split second, Mike wondered if he was about to throw him out of the car.
23) Wrist
Harvey never has to worry about anyone sexually harassing Donna. The one and only time a man ever grabbed her ass at a bar, he ended up with two black eyes and broken wrist. He tried to file charges on her but the case was mysteriously dropped after Harvey paid him a visit in the hospital.
24) X-Ray
The doctor assures Mike that his ankle is just sprained after he examines the x-ray carefully. Its swollen and turning a strange bluish-purple color but there are no broken bones. The doctor tells him he'll have to be on crutches for a few days but that he should be fine after a couple weeks.
Mike nods mutely and thinks about what he's going to do about a new bike. After all, his is laying in a twisted heap of metal in a gutter somewhere.
25) Yell
Jessica has never had to yell at anyone she's ever worked with. There's absolutely no need for it. She has a look and a tone that are just as effective, if not more, than raising her voice at someone. She can speak in a way that makes it absolutely clear what she wants from someone.
Harvey is the only one who has ever gotten close to seeing and hearing Jessica yell. He rides right on that line of being a total pain in the ass and being an invaluable partner. He's knows its just a matter of time before she loses it completely and he gets the full brunt of her frustration.
26) Zeboim
Harvey should have known better than to ever go up against Mike in Trivial Pursuit. Harvey prided himself on being the best Trivial Pursuit player this side of Manhattan and had foolishly challenged his associate to a game one afternoon. He'd never played against someone with an eiditic memory before.
They were tied for the game, both only one piece away from the winning title, when Harvey got the question: Name another city that was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah. He faltered, thinking hard for a second before finally relenting the question to Mike. The younger man just smiled, answered "Zeboim", and won the game.
Hope you all liked it! :D