A/N: Hello to all! So this me taking up the challenge on the lovely "Suits" fandom. This show has seriously become my life and I have to say I am incredibly obsessed with the show, especially Harvey Specter. After watching the episode "Play The Man" I wanted to dig a little deeper into Harvey's past with Dana and then this idea popped out of my head and thought of maybe, what if there was someone else from Harvey's past. So this is what I came up with. Please let me know what you think... :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Suits.

London, England…

Dana Scott waited patiently at the modern chic bar while nursing a vodka tonic. She was still a bit shaken after her last encounter with Harvey. It took every fiber of her being to not fall into his charm again and to not tell him the truth. At this point she had no idea if she had made the right decision- however, on her way back from New York she weighed the pros and cons. Eventually, the cons outweighed the pros about Harvey Specter. Realistically they would always remain stagnant. Never to move forward and just thrive on what they had between each other. That being established, she had declared herself a realist, then it was simply logical for her to let whatever they had go. In the back of her mind she knew that they would never move on in the sense that she had secretly wished.

That didn't make the nagging thought of her slightly regretting everything she told him that evening.

"Dana!" She turned around to see who had called her name and smiled instantly as she saw her best friend, Lilly Barrett make her way through the small crowd with such grace. It was nothing like Dana's confident sexy strut that would hold every man's attention when she would walk through a room. "Oh my goodness, I am sorry I'm late."

Dana waved it off and embraced Lilly warmly. "Its okay, this was very unexpected of me to call you last minute."

"No absolutely not, its just my chemist was giving me hard time about the new lipstick." Lilly set her clutch on the bar and took a glance at the drink menu. Her blue eyes scanned the front and back of it. She was in dire need of a drink and nothing fruity or a cosmo would quench her thirst for something stronger. The bartender came up to the two attractive women and waited patiently for the newly arrived woman to make her choice. Lilly glanced at Dana's drink and then looked at the waiter. "I will have what she is having."

The bartender nodded and left them to get her drink. "That bad was it?"

"Oh it is not even the half of that." Lilly ran a hand through her dark brown hair and smiled at Dana. "Ever since mom passed things have gotten a lot more stressful and Alyssa just doesn't care anymore. My father is off with his new girlfriend enjoying the summer in Greece and I really don't want to bother him, he deserves some down time right now."

Dana took hold of Lilly's hand and grasped it. She really saw a change in Lilly. When she was at law school with her and Harvey, Lilly was always the quiet one and not as confident as them. It was all thanks to Lilly that Dana met Harvey. She secretly berated Lilly for introducing her to him, after all if they had never met then none of this-whatever they had- would have developed. "If you need anything, I am here. Whether it be legal or just a friend, you know I have your back."

Lilly smiled sadly. "I know, at times I wish I had become a lawyer instead of making a career out of my inheritance. I feel like I did not achieve this on my own. Like everything else in my life, this was handed to me on a silver platter because I am too afraid to disappoint." Lilly sighed and took a swig of the glass that was placed before her by the bartender. Her elegant face contorted into disgust as the harsh liquor went down her throat. "Oh god Dana, it seems that I am not the only one with issues."

Dana let out a small laugh and took a swig of her own. She really wasn't ready to tell Lilly about what happened in New York, considering for some odd reason she had lost touch with Harvey. "Things didn't really turn out the way I had planned them to."

"You lost your case?" Lilly asked sympathetically.

"I lost my client, among other things." Dana answered vaguely but she knew Lilly would catch on.

"What other things?" Lilly nursed her drink in her hand as she waited for Dana's reply.

"Harvey turned out to be the attorney for the other client that wanted to do a merger with mine." Dana replied as she took another sip from her glass.

Lilly slammed her glass on the bar and looked at Dana. "Really? Well…that is certainly very interesting." She was genuinely surprised that Dana saw him again, well who knew if their friendship had continued to exist. After all, they graduated a year before Lilly and then she lost touch with Harvey. Well, not necessarily lost touch. Lilly decided to just drift away quietly as she did when she noticed Harvey take more interest in Dana than her. It stung because she had met him first and they were very good friends. However once she introduced Dana she unknowingly placed herself behind Dana's shadow. "How is he doing? Successful as he said he would be?"

"Quite well, especially the fact that he is senior partner now." Dana answered simply. In her head she debated on whether telling her about what happened between them.

Lilly glanced at Dana knowingly. She knew that Dana had this internal battle going on in her head and she could probably bet her entire fortune that it had something to do with Harvey. Of course it had something to do with him because how could it not? Lilly had witnessed-on accident- some close encounters between them. "Something is on your mind dear Dana, just say it."

"I slept with him, twice actually." Dana bit her lip and tried to read Lilly's face. At first it was unreadable, but it quickly changed into a confused one. This wasn't good and Dana braced herself.

"Why would you do that?" Lilly looked at completely hurt and not sure as to why she even still considered Dana her friend sometimes. Why did she not lose touch with her like she did with Harvey? Lilly berated herself for this at times when the pain would start to sting again. It was completely unlike her to think of her past and hurt over it again. It was something she promised herself she would not do and that she would continue to move on like she had done. However, the way that Dana treated him was something Lilly did not approve of.

"I don't know Lilly, what is done is done." Dana wasn't in the mood to be scolded by Lilly for doing what a grown woman would have done if she had conflicted feelings for said man.

"Did you tell him about Steve and his proposal?" Lilly continued to bombard Dana with questions. This was really irresponsible of Dana to do such a thing.

"I told him before I left. He didn't look too pleased, but of course he tried to show indifference."

"Of course he pretended like he didn't care at first because he actually did and it was a blow to him." Lilly shot back. "Look, I know he and I stopped having any kind of contact, but that doesn't mean I know for a fact you hurt him by screwing him. He won't show it of course, but he is a human being not a emotionless machine." Her eyes were completely fixated on Dana's. She had bottled up all these emotions through out the years. It was a breath of fresh air to finally speak her mind and not hide behind someone. Dana was utterly speechless as she returned Lilly's gaze. She had no idea that Lilly would react so passionately about it. She took it a little too far.

Then again, Dana always had a feeling Lilly held feelings for Harvey. After all, what woman wouldn't? "I should have known you hid your feelings for Harvey." Dana commented more to herself than to Lilly.

Lilly scoffed as she pushed away her glass and pulled out a couple pounds to leave the bartender a tip. "That is not the point Dana. As a matter of fact, those feelings died a long time ago when we stopped talking to each other."

"Apparently they have resurrected now after what I just told you."

"The point is you and Harvey is it not?" Lilly asked with a slight edge to her voice. It was very typical of her to switch everything around and that was made Dana Scott a great lawyer. An admirable trait, but Lilly was not to fond of the fact that Dana was using it on her.

"Don't you think it was hard for me to do what I had to do? I care about him too, you are not the only one." Dana was on defense mode now. She was gradually becoming annoyed at this righteous torch Lilly carried around for Harvey. What a coincidence that Lilly never married or had a serious relationship with anyone. Sure Lilly dated, but that was as far as it would go. Dana had even gone through the extreme of setting up a blind date with one of Steve's friends'. It was a complete failure when Lilly decided that she didn't like the guy and had told him that she was emotionally unavailable and that it would be best not to call her again. To her defense, Lilly had stated that the guy was a complete idiot and just a complete asshole to the waiter during dinner.

No, Lilly Barrett had Harvey Specter on a pedestal even if she cared to admit it or not.

Lilly put her hands up in surrender. "Alright, you know what Dana do what you want but don't hurt other people in the process." She grabbed her teal colored prada clutch and left before Dana could say something else that would bring up further more of this touchy subject.

Truthfully, Dana spoke the truth to a certain extent, however that was why Lilly went off the grid for a while after Dana and Harvey graduated from Harvard. She used the excuse of being busy with studying, dealing with her grandmother's illness, which eventually led to her passing just a couple weeks after Lilly graduated. Then a year later her mother had a stroke and was now left with the burden to take up a multi-million dollar cosmetic empire all on her own. It was the modern day young Queen Victoria tragedy. Alyssa, Lilly's younger sister, was still in college and was deemed too young and immature to help take up the company by their father. George Barrett was far too busy with his career to take the reins. He was partner at a firm in New York and in London, which of course was no easy thing. Instead of seeing this as a burden, Lilly took it upon herself to change for the better.

Lilly had accomplished all that, but somehow her past emotions would catch up to her. One thing she never learned was to let go.

New York City-Two Weeks Later…

Pearson Hardman was on its usual calm Friday buzz. Everyone was mentally and physically exhausted from the week's work load that it motivated them to push themselves a little harder since the weekend was about to arrive and they didn't want to leave anything pending for the much dreaded Monday morning.

Despite the calm buzz around the office, Louis Litt was still terrorizing the associates with threats, Rachel locked herself away in her office doing research for Louis, Jessica was preparing to receive a client in her office, Donna was typing away at her computer while standing by if Harvey needed anything, Mike was hurriedly working away on a patent so he could possibly leave early in the evening-which was wishful thinking on his part. Whilst Harvey was in his office listening to music emitting from his record player while going over some briefs Mike had read and proofed earlier in the morning. All in all, usual uneventful Friday afternoon at Pearson Hardman that everyone secretly wished would end soon.

Freshly arrived from London, Lilly stepped out of the Lincoln town car onto New York City pavement. Removing her black Dior sunglasses from her face she glanced up at the immense building before her. It was incredibly modern architecture at its finest and she couldn't help but sigh in happiness of once again seeing the modern buildings surround her. She really missed New York and jumped at the chance of coming back and hire a firm that would back up her company here in the States. That was her business today at Pearson Hardman.

Lilly entered the building and made her way up to the central area of Pearson Hardman. Once the elevator doors opened up she made her way to the front desk.

"Good afternoon, I am Lilly Barrett and I have an appointment with Jessica Pearson." Lilly informed the secretary who simply nodded and picked up the receiver to inform Ms. Pearson's secretary. Lilly sighed as she removed her sunglasses from her head and glanced around the modern waiting room with an amazing view of the entire city. She felt a slight twist in her heart not being able to fulfill her career as a lawyer. But that didn't mean that she was grateful for having such a great career with her cosmetics company. She loved it and she loved the fact that women felt beautiful and confident with the products her grandmother had created with every woman in mind.

"Miss Barrett please take a seat right over there and Ms. Pearson's secretary will be right with you." The front desk secretary hung up and pointed toward the waiting area. Lilly nodded and made her way toward the sitting area.

She barely sat down when Jessica Pearson's secretary came to her. "Miss Barrett, Ms. Pearson will see you now please follow me."

Lilly smoothed out her emerald green Oscar de La Renta pencil dress and followed the petite secretary down the rows of glass doors that were either offices or conference rooms. She expected people to be running about with files in hand and on the phones, but it was a smooth and calm. This firm was incredibly organized and Lilly really liked that.

"Ms. Pearson, Lilly Barrett is here." The petite secretary announced. Jessica smiled warmly and shut off her laptop.

"Thank you Debra." Jessica said as she made her way across the office to greet Lilly.

Debra nodded and looked at Lilly. "May I get you anything?"

"No I am fine, thank you." Lilly offered a small smile and watched as Debra nodded and left the two women alone to discuss business.

"Wow, Lilly you look so beautiful!" Jessica embraced Lilly warmly like a mother would a daughter. Lilly hugged her back and was happy to see Jessica again. Jessica was good friends with her father and both of them had agreed that it would be best if Jessica and the firm oversaw all the legal aspects of the company in the States.

"Thank you! And so do you, well then again you always look beautiful." Lilly said in an admirable tone. She always admired Jessica for being fair and determined. Qualities that Lilly saw made her an amazing lawyer.

"Oh come on now don't flatter me." Jessica and Lilly laughed together. "Come sit and we will discuss any concerns you have and catch up."

Lilly followed Jessica to the white couch that was nicely placed by the glass windows that had a beautiful view of central park. "Well, I wanted to run by an offer that was just presented to the company and here-I actually brought a portfolio of this designer, Emma Celeste, who wants to create her own line of cosmetics using our products and formulas. Pretty much merge Crimson Beauty and Emma Celeste together." Lilly pulled out the black leather portfolio from her black Hermes Birkin bag and handed it to Jessica who carefully skimmed through the offer and the designs of the line.

After ten minutes, Jessica closed the portfolio and looked up at Lilly. "As your attorney, I would say be careful with this because your formulas are incredibly valuable and you cannot just hand them to anybody. Which is why we will draw up a contract strictly protecting Crimson Beauty's formulas so they won't use it in the future without your knowledge. And as a woman who proudly uses your products I would say this was a brilliant idea and it could work quite well for your assets and stocks." Jessica smiled and nodded in approval. Lilly felt completely relieved that Jessica liked the idea and as a lawyer approved it but with limits. "However, to be safe lets dig around the brand of Emma Celeste such as past deals with other brands."

"Thank you Jessica, I feel like I am in good hands."

"As you are. Now before I introduce you to the partners, what have you been doing? How is George and Alyssa?" Jessica set the portfolio on the glass table and waited for Lilly's response.

Lilly sighed at the thought of Alyssa. "I haven't really spoken to her because I have been so busy and right now she is not too happy that she can't run the company like I am. Dad is in Greece right now enjoying the summer and I have been occupied with new shades of lipstick using organic materials and developing this line with Emma Celeste." After her not so pleasant meeting with Dana, Lilly completely shut down and emerged herself in work and the company. All this information she gave Jessica at the moment was information prior to her meeting with Dana, with the exception of her dad-who she had spoken with late last night.

"Alyssa will eventually come around, don't worry about her. Now, I don't mean to pry but is there a significant other in your life?" Jessica asked curiously.

The inevitable question was finally asked and Lilly knew it was going to be asked. She shook her head and looked out into the hallway whilst a few people walked by curiously stealing glances at her. Her blues eyes immediately connected with a young man who was casually walking by with a portfolio in hand and it so happened that his gaze lingered onto Lilly that caused him to accidentally bump into an older short stockier man with scowl on his face. Lilly could tell that the older man mouthed off something unpleasant which made the young man tear away his gaze from Lilly. Lilly felt bad for distracting the young man and stood up immediately to go out into the hallway.

"Where are you going?" Jessica called out as she followed Lilly out into the hallway.

"Excuse me, but please don't berate him. It was completely my fault." Lilly apologized to the older man who glanced at her.

"And you are?" Louis scoffed.

Jessica smiled inwardly as she finally understood what had happened. She placed a hand on Louis' shoulder and introduced Lilly. "Louis, this is Lilly Barrett the CEO and owner of Crimson Beauty Cosmetics." She turned to glance at Lilly, "Lilly this is Louis Litt our junior partner here at Pearson Hardman."

Louis' eyes widened in shocked and his scowl turned into a smile. "I am so sorry about this Miss. Barrett our associates can get very distracted at times, especially this one."

The sound of bangle bracelets jingled simultaneously as Lilly held her hand up. "No, it was my fault for waving at random strangers, it is an annoying habit of mine." She offered her other hand to Mike. "Let me properly introduce myself, I am Lilly-"

"Barrett- nice to meet you I am Mike Ross." Mike smiled at her and shook her hand. He never really encountered such a lovely woman before him. She was the epitome of a modern day Audrey Hepburn. Sure Rachel and Jenny were beautiful but nothing compared to the woman before him. She was a few inches shorter than him, with the exception of her heels, which made her much taller than Louis. Her long dark brown hair was held up in a stylish ponytail, which made her blue eyes stand out even more. Her features were incredibly aristocratically defined such as her nose and slender neck. She also looked as if she stepped out of a Vogue magazine. Despite all that, Mike looked back up at her eyes and noticed there was a sadness in them even though she was smiling.

Lilly placed a hand over her heart and shook her head. "Please, it is my pleasure and again I am so sorry."

Louis immediately cut into their moment. "Seriously, Lilly- may I call you that?" Lilly nodded and was slightly creeped out by this man's brash actions. "It is no big deal and he should learn to watch where he is going."

"And maybe you should consider taking your own advice Louis seeing as you were walking in the same direction." Everyone instantly snapped their heads up in which the confident voice was coming from. A voice Lilly knew all too well, even though at some point she had slightly forgotten how it must have sounded.

Harvey Specter stopped right in front of them and his smirk instantly fell when his gaze instantly flickered onto Lilly who was just as shocked as he was. It had been years since they had seen each other and almost immediately, Lilly felt the butterflies begin to swarm in the pit of her stomach.

A/N: That's all...for now. Please let me know what you think ;)