Hey everybody. Thanks for the follows and favorites. I just want to let you know and apologize for any grammar mistakein any of the chapter; english is not my native lenguage and although I try my best to correct everything sometimes it's just not possible.

Anyway, this chapter may skip lots of things but I wanted the story to move a little faster, I didnt want the story to get boring or something before we get o the good part :)

CHAPTER 2

The case turned out to be much harder than he thought. It was true that Mr. Ross still had two months left before his retirement, and legally, he didn't have the right to have a pension, there was not much Harvey could do in that situation but to try and appeal to the human side of the company he used to work and try and settle. But after a few days of hard convincing work in

Regarding child services, he was able to get Michael to stay with his grandmother, telling them that he was working on the case and there would be enough money soon to take care of the boy. He could not believe that two lives were at risk just because of two months of work in comparison to the more than 30 years that Mr. Ross did work for them.

So, all in all, it was a good day. He knew that what worried Edith he most was her grandsons living situation, and that was settling, at least for now.

"Donna," Harvey called from his office – "I need you to contact Edith Ross, I have some good news for her and I need to get a signature for yesterday" –He said to emphasize the urgency of it.

"She's not going to answer" –Answered the redheaded. "She's at Mike's school"

"What?"- Stop that and get her on the phone" –He ordered

"I told you, she's at Mike's school, something about a speech competition he is in, it's important, so if you really need that signature, you'll have to get there by yourself".

With a sigh, he got up from his desk and grabbed his jacket and keys along with the necessary documents and headed for the door, stopping at Donna's desk –"How do you even know that" – He asked with a real curious look on his face.

"Because I'm Donna" –Was her answer, and that was all the answer he needed. –"I'll text you the school address".

Twenty-five minutes later, Harvey was parking outside Our beloved trinity School. "What I had to do for the clients" he thought as he entered the building, but to be honest, he kind of like Edith and Mike, if he had to choose between all of his clients, he would definitely chose them again. Edith was just so nice and comprehensive, and Mike actually was not bad at all, for being a twelve year old he was really smart, he could keep up a conversation with Harvey in a better way that many adults couldn't, and it seemed like he was really interested in what Harvey does, and he was funny too and that mind of his, that kid needed to work hard and get a good use of that privileged mind he own, and of course, he can't forget the cookies, Edith Ross definitely baked the best cookies in the whole dammed New York, "Let's not let Donna know that I said that".

After getting inside the building and the auditorium, it wasn't hard to find Edith, is not as if there were many people in there, only some parents of the participants and a few other students.

"Edith, hi," said Harvey taking the seat next to her.

"Harvey, darling- what a surprise, what are you doing here?"- She greeted him.

"I'm sorry to bother you here, but I have some good news about the case and I need you to...

"Wait, wait darling, Michael's next" –Told him Edith, putting a hand in front of him to emphasize his needing of shutting up. In that moment, Mike appeared on-stage and immediately started on his speech, which was a really accurate work on the traffic system of New York City. To Harvey's surprise, some of the material Mike was using and quoting sounded very familiar to him, and it was good, really good. Mike was crushing his opponents. It just a matter of seconds Mike went from being the happy, blabbing boy Harvey saw with Edith, to a much older kid, who looked responsible and sure of what he was talking about. It reminded Harvey of himself at school. Then came the time of questions, and Harvey was amazed at how calm Mike seemed, he answer every question without doubting and in perfect coherence and structure. It was a beautiful and clean work, Harvey had to admitted, and if he himself hadn't seen Mike studying and writing the speech, he would've doubted that the kid did it himself and not bought it.

It was something hard, to think about it. After everything the kid had been through, the facts that he was as kind with his grandmother and that he still focused on school instead of acting up as you could think any kid would do was something that couldn't be put into words.

When Mike finished his speech everyone started applauding and standing up, he got the most cheers from all of the participants and Harvey couldn't help but to applaud himself, he look next to him and saw Edith, with tears in her eyes and wonder if she had ever seem so proud as she looks in that exact moment. Mike was extremely lucky to have her in his life. He had already given his word to Edith about helping them, but at that moment, he made a promise to himself that he would do everything inside his possibilities to help that small family.

He waited a few more minutes, for the jury to announce the winner, it was obviously Mike, and he wanted to let Edith enjoy the moment as long as she could.

"Edith, I need you to…"

"Not now dear," –She shut him- "I know this is important but whatever it is it can wait, if not, you would've dragged me out of here the moment you saw me. Am I right?"

"Yes, but..."

"No buts, Michael is coming. Now please, let me congratulate my grandson properly and then we can talk about anything you came here to tell me"

"Grammy, you came" –Exclaimed Mike when he spotted his grandma in the small crow.

"You doubted it?" –Asked Edith

"No, it was more of an affirmation"

"I'm so proud of you Michael, you did great, "- she said hugging him.

"Good job kid," –Congratulated Harvey

"Mr. Specter? what are you doing here? – Questioned Mike, taking the older man's hand that was offered to him.

"I came to talk to your grandmother, but I ended up hearing all of your speech. This seems kind of familiar now that I think of it –He questioned the kid.

"Oh, yeah! "- Mike answered, looking a little bit guilty –"I used that book you recommended me, I read it and it was really useful".

"Hey, no worries kid, the book is not mine, so everything's fine. Besides, I actually used that exact same book for an essay back in high school. – Anyways, before you both go to celebrate Michaels winning, I need you to sign some documents for me, Edith".

Looking around, Mike noticed all the small families congratulating their children on their good job, and although he loved that Grammy was there to support him, it was still hard to see everyone celebrating with their parents and some other relatives. "I think I just want to go home, if that's okay".

-But why, dear? –Asked Edith, concerned –"I thought you wanted to go have lunch"

"I don't know, I just… I don't know I don't feel like it" Answered Mike.

Harvey followed Mikes gaze and easily connected the dots, and before he knew it, the words came out of his mouth. "Well, I need to talk to both of you guys, I have some news and I need some signatures. If you please follow me, we talk about this over lunch. It's on the firm – He said, looking at Mike and then at Edith, who gave him a smile that said that she knew what he was doing, good, because Harvey himself didn't know.

"I'm going to the restroom" –Said Mike standing up from the table the three of them were sitting at after eating the biggest and most delicious burger he had ever tried.

"Hurry up honey, we need to get home". With a nod, Mike left. "Thank you for doing this Harvey dear, you didnt0 have to" –Said Edith, taking her attention towards Harvey.

"There's no problem at all Edith, Its common that attorneys meet their clients over lunch" –Answered him, trying to excuse himself.

"You know what I mean dear, I saw how you looked at Michael before you spoke, you didn't have to do that, and that makes me even more grateful towards you than what I already was".

"I saw how he was looking at the other kids," Harvey confessed with a sigh "He shouldn0t feel that way, he's a great kid, and he deserves to enjoy his moments"

"I know, and maybe you don't know it, but you've done a great deal to our family, if someone was to take him away from me, which would destroy him, I don't think he could handle another lost. He's so young, and he already had to live through so much. He deserves better. –But you've help, more than you think, over the last couple of weeks, he talks a lot about school, and law and how he wants to become a lawyer and be able to help people".

"Well, I promised you I would help you, and I always keep my promises! –Harvey answered in a very lawyer-ish tone, know that deep inside, there was something more than his promise to a client that made him keep going with these case.

He confirmed that feeling, next morning when while he was searching through some of his books Donna came into his office and looked at him with an I'm-Donna-I-know-it-all face.

"What are you looking for?" –she asked him

"A book" –He answered shortly

"What book?

"Law of Transit and circulation" –Harvey answered, focused on his search, not really paying attention to Donna.

"Why do you need that book?"

"I'm giving it to someone"

"To Michael Ross, right?"

"What? Why would you say that?"

"Because Harvey, that case is everything you've been talking about, you've handed everything about it personally, because you've said how smart this kid is, I know he's gotten into you and… because if it weren´t for someone you cared about, you would've asked me to look for it, instead, you've been going through your books for the past 25 minutes". –Donna answered handing Harvey the book he'd been looking for the past half and hour, and as always, she's was right, not that Harvey would've admitted that.

"There's nothing wrong about giving a book to a kid, I like to think that I'm doing a favor to this world, getting a kid put his nose into a book instead of into de street" –Said Harvey, trying to hide the smile that was growing on his face.

"Tell yourself whatever makes you feel better, but you know deep down that that's not why you are doing these". Answered Donna, moving towards Harvey's desk to answer the phone. Harvey was going through the book, looking for some sort of special quote in it or something, so when Donna finished with the call he was really surprise to see the look on her face.

"What's going on?" –He asked her

"Harvey that was the hospital, Edith Ross was in an accident"