A/N: Happy day three, people! I was kind of hoping for a more obscure word, but this one will do. I just hope tomorrow's isn't as similar as the first three have been. And thank you for the reviews, I adore all of you!

Word 3 - Mesmerize (Posted 25 October 2011)

(Mesmerize: 1. To spellbind; fascinate. 2. To hypnotize. 3. To compel by fascination.)

"Where are you taking me?" Mike wondered as they walked up a nondescript street littered with similarly nondescript buildings.

"Somewhere," Harvey answered. He grabbed Mike's hand, locking their fingers together and squeezing tightly.

"You're not going to tell me, are you?" Mike said, a small pout on his lips.

"Nope," Harvey announced proudly.

Mike sighed. "Okay." He really wasn't complaining, though. Today was Saturday, their one-year anniversary. They hadn't made any plans, but Harvey's recent distractedness prompted him to believe he'd devised some kind of surprise for him. So he let Harvey lead him by the hand to their secret destination. "A diner?" he asked when Harvey pushed open the door of a retro-looking building.

Harvey nodded. "A diner."

Mike simply raised an eyebrow at him as they were seated and ordered their drinks. "So...?"

"It's part of your anniversary present."

"I see."

Harvey reached across the table and took hold of both of Mike's hands. "I always take you out to really expensive places... And I hope you know that I do that because I just want to give you everything..."

"I do know that..." Mike assured him. He loved that Harvey liked to take him out on dates. Even the girls he dated never liked to go out as much as he would have liked to, so going out with Harvey never got old.

"But I know that you love little places like this. So I've wanted to start taking you more often and I thought tonight would be a good time to start."

Even after a year of weaving his way into Harvey's heart, after getting to know him so completely, he still managed to surprise Mike. "Thank you." One would think he was used to this, but pretty much every word that left Harvey's mouth left him tongue-tied.

Harvey smiled, a rare, shy smile that was reserved only for Mike's eyes. It was the prettiest of all his smiles, showing that he was human and that he did indeed have emotions, even if he only admitted that to one person, the one sitting right in front of him.

Mike was sure that no one else had ever seen such an expression on Harvey Specter's face. It was a product of being with someone he actually cared about, a result of being able to express whatever he felt to this one person who would stick by him no matter what. And it never failed to mesmerize him, the small curve of his lips calling out to Mike that he loved him, the bit of white teeth poking out from behind whispering that he was the only one who could tame him.