Chapter 4

A Race Against Time

Harvey had dialled Ray to pick him up immedaitely. Then he dialled another number who picked up instantly;

"Harvey what do I owe the pleasure"

"Detective Bradshaw I need your help I'm on my way to you now." Harvey hung up just as Ray pulled up and Harvey jumped in and told Ray to head for the police station and fast! Then he sent Donna a text;

Donna

Going to my friend at the police station, going to catch the bastards who did this to Mike and get some of the drug for Dr Medley to make an antidote. Stay with Mike. Call me if anything happens

-H

Harvey's leg was bouncing up and down as he was in the car racing through traffic, he kept glancing at his watch thinking of Mike. Then they pulled up to the station and Harvey ran up the steps and barged right into Detectice Bradshaw's office

"Bradshaw I need your helps it's urgent"

6 hours and 34 minutes

~~~SUITS~~~

Harvey sat in Bradshaw's office and explained the whole story from the night in the bar, to Mike being drugged and in the hospital. The man who was in an old worn-down suit sat opposite him, with a stern face

" Finagrexal? Yeah I've heard of the drug. It's been a real bugger to get it off the streets, every time we get a sniff of where a deals going down they're gone before we get there."

"I'm sorry about your friend Harvey, but what is it you want me to do?"

"I just need to find out who makes the drug and where to find them"

"Harvey you know I can't, you're a civilian and besides it's too dangerous. You'll get yourself killed."

Harvey jumped out his chair and moved closer to the desk and slammed his fist down on it; "Look I did a favour for you once, a big favour if you case you forgot, one that could cost you your job. Now should I go to your captain with this or are you going to help me?"

Detective Bradshaw stood up; "You always were a tough jackass Harvey. What can I do to help?" Bradshaw smiled and Harvey smiled

"First I need to find out who the waiter was in the bar that night, they claimed to have no waiter on staff so I reckon that waiter works for whoever makes the drugs. And they have to have a connection to Fordburm because that's who they were trying to drug, who incidentally got killed in a hit and run shortly after."

"Right ok, well we need to talk to witnesses at the bar and at Fordburm's hit and run, we need to find a connection."

~~~SUITS~~~

4 hours 27 minutes

Harvey and Bradshaw had been working for 2 hours straight talking to witnesses and going through reports. So far they had found nothing and were no closer to finding the guy, Harvey was getting worried about Mike. He had called Donna who said Dr Medley had given Mike stronger sedative and that he was asleep.

Harvey was currently going through mug shots trying to see the waiter from the other night, he was about to give up when he stopped.

"HERE!" Harvey jumped up and shoved the book at Bradshaw, he pointed at the picture.

"This was the waiter from the bar!" There was an address listed below

"Well let's go pay him a visit" Bradshaw said as he picked up his jacket, badge and gun and they both left the precinct.

~~~SUITS~~~

Mike's head was killing him; literally. The amount of memories going through his head it was too much and it felt like his head was going to explode. It was too painful to watch, but he couldn't stop it. The memories of watching his parents death, his grandmother's death, almost getting arrested. Even with his memories of Harvey, Donna, Rachel and his time at the firm; which were good and he tried to hang on to those memories, but they were overshadowed by his most painful memories and his memories of the last few years at the firm with his closest friends were slipping away. Now all that was going to be left was the most painful moment of his life.

Donna watched as Mike's face scrunched up in pain, and he was wriggling around and moaning. She tried to comfort him, but she knew he couldn't hear her and there wasn't much she could do. Or the doctors for that matter who said they could only wait now for Harvey. Everyone was relying on Harvey and if he didn't come through-

Donna didn't want to think about that, she ran her hands through Mike's hair and assured him it was going to be ok. His heart monitor showed his heart was racing, which the doctor said was natural for what he's going through, but it scared the hell out of Donna.

She was looking at the monitor then turned back to face Mike, and froze. Mike's eyes were wide open and they looked terrified.

"Mike? Can you hear me?"

Mike eyes snapped towards her, they were filled were terror and confusion

"Who, who are you? Wh- where's my parents?" Mike whispered, he sounded like a little kid

Donna held back the tears

"Mike sweetie it's ok, you're ok. I'm a friend, my name's Donna."

"Where's my parents?" Mike asked as he sat up a bit more and moved his hand away from Donna

Donna was panicking, what could she say? Her eyes glanced at the heart monitor as Mike's heart rate was increasing. She looked at the nurses' call button above Mike's head.

"Mike honey they're gone" Donna couldn't look him in the eye

"No" Donna could hear the kid's hear breaking

"NO! You're lying? Where's my Grammy?" Mike suddenly jumped out of bed, causing Donna to jump up. She quickly pressed the nurses' call button as Mike tried to detach himself from all the wires.

"Mike you need to calm down, you're sick and you have to get back in bed!" Donna used her best assertive voice, which caused Mike to look at Donna for a second then he pulled the last wire attached to him and fled. He ran out the room, past the doctor and nurses who failed to stop him. They looked at Donna.

"Well don't just stand there, stop him!" Donna yelled at she pulled out her phone and dialled Harvey. He was going to kill her for this.

~~~~SUITS~~~

3 Hours 58 Minutes

Harvey and Bradshaw arrived at the address listed, which was a dump, worse than Mike's place. They went inside and sure enough the elevator was broken and there was graffiti everywhere. Harvey made sure not to touch anything.

"Number 38." Bradshaw looked down at the address on the piece of paper and looked around the apartment numbers. Harvey did also and stopped where he saw the number.

"Here" Harvey pointed at the door

Bradshaw banged on the door with his fist; "Mr Tellmond? Police. Open up." They waited a few seconds and Bradshaw was now gripping the gun at his waist, as he heard what sounded like crashing and a window opening. He glanced at Harvey, then they both kicked at the door which flew off it's hinges onto the floor. Bradshaw lifted his gun at the man who had one left out the window.

"Hold out right there!" Bradshaw yelled

"Get back inside. Now!" The man got back inside and held up his hands

"On your knees" The man complied, Bradshaw holstered his gun and went to put cuffs on Tellmond.

"Mr Tellmond you are under arrest for the attempted murder of-" Bradshaw was interrupted by Tellmond shoving him and grabbing his gun, he held it at Harvey and Bradshaw.

"I didn't try to kill anyone! I'm innocent"

"Really. I saw you at the bar last night. You were our waiter and you drugged Mike's drink"

"I didn't. Wait you said Mike? Mike Ross?"

The gun was directed at Harvey now, and Bradshaw took his chance to knock Tellmond against the wall and he dropped the gun.

Harvey picked it up and held it against Tellmond's head as Bradshaw put the cuffs on him. Bradshaw glanced at Harvey as he lifted Tellmond up and they both stopped at the sight of the gun.

"Harvey man put it down." Bradshaw said as he approached Harvey

"I can't. Mike's running out of time, and if we take him to the station he'll ask for a laywer and by the time we get the answers we want it will be too late! I have to know now." Bradshaw saw the look in Harvey's eyes, the look of a man not to be messed with; determined.

"Fine. But give me the gun Harvey." Harvey reluctantly nodded and handed him the gun.

Bradshaw turned to Tellmond and sat him down on a chair and Tellmond sat down on the coffee table in front of him. Harvey was giving Tellmond death glares

"Why did you drug Mike Ross?" Harvey asked, still glaring

"I er I didn't mean to. I alright, Mike's my friend. er no he was my friend and I would never do that."

Harvey shared a look with Bradshaw,

"Oh really?" Bradshaw crossed his arms

"Look I would never intentionally hurt Mike, him, me and Trevor we were best buds and-"

"Wait did you say Trevor? Trevor Evans?" Harvey stepped forward

"You know this Trevor guy Harvey?" Bradshaw turned to Harvey

"Yeah the bastard nearly ruined Mike's life. I should have know Trevor was behind this." Harvey slammed his fist against a bookcase

"No Trevor wouldn't hurt Mike either." Tellmond gulped as Harvey turned to him

"Really I know otherwise." Harvey went up to Tellmond about to punch him when Bradshaw stopped him and sat him down

"Look buddy why don't you tell us what happened?" Bradshaw stated

"Fine. Well I owed Trevor some money for some pot, and er well I didn't have the cash so he said seeing how I was a friend he would let me off if I did a favour for him. He said that he made a deal with this drug dealer to drug some tech guy who was head of some company, but sent me to do it instead. That's why I was your waiter last night. I was just meant to slip the drug into this guys drink and leave, but then Mike was there and he recognised me and I panicked when Mike took the glass with the drug in it, so I ran. I didn't know it would hurt Mike, Trevor never said and when I called him after and told him what happened with Mike, he said it didn't matter about Mike, the deal was done and-"

"Wait so Trevor knew you drugged Mike? Did he know what this drug would do to Mike?" Harvey asked

"I dunno, maybe. I didn't ask him, I didn't want to get more involved than I already was."

"So who was the drug dealer Trevor made a deal with?" Bradshaw asked

"I don't know"

"You didn't ask"

"Hey those kinds of questions can get you killed"

"Mike is a hospital bed dying right now because of you and Trevor!" Harvey yelled and Tellmond hung his head in shame

"I'm sorry dude, Mike was my friend and I never wanted to see him hurt."

"Yeah well you better hope Mike doesn't die, or I swear to god you and Trevor and whoever else was involved will die." Harvey was right in Tellmond's face when he said that, then he backed away

"Anything else?" Bradshaw asked

"No that's it"

"Let's get him back to the station. Then we'll go pay a visit to Trevor. "Bradshaw said to Harvey as he escorted Tellmond out

Bradshaw had just put Tellmond in the car and Harvey was about to get in too when his phone rung, it was Donna.

"Hey Donna. How's Mike?" Silence

"Donna?" Harvey signalled to Bradshaw to wait

"Harvey, it's Mike he woke up and he was scared. He didn't know who I was and he was asking about his parents, then he ran."

"What do you mean he ran"

"I mean he fled, he ran out the hospital. Security tried to stop him but they couldn't, Mike's gone. I don't know what to do, I've called the police and they're on the lookout but god if anything happens to him Harvey. I mean it's my fault-"

"No Donna it's not. Look go to Mike's apartment and check if he went there and try anywhere else Mike might go. I need to go see Trevor as he might be behind this, call me if you find him." Harvey hung up, leaving Donna who was still in Mike's empty hospital room, staring at the phone.

"Trevor? If he's involved this isn't going to end well" Donna said as she left the hospital and got a cab over to Mike's.

~~~SUITS~~~

2 hours 59 minutes

After Mike left the hospital, which he had found quite easy to do once he put on a doctors lab coat and just walked out the front door.

Now he was just wandering the streets, he didn't understand, he had search as much of the hospital as possible and asked some doctors about any Ross' admitted which they weren't. What was going on? Were they really gone?

Mike just kept seeing flashes of images in his head of his parents laughing, smiling. Then images of them in the car and it crashing then screams. It was like the screams were right next to him, so he covered his ears and spun around but there was just normal people around him who gave him odd looks.

Mike felt like everyone was watching him, staring at him. Like they knew something he didn't. Mike didn't like it so he ran, he didn't know where he was going but he had to find somewhere safe.

He had run for about 20 minutes when he got out of breath and stopped. He sat down on a nearby bench and tried to remember anything about what had happened to him, he knew he had an eidetic memory so he should remember right? But he was wrong, anytime he tried to get his brain to remember he felt a sharp pain in his head and a flash of images of his parents dying. He fell forward and put his head in his hands trying to get it to stop.

What's happening to me?

Mike was terrified, he couldn't remember anything aside from his name being Mike Ross and that his parents were in an accident, apparently dead, and his Grammy he guessed she was gone too, by the flashed of memories he had of her funeral.

Now he was all alone, he had no one left and he was forgetting who he was.

Then suddenly he looked up and recognised the area. Mike stood up and staring walking, he didn't understand it, but this street looked familiar. He started running as he came upon a building, it was dark; likely around 9 O'clock at night by the look of it, so the building was hard to see but something about it was familiar.

Mike walked inside and breezed past security, who gave him a look but didn't say anything as Mike got onto the elevator. Mike didn't even see the security guard pick up the phone and dial.

In the elevator Mike instictively pushed one of the buttons; 13. Then he slumped against the wall closed as the elevator went up, and Mike had a flash in his head;

Mike was getting onto the elevator with someone else and they were laughing and joking.

"That was good work on the McPherson case Mike."

"Why Harvey Specter I do believe that was an actually human compliment. I didn't know you had one in that stone heart of yours."

"Shut up" Harvey shoved him as the doors opened

Mike shoved him back as they walked out laughing and chatting

Mike was gripping his head as the memory felt so real, yet he couldn't recall ever experiencing it, it was like a different person.

Mike opened his eyes as the pain subsided and realised the elevator doors were open. So he stepped out and started walking, his legs knew where they were going but he didn't.

They stopped outside an office, one that looked familiar; he had another flash

Mike ran up to Donnas' desk with a handful of files; "Is he in?"

"Yeah he's been asking you for the last ten minutes." Donna didn't even look up

Mike gulped; "But Louis was-"

"I don't want to hear it tell it to Harvey"

Mike walked in Harvey's office with his head down

Harvey shared a look with Donna and they both smirked

"Mike" Harvey tone suggested he was angry but he was smirking

"Yeah?"

"Mike look at me"

Mike looked up and instantly Harvey changed his expression to a frown

"Here are the files, sorry they're late, I uh, Louis came over and he-"

Harvey held up his hand and Mike stopped

Harvey got up and went round and stood in front of Mike

"Harvey I'm sorry I-"

"Shut up Mike"

"Donna" Harvey said without touching the intercom

Donna walked in and brought in something with her, it was wrapped but the shape instantly gave it away it was a new bike

Mike looked at Harvey and Donna

Harvey smiled, "Well open it"

Mike ripped off the paper and just stared at it; It was just like his old bike (that was stolen) to which Harvey said he didn't care.

"You said that you didn't care"

"I don't but you were so mopey, I just wanted you to stop."

Mike grabbed the bike and went to leave with it

"Just don't get yourself killed!" Harvey shouted then he glanced at Donna who was smirking

Mike smiled and left; "He so cares!"

This memory was a big one and it caused a sharp pain in Mike's head which caused his legs to give out and he collapsed onto the couch

It was becoming clear to Mike that he worked there and Harvey was his boss, but other than that he didn't know.

Mike looked around at all the records in Harvey's office and ran his hands along them all and smiled, it reminded him of his dad

Then his hands stopped on one, and he pulled it out. He turned it over and saw the marker pen at the bottom that showed the initials; HR, for Henry Ross. This was his fathers. But why would Harvey have it? Mike would never give it to anyone.

Mike took the record out and put it on, as he had another flash of memories of his parents passing through his head causing him to collapse back onto the ground and grab his head as the music filled the offices.

"Mike"

Mike turned to see a man standing in the office doorway, he looked familiar. Then it clicked it was the man from his memories; Harvey

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