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In most adverse situations in life, a confrontation is inevitable. Whether this confrontation is violent, loud, long or short is a completely different matter, but the confrontation itself cannot be avoided. Mike and Harvey both knew this, but as children hope that the remnants of their cookie eating crimes will not be visible on their faces, they both too hoped that they would not have to face each other for the next couple of weeks at the very least. But as fate would have it, the two would be face to face the very next day, at their most vulnerable.
"Harvey!"
Mike stiffened at the name of his boss. I hate my life, thought Mike. A side-glance confirmed this notion. Of all the days, to be at any possible place, Harvey had to be at the very same cemetery where he was at the exact same time. What are the odds of that happening, Mike thought to himself. The infinitesimally small number immediately popped into Mike's mind, taunting him that this was indeed that one in a million chance.
"A young missus left this for you, a very pretty young missus that is. Forgot about it when I saw you first, thought you might want it now."
David was waving a small envelope in front of Harvey excitedly, not really aware of the awkward nature of the situation. Harvey looked up at his associate a couple of yards in front of him, pretty much ignoring David. Wow, Harvey thought dully. He had honestly thought this week couldn't get any worst, turns out the universe was hell bent on proving him wrong this week. A quick glance down at the envelope which had his name written on it with a distinctive and familiar feminine touch- Scottie. She must have known he would have come here after the wreck of a week he had suffered, Harvey mused, and she really did have him all figured out. Either that or she took help from Donna; the latter seemed more likely.
"Harvey?", David shook Harvey out of his reverie.
Harvey muttered a quick thanks to David and stuffed the envelope in his pocket, not really paying it much attention at this point. As he started off down the well-worn path he pondered the possible course of action he would take. I could ignore him, thought Harvey. This option seemed appealing but then he realized they were both probably taking the same train back to New York; given how fate was favoring them now, chances are they would end up opposite each other on the train. That would actually, possibly be more awkward than talking it through now. 'Fix it', a voice said in his mind; this voice sounded remarkably like his father's. 'This really wasn't the kind of divine intervention I was hoping for Dad, but you always did manage to surprise me' Harvey thought to himself. After an internal debate, Gordon Specter managed to kick Harvey in the right direction from beyond the grave.
"Mike!"
Mike had immediately quickened his pace when he realized that it was indeed Harvey in the cemetery. He was hoping to board the next train to New York, and drown his sorrows in a certain banned substance once he got back home. He really didn't want to face Harvey right now, open up the raw wounds and look into that betrayed face again. Mike had done what he thought he had to do, for the good of Harvey and the firm, and if Harvey couldn't accept that then well; he was resigning anyways so he wouldn't have to deal with him anymore. And anyways, it wasn't as though any of the 147 options of someone having a gun to your head was applicable here when Jessica had a bazooka. So when Mike heard Harvey calling, he was surprised to say the very least. After trying to school his face into the most neutral expression possible, Mike turned around to see Harvey jogging at him.
"What are you doing here?", Mike asked wearily.
"My Dad…", Harvey pointed vaguely in the direction of his dad's grave, "You?"
"Grammy, my parents…", Mike motioned towards the general vicinity of said graves. The tension was palpable.
"Look, I may have been wrong in firing you so, you're rehired. This doesn't mean what you did was right. You should have come to me, you don't work for Jessica you work for me."
Mike raised his eyebrows, "It doesn't matter anymore; I'm resigning anyways. You told me to get my shit together but I obviously got ways to go with that. Everyone's better off this way. Jessica'll be pleased to see the last of me. Rachel just… And you'll get to work with a real Harvard kid; which I am not, which by the way you never fail to point out."
Harvey Specter was never at a loss for words. So he said the only thing he could.
"No."
"You don't have a choice, its not like you can change my mind on this."
"I do and I will. You have any idea what I've done for you? I've put my ass on the line for you more times than I'd like to remember. I was willing to…"
"You never fail to point out that you don't care about anyone but yourself, so anything you're claiming to have done for me you did for yourself. So thanks for hiring me, its been real but its over now. I'm handing my resignation in on Monday. And for what its worth, it doesn't matter if you accept it or not because I know for a fact that Jessica sure as hell will."
Mike turned around to push the gate open, he had heard enough.
"I'm sure you're grandmother would be proud. Running away from your problems.", it was a low blow, even for Harvey's standards but he had no choice.
Mike paused; he really didn't think Harvey would stoop this low and bring up Grammy.
"Firstly you don't know anything about what Grammy would have thought. And secondly if I am the problem, then I'm not running away from jack shit."
Mike violently pushed the gate open and all but sprinted out of the cemetery; he really didn't want to be there anymore.
"Mike! If you leave, Darby'll get suspicious and start to investigate and we know what he'll find if he does. This will give him enough to strong-arm Jessica into a settlement, which will leave her without a firm and me without a license to practice law!"
Mike continued to walk, if anything he sped up a little.
"Look, I can't be keep on being me without you!", Harvey confessed. If this didn't do it nothing would. Mike stopped but didn't turn around, did Harvey Specter just admit to having some form of weakness?
"As much as it pains me to admit it, you are one of the best lawyers I've seen. And it's actually vaguely fun working with you." Harvey said the last bit as though someone had punched him in the gut and then forced him to talk at gunpoint; in other words very unwillingly.
To say Mike was in shock was an understatement; he turned around to face Harvey.
"Look, even if I wanted to go back I can't."
"Did you not just hear what I said?!"
"Harvey…", Mike's guilty face said volumes more than his words.
"Oh what did you do now Mike, it was the paralegal wasn't it, Rachel?", Harvey put the pieces together and suddenly the hand-shaped bruises on Mike's face made sense, along with his general depressed demeanor. There was no way that he caused all of it, Harvey thought to himself.
"You told her didn't you, about Harvard." Harvey said darkly. It was more of a statement than a question really, there wasn't much left to question after all.
Mike just looked at Harvey expressionlessly.
Mike began to stutter under Harvey's cold glare, "I… She… Louis and that Harvard lady and…".
"Louis knows?", Harvey had a mental image of a mug-shot with Mike instead of Louis, except this time it wasn't remotely funny.
"NO! At least I don't think so… Unless he runs a background check on me through his Harvard girlfriend and then finds out...", the possibility of Louis finding out dawns on Mike and he is agitated once more. "See Harvey! This is why its better if I leave - I'm a liability to you and the firm."
"Yes, you are a liability and yes, you do cause a hell of a lot of trouble, but you're going to make a great lawyer one day and wasting all that talent you have should be a crime."
The two of them just stared at each other, waiting for the other to break the silence.
Harvey looked at him, let out a huge sigh and started towards the train station. Mike caught up with him almost immediately, and asked "So we good?".
"Lets just say I won't be firing you any time soon."
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