"Harvey your building better be on fire or you better be in the hospital, if not I will put you there myself" Donna scolds as she enters her apartment.

"Don't think I don't know you're smiling" Harvey smirks as he lay on his sofa. "You couldn't wait to get out of that date. So now is the part when you say 'thank you Harvey'"

"And in what universe would I ever need help to get out of a date" Donna asks as she began her nightly routine for bed

"You know you wanted me to call, Donna, didn't you. You were having an awful time, you got bored, you yawned incessantly and if I didn't call he probably would be up in your apartment. So what did the schmock say as you sent him on his way?" Harvey laughs

"Harvey, we ARE in my apartment" Donna says softly

"You mean, you guys…? He asks nervously but couldn't finish the question as he sat up. Harvey felt that sick feeling in his stomach again and he could also feel himself getting angry and jealous. He wanted to rush over to her apartment and punch Connor in his face. It was late, how could that jerk even think of being in her apartment at this time, Harvey thought.

"Donna" Harvey almost sounded as though he was pleading.

"God Harvey, what do I look like…no ok!" and Harvey heard the laughter in her voice and he realized she was kidding. He relaxed again and smiles, she was alone thank God Harvey thought. "ok so now I'm gonna take a shower and you can think about how silly you sounded just now" she says and she realizes she also needed to think about what she just heard in Harvey's voice.

"What I'm going to think about is you in the shower. I'm giving you 15 minutes and you better be out of the shower, naked and in your bed when I call back" he smiles as he thought about it and Donna knew exactly what expression he would have on his face

"I'll be out of the shower and fully DRESSED by the time you call back. I know the routine" she replies, trying to sound harsh.

Harvey smiles as he hang up the phone thinking about what Donna would be doing right now. She would be in her shower, with the warm water running down her slender body, soap, wash cloth, hands, the images floated around in his head. He realized his breathing had quickened and even though he's thought about other women before, no one makes his heart race as much as Donna does just by thinking about her. Or the way she walks into his office, he way she turns and smiles at him from her desk, the look she gives him when he wins his cases, the look she gives him when they are in their can-opener routine, her perfume that always remains with him even after she's walked off. All those things make Harvey's heart skip a beat and he knew the reason why. He waiting the full 15 minutes, nothing more and redialed

"You know some people would consider this a form of stalking" Donna teases, trying to control her emotions as she realized how much she enjoyed laying on her sofa and talking with Harvey late at night

"If you'd just let me come over and watch you shower, then the phone call wouldn't seem so creepy" he replies

"Oh and you standing watching me shower, that, that would be normal" Donna answers amused

"Hey we are anything but normal but if that is what it'll take to be normal, then yeah, I'd watch you shower Donna" Harvey muses

Donna felt her body melt at the thought of him looking at her naked body. She sometimes caught the looks he gave her, especially when she walked into his office, his eyes would take her whole form in and she knew he approved. When he look at her Donna's knees would get weak, it's been 12 years and his looks still has the same effect on her

"Hey you still there?' she heard Harvey's voice on the phone, 'listen Donna, I'm sorry if I interrupted you on your...umm…you know!" he says

"Date Harvey, is that the word you're looking for, my date?" She asks

"Yeah that, sorry if I interrupted, whatever" he replies

"Actually you didn't, I had a nice time but I realized I was tired, so he dropped me home, that's when you called" Donna confesses

"But I thought you said the best part of any night was going for drinks after the play. You are always happy to go for drinks after you drag me to one of those shows" Harvey says playfully

"Yeah well I wasn't out with you tonight, now was I Harvey" Harvey heard Donna's soft voice as she said that and for a moment he didn't know how to reply. His heart told him that it should have been him she was out with tonight but somehow he just couldn't bring himself to say it. He felt defeated by his inability to speak up at the times he knew Donna needed him to, he wanted so badly to let her know what he was thinking. That he wants to be the person she knows would take her to every play, every restaurant, spend hours talking about everything and spend every night making love to her, the person to prove to her just how much she is adored.

"Listen we better get started before I fall asleep again, like last time" Donna laughs, interrupting his thoughts and trying to break the awkward silence after her comment.

"Yeah, ok well I have those files in front of me" Harvey replies, as he turns the conversation to the case for tomorrow.

As was their nightly routine, Harvey and Donna went through his case files. He told her his strategies and she reminded him of what the jury would be looking for and also what his schedule looked like for the following day. Harvey always depended on their late night discussions to put things into perspective for him. He found that having Donna go over things with him was what really helped him, and as promised Donna fell asleep but Harvey didn't mind, he stayed on the phone for a little while and then hung up.