Mike sat uncomfortably next to Dana; he tapped the pen a few times at the edge of the table. They had been going over the merger documents for hours and were told to make a few amendments to it. Neither side was happy yet. Mike stretches his neck and placed his pen back in his mouth. He looked back up to the clock; they had to come to some kind of agreement soon. Mike had plans this weekend where Harvey granted him fri and Monday off to visit friends from his failed college years. He was pretty excited to go see people he had considered friends. His thoughts were cut off but someone talking to him.
"Mitch"
Mike rolled his eyes "Dana my name is Mike Ross, I'm not sure why you keep calling me Mitch"
"I'm sorry you just look like a Mitch , want to get out of here for a few minutes and get lunch , nothing exciting maybe just grab a bagel "
"Sure" Mike agreed he was getting pretty hungry. He followed the shorter brunette out of the office, stopping to tell Donna they would be back in a little bit and asked Donna if she wanted any thing. The minute they were out of the building Dana started the questions, Mike had been waiting for her to ask them but was surprised when she started firing at him.
"So how long has Harvey been married?" She started.
"four years in a few months it will be five"
"Hmm, where did he meet his wife?"
" On accident , we actually lost a case and he wanted to get out of the area of the normal drinking places so we went to this little jazz club his father took him when he played . Lila was the back up singer at the time to this band, now she mostly took over with Edwin but Harvey compliments Edwin, who knew his father and the man gave all of the credit to Lila and Melody. He uh, he tried to buy Melody a drink. Melody was tall dark hair thin big green eyes all legs. "
"So Harvey's type "Dana grinned.
"yeah and the other woman stood next to me ordered a beer and laughed as Harvey struck out with Melody. Harvey looked at Lila and tried to hit on her, she blew him off the first time. And went back talking to me, anyway she told me she had her own catering company and if we ever needed a party done to let her know and handed me a car. I took the card and gave it to Jessica who then hired her for our Christmas party. Harvey was surprised when he saw her again and this time asked her out for coffee, she still said no. So Harvey hired her for a private party at his condo"
"Oh course he did "Dana smirked. Mike smiled as well but continued.
"No it was a legit party myself Jessica, Louis, and Donna, only thing was it was for her and her staff knew it. So they set everything up and She was surprised when she walked in. It was a good night "Mike smiled at the fond memory.
"Is he happy?" she asked.
"As happy as Harvey will allow himself to be yes, they fight, man do they fight, but they are a great couple. She pays her bills and her business is her business, she will ask Harvey for advice but she keeps it separate. When they got married Harvey promised that he would keep the really late nights to once a week or call to tell her he would be pulling an all niter. Now he is rarely in the office past nine."
"how old is she?"
"honestly maybe a year younger than Donna maybe two, and her other rule is no suits when he doesn't have to be in them"
Dana laughed out loud "and how does that rule go?"
"a few times he failed and then she picks the movie "Mike told her.
"So they are the perfect couple huh?"
"no perfect but close."
"it should have been me you know, I should be Mrs. Harvey Specter, and before I left he gave me what he could and then told me to my face it was all he could give me. I realized he didn't love me o r didn't love me enough"
Mike looked at the shorter woman and he did feel bad for her.
"Look, it took a long time for Harvey to decide to get married; he tortured himself over what if he was like his mother. he had a lot of inner demons he had to get through, it wasn't just you. Mike told her, which was the truth.
One night Harvey barged into his apartment freaking out how he was like his mother not his father and how things never ended up for the better in his love life, why was he even with Lila. then Lila showed up a few hours later and tried to talk sense into Harvey. she had left pissed off and told Harvey if he wanted to live a long and lonely life that was his business but if he wanted to see what life could bring him, she would be at her apartment.
Mike looked at his watch and threw out his napkin "come on I am only working until 7 tonight at the latest so lets go get a deal done so we can get out of here "
Dana nodded and followed the young man back into the building. She felt better knowing that things were not all rainbows and sunshine in the Specter house.
