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God, Harvey was angry. No he was furious, he hadn't felt this way since the Stephen debacle. And this time there wasn't even a murder, not yet. He was pacing through his office, every file that lay on his desk this morning was thrown on the floor.
"Harvey, I've got the Greene Enterprise merger files here," Mike said as he walked in too focussed on his files to see the mess in front of him. And he just made it worse. "Where's Donna?"
"Get out!" Harvey said.
"What?"
"Get. Out. Now!" Harvey said as he pushed Mike out of his office. Harvey smashed the door closed behind him, but he did it with so much anger the glass door hit the edge of the wall and shattered into a million pieces. Great, he thought, the only thing he could hide behind, ironically made out of glass, was gone now too. Now there was nothing separating him and Donna's empty desk.
He needed to talk to Donna, so he walked to her desk. Her new desk, but she wasn't there. All he saw was a big bouquet of flowers, just like he had placed on her desk only a week ago. He read the card; 'To my lovely new secretary.' They were from Louis and speaking of the devil, there he appeared.
"Hi Harvey," Louis said, "Lovely day, isn't it? Is there anything I can do for you?"
It didn't matter what Louis would have said, his presence alone was like adding oil to the fire and Harvey just snapped. He turned around and punched Louis in the face. Luckily for Louis, Mike saw what happened between the two name partners and jumped in between them. He managed to pull Harvey away and told him to leave, to cool down. Somehow, Harvey listened to the pup and he started walking, just walking. Louis was in shock and Mike had no idea what just happened. He brought Louis inside his office and placed him on the couch. "Don't go anywhere, I'm going to grab some ice for that," he said as he looked at Louis' eye.
Donna was in the file room making some copies for Louis when two young associates entered the room. She heard them gossiping about some fight that happened on the 50th floor. Ooh crap, she thought when she rushed herself back to Louis' office. She found him sitting on his couch with a pack of frozen beans against his eye. He was talking to Mike; "I'm going to sue the shit out of him!"
"OMG, what happened?" she asked, "who did that?" She already knew, she just hoped it wasn't true.
"Harvey, that asshole!" Louis answered.
"Donna," Mike started, " why are you …"
"Not now, Mike," she cut him off. "I think it's best if you leave."
Mike didn't protest and left the room as Donna took his place on the couch next to Louis.
"Ooh, Louis. I'm so sorry. What did he do?"
"Donna it's not your fault. The man is a danger to all of us, he just attacked me out of nowhere."
But she felt responsible, it was her he was mad at. Not Louis, but she had to know if there was more to the situation than he was telling her: "What did you say to him?"
"What! I didn't do shit!" Louis yelled. "He was just standing there at your desk and I walked by. When I greeted him, he just punched me."
Donna looked at her new desk and she remembered the card she had found in the flowers. He must have read it, she thought. She loved Louis' gesture, but she knew it would be too much if Harvey saw it. She wanted to place them somewhere else, but hadn't found the time yet to do so and she didn't want to hurt Louis' feelings.
"I'm so, so sorry, Louis."
Donna was mad, this was something between her and Harvey. Louis didn't deserve this. She stormed towards Harvey's office only to find it empty. As far as it could look empty, the place was a total mess. The glass of the door and files were everywhere. So Donna did, what Donna did best. She'd fix it. She entered the office and started sorting the files, she even called maintenance to take care of all the glass. Louis had given her the rest of the day off, but she hadn't left the office yet. She was hiding in his office, Harvey's office. She needed to talk to him, but he didn't return. She called him several times, but he never answered. An hour and a half later she gave up, there was no point in waiting for him. As she stood up she knocked over his pencil holder and the pen she had given him when they he made partner fell out. She took the pen in her hands and sighed. If he wasn't going to talk to him she had to try something different. She stared at the pen in her hand, she decided to write it down. She placed the letter on his desk and walked to her old desk. She stood there for a minute to let the events of the past day sink in; she wondered if she had made the right choice. But she knew she had, she just hoped he would realise it too. She opened the top left drawer and grabbed the can opener, she had deliberately left behind. She walked back into his office and placed it on top of her letter, before walking out.
It was probably for the best that Jessica was out all morning, but the minute she was back she knew something was wrong. She walked to her office and saw Donna grabbing her bag from the cubicle in front of Louis' office. "Donna, what are you doing here? I thought you were only temporarily helping Louis, after Norma?"
"Uhm, I…" but Donna had no chance to explain why she was here as Jessica noticed Louis holding the pack of beans to his face. Jessica entered his office and Donna saw this as her chance to escape. Normally she wouldn't run, but now she couldn't be here.
"Louis, what happened? I'm hearing rumours coming from every floor."
"Well, if they involve Harvey punching me in the face, they're true." Louis replied as he removed the pack of beans to show his black eye.
"He did what?" Jessica new her protégé was hot-tempered and he and Louis didn't always seem eye to eye, but this? She understood their fights every once in a while, but she never expected it to become physical. Not now they were both name partners.
Jessica entered Harvey's empty office, only to realise she never opened a door. She looked back, there wasn't even a door. Just a black and yellow tape on the edges of the glass wall; as if it was a crime scene. And it was, kind of. Jessica looked at his desk, that miraculously still looked intact. She spotted the can opener and wondered what is was, so she walked over. The can opener was placed on an envelope that said: 'Harvey, please read. Love, Donna.' Jessica knew whatever was going on between the two of them wasn't really her business, but this time it was different. Technically it was, her business. Her firm. She opened the envelope and read Donna's letter. Jessica was still mad, but she smiled anyway as she finished the letter. She wondered how blind he was, had been and apparently still was. Normally his stubbornness worked in his advantage, but not this time. Not with Donna, Jessica thought. She had always assumed the two would get together when he brought her to the firm, but when after two years nothing had happened, she figured she was wrong. And now after ten years it looked like Harvey was about to screw things up big time if he kept behaving like this. It was time to help Harvey.
