A/N: Ok, Darvey readers this fic is on the homestretch. Just one more chapter after this. They will be short but hit at your heart. Grateful thanks to Aaron Korsh and the bunch who gave us these wonderful characters and allows us to use them in our own stories. R&R if you feel like it!

You Know I Love You

Chapter 14

The jury shuffled into the courtroom. Mike, Rachel, Harvey, Donna, Jessica, and Louis all waited impatiently for the reading of the verdict. Time seemed to be in slow motion. The judge looked austere and very serious when asking the foremen of the jury to stand.

"Have you reached a verdict?" The judge asked. Every word seemed to drag from her mouth.

"Yes, your Honor, we have," the foreman of the jury said just as slowly. He was a man in his early 50's and probably an every day sort of businessman like a mechanic or a technical repairman.

"Please read your verdict," the judge stated.

"Your honor, we find the defendent on the charge of conspiracy to commit fraud-NOT guilty."

Time suddenly sped up. The powder keg exploded. Suddenly, it was like one could breathe again. The relief in the courtroom was palpable and the cheers were at once silenced by the bang of the judge's gavel.

"Upon the hearing of the verdict, the jury is free to go. Your country thanks you for your service."

"Mr. Ross, you have been found not guilty of the conspiracy to commit fraud. You are free to go."

The judge banged her gavel twice and stated obviously, "Court is adjourned."

Mike's Pearson Specter Litt family joined he and Rachel outside the courtroom.

Harvey and Mike were speechless and just shook each other's hands. Donna hugged him, then Louis, and even Jessica (not a hugger) shook hands with the young man who had caused so much rift in her firm's house. However, at the same time, she never could not acknowledge how talented he was despite not having a law degree.

"Let's go celebrate!" Donna volunteered very glad that both her boyfriend and her friend need not go to prison.

"We should at least go get a drink," Harvey suggested.

"Harvey, it's 11:00 am," Jessica said looking at her watch.

"Hey, it's time for celebration regardless of what time it is," Harvey retorted looking at Donna. She had given him a funny look where she was not quite sure where he had come from.

"Ok, but just this once," Jessica acquiesced.

In different vehicles all six friends rode to an exquisite upscale restaurant that had just opened for lunch. They took one of the tables out in the balcony. The outside air had been chilly and the sky full of clouds earlier; however, to accommodate the relieved and joyous mood of the PSL family the sky cleared to a beautiful blue and the sun shone brightly warming the surfaces and the people who sat at the table celebrating that their wish had come true.

"To Mike," they all raised their glasses and toasted happily.

"To the US Justice System," said Mike as he raised his glass.

After the toast individual conversations took place and Harvey tackled Mike about what he was planning next.

"You know now that the jury found you not guilty. You can go on practicing and no one can try you again for it," Harvey said.

"No, the resignation letter I gave you is firm. I need to stop whether I am a fraud or not. However, it may allow me the chance to go to law school and take the bar in my own name. Then I can live up to that Junior Partnership."

Harvey looked seriously at the young man. "You earned that position and there are so many associates not half as smart as you that practice law everyday. If I had it my way, I would gladly trade you for them."

"If you had it your way, you'd trade Louis for one of them," Mike laughed and then stopped as Louis stopped his animated conversation with Donna when he heard his name.

"There'd be a lot less violence in the office," Harvey said showing a boxer's stance.

Turning the conversation away again, Mike shied away from Harvey's look. "Thanks, Harvey. That means a lot to me."

Harvey and Mike discussed Mike and Rachel's wedding plans now that he was in the clear.

"I still don't want a big wedding. There are still people that Rachel's parents know that can surmise I never went to Harvard or any law school."

"So what are you going to do?" Harvey asked.

"I'm sure Rachel and I can dodge that bullet somehow."

All six people finished their celebratory lunch and returned to the office. The firm was very quiet and there were only a handful of people milling about. Jessica, Harvey, and Louis as name partners knew of a few partners who jumped ship. They did not want to be associated with the firm since Mike had been carried off to jail as a fraud.

Jessica walked directly to her office to contemplate the resignations she had received and calculate the amount of clients and income she would lose upon their departure. Regretfully but fairly, one of the by-laws that she had dictated to Louis when he wrote them was that any name partner found guilty of a crime enabled any senior partner to leave, waive his non-compete, and take his clients with him. None of them had been declared guilty of knowing that Mike was really a fraud and he was found innocent so it was possible that the resignations could be accepted but only at the cost of the partner's clients.

Louis arrived back and sat at his desk clearly resuming the day he started a few hours ago without threat of change.

Rachel and Mike were in his office dismantling it in the relief that Mike no longer had to pretend.

This left Donna and Harvey to their own devices. Harvey took Donna's hand as he led her into his office. He shut the door behind her. Today had been too real for him, for both of them.