Synchronicity
Chapter Twenty-Nine
"Xavier knew about Mike." Rebecca told him.
"Shit." That wasn't what he thought she was going to say. He thought she was going to say Xavier had actually raped her. While he was glad that hadn't been the case, this was still not good news either.
He truly thought that they had all of their bases covered and that no one would find out about Mike. He couldn't believe that Xavier of all people found out about it. He dreaded what she would tell him but he had to know. "Can you tell me what really happened?"
"Ok." She nodded.
Rebecca was typing on her laptop to try and finish the brief she needed for the next day when she heard the door of her office click shut. She looked up, surprised that there was someone else still in the building. She saw it was Xavier and sighed. It was late and she just wanted to finish this brief and go home.
"You seem to be working hard." He smiled.
"I am kind of busy Xavier. Can whatever you need maybe wait until tomorrow?"
"It can't wait. The time is now." He came over to the side of her desk and sat down.
She realized he wasn't going away any time soon so she decided to play his little game. "Ok. I'll bite. What is now the time for?"
"You still care about Harvey, right?"
"Ok. I'm going to need you to leave if you're going to talk about Harvey." She told him. That was one subject she didn't want to discuss, especially with her boss. "You know that is one topic we aren't discussing."
"So I'm right. You do still care about him." He smirked. "That will make this even more fun when I destroy him."
"Destroy him?" She scoffed. "No offense, but he is Harvey Specter. Just how do you plan on doing that?"
"It's so easy." Xavier laughed. "He set himself up to be destroyed and I think you know exactly what I'm talking about."
"No, actually I don't know what you're talking about." She watched his face and wondered if he had somehow found out about Mike. That was the only thing she was aware of that would destroy Harvey. That was his Achilles' Heel.
"You see, I've never liked Harvey. He's a smug, arrogant bastard who never gets what's coming to him. After he punched me I started thinking about the best way to pay him back. Then it hit me. Pressing charges for assault won't do anything to him. He could easily get out of that. And he doesn't have any weaknesses, except the people he surrounds himself with. So I started digging. I checked into his associate, Mike Ross and I struck pure gold."
Xavier smiled. "You see, everything about Mike Ross looks perfect on paper. He has a clean record of law school and taking the bar. But it's too clean. There's no previous work history, no clerkships or recommendations from professors. So I dug in even further. It wasn't too hard to figure out that Mike Ross didn't graduate from law school and therefore isn't a real lawyer. That means Harvey is going to go to prison for fraud. He knowingly hired a fraud because there is no way he didn't know about this beforehand. But I'm fairly certain you already knew about it too. Didn't you, Rebecca?"
"I don't know what you're talking about. Mike Ross is an excellent lawyer and Harvey wouldn't have hired him if he wasn't a lawyer." She told him, trying to make sure her face didn't give it away. As long as Xavier didn't have proof, everything would be fine. She could tell Harvey about it and he could figure out a way to fix it. The only problem with that was he didn't want to hear from her again. So she would have to go through Donna.
Xavier took one look at her and then slapped her face hard. "Stop lying to me!"
"What the hell?" She yelled, cupping the side of her face that he hit.
"You knew about Mike Ross." He accused. "And since you still care about Harvey so much, you're going to help me get revenge on him."
"I'm not helping you get shit on Harvey." She told him, earning her another slap in the face. She pulled her hand back to punch him in the face but he grabbed her fist and held on to it tightly.
"Do you think my revenge is just threatening him about Mike Ross?" Xavier laughed. "Because that wouldn't be satisfying. I'm going to systematically break Harvey down until he feels so defeated that he decides to confess about everything he's ever done wrong in his entire life. His judgement day is coming and you will have a front row seat."
She was almost afraid to ask about his plan to destroy Harvey. This was a side of Xavier she had never seen before and was growing more afraid for her own safety.
He let go of her fist and started to pet the side of her face that he had slapped. "Mike Ross isn't the only one that Harvey cares about. He also cares about that secretary of his. I'm still working on finding the dirt on her that will put her in the ground, but I've got nothing but time. She is part of phase two, along with Jessica Pearson. You and Mike Ross are phase one."
"I shouldn't even be a part of this plan." She told him, pulling her face away from his grasp. "Harvey wants nothing to do with me. We broke up weeks ago."
He scoffed. "You just don't see it, do you? The man cares about you the most so you are part of phase one whether you like it or not. You're probably the most important part of phase one because it will go a long way to destroy him when he finds out that you and I are together."
It was her turn to scoff. "Well that will never happen so keep dreaming."
"Oh it isn't going to be a dream." He told her, touching her shoulder. "Because it will either happen or I'll just go to the DA right now. Harvey and Mike will be arrested by the end of the week. Then they will go to prison for fraud."
"You don't even have any proof that any of your claims are true." She was starting to get worried about what her next move could be to get out of this.
"I don't need proof." He boasted. "I have the truth. I just have to tell the authorities where to look and they will find the proof. There isn't anyone who can remember seeing him on the Harvard campus. He didn't have a Boston address during the time he was supposedly there. His work history consists of dead end jobs that he couldn't possibly have done while also attending Harvard. The list of inconsistencies in his story just go on and on."
She was quiet for a moment.
"So here's what's going to happen." He told her, putting his hand under her chin to make her look at him. "You're going to be at my beck and call. Anytime I call, you will bring that sexy body over and you'll let me do whatever I want to do to you. Anytime we are out in public, you will act like an adoring girlfriend. And lastly, we are going to 'accidentally' run into Harvey often so he can see just how happy we are together."
"You're dreaming if you think I'm ever going to agree to that." She scoffed. There was no way she would ever agree to sleeping with Xavier.
His eyes narrowed and she could tell he was getting angry. Perhaps that wasn't the best thing to say to him right now.
"You will do what I want." He commanded in a low tone. "Otherwise, your precious Harvey will go to jail and lose everything."
"I'm not going to agree to basically be your own personal sex slave just because you have a theory about something illegal you think Harvey was a part of." She defiantly told him.
"Ok." He chuckled. "I get it. You thought this was a request."
Without warning, he punched her in the eye. The force knocked her out of her chair. She instinctively curled up and kept her eyes on him.
"That wasn't a request. You will do what I want."
She scoffed as she got back up. It was a good thing that one Sunday four months ago Harvey took her to his gym and showed her how to box. It looked like it was going to come in handy tonight. "You're dreaming if you think violence is going to make me say yes to this."
"Very well then." He told her. "I didn't want it to resort to this but it's your choice. We could have done this the easy way. But the hard way works too."
"The rest of the story I gave the police was basically true. We did fight, he did try to rape me. But I lied about the details of the fight and the reasons behind it. I obviously couldn't tell them the whole story without implicating you or Mike or the others so I fudged some details, like when he punched me and stuff like that."
"Shit." He whispered.
"I thought that if the police believed it was a simple assault, they wouldn't look too deeply and wouldn't find out about Mike. But now I've given a false statement to the police and I…" She trailed off when she noticed that Harvey looked deep in thought. He had that look on his face he only had when he was trying to figure something out and she knew he wasn't paying attention to her anymore.
A few minutes later he looked at her and she realized she could talk to him again.
"For what it's worth, I don't think he had any real proof about Mike. I think it was just a theory he had. But I can't be sure about it."
"We need to make sure that he doesn't have any real proof and that he didn't keep a record of it." Harvey said, absentmindedly getting up and going into the living room.
She watched him leave and then got out of bed to follow. He was pacing around the living room and making her nervous. "What are you doing?"
"I'm formulating a plan to take care of this." He explained as he continued to pace. "We have to protect Mike."
"Yeah." She sighed. "Of course you have to protect him." Without saying another word she turned to go back to bed. She didn't know what she expected from Harvey when she told him the whole story about Xavier's attack. But it did anger her slightly that his priority now was just to protect Mike and he was ignoring her.
Never mind the fact that she had lied to the police with her statement. Never mind the fact that she had neutralized Xavier and prevented him from going through on his plan to destroy Harvey's life at a great cost to herself. Never mind the fact that she was dealing with the knowledge that she killed a man. Never mind the fact that she was freaking out and that her entire life was going to change now.
Of course his priority was Mike. She thought maybe Harvey still had feelings for her. But she could have been mistaken.
