Chapter 35
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Having only each left briefly to change their clothes and get freshened up both Katrina and Mike have spent all night in the conference room, going through everything trying to find a way to get what they need.
"Is this what I think it is?" Mike asks, breaking the silence that he and Katrina have been working in for hours, as he hands a file over to Katrina.
"If you're thinking that it's exactly what we need, then you're right." Katrina answers, once she reads what Mike handed over.
"Good I was worried that sleep deprivation was getting to me." Mike realises.
"It isn't." Katrina assures him, "Which means we've got to get on writing the motion." She realises.
"Tag team, work on it together." Mike suggests.
"It's the best way to get it done." Katrina says, moving over to the other side of the table so that she and Mike can write their motion together.
A little while after Mike and Katrina got started on their motion Harvey and Scottie are arriving back at Pearson Hardman.
"Looks like somebody had an effective trip." Donna comments as Harvey and Scottie walk towards her.
"Not exactly." Harvey comments.
"Though the plane ride was informative." Scottie reveals.
"I'll bet." Donna comments, knowing that Harvey told Scottie about him and Mike, though she doesn't know about Mike specifically, "Jessica wants to see you." Donna says as Harvey starts to walk into his office.
"I'll be right back." Harvey says.
"Actually, she wants to see both of you." Donna reveals.
"Jessica wants to see me too?" Scottie asks surprised.
"Not exactly." Donna says, "Your boss wants to see you." She reveals and Harvey and Scottie exchange looks and they both head towards Jessica's office.
"Okay, done." Katrina says, finishing the last of the motion she and Mike have been working on together.
"Great. Let's get it to Harvey." Mike comments.
"Lets?" Katrina asks surprised, "Don't you want to see your boyfriend alone." As she assumes so.
"We worked on it together, we should both give it to him." Mike informs his best friend.
"No, that's not it." Katrina says, looking her friend up and down, reading him, "You don't want to go to Harvey because Scottie will be there." She realises.
"I just don't think it is a good idea for the three of us to be in a room together, alone." Mike admits to his friend.
"Okay, you do know that Donna will be right outside the room." Katrina tells her friend with an amused look on her face.
"I do know, let's go." Mike tells his friend, "We've got to get the motion out of the printer."
"I can't believe you're going to make me babysit you, your boyfriend, and your boyfriends ex." Katrina says with an amused look before the two of them head out of the room.
Having both just left their meeting with Jessica and Scottie's boss Edward Darby, Harvey and Scottie are walking back to Harvey's office.
"He seems nice." Harvey comments.
"He was pissed." Scottie corrects.
"That was pissed?" Harvey asks surprised, "What does happy look like?" Harvey asks curious.
"He's British pretty much the same thing." Scottie says as the two of them walk into the office.
"Then how'd you know he was pissed?" Harvey asks, once more sounding curious.
"Wouldn't you be?" Scottie asks.
"I am." Harvey says as he walks over to his desk, "We haven't turned Cathleen Mitchell yet. Your good cop failed." Harvey reveals as he sits down.
"No, your moved failed." Scottie corrects, "Well, Jessica took it well." She comments.
"Because she had company." Harvey says, knowing that if Darby and Scottie weren't in the room then she would have been furious with him, "I'll hear about it later." He admits, knowing that for a fact, "Does he do that, just pop in for a spot of tea?" he asks curious.
"It's twelve million pounds." Scottie says as she leans against one of the chairs, taking a deep breath.
"You weren't expecting him." Harvey realises.
"No, I wasn't." Scottie admits, "But this is a big investment for him, Harvey." Scottie reveals.
"His investment is only money." Harvey says, "For me, it's whole firm." Harvey says, it being clear just how important it is to him.
"Um Harvey." A voice says and Harvey look so the door where Mike and Katrina are, it being Mike who spoke.
"We've got something." Katrina reveals.
"What is it?" Harvey and Scottie ask together, and as they do Harvey realises that Mike, Scottie and Katrina haven't meet.
"Scottie this is Mike Pearson-Ross and Katrina Bennett, our two best associates. Mike, Katrina, Dana Scott." Harvey introduces.
"Pearson, so you're Jessica's son." Scottie realises, looking at Mike.
"Yeah." Mike confirms.
"What happened to your arm?" Scottie asks curious, and as she does Harvey notices that Mike has his brace on.
"It's nothing, just an old injury." Mike explains, with a shrug, it being clear to Harvey and Katrina that he doesn't want to talk about it, something which surprises neither of them.
"What have you got?" Harvey asks curious, honestly wanting to avoid Mike and Scottie having too much time to talk.
"A way to get Folsom's personal emails." Mike explains as Katrina hands the motion over to Harvey.
"Good, now you have to find that smoking gun." Harvey tells them, once he reads it.
"Will do." Katrina answers and she and Mike head out of the room, Mike and Katrina exchanging looks as they go, Katrina noticing the look because she knows about them, while Scottie doesn't notice it.
After a little while Scottie has left Harvey's office, leaving Harvey alone.
"Donna." Harvey says, not long after Scottie leaves and his assistant/friend walks in, closing the door behind her, "Did you talk to Katrina about what I messaged you about?" he asks curious.
"Yes, I have." Donna confirms, "She agrees that you should do something, but we are both sure that finding time to do something might be difficult." Donna reveals.
"I take it you have an idea." Harvey comments.
"Yep." Donna nods, "And I think you're going to like it." She admits and she begins to explain her idea to Harvey, who agrees completely with liking the idea.
It has been a couple of hours since Harvey and Donna talked about her idea for Mike and Harvey's anniversary and since then Katrina and Mike have been working on finding the smoking gun.
As he knows that she will want to see him Harvey is waiting in Jessica's office to see her.
"So how's that detonation coming?" Jessica asks as she walks in.
"Long fuse." Harvey answers, being vague on purpose.
"Is that your way of telling me that it's never going off?" Jessica asks as she walks over to her desk and stands behind it.
"Well, if it doesn't, you could always have James Bond take care of it for you." Harvey comments, sounding annoyed.
"That reminds me. How are things going with Pussy Galore?" Jessica asks curious.
"I believe, at this point, she's still flying missions for Goldfinger." Mike comments from the doorway where he is with Katrina.
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." Katrina quotes.
"Beat me by two seconds." Mike tells his best friend, causing Harvey to give an amused laugh.
"What are you two doing here?" Jessica asks her son and his best friend.
"We can win Parkville." Mike says as he and Katrina hand over the papers they have.
"This is the key to everything." Harvey realises, looking between Mike and Katrina.
"Well, then we need to get Pussy Galore back on that plane." Jessica says, looking between Harvey, Mike and Katrina.
A few hours later Mike and Katrina are still working in the conference room as while they have the smoking gun they are continuing to look to make sure that there is nothing else that could end badly for them, plus they want to make sure they have everything they need, or could use.
"It's going to be another late night." Mike realises.
"Of course it is." Katrina tells him and as she does Mike's phone starts to ring.
"Hello." Mike answers.
"Get to my office." Harvey requests.
"Will do." Mike says before hanging up, "I've got to go see Harvey." He informs Katrina.
"Okay." Katrina responds and Mike gets up and heads out of the room.
Once Mike leaves the room Katrina waits a couple of minutes she follows as she and Donna have plans to listen to Harvey's and Mike's date via to the intercom, eat food, and make sure no one sees into, or enters Harvey's office.
Wondering what Harvey could want Mike heads straight to Harvey's office, giving Donna a smile as he walks past, but when he walks into Harvey's office Mike is surprised by the sight that greats him as Harvey's coffee table has been set for a dinner for two, complete with candles, actual plates and cutlery, a table cloth, food, and wine.
"What's all this?" Mike asks surprised, closing the door behind him.
"We've been, officially, together two months." Harvey says, standing up, as he was behind his desk, "To me that's a big deal." Harvey reveals, as he walks over to Mike, "And while we're both too busy to get away, I wanted us to do something to celebrate it." Harvey admits.
"Harvey, this is incredible." Mike says, walking the few steps that separate them, "I love you, so much."
"I love you too." Harvey says, pulling Mike into his arms and kissing him, feeling comfortable in doing so because Donna and Katrina won't let anyone see.
"I'm guessing Donna came up with the idea of what to do." Mike comments.
"Katrina too." Harvey reveals.
"Of course." Mike says, not overly surprised by that, "Thank you." Mike says, turning to look at the speaker phone.
"You're welcome." Donna and Katrina's voices both respond.
"They're going to listen to everything, aren't they?" Mike asks.
"Probably." Harvey says, "We should eat before things get cold." He says and he and Mike head over to the table and once they are there they both sit on the floor, leaning against the couch, "You look tired." Harvey informs his boyfriend.
"I haven't had much sleep in the past few days." Mike admits, being pretty sure that much sleep equals only a few hours in the past few days.
"Maybe you should get a couple of hours sleep." Harvey suggests.
"Can't, I've got too much work to do." Mike tells Harvey.
"You've found the smoking gun; you can take a couple of hours to get some sleep." Harvey tells his boyfriend, "Not to mention the fact that you're wearing your brace which means you've used your arm too much and you're in pain." Harvey points out, having learnt that in recent weeks.
"Only a little." Mike says, "I'm okay, Harvey. Really." Mike says, reaching out and taking his boyfriends hand, giving it a squeeze.
"You better stay that way." Harvey tells his boyfriend and the two of them exchange smiles as they eat, Donna and Katrina exchanging amused looks as they outside Harvey's office, both watching for signs someone approaching Harvey's office so they can stop them.
Due in part to keep Harvey from worrying Mike did end up spending a couple of hours sleeping on Harvey's couch once they finished eating before he and Katrina got back to work, and the two of them spend the rest of the night working, only stopping for an hour so that they could both go to their respective homes where they showered and changed.
It has been a couple of hours since they did that and Harvey, Mike, and Jessica are all standing by the elevators waiting for Hardman and Folsom.
"Well, if it isn't the three stooges." Hardman comments as he sees Harvey, Mike and Jessica.
"Oh, dibs on Curly." Harvey requests.
"Would you gentlemen mind accompanying us to the conference room?" Jessica asks, turning to look at the conference room where Scottie, Katrina and Ms. Mitchell are.
"What is she doing here?" Hardman asks.
"Dana Scott? She's the attorney of record on the case." Harvey comments.
"Or maybe you're talking about Katrina Bennett, she's one of our associates." Jessica says.
"He's referring to my employee." Folsom says.
"Oh, well, at the moment, she's reading this." Jessica says as Mike hands over a file.
"An email you wrote from your personal account on the subject of hiring Ms. Mitchell." Mike says.
"And next, we'll show her the attachment." Jessica says, "It wasn't on your copy. Oddly enough, it wasn't on ours either." She says.
"Mike and Katrina managed to find it." Harvey reveals.
"We'll need time to review this." Hardman says.
"Review it? He wrote it." Harvey points out, "You knew she couldn't have children. That's why you changed your review, and that's why you promoted her."
"And when she sees it, she'll join the suit, and you won't stand a chance." Jessica informs Hardman.
"That email doesn't prove a pattern." Hardman argues.
"It proves what he did to her." Harvey says.
"It's one case. We'll see you at the next forty-four." Hardman says, "In the meantime, we won't be participating in that deposition until you put Ms. Mitchell back on a plane." He says as and he and Folsom turn back around, as they do Hardman sees his name gone, and turns back to Jessica, Mike and Harvey, and Jessica just smirks back, and Hardman and Folsom both step back onto the elevator.
"One down." Harvey comments once the elevator doors close.
"Many more to go." Jessica says, knowing that they have taken a good first step, but things are going to get a lot more complicated.
"Then I guess Katrina and I better get back to work." Mike comments, starting to walk away.
"Mike." Jessica says, stopping her son, "You and Katrina have barley left the firm in the past few days, take an early night tonight." Jessica tells her son.
"Will do, Mom." Mike says before walking away.
Hours later Mike and Katrina are sitting in Katrina's office, Katrina sitting in her chair with her feet up on the desk while Mike is sitting on the shelf behind Katrina's desk.
"So, your Mom told us to take an early day." Katrina tells her friend.
"Yeah." Mike confirms, "I really could use a drink right now." He admits, completely meaning that.
"Well, it's a good thing we're in my office." Katrina says, opening her bottom draw and pulling out a bottle.
"Since when do you keep Tequila in your desk?" Mike asks surprised, "And why haven't we been drinking it for the past few days?" he asks.
"We needed to focus and tequila and focusing don't exactly mix." Katrina explains, "And I've had it for a few weeks." She says, "No glasses though." She admits.
"Not a problem." Mike says reaching over and taking the bottle.
"How you doing Mike?" Katrina asks her best friend as he opens the bottle and takes a drink.
"I'm…. Okay, and I'm not lying this time." Mike admits.
"That's great." Katrina says as she takes the bottle back, completely meaning that.
"Yeah." Mike confirms with a nod, "I mean I still wish that Scottie wasn't here, and…. It doesn't matter." Mike says, trailing off as he knows what that will lead to.
"You still think that you're not good enough and that Harvey will see that, even though me, Donna and Harvey himself have all told you otherwise." Katrina tells her friend.
"I can't help it." Mike admits, "After….." Mike starts to say then trails off.
"I know." Katrina tells her friend, not needing him to continue, "Trevor hurt you Mike, in so many ways, and I know the effects he's still having on you." Katrina says, Mike having tensed when she said Trevor's name, "You deserve to be loved Mike, you are good enough, and it's okay to be happy, to move on and move past what he did to you." She says and not trusting his voice Mike just nods and takes another drink.
A little while after Mike and Katrina drunk in their office Harvey is walking up to a table where Scottie is sitting as he just walked past Jessica's office and saw a sight he wasn't expecting, though he knew exactly what it meant, and he would like Scottie to confirm.
"This is a surprise." Scottie says as Harvey walks up to her, "I wasn't expecting your call."
"No more bullshit." Harvey says, sitting down across from Scottie.
"What?" Scottie asks confused.
"I just left Jessica and your boss, and I know what I saw." Harvey says, "They're in bed together, and I don't mean having sex. They're talking merger." Harvey says to his oldest friend.
"It's not what it looks." Scottie lies.
"Hardman can check a plane, and I can check a plane." Harvey reveals, "Edward Darby flew here the day you did. He didn't just pop in." Harvey says, and right away Scottie knows that there is no point lying further.
"He wasn't supposed to do that." Scottie admits.
"You don't want your name on the door. You want your name on my door." Harvey realises, sounding angry about that.
"I want to see our names on the same door." Scottie corrects.
"Yeah, like I said, it's never the full story with you." Harvey says, annoyed.
"I wanted to be able to tell you myself." Scottie explains.
"Then why didn't you tell me?" Harvey asks curious.
"Because he wouldn't let me until he decided."
"Well, evidently, he decided without you." Harvey says, sounding annoyed.
"Okay, okay. He jumped the gun, but I have his promise, Harvey. If we merge, he names me as partner and Jessica's only choice is you." Scottie says.
"I don't need you to get my name on the door any more than I need you to win this case." Harvey informs Scottie, completely meaning that.
"You know what, Harvey? You have been outgunned ever since Hardman left. I am bringing the guns. This is exactly what you've always wanted. Get over your pride." Scottie informs Harvey, trying to get him to see that this is a good idea.
"I'm not getting over anything." Harvey says angrily, "And this merger isn't happening." Harvey says before leaving, knowing that there is only one place that he wants to go right now.
Just returning home, after an appointment with Doctor Jenkins, Mike drops his bag and on one of his chairs, removes his jacket and takes off his tie, once he does that Mike heads over to his kitchen where he grabs a beer. As he does Mike hears a knock on his door and so he heads over and answers it.
"Hey." Mike says, opening the door and grating Harvey who is on the other side.
"Hey." Harvey responds as Mike lets his boyfriend into his apartment and Harvey greats him with a kiss.
"What's wrong?" Mike asks curious as they break apart, being able to tell that something is as he closes the door behind him and Harvey.
"You know how you said your Mom wouldn't merge with Zane?" Harvey asks.
"Yeah." Mike confirms as they head over to the couch.
"Well, she's merging with Darby." Harvey reveals as they sit down.
"What?" Mike says sounding completely shocked, "How do you know?" he asks.
"I saw her and Darby together, and Scottie confirmed." Harvey explains, "But I just don't understand why."
"Give me a second." Mike requests and he starts to run over everything he knows about her mother and the way she thinks, "It's business, which means she's playing chess, and thinks it's what makes the most sense, that it's what will keep her firm alive."
"But it won't." Harvey argues, "If she merges with Darby she'll be number two. We'll be swallowed up." He comments with a frown, "How can she not see that?"
"She probably doesn't want to." Mike admits, "My bet, she's looking at this from a pure business angle and doesn't see the emotional, or the personal."
"Of course." Harvey says with a sign, as that makes a lot of sense.
"You're going to try and stop it, aren't you?" Mike asks, as judging by the reaction he assumes that.
"Yeah, I am." Harvey confirms, "Which is why it might not be best to tell her about us right now, because she likely won't listen to me if we do."
"You're right, we'll hold off until after this merge is either stopped or goes through, but we can't keep coming up with excuses not to tell her." Mike tells Harvey, completely meaning that.
"We won't, I promise." Harvey says as he leans back on the couch, "I know this puts you in an awkward position, but will you help me?" Harvey asks, wondering if he's asking too much.
"Yes, you know I have your back." Mike tells Harvey, "But, I won't be used against Mom, or let her use me against you, I won't be put in the middle." Mike reveals, completely meaning that.
"Fair enough." Harvey agrees as Mike leans back on the couch too, as he does Harvey puts his arm around his boyfriend and the two of them drift into silence, neither knowing what the coming days are going to bring, but both hoping that they get through them.
It has been five days since Harvey found out Jessica is in talks to merge the firm with Edward Darby's firm, Darby International, and ever since he has been starting to think of ways to prevent it from happening.
As Jessica and Darby has put together a part Harvey has decided that now is the perfect time to make it clear that he isn't going to just agree to the merger, and so, making his way through the crowed in his tux Harvey heads straight to Jessica who is near the bar.
"Champagne?" Jessica asks curious, offering Harvey a glass.
"Depends." Harvey responds.
"Oh what?" Jessica asks curious.
"On whether or not there's a roofie in there." Harvey says as he takes the glass.
"I wouldn't need a roofie." Jessica jokes and before Harvey can even comprehend the wrongness of that considering his relationship with Jessica's son Edward Darby walks up.
"Jessica, uh, might I have a private word?" Darby asks curious.
"Actually, Harvey and I were…." Jessica starts to say.
"Don't mind me. My date just got here." Harvey says as he spots Mike, doing so because he knows that there is no way that Jessica would believe he is being serious, and judging by the look on her face as she turns to look at who he was talking about, he was right, "Edward." He greats.
"Harvey."
"Hell of a party." Harvey says as he walks away.
Across the room, Mike is just arriving and as he does he walks straight up to Katrina.
"Hey." Mike greats.
"Hey." Katrina responds and she great she friends with a hug.
"You look incredible." Mike tells his best friend as he hugs her.
"You don't look so bad yourself." Katrina says as they break apart, "I forget that you clean up nice." She comments with a teasing tone.
"Thanks." Mike says, with a pretend annoyed look.
"Harvey." Katrina says, greeting him as he just walked up.
"Katrina."
"You look nice." Katrina tells him, meaning that.
"Thank you. So do I." Harvey says with a smirk, causing Mike to fondly rolls his eyes.
"Okay, I'm going to go find Donna. Have fun you two." Katrina says, before walking away.
"Do you ever think about the hell those two could raise together if they wanted to?" Mike asks Harvey curious as Katrina walks away.
"I actively try not to." Harvey admits, "Did you bring it?" he asks.
"Right here." Mike says, tapping his jacket pocket, "You sure you want to do this to her?" Mike asks curious, wanting to be sure that Harvey is sure.
"I thought you were meant to be on my side." Harvey comments.
"I am, but that doesn't change the fact that she's my Mom, and I want to make sure you're sure before you do this to her." Mike explains, honestly having a bad feeling about this whole thing.
"I am sure." Harvey assures Mike, completely meaning it.
"Then I'm not going to give you a hard time." Mike reveals, "I'm going to give you this, and this, and this." Mike says handing Harvey over three lawsuits, "Now, if you excuse me…" Mike says to his boyfriend.
"Where are you going?" Harvey asks curious as Mike starts to walk away.
"I'm going to go get a drink, while this is still a party." Mike says, walking away and trying not to think about how much he is realising that he hates being in such a crowd.
After watching Mike walk away Harvey goes and gets his own drink before tracking down Darby who he finds alone at a table.
"Ah, Harvey. I was hoping we might have a moment alone." Darby says as Harvey walks up to him.
"So was I." Harvey admits.
"I wanted to run something by you." Harvey says, handing Darby the lawsuits.
"This is a lawsuit." Darby realises.
"Three law suits." Harvey corrects.
"What have I gotten up to now?" Darby asks curious as he starts to read the papers.
"Not you, your clients." Harvey reveals, "Looks like one of their hobbies is fixing prices." He explains.
"I take it this means you've discovered we're in merger talks?" Darby asks.
"And what are you going to do about it?" Harvey asks.
"What would you have me do?"
"I'd have you kiss my ass." Harvey says.
"Tempting." Darby comments. "However, what I can do is enjoy this glass of wine, finish this lovely party, and proceed to make you permanently regret the hostile action you've just set in motion." Darby reveals.
"What, are you going to kill me?" Harvey asks curious.
"Nonsense. I'll simply do what I've done to so many before. I'll defeat you in open court." Darby reveals, completely meaning that.
"The way I work, it's never going to get to open court. You'll be on your steamer back to London, wondering what happened, and you'll know that you picked a fight with the wrong guy." Harvey says, being just as serious as Darby.
"Are you suggesting a wager?" Darby asks curious.
"I'm not a gambler, but in this case, I'll make an exception. You lose, we don't merge." Harvey says.
"I've heard your terms. You win, I go. Care to hear mine?" Darby asks curious.
"Don't need to 'cause you're never going to win." Harvey says and he and Darby shake.
"Well, it looks like you two are getting along." Jessica says, walking up having no idea what she just walked up to, though she becomes very well aware a few minutes later when her and Harvey have conversation outside.
Not even an hour after he handed the lawsuits to Harvey Mike is standing with Katrina and Donna, all three of them having drinks, and while Donna and Katrina are talking about something that Mike isn't really listening too Mike is looking for signs of either his mother or Harvey so he can find out how things went.
When Mike finally spots Harvey, who's only just returned inside after his conversation with Jessica, he fees relief, but as he knows Harvey so well he can tell that things didn't go overly well.
"Bad?" Mike asks concerned as Harvey walks up, causing Donna and Katrina to stop their conversation and look at him.
"Bad." Harvey confirms as he wasn't expecting Jessica's terms, "You want to get out of here?" he asks curious.
"Gladly." Mike says, putting down his glass, "See you guys tomorrow." He tells Donna and Katrina.
"Ladies." Harvey greats and he and Mike walk away.
"They really don't get this whole secret relationship thing, do they?" Donna says to Katrina in an amused whisper.
"They really don't." Katrina confirms, honestly surprised that no one has realised what is going on between them.
"Your place or mine?" Mike asks in a whisper as they walk through the crowed.
"Yours, definitely yours." Harvey responds, doing so because he knows that there is less chance of Jessica checking there while being glad that if anyone sees them leaving they'll just assume that they have work to do.
"Okay."
"Katrina, good there you are." Jessica says, walking up to her and Donna about twenty minutes after Mike and Harvey left, "Donna." She greats.
"Jessica." Donna responds, with a smile.
"You were looking for me?" Katrina asks surprised, though she can guess why.
"Mike actually, I assumed you would know where he is." Jessica explains, "They're people I would like him to meet." Jessica reveals, top of that list being Edward Darby, but there are some other people that she would like to introduce her son to.
"Oh, um, he's left." Katrina reveals.
"Is he okay?" Jessica asks concerned.
"He's fine." Katrina assures her, "He just wasn't doing well around so many people in a small space." She explains, completely lying but she knows that it will be believable.
"Oh." Jessica says, looking disappointed though she is worried about her son too, "Are you sure he was okay?"
"Positive, we walked him out to a cab ourselves." Donna lies, being pretty sure that helping Katrina is a good idea as it helps Mike and Harvey.
"Okay." Jessica tells them, "Enjoy the party." She says before walking away, as she does Katrina and Donna exchange looks, both thinking the exact same thing, 'Harvey and Mike owe them.'
At Mike's apartment Harvey and Mike are just arriving back and as they walk inside Mike hears his phone go off, as he reads the message he can't help but give an amused snort.
"What?" Harvey asks curious.
"Apparently we owe Katrina and Donna big time." Mike reveals.
"Why?" Harvey asks curious.
"Mom was looking for me, to introduced me to people, they covered and said that I went home because I wasn't doing so well around so many people; apparently Mom believed them." Mike explains.
"Okay, I need to give both of them a raise." Harvey comments.
"Can you even give Katrina a raise?" Mike asks curious.
"I'll find a way." Harvey says, kissing his boyfriend and starting a make out session.
Hours later Mike and Harvey are both in bed together, their make out session having gone no further than it has before because Mike's clearly still not ready. While Mike is fast asleep Harvey isn't, he is just holding Mike in his arms and thinking about everything that is going to happen. With how angry Jessica was Harvey knows that he will do everything he can to protect Mike from the fallout, but he doesn't know if he will be able to protect him from pain, but he also knows he has to do this, he has to try and stop the merger, he just hopes that both Pearson's don't hate him once he does.