Synchronicity

Chapter Thirty-Six

Rebecca walked towards Harvey's office. For the past couple of days they had been working together on her defense and it had been nice. While it was slightly awkward to be working so closely with him after sleeping with him, he was being a gentleman about it. Though she would occasionally catch him just staring at her.

She smiled at Donna as she stopped at the desk. "Hey."

"Hey." Donna greeted back.

She looked and saw Harvey's office was empty. "Where is he?"

"He said he had something to do and would be back in fifteen." Donna explained with a shrug.

"Ok." She couldn't get mad at him for having something to do. After all, she couldn't expect him to work on her defense every waking hour of the day.

"So, is today the day you pull your head from your ass and get back together with Harvey?" Donna asked.

It was now time for Donna to do her daily questioning. This was something she had gotten use to because every day Donna ended up asking her about why she wasn't back together with Harvey.

The simple answer was because she had enough on her plate dealing with the murder charges and her upcoming trial.

The more complex answer was that she didn't know what she wanted. If she took the murder trial out of the equation and just looked at her choices, there were two. One choice was she could leave New York and go to London. She could start a new life in a new continent and she could finally try to detox from Harvey once and for all.

The other choice was she to stay in New York and try a relationship with Harvey again. He had been making an effort with her lately. That was clear to her. Ever since he admitted he cared about her, he had been treating her like he used to before they broke up. She recognized that he was trying.

But was it enough?

And what would happen if they got back together and then faced another obstacle? Would he lash out and run away again? This break up almost destroyed her. It was hard for her to pick herself up and move on.

She did of course, because that's what she always does. She pushes forward and moves on. It's something she has done countless times before, most recently after Xavier's attack. But she didn't want to have to keep doing it. She wanted to be happy and she wasn't convinced they could be happy long term.

"Are you still listening?" Donna asked, drawing her attention back.

"Sorry." She apologized. "I was just thinking."

"So you never answered me. Are you going to get back together with Harvey?"

"I refuse to answer that on the grounds that I don't want to." She smirked, using a quote that she had heard Harvey use several times.

Donna chuckled. "Fair enough I guess."

"I'm going to go wait in his office." She smiled at her friend.

Harvey's office was a place she didn't visit much when they were dating. She had been there maybe six or seven times during their entire relationship. Most of those times were because of work and she was never there for very long. In the past week she had been coming every day and staying almost all day long as they poured over everything Cameron Dennis had sent over, looking for any inconsistency and logging all of the lies so those could be combatted during the trial.

She went over to the window, looking at the basketballs he had on display. She was looking over each of them when she heard a voice from behind her.

"Are you admiring my balls?"

She didn't turn around and didn't miss a beat. "Well they are pretty big."

He laughed and appeared next to her. "I got you a coffee."

She took the coffee he held out to her. "Thank you." She smiled after taking a sip and realizing that he had gotten her favorite. "Was that the thing you needed to do?"

"Yeah." He admitted, taking a drink of his own coffee and walking back to his desk. "I thought we could use some caffeine to get through the rest of this."

She watched him fire up his laptop. The fact that he made a special trip to get coffee because he wanted to make her happy made her want to go over and give him a kiss. But she stopped herself. They had agreed to hit pause and she didn't want to be the one to go against that. So she walked over and sat across from him. "Where did we leave off last night?"

Later on in the day, Mike came in as they were finishing up on the emails.

"We've hit a dead end with Allister's finances." Mike sighed. "I still can't find anything that would suggest he paid someone off."

"He has to have though." Rebecca argued.

Harvey thought about it for a moment. "If he didn't pay someone off himself, check his companies. Have Vanessa help if you run into any problems."

"On it." Mike said, leaving the office.

He looked over at Rebecca and smiled, only to see that there wasn't a smile on her face. "What?"

"Time's running out." She reminded him. "We still can't prove the emails are fake, we haven't figured out who the witness is, and we don't have a solid defense."

"I know." He got up from his chair and walked around his desk. He leaned against the desk next to her chair. "But it's going to be ok."

"Sure it is." She chuckled.

"Come with me." He motioned for her to follow him as he left the office. They walked together silently to Louis' office. "Louis, do you have a moment?"

"Of course." Louis replied, looking up from his computer. "Hey Rebecca."

"Hi Louis." She greeted back.

"What do you need?"

"I need your help." Harvey admitted. "We need to prep Rebecca for her testimony..."

"And you're thinking mock trial." Louis interrupted.

"Yeah." Harvey nodded. "That's exactly what I'm thinking." He turned to Rebecca to get her opinion. "What do you think?"

"I think it's a good idea." She nodded.

"Great." Louis exclaimed. "So do you want me to be you, Harvey?"

Harvey scoffed. "Louis, I can't think of a single scenario where I would ever want you to be me. I need you to be Cameron Dennis."

"Oh…" Louis shook his head. "I don't know. I'm not sure I want to be him."

"And why the hell not?" Harvey sighed.

"I don't want to have to ask some of those questions." He explained.

"But someone has to." Rebecca spoke up. "Please Louis?"

"You're going to hate me." Louis scoffed.

"No I won't." She assured him. "I'm a grown woman and I can separate real from fake."

"Ok." Louis sighed. "I'll do it."

"Thank you." Harvey told him as they left his office.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" She asked as they made their way back to his office.

"I think so." He looked over at her. "You don't?"

"I don't know anymore." She sighed.

He reached over and grabbed her hand, giving it a light squeeze. "I made you a promise and I am not going to break it."

"I know." She nodded.