Hi Folks! This ficlet for a Lazy Sunday Morning finds our loving dynamic duo part of a firm's trust bonding event. I hope you enjoy this small little update based on the pictures of cassie darveypainted. Please R&R. Thank you - Love, Carebearmaxi.

Love Binding

For once it was a delightful day in Seattle, the air was warm and the sun was shining high in the sky. Harvey and Donna Specter sat on a grassy hill in a park with about three or four other couples including their best buds Mike and Rachel Ross. The men sat with their wives in front of them. Donna leaned back into Harvey's solid body and played with a dandelion she picked from the ground. She held it up urging him to blow on it so the seeds would disseminate to other parts of the park.

Harvey blew on the dandelion threads and then sneezed.

"God bless you!" Donna said surprised. She screwed her head around to look at him.

"What? You look like you never heard me sneeze before," Harvey responded to his wife's incredulous look.

"I don't think I ever have heard you sneeze before," Donna said and turned around to face him. "In all these years that we've known each other, I don't think I ever heard so much as a cough let alone a sneeze!" She laughed at the thought much to her husband's dismay.

Smirking and grabbing her around the waist, he began to tickle her, "Oh, yeah! Well, I guess you weren't at the right place at the right time."

She squirmed trying to avoid his tickles but she was laughing so hard that the only defense she could muster was to try to crawl away from him.

Harvey laughed anyway as her giggling was so infectious. When she pulled away from him, he crawled after her and clasped her around waist and drew him back against his body and held her fast.

Suddenly a whistle blew and a loud male voice called. "Couples take your places for the first race!"

"Do we really have to do this bonding exercise?" Donna asked. "Can't we just ditch this and go play in the grass?"

He answered her in his deep voice and lidded eyes, "As a name partner of Ross, Zane, and Specter, I think it's required we be here."

"Correction. Harvey Specter is the name partner. Donna Paulsen Specter is just married to the name partner."

Harvey smirked at her. "Technicality."

After another minute of waiting for the Master of Ceremonies, Drew Carey, (borrowed and paid well from The Price is Right), to make the announcement for the Piggyback Race, Harvey then whispered in his wife's ear who again sat with her back to him.

"I could be here with another woman. Not my wife."

Donna knowing that Harvey was joking gave as good as she got.

"I've thought about that, too. You wouldn't," Donna said assuredly.

Harvey squeezed her. "Yeah, you're right. I wouldn't."

Soon, Drew Carey, took his spot appropriately dressed in dark blue jeans and a plaid flannel shirt for the fallish Sunday morning Mike and Rachel came to take seats next to their best buddies and awaited the instructions for this first Love Binding Games.

Team building, marriage enhancing, and other trust type of game/activities were never a favorite pastime for Harvey. Psychologically, he knew these types of energy building, trust enhancing activities were supposed to be beneficial enhancing work places through shared experiences. This particular day was built for married couples only. It was specifically made for married couples as a return to get back in touch with one another. The games would teach how to evaluate the couples marriage basics like trust, love, and honesty. Frankly, Harvey rather thought the whole thing was bullshit. If you needed to go back to basics with why you were in love with someone or why you married them then maybe you should not have been married to that person in the first place.

Donna, on the other hand, knew that Harvey was not crazy about these activities, but since it had been his fellow partner's (Rachel) decision to provide something to bind husband to wife or even partner/employee to leadership, she thought he ought to be a big man and not skip it. She took his hand and squeezed it to let him know how proud she felt to be his wife and a part of this whole day. As Rachel had confided to her everyone loved Harvey especially his clients whom he did his very best. This was really not news to Donna. She had always known that Harvey was a good man and did his best for everyone. He had just covered it for many years acting like an arrogant asshole.

After a few silly jokes, Drew Carey, got down the crux of the race.

"Ok. This first race is the Piggyback Race. Since we have so many couples participating this morning, we will run this like a relay. The first six couples...I'm looking for volunteers...will line up at this end of the grass." Drew stood where the first six couples were lining up. Harvey and Donna among them.

Harvey looked up and stood next to Drew Carey and whispered an aside to Donna. "How logical we stand under the 'START' banner."

Donna rolled her eyes and said, "Behave, Harvey. You need to set an example for your fellow employees."

"Of course, I will. Why else would I be here?"

Donna smiled and felt like it was her first wedding day all over again before she actually knew it was to be her wedding day as Harvey had said to her out of the side of his mouth.

"Don't get any ideas of us doing this any time soon."

Donna laughed and said, "Now's not the time, Harvey."

"Is there a better time?"

"...where the Start banner is located and carrying your partner, wife, husband, lover, whatever on your back and run with that person to this end of the ground." Drew then swiftly ran to the other side of the course where a banner marked 'FINISH LINE' hung across the width of the measured part of the land.

"To this part of the course where the one riding will jump off the back of their partner, touch the foot of the rider of the other couple. Then that couple with one partner being carried piggy back by the other one will ride to the end of the course and repeat the same exercise with whatever couple is left."

Drew walked back to the middle of the course and continued his instructions.

"Now, there are no set couples at either end. The object is to not have your rider fall off your back and then be sure to touch the foot of the other rider. When there are no other couples left and your partner has not fallen off your back or you've fallen then you win the prize."

"Which is what?" Someone shouted.

Drew pulled a white envelope out of his pocket. "It looks like it's a coupon for a weekend's excursion at one of the hottest places in Seattle. All expenses paid."

Many of the crowd applauded because the prize was a very good incentive for the participants.

None knew except Harvey, Donna, Mike and Rachel how much fighting and arguing went into choosing the prizes for this day. When their accounting firm and managing partner (Mike) declared that everything was good that's when the prizes were finally secretly purchased and kept sealed in the safe in the CFO's office.

"Ok, let's get started with the Piggyback Races. I need six couples here at the starting line and six more at the finish line. Line up!"

Harvey and Donna had already taken a place at the Start line. Donna who wore her long red tresses in a loose French braid jumped on Harvey's back. Donna's legs were very long but since Harvey was a tall man one could not tell just how tall she really was.

"I hope my back doesn't break," Harvey joked. In truth Donna had lost a lot of weight since her miscarriage which happened after they arrived home from Tuscany. He joked with her because he knew she did not like to dwell about losing the baby.

"Well, I am certainly not carrying your sorry ass, Specter," Donna joked back as she held onto his chest and neck.

Harvey smiled which Donna could not see. He thought: That's my girl.

While Harvey had his eye on Mike and Rachel at the other end prepared for the silly competition, Donna wisely spoke to him in his ear.

"You do realize that you can't win this race, right?"

Harvey half turned his head to look at his wife.

"Why?"

"Because you are a name partner and it looks like you're just rubbing it in. I realize you'll be going against your nature, but please don't be a showoff."

Harvey thought for a minute. Then he smirked as Drew seemed to drone on about the bond this type of activity can build. Harvey also looked around at some of the couples. He never really dove too deeply with some of the other lawyers in the firm. Many of them were much more new than he was. However, Rachel had recognized a need for their partners and employees to have this type of experience. Much like Harvey had always depended on Donna to steer him in the right direction, Mike depended on Rachel to be the pulse of the firm. Being a name partner but being the one with the most feeling for what was good for the firm from an emotional aspect.

"I know you're right, Donna. So how about before we get to one of the couples at that end, you just happen to fall off my back and then we can find someplace where we can just be us."

"I like the way you think. Deal," Donna agreed.

Finally, all twelve couples were lined up at the appropriate ends of the grassy course.

"Ok, PiggyBack riders mount your ride!" Drew Carey exclaimed.

Having fallen off to have a short conversation with her husband during the interval, Donna again jumped on Harvey's back and he held her legs under her thighs to get a good grip on her as her legs wrapped around his waist. She wrapped one arm around his shoulders and the other over his shoulder.

"Get ready to run...now!" Drew Carey commanded. Mr. Carey had placed a black and white striped referee shirt over his thin frame. He pulled the trigger of a firing gun as the signal for the couples to be off and racing.

Harvey started with Donna on his back. She bumped up and down with Harvey's marching steps. She almost fell off without provocation and before the appointed signal. She reinforced her hold by re gripping her position. She squeezed her thighs a bit harder then she crossed her ankles in front of him. He felt warm, moist, and solid under her loving arms and between her clasped thighs.

With only a few feet to go before they would reach Mike and Rachel, Harvey said 'Now!' aloud and promised to drop Donna and both fell to the ground giggling. Drew came over to them and made a remark. Harvey then grasped his wife's hand and they ran away down the hill from where the festivities were being played. Donna then tripped on a rock and fell down. Instead of wondering what was happening she pulled her husband down with her and they rolled on the ground in a sudden field of purple like daisies.

It had been a long roll to which both of them laughed and laughed. Eventually, they stopped at the bottom edge of the hill. Harvey rolled one more time to land on his wife. They were both sprinkled with tiny tree branches, grass, purple flowers as well any other thing which could be picked up from the parks ground.

Harvey rolled on top of Donna and pinned her to the ground with his body. He lowered his head and kissed her and when he raised his head after the long wet kiss he smiled at his wife. She smiled with all her heart and soul.

Donna looked up at him with all her heart and soul, however, his face looked like one big dark spot as it blocked out the sun. She wore her dark glasses which protected her eyes but made focusing a bit more challenging in the bright sunshine.

"Donna, what's going on? You're crying?"

She sniffed. "No, it's just the sunshine. It hurts my eyes and when my eyes hurt they water."

Not believing that bullshit for one second, he confided.

"I'm happy, too."