It's already late and Donna's still working at their office. With the isolation, they set up a shared office in their apartment. Anyhow, each one has their own desk and while they work, they don't look at each other so they don't get distracted all the time. Donna works looking at his back. (which distracts her anyway)
Harvey finished his work several hours ago.
He walks into the office and walks behind Donna, putting his hands on her shoulders and massaging there.
"It's late, Donna."
"I know." She sighs.
"Can't you end up for today?"
"I still have things to do."
"Are they urgent?"
"Not really."
"And don't you think you can do them tomorrow?" He asks her softly.
"Tomorrow I'll have new assignments, Harvey." She complains.
Harvey turns and leans on her desk, looking at her.
"It's late, Donna and you worked all day."
"Eat dinner if you want... I want to finish this."
"I thought we were going to have dinner together today."
Donna closes her eyes tightly and curses herself.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She says guilt. "I don't know what day I'm living on." She says in anguish.
Harvey takes her hand and kisses her on the knuckles.
"No one knows very well." He shrugs. "But, we haven't eaten together for several days, we practically see each other only in bed... And I just miss my wife." He says softly.
Donna smiles and scratches her forehead, nervous. "It's just..." She sighs."I feel like I can't do half of what I could do in a day at the office, I never finish anything... I'm tired all the time, I'm not handling this very well."
"Come here..." He says holding her hands. Donna stands up and Harvey hugs her against his body, she sighs by relaxing in his arms and hugs him too. "We're not running any races, we're just trying to pass a freaking pandemic as best we can."
"I know..." She inhales deeply, to flood with his smell. "I'm sorry... I know it's ironic that we're locked up all day and I don't have time..."
Harvey kisses her cheek and separates a little from her, to look at her. "It's okay for something to get over you. This affects us all."
"You handle it better than I do."
"Mhm... Now, maybe. Not a few weeks ago."
"Maybe..."
"You need to stop for a while... What do you want to eat? Or do?"
"I'm not very hungry."
"You have to eat something."
"I know..."
"We cook?"
"Um? Harvey..."
"At least to relax us a little."
"You say?"
"Yes... We need to laugh a little."
"Do you think I'm funny in the kitchen?"
"Um… Maybe."
She rolls her eyes. "Ok... I have to finish writing this email and I'm done for today."
"Just this?"
"Yes, just this. I'll do the rest tomorrow."
"Ok..." Harvey sits in her chair and makes her sit on his legs. "Finish it..."
She giggles. "With you here?"
"Yes..." He hugs her from behind.
"I need to go closer, Harvey."
"Ok... Hold on to me." He tells her, Donna giggles but grabs by his shoulders and turns her body towards him, lifting her feet. Harvey moves them and the chair with his feet, Donna thinks that is to get close to the desk, but he actually walks away and Harvey starts making them turn over the chair.
"Harvey!" She says laughing and holding on to him.
"Yes?" He asks, still moving.
"What are you doing?"
"Making you laugh." He stops and takes her by her jaw as she smiles at him. "What?" He asks, moving his thumb on her skin.
"Nothing…" She kisses him. "Thank you." She says on his lips and presses her lips with his again. "You always do some stupid thing that makes me laugh, and I love that about you." She says, resting her forehead on his forehead.
"You're always there for me when I need a push, too." He says, stroking their noses. "We're a team. Right?"
She smiles. "We are." And she rests on his body, he hugs her as she sighs. "I need to finish this."
"It's okay…" He kisses her forehead and Donna sits upright, Harvey moves his feet to the desk. "Is it something I can't read?"
"Uhu… Yes. I'm talking very bad about one of our bosses." She giggles, and feels him smiling on her back. He starts to give sweet kisses on her neck and she can't write. "Harvey…"
"Mhm?" He asks with his lips on her skin.
"I like it, but I need to finish this."
"Do it… I'm just checking if you can work with some distractions."
She chuckles. "Idiot!" She feels his hands on her hips, squeezing her. "Harvey, do you want to have a date?"
"Yes… It's already started." He says, stroking his nose on her neck.
Donna smiles and closes her eyes. "Give me 5 minutes, please."
He snorts. "Ok." He stops with the kisses, but he starts to caress her back. "It's okay like this?"
She smirks. "Yes…"
Donna finishes writing the email while Harvey's fingers play on her back and she closes her laptop.
"So… What do we do now?"
"Mhm… Burgers?"
"Burgers and fries?"
"Yes, Burgers, fries, and a movie."
"Ok… I like this. Except for the part about cooking."
"We can do it." He giggles.
"Do you think?" She frowns.
He takes her hand. "At least… I can. You can watch."
She rolls her eyes. "Ok, very funny."
Harvey puts his hands on her causing her to get up and he stands up too.
Harvey makes them walk into the kitchen and he opens the fridge, looking for the burgers. Donna looks for a roaster in the oven and some potatoes.
"The great thing about disinfecting fruits and vegetables when they arrive is that you don't have to do it now." She says.
"Point for the pandemic?"
"Never!"
"Ok… I get it."
Donna looks for the potato peeler and wants to start peeling the potatoes.
"Have you ever done this? I'm worried about your fingers."
"I can do it." She snorts.
"Ok… I will be right there in case you need my help." He giggles, but when Donna looks at him, he stops. "Ok, I'm sorry. Do your thing, I'll put the oil in the fire."
"Yes, better."
Each of them is focused on their own stuff until Harvey hears a cry from Donna.
"Are you fine?" He asks her worried. "Did you hurt yourself?"
Donna's trying to hold out for laughter, but she can't.
"I just wanted to laugh." She tells him laughing.
"Who's the idiot now?"
"It's always you." She kisses him. "Can you hand me a knife to cut them?"
"Will you let me do it? Don't be angry, but I do it better and I make them crisp, as you like."
She rolls her eyes. "Ok... I'll put the burgers to cook while."
"Don't burn them!"
"Can you stop?" She laughs and hits him with the kitchen towel.
"To make you laugh? Never." He kisses her.
They finish making dinner, they look for a soda, and sit on the couch. They decide to watch Pulp Fiction for the umpteenth time. Both are tired and prefer to watch a movie that doesn't require all their attention.
They prepare their burgers and put the fries in a shared boat.
But after a while, Harvey notices Donna doesn't eat too much. She barely eats her burger to which she only added some lettuce and eats a few fries. She always gets angry because he eats too fast and doesn't eat as many fries as she wants, but this time it doesn't happen.
She ends up and lies on the couch, her feet on Harvey's legs, and looks towards the TV. She doesn't pay attention, though. He quickly finishes his burger and sets things aside.
"Why are you so far away?" He asks, stroking her leg.
"I'm tired."
"It's bad for you to lie down when you just ate..." He reminds her.
"I know."
"Come here." He says offering her his hand.
Donna takes his hand and sits next to him, but still distant from him.
"Are you angry?" He asks her softly.
She denies with her head and snuggles up in him, saying nothing. Harvey notices that she has her body cold, so he covers her with the blanket they usually have on the couch and then surrounds her with his arms. His fingers move mildly on her back and Donna closes her eyes, trying to find calm in him. She feels his kiss on her forehead and her body loosens even looser.
In the background, she listens to the film, but she doesn't quite know what scene it's in, although it's the movie they watch most times together.
Being like this with him is relaxing her, but only in her body. Her mind keeps making an endless list of everything she has to work on. Everything she could have done today and didn't do. Everything she could do if their life was the way they used to. Everything she'd be enjoying if a virus wasn't scouring their lives every day.
She's trying to relax, but she can't make it.
She realizes she's crying when she feels some warm tears fall down her cheeks. It's quiet, so Harvey doesn't notice.
Better, she thinks.
But, she can't keep it much longer. Harvey knows her.
"Hey..." He whispers, gently scratching her scalp. "What's going on?"
"I don't know, Harvey. I feel overwhelmed." She sighs.
"It's okay if you need to cry." He tells her, hugging her tighter.
"Can I stay here?"
"What's that question? Of course, Donna."
"Thank you."
Harvey sweetly kisses her forehead and holds her in his arms without saying anything else. He doesn't think she wants to talk at the time, and he's right.
She can't even explain it.
Donna closes her eyes and concentrates on breathing, feeling his smell, the background sound, and her husband's body protecting her. That relaxes her. And it works, but only for a few minutes.
She can't stop her tears from turning into a deeper cry and Harvey starts to worry.
"Donna..." He whispers, holding her in his arms. "Do you want to talk?"
"I don't know." She moves away from him and sits on the couch, with her elbows on her knees and her face on her hands. She gets some air, but she drowns with her crying and starts coughing, feeling her body shaking.
Harvey kneels in front of her and puts his hands on her thighs, making circles with his thumbs there.
"Breathe..." He says softly. "Can you?"
"I think..." She gets some air.
"Get your hands off your face." He says, holding her wrists in his hands. "Don't you think that's how you breathe better?" She laughs against her will.
Harvey sits next to her and rubs his hand between her shoulder blades, giving her time to breathe and stop crying, or unless until she doesn't cry that way.
"Do you want some water?" She nods. "Okay, I'll get you." Harvey gets up, kisses her on the forehead, and goes to get a glass of water.
Donna climbs her legs to the couch and hugs them, takes a deep breath, and closes her eyes. She has a hard time not understanding her own emotions, she, who always decodes others' emotions. Ironic, she thinks.
"Here..." Harvey says, offering her the glass
"Thank you." She grabs the glass and drinks a few sips of water.
Harvey sits next to her again. She leaves the glass aside and rests her head on his shoulder. He passes his arm through her body, hugging her.
"I never thought I'd cry for stress." She says giggling a little at herself. "I don't know what's wrong with me... I feel absolutely overwhelmed with everything, Harvey."
He caresses her arm with his hand and rests his head on hers. "You have emotions, that's what happens, Donna."
"Ugh, I do have them... out of control."
"And wouldn't you like to try to get them in order?"
"Not so easy..."
"I know, but no one rushes you."
"I feel like we're running a race against something we can't beat, and at the same time we're always stuck in the same place."
Harvey sighs and kisses her on the head. "You're right." He responds honestly. "But, we can't solve everyone's problems, or end this shit on our own."
"I know, Harvey."
"I swear if I could, I already would have done it. At least to make you happy for a little while."
She giggles and raises her head to look at him. "You're an idiot, but you're so cute." She says with her eyes wet.
"Finally... Idiot comes with a compliment." She giggles again and puts her head on his shoulder, silent again, though the film still rather. "Do you want to go to bed?" He asks her and she shrugs. "It's not like we don't know how this movie ends."
"Okay.." She gets up. "I'm going to the bathroom."
Harvey nods and sees her walk heavily. He quickly lifts things out of food, leaves them in the kitchen, and turns off the TV. Then he closes the windows, turns off the lights, and goes to their room. He changes his clothes to sleep and waits for Donna to come out of the bathroom.
They usually share the bathroom in the mornings or evenings, they have two sinks for that, but usually, she doesn't close the door like this time.
After a few minutes, he hears her crying and approaches the bathroom door, leans on it with the side of his body, and knocks it with his knuckles.
"Are you okay?"
"No, Harvey." She responds ironically.
Harvey takes a deep breath so he doesn't respond angrily. He knows she's not mad at him.
"Can I come in?"
"If you need the bathroom, come in."
"No, Donna. I just want to be with you."
"Come in if you want…"
Harvey opens the door and he sees Donna leans against the sink with her arms folded and trying to contain her crying.
"I don't know if I'm the best person who you can be with right now." She says. "And sorry, I think I completely ruined our date."
He doesn't respond, just approaches her and surrounds her with his arms, giving her a few seconds to loosen up in his arms.
"I always want to be with you... We didn't get married just to have a good time together. Isn't that right?"
"I know... But we probably didn't expect a pandemic and a lockdown in our first year of marriage."
He chuckles. "No, I don't think so." He pauses and remembers some idiocy Mike told him. "Perhaps this is our fault because we finally encourage ourselves to be together."
Donna starts giggling in the middle of crying with her face hidden in his chest. "Okay, it's funny, but I want to believe that we're not that important to the world."
"We may not be so important to the world… but, you are so important to me." He rests his chin on her head. "You didn't ruin anything, I always want to be with you and try to make you feel a little better."
Harvey feels Donna surrounds his body tightly and smiles.
"Thank you, Harvey." She murmurs.
"Always, Donna." He says with his lips on her forehead and she nods.
"Can you hold me a little longer?"
"Yes, I think that would be fine." He says and squeezes her against his body, she chuckles and starts to relax in his arms.
Donna separates a little from him and dries her tears with her hands.
"Ok..." She snorts. "Let's go to sleep, tomorrow I have a lot to do." She says walking to the room.
But Harvey gently holds her wrist and slows her down.
"We can wake up later. You don't have meetings in the morning."
"Harvey!" She complains and lets her arm out of his hand. "I can't! I have a thousand things to do and I can't do half of it on a freaking day!" She sighs and rests with her back against the wall. "I can't concentrate on anything, I don't know what to do anymore. I guess sleeping is a start."
Harvey stands in front of her, taking her shoulders and making circles with his thumbs there.
"Yes, you can take a pause…" He takes a strand of hair that falls on her face and puts it behind her ear. "And you taught me that ..." Donna complains and snorts. "You know it." She nods. "And you're also the queen of organizational systems. Why don't you try to create a new one that works under these circumstances?"
"One that includes spending a day sleeping?"
"You know you can have a day off if you need it."
"I know." She sighs. "But, it wouldn't solve anything."
"Okay. So, what do you want or need?"
"Waking up when all this shit has finished isn't an option, is it?" She giggles, but tears spring from her eyes again.
"Something realistic?" He asks softly.
"I suppose finding a new way of organizing could help." Harvey dries her tears with his fingers and leaves his hand on her shoulder, stroking her neck with his thumb over and over again. "Perhaps I take some short breaks so that I don't feel so overwhelmed… And not work until so late, I miss my husband too."
"Okay, those are things you can do."
"I think…"
"Yes, you can. And you also need to rest a little more, you're having a lot of insomnia."
"I know. Not being able to sleep is one of the things that makes me nervous the most."
"Well... Tomorrow we can start at noon. Don't you think?"
"I don't know. There are things I should have done today and I didn't do."
"Donna... Mike and Rachel won't be mad that one day you work less."
"I know, but I don't want to take advantage of them being our friends."
"You are respecting what you need, not taking advantage of them... " He pauses, but she doesn't respond. "You are always good at knowing what others need, but you have trouble giving yourself space to realize what you need."
Donna nods and hugs him again. She passes her arms by his waist and he hugs her by the neck.
"Ok, we can sleep till later tomorrow." She tells.
"Good... It's a start." He kisses her on the temple. "And I don't think I'll mind sleeping until later either."
They stay a few more minutes hugging until he separates a little from her and kisses her sweetly on the lips.
"You tastes salt." He says, giggling.
She giggles. "I'm sorry. I felt it too." They both laugh. "I'd better wash my face."
"I'll brush my teeth and go to bed?"
"Yes, please."
A few minutes later, Donna is already in bed, curled up between the blankets and pillows, made a bun. Harvey sits next to her, on one side of the bed, and caresses her back.
"Do you want some massages?" He asks.
"No, thank you. Just come here with me."
"Sure? I know you have a headache."
"How do you know?" She asks and he chuckles.
"Your eyes are smaller than normal, and it's not about your tears."
She chuckles too. "You know… Before I was scared that you knew me so much, I thought I could only do that with you." She takes his hand and kisses him on his knuckles. "But now it makes me feel safe that you also know me that way."
He smiles and kisses her on her palm. "I was scared a few times as well." He tells her giggling and she giggles too. "I like you to feel safe with me." He tells her honestly and kisses her on the forehead. "Do you want an ibuprofen?"
"Mhm... Yes, but I'm fine here."
"I can go get it." He says laughing.
"Then yes." She laughs too.
"Oh God, look what I'm doing for you." They giggle. "And look how much I love you." He kisses her on the cheek and gets up to go looking for ibuprofen.
"I love you too Harvey." She tells him from the bed, hugging her pillow. "More than I should."
They both smirk and Harvey goes looking for the pill and some water.
After a while, they are lying face-to-face, both heads on Harvey's pillow. Their legs tangled under the blankets, Donna is with her eyes closed and has already spent several minutes in which Harvey is looking at her and gently strokes her face skin with the tip of his index finger.
He passes through the line of her hair, through her eyebrows, over the bridge of her nose, her cheeks, her lips, her chin. His fingers go down her jaw and neck, traveling through her collarbones and sternum, to climb behind her ear and start over again.
Donna has a slight smile on her lips and breathes relaxed.
"Harvey.." She murmurs.
"What?" He murmurs too.
"I want you to make love to me." She says by opening her eyes to look at him and she passes her index finger over his chin.
"Yes? Is that what you want?" He asks with a very soft tone of voice.
"Yes, I need you."
"Do you need me?" He asks by stroking his nose with hers, with his hand on her nape.
"You really like to hear it, don't you?" She giggles.
He smirks. "Yes…"
She smirks too. "Yes, I need you."
Harvey smiles again and Donna loves when his smile makes his eyes squeezing.
This time, Harvey's hand stays at her waist, under her clothes, and moving his thumb there, he kisses her on her nose, she giggles and they stare at each other for a few seconds.
Donna looks for Harvey's hand at her waist and intertwines her fingers with his.
"What?" He asks, whispering on her lips.
"I don't know if I ever told you, but you give me a lot of peace." She says, moving her thumb in his hand.
He smiles and presses his lips over her lips. "You also give me peace. It was always so, Donna." She grins and he kisses her on her forehead, then on her temple, on her cheek, on her chin, on her neck, and under her ear.
She snuggles up in her husband and he giggles sweetly in her ear.
"Then..." He says moving his fingers on her shoulder blades. "What do you need?"
She chuckles. "Make love to me."
"I think I can do it." He whispers in her ear.
Donna pulls her head back a little bit, so she can look at him. "Do you think?" She giggles.
He shrugs. "I think..."
"We both know you're pretty sure of that." She tells him, moving her leg over his.
"Well, I don't have to lie."
Donna rolls her eyes and Harvey kisses her, causing both of them to spin in bed over and over again, entangled and kissing.
Donna's arms pass under his, Harvey's arms hug her by her neck. Their legs are tangled by each other and their lips have no intention of separating.
"Do you feel better?" He murmurs on her lips.
"Yes." She smiles in the middle of the kiss.
"Good."
Harvey moves a few inches away from her so he can take off her shirt and makes her lie on her chest. He unbuttons her bra and moves her hair to the side and gives her some kisses on her shoulder, and comes down with his lips down her back.
She sighs his name and he smiles on her skin. This always gives her goosebumps, when Harvey smiles genuinely, mixes with a laugh, and feels how he breathes on her skin, she loves that feeling of warmth.
They're back face to face on the same pillow. Donna takes his shirt off and their bodies get tangled up again.
Donna's fingers slowly climb through the hollow of his spine, from the base to his nape as she wiggles her hips into his. Their lips are gently pressed over and over again. She feels his reaction between her legs and smirks in the middle of the kiss.
Donna presses her fingers on his nape, intensifying the kiss, and slides her leg over his.
Harvey makes their lips separate and as she keeps moving, he buries his face on her neck to gently pass his tongue through her collarbone and ear. Donna giggles when he tickles her with his beard, but her laughter is interrupted by a slight groan when Harvey leaves a kiss at the point of her pulse.
He returns to her mouth as he holds her breasts in his hands, gently kneading them, feeling her hard nipples on his palms, and she grunts his name on his lips. Harvey feels that on his semi-hard erection and presses his hips over her more intensely, Donna takes his hips between her legs brings him closer to her body.
Both take off their clothes and are again tangled to each other, their hips move without much despair, their lips are joined and their hands travel to each other relentlessly.
When Harvey wants to go down between her legs, she slows him down.
"No, Harvey..." She caresses his hair. "I just need you." She pauses.
Harvey kisses her in the abdomen and goes back up to her mouth.
"Is it wrong?" She murmurs. "I don't know if I have energy for that much." She laughs softly.
"No, it's not bad." He smiles at her and kisses her, walking through her skin with his hands.
He carries his hand between her closed legs and grazes her with the tips of his fingers. She drops her head back with her eyes closed, as she feels his fingers go up and down on her folds. He makes it very slow as if her skin were velvet.
She opens her knees, to give him better access and takes his cock with her hand.
Harvey grins at her and gives her a short kiss on her lips.
Even with their heads on the same pillow, Donna moves the tips of her fingers from top to bottom and from bottom to top over his cock and balls, and he moves two of his fingers between her wet lips, in the same way, and at the same pace as her. They're looking at each other and enjoying their reactions.
Donna presses him in his hand and he reacts with an involuntary movement in his body. Donna giggles softly and kisses him on the lips, while she presses her limb again with her hand.
She leaves her head on his cheek and feels a finger of him enter slowly her body.
"Harvey." She gasps in his ear.
He kisses her neck. "Do you still need me?" He asks, carrying another finger inside her.
"Yes." She groans.
He kisses her neck again as he moves his fingers inside her, feeling her wet.
"Harvey." She begs.
He smirks, slowly removes his fingers from within her, rising between her lips. He touches himself a little, his hand wet with her moisture and they are face-to-face again. Donna crosses a leg over Harvey's, looking for him.
Harvey aligns himself with her core and kisses her, stroking her arm with his fingers.
He stays for a few seconds looking at her.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing."
"Harvey, I know you."
"I don't know if I can tell you under these circumstances."
She chuckles. "Tell me." She whispers and she moves so that his dick is between her lips, pressing her entire core, and moves her hips from top to bottom, at a torturedly slow pace, sliding over him. Her hands are on his shoulder blades, moving her fingers slowly.
Harvey moans and kisses her lips. "I've never done this with anyone..." He clings to her with his hands at her waist.
"Mhm... I imagine." She says teasing him and still moving her hips.
Harvey takes one of her hands and intertwines their fingers.
"I've never done this with anyone before." He repeats. "I had never made love." He clarifies and Donna feels her tears itch. "We already know I had more sex than I should." They chuckled. "But I've never been like this with anyone." He kisses her gently on her lips. "And I know it's not the first time we've done it... which is sometimes tough and desperate, and sometimes it's just being together, no hardship." Harvey stops her hips with his hands and re-aligns at her. "Like now." He whispers on her lips as he enters her body. Donna gasps his name while she sticks her fingers on his back. "And you know... I never thought I might enjoy this so much." He says in her ear. She smiles and looks for his lips.
He's completely inside her, their bodies get tangled up again and Harvey is leaving kisses on her neck, while gently moving his hips.
"Do you want me to go up? You're so tired." He whispers in her ear. She nods, with so much love for that man in her eyes that she feels she might die right there.
Harvey moves to stay on her, moves the hair on her face with both hands, and kisses her with his hands still on her face. Donna hugs him by the neck to get even closer to her and he buries his face on her neck.
"I love you..." He whispers to her, starting to move his hips against her.
"I love you, Harvey." She tells him as she surrounds his hips with her legs.
Harvey gently moves over her and keeps whispering that he loves her and giving sweet kisses on her neck. Donna holds him clinging to her body with arms and legs and, moaning in his ear.
After a few minutes, Harvey rests his hands on the mattress, to get up a little and can kiss her again. He takes one of her legs and rests it against his body, to move back over her, and Donna can't help but arch her back and grunts his name.
"Harvey…" Donna begs, looking at him. She doesn't know if is why she can't take it anymore or is why she knows that as soon as she reaches orgasm, she'll go cry like a child.
Harvey gives her a sweet kiss on her leg and starts moving faster. He takes one of her hands and they press their fingers on each other. Donna starts touching herself with her free hand, but Harvey moves her hand from there and starts doing it himself.
"Harvey." She whimpers.
"I'm here." He gasps against the skin on her leg.
Harvey comes first, but he keeps moving his hand on her clit, still inside of her, because after all, this time he's doing it for her.
Donna drops and feels warm tears down her cheeks as she gasps and her body moves at pleasure.
"Hey..." He whispers and kisses her in her calf. "It's all right." He lowers her leg and drops, carefully on her body. "It's all right." He repeats and kisses all her face.
"I know." She sighs. "Hug me." She begs him.
Harvey comes out of her body and hugs her in the back for a few minutes. Donna no longer cries with the anguish of earlier, simply are tears falling down her cheeks effortlessly.
She feels a kiss from Harvey on her neck and she smiles, looking for his hand.
"Are you ok?" He whispers to her. "I didn't hurt you, did I?"
She smiles again. "Never, Harvey." She kisses him in the hand. "I just think I relaxed."
"That's good." He kisses her shoulder and hugs her tighter.
The next morning, the alarm rings at 10 a.m. and Donna immediately snuggles up to her husband. He welcomes her, hugging her against his body after turns off the alarm.
"Good morning." He says and kisses her head.
"Good morning." She responds.
"Did you sleep well?"
She grins. "Yes. You?"
"Me too…" He says stroking her back. "And I don't want to get up."
"Neither do I." She raises her head a little bit to look at him. "Thank you, Harvey."
"For turning off the alarm?" He chuckles.
Donna rolls her eyes. "Last night..." She moves her hands and rests them on his chest.
"Really."
"It's nothing... You too can collapse, Donna."
"I know." She pauses. "But, you make it easier to do... knowing you're there to put my pieces together again."
He smiles and kisses her nose. "Always." Donna smiles and snuggles up to him again.
Later, Harvey is already working in the office when Donna walks in to start her workday.
At her desk are her coffee and her favorite muffin. She smiles when she sees it and walks towards Harvey, stands behind him, and passes her hands over his shoulders to his neck.
"Thank you." She says in his ear and kisses him on the cheek.
"You're welcome... but, you know Mike's watching us, right?" He giggles.
"I don't want to know why you're grateful, Donna," Mike tells her.
"Shut up, Mike!" Donna starts laughing and Harvey kisses her in her hand. She sits on Harvey's legs and he surrounds her with his arms. "Rachel's there?"
"Here I am!" Rachel says, appearing on the screen. "Could you ever call me outside of business hours?" Rachel reproaches Donna.
"I promise," Donna tells her. "I had a few difficult days." She feels Harvey's hand caressing her back and thanks to him with her gaze.
"We all have them," Mike says. "We're in the middle of a crazy thing."
"What do you think of making a double date?" Rachel proposes. "I miss you!"
"Yes, it would be fine," Donna says smiling.
"We do it!" Rachel says. "Or do you refuse Harvey?"
"Why do you say that?" He rolls his eyes.
"Years of bitterness support you."
"Nice compliment, Rach."
Rachel giggles. "I have a meeting guys, please call me a redhead."
"I promise," Donna repeats. Rachel winks at her and disappears from the screen.
"I leave you guys too," Mike adds. "Send me that file Harvey, please."
"I'll send it to you," Harvey responds. "We'll talk later, Mike." Harvey ends the call and Donna drops her head on Harvey's, who hugs her again. He hears her sigh heavily. "Hey..." He murmurs.
"I haven't really talked to Rachel for weeks, except for work." She snorts, distraught.
"Tell her how you feel, she'll understand... She's like your sister, you know she wouldn't be mad about something like that."
"I know." She whispers. "I know… It's just, I just wish I could go to lunch with her.." She shrugs. "You know, there are things we can't talk about with you or Mike near us." She tells him, sounding funny.
"Uhu... Do you speak ill of us?" He frowns.
"All the time." She giggles. "But don't think you're the center of our conversations." She tells him, grinding her eyes.
He giggles. "I like that you talk about me anyway... I usually talk about you as well."
She smiles. "We have become a sticky thing. You realize that, don't you?"
He nods and kisses her. "From the first night we spent together, we were stuck... Literally." He kisses her again as she giggles. "Your coffee's going to get cold."
"And I should work."
"Take it easy... " He reminds her.
"Yes, I promise."
"Good... Anything, you call me, I walk this huuuuuge distance that we have between us and apply some method of relaxation."
"Uhu... We're at work, sir, some things are not allowed."
"How to sit on my legs?"
She giggles and kisses him. "Yes, that's too." She gives him another kiss. "But, I must admit, I would do other things on these desks. Don't you?"
"Donna, don't do this to me now!" He says scratching his forehead and Donna chuckles.
"Okay, I'm going... " She kisses him. "Just remember it some time." She gets up from his legs and walks to her desk, Harvey turns in his chair to look at her.
"I'll remember, don't worry."
"Good." She says and sits in her chair, drinks some coffee while Harvey still looks at her. "What?" She asks.
"Nothing." He smiles at her and turns in his chair, turning to his computer.
Donna rolls her eyes and throws one of his 4-color pens on his neck.
"How old are you?" He asks by turning his head to look at her, laughing.
"You said to relax... Isn't that right?"
He giggles. "You're impossible."
"I know..." She shrugs. "Ok..." She opens her laptop. "Let's get to work."
"Can I turn around without fear of attacks?"
"I think so." She giggles.
Harvey giggles too and turns around. Donna takes her phone and writes him a message.
"I love you. You know that, right?"
She hears him smile and he responds.
"I know… I love you too." He turns his head to look at her when she reads the message and they smile at each other like two idiots in a movie.
Hi everyone!
I know this chapter is different from the previous ones, but I'm trying to put in these fics a little bit what, I think we all experience during the pandemic. I hope you still like it.
If you read it, I'd love to know what you think! :)