Harvey sat down at the table in Jessica's office. He and Jessica were currently trying to sway a new possible client. The man was supposedly some kind of a lie detection expert, he and his partner ran their own company and consulted for numerous important people including the government. They also made boo coo money and they didn't have appropriate council.
Harvey had told Mike that he wasn't needed however he had just texted the kid because he had left an important file in his office so Mike should be coming any second. The clients had actually shown up early, the man having brought his teenage daughter in tow.
Harvey heard a knock on the office door and turned to get the file from his associate before dismissing him.
"Here's the file…" Mike said before taking in who else was in the room. He dropped his conversation with Harvey and turned to glare at the other man in the room. "What are you doing here?" he asked cooly.
"Mr. Ross" Jessica said, annoyance evident in her tone.
The others in the room didn't seem phased though.
"We're looking at Pearson Hardman to be our lawyers" the woman answered.
Mike looked over to the woman and his expression softened some, "Why do you need a lawyer?" he asked, "Did Cal finally piss off the feds so much that he's being sued?"
"Mike" Harvey admonished. He could see Jessica glaring at the associate who was currently tuning the both of them out in favor of talking with the hopeful clients. The clients that he apparently knew.
"No, but a high ranking attorney from the DA's office did give it their best shot after I called him on sleeping with his boss' secretary in order to gain access to the information needed to blackmail the man" The hopeful client, Cal apparently, responded.
Mike shook his head and was about to respond before the woman cut in, "We think that it's time to have a lawyer on retainer for when problems arise"
"You know if you just got rid of him" Mike he jerked his head at Cal, "Then you wouldn't need a lawyer on retainer either"
Suddenly the man's daughter started laughing, "True but Dad would still need one" she said.
Mike turned to her and Harvey could see his mood lightening.
"Yeah but that could be solved if he just learned some basic social rules" Mike smirked.
"Pshtt, Like that's ever going to happen" The girl scoffed.
"You never know they could come up with some type of nero surgery" Mike replied.
"And you think he'd agree to it" the girl laughed shaking her head.
Mike shrugged, "There is always chloroform in a pinch"
Both of them laughed at that as if sharing in some inside joke. The woman smirked and shook her head and Cal looked as though this was a natural occurrence.
The room dropped into a calm silence after and Jessica, who had been silently fuming since Mike had snapped at Cal, decided now would be a good time to get things back on track, "Mr. Ross, I suggest that you head back to your desk I want to talk to you once we are through here" she said.
"Oh, relax" Cal said to Jessica.
"Mike has every right to be a little… on edge with Cal at the moment" the woman said.
Mike sighed, "Still, this is not the place"
"Really because if I were you I would have punched him" the girl said.
"Thought that would be overkill" Mike replied.
"Well I appreciate that" Cal said.
Mike stiffened but didn't reply. "How about we get back on topic" Harvey suggested trying to get Jessica's focus off of Mike for the time being.
"Agreed" the woman said.
"And how long is this going to take?" the girl asked.
"What's the matter Em? Bored?" Mike asked cockily.
Em? Or Emily? Shot Mike a playful glare, "You'd be one to talk. Didn't you set fire to Dad's office last time you were bored?"
"That was an accident!" Mike defended quickly, "And the fire was solely contained to the coffee table. Which I fixed"
The woman and Emily were laughing and Harvey couldn't believe what he'd just heard. "You set fire to a coffee table because you were bored?"
Mike turned to Harvey, "No. The device I was working on short circuited and it caught on fire which then spread to the coffee table"
"The fire grew quickly too" Cal added.
"I put it out" Mike said quickly.
"Yes, the entire table was covered in fire extinguisher foam" the woman said trying to hold in her laughter.
Mike smirked there too, "Yeah, that stuff came out really quickly didn't it?"
Harvey looked over at Jessica and could see that she wasn't exactly – pleased, might be an understatement. Trying to at least delay the inevitable blow up he decided to try and get things back on track once again. "So… What is it that you are looking for in a lawyer exactly?" he asked.
"Oh come on Jillian get Dad to let us go" Emily pleaded.
The woman, Jillian, gave Cal/Dad a look as though to say that she agreed with Emily. Cal sighed and then reached for his wallet.
"Alright, listen up you two" Cal said pulling out some cash from his wallet. "Take this and go to the museum three blocks over. I will call you when this is over and then we'll get lunch."
Mike moved forward to take the cash but Cal held it out of reach, "Do not try any of your experiments. Do not play games or set a trap. Behave" he commanded.
"Yeah, Yeah" Both Mike and Emily said together as Mike took the cash and they started heading out of the office.
"Behave!" Cal called as the door shut.
Harvey watched Mike leave and debated on calling him back and sending him back to work. One look at Jessica though and he figured it might be better to just let the kid go and talk to him later, give Jessica time to cool off and maybe have some more facts first. Yeah, that might be best.