HI Folks! Sorry I am a little late with this update. Been really busy, but things should calm down now. Choir is over for the season and my last quarter with vocal coach will be over in a couple of weeks and I postponed the rest of my PM courses until September. I struggled with a part of this chapter. I will let you guess which part. Please enjoy this chapter. Thanks for encouraging me to continue. - Love - Carebearmaxi
Loving Each Other Out Loud
Chapter 8 - Seattle
Harvey and Donna left for Seattle three days after Harvey's mom took temporary residence in a small furnished apartment near Donna. Lily no longer wanted to impose on Donna as she knew that Harvey and Donna both had not decided where they wanted to live or even if they wanted to live together. Lily knew their relationship was still sacrosanct, and they did not want to jinx it by having discussions for which they were not ready.
Donna helped Lily set up her furnished apartment by shopping for a few homey pieces that reflected Lily's tastes. Harvey had been happy that Donna and his mom were able to become friends so fast. He only hoped that, in time, Harvey would prove to Jim Paulsen that he had every intention of being with his daughter forever. Luckily Roberta Paulsen did not have such a difficult time with Harvey. She, like Donna, could see the good man Harvey truly was; besides, she loved to flirt with Harvey as well. Roberta always thought Harvey handsome and could not resist a little bantering herself.
Now as he and Donna boarded the plane to Seattle at 2:00 pm Eastern time, Donna could not help but tackle him about the situation at the firm. There had been an unseen wrinkle with some of the fine print in the merger paperwork. Nothing too terrible, but it did preoccupy Harvey's mind almost the entire plane trip from New York through to Seattle.
They sat in First Class, of course. Donna possessed the window seat and sipped on a white wine spritzer. She looked at Harvey whose reading glasses were on his face examining the merger paperwork over and over again reading between the lines to see what language had enraged their new clients so badly.
Donna tapped him on his dark button down shirted shoulder and said, "Harvey, I thought that the CFO of the merged entity had ironed out all the tactics with who was to stay and who was to go. I matched the departments up with their respective lawyers. Have you spoken with Katrina and Samantha?"
"Yes. I also consulted with the general counsel from LeHocky that the two banks agreed to retain much against my better judgment. The guy from LeHocky is the one who's causing the rift and bringing up past details about our firm wherein he alleges we acted in bad faith. He's sabotaging all the work we've done by stating that we were acting illegally. Munson, who is the guy's name, is saying he wants NY First Fidelity to break with our firm and engage a new firm. Something to do with the whole Kessler affair."
"What does Katrina and Samantha say about it? They have indicated that their two financiers have no problem with the overall merger."
"Well, no their financiers are fine. It's the bigger fish. The ones that Alex is representing and myself who represents the bank as an entity."
Harvey turned to his girlfriend and for the first time noticed that day how pretty she looked although she had worn little to no makeup and she was dressed in her yoga pants, sneakers, and checkered red gingham shirt. Her reading glasses were perched on her head as she had taken out a few of the contracts she had been working on earlier that week. Thus, reason why her wine was diluted. Her liquor of choice when traveling Harvey knew. For Donna, Harvey surmised that hiring new associates was getting to be quite a chore because all of a sudden SpecterLittWheelerWilliams was receiving, once again, resumes and applicants from all the best law schools. Harvey listened as Donna told him about her consultations with Louis on whom to make offers and who to throw back. Harvey knew firsthand how little time Louis had for consulting with Donna. However, Louis had consulted with Harvey and requested if he would throw a lifeline to Donna if she needed it as Louis had given as much time as he could. Harvey told Louis that he would be glad to help if Donna really became overwhelmed. So without revealing that he had gone to Harvey first, Louis gave Donna the confidence that he thought her capable of choosing. This gave Donna so much confidence because Louis at one time prized training the associates above all his other responsibilities of the firm. Louis had told her to use her instincts. If she really needed help and Harvey and he were not available then Sheila was more than capable of helping her make the appropriate choices. She need only ask.
Conversation between he and Donna had evaporated as they sat in first class with their own thoughts. Donna tried to take the brief away, but Harvey lovingly caught her hand and kissed it and said that he wanted to work on it now so they would have leisurely time to spend with Rachel and Mike. Donna smiled softly, kissed him, and then putting her own reading glasses back on her head looked again at the latest contracts and applications. Watching Donna pleasurably for one more minute before he returned to his paperwork, Harvey's mind could not concentrate as thoughts of his mom's own lovelife came screaming into his brain.
Harvey cleared his throat.
"Donna."
She put her glasses back up on top of her messy red bun on top of her head, smirked, and said, "Thinking about your mom?"
"Mind reader. Yes. I didn't tell you I saw her this morning before we left from the firm this afternoon. You were in one of your meetings with Louis or she would have said a personal goodbye to you, too."
"I know we had a great time shopping and putting those little touches in her apartment. I love your mom. I am so glad that you and she are able to talk through things and be a real mother and son," Donna said placing a hand over Harvey's as it lay on his paperwork.
"Thanks to you, Donna. It never would have happened had it not been for you," Harvey said and he saw Donna lower her eyes and shy away.
When the moment passed, Harvey moved his hand out from under Donna's and grazed his thumb over her knuckles.
"My mom contacted Bobby. She told me that Bobby agreed with her suggestion to stay away for a little while until he could get his issues worked out. He really wanted her home, but he needs to be alone," Harvey said as he watched his large thumb graze over Donna's delicate knuckles.
"How did Lily take that information? I imagine not well. She's been with Bobby a long time."
"She took it well. She laughingly told me he's going through late male menopause," Harvey chuckled at that one. He had heard that phrase thrown around before, but he never really understood what it meant. Probably because the symptoms from what he understood sounded identical to how Harvey had spent his twenties and thirties.
Donna sniffed and said, "Well, I guess better late than never..."
"Donna..." Harvey lamented.
"Hey, I'm just saying...no. Really, Harvey, I hope your mom's marriage gets turned around. I never met Bobby but Lily sounded like she had really found the man she was meant to be with. Despite what you think, and I know it wasn't like it should have been, Harvey. Your mother did love your father."
"Yes, well, that's done and over with."
Suddenly Harvey removed his paperwork from the table, slid it into his briefcase, and then decidedly did the same to Donna's paperwork. He put both their tables up in front of them and ordered a Macallan 18 for both of them from the flight attendant.
"Look I don't want to talk about my mother or Bobby or the firm or anything else. I just want to focus on us and how we are going to explain this development in our relationship to our two best friends," Harvey said.
The older brunette flight attendant brought them their drinks.
Donna moved closer to Harvey and closing her eyes almost completely deeply spoke, "Mind reader."
Harvey and she clinked glasses. "To us," he said softly. They both took a sip and then kissed.
"I wish this was Gianopoulus' plane. He has a private cabin in the back for Mile High Club. Have you ever done it at 35,000 feet?"
"Well, if I did, I'm not telling you. I am sure you did with Darby's private plane and Scottie," Donna laughingly said. Harvey had placed a mild poker face to her importuning to which Donna smiled lopsidedly.
Then he relaxed. Of course she knows! Harvey figured.
Donna looked away around the cabin trying to estimate if they could really get away with having a quickie in this cabin. It was very quiet and the only other couple passengers had dozed off. They had been in the air for a few hours and still had a couple of hours to go.
Harvey came closer to Donna and seductively said, "Did I tell you how much you look like Ginger and MaryAnn from Gilligan's Island?"
"Mmmm, which one do you think was hotter," Donna said sidling closer to Harvey and noticing his jeans were tightening. She ran her hand over his bulge under Harvey's suit jacket which he had come to lay on top of him.
"Both. I love my redheads in gingham button down blouses," Donna half bent over Harvey, and he nuzzled her neck. He found his favorite part and trailed kisses down her ear.
"Harvey," Donna moaned softly as she shivered from his touch. She stroked his lower body and could not help noticing how aroused he was.
Harvey took his suit jacket and covered them both with it as Donna straddled his lap. Instead of Harvey's jacket to cover them both, Donna took the blanket she had requested at the beginning of the flight and placing it around her shoulders it draped long enough for others not to see how Harvey unbuttoned her blouse laying kisses along her clavicle and the top of her bound breast. He reach his arms around her and undid her bra with one hand setting her breasts free from confinement. Donna writhed and longed to have another part of her set free for his mouth and his tongue and whatever else they could manage in their seats. Luckily in First Class they had the soft cushiony chairs. Donna undid Harvey's belt and felt her way down to his cock which was straining in her hand to be set free. She softly manipulated the soft skin of his testicles and wrapped her hand around his straining cock. While Harvey shivered from Donna's skillful touch, he had managed somehow to get Donna's yoga pants halfway down her legs. He pulled at the string of her delicate red thong with one hand accidentally leaving it torn and carefully slid two fingers into her warm opening. As he penetrated and breathed hard into Donna's mouth she gasped for air and at the sudden pleasurable movements of his fingers inside her womanly area. She writhed back and forth on his fingers and he could feel her dripping and ready for him.
They took a moment while their foreheads were together, panting quickly. They were both draped not only by Donna's blanket which covered their lower halves as well but Harvey suit jacket covered any top portion which may become exposed. Smiling conspiratorially they both looked surreptitiously around to see if either one of the other couple had inadvertently become awakened. Nope. All was clear.
Wriggling down to a crouched position, Donna lowered Harvey's jeans and boxers setting his swollen member free. Donna sat him gently back in his seat as he had held himself up out of it as Donna undressed him. "Relax, baby," Donna whisperingly urged and took him into her mouth. She was always astonished at his girth. She relaxed her throat and worked him up and down. Harvey moaned quietly and held Donna's head as she worked. Fearing he would come right there from the soft moist feel of her mouth and the friction from her hands, he gently coaxed her to stop. Donna removed her torn thong and toed off her yoga pants leaving them in a pool at Harvey's feet. Sighing deeply, Donna, with Harvey's hands guiding her movements and the blanket on her shoulders, placed her hips gently on his lap so she was impaled by his hard erection.
As she sank down on top of him, there was a skip in Donna's voice. She hoped her deep sigh and hiccup were not too loud. Harvey smiled into her eyes as she opened them to look at him as she felt him deep inside her. "Easy, baby," Harvey coaxed as he helped Donna begin a soft rhythm up and down and all around. She ground her hips and swayed back and forth. The urge to go faster and pump harder took Donna over. Her head fell to Harvey's shoulders and she swiftly finished unbuttoning his shirt baring his toned stomach and chest. She squeezed his left nipple and lowering her head putting the right one between her teeth mimicking how he had loved her. Harvey's thighs worked a faster rhythm. Donna sat up and threw back her head closing her eyes. Harvey held Donna near him and caught one of her beautiful bouncing breasts with his mouth wetting it in a semicircle movement. Bending forward and recapturing Donna's blanket on her shoulders as it almost revealed their lovemaking, he let his hands slide up her back supporting her arched position on his lap as he kissed the beads of sweat from the lightly sprinkled freckled skin from between her breasts. Soon Donna felt on fire from Harvey's tongue on her breasts and his hands pulling her all around him, she began to bounce harder and moan softly.
"Harvey..." Donna strangled a cry. Harvey had been working her faster harder up and down like a waterpump. Finally with two thrusts that Donna felt pierced her through, Harvey settled and they both panted in unison with their hearts beating in their throats as they panted from their joint orgasms. They put their foreheads together and looked at one another. Quietly they kissed. Donna laid her head on Harvey's half-clad shoulder and sighed heavily. She could still feel him inside her and she could not help but wriggle against him. Harvey then removed her gently from his lap kissing her all the way. With quick manueuvering, she laid the blanket on top of Harvey as he had luckily brought out his handkerchief from his suit jacket. He cleaned himself off as best he could and offered to help Donna who had been crouched on the floor. She cleaned what she could with her torn thong. Lovingly they each began to dress the other. Harvey actually smiled as he buttoned Donna's red gingham shirt. He then kissed her lips.
"There you go, Maryann. The Skipper wouldn't suspect a thing."
"Thank you, Gilligan," Donna teased kissing his neck where she could see his pulse still coming down from their quickie.
"I'm not Gilligan. I'm definitely The Professor," Harvey quietly protested taking her face in his hands and kissing her deeply.
"Well, in reality, you have a lot of money. So maybe your Thurston Howell the Third?," Donna responded.
"That would make you Mrs. Thurston Howell the Third. Lovey," Harvey smiled and laughed at the direction of their conversation. They kissed again and Harvey resumed his former seated position mostly dressed except for his dark black shirt which Donna had left only half buttoned leaving a glimpse of Harvey's glistening skin.
As Donna bent and picked up her red thong from the floor, she held it up to Harvey's view.
"You owe me a new thong, loverboy. I now have to go commando until we get to The Ross'."
"Your on your own for that one, my dear, because I like you commando. Cuts time," Harvey smarmily whispered and kissed Donna.
"After they were dressed fully, Harvey rose with shaky legs and carefully placed his soiled handkerchief and Donna's wet thong into the wastebasket.
Donna smiled at Harvey and laughed as she watched him come back to their seats. He completed buttoning his shirt as he did so. Before sitting he took her hand and kissed it.
"I'm tired," Donna said yawning laying a kiss on his sweaty forehead then collapsing back into her seat.
"Yeah, me, too," Harvey said yawning as well collapsing into his seat. He brought his arm around Donna drew her again onto his lap where they spent a few minutes innocently kissing. It was then the flight attendant decided to interrupt them.
"We have about another hour in the air. Would you care for another beverage?"
Donna who was still sitting on Harvey's lap looked at him, stroked his face, and searched his eyes for any request. However, it was Harvey who answered.
"No, thank you. I have had all the drink I need."
The flight attendant looked at the other soundly asleep passengers focusing on the older white haired man who was snoring sonorously.
"I think he's out for the count," Donna mentioned tossing her head in the old man's direction.
Nothing was lost on the flight attendant. She had turned her head back to Harvey and Donna after spotting him from across the cabin. "Yes, after that little performance by you two, I can understand why," she whispered from behind her hand.
"You saw us? I thought we were being discreet?" Harvey asked incredulously looking up at the older woman.
"Let's just say, I "heard" things. I didn't want to interrupt. I didn't hear any loud exclamations or problems, so I figured if I didn't "see" it, "it" didn't happen."
"So, we're not in trouble? We won't be thrown in front of the air marshal and taken into custody?" Donna asked with her heart pounding for a completely different reason.
The flight attendant, whose name was Anna, said, "No, like I said. I didn't "see" it." She smiled widely then. "I'm rather happy when all that happens on a long flight is two people making love. Congratulations."
Harvey and Donna looked at one another as the flight attendant turned and left for the back of the plane. They tittered. They were embarrased but relieved that someone else could clearly see how deeply and passionately in love they were.
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The plane finally touched down on time at 4:00 pm local Seattle time. Mike had texted Harvey and said that they were waiting for him in baggage claim. Donna had been in Seattle a long time ago when she was traveling with a couple of her college girlfriends on a theater weekend, but she had no recollection of where they had actually landed since the airport and been renovated since then.
Soon they had chosen the correct escalator down and there was Mike plain as day standing at the bottom with a sarcastic sign that said: "Mr. and Mrs. Paulsen".
"Ok, I gotta ask. The plane landed at 4:00 pm. The luggage has been up for another hour. By the way, I spotted your luggage and made sure that they put it away for you. It is now 6:00 p.m... Did you guys get detained for having sex in First Class?" Mike asked.
Harvey and Donna both smirked at their "pup". Unfortunately, it was too close to the truth. The flight attendant had said nothing to them until they were deplaning.
When Harvey and Donna were deplaning...
"Here is $200, Anna. We so appreciate you not taking us to see the official airport sex police, if you know what I mean?" Harvey had said as he gave the money to Anna surreptitiously.
"Mr. Specter, you don't need to buy my silence. I told you. I "saw" nothing. Now I don't want to..."
"Please Anna. Take it. Think of it as a tip for your great service," Donna said winking at her.
Anna looked down at the two hundred dollars that Harvey had handed her and Donna had passed another $100 bill over to her with a smile. Anna, then, felt the secret money in the pocket of her jacketed uniform. She looked up at them both before she was letting them out of the plane.
"Thank you both. Fly again with us soon."
"You can bet on it," Harvey said with a wink and a smile as he and Donna deboarded the plane.
Back to meeting Mike at the baggage claim...
"None of your business what we were doing or not doing in First Class," Harvey said.
"I knew it. Wait until I tell Rachel," Mike said.
Looking down at the sign that Mike had held, Harvey then responded. "With all due respect, Donna, if we do get married, that ain't happening."
Donna looked over at him and rolled her eyes. "We'll see."
Mike looked at Donna and then at Harvey and noted the happy peaceful expression on their faces. Harvey looked years younger and Donna looked more radiant than ever. God! They could have had this so much sooner! Wait until Rachel sees them. She will forgive them in a heartbeat.
Mike and Harvey carried their luggage to Mike's car.
"I expected it to be raining heavily like it's rumored," Harvey said.
"We have more rainy days than most, but it seems you have brought good weather with you."
"It's been pretty warm in New York," Donna said looking over to Harvey
"Hot as hell more like it," he teased out of the side of his mouth.
"Ok, you two, enough of that," Mike said smiling widely. No one except his own wife was more happier than he when his best friend called him and told him they were together and so happy.
Donna was unfamiliar with this part of Seattle as she had told Mike she had not been out to the West since she had been in college.
"It was a small theater group of men and women and we all decided to make a road trip of it. It took us the better part of two weeks to get here from New York," Donna said.
"So what happened once you arrived?" Mike asked curiously. Harvey sat listening as he had never been told many of Donna's college day stories. While listening attentively, Harvey, at that moment, decided that if he could get Donna to tell him stories of her college days then he would be eager to listen to her forever. Lord knows she knew enough of my sordid past. Though not much from when I was at college or in the mailroom at the firm.
Donna gasped when she saw how cute and simple Mike and Rachel's new house was. The house lay in the middle of a large plot of land. Mike and Rachel had really set down roots here and planned to have their family here. The house was a two story colonial with a wrap around porch and a two car garage. Inside there were five bedrooms. For the purposes right now, one bedroom was being used as a study, one as a guest room and one for a nursery someday. One was the Master bedroom and the other was simply being used as recreational room upstairs. Looking around, Donna knew this was a house and a piece of land where the Ross' could grow.
Rachel met them at the door. She was dressed in a pair of cropped jeans and a white lace button down blouse. Her dark hair was up in a messy bun and she was bare foot.
Donna stopped in the doorway and Rachel's arms went around her best friend. As they pulled away, Donna could see tears standing in Rachel's eyes.
"I'm so happy for you Donna. You finally have what you wanted."
Donna smiled and hugged her friend again. "Yes, Rache, and, so far, it's everything and more than what I hoped it would be. I love him so fiercely and he loves me," Donna said as she pulled out of her friend's embrace.
"Honey, I'm going to take their luggage up to the guestroom and then show Harvey around the land," Mike said winking knowing that the real reason for this trip was so the girls would have time to mend and talk things out concerning Robert.
"Ok," Rachel said. Rachel had said nothing personally to Harvey yet. She just smiled as he accompanied Mike upstairs.
"Come sit," Rachel invited Donna into her large sunken living room with a fireplace. There was no need for a fire today as the late May air was warm. Rachel had the windows open because for once the sun was blazing and she wanted as much air and sunlight in her house as possible.
"I see great minds think alike," Donna said as she sat on the low couch in front of a coffee table on which sat a wine bottle and two wine glasses.
"Would you like some?"
"Yes, thank you," Rachel unscrewed the bottletop and poured the dark liquid into both glasses leaving them half full.
Rachel handed Donna a glass and then placed the bottle back on the table Rachel retrieved her glass and sat down as well.
"I want to toast first," Rachel said smiling.
"To what?"
"To old friends and to your newfound happiness with Harvey," Rachel said and clinked her glass with Donna's. They each took a sip.
"Mmhmmm. This is so good..." Donna said taking another sip.
Donna went to look at the bottle to find the vintage and she found she was drinking sparkling grape juice.
Rachel waited for Donna's reaction.
"Rachel, why is there no alchohol in my alcohol?"
"Well, I wanted to keep it secret from the majority of people until we were safe, but mom and dad were here last week and I had to tell them so..."
"Oh, Rachel! You're...having...a baby?"
"Yes, but, first, I want to apologize for my behavior to you after learning about my dad. He and mom left here about a week ago and he fiercely told me that his actions had nothing whatsoever to do with the case itself or with either your behavior or Harvey's."
"So, you're no longer mad at us?"
Rachel looked down to consider her thoughts and then she looked back up at her friend.
"I was just upset because I know my dad loved being a lawyer. He wanted to have at least a few more years at it he had told me until he was retirement age, so that was why I really became angry. He then explained to me his reasons and I realized that he was truly at peace with it."
"So, do you want to tell Harvey and me what his reasons were because he swore everyone who does know to secrecy. Harvey thanked him profusely and took him out for his retirement but Robert still didn't reveal anything."
Rachel put her hand on Donna's arm. "I don't really know all the details, but he let me know enough that I was at peace as well. So, I apologize I can't tell you things I don't really know."
Donna took another sip of her wine and took Rachel's hand and said, "I am so happy to be here."
Rachel smiled and said, "Me, too."
"So, spill, mommy-to-be..."
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Meanwhile, upstairs, in the upstairs rec room or Mike's "man" cave there were movie posters on the wall and a large TV set up with stereo speakers and whatever other convenience a real mancave would possess.
"Wanna drink?" Mike asked.
"Sure. A beer would be nice," Harvey stated.
"Got one right here for you," Mike said bending down to the minifridge and retrieving the beers.
"So...how do you like being with the "one." I knew it was always her," Mike said.
"It's great and scary. For once in my life, I don't want to run anywhere. I sort of knew all along, but I thought we were past this..." Harvey said not sure how to verbalize his feelings and his love for Donna to his best friend.
"Harvey, I know. I've been there. I'm still there. Rachel and I are still happy and we work together and come home together..."
"I just do not want to screw this up," Harvey said revealing his small insecurity.
Mike came over to where Harvey stood at the window overseeing the late afternoon sun shining on the vast land of Mike's backyard. He patted his mentor's shoulder.
"You won't screw it up. Do you want to know how I know?" Mike asked.
Harvey turned from the window and said, "How do you know?"
"Because Donna is the "one" and she loves you as much as you love her. She always has," Mike said tipping the bottleneck toward Harvey's as he held it in his hands.
"To you and Donna," Mike said as he and Harvey clinked the bottlenecks and took a sip both. "Now, onto some news that I know Rachel is bursting to tell everyone especially you guys..."
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A few hours later, Harvey and Donna lay side by side holding hands in the large bed in The Ross' guestroom.
Donna sighed happily. "Mike and Rachel are having a baby! That's so great. Isn't it, Harvey?"
When a response did not come immediately from her inquiry, she thought he had fallen asleep. She let go of his hand. He turned over away from her. Donna thought this a strange reaction to her question, so she rose up on one elbow and placing a gentle hand on Harvey's bent arm she looked over to see what expression was on his face.
The lights were off because it was very late Seattle time so it was even later by their New York time. Donna had been riding the high all night of being with Harvey as his girlfriend and knowing their best friends were to be parents in a few months. Harvey had demonstrated his excitement as well and teased Mike relentlessly about becoming a father when he was barely out of diapers himself. Donna thought she felt something not quite genuine when he looked away. It was the same sort of silence he had worn the night of the gala when Sheila had insisted that he feel her and Louis' baby kick.
"Harvey? What's going on?" Donna persisted. He had to still learn to talk about some of his feelings even if they were painful. He had to still learn to trust that they were together. She had to do the same. She wanted to tell Harvey how much she wanted to marry and have children if it was not too late, but she felt that he was not yet ready for that conversation. She would have to force it somehow and they would have to face any differences together if they wanted their present relationship to survive.
They had not had a big argument yet between them, and they had been together for a good two months now.
Suddenly, Harvey turned over and sat up and turned on the lamp which sat on the nightstand next to him. Donna sat cross-legged next to him and her hand came to lay on his stomach. She curled her fingers feeling that the time for that talk may have just come.
"Donna, I do want to have children someday. I really didn't think I wanted to, but with Louis and Sheila's baby coming and now Mike and Rachel, I really want that experience. I didn't want to have a child at first because of my own childhood and then seeing how Marcus was torn apart when Kate divorced him. I felt I did not want a child of mine to be torn apart just because its mother and I no longer wanted to be together. It's hell on the whole family especially a child."
Donna gave Harvey the most sympathetic and loving look she could muster. She scooted up to the headboard and then Harvey drew her into his arms. She laid her head on his shoulder and put her arm around his stomach. She had always known that his own childhood experiences had colored his own desires for his own life. She knew he had had no thoughts of anything permanent until he felt he would lose her. He had said this to her the morning after he had come to her door the night of the hearing. Now he was actually wanting to be a father. Donna knew he would make a good one. She was sure she wanted to be a mother, but she knew juggling a career, a husband, and children simultaneously could be hard work and if it all was not kept in balance something would be lost. Donna was always up for a challenge. Look how long her love for Harvey had challenged her before she had finally thought maybe she could go on without him.
Donna looked up at this man she loved so much and loved so long. She knew him pretty well and she was having a wonderful time getting to know sides of him where previously she had only seen glimpses. The scared little boy, the angry young man, and finally the handsome womanizer who had only a couple of years ago finally reconciled and became the whole man that had been lurking underneath his bully-like exterior hiding that big heart of his.
"Harvey, I want children, too. I want our children. I just hope that I won't disappoint us by not getting pregnant when we're ready."
Harvey looked down into those green depths. He lowered her in his arms until he lie beside her. He stroked her face and gently kissed her forehead, her eyes, her nose, and then finally her lips. He felt her arms surround him and his heart burst again with the knowledge that all he wanted now was in his arms. Her and their child if they were fortunate enough to be blessed with one.
"Donna, I love you. If the powers that be cannot give us a child of our own then we still have each other. For this I would give up the firm and all the riches and comforts that the firm affords you and me. Donna, don't cry," he said as he saw a tear of sheer bliss escape her eye and run down her cheek. He kissed it away.
"I love you, Harvey. I'm silly, but I want all of it. Marriage, children, the home, and you grilling your favorite burger on the barbecue. I've only ever wanted that with one man and that one man was you."
His answer was to kiss her and hold her tight.