"happy birthday to you." Mike, Harvey and the boys sang to Theo before he blew out the candles on his birthday breakfast pancakes.
"How does it feel to be sixteen?" Harvey asked his son.
"it doesn't feel any different," Theo said kind of annoyed as his dad asked him that every year. "how does it feel to be 50."
"watch it." Harvey shot back just as jokingly to his son. "I'm not 50 yet."
"your fathers not 50 for another five months. ask him then." Mike told his son laughing when Harvey glared at him.
"you're the one that married an old man," Teddy told his dad jokingly.
"he wasn't an old man when I married him."
"I'm not an old man." Harvey shot back weakly.
"sure your not babe," Mike said tapping Harvey on the shoulder.
"if I'm an old man then like our son said you married an old man."
Mike just smiled before leaning over to give Harvey a quick kiss pulling away when Hunter made a puking noise.
"hey," Harvey said to his son as Mike pulled away.
"hurry up and eat your breakfast you have to get ready for school," Mike said pushing himself up.
"do I have to go to school?" Theo asked.
"no, you have to go to school," Harvey told him not looking up from his plate.
"but it's my birthday."
"You still have to go to school," Mike said from where he was standing next to the fridge.
"The quicker you go to school the quicker you get home and can have some fun," Harvey told his son also standing up.
"I know I know."
"What time do you want me at yours?" Donna asked walking into Harvey's office.
"Mike said everyone needs to be there by six. but you can come earlier." Harvey told Donna looking up from his laptop.
"what have you guys got planned?" Donna asked sitting down opposite Harvey.
"Just dinner. Theo's going out with his friends this weekend. Mike's planning on cooking Theo's favourite meal and dessert."
"That sounds nice. I have something I need to do before I can come to yours but I should be at yours by half five. I want to spend as much time with my nephews as I can."
"okay and as much as I love talking to you Donna I really need to finish my work," Harvey said when a notification popped up on his laptop and he remembered all of the work he had.
"of course," Donna said standing back up and walking back over to her desk.
"Thanks for the present aunt Donna," Theo said after he had opened his limited-edition Marvel comic he had wanted for years.
"of course. anything for you." Donna said as Theo pulled him in for a hug.
"You can go and hang with your friend in the living room now," Mike said after Theo had pulled away from the hug noticing how he looked like he just wanted to leave.
"Thanks," Theo shouted as he walked out of the room.
"you need any help with the cooking?" Donna asked.
"I will probably need help at some point. but for now I'm good."
"where's Harvey?" Donna asked only just realising that she hadn't seen her boss since she arrived at his apartment.
"doing some last-minute work in his office."
"of course he is."
"can you go and get him? tell him he needs to come out and help." Mike asked knowing that he would never be able to do everything on his own.
"Sure," Donna said standing up and making her way down the hall to Harvey's office.
"come in," Harvey said when Donna knocked on the door.
"your pregnant husband needs your help getting your sons birthday dinner set up," Donna said a little annoyed that Harvey had left Mike to do all of the work on his own.
"I'll be there in a minute, I just need to finish this," Harvey said not looking up at Donna.
"no your going to stop now and come and help Mike," Donna said pushing the folder shut.
"I'm going to be five minutes Donna," Harvey said trying to get the folder open again.
"your pregnant husband is out there trying to get everything ready for your sons birthday and you're in here doing work. you need to get there and help." Donna said in a tone that Harvey knew meant that there was no arguing with her about it.
Harvey just stood up walking around his desk before saying. "don't moan at me tomorrow when I don't have all the work done." before walking past Donna and out of his office. "Donna said you needed my help."
"Yeah. can you hang up the birthday banner. we forgot to do it last night, and I can't do it." Mike told Harvey turning around from where is he was looking in the fridge.
"where is the banner?" Harvey asked as Donna walked into the kitchen.
"in the cupboard where all of the decorations are," Mike said pointing to the door on the other side of the kitchen.
"I need to hang it in the dining room right?" Harvey asked walking over to the cupboard.
"Yeah," Mike said before going back to finishing the dinner.
"so what are you getting up to with your friends at the weekend?" Donna asked Theo as they eat dinner.
"were just going out. nothing special." Theo told her not having any clue what was going on as his friends were trying to surprise him.
"really nothing special?" Rachel asked shocked knowing that the last thing her nephew would want was to not make a big deal about his birthday. "you love your birthday, you love making a big deal out of it."
"his friends are planning a surprise for him." Mike but in. "no one knows whats going on."
"you and papa aren't even going to be there, do you really need to know what's going on?" Theo asked having told his parents that he didn't want them at his party this year.
"I know I would still like to know what's going on though," Mike told Theo hating not knowing what his son was going to do for his birthday.
"dad it's my sixteenth I don't need my parent's there," Theo argued back annoyed that they were having this conversation again especially on his birthday.
"and I promised I wasn't going to be there."Mike shot back.
"maybe let's just enjoy tonight and finish this tomorrow," Harvey suggested not wanting to have to hear this argument again.
"yes of course, it's your birthday lets not ruin it." Mike smiled softly at his son.
"did you have a good birthday?" Mike asked Theo after everyone had left.
"yeah it was really nice dad. thanks." Theo stood up from his place on the sofa and walked over to were his dad was placing his birthday cards on the fireplace. "I'm going to go and sort out all of my presents."
"you do that," Mike said with a smile watching his son walk out of this living room.
"We did good with that one." Harvey said shocking MIke as he slid his arms around his waist. "at least so far. we still have at least two years to mess it up."
"We did do pretty good." Mike agreed.
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