Hi All! Thank you to guest and -carlota for the nice comments. Thank you to my faithful followers. I have your names, but I am afraid to leave anybody out, so I will say thank you because I am really touched that you like my stories that much. This chapter is short, but I assure that the chapters will have a little more content now that I have found the direction I want to go. Enjoy! Chapter 4 up shortly...Carebearmaxi

Mr. and Mrs Specter - New Ventures

Chapter 3

Harvey and Donna returned home. Immediately they were thrust into their mommy and daddy roles.

"Daddy, see the poem I wrote?" Amanda said running to Harvey and Donna as they came through the front door.

"Mommy, I'm hungry," Gordon said running behind his sister.

Harvey smiled and bending down to her height immediately enveloped his daughter into his arms.

"You wrote a poem for me?" Harvey said to Amanda.

"Didn't Aunt Julia feed you?" Donna said crouching in her tight skirt to face Gordon's little unhappy face.

"Yes, I fed the both of them," Julia, Donna's younger sister said as she appeared from the direction of the family room. "He's just still a little hungry. I didn't give him dessert because he told me he wanted to wait for you and Harvey, so you could all eat dessert together."

"Dessert?" Donna asked and looked at Harvey.

"Sounds good to me," Harvey said still carrying Amanda with one arm and her poem in his other hand.

"We don't have any dessert, guys," Donna said screwing her face into a weird look.

"Yes, we do," Gordon said tugging at his mother's dress. It's in here, mommy."

Donna took Gordon's little hand in hers and let him lead her into the dining room. Donna glanced at the clock on her way past the living room where a gold ormolu clock sat on the fireplace mantle. The clock's hands pointed 8:30. The tiny send off for Jessica they had in her office actually delayed them coming home longer than they had anticipated.

"Happy Birthday!" Donna walked through the living room and into the dining room and immediately the room lit up with a plethora of people that were friends and relatives.

Donna was surprised at the gathering in her dining room. Both her sisters, her sister's Carol's children as well as her cousin, Joe, with whom she was close. He had brought his wife and children as well. She looked around and wanted to cry. Instead she turned to her husband who smiled his signature smile while still holding their daughter.

"Blow out the candles, mommy!" Amanda shouted above the din of the room.

Donna picked up Gordon and asked, 'You want help mommy take out this fire?"

Both Gordon and Amanda grinned at their mom and enthusiastically helped blow out the candles.

Everyone cheered as the candles went out and Donna's cousin said, "Good thing. I thought for sure the smoke alarm would go off!"

Everyone again laughed at his poke at Donna's 45 years of age.

Roberta, Donna's mom, was immediately there with the cake knife to cut the large cake into little portions for all who desired a piece. It was chocolate on one side with vanilla custard frosting on the top and the other was yellow cake for those who did not enjoy chocolate.

"Come and get it!" Roberta said aloud.

The children, Amanda and Gordon as well as those of Donna's cousin, all stood in line to get their piece of cake.

Harvey cleared his throat.

"Before we chomp down on this delicious cake, I want to present my wife with her birthday present from me."

"Mm? I thought you would give that to me later," Donna said sexily in an aside to her husband. The remark was just loud enough for everyone to hear and to respond with catcalls and faux disgusted looks.

Harvey helped place Amanda at the table with her brother and cousins and pulled a sheaf of legal looking papers from his inner pocket. He handed them to Donna.

"What? Sick of me already? These are divorce papers, right?' Donna half-joked. She did not think so, but she was not sure until she unfolded them and read them.

"Read them," Harvey said softly holding her against him with his arm around her waist and his hand against her hip. He then kissed the side of her head as she unfolded the sheaf of papers and began to read.

She unfolded the pages and began with the cover letter on top.

"Enclosed is your official lease to 1212 John Street, Brooklyn, NY…." Donna read. As her voice softened and her eyes looked up to everyone standing around her mouth dropped open. She turned to her husband.

"Harvey. Is this what I think it is?"

"Yes, your bid went through for the site and I had Gretchen type the lease so I could surprise you," Harvey said taking the papers from Donna's unsteady hands.

"Congratulations! Your own studio! You're certified now!" came the comments from all in the room.

"Thank you, Harvey," Donna said taking one side of the papers and kissed her husband.

"Just remember this is your part time job. I still have your cute ass during the day at the firm," reminded Harvey.

"We'll see about that," Donna reminded Harvey back. They had discussed it thoroughly and arguably one night when Donna was having a midlife crisis moment.

Harvey heard her remark and his joy at giving her the lease was lessening the more he pondered the new situation.