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Mr. and Mrs. Specter: New Ventures

Chapter 20

"Donna!"

"Harvey! What is it! I'm with the baby. Use the intercom!" Donna yelled and then rolling her own eyes stretched from the diaper changer to intercom near the door and pressed the button and you could hear Donna's voice throughout the spacious home. "Use the intercom, Harvey." Donna said reminding him why they put the intercom there in the first place. Even Mandy and Gordon know to use it! Guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

"Sorry, I always forget we have this thing," Harvey said as he talked into the intercom. He was downstairs rifling through his papers on his desk looking for Donna's tablet wherein she had recorded the informal deposition taken only a few days before. He really needed to go over that and pick it apart. Amelia would be one of the key witnesses on the list that he had been compiling for the trial. Harvey was unable to find it on his desk.

"How come you forget? I finally have Gordon and Amanda stopped from yelling for me when the baby is asleep. Learn. You'll save your voice and my ears."

"Donna, stop. I'm sorry," Harvey apologized. She's been agitated ever since Amelia left the other day.

"What do you need? I will be down in a minute. I need to feed Kenzie."

"I was wondering if you had seen your tablet? It was on my desk. I need to go over the finer points of Amelia's depo."

"Oh, Harvey, honey. It's up here in the bedroom. I was showing the kids something on it when I put them to bed last night."

"Be right up, then," Harvey said and released the intercom talk button. Amanda and Gordon were spending this Sunday at their Aunt Carol's house and playing with her children. When they got home they were all going to have a nice family day and play some table games or video games that all could enjoy. Until then, though, Harvey wanted to make sure all testimony was in order and his witness list up to date for court.

Harvey took the steps two at a time and almost ran into his wife who was descending to feed their youngest. Harvey rubbed his belly realizing that he forgot to eat breakfast as he was getting Mandy and Gordon ready to go to Donna's sister's house.

Donna spotted his move and said, "You forgot to make breakfast for yourself. It's ok. I can make you a sandwich while I'm feeding her. You know little Kenzie Specter here is getting pretty independent herself. With all her teeth she's feeding herself," Donna said with a smile bouncing the chubby nine-month-old.

"I noticed her shoveling carrots in her mouth the other night," Harvey admired. He then bent forward and took one of Kenzie's hands in his. "Isn't that right, my little pumpkin. You can eat all your food. You don't need anybody." Kenzie laughed in return and Harvey kept tickling her. Eventually he could not keep his hands off her and took her from Donna.

"Say, take her down and put her in her chair. I'll get the tablet for you," Donna offered seeing how engrossed her husband was with their youngest. Harvey turned to descend the stairway with the baby and she continued to giggle at her father's antics all the way down. He sang to her a little offkey about the "wheels on the bus".

Donna went to their bedroom and found the tablet on her night table. She could hear Harvey singing to Kenzie and it made her smile. He loved being a father. Donna knew her children were very lucky in whom their father was.

Donna progressed down the stairs and could hear Harvey's constant singing while he put in her chair and gave her new sippy cup. She stopped at the bottom and smiled. When she got to the kitchen where Kenzie was preparing to eat, she had already thrown a couple of macaroni and cheese pasta figures at her father.

"Come on Kenzie sweetie, eat one like this for daddy," Harvey said as he put one in his mouth.

"Watch it, she can get possessive with her food," Donna jibed as she handed Harvey her tablet.

Donna sat down and watched Kenzie put the macaroni pieces in her mouth. Harvey gave a kiss to his daughter's little red tresses and then he repeated the same thing to his wife. He was then engrossed in the testimony that of the previous night. He proceeded to walk back to his office.

Just as Harvey sat down at his large mahogany desk topped with files, pictures and his laptop, the general ringtone of his cell blared. It startled Harvey from his study of the witness list amassed so far.

"Harvey, I found something that will help us prove Mike didn't set that bomb," Benjamin reported.

"Benjamin. What is it?"

"After studying every part of this footage, there is a calendar that one can see from the kitchen. If you blow it up, the date is very distinctively this past April on the day of the bombing. In earlier footage or where a cut was made the calendar reads in September of last year before Donna opened the center."

"That's it! It's on the same footage?" Harvey asked. He had to be completely sure before he petitioned the court to drop the charges.

"Yes. I don't know why I didn't notice it before, but there is a blip that shows the kitchen where the bomber is. Before you see him hook up the bomb, the calendar says one thing and then when he leaves the calendar very distinctively says the date of the bombing."

"I think this will work. I just have to convince the judge. Let me check tomorrow when I see you. Thank you, Benjamin for your diligence in this matter."

"You're welcome, Harvey."

Harvey's phone disconnected and he sat holding his phone diagonally against his closed lips deep in thought. He had to talk with Donna. This was only the second real hopeful evidence they had discovered to show Mike's innocence.

Donna came in carrying Kenzie and found him with the phone against his teeth.

"What is it, Harvey? You found something that's going to put Mike in prison?" She held Kenzie close to her and placed a kiss on the side of the baby's head. Kenzie had put her fake cold lima beans into her mouth sucking away the urge to cry from a still teething mouth.

Harvey looked up as if he had seen Donna for the first time.

"No! We got'em Donna. Between Amelia's testimony and the evidence that Benjamin said he now found on the security footage, we got them," Harvey said smiling the first time a genuine smile in weeks. He rose and came over to kiss his wife.

"We're going to Mike's..."

"Not tonight. We're having dinner with my sister and her family," Donna said turning to go out of the room. Kenzie dropped her teething beans and Donna had stooped to get them when Harvey had picked them up first. Instinctively heading for the kitchen to wash them off. Their house was immaculately clean, but Harvey instinctively did not trust the cleaning service as much as Donna.

He came back and held the teething ring on the end of his finger until Kenzie took it. Kenzie clamored to be taken by her father, so Harvey took her out of Donna's arms and into his own and tilted his head sideways which was his look for 'Donna, you can't be serious'.

"I'll call my sister and cancel. I'll tell her..." Donna could not think of a thing at the moment that she could tell her sister without her knowing she was lying.

"I'll just tell her the truth," Donna said smirking and took her phone from the pocket of her jeans.

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When all five Specters showed up at the Ross' for dinner and serious talk, Donna went into the kitchen while Jamie and Donna's two older children played in Jamie's room.

"Sorry about this, Rach. We were supposed to go to my sister's and have dinner with her since she had Mandy and Gordon with her all day. Harvey has some good news about evidence and what Ben finally found on that security footage."

Rachel had just taken a head of lettuce out of the refrigerator and began to chop it up for a salad.

"Can I help?" Donna asked as Harvey was tending to Kenzie whom she had seen try to pull herself up on the Ross' glass coffee table. Donna glanced out at the two men with the baby between them. She watched as Harvey held his daughter by her waist so she would not fall and hit her mouth or her head. He would slip to the side of the couch when Kenzie would toddle to the side. Donna quickly came back to the cutting board at the butcher's block in the Ross' kitchen and continued chopping the tomatoes for the salad.

Rachel caught Donna's smile and said, "What's so funny?"

"Harvey and Mike," Donna said. "I took a glance to make sure Kenzie was being good with her daddy and here's Mike and Harvey playing tag team to make sure she doesn't fall and hit her head or some other part of her body as Kenzie walks along the coffee table." Donna demonstrated for Rachel by holding out her hands and surrounding a phantom baby waist and then shuffling her feet to one side and then she said Mike was doing the same thing to the other side.

"Mike knows from experience. When Jamie was learning to walk, he took his eye off her for one second and she fell and put her tooth through her lip when she hit the table. The funniest thing was seeing poor Mike panic. He thought she was going to bleed to death and after I made sure hadn't hurt her neck or anything, I relentlessly teased him. I thought he was going to leave me.." Rachel smiled as she shuffled around Donna and began on the other lettuces she was putting into the massive salad which would accompany Rachel's lasagne. Rachel's lasagne recipe was her mother's and it was known to be the best homemade lasagne in Manhattan.

"So what's this new evidence that Harvey has?"

"Last week we informally deposed Amelia. She suddenly remembered about Jalena, Lazo's wife, hovering around the reception desk that day and then escorting the guy who looked like an inspector but was really the bomber. Then Benjamin called Harvey earlier today and told him that he found a time and date on the security footage that he had not noticed before. So I assume our hubbies are out there building their strategy for trial."

"Or to further contend to the charges be dropped. I know that Harvey has been trying based on those fingerprints on the cell phone you found in the debris," Rachel said.

"Allison Holt has been a real bear about maintaining a civil suit. Even with the affidavit that Harvey had me sign which Fox, Lazo and...the other guy had notorized. They now contend that it was not legal. I forget the reason, but they still want me to pay for damages!" Donna scoffed and threw the last of the chopped tomatoes into the salad bowl.

"Are we doing cucs?" Donna asked. She knew Harvey was not a cucumber person but the rest of them were even Gordon, Mandy, and Jamie.

"Can Harvey pick them out of his bowl?" Rachel asked having the same knowledge.

"Yes, he's a big boy. I think he can handle it," Donna said laughing.

Meanwhile, in the living room of the large apartment, Harvey and Mike chased a toddling Kenzie around the coffee table and she was so engrossed in watching her father and Uncle Mike chase her around Kenzie kept making a game out of it. Every time she would think to move from her father, she would look back and smile while she drooled from cutting teeth all over her little Winnie-the-Pooh blouse. Harvey would dive to get her and she would giggle and toddle over to Mike's side of the table.

"Boo!" Mike said and Kenzie would giggle and move back to her father. This went on during the entire twenty minute conversation that he and Mike enjoyed strategizing and aligning their evidence for dismissal of the criminal case against Mike.

"Harvey, that's..." Mike said, ("boo!" to Kenzie). "...great! We now have another witness and the security footage has got be admissible. I was pretty sure that the DA would be pushing for that and we have the detonator with the guy's fingerprints. Finally!"

"Ok, come here, pumpkin pie," Harvey said and lunged for the baby. She crowed and giggled and Harvey blew into her belly which made her laugh and slap her daddy's head in response.

"Dinner!" Rachel called to one and all. The unmistakable thunder of three hungry children, two grown men, and one toddler all rushed into the dining room to partake of the meal that Rachel lovingly cooked and Donna helped.

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Next day at the office, Benjamin showed Harvey where in the footage he had seen the clock and calendar and he quickly snapshot it. Harvey also had the formal deposition retyped and covered for court purposes. Then he received a rather odd phone call which helped even more solidify either a dismissal or a sure win in court.

"Harvey?" Gloria said over the intercom.

"Yes, Gloria?" Harvey answered his assistant.

"Jalena Karenza Lazo on the line for you?"

Harvey knew immediately who it was having just seen Amelia's deposition this morning and having talked the case with Mike, Rachel, and Donna the night before.

"Put her through, Gloria. Thank you," Harvey said.

"You're welcome. Coming through now," Gloria said as she released the button and transferred the call.

"Harvey Specter."

"Uh, Mr. Specter, I'm Jalena Karenza and I want to talk to you about the bombing of your wife's Yoga studio," Jalena said with a slight Russian accent and scared tiny voice.

"What can you tell me, Jalena? Can you tell me who did this? If you are would you be willing to testify in open court?"

"I would like to do that but I have some problems before I can agree. Can you help me?"

"Jalena, we can discuss these issues. Do you want to come to my office or can I meet you somewhere?"

"No...if my husband finds out I'm talking to you he will deport me and disown me," Jalena said.

"I can protect you. Your husband will not be able to hurt you. I will make sure of that," Harvey reasoned. It was not the first time that a witness/accomplice was scared for his or her life. He had been afraid that was why she had not remained in sight in the hours after the bombing. She just apologized to Amelia and then took off to other regions.

Now, however, was the icing on the cake and Harvey was not going to let her get away. If she turned state's evidence then the judge for sure would throw Mike's case out.

The only problem was that he could not represent her and Mike as it was a conflict of interest. However, if she confessed and the judge decided to throw the case out, then he could represent her and get the real perpretrator.

"First of all, I need to see you and you can confess and tell me how you're husband is blackmailing you. I can't represent you yet; however, I am sure that Mike Ross will be exonerated if you confess and then I cut a deal with DA so you won't get punished as badly.

"So, if I still confess to what I know, I may still go to jail? All I want to do is to go home to Russia," Jalena started crying again.

"Mrs. Lazo, Jalena, I can help you..." The phone went dead.

"God damn it!"

Luckily Donna was coming down the hall to see her husband and heard him curse out loud. She waved off Gloria as she was rushing in there to see what she could do to help.

"Harvey! What just happened?" Donna said taking her old perch on the edge of his desk and placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"I had the smoking gun, the last bullet to get Mike exonerated and you free from the civil suit!" Harvey exclaimed loudly rising and striding toward the far window of his office. He punched one hand into the palm of the other.

Donna remained in her spot and watched him walk away. "What do mean, Harvey?"

"Jalena Karenza. She was on the phone. She called in and said she was ready to confess her part in the bombing and turn her husband in for his part. I must have scared her because she hung up before she would agree to meet me."

"Do you know from what phone she was calling? It may not have been a payphone. There really aren't too many of them," Donna said. She rose and turned around and before she could call for Gloria the young woman had written down the number on a yellow sticky note and handed it to Donna.

"Thanks, Gloria," Donna said taking it and while she examined the number she gave it to Harvey who frowned when he saw it.

"This has to be a cell, right? Because that's an Illinois area code, right?" Harvey asked his wife.

"Yes, 630 is an Illinois area code. Call it," Donna suggested.

So Harvey did and was pleased that Jalena answered and when she heard who was on the other end did not hang up.

"Jalena, tell me where you are. Donna and I will both come get you. Are you safe?"

There was a gulp of air. "I'm in Soho right outside a Chinese restaurant."

"Ok, give me the exact address. Look for a large black Lexus with the plates LAWHRS. That's my car. Stay safe we'll be there shortly." Harvey hung up and looked up at Donna.

"How about you send Rachel, Harvey? She's a lawyer and can help her."

Harvey looked at his wife and thought for a minute. "That's a great idea, but it's still a conflict of interest. It is a huge conflict of interest, right?"

Donna hit her head with her hand. "You might think I still had baby brain after almost nine months after having her."

Harvey chuckled at his wife's antics. "You don't have to beat yourself up. I like your head in the shape it is. Don't hit it too often, ok?" Harvey joked and kissed his wife quickly.

"I'll see you in a bit," Harvey said as he swiftly walked out of his office.

Donna stood there a little while after watching him stride off.