Chapter 6

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Having spent a week at home Mike is very much looking forward to going to work and so on his first day he got up even earlier than he had to get ready before getting on his bicycle, that he brought to avoid riding in cabs or town cars, and road into the firm.

Getting through security without a trouble Mike makes his way up to the floor where he knows he has to wait to be given an orientation by one of the Paralegals, something which Mike knows he doesn't need as he knows Pearson Hardman better than almost anyone.

Having been told to wait in the waiting room Mike can't help but walk over to the window and look out of the window as ever since he was a kid he's always loved the view.

"Mike Ross." A voice says and Mike turns to see a dark haired woman, "Hi, I'm Rachel Zane, I'll be giving you your orientation." Rachel says, shaking Mike's hand and right away Mike recognizes her name and knows that if his secret is ever to come out then Rachel will probably the one person to understand why he kept who he is a secret.

"Hi, um, Mike, me, nice to meet you." Mike says, sounding awkward as he's never been overly good at making first impressions on people he is going to be working with, part of the reason why Katrina is the only close friend he had at the DA's office.

"Good. You've hit on me. We can get it out of the way that I am not interested." Rachel informs Mike.

"I wasn't hitting on you." Mike says quickly, not even understanding how she can think he is.

"Trust me. I've given dozens of these and, without fail, whatever new hotshot it is thinks that just because I'm just a paralegal, that I will somehow be blown away by his dazzling degree. Let me assure you, I won't." Rachel tells Mike, and he quickly tries to think of a way to respond to that without revealing his sexual orientation as he doesn't do that until he is sure that he can trust the person he's telling, at least in a professional setting, as the only person at the DA's office who knew was Katrina, not even Dennis knew.

"I'm not like every other hotshot." Mike tells Rachel, "And trust me, I wasn't hitting on you."

"Sure you weren't." Rachel tells him, not believing as she hands over a notepad and pen, "Take notes, I'm not gonna repeat myself." She says before turning away from Mike. As she turns away Mike rolls his eyes but follows, knowing that he isn't going to need to take a single note not just because of his memory but because he knows everything there is to know about Pearson Hardman, in fact he is sure that he knows things Rachel doesn't."


Half an hour later Mike, having completed his orientation with Rachel, during which he asked questions that someone who hadn't spent most of their live at Pearson Hardman would ask, and he only got called a show off once, which isn't at all strange for him. Once the orientation was finished Mike was shown to Harvey's office, his mother's old one, where he has been waiting ever since.

"Mike." Harvey greats, walking into office a little while after Mike started waiting.

"Hey. Who's ready for a great first day?" Mike ask as Harvey walks in.

"I just lost my promotion, there's no job for you anymore Mike." Harvey says, as he walks over and sits at his desk, "I'm going to have to let you go." He says, not liking that as he was looking forward to getting to know Mike.

"What did you do?" Mike asks, knowing that his mother wouldn't just fire Harvey without a good reason.

"I lied to a client." Harvey reveals, "The client found out, and fired the firm so Jessica took away my promotion." He explains.

"Did Jessica know you lied?" Mike asks, doing so because he knows his mother's thought process which means if he knew why then he can figure out a way for Harvey to get his promotion back.

"Why?" Harvey asks, looking at Mike in suspicion.

"Because if Jessica knew you lied and didn't report you then she's in the exact same boat as you, and you can use that to your advantage to get your promotion back." Mike explains to Harvey, being pretty sure that his mother is waiting for Harvey to pull something like this as taking away Harvey's promotion means he gets fired which is something his mother would do without a fight.

"You're re-hired." Harvey says before walking out, leaving Mike amused in Harvey's office. Seconds after Harvey walks out the door opens and Donna walks in.

"You know I don't know how much of a good idea you using personal knowledge is." Donna comments, "Especially when it's your Mom and Harvey that your using the knowledge on."

"We both know that they'd both be disappointed if I didn't." Mike comments.

"Good point." Donna says, looking amused, and knowing that he is right, "How's your morning been?" Donna asks curious.

"Strange." Mike admits, "Do you know how odd it is to be given an orientation to a place you've spent most of your life at?"

"I'm guessing very." Donna assumes.

"That would be an understatement." Mike admits, "Thanks for not telling Harvey who I am." He says gratefully.

"I'm only doing that because Jessica told me that you're only keeping it a secret for one case." Donna tells him.

"That was our deal." Mike says with a nod,

"Good luck, Mike." Donna says before walking out.

After Donna leaves Mike looks around the office and as he does he can't help but remember all the times that he was in the office with his mother, all the times he spent working in it, and as he walks over to one of the chairs Mike can't help but admit that he rather prefers Harvey's style.

Only a few minutes after Harvey walked out of his office he walks back in and throws a file at Mike as he does.

"Your first case." Harvey tells Mike as he catches it.

"Awesome. What is it?" Mike asks curious.

"Pro bono." Harvey answers, "Sexual harassment. Don't tell anyone I laid it off on you and don't screw it up." Harvey tells Mike and in that second Mike is absolutely positive that his mother told Harvey not to hand it off.

"Got it. You can't handle it?" Mike says as he stands up, doing so for his own amusement, "I'll knock it out of the park." Mike says with an amused look on his face, wondering how long it will be until Jessica finds out what Harvey has done.

"Easy, Clarence Thomas, just go meet the client." Harvey tells him.

"Will do." Mike says before walking out of Harvey's office, looking forward to getting to work.


For the rest of the day Mike works on the pro bono case, he visits with the client, updates Harvey, during which time Harvey mocks his skinny ties, which Mike knew was coming, and he easily fills out the subpoena he has to file to get the information that they require.

As he knew better than leaving early on his first day Mike is still hard at work when Rachel came to his desk to inform him that Louis Litt wanted to see him, and the second he knew that, because he has heard enough from Louis from his mother, Mike got up and hurried off to Louis's office, while making it seem like that wasn't what he was doing.

Having been shown into Louis's office Mike has been siting across from the older man for an uncomfortable amount of time, something which Mike knows is Louis's point.

"I know you had orientation from Rachel, but I wanted to give you a special welcome from me." Louis says, "Um, amongst other things, I'm sort of the disciplinarian of the associates." Louis says and hearing that Mike has to bite his tongue as form what he knows he knows that that is a responsibility that Louis takes a lot of pride in, but thankfully before he can comment there is a knock on the glass.

"You wanted to see me?" The man asks.

"Yes, Gary, please come in. Mike, this is Gary Lipski. Gary's one of our most promising associates form last year." Louis says and hearing that Mike searches his memory, trying to figure out if his Mother has mentioned him, but he comes up blank, though that may not mean anything.

"Hi." Mike says as he shakes Gary's hand.

"Gary, Ms Pearson wanted me to ask, have you completed the Petrenko filing?" Louis asks.

"Oh, well, my brother was in over the weekend so I didn't really get to it." Gary admits and Mike can't help but wonder why Louis would have this conversation in front of him.

"I mean, Gary, come on, this is, like the third time I've had to ask." Louis reveals.

"I'll get right on it." Gary says.

"Don't bother, you're fired." Louis informs him.

"What? Y-, y-, can't fire me." Gary says.

"Oh, yes, I can. And I just did. Go pack your things. And don't you ever show your face in this place again." Louis says and Gary hurries out of the room.

"See, I arranged for you to see that because we pay our associates very well and we provide the opportunity for advancement." Louis says, "But, in return we expect results. Have I made myself clear?" Louis asks.

"Yeah."

"Great. Welcome to Pearson Hardman." Louis says, "Feel free to go back to work." He says and Mike gets up and heads out of Louis's office.

For his entire walk back to his cubical Mike thinks about what just happened and as he does he can't help but think that there is something off about what just happened, because as far as he knows his mother doesn't fire someone for missing a filing, even if it is more than once, but he doesn't know enough about Louis to know whether he would, either way Mike promises himself that he will be sure to give no one a reason to fire him.


Having left the office hours after talking to Louis Mike got a few hours' sleep before making his way back into the office where he found out that, unsurprisingly, Devlin McGregor's fighting the subpoena, and after overhearing a conversation between his mother and Harvey Mike has no doubt that she knows that Harvey has passed the case on.

Even though Mike is sure that most associates in his shoes would get help from a Paralegal Mike knows that no associate knows the Pearson Hardman library like he does, and so he knows that he doesn't need help in fact he is sure that any help will just slow him down. And so, after talking to Harvey about the hearing Mike has taken a table to himself in the library and gotten started on his research, starting with books to do with privacy and harassment law that he didn't read when he was a teenager.

Hours later Mike is still in the library surrounded by not just books but Chinese food when he hears footsteps and as he looks up he is rather surprised to see Harvey.

"Are you doing all this research alone?" Harvey asks, being a little surprised by that.

"I do research better alone." Mike says simply.

"Don't let your ego get in the way." Harvey tells Mike, "You say you care about the client, but if you are too proud to ask a paralegal for help and don't find me an argument then the clients going to lose." Harvey informs Mike, "I don't want to lose." Harvey tells Mike.

"Me not asking for help has nothing to do with my ego." Mike says annoyed, "When it comes to this kind of thing I figure things out better alone."

"Well you better prove it." Harvey says, very much doubting that he can.

"I will, but this case was done by the book and if I don't find the right argument then we're going to look like the bad guys putting them under duress." Mike says, and then his eyes widen, "That's it!" Mike says, something coming to him as he gets up and hurries back to the stacks to books that he read when he was a teenager.

"What's it?" Harvey asks, having followed the kid to the stacks to see what he's thinking.

"Something that may just be the perfect argument." Mike comments as he starts to search for the right book.

"Good, get me the file by the morning." Harvey says before walking away.

"Will do." Mike says as he finds the right book and heads back to his desk as he does he finds that the library isn't empty but Rachel is there too.

"Are you doing your own research?" Rachel asks, sounding surprised.

"Why does everyone sound so surprised about that?" Mike asks as he heads back to his table.

"Because most associates would get a paralegal to do it for them." Rachel tells Mike.

"Like I said, I'm not most associates." Mike says, sitting back down.

"You really weren't hitting on me this morning, were you?" Rachel asks, starting to realise that there is more to the newest associate than meets the eye.

"I really wasn't." Mike confirms.

"Sorry." Rachel tells him, "I know you said you're not like other associates, but everyone can use another set of eyes sometimes."

"Thanks for the offer, but I just found what I needed." Mike tells her.

"Okay, I'll leave you too it then." Rachel says before heading out of the library.

After Rachel leaves opens the book he got and gets started on the game plan that Harvey is going to use in court.


Having only gotten a few hours' sleep Mike got up to take the argument down to Harvey who was waiting by his car and together the two of them have gone to court, Mike having been tense the entire car ride as he's still not completely comfortable in cars, though he is better than he used to be, and he is quite glad that even though he is sure Harvey noticed he didn't mention anything.

Honestly, after everything he has heard Mike is very much looking forward to seeing the great Harvey Specter in court and so as soon as they walk into the court room Mike makes himself comfortable at the desk and waits just watches, and truthfully he enjoys ever single second of watching Harvey argue. In fact, in some ways, it reminds him of watching his mother when he was a kid, it reminds him of why he loves the law.

"That was awesome." Mike says as he and Harvey gather up their paperwork.

"It was your argument. I just framed it in a way that humanised the situation and brightened all our afternoons." Harvey says.

"I feel like Michael Corleone in that scene where the fat guy teaches him how to shoo that gun." Mike comments, even though he has been to court many times before watching Harvey makes him feel like he really is a rookie and that he has so much to learn.

"Are you saying that I'm the fat guy? Coz I'm not the fat guy." Harvey comments as he and Mike exit the court room.

"Maybe." Mike comments, looking a little amused as he follows Harvey, "Do you know what his name was?"

"Yeah."

"Cordoza." Mike comments, purposely lying to see if Harvey knows.

"Clemenza."

"I knew that." Mike comments, "I was just testing to see if you knew." Mike reveals.

"I knew that you knew that I knew." Harvey says with an amused look on his face, "And you know that reference isn't right, you've been in court before." Harvey points out.

"Yeah, but I still clearly have a lot to learn." Mike admits, having no shame in admitting that and Harvey can't help but smirk.


"Mr Ross, a word." Jessica says to Mike hours later as he walks past Jessica's office, heading home after checking in with Donna.

"Yes Ms Pearson." Mike says and he walks into Jessica's office, it being clear that both of them feel rather uncomfortable with speaking in such professional ways.

"So, I heard you saw Harvey in court today." Jessica says to her son once they are in her office, "What you think?"

"I think I've got a hell of a lot to learn." Mike admits, "He's impressive." Mike says with a smile, being pretty sure that he is impressed in more than just a professional way, not that he would admit that to his mother.

"That he is." Jessica tells him, "How do you think this case is going to go?" she asks her son curious.

"Not sure yet." Mike responds, "We're waiting for files that should be here in the morning." Mike reveals.

"Well I guess you better go and gets some sleep." Jessica tells her son, "And you better eat something more than take away."

"Mom…." Mike starts to argue.

"I mean it Mike, you need to eat better and If I find out you're not I'm going to have my driver do your grocery shopping." Jessica tells her son, her voice stern and Mike has no doubt that she is serious.

"Yes Mom." Mike says, resisting the urge to roll his eyes as is sure that won't end well for him, "I better go, night."

"Goodnight Mike." Jessica responds and Mike heads out of his mother's office.


Having done what his mother asked and had real food and sleep Mike once more got into Pearson Hardman earlier so that he could get to work, but to, his disappointment, Mike realised that the files weren't at his cubical.

"I heard you won your motion." A voice says and Mike looks up to see Rachel.

"How'd you hear that?" Mike asks curious.

"I just got a call saying your files are in conference room C." Rachel reveals.

"Why wouldn't they just bring them to my cubical?" Mike asks, though he has a sinking suspicion that he knows exactly what the reason would be.

"Only one way to find out." Rachel responds and the two of them head to conference room C which is full of boxes.

"They're trying to bury you in paperwork." Rachel comments, seeing all the boxes.

"Well, they picked the wrong guy." Mike comments as more than once people he has been facing have tried to bury him in paperwork, and so far, no one has succeeded.

"Well, if they didn't, I did." Harvey says, "Get it done by the end of the week." Harvey says while on his phone, "I gotta run and charm my new client." Harvey says before leaving.

"I take it you're going to handle this all alone too." Rachel says to Mike once Harvey leaves.

"Yep." Mike confirms before heading over to the first box.


Having gotten no sleep Mike managed to get through all the files in the boxes in one night, and has made his way to Harvey's office where he collapses onto Harvey's couch, one that isn't quite as comfortable as the one that his Mother used to have in the office.

"I know where they don't want us to look." Mike reveals as Harvey walks into the office.

"Did you get through all those files in one night?" Harvey asks, honestly impressed and surprised, something which he has been a lot since meeting Mike.

"Eh, I would have done it faster but I ordered a pizza." Mike says as Harvey puts his briefcase on his desk, "Speaking of which, have you ever had the cheese in the crust? Because it blew my mind." Mike reveals as he figured that if his Mom was going to get mad at him for his eating habits he'd try something new.

"What d'you find?" Harvey asks curious as he types at his laptop,

"There was a dismissal on March 12, 2005 but the file with the employee name on it is missing. It's our woman. I know it is. I'm moving to slap sanctions their attorney, possible jail time. That guy's not gonna know what hit him." Mike explains as Harvey picks up his phone.

"Dennis. It's Harvey Specter. Did you have anything to do with the March 12th, 2005 files left out of discovery." Harvey asks and as he does Mike yawns and can't help but be disgusted as he catches a whiff of himself.

"If they're here by noon, I'll believe you, if not, we're filing for sanctions." Harvey says to the person on the phone, "Threat of sanctions is better than filing for sanctions, I would have thought you would know that." Harvey says to Mike as he takes something out of his draw.

"Right, I did." Mike says, telling the truth, cursing himself for making such a stupid mistake.

"Shave." Harvey tells Mike, putting a razor in front of Mike before leaving.


After shaving like Harvey asked Mike spent the rest of the day working on the case, talking to both the original witness, and then speaking to someone else who was in the same situation in an attempt to get her to testify, and because that took a while it isn't until late that Mike once more walks into Harvey's office where Harvey is sitting and listening to music.

"What happened with the witness?" Harvey asks the second Mike walks in.

"Er, I failed." Mike says, with a sigh, trying to be as convincing as possible, as Harvey shakes his head and looks back down.

"To not be awesome." Mike says with a grin as he spreads his arms wide, causing Harvey to look back up, "I got her to testify." Mike says as he leans on Harvey's desk, "You should have seen me. I, I tried everything, 'he'd do it again'. You know, I'd be with her every step of the way. Nothing worked. And then it hit me. I asked her what it was her daughter that he did this to? She melted." Mike says with a grin, "Oh, and you know how I came up with that little gem? I care about her." Mike says whispering the last words, backing off, "Ohhh." Mike says, pretending to shoot Harvey with his fingers as Harvey swivels his chair, dodging the pretend bullet, as he does Mike pretends to blow the smoke away from the barrel of a gun, spin and put it back in it's holster.

"Yeah, thank you." Mike says with a grin.

"I'm glad to see that staying up all night doesn't make you act like a complete idiot." Harvey says amused as Mike spins around with his fingers in his ears, "Now, go home and get some sleep, I don't want you waving that thing around during tomorrow's deposition." Harvey says and Mike sees his mother coming he quickly turns serious, clears his throat and holds the door open for his mother, exiting as she enters.

"Harvey. How's the pro bono going?" Jessica asks, not even planning on asking what is going on with her son.

"Great. I just talked a witness into testifying." Harvey reveals.

"Really? What's the witness's name?" Jessica asks, being pretty sure that Harvey isn't going to be able to answer that question, "I'm not an idiot. Don't treat me like one. You pawned off the case." Jessica says, and honest even with how anger she is she would be even angrier If Harvey pawned the case off on anyone but Mike.

"Jessica, I've got higher profile, cases, I…." Harvey starts to say.

"May I remind you that when we first met you were a screwup? I gave you a shot at the mailroom, led you up the ranks and then paid for you to go to Harvard, where, by the way, you jerked off the entire time you were there, and I still hired you." Jessica reminds Harvey.

"And you've benefited from that ever since. Look, I closed the Dockery case, okay? And…" Harvey starts to say, trying to argue in his defence.

"You made a promise to me. You broke it and then you lied to my face. So, let me be clear, this isn't professional, this is personal. And I'll tell you something else. You made your bed, you better God damn win." Jessica tells Harvey, sounding annoyed, leaving Harvey alone and frustrated in his office.


The next day Mike is back at the office after a good night's sleep, but things quickly go downhill from the beginning of the day as not only does the deposition go badly, but the second witness that Mike found now refuses to testify and Mike didn't manage to fix it.

After failing to do that Mike returns to his cubical and as he sits at his desk, Mike knows he screwed up big time, on a case that is clearly important to his mother, and he doesn't know how to fix it, and he knows that he's just going to let her, and Harvey down, and Louis Litt is likely to going to fire him.

As he knows that there is only one way to stop Louis from firing him, only one way to stop disappointing his mother, and Harvey, Mike drops his key card on his desk and heads out of the office.

"What happened with the witness?" Harvey asks as Mike makes his way out of the building.

"Nothing. Nothing happened. I couldn't fix it." Mike says, being disappointed in himself.

"So, you're gonna quit?" Harvey asks, being surprised by that.

"It's better than disappointing everyone." Mike comments, "And if I don't Louis Litt is going to fire me." Mike reveals.

"What are you talking about?" Harvey asks confused.

"My first day, Louis fired Gary Lipsky for screwing up a case. He said if I did the same thing, I'd be gone just as fast." Mike reveals, honestly part of the reason he quit is so that his mother wouldn't be put in a position where she would need to protect him.

"Well, you go back to the witness's house and you get her to testify again." Harvey tells Mike.

"I tried everything I could think off, there's no way." Mike reveals, telling what he believes.

"There's always a way." Harvey tells Mike, saying something that Mike should have learnt during his time in the DA's office.

"Then why don't you go and convince her." Mike says, sounding annoyed.

"Because you screwed it up." Harvey says, sounding just as annoyed as Mike.

"Oh, and you don't give a damn about the client? Right?"

"It's not my job." Harvey responds.

"Does your job include giving a damn about me? Because the last you can do is offer is to stand up to Louis for me." Mike says as while his mother can't stand up to Louis for him, as if she does he might as well quit because everyone would make his life at the firm hell, Harvey can stand up him, he should stand up for him.

"I shouldn't have to offer." Harvey says annoyed, as he would do so without saying anything, "I guess I was wrong about you, because I thought it would take a lot more than this to send you running, but I guess you're not the person I thought you were and I guess you don't have the courage to stick it out when things get tough." Harvey says angrily.

"That's not true." Mike says, pain in his voice, "You don't know a thing about me." He says angrily.

"Don't I?" Harvey asks annoyed, taking a step towards Mike, "You screwed up once and instead of fixing it you're running away with your tail between your legs. You can come up with whatever excuse you want but this isn't because of me and it isn't because of Louis. It's because you're afraid you might have to admit that you're not as smart as you think you are." Harvey tells Mike before walking away.


After Harvey walks away from him Mike walks away too, and even though he desperately wants to go to his mother and get her opinion, get her help, he knows he can't because she would just be disappointed that he is considering quitting and so, Mike goes to the other person he's always been able to count on.

"Michael, what are you doing here?" Edith asks a little while later when Mike makes his way into Edith's room at a care facility that he pays for, even though Jessica's tried to get him to let her pay for.

"I'm letting Mom down Grammy." Mike says, looking upset, "I screwed up a case and I can't make it right. If I don't quit I'm just going to keep disappointing her." Mike says sadly.

"Michael, look at me." Edith says, reaching out and taking Mike's hand, "Since the day Jessica took you in she has never once been disappointed in you, and the only way she would be disappointed now is if you gave up without trying everything you could do, and I know you, Michael you haven't tried everything yet." Edith tells her grandson.


Having spent the entire night with his grandmother's, and even Harvey's words ringing out in his head Mike knows exactly what he has to do and so he gets changed into one of the suits he brought with Katrina and makes his way into work.

"I see you came to work today." Harvey says as Mike walks into his office.

"I've never quit without a fight before; I shouldn't start now." Mike says with a smile, causing Harvey to smile slightly, "Listen, umm, I'm sorry, and…." Mike starts to say.

"Forget it. When I first started Jessica rode me so hard I quit once a month." Harvey reveals as Mike walks over to his windows and honestly Mike wonders if that is true, though it wouldn't surprise him, "I just told you what you needed to hear." Harvey reveals.

"That's just it. I've only every had two people who told me what I needed to hear." Mike says as while Katrina does on occasion the only people who truly tell him what he needs to hear are his mother and grandmother, "Maybe it's time I started trusting someone else." Mike says, looking Harvey causing the older man to reach over and slap him on the back in an affectionate way as Harvey hands him a file.

"Merry Christmas." Harvey say as he does.

"Is this for real?" Mike asks surprised as he reads the file.

"You know what to do." Harvey tells him.

"Press until it hurts." Mike says with a grin before he walks out.


A little while later Mike and Harvey are leaving the court house together, having won their case for their client by a pretty substantial amount.

"So, just one question. Why'd you go to Joanna's house?" Mike asks as they walk out.

"Because I figured it out." Harvey responds.

"I object." Mike comments, "I think you did it because you care."

"I did it because it's my job." Harvey argues, refusing to give Mike the satisfaction of knowing he's right.

"Do you admit it? You care about me." Mike comments, "I saw you smile when I showed up for work this morning."

"I didn't smile. I was thinking of a funny joke." Harvey says, "Look, we start on this tomorrow." Harvey says, handing a file over to Mike as he desperately wants to change the subject.

"Does this mean we're officially a team now?" Mike asks, being pretty sure that if they are then things will change once he and his mom tell Harvey the truth.

"I wouldn't move your things into Wayne Manor just yet." Harvey comments.

"So now you're Batman?" Mike asks disbelieving.

"Closer to him that Clemenza."

"Oh yeah, Kilmer."

"Clooney."

"Keaton." Mike and Harvey say together.

"Did you really quit when you first started?" Mike asks curious, being pretty sure that no matter what Harvey answers he is going to ask his mom.

"Of course not. I'm not a wuss." Harvey says as he and Mike make their way out of the courthouse, side by side.


Hours later Mike, having gotten a call, Mike is knocking on the door to his mother's office.

"You wanted to see me?" Mike asks from the doorway.

"Yes, come in Mike, close the door." Jessica tells her son from the couch and Mike does just that, "So, I heard you won your case."

"Yeah, we did." Mike says as he sits down next to his mother, "Working with Harvey is even better than I thought it would be." He admits.

"I'm proud of you Mike." Jessica tells her son.

"Thanks Mom." Mike says with a smile.

"And I didn't just ask you hear to talk about the case, I have something." Jessica says, getting up and heading over to her desk where she pulls out a bottle form her bottom draw and shows it to Mike, knowing that he will recognize it.

"You brought that the day I graduated high school." Mike comments as Jessica collects to glasses.

"I did. I told you that we'd share it on a special occasion." Jessica says as she walks back over to her son, "But what I didn't tell you is that I always planed that that special occasion would be the day you won your first case as a member of my firm." Jessica informs her son as she sits back down.

"How'd you know that I'd end up working for you? I never planned to." Mike comments as Jessica pours them drinks.

"Call it Mother's intuition." Jessica tells her son, putting the bottle down before picking up a glass, as Mike picks up the other, "Welcome to Pearson Hardman, Mike." Jessica says and the two of them toast before drinking.


A little while later, in Harvey's office, Louis walks straight past Donna, who is on her phone, and into Harvey's office.

"Why is your new Associate drinking in Jessica's office?" Louis asks.

"He's not." Harvey responds.

"Well how would you explain what I just saw?" Louis asks curious, "Because I just saw it for myself. Jessica and your Rookie, sitting side by side in Jessica's office drinking." He reveals, but before Harvey can say anything the door opens and Donna walks in.

"Jessica wants to talk to you in her office." Donna tells Harvey and without a word to Louis he gets up and heads out, as he does Louis goes to follow, "Just Harvey." She tells Louis, stopping him from following.

After leaving his office Harvey makes his way to Jessica's office, wondering what reason Jessica would possibly have for drinking with his associate, as he is pretty sure that they haven't said two words to each other since Mike started.