Chapter 8
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AN1: Thank you so much for the support. You have no idea how much it means to me. I'll probably end up doing a double update again at some point in the coming days.
It has been a few weeks since Harvey found out who Mike really is and ever since the two of them have developed a pretty good working relationship, and even started to form a friendship, though neither would admit that. Since starting to work at Pearson Hardman Harvey isn't the only person who Mike has started to develop a friendship with as after a rocky start he and Rachel have started to develop a friendship, though Mike is worried that she may want to be more than friends with him and so, he's trying not to encourage that.
While things with Harvey and Rachel are pretty good Mike is still having a hard time with Louis and the other associates, something which he suspects would be so much worse if they knew who he really was.
It's night at Pearson Hardman and Louis has had all the associates in his office for a Harvard Trivia night, a competition that Mike unsurprisingly won in a landslide, and as he walks out of Louis's office he is a little amused to find Harvey waiting near his office.
"I won Louis's little competition." Mike tells Harvey.
"Considering one of your last names is on the wall it would be rather embarrassing if you didn't." Harvey informs Mike, having made sure that no one was around before he said so.
"True." Mike confirms, "Hang on is there a Pearson Hardman knowledge quiz night? Because I could beat anyone at that." Mike says as he and Harvey walk through the corridors.
"Sorry Rookie, you're out of luck." Harvey says amused, "Plus you would have an unfair advantage." He says.
"Yeah, but no one would know that I have spent more time here than anyone." Mike tells Harvey.
"True." Harvey admits then he realises something, "How has no one recognized you when you used to spend so much time here?"
"No one pays attention to a quiet, skinny kids in jeans." Mike says simply, "And even if they did no one would think that that same kid is your new associate." Mike reveals and as he does Harvey realises something familiar about that description.
"February 2004. Did you walk into someone at the elevators?" Harvey asks Mike curious.
"Yep, I was waiting for you to remember." Mike confirms.
"How many times did we almost meet?" Harvey asks curious, knowing that Mike will know the answer.
"Twenty-six that I know off." Mike says, without needing to think about it, "But…" Mike starts to say but then he stops mid-sentence when he looks over to his mother's office and sees her saying goodbye to a person he recognizes.
"Mike?" Harvey asks in confusion, looking between Mike and where Jessica is saying goodbye to a person he knows to be Quentin Sainz.
"You've got to be shitting me." Mike says, anger clear in his voice and after Quentin walks away from Jessica he starts to walk towards his mother's office.
As he hears the anger in Mike's voice and watches him storm away Harvey is positive that once more he Is missing something. So, even though he is pretty sure that whatever going on is something personal between Mother and Son that doesn't stop Harvey from being curious and so he hurries after Mike getting into the office just in time to hear Mike ask.
"What the hell is he doing here?" in the same angry tone.
"Watch your tone, Michael." Jessica says, sounding less than happy and hearing that Harvey decides that he is just going to watch, and try and figure out what the hell is going on.
"No, I will not." Mike responds, "He would only be here for two reason and I was there back then so I damn well know it wouldn't be the first reason, and I can't think of a reason why you would even consider the second reason." Mike tells his mother.
"Quentin came here asking for help, from someone he trusts, someone who knows his character." Jessica explains to her son, who snorts, "This firm is taking his case, Michael, and Harvey is taking the lead." Jessica tells her son.
"I am?" Harvey asks confused.
"Well, guess it's a good thing I just won a case from Louis, because I won't be anywhere near that man." Mike says before storming out.
"What am I missing this time?" Harvey asks Jessica once Mike storms out, wondering if he will ever stop asking that question.
After leaving his mother's office Mike makes his way to the bathroom and just paces back and forth for a little while, trying to calm himself down as even though what happened between Quentin and his mother was a long time ago it doesn't change how much he hurt her or the fact that he lied, or that he put Mike in a situation where he had to lie too.
After a little while Mike realises that the pacing does help and so he punches the wall, not as hard enough to seriously hurt himself, just enough to get what he is feeling out, before hitting the with an open fist more than once. It takes about twenty seconds for Mike to feel better and once he does Mike folds his hands above his head and takes several deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.
Mike has been leaning against the wall for about a minute when he hears the door open and he looks up to see Harvey.
"With me." Harvey says simply and Mike pushes himself away from the wall and follows Harvey out of the bathroom, Mike starting to realise that his hand is hurting a little and as he follows Harvey Mike looks down and realises that he cut his knuckles when he punched the wall.
A couple of minutes later Harvey and Mike walk into Harvey's office.
"Sit." Harvey says and Mike does so without argument.
As Mike sits down Harvey walks over to his drinks and pours two glasses of scotch, one of which he hands to Mike.
"Drink." Harvey says, as he hands Mike the glass before sitting down across from him.
Being sure that Harvey is watching him Mike takes a drink of his drink and as he does he honestly has to admit that Harvey has pretty good scotch.
"What do you know that Jessica doesn't?" Harvey asks once Mike takes his drink.
"Harvey…." Mike starts to say.
"I need to know, Mike. Jessica's insisting I take this case, because she said she knows his character from when they were married, but you punched a wall just hearing that she's going to work with him." Harvey says, "There can only be one reason for that, you know something that Jessica doesn't. What is it?" Harvey asks Mike, knowing that it must be something pretty big for Mike to be so angry.
"Mom adopted me, Quentin never did, but I never heled that against him." Mike admits, telling the truth, "One day, during the summer when I was thirteen, I came home early, exhausted from riding my bike with my friends instead of going to my grandmothers." Mike explains, "I found Quentin, with another woman." Mike explains, and Harvey feels anger rise up inside of him, as he hates infidelity more than almost anything, "I told him that I wasn't going to lie, wasn't going to cover for him, and I locked myself in my room for the rest of the day." Mike says, taking another drink, "That night Mom told me that she and Quentin were getting a divorce. I thought that meant he told her the truth." Mike tells Harvey.
"But he didn't." Harvey realises, as he tries to keep the anger out of his voice.
"No, he didn't." Mike confirms, "I didn't know until I was fifteen when I found the divorce papers while trying to figure out what to get Mom for her birthday." Mike explains to Harvey, "And by then too long had passed so if I told Mom the only thing it would do…'
"Is hurt her." Harvey says, now understanding why Mike knows and Jessica doesn't.
"Which is the last thing I wanted." Mike admits, "I hate him, Harvey. For what he did to her, what he made me do, god I hate him so much." Mike explains, pain in his voice, completely meaning that.
"I get that." Harvey says, telling the truth though he's not going to explain more, but as he works out the math in his head Mike would have caught Quentin at about the same time he really told his father about his mother, "You need to tell her." Harvey says, after taking a drink.
"I can't." Mike says, without even thinking about it.
"Mike, I get that you want to protect your Mom from pain, but chances are that it's going to come out during this case, even if I don't take it." Harvey explains to Mike, "No matter how she finds out it's going to hurt her, but if she hears it from you then maybe, just maybe, it will hurt a little less." Harvey tells Mike, doing his best not to think about what happened when he told his father about his mother, "And wouldn't you prefer to tell her yourself than have her hear it from someone else?"
"Yeah, I would." Mike says as he takes another drink, "I'll go to the house in the morning and tell her." He tells Harvey.
"Okay." Harvey says with a nod, "You should do something about that hand." He tells Mike, causing him to look down.
"I've had worse, it'll be fine." Mike says with a shrug and the two of them drift into silence as they drink their drinks. As they drink Mike thinks about how much he would give anything not to have to tell his mother what he has to tell her while Harvey is thinking about how much he would like to hit Quentin, how much he would be perfectly willing to set Mike loose on him if the situation presents itself.
Having had two drinks with Harvey Mike made his way home and after not much sleep he got up and ready for the day before heading to his mother extremely early. Before the time he knows she leaves for work.
When he gets to his mother's house Mike lets himself in,
"Mom?" Mike calls as he closes the front door behind him.
"Kitchen." Jessica calls back and Mike heads there.
"Morning." Mike says as he walks into the kitchen, there being a slight nervousness to his voice as he walks in.
"Morning." Jessica responds, "Would you like some coffee?"
"Sure." Mike answers sitting down on a stall, purposely hiding his hand that is not just cut but staring to bruise.
"What do I owe this visit for, Mike?" Jessica asks her son, knowing that he wouldn't come without a reason.
"There's something I never told you, about Quentin." Mike admits as Jessica pours him a cup of coffee and hands it over.
"Would this reason be why you were so angry last night?" Jessica asks her son, as she suspected that there was something more going on when she saw how angry he was.
"Yes." Mike confirms, "The day you told me you and Quentin were getting divorce I had shut myself in my room hours earlier." Mike reveals, "I did that because when I got home I found Quentin with someone else, a woman named Lisa, and I knew exactly what was going on." Mike explains and honestly, to Jessica he feels as though someone is stabbing her in the chest, "So when you told me you were getting a divorce I thought…."
"That was why." Jessica finishes, pain in her voice.
"I'm sorry, Mom." Mike says, standing up and walking over to his mother, "If I knew that he lied to you I would have told you the truth, but it wasn't until I saw your divorce papers when I was fifteen that I found out you didn't know, but by then so much time had passed that you'd just be hurt by the truth. So, I kept it a secret." He explains as he gets to his mother's side, "I'm never wanted to hurt you, never wanted to keep this from you, I told him I wouldn't when I first found out." Mike admits, "The reason I'm telling you this now is because Harvey got me to tell him the truth last night and he said that there is a chance that it would come out during the case and that you should hear it from me." Mike explains, "Mom I…." Mike starts to say.
"It's okay, Mike." Jessica says, moving and hugging her son, "I'm sorry you were put in that position." Jessica says as she holds her son tightly as she is feeling anger and pain, but the anger she is feeling isn't at her son as he was a kid, put in a horrible position, the only people she is angry at are Quentin and Lisa.
"You're not mad at me?" Mike asks as he and Jessica break apart.
"Of course not." Jessica assures her son, putting her hand on the side of his face in a comforting way, "But I'm glad you told me now." She tells her son, reaching to take her son's hand, but as he does he flinches as she touches where it hurts, causing Jessica to look down to see what's wrong, "What happened?" Jessica asks worried.
"I punched one of the bathroom walls last night." Mike admits, "That's when Harvey found me, how he knew I knew something you didn't" He admits.
"Come with me. You need to clean that out, and dress it." Jessica tells her son, and knowing better than arguing the two of them head out of the kitchen and towards the bathroom where there is a first aid kit.
A couple of hours later Jessica has dropped Mike, and his bike, at the place where he is meeting the client for Louis's pro bono and has headed into the office. As she found the files on Quentin's case in her office Jessica is walking into Harvey's office with them as even after what Mike told her she still wants to defend Quentin, though she intends to talk to him about what happened when they were married.
"You forgot this last night." Jessica says as she puts the files on Harvey's desk.
"I didn't forget that. I have no intention of taking this case." Harvey says, looking at Jessica and trying to figure out if Mike told her the truth, "Though I did get you this." Harvey says handing a wedding present over.
"What is it?" Jessica asks.
"A wedding gift. I'm sorry it's so late, but it's hard to be on time when I never knew you were married." Harvey says, "Just like I never knew you had a son." He adds.
"Are you seeing anyone, Harvey? Hm?" Jessica asks and Harvey just gives her an uncomfortable look, "You don't wanna tell me, and I don't really care, because you and I share the same trait of keeping our personal lives personal." Jessica reminds Harvey.
"You were married." Harvey says, stressing the words.
"It happened when you were at Harvard, and as you know it didn't work." Jessica tells him.
"You talked to Mike." Harvey realises.
"Yes."
"I'm sorry, Jessica." Harvey says, completely meaning that.
"Mike was wrong, I knew." Jessica says, lying because she knows how Harvey feels about infidelity and even though she is doubting Quentin right now she knows how important his medication is, and it needs to be saved.
"Really?" Harvey asks, not sure he believes that.
"He was thirteen years old. He didn't know everything that was going on around him." Jessica tells Harvey.
"He said that he found the divorce papers." Harvey comments.
"The complete truth wasn't on them." Jessica once more lies.
"Okay." Harvey tells her, not entirely sure he believes her, "I'm still not taking this case." Harvey tells Jessica.
"Why is that?" Jessica asks, with a frown.
"Because sometimes I do things that my clients don't like. And if their ex-wives are looking over my shoulders, that's not really a problem. But when their ex-wives are also my managing partner, and the mother of my associate who hates the client, that hamstrings me. And if I'm gonna turn this loser into a winner, I can't be hamstrung. I can't have that." Harvey explains to Jessica.
"Do what you gotta do." Jessica tells Harvey.
"You won't interfere?" Harvey asks, sounding surprised.
"What did I just say?" Jessica asks, sounding annoyed, "Do you have any idea how hard it is to develop a new drug if you're not Pfizer, or Amgen, or Merck? This is important, Harvey." Jessica tells him and the fact that it is important is the only reason why she is still going to help Quentin after finding out he lied to her all those years ago.
"If Quentin came to you looking for someone to trust him, why aren't you handling this case yourself?" Harvey asks, knowing that there must be a reason and assuming that he needs to know the reason.
"That's none of your concern."
"Well, I'm not asking you as your college, I'm asking you as Quentin's attorney." Harvey reveals.
"The woman he was with, Lisa, he's still with her." Jessica reveals and Harvey rolls his eyes at that as that makes things so much more complicated, "They never got married, but she doesn't want me on this case." Jessica says, though now that she knows the truth she honestly doesn't give a crap what Lisa thinks.
"Oh, terrific. You're sticking me with a losing case, and a girlfriend who isn't going to like me anymore than she likes you." Harvey says, being pretty sure that things are going to be so much more complicated that he was thinking.
"Well, I'm sure it's not the first time someone didn't like you, Harvey." Jessica says, picking up the present and heading out of Harvey's office, leaving him alone.
After his mother dropped him at where he is meeting the client Mike has found out what is going on, going to the housing department to get an inspector to come to the apartment, found out that his client is going to be evicted and returned to the office where he changed into Harvey's spare suit.
But, after all that Mike would honestly prefer to be eaten alive by bed bugs than what he is doing, which is riding up to Quentin's company building where he is meeting Harvey for the settlement meeting.
"You're late." Harvey says as Mike rids up to him.
"I know, it was Louis' pro bono, I…." Mike starts to say as he climbs off his bike, as he does Harvey gives him an odd look.
"Hey, that's my suit. My extra suit from my office." Harvey realises, not wanting to admit that Mike looks pretty damn good in his suit.
"Yeah, it's Louis' fault. I went to the client's place, it was overrun with bedbugs, so I went back to the office…." Mike says as he takes off his bike helmet.
"You tracked bedbugs into my office?" Harvey asks angrily.
"No."
"You walked in there naked?" Harvey asks, giving Mike a look as honestly he wouldn't have mind seeing that.
"No, Donna met me in the downstairs men's room." Mike explains.
"Okay, Donna's fired, and you're buying me an extra suit." Harvey informs Mike, "By the way, that's a three-piece suit. Where's the vest?" Harvey asks.
"Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. Vests? Really?" Mike asks disapprovingly.
"Says the guy with the bike helmet." Harvey says, giving mike a look.
"Uh, safety first." Mike comments as Harvey walks away.
"Come on." Harvey tells him and Mike hurries to catch up, "Now look, I know you want to hit this guy but we've got to present a united front during this meeting, can you do that?" Harvey asks Mike as they walk, honestly he would prefer not to have Mike in the meeting but it would look odd to the opposition if his associate wasn't there.
"It's not like I have a choice." Mike tells Harvey, who gives him a look, "I'll be fine." He assures Harvey and the two of them walk in silence.
For a few minutes Harvey and Mike walk in silence until they arrive in an office where Quentin is waiting.
"Mike." Quentin says shocked to see him, though glad.
"Quentin." Mike his voice polite, but nothing more.
"How long have you been working for your Mom for?" Quentin asks curious.
"Not long. Though technically I'm Harvey's associate." Mike explains.
"Of course, I'm happy for you Mike. I know you've always loved the law." Quentin informs him.
"We're already running late; we should get in there." Harvey says, honestly not wanting to test Mike's self-control any longer than he has to.
"Yeah, we should." Mike confirms and the three of them head into the conference room, Mike purposely walking as far away from Quentin as possible.
Two days later Mike and Harvey have both been to court, and both lost. Harvey because Quentin kept things from him and Mike because he figured that, after his time at the DA's office, winning at housing court would be easy, what he didn't count on was there being something more than he realised going on.
"So, she took over the case." Mike comments as he and Harvey walk through the halls of Pearson Hardman.
"Yep." Harvey says, taking a drink of his coffee, "She didn't like how I was doing things, said that she wanted someone who believed in him on the case." Harvey explains.
"I can't believe she still believes in him after everything he's done." Mike says, sounding annoyed.
"Neither can I." Harvey admits.
"But you know, it's kind of ironic that we both lost in court yesterday." Mike comments.
"You lost in housing court?" Harvey asks shocked, "You were in the DA's office for two years, and I've seen your record, how the hell did you lose in housing court?" Harvey asks in complete disbelief as someone with Mike's record doesn't suddenly lose at Housing Court.
"I got cocky." Mike admits, "I thought things would be simple so I didn't prepare as well as I could have, but then the landlord showed up with Vivien Tanaka and I realised that there was a hell of a lot more going on than I realised." Mike explains to Harvey.
"If Vivien Tanaka is involved then there you better bet there is." Harvey tells Mike, "She represents half the high-rises in Manhattan so if your guys using her that means he's…..."
"Going Condo, I know." Mike responds, "I'm working on showing a pattern, to make settlement go up, starting with people in Frank's building."
"Lookey here, you do know what you're doing." Harvey says to Mike, causing him to roll his eyes, "But you should think bigger."
"Bigger how?" Mike asks, but Harvey just walks away, "Bigger?" Mike asks himself, and as he does the idea comes to him and so he hurries back down to his cubical.
Half an hour later Mike has found exactly what he needed and because of that Mike realises exactly what he needs to do, and as he does he realises that he can't do it alone and so he reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone and dials one of the most frequently called numbers in his phone.
"Hello." Katrina answers after only a couple of rings.
"Hey." Mike responds, "Have you got lunch plans?"
"I always work though lunch, which you know." Katrina tells her friend, "Which means you want something." She realises as she, unknown to Mike, leans back on her chair.
"Why…" Mike starts to say.
"Don't even deny it Mike, I know you too well." Katrina tells him, "What do you need?"
"I'm working a case and to find what I need I need a partner to take a little field trip with me." Mike explains to his friend.
"And what, can't you find anyone at that big firm of yours to go with you?" Katrina asks, sounding amused.
"I could, but the one person who I could ask would likely get the wrong impression if I asked. I'm trying to avoid that." Mike explains, knowing that Katrina will know what he's really saying.
"Don't blame you there." Katrina admits, then sighs, "Text me the details and I'll meet you there."
"Thanks Katrina." Mike says gratefully, "I'll see you there." He says before hanging up as he does he notices Rachel standing just outside his cubical, "Rachel, did you need something?" he asks.
"Just wanted to see how your case was going." Rachel admits, "You know, after you lost in housing court." She says with a teasing tone.
"I'm working on it; I've got a way to fix the whole thing." Mike reveals.
"Good." Rachel says with a nod, "So, um, who was that?" Rachel asks curious.
"Who?" Mike asks confused.
"Who you were on the phone with." Rachel explains.
"Oh, just a friend from the DA's office. She's going to give me a hand with something." Mike explains to Rachel.
"Oh." Rachel answers, "You know, if you need a hand you can always ask me. I am a paralegal; it is kind of my job." She says as she leans across Mike's cubical.
"I know." Mike says, through the truth is he didn't even consider asking Rachel help on what he is doing as she would likely get the wrong impression and he doesn't know her well enough to consider telling her the truth about why that impression would be completely wrong.
"Good, just thought I'd remind you." Rachel tells him, "I better let you get back to work." Rachel says before walking away, leaving Mike to finish the research he has to do before meeting Katrina.
A couple of hours later Mike is waiting on the street in front of a building that is owned by the same person who is the landlord of his client.
Looking around, and checking his watch, Mike notices a familiar blond coming towards him.
"Hey, thanks for this." Mike says, greeting Katrina with a hug.
"I'll take payment in the form of a night out with my best friend, doing whatever I choose." Katrina informs Mike as they hug.
"Done." Mike assures her, not even thinking about the fact that he is likely going to regret giving Katrina free range, he has before.
"So, what can you tell me?" Katrina asks as they break apart, knowing that because of attorney client privilege then Mike can't tell her everything.
"The landlord of my client owns five buildings. They all used to be rent-controlled, but now they go for a million and a half a unit." Mike explains.
"With a profit margin like that I'm guessing that he forced out tenants who couldn't buy into the conversion?" Katrina asks, as that's what she assumes.
"Yep. I got some names from the housing complaints, but if I want to make my case, and make up for losing in housing court, I need to make this bigger than one building." Mike explains to Katrina.
"You lost in housing court?" Katrina asks shocked, "In the last two years you won basically every case you took to court, how the hell did you lose?" she asks in disbelief.
"By not preparing for that very reason." Mike admits.
"Okay, I'm going to mock you for that later, and forever." Katrina informs Mike, and honestly he doesn't doubt that at all, "But why am I here Mike? Why do you need a partner?" she asks curious.
"Look at the people going into the building." Mike tells her knowing that Katrina will get what he's saying.
"You need me to class you up a bit." Katrina realises, in less than a second, and Mike nods, "What's our cover?" she asks.
"Brother and sister wanting to get away from parents." Mike suggests.
"No way, wouldn't work in a place like this." Katrina informs him, "We're newlyweds and you're going to follow my lead, and let me do most the talking." Katrina tells Mike as she moves one of her rings to her ring finger.
"Deal." Mike assures her and he and Katrina link arms and head over to the door.
"Hi there." Katrina says to the real estate person by the door, "My husband and I are here to see some of the new units." Katrina explains.
"Of course, follow me." The agent says and Mike and Katrina follow her into the building and thanks to the fact that they know each other so well they are able to pull of being newlyweds pretty well, and it's pretty easy for them, even though they have absolutely no romantic feelings for one another, never have, and never well.
Hours later Mike is sitting at his computer in his cubical, long after everyone has left, working on his case, planning on making it as big as possible. As he works Mike hears his phone go off and so he looks over and sees a message from Harvey saying,
Your Mom needs you. She's home
And after reading the message it takes Mike a few seconds to realise what it says, but once he does he hurriedly packs up his stuff and hurries out of the building.
Having rode his bike as quick as he could, an action that cause him to nearly get into more than one accident Mike makes it to his mother's house in record time.
"MOM?" Mike calls as he lets himself in.
"Living room." Jessica calls back and as she does Mike hurries there, and the second he sees his mother Mike begins to worry even more as she is sitting on the couch, drinking and looking like she has been crying, "What are you…" Jessica starts to say, but then the answer comes to her, "Harvey called you."
"Message actually." Mike says as he puts his bag down and walks over to his mother, "He said you needed me, but didn't say why." He reveals, "What's going on?" he asks worried as he sits down next to her.
"Quentin's got ALS." Jessica reveals, tears coming to her eyes, "He's dying."
"Oh Mom, I'm so sorry." Mike says, putting his arm around her and pulling her in for a hug, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Mike tells her as while he might not like Quentin he knows how much he means to his mother and so he knows the pain she would be in right now and so he just holds her while she cries, knowing, without a doubt, that with the exception of the person who killed his parents, has never hated anything as much as he hates watching his mother cries and the feeling of uselessness it fills him with.
Two days have passed since Mike and Katrina visited the building owned by the landlord of Mike's client, since Jessica found out that Quentin is dying of ALS and ever since Mike has been staying at his mother's, though neither of them are talking about that fact.
As he has just won his case, and Harvey and Jessica won settled Quentin's earlier in the day, Mike is making his way to Louis's office to give him the good news, honestly he wants to get it done with as soon as possible as he has a plan that he wants to put into motion.
"Yes?" Louis asks as Mike knocks on his door.
"Just thought you'd like to know, your case, the pro bono, I won." Mike reveals.
"How exciting for you. But like I said, it's just a pro bono case, it's not gonna help your career." Louis comments.
"I did also manage to sign fifteen new clients who are all suing for the same harassment, and they will be paying." Mike says, dropping the files on the desk, "So you can multiply this number by fifteen. That's not bad for rookie league." Mike says before walking out of Louis's office.
After walking out of Louis's office Mike goes straight to his mother's office where she is still working at her desk.
"Hey." Mike says as he walks in, having knocked on the glass as he did.
"Hey." Jessica responds, looking up at her son, "Fifteen new clients in one go, that's impressive Mike." Jessica informs her son.
"Thanks." Mike says, walking over to his mother and closing her laptop, "You're done for the night."
"Oh, I am, am I?" Jessica asks with an amused look, "And why exactly is that?" she ask, giving her son a look.
"Because your son's taking you out to dinner." Mike reveals.
"That will be nice." Jessica comments, with a half-smile.
"Good, then let's go." Mike says as he picks up Jessica's bag and jacket and hands them to her, and once Jessica has her bag and her jacket on the two of them walk out of her office.
"Where you two going?" Harvey asks as he sees them walk out, it being clear that they leaving together, something that doesn't' matter with most people being gone.
"My son's taking me out to dinner." Jessica says with a smile.
"Nice. I hope you enjoy yourselves." Harvey tells them, honestly he really likes seeing how good Jessica and Mike's relationship is as he has no experience with a mother and son relationship being good.
"We will." Mike assures him, but then he gets an idea, "You know why don't you join us." He suggests as he would really like to get to know Harvey over dinner, of course in ideal circumstances his mother wouldn't be present too, but that's never going to happen so he'll take what he can get.
"I wouldn't want to intrude." Harvey says, though honestly he is touched by the offer.
"You wouldn't be." Jessica assures him, "In fact I insist that you join us." She tells him.
"Okay, I will."
"Great, I've got to grab by bag but I'll meet you downstairs in five." Mike says before hurrying off, both Jessica and Harvey smiling at him as he runs off, though for very, very different reasons.
"Thank you, Harvey." Jessica says a few seconds later.
"What for?" Harvey asks, faking confusion.
"For sending that message to Mike the other night." Jessica explains, "For knowing exactly what I needed."
"Don't mention it, I have a reputation to maintain." Harvey says as they start to walk to the elevators, "So, where are we going?" he asks curious.
"Somewhere with decent food." Jessica tells Harvey as they step into the elevator and honestly Harvey is very much looking forward to the dinner, not just because he gets to spend time with two of the few people he can stand to be around, but because he is very much interested in seeing what Jessica and Mike are like when they're not trying to hide the fact that they are mother and son.
