Chapter 10

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Waking up next to Trevor is something that Mike is all too familiar with, but the last time he did so he was in pain. So, the fact that he is feeling relaxed, and happy, is strange for Mike. As he smiles at Trevor Mike catches glimpse of the clock.

"SHIT." Mike suddenly says, bolting up right.

"Mike?" Trevor asks as Mike sits up, "What's going on?"

"I've got work, and I'm late." Mike reveals and as he tries to hurry out of bed, Trevor grabs his arm stopping him, holding Mike harder than he has to, but Mike doesn't notice.

"Your Mom's the boss, you can be a little late." Trevor says, pulling Mike towards him.

"I'm already a little late."

"Then what's wrong with being even later?" Trevor says, pulling Mike into a kiss.


An hour later, late for work and wearing the same suit that he was wearing the day before Mike is walking up to Harvey's office, honestly expecting to be fired as he was informed that Harvey wanted to see him.

"You wanted to see me?" Mike asks as he walks into Harvey's office, to find the man himself sitting on the couch.

"Did you go see Joy after I told you not to?" Harvey asks.

"How did you know?" Mike asks with a sigh.

"I didn't. Until now." Harvey says as he stands up, "I told you, a puppy can't clean up its own mess." Harvey tells him as he walks over to his desk.

"Mess? All I did was tell her about my grandmother." Mike explains.

"Your job is to make my life easier. If you can't understand that, why did I hire you?" Harvey asks, looking at Mike.

"Police reports summarized. Traffic signals analysis. Medallion bits, attendees, and results." Mike says putting a file on Harvey's desk with each thing he said, "That's why you hired me." Mike says, and before Harvey can respond Jessica walks in.

"I thought you were all over the Joy situation. Instead, you're all over page six." Jessica says annoyed, showing Harvey the paper.

"You wanted me to do pro bono work, this is it." Harvey says in his defence.

"Pro bono enhances a firm's image. This makes us look like wealthy bullies against an everyman cabbie." Jessica tells Harvey, "Does that seem like it enhances our image to you?" Jessica asks and next to his mother Mike shakes his head.

"I refuse to answer that, on the grounds that I don't want to." Harvey explains and hearing that Mike can't help but laugh, though the second he does he regrets it as his mother looks at him.

"What's Trevor dragged you into now?" Jessica asks her son, sounding less than happy.

"Why do you assume something's going on with Trevor?" Mike asks, sounding defensive.

"Because you disappeared after answering a call in a meeting, you're wearing the same suit as yesterday and don't think I can't smell the Tequila and Trevor's cologne on your suit." Jessica tells her son angrily, "You were with him last night, weren't you?" she asks, turning to face him.

"No." Mike lies, turning to face his mother and honestly mother and son forget that Harvey is in the room, "I went bar hopping with Katrina." Mike lies and even though he is confused about what is going on Harvey can tell, without a doubt, that Mike is lying.

"Nice try, but we both know that you and Katrina made a deal a long time ago not to go bar hoping when you have to work the next day." Jessica tells her son, "What trouble has Trevor gotten into? What's he trying to get you to do?" she asks and Harvey feels like he is watching a tennis match, and as much as he would like to get more details about what the hell is going on he knows that this is clearly personal and so he just stays quiet and watches, doing his best to put the pieces of what is going on together.

"Look, I know you think Trevor is the Anti-Christ, but things are different this time. He's different." Mike argues, having given up lying.

"How many times have you thought that Mike?" Jessica asks her son, "And how many times has that ended with you being hurt, or in trouble, or worse, a few days later?" Jessica asks her son, "Trevor pulls you back in, Mike, and then he hurts you, or gets you in trouble, you can't let him do that again." Jessica tells her son, "He's uses you, Mike. I thought you were beginning to see that." Jessica says, pain in her voice as she thought, after the last time they saw one another, where Jessica isn't sure what happened except for the fact that her son disappeared for a week and even her guy couldn't find him, that Mike was close to being able to break away from Trevor forever.

"He's different now, Mom." Mike says, needing to believe that, and wanting his mother too as well.

"Mike…." Jessica starts to say.

"No!" Mike says angrily, "You hate him, you've always hated him and you're letting your prejudice prevent you from even considering the possibility that he has changed."

"Of course I hate him!" Jessica says raising her voice too, surprising Harvey as he is pretty sure he has never heard Jessica really yell, "and it's not prejudice when it's true. After everything that man has done to you I have every reason to hate him." Jessica says angrily, "You have a blind spot when it comes to him, you always have and he uses that Mike. Don't let him. Cut him out Mike, before he does something to you, or gets you to do something, that you can't come back from."

"No, I won't." Mike says.

"Mike…." Jessica starts to say.

"No Mom! Trevor might have done some bad things in the past, he may have hurt me, and broken my heart more than once, but I'm not giving up on him." Mike says, causing Harvey's eyes to widen as he realises what that means, "Things were different last night and I'm going to give him a second chance." Mike tells her, "And I don't care what you think." Mike says before walking out of the office.

"It's not his second chance, Michael, it's his tenth." Jessica says as Mike leaves, but Mike doesn't respond, he just keeps walking out.

"Um…" Harvey says once Mike leaves, not overly sure what to say.

"Don't ask." Jessica says before walking out of the office too, leaving a very confused Harvey alone in his office, though Harvey isn't alone for long as about a minute later Donna walks in, and closes the door behind her.

"What was that?" Donna asks shocked.

"I'm honestly not sure." Harvey admits, "But I've got a fair idea." He admits as to him it sounds like Jessica hates Mike's ex who doesn't seem like a very good person and Mike keeps giving him a second chance.

"I didn't think Jessica and Mike ever fought." Donna says, sounding surprised as from what she has seen Jessica and Mike have a pretty good relationship.

"They're mother and son, of course they fight." Harvey comments.

"What are you going to do?" Donna asks curious.

"Me? Why would I do anything?" Harvey asks in confusion.

"Because it's your mentor and puppy that just had a screaming match in your office." Donna says, like it should be obvious, honestly being glad that she was able to keep everyone away from coming near Harvey's office.

"About something that is clearly personal." Harvey points out, "I'm not getting in the middle." Harvey says, completely meaning that.

"I'm not entirely sure that you have a choice." Donna says before walking out of Harvey's office.

After Donna leaves Harvey sits down at his desk and even though he should be focusing on what he is doing Harvey can't help but think over everything that Jessica and Mike said, or yelled, during their fight.

As Harvey thinks about everything he realises that Mike is definitely either gay or bi and that his ex is really bad news, though he isn't sure why that reveal fills him with anger and another feeling that he can't quiet place.


A while later Mike and Harvey are sitting side by side on the way to Joy's. As he remembers what happened two days earlier Harvey keeps glancing out of the corner of his eye at Mike to make sure he is okay, but as far as he can tell Mike is okay.

Even though Mike does feel fear at being in the car again he is bothered by something else. As much as he hates to admit it Mike is starting to think that his mother might be right, and he has been sucked in by Trevor once more.

When he left the hotel Mike wouldn't have even considered that, but then, after his fight with his mother, the two guys from the night before showed up at the firm and Mike realised that they are more than just annoyed at Trevor, especially after they chased him and Trevor didn't answer his phone.

After a silent car trip Harvey and Mike arrive at Joy's and they both get out of the car, Mike carrying two boxes of cupcakes.

"Did you get the red velvet cupcakes?" Harvey asks as they get out of the car.

"Yes, three dozen, extra icing." Mike says in a short voice, still annoyed at his mother, Trevor and himself, and as he walks past Harvey he notices that Mike's jacket is ripped.

"How the hell did that happen?" Harvey asks and Mike looks down and realises what Harvey is doing and so he puts the cupcakes on the back of the car and takes off his jacket.

"Okay. You know what? There." Mike says as he throws his jacket into the back of the car, "Problem solved." Mike says.

"I asked you, how'd you get the tear?" Harvey asks, his voice short.

"It's complicated." Mike says simply.

"Does it have something to do with the fight you and your Mom had this morning?" Harvey asks, as he assumes so.

"Yeah." Mike says with a nod, "What she said about Trevor getting me into trouble again, she might be right." He reveals.

"What made you change your mind?" Harvey asks, assuming that it might be something big.

"Two guys showed up at the firm, looking for me, they chased me, I ripped my jacket." Mike reveals, "I don't know for sure, but I think they're involved in whatever the latest shit that Trevor has gotten himself into is." Mike explains to Harvey.

"Which means your Mom's right, you've got to cut ties with that loser." Harvey tells Mike, not being able to help but wonder just what this guy does that makes Jessica so angry and gets Mike in so much trouble.

"No until I know what the hell is going on." Mike tells Harvey.

"Mike…" Harvey starts to say.

"Look, I don't want to hear it. Anything you could say I've already heard from my Mom, and my friend Katrina, I don't need to hear it again." Mike tells Harvey, the annoyance back in his voice.

"I think you do." Harvey tells him, "This guy clearly leads to you making bad decisions."

"You don't know the half of it." Mike admits and Harvey gives him look, "We don't have the time to get into that now. Unless of course you want to blow of Joy, again."

"I haven't been blowing off anything." Harvey tells Mike, "Watch and learn." He says and the two of them head into the house.


Hours later Harvey and Mike have finished with Joy, and the licensing agreement is back in place, and even though he wanted to question Mike more about Trevor Harvey wasn't able to as the second they got back the firm Mike was gone.

After leaving the firm Mike got on his bike and while trying to get through to Trevor Mike checked all the places where Trevor usually goes, except for the one place that wouldn't be safe to go to, but Mike wasn't able to find him anywhere.


The next day, having left countless messages for Trevor Mike, having once more had a lack of sleep, is in court sitting chair for Ray's trial. As Harvey sidebars with the cab driver, who is representing himself, Mike's phone, that he once more forgets to put on silence, starts to ring and as he sees the caller ID he once more hurries out of the court room.

"Damn it, Trevor. I left you like ten messages." Mike says as he answers.

"Good to know your boy's flaky with everyone. I was taking it personal." A voice that Mike doesn't recognize says.

"What do you want?" Mike asks.

"Well, Trevor owes us sixty thousand dollars that he's never paid, so you're going to bail him out." The person says.

"Listen, I don't have that kind of money." Mike quickly says.

"Well, if you're not down here in an hour with it, we're gonna take it out on Trevor." The voice says, "Tell him where the money is."

"Whatever you do, don't' show up." Trevor says, knowing that Mike will do the opposite, as one of the men holding him hits him.

"Trevor!" Mike yells.

"You have one hour." The person says, before hanging up.

"Hello? Hello?" Mike asks but all he hears is the dial tone.

Realising what he has to do Mike goes back into the courtroom, grabs his bag and leaves, without saying anything to Harvey, or Ray, before hurrying away.

"What do you think you're doing, leaving the middle of a trial?" Harvey asks, having chased after Mike as soon as he saw the state Mike was in.

"I got somethings to take care of." Mike reveals as he walks faster.

"You mean someone to take care of." Harvey corrects, "It's this Trevor guy, isn't it?" he asks as they cross the road.

"Yeah, he's in serious trouble and I'm going to do whatever I have to help him." Mike reveals, "There's nothing you can say to stop me." Mike reveals, it being clear that he means that completely.

"Then tell me what the hell's going on." Harvey says, blocking Mike's path by putting both his hands on Mike's shoulders, as he looks at Mike in concern.

"Trevor used to deal drugs, he said he quit, and I think he was telling the truth." Mike admits, though he sounds uncertain, "He's been kidnaped by guys who he owes money too." Mike reveals, "I have an hour to get to the bank and withdraw sixty thousand dollars form the trust that was set up for me as part of the settlement when my parents were killed, that I only got access to when I was twenty-five, and get to him. Or they're going to start taking it out on him." Mike reveals, even though he planned to never touch that money if it means saving Trevor's life he will.

"That's not your only option." Harvey tells Mike, having no intention of letting Mike go into a situation like that alone, and the idea of calling Jessica doesn't even cross his mind for a second.

"I'm not going to let him get hurt, Harvey." Mike tells Harvey, "I don't care what I have to do."

"When someone has a gun on you getting shot or doing what they said aren't your only options." Harvey tells Mike, "And I just so happen to have another idea. One that doesn't require you to spend money that you clearly don't want to touch." Harvey tells Mike, having been able to tell as soon as he talked about the money that he doesn't want to spend it.

"I'm listening."


An hour later Harvey and Mike have put Harvey's plan into action and Harvey, Mike and Trevor are all walking away from the place where Trevor was being heled.

"I thought I said not to come." Trevor says, honestly not at all surprised that Mike came, though everything else didn't go to as he was expecting, and hoping, that Mike would pay off his debts.

"Remember that forty bucks from fifth grade you owe me? If you were dead, how would l collect?" Mike asks and Trevor just gives a laugh.

"I'm sorry. I put you in trouble just by hanging out with you." Trevor says to Mike.

"Then why'd you do it?"

"Cause I'm a dick." Trevor says, "And I meant what I said." He says, doing so as he needs to keep a hold on Mike, just in case he ever needs to use him again.

"I want to believe that." Mike admits, feeling sceptical once more.

"You should." Trevor tells him, "I bet you didn't think you'd have to my ass so soon after bailing me out." He says, wanting to get the subject off whether or not he was telling the truth.

"I wasn't the one who saved you." Mike points out.

"Yeah. Even as just a friend that guy puts me to shame." Trevor reveals, honestly hating that Mike's boss is the spitting image of the kind of guys Mike usually likes, excluding him of course.

"Harvey's not my friend, trust me." Mike tells Trevor.

"Well, he didn't put his ass on the line because of me." Trevor comments, and now it's Mike who desperately wants to change the subject.

"Listen, I pled you down to a misdemeanour. Drunk and disorderly. And I paid the fine." Mike reveals as he pulls something out of his pocket, "I think it might be a good idea if you got out of town for a while." Mike says, handing a bus ticket over to Trevor.

"Montana." Trevor says, reading the ticket.

"Well, you said you wanted a clean slate." Mike says, as honestly it would help him to have some time and distance from Trevor so that he can figure things out.

"I also said I wanted to give us another shot. I can't do that if we're in different states." Trevor comments, honestly he frankly doesn't care about being with Mike, he likes the control over him he has when they are.

"It's too dangerous for you to be here right now, Trevor." Mike tells him, "And now's not the time for us."

"Yeah, you might have a point." Trevor admits and the two of them do their old goodbyes which involves pretending to hit one another and then hugging, but then, because he knows Harvey is watching and he wants to mark his territory, Trevor kisses Mike, but it doesn't last long before Mike breaks it.

"When I get back, you know who the first person I'm gonna call is?" Trevor asks as they break apart.

"Yeah, the one person you know who'll answer." Mike answers, and Trevor gives a look before Trevor turns and walks away.

After watching Trevor walk away Mike turns towards the car where Harvey is in and with a simple gesture Harvey tells Mike to get into the car and the two of them sit in silence as they drive back to the firm. Mike trying to figure out how he feels about everything, while Harvey is trying to figure out why he felt so much anger at seeing Trevor kiss Mike.


A couple of hours later Harvey is walking up to Mike who is locking up his bike, having come from making sure Trevor actually got on the bus, though that goodbye Mike just watched from a distance, in fact he is pretty sure that Trevor didn't even see him, though, unknown to Mike the only reason why Trevor got on the bus was because Mike didn't end up paying of his debts like he was expecting.

"You put Trevor on the bus to the boondocks?" Harvey asks.

"Yeah." Mike confirms, "Can I ask you a question? After all this, you really think I'm still buying the Mr. I-don't-give-a-crap thing?" Mike asks, watching Harvey carefully to try and get his reaction.

"Joy sent a little token of her appreciation. She got your hair just right." Harvey says with a laugh as he hands over a box, purposely avoiding Mike's question.

"Did she ever make one of these for you?" Mike asks curious.

"Not that you'll ever see." Harvey says with an amused look on his face as he heads to Ray. After watching him go Mike turns and heads inside into the building, knowing that he has an apology to make as his mother didn't deserve the way he treated her the day before.


A couple of minutes later Mike has arrived at his mother's office and as most people have left only does a quick glance around to make sure no one is around, before he heads to the door and knocks, once he does Jessica signals that he can walk in and so he does, closing the door behind him.

"Trevor's gone to Montana." Mike reveals as he walks towards his mother, "And I'm really sorry about our fight." He says sincerely.

"So am I." Jessica tells her son, meaning that. "What'd he try to get you caught up in this time?" Jessica asks her son, knowing that it must be something big for Trevor to have been set out of the city.

"He got abducted by some guys who he owed money too. They called me." Mike reveals, "He needed sixty thousand dollars or they were going to take it out on him." Mike says as he sits down across from his mother, "I was going to use my trust, but Harvey came up with another plan. One that didn't end up costing anything."

"Harvey got involved?" Jessica asks, feeling anger at him for not telling her what was going on, and Mike nods, "Mike I need to say something, and I need you not to get angry." She tells her son.

"Okay." Mike says, sounding uncertain.

"Trevor knows about your trust. Did you think that maybe he came back into your life to get you to use your money to get him out of his debt?" Jessica asks her son, as that's where her minds directly gone.

"No." Mike says quickly, "He wouldn't." Mike says, his voice breaking, needing to believe that, though he can't deny that his mother's words make sense.

"Mike, it wouldn't be the first time that he used you." Jessica points out, "I may hate Trevor, but I love you and I wants what's best for you, which isn't him." Jessica tells her son, "I might be wrong, but history tells me I'm not." Jessica tells her son, "I'm sorry Mike." She says and honestly Mike sees everything that happened in the last few days in a different light, especially considering what happened last time he and Trevor saw each other.

"So am I." Mike says, pain in his voice as he feels pain rising up inside of him, "I think I need to go home, sleep." Mike tells his mother, needing to think about everything she said, "Are we okay?" he asks concerned as the last thing he wants is for things not to be okay between him and his mother.

"Of course." Jessica tells her son, "I love you, Mike."

"Love you too." Mike responds before getting up and leaving his mother's office, pausing at the door, "I'm am sorry, Mom. I should have listened to you." Mike admits, "I was an ass to you, and I'm really sorry, you didn't deserve that." Mike says before leaving, feeling bad about the way he acted as after everything that was the last thing Jessica deserved.

After Mike leaves Jessica spends a few minutes staring at her computer, but then she gets up and starts to pack away her stuff, needing to say a few things to her protégé.


A while after Jessica left the office she arrives at Harvey's condo where he knocks loudly on the door.

"Jessica." Harvey says surprised as he opens his door, having taken off his tie and vest so that he is only in his shirt and pants, "What are you doing here?"

"We need to talk." Jessica says as she walks past Harvey and into the apartment.

"Okay, what about?" Harvey asks as he closes the door then follows behind her, having a suspicion that he knows the answer.

"Why didn't you call me when Mike got the call from the guys who abducted Trevor?" Jessica asks angrily.

"There wasn't time." Harvey admits, "If I didn't come up with another plan Mike was going to walk into that situation alone, with sixty thousand dollars. He said he didn't care what he had to do." Harvey explains, "I didn't even think about calling you because I was too busy helping Mike." He explains, "Isn't that what you would have wanted?"

"Yeah, it is." Jessica realises, "Mike really say that he didn't care what he had to do?"

"Yeah." Harvey says with a nod, "And he was telling the truth."

"Of course he was." Jessica says, "Which Trevor would have known."

"Wait, you think Trevor wasn't really abducted, but in on it?" Harvey ask surprised.

"Trevor knows about the trust that was set up for Mike as part of the settlement after his parents were killed. He knows how much is in it. He knows when Mike got access to it and he just happened to call Mike a few days before getting abducted, it wouldn't surprise me." Jessica admits, telling the truth.

"From what I've seen the guy's a dick and a loser, but you really think he'd manipulate Mike like that?" Harvey asks curious, feeling a hell of a lot of anger at Trevor if it's true.

"Do you know when the first time Mike called me Mom was?" Jessica asks curious.

"No." Harvey says, confused by the change of subject.

"When he was lying in a hospital bed with a broken arm after doing something Trevor talked him into doing." Jessica reveals, "And that's just the tip of the Ice burg. There are a lot of things you don't know, thing that you probably should know, but won't like to hear." She admits.

"You're right, there probably are." Harvey admits, as Jessica is now the second person to tell him that there are a lot of things he doesn't know, and he doesn't want to be missing information anymore, "But you're not the Pearson I want to hear them from." He says, picking up his jacket, "Lock up before you leave." He requests before walking out, leaving Jessica in his condo.


For the entire trip to Mike's apartment Harvey's mind is on the younger man. After everything Jessica has said, everything that Mike has said, and everything that they yelled at each other during their fight Harvey is sure that Trevor wasn't good for Mike, and that Mike, even if he didn't realise it, was abused by Trevor, and that realisation makes Harvey fill with the kind of rage he hasn't felt in a long time, and if it's true that Trevor manipulated Mike to try and get him to pay off his debts then it's a good thing that Trevor is currently on a bus to another state right now.

Being glad that Mike's apartment isn't actually too far away from his Condo it doesn't take Harvey long to get there. Once he gets to Mike's apartment he knocks on the door and seconds later he hears movement inside before the door opens a little to reveal Mike, in old jeans and an old shirt, holding a bottle of vodka that he is clearly drinking straight out off.

"Harvey?" Mike asks surprised, honestly thinking that he has had more to drink than he thought, because that is the only logical explanation he can think off for his boss being on his doorstep.

"Mike." Harvey says, his concern growing, "Didn't your mother ever teach you to drink out of glasses?"

"Of course she did." Mike responds as he steps out of the way and lets Harvey into the apartment, being sure that he's not imagining things anymore, "But I didn't see the point." He comments "Hey." He says annoyed as Harvey takes the bottle out of his hands.

"Cheap stuff, really?" Harvey ask, with a disapproving look once he reads the bottle.

"Didn't see the point of getting the expensive stuff." Mike explains, "What are you doing here, Harvey?"

"When I said that Trevor leads you to make bad decisions you said that I didn't know half of it." Harvey reminds Mike, "I want to know, everything."

"Why?" Mike asks, having no idea why Harvey would want to know that.

"Because I just saved this guy's ass and I want to know why you have someone like him in your life, why you Mom hates him so much, and why you can't seem to break free from him." Harvey explains.

"It's a long story." Mike informs Harvey.

"I've got all night." Harvey says, sitting down on Mike's couch, putting the bottle down on the coffee table, and as he does it becomes clear to Mike that Harvey isn't going to leave until Mike answers his questions, and honestly as he is tipsy, but not completely drunk, Mike is in the perfect state to answer them.

"Okay."