Chapter 12
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AN1: Here you are, second chapter of the double update. PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW.
A month has passed since Trevor once more came back into Mike's life, and then left him hurt again, and since Mike and Harvey were in the minor car accident, and ever since then Harvey has noticed that Mike isn't getting more comfortable being in a car, in fact Harvey is pretty sure that he has been close to having a panic attack more than once.
Something else that has happened in the last few weeks is Mike helping Rachel study for the LSATS, something which started after Rachel got temporarily fired, but then re-hired when Mike helped prove she did nothing wrong. As he helped her Mike has come to realise that helping her with the LSTATS after getting her job back may have been a mistake as it's become clear to him that she wants to be more than friends with him and he isn't sure if he is ready to tell her why that will never happen, so he's doing his best not to encourage her, even avoid her to a degree.
As he knows that his mother has been preparing for it for weeks, though she made sure not to let him see any of the work, Mike knew mock trial has been coming for longer than everyone else. Honestly Mike isn't the biggest fan of mock trial, as he's never really seen the point, but that doesn't mean he's not good at them.
Walking into the library Mike looks around and as he does he sees Donna and so he walks over to her.
"Why do you look like you would rather be anywhere else?" Donna asks as she sees Mike.
"I've never been a big fan of mock trials." Mike explains as he feels that once out of school they are a waste of time.
"Seriously? This is your debutante ball." Donna reminds him, "You got to know that the impression you will make on the partners will last. It's important, especially for you." Donna says, giving him a look, not being able to say more around people.
"I know." Mike says with a sigh as he takes the file, "Let me guess Harvey was…."
"Legendary." Donna finishes.
"Shocking." Mike says, honestly one of the reason why Mike isn't looking forward to the mock trial is that he knows if he doesn't win then things will be even worse for him, and maybe even his mom, once people discover his secret.
"Sydney Thompson was a consultant with Lunders Global Initiative." Jessica says from where she is sitting on top of a table, "She had a few too many, and decided to entertain her friends with an impersonation of her boss, Lena Lunders. This impersonation was recorded and uploaded onto a social networking site. The next day she was fired. Sydney is now suing for wrongful termination. We are looking to see how you do under pressure." Jessica says and Mike is pretty sure that he isn't imagining his Mom's eyes flickering over to him, "The partners have been instructed to only use the associates in emergency situations." Jessica reveals and Mike is pretty sure that Harvey won't stick to that rule, "Let the games begin." Jessica says, causing cheers and murmurs to break out.
"All right. When your name is called, please step up and meet your match." Louis comments.
"I think you mean my bitch, Louis." Kyle, one of the associates that have been making Mike's life extremely hard, says.
"God I hate that guy." Mike mutters, as Donna takes the binder from him.
"I'm glad Jessica finally chose a case with a strong female character. Last year I was forced to play a traffic cop." Donna reveals, "Total waste of my talent"
"You play witnesses?" Mike asks amused.
"Oh, I don't play anything. I embody." Donna corrects, "And if I'm on your team, you're a winner." Donna reveals.
"Well….." Mike starts to say, but before he can Louis's voice saying,
"Mike Ross."
Cuts through the crowed and so Mike takes the binder from Donna and heads to the front and he realises that he is facing Kyle.
"Kyle for the plaintiff." Louis says handing Kyle a piece of per, "Ross for the defendant." He says, handing another piece to Mike, "Oh, by the way, Kyle, weren't you, uh, national mock trial champion?" Louis asks and Mike has to resist the urge to roll his eyes.
"That's right, Louis. In high school, college, and law school." Kyle reveals.
"And I have two years of real trial experience from the DA's office." Mike points out, "I guess we'll see which is better." Mike responds before turning around, as he does he catches his mother's glance and sees that she is looking rather amused at his response.
Just like he suspected not even an hour passes after Mike got information from the mock trial before he gets a message from Harvey saying that he needs to see him.
"I need an assessment of all of Vega's hotels, okay? I want you to check annual earnings, property value. You should be writing." Harvey tells Mike.
"Yeah. This all doesn't sound like an emergency." Mike comments, not at all surprised, "The mock trial….." Mike starts to say, but Harvey hands over a file, "Okay. I'm on it." Mike says then realises something, "Um, listen, Harvey, about…" Mike starts to say.
"I don't give advice…" Harvey responds, without looking up from what he is doing.
"Okay, please, Sensei. I need help." Mike admits, "I've never liked mock trials and I don't want to disappoint Mom." Mike admits, causing Harvey to turn and look at him.
"Listen to me. Don't go to trial." Harvey tells him, saying words that Mike heard a hundred times from Cameron Dennis.
"It's a mock trial. I think the trial part is kind of a prerequisite." Mike points out.
"All right. Law is about control, okay. You can only control so much with a jury, judge, witnesses, and another lawyer with an ego complex…." Harvey says, saying a speech that Mike has heard before.
"I don't need to hear the Cameron speech. I worked for him too, remember." Mike points out.
"Yeah, you did. Which means you shouldn't have to hear this, you know exactly what you have to do." Harvey reminds him, "The firm, your Mom, has presented an exercise where there's potential for failure, okay? All I'm saying is try and create a situation where that's not even a possibility. Kobayashi Maru." Harvey tells Mike.
"Koba… what now?" Mike asks in confusion.
"Star trek." Harvey explains, being a little disappointed in Jessica for never getting her son to watch it, "Captain Kirk. He wins a no-win situation by rewriting the rules."
"You're a Trekkie." Mike says, looking amused.
"Hey, Captain Kirk is the man, okay? I don't wanna hear another word about it. Now, enough with your fake law problem. Let's deal with my real one." Harvey tells Mike.
"Aye, aye, Captain." Mike says before walking away.
Half an hour later Mike has made a deal, with a handshake, with Kyle to settle, but because he knows he can't trust Kyle not to go back on what he said, Mike is once more in the file room getting to work on his plan B, a plan which he will not put into motion unless Kyle goes back on his word.
After another hour Mike has finished the paperwork for his plan B and has gotten started on Harvey's real work, being pretty sure that he is once more in for a late night, not that he minds that.
After working late, Mike headed home to get some sleep, and clean up, before once more returning to the firm and as he ran into Rachel, who is playing Kyle's witness, on his way into the library Mike is very glad that he came up with a plan B, as he suspects he is going to need it.
"Is council ready to proceed with opening statements?" Jessica asks after banging the gavel in.
"We'd like to submit a settlement agreement…" Mike says at the exact same time Kyle says,
"The plaintiff is ready, your honour."
"Which is it, Counsellor?" Jessica asks looking between her son and Kyle, honestly hoping that her son has another plan up his sleeve otherwise this will not end well for him.
"The counsel for the plaintiff and I agreed to a settlement yesterday." Mike reveals, being completely positive that Kyle is going to make it seem like he never agreed.
"He must've misunderstood." Kyle says and Mike has to bite his tongue to stop himself from saying bullshit to that, "We had discussed, but I never agreed to anything." Kyle says, completely lying.
"Do you have a signed agreement?" Jessica asks her son.
"No." Mike says with a sigh.
"Then we are ready to proceed." Jessica says, and even though he knows she wouldn't tell him so Mike is pretty sure that his mother is disappointed in him.
"Well in that case the defendant wishes to countersue." Mike says, before Kyle can begin his opening.
"On what grounds?" Kyle asks confused.
"I believe that is my line, Counsellor." Jessica comments, being glad that her son has a plan B, as she gives her son a look.
"Defamation of character." Mike answers, "The plaintiff's video negatively impacted the perception of Lena Lunders an impaired her financial well-being."
"That's ridiculous, your Honour. In order for there to be defamation, the statements made would've had to have been false. That's not the case here." Kyle argues.
"Then you should have no problem proving that in court." Mike says in response.
"The countersuit is allowed." Jessica rules, to Mike's relief.
"Are you serious?" Kyle asks and honestly Mike has to hide his amusement as he knows how his Mom is going to react to that.
"Would you like to approach the bench and find out how serious I am?" Jessica asks, sounding less than happy and Mike signals for Kyle to approach his mother, which he does, and as he does Mike picks up his file and follows behind.
"Your honour, the defence should've filed counterclaims before the trial began." Kyle argues.
"Yes, he should have." Jessica confirms, giving her son a look.
"I was expecting a settlement, your Honour." Mike explains, "But just in case the plaintiff went back on his words I drew up the paperwork, I just didn't file them." Mike explains, handing his mother the file.
Taking the file Jessica opens and has a look,
"So, you did." Jessica tells her son, "As we drafted a whole addendum assuming someone would file, which no one did, I'm going to allow it." Jessica reveals, "Do you have a problem with that?" Jessica asks Kyle.
"No your honour." Kyle responds as Jessica pulls out two binders from behind the bench, "This is now a defamation trial. You have until Friday to prepare." Jessica says, handing the binders over to Mike and Kyle, but while she lets go of Kyle's she doesn't let go of Mike's.
"Nice job of having the plan B ready to go." Jessica tells her son, "But it was naive to believe he would go for a settlement in the first place, especially when he didn't sign."
"Thank you, your Honour." Mike says, smiling at his mother, and she lets go of his binder, allowing him to walk away.
After leaving the library Mike heads to Harvey's office where he sits and waits for Harvey to get back from his meeting.
"Your advice sucks." Mike says as Harvey walks into his office, "It was like the worst advice ever."
"And from what I heard you still managed to come out on top." Harvey says as he walks over to his desk.
"Well yeah, a good lawyer always has a plan B." Mike comments.
"Now which one of us are quoting Cameron." Harvey says, turning to look at Mike, causing Mike to pull a face.
"How about neither of us quote him." Mike suggests.
"Good idea." Harvey says with a nod.
"Yeah, what wasn't a good idea is not asking people to be my witnesses and client." Mike reveals, standing up and looking annoyed, "It's like the Collins case all over again." He says, sounding frustrated.
"Collins case?" Harvey asks curious, searching through his memory to try and remember the name from Mike's previous case files that he read and remembering that Mike won that case.
"Yeah, all my witnesses disappeared three days before trial. I had to get them back and find new ones all before opening statements." Mike explains.
"You won that case." Harvey says, feeling a little impressed now that he knows the details.
"Yeah, but I had help then." Mike reveals, as he and Katrina ended up working that case together, "And I knew from the beginning that I couldn't trust the tool that I was facing."
"Mike, the point of Mock Trials is to find out what kind of Lawyer you're going to be." Harvey says, standing up, "But you have more experience than everyone else, you already know the answer to that. You know what kind of lawyer you are and what kind you want to be." Harvey explains to him, "You know how to play the game; you cannot be surprised when other people do."
"I know." Mike says with a sigh, "I really hate mock trials." Mike says as he walks out of Harvey's office, knowing that he has a lot of work on Harvey's hotel merger to do, as well as coming up with his game plan for mock trial.
After leaving Harvey's office Mike heads down to the bullpen to collect what he needs before heading to the file room.
"What the hell was that, Ross?" Kyle asks angrily, the second Mike walks in.
"That was my backup plan in case you went back on your word, which you did." Mike says as he heads towards his desk, "I told you, Kyle, Harvey choose me for a reason." Mike says turning to look at him, "And now you're going to find out exactly what that reason is." Mike says before walking away from him, not planning on letting the fact that he hates Mock Trials from stop him from doing his best.
Having spent most of the night going between his work for the mock trial and his work for Harvey Mike managed to go home for three hours sleep, a shower and cold left over pizza before returning to the office.
Having just gotten back to the office Mike drops his stuff at his cubical before heading up to Harvey's office.
"Hey, Donna, I proofed that final agreement on the hotel merger. Quick question, has Harvey ever heard of spell-check?" Mike asks as he arrives at Donna's desk, but when he arrives at her she is sobbing, "Oh, my God."
"Sorry." Donna says, through her sobs.
"Are you… No, no, no, it's okay." Mike says picking up the box of tissues. "Here." Mike says handing Donna a tissues, "No, no, non, you don't have to talk. Shh, shh, shh. It's okay. It's okay." Mike says, trying to be as reassuring as possible, "He says things sometimes, and they, and they cut to the bone." Mike says, leaning across the cubical to try and be as reassuring as possible, "He does it to me to. I know, so…" Mike starts to say.
"It's not bad, right." Donna says as she suddenly stops crying, "I can also do the Demi Moore single tear. Left eye or right eye, fi that's better for the character." Donna says, causing Mike to quickly move away from her.
"Okay, I'm scared. What's going on?" Mike asks confused, completely meaning that.
"If I'm gonna play Lena Lunders for you, I need to be able to use my full range of emotions." Donna explains.
"Oh, my god. I love you." Mike tells Donna, being completely thankful.
"Yeah, I know." Donna says, as Mike smiles back at her, as he does Donna snaps her fingers, "Focus." She says, standing up, "You need another witness, and at this point, everyone else in the firm is booked up." Donna says and as she does Kyle walks up.
"Aw! Is mommy helping you clean up your mess, Ross?" Kyle asks in a baby voice.
"Am I mommy in this scenario?" Donna asks, giving Kyle a less than happy look.
"What? Um…." Kyle says, trying to find the right word and Mike just gives him a look, "Ross is just, a baby." Kyle says before hurrying off.
"It's comments like that that makes me dread the day that my secret is going to come out." Mike admits, "He, and other tools like him, are going to make my life hell."
"I'm pretty sure that he won't be dumb enough to make a comment like that once the truth is out." Donna tells Mike.
"Doesn't mean he won't make my life hell." Mike comments.
"Don't think about it, you've got to focus." Donna tells him, walking towards him, "And no pity parties either." Donna informs him, "For the other witness you've got to go to an outside source." Donna explains, "For the best friend you're going to need someone pretty, sympathetic and most importantly, willing to go above and beyond for you." Donna explains and honestly only one name comes to Mike's mind.
"What about someone who could take down Kyle on her own but who he'd underestimate?" Mike asks with a grin.
"Secret weapon, good choice." Donna says with a smile.
"Thank you, Donna." Mike tells her.
"You already said thank you. What you have to do now is kick his ass." Donna tells Mike.
"I'll do my best." Mike says, giving Donna a grateful smile as he walks away, as he does Mike pulls out his phone,
Hey. Can we talk tonight? I need a huge favour.
Mike types and sends to Katrina, honestly feeling bad about all the favours he's asked of his best friend since he started at Pearson Hardman.
Sure. Your place, 7:30?
Katrina responds a few seconds later.
See you then.
Mike responds before putting his phone back in his pocket.
A few hours later Mike is in his apartment when there is a knock on his door, knowing exactly who it is Mike gets up and answers it, letting Katrina in and greeting her with a hug.
"So, what do you need?" Katrina asks, putting her bag on the coffee table.
"It's mock trial time." Mike reveals.
"Ohhh, the thing you hate the most." Katrina realises.
"Yep." Mike confirms, "I was going to settle, but the other guy went back on his word. Thankfully I had a backup plan, where I counter sued for deformation, but I didn't find witnesses as part of my back up." Mike explains, "Donna agreed to be one of my witnesses, but I need another."
"You need me." Katrina realises.
"Always." Mike answers, "Will you do it?"
"When?"
"Tomorrow." Mike answers.
"Sure, I can miss work for a few hours." Katrina comments, planning on saying she has an appointment that she can't get out off as she knows that if Mike is coming to her then there must be no one else at the firm that he can ask.
"Thank you, Katrina. Thank you." Mike says, feeling completely grateful, "I owe you."
"Yeah, you do. I'll let you know when you have to pay up." Katrina says as she heads over to the couch, "Do you know the person who is going to play the defendant?"
"Yeah, it's Rachel. The person I've been telling you about." Mike says, walking over to the couch too.
"The one who has a thing for you and you're doing your best not to encourage her." Katrina realises.
"Yep."
"Which means you know what I have to say." Katrina tells her friend, though the fact that he knows what she has to say isn't going to stop her from saying them.
"Katrina…."
"Mike, I know how you feel about mock trials. I know you would rather lose a fake case than hurt someone you have to work with, especially if they are a friend, but you have to give everything, you've got to this time." Katrina tells her friend, "Everyone at the firm knows that you have two years' experience at the DA's office, and between that and your secret, a loss at this isn't going to just be a loss for you."
"Harvey said something similar." Mike admits.
"Of course he did." Katrina tells him, not at all surprised by that, "Mike if you don't give everything you've got. If you don't do your best and then your secret comes out it's going to give more ammunition to the argument that you only go the job because of who your mom is." Katrina explains to him, "For anyone else a loss will just be a loss, but not for you. Not with who you are, not with your experience." Katrina tells him, "You cannot think of this as a fake trial, tomorrow Rachel isn't Rachel. You've got to treat her like the opposition and do what you've got to do, just like every other time you've been in court." Katrina tells her, "Once it's over you can make things right, but seriously anyone who works at a law firm should know not to take what happens during a Mock Trial seriously."
"I hate Mock Trial." Mike says annoyed as he leans against the couch, knowing that Katrina is right, and that he has to do what he has to do to win, and he will but that doesn't mean he has to like it.
"I know." Katrina says, leaning back too, "So, what kind of witness do you need me to be?"
"One that underestimated." Mike says, turning to look at Katrina, who just smirks back and the two of them get to work.
An hour later Katrina is sitting on Mike's couch, having borrowed some of his more comfortable clothes, eating the food they ordered, while Mike who is also wearing more comfortable clothes is standing across the room, working on his opening statement.
"Okay, seriously if you keep going like this I'm gonna start a drinking game." Katrina tells her friend.
"Shut up." Mike says annoyed.
"Mike, you're thinking too hard. You've done plenty of opening statements. You've got this." Katrina assures him, giving him an odd look, "What's really going on in that genius head of yours?"
"I just keep thinking about Mom." Mike admits, turning to look at her, "I don't want to let her down tomorrow." He admits, truthfully he doesn't want to let Harvey down either, but because that will lead to a whole other conversation between him and his best friend Mike doesn't mention it.
"Give everything you've got and you won't." Katrina tells him and as she does Mike's phone goes off.
"Can you check that for me." Mike says as he's still across the room and so Katrina picks up Mike's phone.
"It's Harvey. He needs you to get into the firm." Katrina reveals, "Says he needs you to find out what's really going on with the Vega deal." She says as she reads the message.
"Looks like practice is over." Mike realises, walking over to Katrina.
"Yep. Have fun." Katrina tells him, "I'm crashing here." She reveals as she really doesn't want to head home when she has to head into Pearson Hardman, which Mike's apartment is closer to than hers.
"Fine with me." Mike assures her, "But I don't know when I'll be back so you might as well take my bed."
"Good, your couch sucks." Katrina tells him.
"Really doesn't." Mike responds as he picks up the stuff he needs and heads out of his apartment.
Having spent several hours in the office with Harvey Mike returned home where he got several hours of sleep on his couch before waking up, getting ready, and heading into the office with Katrina.
"You've traded your office for a cubical." Katrina says with an amused look on her face as she sits down on Mike's desk.
"You already knew that." Mike says, giving her an annoyed look.
"Yeah, but it's another thing to see it." Katrina comments, "It's so small. I'm really not surprised that you choose to shut yourself away in the file room."
"Wow, who are you?" A voice says and Mike and Katrina turn to see Kyle.
"Way out of your league." Katrina says before getting off Mike's desk and heading to get a drink, while Mike has to fight not to laugh.
To Mike's annoyance Kyle spends the next few minutes giving him a hard time until Harvey walks up, causing Kyle to run.
"How you feeling?" Harvey asks.
"Good." Mike answers, being surprised that Harvey is actually asking that.
"Good." Harvey says relieved, leaning over Mike's cubical. "One thing. If you get into trouble, don't plan the case. Play the man." Harvey explains.
"What are you talking about?" Mike asks, as this is a speech that he hasn't heard from Cameron.
"Good lawyers worry about facts. Great lawyers worry about their opponents. Kyle is cocky and devious. Figure out a way to use that against him." Harvey says.
"Don't worry, that's Mike's speciality." Katrina says, walking up, having watched Mike and Harvey, after having a brief conversation with Rachel before approaching, causing Harvey to turn around.
"You must be Katrina." Harvey realises, once he looks her up and down.
"And you're the great Harvey Specter, it's good to meet you." Katrina says, sticking out her hand for Harvey to shake, which he does.
"Of course it is." Harvey responds and Mike looks slightly amused, "Slow day at the DA's office?" he asks Katrina curious.
"As far as anyone is concerned I've got a dentist appointment, important, may take a while." Katrina explains, and honestly Harvey has to admire the loyalty that Katrina is showing Mike by ditching work to help him.
"Anything else, Harvey?" Mike asks curious.
"Kick his ass." Harvey tells Mike, before walking away.
"We better head to the library." Mike tells Katrina and they both stand up and head out of the room.
"You need to tell Rachel why you and her will never happen." Katrina whispers to Mike.
"I do?" Mike asks, assuming that Katrina would have a reason why she is telling him that.
"You definitely do." Katrina tells him, "Things are going to get a lot more complicated for you if you don't."
"Okay." Mike says with a sigh and the two of them continue to walk.
After a few minutes Mike and Katrina arrive at the library where a few people are, one of whom is Donna, and as soon as she sees Mike and Katrina she walks over.
"Donna, Katrina, Katrina, Donna." Mike introduces.
"It's nice to meet you, I've heard great things." Katrina says having heard things from both Mike and others at the DA's office.
"I'll assure you, they're all true." Donna assures him, "So, you're Mike's best friend. That must be a challenge." She says with a teasing tone.
"Oh it is." Katrina confirms, causing Mike to roll his eyes and suspect that he may regret introducing Katrina and Donna.
A little while later Mike and Kyle have both given their opening statements and once he was done Mike glanced at Katrina, who gave him a look which said he did pretty good.
After his opening statement Mike called Donna to the stand and just like she promised she would she is using her full range of emotions.
"Um, do you need a minute?" Mike asks Donna, who is still sobbing on the stand.
"No." Donna says with a sniffle, "I can continue."
"Thank you." Mike says, taking a step back, "Please." Mike requests, trusting that Donna knows what she is doing as he is pretty sure that she has a plan.
"I'm a self-made woman. I created the Global initiative to target problems in third-world countries. I take my work very seriously, and if a joke can be made of that, fine." Donna says, before turning to Jessica, and right away Mike realises what she is doing, "But as a woman in power, people look at your success and label you. They don't know the complexity it takes for a woman to succeed in this business, and when someone undermines that, well. We have to fight for ourselves. Don't we, your honour?" Donna asks Jessica.
"Objection." Kyle says, "So it's hard to be a woman in business? That has nothing to do with the facts of this case."
"Well, we can only understand damage your client has done by fully understanding the care with which Miss Lunders has built her reputation." Mike argues and as he does Donna gives him a wink and Mike feels a lot more relaxed.
After Donna testifies Mike calls up Katrina or Miss Ginnesse who she is paying, and right away Mike and Katrina start there act to make it seem like Katrina is someone to be underestimated while making Mike look a little better.
"Um, I'm sorry. Can you ask me the question one more time?" Katrina asks, pretending to be flustered which causes Jessica to look between her son and Katrina, wondering what they are up to, because she knows that for Katrina to be acting that way then they are up to something.
"Take a deep breath." Mike says, taking a step towards Katrina, "It's just you and me. We're just gonna have a conversation about your job, okay?" Mike asks.
"Yeah, okay."
"How do you know the defendant Sydney Thompson?" Mike asks.
"We were co-workers." Katrina answers, "We started at the same level, and then I was promoted to be her immediate superior." She explains.
"And do you know about the video in question?"
"Yes. I was at the party that night." Katrina answers.
"And what were you celebrating that night?" Mike asks.
"My promotion."
"Same night, that's interesting." Mike comments, "Miss Ginnesse, what did you think of the impersonation?"
"It was too far. It was mean." Katrina answers.
"So, in your opinion, why do you think Miss Thompson did it?" Mike asks.
"Miss Lunders promoted me. Sydney hated it. And that's why she made the video." Katrina answers.
"Well, thank you, Miss Ginnesse." Mike says gratefully, "Nothing further, your honour." Mike says and once he does Mike walks back over to his table, knowing that Kyle isn't going to know what hit him.
"Did Sydney ever tell you that she hated your promotion?" Kyle asks.
"No, but her actions and body language said otherwise." Katrina answers, knowing exactly what she has to do as she and Mike talked about it and came up with an entire plan.
"I'm sorry, are you an expert in reading body language?" Kyle asks, as this isn't going like he was expecting.
"It was obvious." Katrina answers.
"Are you sure about that?" Kyle asks, trying to rattle Katrina.
"Yes. It's easy to tell when someone is mad at you." Katrina tells him.
"But that's just an interpretation, right?"
"Yes." Katrina answers.
"Did she ever tell you her reason for making the video?" Kyle asks.
"No." Katrina answers, "But it was obvious."
"But that's just your opinion, correct?" Kyle asks, "Your ununiformed opinion."
"Not ununiformed. it's my opinion as Sydney's friend who has spent five years around her, who has spent five years getting to know her, five years seeing what kind of person she is." Katrina answers.
"Nothing further, your honour." Kyle says, knowing that if he doesn't end the cross soon he's going to be a lot worse off as this woman clearly knows what she is doing.
After Katrina is dismissed she walks back to the audience that is watching, as she does she and Mike exchange looks, both knowing that things didn't go as well as they could, but they could have gone a lot worse so all things considered Mike is pretty sure that he and Kyle are currently pretty equal, which means that Rachel's testimony is going to be the decider, which means if Mike wants to win this, which he knows he has to, then he has to do, and will do, the very thing that makes him hate Mock Trials.
