Chapter 41
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It has been three days since Donna and Mike went to go see Trevor and even though she hasn't told anyone what they did Donna has made sure to check on Mike several times and to her surprise he has been relatively okay every time she has checked in.
As they have both just been in a meeting in the judge's chambers about the case Katrina and Harvey are walking together.
"Well, we did our best." Harvey comments.
"Our best?" Katrina ask surprised, "Wait a minute, you never expected this case to get dismissed." Katrina realises.
"Then why would I ask for it?" Harvey asks.
"Because she was more likely to grant an expedited trial after saying no to a dismissal." Katrina realises.
"And now, Cameron's got a shitty case to try with no evidence and less than two weeks to get any more." Harvey explains.
"Wait a second." Katrina realises, an idea coming to her, "What if they didn't just have to scramble for new evidence? What if they had to scramble for a whole new lawyer?"
"Any lawyer who got assigned this case with only two weeks to go would drop the whole thing." Harvey realises.
"Unless they had a personal beef with you, which they wouldn't." Katrina points out.
"There's only one way to get Cameron thrown off this case." Harvey realises.
"Prove he colluded with Gianopolus, which means we wouldn't be bullshitting anymore." Katrina says.
"Exactly, we've got a chance to get rid of this murder charge once and for all." Harvey says with a grin, feeling glad about that.
It has been a little while since Harvey and Katrina decided to prove collusion and Harvey is sitting in his office when Stephen walks in.
"What are you doing here?" Harvey asks as Stephen walks in.
"What I've always been doing here, representing Edward Darby's wishes." Stephen explains.
"I lost Ava her company. I assume my deal with Edward is dead." Harvey admits.
"Well, Edward doesn't see it like that." Stephen admits, "You may have failed, but Jessica took a shot at her own team."
"And the consequences of that are what?" Harvey asks curious.
"Deal stays in place as long as you win her murder trial." Stephen reveals.
"What if my plan is to not even have a murder trial?" Harvey asks.
"Well, as long as you don't accomplish that by having Ava plead guilty, you'll be the next managing partner." Stephen reveals.
"Good, because I'm going to accomplish it by getting Cameron Dennis thrown of this case for colluding with Tony Gianpolous." Harvey explains.
"And how are you going to accomplish that?" Stephen asks curious.
"By suing Tony Gianopolous." Harvey explains.
"For what?" Stephen asks as Katrina walks into the room.
"For this." Katrina says, dropping a file on Harvey's desk, "or this." She says, dropping another file, "and or that." Katrina says, dropping the last file on the desk before heading over to behind Harvey where she leans against his shelf.
"Yeah, that's good." Stephen comments.
"Mm-hmm. It is." Harvey confirms.
"Yeah, but I can do better." Stephen comments.
"No way." Katrina argues.
"Five thousand says I can." Steven says.
"Ten thousand says you can't." Harvey counters.
"Excellent." Stephen says.
"What's your idea?" Harvey asks curious.
"Well, it requires you to take me with you to see Mr. Gianopolous." Stephen reveals.
"Katrina?" Harvey asks.
"Yeah."
"You're of the case." Harvey informs him.
"Fine with me, I have more than enough work to do." Katrina admits, "Best of luck, guys. Hope it works out." Katrina tells Harvey and Stephen before leaving.
After leaving Harvey's office Katrina heads straight to Donna's cubical.
"Were you listening?" Katrina asks her friend.
"Do you even have to ask?" Donna asks.
"I really shouldn't." Katrina says as she sits down on the corner of Donna's desk, "So those two betting about this? Am I the only one who thinks this isn't going to end well?" she asks in a quiet voice.
"No." Donna confirms as both Harvey and Stephen walk out of Harvey's office and walks away, "So, I've got to leave to go take Mike to his appointment with Doctor Jenkins." She reveals.
"Okay, I'll cover if anyone ask." Katrina promises her friend.
"I know." Donna says before grabbing her phone and bag and heading out.
Not long after she left Katrina Dona is letting herself into Mike's apartment, where she finds the place a lot tidier but no sign of Mike, something which isn't overly surprising considering she's had to practically drag him to every one of his appointments.
"Mike?" Donna calls.
"I'll be right out; I'm just finishing getting ready." Mike calls back, to Donna's surprised.
After hearing Mike's response Donna starts to look around the room and as she sees a pile of papers on the coffee table Donna goes and has a look and starts to read them, being a little surprised, and honestly a bit amazed by what she reads.
"Hey." Mike says, coming out from the bathroom.
"You're looking into starting a legal aid clinic?" Donna asks surprised, looking up at Mike.
"I'm thinking about it" Mike admits, "I'm only doing research at the moment, but I'm considering it." He explains, "I think using the settlement money would be pretty fitting." Mike reveals, "It's the only thing I can see myself using it for."
"It would be pretty fitting." Donna confirms, "But are you sure you want to do this? Don't you want to come back to the firm?" Donna asks, as she was sure that Mike would eventually come back.
"I'm not sure of anything." Mike admits, "Like I said, I'm just considering it." Mike reveals, as honesty he would never even consider coming back to the firm unless things were right between him and Harvey, which he doesn't see happening unless they have a pretty intense conversation.
"Well, we both know who you should talk to before deciding anything." Donna tells her friend, trying to get Mike to go to Harvey as she is pretty sure that if he doesn't go to him before he starts this thing then they are going to have no chance of fixing things.
"We should go to my appointment." Mike says, clearly avoiding talking about Harvey.
"Yeah, guess we should." Donna says, knowing for a fact that this is the first time that she hasn't had to drag Mike to his appointment.
"Yep." Mike says and the two of them head out of the apartment and as they leave Donna is internally debating whether she should tell Harvey what Mike is planning.
After spending several hours with Mike Donna returned to the office and she spent a lot of time debating what to do, and after a lot of debating she came to the decision not to mention it to Harvey, at least not yet.
The next morning Donna is waiting in Harvey's office as while she has decided not to tell him about Mike there is something that she knows she has to tell him.
"Make yourself at home." Harvey comment as he walks into his office and finds Donna sitting on one of his couches.
"I wanted to talk to you in here." Donna explains.
"Is this about your….." Harvey starts to say.
"No, no." Donna quickly says.
"You don't even know what I was going to say." Harvey says and Donna just gives him a look as Harvey sits down on one of the chairs.
"How'd it go with Gianopolous?" Donna asks curious.
"Well, he's not a pushover, but I think we have a good plan." Harvey explains.
"So it went well?" Donna ask.
"Yeah, it went well, and since when are you…." Harvey starts to say.
"I'm sleeping with Stephen." Donna reveals.
"I can see that." Harvey answers, acting like he isn't surprised.
"You can see that? That's all you have to say?" Donna asks surprised.
"Do you want me to say more?" Harvey asks curious.
"It depends on what you would say." Donna admits.
"I'd say, when?"
"Last week." Donna reveals.
"Why didn't you tell me before?" Harvey asks curious.
"I was going to, but you got so upset when you thought I was working for him." Donna explains.
"Because you work for me." Harvey says simply.
"Well, I'm not working for him." Donna explains.
"Good."
"So you're not upset." Donna says, sounding glad about that.
"No. What you're doing with him is personal." Harvey says.
"And this isn't?" Donna asks.
"Donna, I don't want to make this a thing." Harvey admits.
"I don't either." Donna assures him, "I just want to make sure that it doesn't become a thing."
"It won't, as long as you don't let that affect this." Harvey assures her.
"Good." Donna says, sounding glad about that.
Not long after his conversation with Donna Harvey has been called to Jessica's office, so that's where he is walking into.
"You wanted to see me?" Harvey asks.
"Yes. I had some free time." Jessica reveals as she takes a drink of her tea, "Oakwood foods cancelled our ten am meeting, as did Omni Holdings at noon, and Dunbar Securities at four." Jessica informs Harvey.
"Sounds like you need to work on your people skills." Harvey comments.
"You need to work on your people skills." Jessica corrects, "Those meetings were cancelled because we just got fired." She explains.
"And why is that my fault?" Harvey asks confused, "They're not my clients. I've never even met them." He explains.
"No, but evidently, you have met their new owner, Tony Gianopolous, who brought them for the sole reason of firing us." Jessica explains.
"Good. I pissed him off. That means it's working." Harvey says with a grin.
"Oh, you mean that plan of yours you didn't think to tell me about?" Jessica asks, there being some anger in her voice.
"Oh, I thought about it, and then I thought you'd just go behind my back and undo it." Harvey explains.
"So you went behind my back and went to Stephen Huntley." Jessica says, once more sounding anger.
"I told you, I trust him." Harvey reminds her.
"Well, you're the one who likes to throw Darby's name around. So, why don't you and Stephen call him and let him know that you single-handedly lost us more business in a day than you've ever gotten in a month, and feel free to use my phone. Since you freed up my afternoon, I'm taking the rest of the day off." Jessica says before leaving her office, leaving Harvey there.
After leaving the firm Jessica goes straight to her son's apartment, and as she isn't sure whether he'd open the door if she knocked, Jessica once more lets herself in and when she walks in she finds Mike sitting at his desk on his computer.
"Hey Mom." Mike greats, seeing her and seeing her Jessica is pretty sure that he is in much better shape than he has been since breaking up with Harvey and quitting.
"Hi." Jessica says, walking over to her son, "What are you doing?" she asks curious.
"Just looking into a few things." Mike admits.
"Anything you want to talk about?" Jessica asks, truly being curious.
"Not yet. I'm still figuring some things out." Mike says, saving what he is doing and closing his computer, as he isn't ready to share what he is doing with his mother, "It's a bit early for you to be here, isn't it? Don't you have work?" Mike asks curious.
"Normally I would, but thanks to a plan of Harvey and Stephen Huntley, all the meetings I had today were cancelled because the clients fired us." Jessica explains, watching her son carefully at the mention of Harvey as she wants to see how he reacts to that, but to her disappointment he manages to hide his reaction pretty well, "Wait, you wouldn't know who Stephen is."
"No, I do. Donna and Katrina have told me about him." Mike explains, trying not to think about Harvey.
"Oh." Jessica tells her son, "Well, I've decided to take the afternoon of, and I decided that I want to spend it with you." Jessica explains to her son, and hearing that Mike can't help but smile a little as things between him and his mother are slightly better.
"I'd like that." Mike tells her, "I haven't had lunch yet." He reveals.
"Then, how about we go out to lunch, my treat." Jessica suggests.
"I'd like that." Mike says and the two of them get up and head out of the apartment.
It has been hours since Harvey was called to his office, and since then Harvey has talked to Ava, who is also completely pissed about his plan, and is now sitting in his office with Stephen.
"She actually said she'd prefer to rot in a cell?" Stephen asks surprised, "Well, you've gotta give her credit for that."
"You do, and she's right. It's not making any sense. If he's not making a run, why is he dumping her shares?" Harvey asks.
"He's reacting." Stephen comments.
"He's overreacting." Harvey corrects, "He may have money to burn, but this isn't tens of thousands, it's tens of millions. It's completely out of proportion." Harvey says.
"Not exactly." Stephen comments.
"What are you talking about?" Harvey asks confused.
"I subpoenaed his daughter." Stephen reveals.
"You did what?" Harvey asks, sounding furious, which he is because after what happened with Mike he knows that that is too far.
"He fired our client, so I struck back." Stephen explains.
"And you didn't think to run that by me?" Harvey asks, standing up.
"No, didn't think you'd say no." Stephen admits, not understanding why Harvey is so angry.
"I'd say no because I'm not an idiot." Harvey reveals, completely meaning that.
"Idiot?" Stephen asks, sounding surprised.
"We need this man to help us. You just made him a permanent enemy." Harvey reveals, knowing that for a fact.
"Me? We did this together." Stephen says, standing up, "Don't put this on me."
"I'm putting it on you because you goddamn did it." Harvey says.
"You were going to go after him no matter what I said." Stephen says as Harvey walks over to his desk.
"I attacked his business. You went after his family and you just don't do that." Harvey says angrily.
"Don't tell me you've never done the same thing?" Stephen says and Harvey just gives an angry look, "And what's the difference between me doing it, other than the fact that, ah I see. This isn't about me getting personal with Gianopolous. This is about me getting personal with Donna." Stephen says, not realising the huge line he just crossed.
"I'm gonna pretend you didn't just say that." Harvey says angrily.
"Is that because she's listening?" Stephen asks curious.
"I don't give a shit if she hears it or not. You crossed a line with Gianopolous, and you've crossed another one with me." Harvey reveals.
"You know, you've had it in for me from the start."
"And you've only been with Donna for a few days, that should tell you something." Harvey informs him, "Let me spell it out for you, okay? You don't work my case without me and since you seem to be having trouble understanding that, you don't work my case at all. Now get out of my office." Harvey instructs, and after glaring at him Stephen heads out of Harvey's office.
It has been a little while since his conversation with Stephen and Harvey needed to go to a walk and as he walks past Jessica's office Harvey notices that she is working at her desk and so he walks in.
"I thought you were taking the day off." Harvey comments.
"That was the day, this is the night, and my name is still on the door." Jessica says, an undertone of anger in her voice.
"It is." Harvey confirms as he sits down across from her.
"What do you want, Harvey?" Jessica asks.
"You were right." Harvey reveals.
"We've had a lot of disagreements lately. Which one are you referring to?" Jessica asks curious.
"I'm not entirely sure Stephen Huntley's judgement is better than yours." Harvey admits, "He went behind my back." Harvey reveals.
"Going behind someone's back doesn't seem like something you have a problem with." Jessica comments.
"Maybe, but he hit Gianopolus below the belt, in the worse way, and now we have a problem." Harvey reveals.
"We have a problem?" Jessica asks, stressing the we.
"You said your name was still on the door. I'm coming to you for help." Harvey explains.
"What's our problem?" Jessica asks curious, looking away from her laptop.
"He's dumping Hessington Oil shares just to drive her into the ground." Harvey explains.
"Well." Jessica says, standing up, "If we can come together, maybe they can come together." She says, walking over to where Harvey is sitting and leaning against the table.
"I'm listening." Harvey says.
"Tony Gianopolous wants to own Hessingotn Oil. Ava wants to control it." Jessica says, "She sells him her shares."
"He gives her the voting rights." Harvey realises.
"And he gives up Cameron Dennis." Jessica says.
"They get what they want, and so do we." Harvey says.
"You think he'll still go for it?" Jessica asks curious.
"He'll know we're coming to him because he won. He won't be the problem. Ava said she'd rather rot than see him take over her company." Harvey explains.
"I'll take care of Ava." Jessica informs him, completely meaning that.
As she heard what happen between them the night before Donna purposely didn't return Stephen's call, which has lead to him cornering her in the file room the next morning.
"You never returned my call last night." Stephen says to Donna.
"Well, what could be different than the night before? Hmm?" Donna asks, "Maybe the fact that you went to Harvey and you threw me in his face." She says angrily.
"Um, I was just telling it how it was." Steven reveals, "He's already got it in for us anyway."
"Well, that's my business with him, not yours." Donna says.
"You're right. I'm sorry. I never wanted to make things awkward for you and Harvey." Stephen admits, meaning that.
"You made things awkward for you and me." Donna reveals.
"Donna…." Stephen starts to say.
"I like you, Stephen, and I have enjoyed our short term arrangement, but I don't enjoy complications." Donna reveals.
"I don't either, but it seems we have one. Now, I'm affected by you more than I thought, and I'm finding I'd like to extend our terms." Stephen admits.
"I'll take your offer under advisement." Donna says, before walking away, as she rounds the corner she finds Katrina, "How much did you hear?"
"Enough." Katrina answers, "Want to talk about it?" she asks curious.
"Not right now." Donna admits.
"Seems like you've taken over Mike's hiding place in his absence." Donna comments.
"And you just happen to be here?" Donna asks.
"I miss him." Katrina admits, "I miss him being here." She corrects.
"So do I." Donna admits.
"We need to figure out a way to get him to come back." Katrina tells her friend, as Mike belongs at the firm, and she wants him to come back.
"Yeah, we do, but we both know that there's only one person who's going to be able to get him to do that." Donna comments.
"Don't I know it." Katrina says and the two of them drift into silence as they walk.
All day Harvey and Jessica work together on Ava's case and they have even managed to achieve everything that they wanted to do.
It's well after everyone else has left and Harvey is sitting in his office when Jessica walks in.
"I'm not one for sentimental gestures, but I was thinking about when Hardman came back and you and I got into it. You got me my tea set back." Jessica says.
"You here to thank me for that?" Harvey asks curious.
"I'm here with a gesture." Jessica says putting a card down on Harvey's desk, a card that says, Pearson Darby Specter.
"This isn't a tea set." Harvey says shocked.
"It's going up on the wall tomorrow." Jessica reveals.
"I asked for that a while ago. You said I wasn't ready." Harvey reminds her.
"I also said I wasn't just going to slap someone else's name up there next to me, but I did." Jessica reveals.
"And now you regret it." Harvey realises, "And you're playing chess again." Harvey realises.
"What does that mean?" Jessica asks.
"It means; I want to know if this is gesture of it it's a move." Harvey admits, as he isn't overly sure what to think.
"What it is, is my way of showing you that Darby's treating me the same way I treated you, and I understand how you felt." Jessica admits, knowing that he doesn't completely understand how Harvey's felt back then, but she does have a better idea.
"You don't like it, and this is your way of getting me on your side." Harvey realises.
"Harvey, I can't make you believe me, but I don't want you on my side. I want us to be on the same side." Jessica reveals, before leaving.
After Jessica leaves Harvey picks up the card that Jessica left and as he stares at the card, stares at everything he ever wanted, he realises that he feels happy about it, not really, all he can think about is the fact that Mike should be with him and that they should be celebrating this together.
For a few more moments Harvey stares at the card, trying to will himself to be happy before he realises that there is only one thing, one person, that will make him happy and so he gets up and heads out of his office, knowing exactly where he needs to go.
Not long after he left the office Harvey is walking up to Mike's apartment for the first time in weeks, but as he rounds the corner to the corridor where Mike's apartment is Harvey sees someone who he recognizes to be Katrina open the door and enter, and as much as he would like to follow her Harvey realises that for him and Mike to be able to really talk and figure things out then they would have to do it in private, and so, as hard as it is he turns around and walks away, heading home.
Walking into Mike's place, and having no idea what she accidently interrupted, Katrina finds her friend sitting on the floor, on his laptop and surrounded by folders and papers.
"Okay, this is a new sight." Katrina comments, "What are you doing?" Katrina asks curious as she walks over and sits down next to her friend.
"Research." Mike answers, "I'm looking into starting a legal aid clinic." He explains, "My plan is to use the settlement money."
"Wow." Katrina says, sounding shocked, "How long have you been planning this for?"
"Not long." Mike answers, "I'm still in the research phase."
"Okay." Katrina says with a nod, not overly sure what she thinks about this, "Why don't you explain to me what you've done so far."
"Sure." Mike says and he starts to explain all about his research, and where it has lead, to Katrina.
The next morning, having spent most of the night before thinking about Mike rather than celebrating the fact that his name is on the wall, Harvey is standing near his record player when he hears footsteps and Donna walks in.
"Dom Perignon's on ice and Bloomberg's closing Broadway for the ticker-tape parade." Donna comments.
"You saw the sign?" Harvey asks.
"Yeah, dream come true for any lawyer." Donna comments.
"I don't have dreams, I have goals. Now it's on to the next one." Harvey reveals, walking over to his desk, knowing for a fact that his next goal is to get Mike to give him a second chance, though he isn't completely sure how he is going to do that.
"When did you find out?" Donna asks.
"Last night." Harvey answers.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Donna asks curious.
"I shouldn't have to." Harvey answers.
"Meaning?" Donna asks, sounding annoyed.
"Meaning your focus hasn't been where it usually is." Harvey reveals, doing so partly because he's annoyed about not being able to talk to Mike the night before.
"Okay, meaning that my focus has been on Stephen." Donna realises, "If that's what you mean, then just say it. Just admit that it bothers you about me and him." She requests.
"I'm not admitting anything because there's nothing to admit." Harvey says, "And Stephen or not, you know as well as I do I've never had to tell you a thing. You've always just known." Harvey says and Donna heads out of the room.
It has been a little while since Harvey and Donna talked and Harvey is still in his office, honestly he isn't in much of a mood to deal with anyone.
"It's still on." Katrina says, walking into Harvey's office, "There's a reason Cameron hasn't raised the white flag with Ava yet." She explains.
"What is it?" Harvey asks.
"I was filling our motion to dismiss when I noticed his office faxed the court from the Waldorf Astoria." Katrina explains, "He's been booking rooms all over Manhattan, and turns out two days ago, he also called in the U.S. Marshals." Katrina explains, "Protective custody, twenty men strong." She explains.
"Shit." Harvey says, "This case isn't over, he's got another goddamn witness." Harvey says, before leaving the room.
After Harvey leaves Katrina heads out of the room and over to Donna's cubical.
"So, am I imagining it or are things tense between you and Harvey?" Katrina asks curious.
"You're not, but I don't want to talk about it." Donna admits.
"Don't blame you there." Katrina admits, knowing better than pushing her friend, "So, I went to Mike's last night. He told me all about what he's been looking doing."
"The legal aid clinic." Donna says and Katrina nods, "Do you think he's really going to do it?"
"I think there is a pretty good chance." Katrina says, "He seemed pretty serious when he told me everything last night." She reveals, "There really is a chance that he's not going to come back." She says, like the thoughts only just accrued to her.
"Yeah, there is." Donna confirms, "I know that if this is what Mike really wants then we should support him, but he should come back here, he belongs here."
"Yeah, he does." Katrina confirms, "But after everything that's happened there is only one person who'll be able to convince him to come back."
"That there is." Donna comments, "And I think it's time I told him a few things." Donna reveals, knowing that she is going to do so in the same conversation where she and Harvey talk about her and Stephen.
"Yeah." Katrina says with a nod, and the two of them drift into silence.
It has been two days since Donna and Katrina talked about Mike and ever since Katrina and Harvey have been working on the case, while Stephen has been attempting to interfere more than once, much to Harvey's annoyance.
It is early on a Saturday morning and Donna is sitting at a dinner eating when Harvey walks up and sits next to her.
"What are you doing here, Harvey?" Donna asks, "It's seven am."
"I didn't know you were gonna be here. I love this place." Harvey lies.
"Really? You've only ever been here once before." Donna comments.
"How'd you know that?" Harvey asks.
"I know." Donna answers simply.
"You and Stephen, it bothers me. I know it's not fair, but it does." Harvey reveals, not entirely sure why it does, though he suspects that it might have something to do with the fact that he doesn't think Stephen is right for Donna, he doesn't think he is good enough for her.
"Good."
"Good?" Harvey asks surprised
"I mean we both knew it. It's good that you were finally were able to say it." Donna reveals, "Look, Harvey. I've always had a policy against dating people from the office in the past, and I broke it this time because I have to live my life. I've never apologised for who I am, and I'm not going to start now."
"You don't need to apologise for anything." Harvey assures her, "And it's not you dating that is bothering me, it's Stephen." He reveals.
"I figured." Donna says, "And while I don't have anything to apologise for you do." She says and Harvey just gives her a look, "For talking so long to say it bothered you. Jesus."
"Yeah, guess so." Harvey says.
"Well, seeing as how we're being honest there's a few things I have to tell you, one of which you're really, really going to hate." Donna reveals, knowing that now is the time to tell Harvey about Mike.
"Is this more about Stephen?" Harvey asks annoyance in his voice.
"No, it's about Mike." Donna reveals and Harvey turns to look at her and in that second Donna knows that she has Harvey's full intention.
"What about him?" Harvey asks, a level of urgency to his voice.
"He stopped attending his appointments with Doctor Jenkins." Donna reveals.
"What? Those appointments are important! They've been helping him; he can't skip them." Harvey says worried.
"I know, which is why I've been personally taking him to his appointments and have been waiting in the waiting room while he goes to them." Donna explains.
"Good, that's good." Harvey says relieved, "How's he doing?"
"Better than he was, for a while he was in pretty bad shape." Donna reveals and Harvey just gives a nod, not trusting his voice to say anything as Donna tell him that Mike was in bad shape makes him more worried than if anyone else were to tell him, "What I need to tell you next I'm the only one who knows, no one else does, not even Katrina or Jessica." Donna reveals.
"Okay." Harvey says, sounding worried, wondering what Donna is going to say.
"Last Friday Mike and I went to Rikers, to see Trevor." Donna reveals, knowing that Harvey isn't going to like that.
"You did what? Why the hell would you do that?" Harvey asks angrily.
"Because it was something Mike needed to do, but he couldn't go alone." Donna reveals, "He did have a flashback, the worst I've ever seen him have, but not until he was out of the room Trevor was in. He also managed to stand up to Trevor, the visit didn't last long though, and was with him the entire time." Donna reveals.
"That's something." Harvey mutters, though he still thinks that Mike shouldn't have gone anywhere near the prison, though if he really had to then he should have been with Mike, not Donna.
"Yeah." Donna nods, "He's looking into a starting a legal aid clinic."
"Mike?" Harvey asks surprised.
"Yeah, he's started doing research, and he's going to use the money he got from the settlement after his parents were killed." Donna explains, "Look Harvey, I know you said you need to become someone who deserves him, but If you don't do something soon you're going to lose him forever." Donna reveals, "If you want to be with him again you need to fight for him."
"That's exactly what I intend to do." Harvey reveals, completely meaning that.
Hours later Harvey has spent all day working with Katrina to find out who Cameron's witness is and having found out that Cameron was bluffing Harvey is waiting on the roof for Jessica.
"Any progress getting to Mariga?" Jessica asks curious.
"Cameron's not just bluffing about what Mariga's gonna say. He doesn't even have him." Harvey reveals.
"That means we…." Jessica starts to say.
"We win. It's over." Harvey says.
"Ah, it's gonna be fun telling Cameron that." Jessica says with a laugh.
"It's gonna be fun for Katrina. I've got something else to do, and it's not going to be fun." Harvey reveals, not mentioning that Katrina knows exactly what he is going to do as he told her so that she wouldn't bother him, except for in a real emergency.
"Is that why we're up here?" Jessica asks curious, having a bad feeling.
"You remember when you told me you decided to take Gordon, Schmidt, and Van Dyke down?" Harvey asks.
"I guess that is why we're up here."
"you said, take them in the night because night-time's when they're sleeping." Harvey says.
"And you thought I was wrong." Jessica remembers.
"And then you said if I were ever in your shoes, I might think differently" Harvey says.
"What'd you do, Harvey?" Jessica asks, pain in her voice.
"I made a move in the night. I get Ava Hessington acquitted, Darby backs me for managing partner." Harvey reveals.
"I guess congratulations are in order." Jessica says, pain and betrayal in her voice
"I'm here to tell you that I don't want it anymore." Harvey says, completely meaning that.
"Get out of my sight." Jessica says, turning away from Harvey, and Harvey takes a step and turns back around to face her,
"Because I don't want there to be anymore secrets I'm going to tell you this now, I'm going to get Mike to come back to the firm, and I'm going to try to get him to give me a second chance." Harvey says before walking away, leaving Jessica completely alone.
Not long after leaving Jessica on the roof Harvey is knocking on the door to Mike's apartment for the first time in weeks, honestly not sure what kind of response he is going to get, all he knows is that it is something he has to do.
"Harvey." Mike says, sounding completely shocked when he opens the door a few second after Harvey knocked.
"I'm sorry Mike, I'm so god damn sorry. I should have never put you in the middle, I should have never begged you to go into that room when I knew you didn't want to, when you asked me not to." Harvey says, "I screwed up and I hurt you, and I'm sorrier than I can put into words, and I give you my word that I will never do something like that again." Harvey says, and Mike truly wants to believe that, "Jessica put my name on the door, and I wasn't even happy because all I can think is that you should have been there. It was my goal for so long, but it doesn't matter to me anymore, and neither does the deal I made with Darby, that I don't even want any more, to become managing partner, all that matters to me is you." Harvey says, and Mike is shocked but before he can say anymore Harvey continues to speak, "I love you Mike, and I'm here asking you to give me a second chance, because I want you in my life, I need you in my life, because it's not the live I want to have without you in it." Harvey says, meaning everything he is saying as he braces himself for Mike's reaction as he honestly doesn't know how the younger man is going to react.
