Chapter 42
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"Harvey…." Mike starts to say, but then he realises that words can't describe what he is feeling so steps forward and kisses Harvey and the second he does he feels like everything is right again.
When Mike first kisses him Harvey is shocked for a few seconds and then he pulls Mike in closer as they continue to kiss.
"I love you too." Mike says when they finally break apart to get some air, "But we've still got some things to talk about, some things to figure out."
"I know." Harvey says, not removing his arms from around Mike, "I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make us okay again." He reveals.
"You can start by explaining what deal you made with Darby." Mike tells Harvey as the two of them head into Mike's apartment and over to his couch.
As they do Harvey can't help but look around and as he does he realises that things look almost the same, except Mike's picture wall is missing more than a few, and because he spent so much time staring at the picture Harvey knows that the missing pictures are any pictures that included him or Jessica.
"If I got Ava Hessington acquitted then Darby would back me for managing partner." Harvey reveals.
"You were going to take down my Mom?" Mike asks, some anger in his voice.
"I'm not sure if I ever really wanted to, it just seemed like a good idea." Harvey admits, "I've told Jessica all about it, and that I don't want it anymore, because I don't." Harvey reveals.
"I believe you." Mike says, believing that.
"When I said I want you back in my life, Mike, I want you in every part of it, I want you to come back to the firm." Harvey reveals, "Donna told me what you've been looking into doing. If that's what you really want to do then I'll support you, completely, but I still want you to come back." Harvey reveals, and for a little while Mike is quiet as he debates everything.
"Do I have your word that you won't put me in the middle when you and Mom have a fight?" Mike asks.
"Yes." Harvey assures him, "I promise you Mike." Harvey says, it being clear that he completely means that and now that he has both his mothers and Harvey's words that they won't put him in the middle Mike feels comfortable enough going back.
"Then I'll come back." Mike answers, causing Harvey to smile and lean in and kiss Mike once more and for a little while Harvey and Mike continue to kiss on the couch, only breaking apart when the door opens and Katrina walks in.
"I'm really sorry to interrupt, but we've got a problem." Katrina says, being extremely glad that Harvey and Mike are clearly back on track, though she is less happy about having walked in on them.
"What problem?" Harvey asks, trying to keep the annoyance out of his voice as he would rather nothing interrupt his time with Mike.
"Stephen Huntley lead Cameron Dennis straight to Mariga." Katrina explains.
"You've got to be kidding me." Harvey says shocked and angry.
"I wouldn't be here if I was." Katrina explains, "I'm really sorry about interrupting." She admits, completely meaning that.
"Damn it." Harvey says annoyed, as now he knows what he has to do, "I've got to go have a conversation with Stephen Huntley, but once I've done that I'd like to come back here." Harvey tells Mike.
"I'd like that too." Mike responds, completely meaning that.
"I'll be back soon." Harvey says, kissing Mike once more and once they break apart he stands up, "Can you catch Mike up on the case?" Harvey asks Katrina curious as he walks past her.
"Sure." Katrina says as Harvey walks out of the apartment.
"Isn't Stephen on a date with Donna tonight?" Mike asks once Harvey leaves, as Donna told him so the last time they saw each other.
"Yep." Katrina confirms.
"That's going to end well." Mike mutters.
"So, does this mean you two are okay?" Katrina asks curious.
"I think we're getting there." Mike admits, being pretty sure that they are very, very close to being okay.
"So does that mean you're coming back?" Katrina asks, there being no question as to what she is talking about.
"Yeah." Mike confirms.
"Good." Katrina says, sounding glad about that, as it means she will no longer have to do twice the amount of work, "Please say you'll take over being the associate on Ava Hessington case." She requests.
"It's a murder trial, don't you want to stay on it?" Mike asks surprised
"It's also a pain in the butt case, I'll be happy to be off it. Plus, we both know that Harvey would rather work with you." Katrina explains as the truth is she has a lot of other work that she needs to do.
"Okay, tell me everything I need to know." Mike requests and Katrina does just that.
For the next hour Katrina fills Mike in on everything to do with Ava and everything that has happened so that he knows everything that he needs to know.
"Okay, now I get why you said it's been a pain in the butt." Mike realises, having a lot of sympathy for his best friend.
"Yep." Katina confirms and as she does there is a knock on the door so Katrina gets up and answers it, revealing Harvey, "Okay, that's my cue to go." Katrina says, "I'll see you both tomorrow." She says before leaving.
As Katrina heads out of the apartment Mike stands up and once Katrina leaves Harvey walks over to Mike.
"Katrina catch you up?" Harvey asks curious.
"Yeah. You've been busy." Mike comments.
"Honestly, I've just been trying to distract myself, but it didn't really help because you weren't working it with me, and you should have." Harvey says, "And I regret that you weren't."
"So do I." Mike says before kissing Harvey, something which Harvey gladly responds to.
As they kiss Mike removes Harvey's jacket, dropping it on the floor before undoing Harvey's undoing Harvey's tie as well.
"Bed?" Mike asks, between kisses.
"Yes." Harvey answers, without hesitation, "If you're sure." Harvey says between kisses as it may have been a month since he has been with Mike, but he still remembers how hesitant Mike can be.
"I'm ready." Mike says, completely meaning that and as they make their way to Mike's bedroom, they both step out of their shoes and Harvey pulls Mike's t-shirt over his head and lets it drop to the floor, and once Mike's shirt is removed Harvey starts to kiss along his neck.
Once they get to Mike's bed Mike falls backwards and Harvey falls onto him, and once he does he continues to kiss along Mike's chest and torso.
After a few minutes Harvey gets to the waist band of Mike's jeans, and as he undoes Mike's belt, followed by the button and zip, he watches him carefully for any sign of fear or hesitation, but as he doesn't see any sign of either Harvey pulls down Mike's pants and Mike raises his hips so they can be pulled off.
"You're wearing too many clothes." Mike says, leaning up and kissing Harvey as he undoes his shirt.
"I know." Harvey says and stands up to quickly remove his pants and his open shirt, before moving back to the bed and kissing Mike once more, "You sure you're ready?" Harvey asks breaking apart from Mike once more.
"Yeah, I want this Harvey, I want you." Mike says, meaning that completely.
"Okay." Harvey says, kissing Mike once more before moving down Mike's body and then once he gets to Mike's underwear he puts his finger under the waist band and pulls Mike's underwear down, watching Mike for sing of fear, but as he sees non he pulls them down all the way and for the first time since the attack Mike is completely naked in front of another person.
"Okay?" Harvey asks Mike once Mike's underwear full to the ground.
"Beyond okay." Mike says, completely meaning that, before kissing Harvey once more, "I love you." He tells Harvey once they break apart.
"Love you too." Harvey says as they break apart, and once they do Harvey continues to kiss down Mike's body and Mike takes complete pleasure in the feeling of Harvey's mouth on him, and doesn't feel a single flicker of fear.
A while later both Mike and Harvey are naked and lying in Mike's bed in each other's arms, both feeling a little tired but incredible happy, and both are still trying to catch their breaths.
"You okay?" Harvey asks Mike, once he catches his breath, looking down at Mike.
"More than okay." Mike says, "That was incredible."
"Thank you." Harvey says with a smirk.
"Ass." Mike says with a grin, before kissing Harvey.
"You were pretty incredible yourself." Harvey says when they break apart, though Mike makes no effort to move away from Harvey and Harvey tightens his arms around Mike, "I'm going to do better Mike, I promise I'll be someone who deserves to be with you."
"You already are." Mike assures him, "And as long as you don't put me in the middle again, you will keep being so."
"I won't, I gave you my word and I meant it." Harvey assures him.
"Good." Mike says, sounding glad, "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too, so much." Harvey says before kissing Mike once more, and once they break apart Harvey realises something, "Mike, Donna, and surprisingly Louis, have both said things about how you've been in the last month, are you really okay?" he asks, it's clear that he is concerned.
"I wasn't at first. I spent a lot of time drinking, and doing a lot of other things that aren't considered healthy, but I'm okay now, and I've stopped drinking in excess a little while ago." Mike explains to Harvey, wanting to be honest as they are starting over and he is pretty sure that honesty is key.
"I'm sorry, Mike. I'm so sorry that I put you in the position to do that." Harvey says, guilt clear in his voice.
"It's not your fault, not only yours anyway." Mike says, "It was my fault, and Moms." He reveals.
"I'm still sorry." Harvey promises Mike.
"I know, and I forgive you for everything, we're okay, Harvey." Mike assures him, "More than okay." He corrects.
"Yeah, we are." Harvey says before kissing Mike once more, and once they break apart neither move away from each other and before long they are both fast asleep in each other's arms, both of them falling into the best sleep they've had in a month.
The next morning both Harvey and Mike wake up relatively early and after they both shower, together for the first time, they get changed into their suits, Harvey wearing one of the suits he left at Mike's a month ago, and head into the office, having been picked up by Ray who supplied them with coffee that they desperately need.
"So, how are we going to fix what Stephen screwed up?" Mike asks curious.
"I don't know, yet." Harvey answers, "But I know we're going to figure it out." Harvey says as they ride the elevators up.
"So, where am I going to work? I assume someone has taken my desk." Mike comments.
"They haven't." Harvey assures him, "Your Mom put you on unpaid leave, so technically there was never a time that you didn't have a job here, and you're desk is still yours."
"Huh." Mike says as the elevator doors open and as they do they step out, and Mike purposely turns to look at the wall that now says Pearson Darby Specter, "That's pretty awesome." Mike says to his boyfriend, honestly wanting to kiss Harvey, though he knows he can't as they haven't talked about telling people.
"Yeah, it is." Harvey says and they both turn and walk away from the sign, as they do they both see Jessica walking into her office.
"I'll meet you in your office." Mike tells Harvey, "There's something I need to do." He tells Harvey.
"Okay." Harvey says, not at all surprised that Mike needs to talk to his mother, and he walks away from Harvey, his hand gently grazing Mike's as they walk past.
After Harvey walks away Mike takes a deep breath and heads to his mother's office where his mother is putting her bag down on one of her chairs.
"Hey." Mike says from the doorway and Jessica turns to see her son.
"Huh, he did it." Jessica says, surprised to see him, as she honestly thought it would take Harvey more than a day to get her son to come back, "How'd Harvey get you to come back, Mike?" Jessica asks her son curious, "I asked you to more than once and you said no every time." She reminds him.
"All those times you asked me to come back I only had your word that you wouldn't put me in the middle again. I could never even consider coming back until had Harvey's word too, which I now have." Mike explains to his mother, "I'm back, if that's okay with you."
"It's more than okay with me." Jessica assures her son with a smile, "Harvey said that he was also going to try and get you to give him a second chance. Did he succeed there too?"
"Yes." Mike answers, "We talked, and figured things out." Mike reveals, it feeling incredible good to admit this to his mother, though he's a little worried about that.
"Good." Jessica says, being glad about that despite her anger at Harvey as she knows that being with Harvey is good for her son.
"Yeah, I better get to work." Mike comments.
"Yes, you should." Jessica tells her son, walking over to her son, "Welcome back where you belong, Mike." Jessica tells her son, pulling Mike in for a hug, having no idea how close he was to leaving for good, and never working for her again.
"I'm glad to be back." Mike says, as he hugs his mother, "I love you." Mike tells his mother, feeling that things between them can finally get back to how they used to be.
"I love you too." Jessica tells responds and the two of them break apart and Mike heads out of his mother's office.
A few minutes later Mike walks past Donna's empty cubical and into Harvey's office.
"How'd it go?" Harvey asks, the second he sees his boyfriend.
"Pretty well." Mike answers, taking a drink of his coffee that he is still holding as Harvey gets up and walks over to him, "So, you never said, what happened with Stephen?" Mike asks curious.
"I told him that if he didn't stay out of things I'd beat the shit out of him." Harvey reveals.
"Seriously?" Mike asks surprised.
"Yeah, and that's the last time I'm going to tell him anything." Harvey reveals and Mike gives him a disbelieving look, "You think I wouldn't do it?" Harvey asks, thinking that Mike should have more faith in him.
"No, I'm not sure you could do it." Mike corrects.
"What's he going to hit me with, his ascot?" Harvey asks, with a snort.
"Harvey, this man plays rugby. That's no joke." Mike informs his boyfriend.
"How do you even know that?" Harvey asks curious, as, unless he is missing something, he is pretty sure that Mike has never meet Stephen.
"It's on the Darby International website, I read it one day during my …. Absence." Mike reveals, figuring that that is a better way to describe his alcohol induced depression.
"Okay, you need work to do." Harvey tells his boyfriend with a smirk.
"I really do." Mike says as Harvey walks over and sits down behind his desk.
"Cameron's not denying us access to Mariga, which means he's gonna sing any song Cameron wants to avoid a firing squad." Harvey says.
"So I need to find anything I can to take Mariga apart." Mike realises and as he does Jessica walks in the room, clearly furious.
"What the hell is this?" Jessica asks as she angrily throws the list onto Harvey's desk, "I'll tell you want it is. It's a witness list from Cameron Dennis with Colonel Mariga on it, and he's giving us access, which means he's not bluffing." Jessica says angrily, throwing up her arms.
"I know." Harvey says with a sigh.
"You told me he didn't have him." Jessica says angrily.
"He didn't." Harvey reveals.
"Then how the hell did he get him?" Jessica asks.
"Stephen." Harvey says, sounding less than happy, "He was trying to fix it."
"Are you telling me you let Stephen Huntley lead Cameron directly to the star witness?" Jessica asks angrily.
"I didn't let Stephen do shit. He did it on his own." Harvey explains
"He's your guy. You aligned with him." Jessica says, causing both Harvey and Mike to become pretty sure that she isn't going to stop being angry any time soon.
"I did not." Harvey objects.
"Okay, he's Edward Darby's guy, you made a deal with Darby, that makes him your guy." Jessica says and honestly Mike is very tempted to sneak out of the room.
"You really want to do this right now?" Harvey asks, monitoring his head to Mike as he is trying to stick to his promise of not putting Mike in the middle.
"Are you telling me he doesn't know?" Jessica asks, "Because if he doesn't that's a pretty horrible way to start a second attempt at a relationship." Jessica says, honestly wanting Mike to hear all this as it affects him too.
"I know; you know I wouldn't be here if I didn't." Mike says, stepping forward, "Harvey told me last night."
"And I told him, like I told you, that I don't want my deal anymore." Harvey says, "And as for your previous point, Stephen is only here at all because you made a deal with Darby in the first place, and as I've said multiple times, I don't want mine anymore."
"Then I guess I'm still in charge, and since I've now been drafted onto this case, no one tells Edward Darby or Stephen Huntley a goddamn thing. Does anyone in this room have a problem with that?" Jessica asks, looking between her son and Harvey, neither of whom does.
For the next few minutes Harvey, Jessica and Mike talk about what they are going to do and then Mike heads out of the office to get started on what he needs to do.
As Mike is walking out of his office he walks, almost straight into, Donna.
"Mike."
"Hey Donna." Mike greats with a smile.
"You're back?" Donna asks curious.
"Yep."
"So, you two are good?" Donna asks, hoping that the answer is yes.
"Yeah, we are." Mike confirms with a grin, "I'm surprised that you and Katrina haven't already talked about it." He admits.
"We missed our morning talk." Donna explains.
"Ahh, makes sense." Mike realises with a nod, "So, now that I'm back I've actually got to get to work."
"Yeah, you should." Donna tells him, "I'm glad you're back."
"I'm glad to be back." Mike says before heading in the direction of the ball pen.
As he makes his way to the bullpen Mike finds himself running into the second person who looks shocked to see him.
"Mike." Louis says, looking at Mike and realising that he looks a lot better than the last time he saw him.
"Hey, Louis." Mike greats.
"Are you back?" Louis asks curious.
"Yeah, I am." Mike confirms, "And Louis, I'm sorry, about the way I was the last time you saw me." He reveals.
"You don't have to apologise for that." Louis assures him, "How are you doing now?" he asks, clearly looking a little concerned.
"Better, much better." Mike assures him.
"Good." Louis says, looking relieved about that, "Is everything okay? With… everyone?"
"Yeah, we figured things out." Mike assures him, knowing exactly what Louis is asking.
"Good, that's good." Louis realises, "So, does that mean you and Harvey are…..?" Louis starts to asks, trailing off, not sure how to ask what he is asking.
"Back, completely." Mike explains.
"Good." Louis says, completely meaning that, as he suspects it may make Harvey easier to deal with.
"Yeah, I've got to get back to work." Mike inform Louis.
"Of course." Louis says and Mike nods and heads to work.
A while later Harvey has done the research Harvey asked and is walking back into the office.
"What'd you get me?" Harvey asks as Mike puts a file on his desk and sits down across from him.
"This isn't the first time Mariga lied to get out of prosecution." Mike reveals.
"Other murders?" Harvey asks curious.
"Murder, extortion, embezzlement." Mike reveals, handing over files, "You want someone to commit a crime and blame it on someone else, he's your guy." Mike reveals.
"You got the question lined up?" Harvey asks curious.
"Right here?" Mike reveals, "So, the two of us and Mom are going to go together?"
"Yep. I know with the fact that things aren't great between Jessica and I make things awkward for you, so you can stay here if you'd prefer." Harvey informs Mike.
"I'm not getting in the middle, but someone has to try and keep you two from killing each other." Mike reveals,
"Neither of us would go that far." Harvey reveals, "And we leave in twenty."
"Got it." Mike says, standing up, and heading to the door.
"Mike, dinner tonight?" Harvey asks, before Mike can get to the door.
"Definitely." Mike confirms, before leaving.
A little while, after a very awkward car trip, Harvey, Mike and Jessica arrive at the hotel where Mariga and Cameron are.
"Well, already replacing associates?" Cameron asks, seeing Mike, "Although I thought you would have been on this from the beginning." Cameron admits as he was surprised that Mike wasn't the associate on the case in the first place.
"Mike has been away from the firm for the last month, but now he's back and completely caught up on everything." Harvey reveals and along with Mike and Jessica the three of them start to question Mariga.
While Mike, Harvey, and Jessica are at the hotel deposing Mariga and finding out about a phone call between the colonel and Ava that Ava never told them about, Donna is in the file room, when Stephen walks in.
"Hey. What happened to you last night?" Stephen asks.
"I think you know what happened. I saw you two yelling at each other and didn't want any part of it." Donna reveals
"Well, believe me, I didn't want any part of it either." Stephen admits.
"Well, what did you think he was gonna do when he found out you screwed up his case?" Donna asks curious.
"I think you know that I wasn't trying to screw it up." Stephen defends.
"But you did, and he specifically told you to stay away." Donna reminds Stephen.
"And you told me not to discuss you with him. So, why are you discussing him with me?" Stephen asks curious.
"Because I have a relationship with him that's a lot longer than a few weeks, and when you mess with him, you mess with me." Donna explains, completely meaning that.
"Donna, I wasn't trying to mess with him. I was trying to help him." Stephen explains, "And as long as we're on the subject, I'm sure he mentioned if it wasn't' for my previous help, he wouldn't still have Ava as a client."
"You know; he might've mentioned something about that." Donna admits.
"Then we can get back not to discussing him?" Stephen asks.
"As long as you promise not to do anything to make us discuss him ever again." Donna requests.
"I promise."
"Good boy." Donna says and she head out of the room, though once she gets to the door she finds Katrina standing there, "Eavesdropping?"
"I was looking for Mike the eavesdropping just happened." Katrina explains.
"He, Harvey and Jessica have gone to depos the colonel." Donna explains.
"Right. Isn't Jessica pissed at Harvey?" Katrina asks
"Yep."
"That's going to go well." Katrina mutters, "So, do you want the details I have on what happened last night?" Katrina asks curious.
"Definitely." Donna says, "Coffee cart?"
"Definitely, but then I'll going to have to get to work, I've been assigned a case that is going to trial." Katrina explains to her friend.
"Okay, you better get talking then." Donna says and as the two of them walk Katrina fills in what she knows about Mike and Harvey.
It has been a while since Harvey, Jessica and Mike went to go to see Mariga and since then the three of them have talked to Ava, who Jessica got pretty angry with.
While Jessica is sitting behind her desk Harvey, and Mike are walking in, Harvey in the lead.
"Glad to see you haven't lost your touch with clients." Harvey comments.
"I don't have to be nice to her. I just have to clean up after her bullshit." Jessica informs Harvey and Mike.
"She just made a mistake." Mike points out.
"We still have to clean it up." Jessica tells her son, "And she just handed us a road map."
"You want to after Nick Howell." Harvey realises.
"He's reasonable doubt staring us right in the face." Jessica explains.
"It's a bad idea." Harvey comments.
"He admitted to the bribe, he set up the calls, and he was her man on the ground." Jessica says.
"Laying it on Nick would be admitting Hessington Oil paid Mariga to kill those people." Harvey reminds Jessica.
"We already admitted that Ava paid him." Jessica points out, "And Mariga already admitted to the murders."
"This is exactly why we should stick to the plan to destroy Mariga's testimony." Mike argues.
"Not wanting to be shot is a hell of an incentive to lie." Harvey says.
"And an easy thing for the jury to understand." Mike adds.
"Let me spell this out for you. You don't just show that your client didn't do it when you can point to someone who did." Jessica tells her son and Harvey.
"But you're never gonna convince a jury the number one didn't know what the number two was up to." Harvey says, and as he does Mike winces behind Harvey, as he knows that it is the worst thing his boyfriend could have said.
"You have the balls to say that to me?" Jessica asks angrily.
"I'm not saying…" Harvey starts to say, realising his mistake.
"I don't care what you're saying. I'm the one in charge of this case, and believe me, I can convince anyone of the fact that a number two can betray a number one behind her back." Jessica reveals, "Out." She says and Harvey heads out of the room.
"Mom…" Mike starts to say, not making an effort to follow Harvey.
"Just go Mike, I don't want to talk right now." Jessica tells her son in a kind voice and Mike gets up and leaves, honestly he isn't surprised when a little way down the corridor, beyond where Jessica's office can see, Harvey is waiting.
"That went well." Mike says sarcastically.
"Yeah, maybe it wasn't a good idea for you to come back now." Harvey comments.
"I'm glad I did." Mike reveals, "I'm not getting in the middle, but I may just be able to mead some fences." Mike comments.
"Don't. Me and your Mom have to fix this on our own, and we will." Harvey assures him.
"You really think so?" Mike asks, looking concerned as he knows that even though she may be angry right now Harvey is important to his mother and fighting with him just hurts her, and him.
"I know so." Harvey reveals, "Go, see if you can find anything." Harvey requests, "And we leave at eight." He reveals.
"That's a bit early." Mike comments.
"Yep, but for a very good reason." Harvey says with a smirk, before walking away, before he does what he really wants to do, which is pull Mike into his arms and maybe one day, one day soon the day will come where he can do that in the office, but today isn't that day.
