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"Do you want to tell me what the hell is going on?"
Harvey looks up from the file on his desk to find his younger associate standing in the middle of his office. He appears to be slightly agitated – but then again, that's not exactly unusual.
"What are you talking about?" And he already doesn't like where this is going.
It is an unprecedented event at Pearson Specter Litt (or whatever their name used to be), but Harvey took two days off – in a row. Donna, as a last official act as his secretary, rescheduled all of his appointments, even though he didn't asked her to do so. He made a point of not looking at her empty, cleaned out desk, when he came in this morning.
"I'm talking about the fact that you just disappear for two days and when I get in here this morning, Donna tells me-"
But Harvey cuts him off at that. "It's none of your business, Mike." And his tone is far more dismissive than he intended it to be.
The younger man looks at him, unsure of how to proceed for a few seconds, but then his curiosity gets the better of him.
"So Donna is working for Louis now," he says slowly. "And you are okay with that?"
Harvey forces himself to nod.
"And I'm okay with that," he hears himself saying.
Mike still looks unsure as he changes his weight from one foot to the other, but Harvey's shots him a warning glance to drop the subject.
When he speaks again, the younger man sounds apologetic, "I actually came in here to tell you something else."
Harvey leans back in his chair and waves for Mike to take a seat across from him. Right at this moment, he's grateful for any distraction.
Mike hesitates for a moment before he says, "I asked Rachel to marry me."
And Harvey is actually surprised at that. He wasn't aware that after the whole Logan Sanders incident, their relationship was that much back on track again. But Mike and Rachel are his friends and he wishes both of them nothing but the best. And he is reminded that, thankfully, the world doesn't evolve around him and Donna and the drama they've created, but that there are people who actually manage to figure out the problems between them and move on to the next level.
So Harvey actually feels himself getting excited when he leans forward in his chair and asks,
"And?"
There is a slight smile playing over the younger man's features – as if he can't quite believe it himself – as he says, "-and she said yes."
