HI! Sorry for not updating this one too quickly. I'm having a bit of writer's block in the light of how the series is running these days. However, I have updated this one and I will be updating the more current fiction "And I Love You So" soon. So I hope you like. Thank you all - Carebearmaxi

Together Forever (Sequel to You Know I Love You)

Chapter 6-Taking a Break

After not receiving a return text or even a phone call from Harvey, Donna cried herself to sleep. She rose earlier than necessary for work since this was the first full day she would be working for Louis. Louis? Louis. What was I thinking? I am afraid for sure. I'm not afraid of how I feel because I was the happiest woman in the world having Harvey as mine. I was afraid for how I'll feel when Harvey gets tired of me. My rule was the only thing that kept us from taking advantage of our attraction to one another and how good we actually are together-in and out of the bedroom. Harvey...Harvey. He thought he was going to muck up this relationship. No! It's me! All because I let Louis pull on my ego and make me feel like I'm needed. Now I've lost the one person in the world which kept me hanging around the law offices and not pursue being that actress I so desperately wanted to be before I worked and fell in love with the infamous Harvey Specter!

Donna threw her covers over her pillows making her bed in a swift sloppy fashion. Normally she liked to tighten all the sides and smooth all the sheets and blankets with her hand loving the feel and always remembering the previous night how the sheets became mussed and how his cologne lingered. As she retrieved her throw pillows from the chair she held the one that held his scent the longest. Rather than standing there feeling sorry for herself, she threw the pillow on the duvet with the rest and putting on her heels and grabbing her purse decided to face the day. Her first day without Harvey Specter.

Harvey reached out instinctively anticipating her warmth. He realized sleepily that her side of the bed was cold. He crawled over with his eyes closed instinctively aching for her scent. He loved waking up beside her. He awoke now and saw only the empty side of the bed, yet the sheet and pillow where her head laid was still full of her.

Donna. You have got to be kidding going to work for that buffoon! I can hear you in my mind telling me he's not a buffoon, but I can think what I want! Ok, if you want to go work for him...fine! Only know you are the one throwing away what we have with both hands. It's over!

Harvey then got up and threw the covers aside and just sat missing Donna. He ran his hand impatiently through his hair and was suddenly furious with the woman he loved more than anything else in the world. I thought we were past this. That once she had responded to my walls finally coming down that we would be together forever. That night I told her I loved her and then walked out wiped away every emotional coverI had been hiding under. I was finally ready to fight for her and now only months together and she is withdrawing because in spite of her brave words and her finally convincing me to come clean she was standing there afraid the whole time. She is afraid of who we are together. I never thought Donna Paulsen with all her confidence was afraid of me all the time.

Looking at his reflection in the mirror as he shaved, he decided if she wanted to work for someone else well then maybe she should look for someone else to love as well.

The elevator doors on the 50th floor opened and outstepped a perfectly coiffed Donna. Despite having moved her office possessions to Louis' side of the floor, she still had not notified him that she was his new secretary. She walked her way down to her old desk in the hope that she and Harvey could talk and that she would be sure not leave him and dry. She was rather unnerved at Harvey's reaction to her wanting to work elsewhere because her heart was always with him. Louis had become one of Donna's best buds, but Harvey was the love of her life and her best friend in the world. She still knew her arrangement would be the best for them both. However, she realized she had to convince Harvey or they would be lost to each other again.

Donna was still reeling from the lack of communication from her boyfriend last night, but she was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was just too tired from working all night last night. She felt a bit funereal so she dressed in all black. She had pulled from her closet a traditional black long sleeved light nylon sheer button blouse under which she wore a body hugging black tank top and bra. She decided to pair that with her black pencil skirt knowing that her curves were well pronounced. She felt sexy and she wanted to be sure she felt confident in working with Harvey and hoping he would still want them to be together outside the office and accept that she had to move on for herself during office hours. She wanted him to understand that they would become stale and take each other for granted. Not just him. She knew it would be difficult, but she was counting on his love for her to see the truth of her words.

Still not in yet. Of course, he has not arrived yet. Let me see if Louis is in yet. I believe he had a court date set for early this morning so that will give me time to gather up the resumes that I so carefully set on his table with the sticky notes attached for their names and interview times. I cannot wait to see the look on Louis' face when I tell him that I'm his new secretary and he need look no further. However, I will have to give the list to Harvey and see how he wants to set up his interviews. I can, at least, do that for him.

While Donna had been making the phone calls to cancel Louis' interviews, Harvey had come into the office expecting to see his redheaded love waiting for him at her desk. I will apologize for not texting her or calling her back last night. I will tell her or show her how wrong she is for wanting to work for Louis so she can preserve our relationship outside the office. That can't last for long her working for him, right?

Mmm? She's not at her desk. Looks like nothing is left on her desk. She really took me seriously yesterday and moved her stuff to Norma's old desk. Damn it, Donna!

Harvey made his way to his desk and waited for his girlfriend to make her presence known to him.

"Donna get Janus on the phone and bring me the Corsica file," Harvey called as he spotted Donna coming to her desk.

"Here you go and Janus is on vacation this week," Donna said as she walked into Harvey's office bearing a stack of papers.

"Did you honestly think that if I respond like everything is normal here that I would just change my mind and stay here?" Donna asked eyeing Harvey's reaction.

Much to her surprise, Harvey stood up and kissed her on the lips. Her lips were soft and tasted like coffee and vanilla.

"Harvey."

"Donna," Harvey said with all the swagger he could muster at that hour of the morning.

"Did that not change your mind?" Harvey asked with the most confident sexy smile.

Donna kissed him back and let her lips stay on his for a little longer hoping that her next words would be understood and that they would be together later in the evening when the day was over.

Uh-oh. This is going to be harder than I thought. I did miss him last night. Stay strong, Donna! No matter how much you missed his kiss last night and having him lie next to you last night, you have to let him know that moving to Louis' desk was for them. Please understand Harvey. I love you too much to stifle us. Here goes...

"Harvey. Please understand. I am moving to Louis' desk. I haven't left you high and dry, though, I am giving you the proper two weeks' notice and although I will be sitting outside Louis' office I will be at your disposal as well for the next two weeks. Also here (handing him the list) is a list of prospective replacements."

Harvey closed his eyes. "Donna, please don't do this. No one can replace you. You know that. You are my secretary," Harvey said through gritted teeth standing there holding the list Donna handed him as if it was covered in feces.

"I'm your girlfriend and lover, Harvey. I am doing this for us because spending so much time together cannot be good for us. We'll bring the office home and we'll bring home in here. There has to be some separation. Do you not see that?"

"No, Donna. I don't. I told you I wanted to be with you and see you all the time. I finally came to my senses and now you've lost yours. Don't you understand?"

"I love you, Harvey and we'll get together tonight. Your place or mine?" Donna asked in all innocence.

Harvey took a deep breath and said, "Donna, look, if you are doing this than I guess we need a clean break. Maybe you'll understand when we are truly separated. Let's take this time in the office apart to be apart personally. We'll take some time off. Now go back to Louis' desk and if I need something I will call you."

"Harvey, that's not why I am doing this. I'm not trying to punish you. I am doing this for us..."

"For you, Donna! For you because you're scared! Now, I have a call to make so get the hell out of my office and if I need you I will call you at Louis' desk!"

Donna blinked sudden blinding tears from her eyes and felt them drop onto her blouse and walked out of Harvey 's office hardly believing the tone he had taken with her. In all the years I've worked for him the only time he spoke to me like that was when he was busy saving me from the gallows on the Liberty Rail case and any time I was getting too close and he did not want open up to me. Even then, though, his tone always softened. However, not this time.

Harvey not wanting to show how hurt he was sat back down at his desk and forcefully looked at his calendar trying to forget how he had to hurt the one woman he ever truly loved.