Hi All! Well, I am finding it difficult to recap Season 5 having put Donna & Harvey as lovers at the end of Chapter 4. However, I am trying my best and I have included Esther Litt (ugh!) but I feel it will be important later on. Hope you enjoy! Chapter 8 will be up very soon. Please R&R if you want to. I truly appreciate all the kind words I have received. Love - Carebearmaxi
Together Forever (Sequel to You Know I Love You)
Chapter 7- Time Passages
A few weeks have passed since Harvey decided that he and Donna should take a personal break to coincide with her transferring to Louis' desk.
This has got to stop! I'm sweating like I've been punching the hard bag. Donna, I'm drowning, but I am not going to have Jessica force you to come back to me if you don't want to. You will get tired of working for him and you will miss me personally, too. In the meantime I have been ordered to get a secretary, so that is what I shall do.
Harvey looked over at his clock and threw the covers off. He had an appointment with Dr. Paula Agard this morning. He had needed some help sleeping and had gotten some pills from his primary doctor, but the primary doctor suggested that if he needed something stronger he may need some therapy along with the sleeping pills. He had recommended her strongly and here Harvey was actually going having made an appointment. All he really wanted was the pills because more than anything he needed his mind to blank out so he would stop remembering that he had lost the only woman in the world who understood him and loved him unconditionally. Not to mention she was a hell of a secretary for him.
In the meantime, Donna came to Louis' desk. She surprised him with it yesterday at lunch wherein he could hardly contain his excitement. His reaction bordered on sexual stimulation which was fed by their double entendre conversation. Donna would always have fun teasing Louis. A few days into her tenure as Louis' secretary, Donna caught a glimpse of Louis' much derided but beautiful sister, Esther, as she walked out of his office.
Donna, like the good secretary she is, did not shut off the intercom to Louis' office much like the she hardly ever had when she worked for Harvey. Donna overheard that Esther was getting a divorce and she absolutely needed Harvey because he was not family besides she had heard what a bad ass Harvey was at negotiations. After Donna watched the small boned dark-haired woman pass by her desk on the way to the elevators, Donna immediately tackled Louis on how beautiful Esther was after hearing for years how unattractive and obnoxious she was.
"That was Esther?" Donna asked.
"Oh, please I know Donna it's me with a wig," Louis said with sarcasm. They discussed why Louis did not want to go to Harvey to ask him to handle Esther's divorce.
"She's your family, Louis, and if there is one thing that Harvey understands it's family," Donna said as she walked out of his office and returned to her desk.
Wait until Harvey sees her. He'll be sending an invitation for sex with that smile and those eyes the minute he sees her. I know he said we were taking a break, but I wonder if Harvey will have any fidelity issues when he hasn't had his itch scratched in a few weeks!
Donna sat in a cafe alone perusing over the check. She always came to this certain cafe when she wanted to be alone and mull things over. Her mind drifted to her first glimpse of Esther. She had convinced Louis into telling Harvey and she knew for a fact using the family reason Harvey would not refuse to handle her divorce. Looking up as the server came to her table and before she could give her credit card to him, the server handed her a paid copy of her lunch bill.
"There must be some type of mixup. I haven't paid my bill yet." Donna mentioned to the young swarthy curly-haired man who had been her servor.
"No, madam. The blonde gentlemen sitting just over there insisted he pay it for you," the server replied.
From across the room, Donna smiled at the handsome man who was probably her age. She gave an additional cash tip to the server although he insisted the man had covered that as well. She rose from her seat at her table and walked over to the table where the attractive stranger sat. As she walked to him, it was one of the few times that she thought a man was attractive and handsome as Harvey.
"I would like to thank you for my lunch. That was not necessary," Donna said.
The blonde man who continued to sit in Donna's presence flashed a large grin with very white teeth set in a chiseled chin. He possessed shoulders the width of Montana and blonde curly hair with large blue eyes.
"May I have the name of the man who purchased my lunch?" Donna said a little flirtatiously.
"Only if she will have a drink with me later," answered the man finally rising from the table and holding out his hand.
Donna smirked and decided to play along having pictures of Esther with Harvey in bed playing in her mind.
"Ok, just tell me where and when?" Donna smirked holding out her hand. "Donna Paulsen."
"Mitchell McCann," Mitchell said holding Donna's hand a little longer than necessary.
"How about at the Tavern at 6:30?" Mitchell invited Donna.
"I'll be there. Thank you, again...Mitchell," Donna said as she turned and sashayed away from Mitchell letting her full skirt do its flirting for her.
Harvey managed to get a good settlement for Esther which made Esther happy and eventually Louis happy after Harvey had convinced him that the settlement where Jeffrey gets 25% interest in her company was fair and made for good terms between the two parents.
Harvey had hired a new secretary and she was as different from Donna as the city was from the country. Though, not as attuned to Harvey as Donna had been (how could she be?) Gretchen was efficient and very much an asset to Harvey's much disorganized law practice.
The night of Esther's settlement. Esther invited Harvey to take her home. He said he would. She had said the children were with their father at their country house, so it was perfectly fine for him to stay the night if he wanted.
They were barely in the door when Esther, who was feeling vindicated after her settlement with Jeffrey and sexy and desired as she had not for a long time, kissed Harvey opening his mouth with her own and very carelessly removing his jacket and tie began to undress him. Harvey lost in his own passion for sexual fulfillment unzipped the back of Esther's dress and allowed his hands run all over Esther's smooth skinned slim body noting only once how differently built she was from Donna who had been the last woman with whom he had sex a few months ago now.
Soon they were in her bed, Harvey inside Esther and both moaning and moving to climax. Only once did Harvey think of his true love, Donna, quickly dismissing her trying to keep his mind on the woman with whom he was inside thrusting. Harvey, using his lawyer reasoning, quickly gave himself permission since he and Donna were on a personal break as well as professional to enjoy this one night only of empty passion thinking it perfectly fine for him to fall into bed with a now ex-client and Louis' sister not only breaking the promise he had made to Louis but also breaking his own vow to himself to never turn into his mother.