Author's Note: I did not mean to misuse dialog from Suits Season 5 but I have Donna and Harvey together before this so the conversations between Harvey and Scottie and Harvey and Donna had to run a little different. I hope you enjoy this latest installment - Thk you!

Together Forever (Sequel to You Know I Love You)

Chapter 11 - Together?

When Donna arrived back at her desk, she was surprised by finding a termination notice on her desk. It looks like Louis beat me to the punch. I don't want us to part on bad terms.

Louis had come back to the office in a huff, donned his coat, picked up his briefcase and proceeded to ignore Donna as she called his name. She stepped onto the elevator containing him and one other partner. Donna held the notice in her hand but kept her mouth closed until she could get Louis alone.

The elevator pinged and the only other partner left the elevator car and turned right toward the parking lot under the building while Louis swiftly turned on his heel and tried to outstrip Donna while she called his name.

Donna, taller than Louis, still had to take two steps to his one as she was in her favorite Jimmy Choo stilettos.

"What is this?" Donna called to Louis as her voiced echoed through the cavernous marble lobby.

"You know what it is." Louis' voice now echoed through the lobby.

"You're firing me?" Donna exclaimed. "Is this because of the argument we had yesterday?"

Stopping abruptly and turning on his heel to face Donna, Louis exclaimed, "You make your own hours, you can't read people for shit, and you can't take dictation!"

Donna knowing that Louis was too hurt to tell the truth saw tears erupt in his eyes as he started to pout.

"You know Harvey and Mike need me now more than you do, don't you?"

Louis sniffed back his tears and said, "Yes, they do."

Turning away to exit the building, he said "I have to go."

Donna in the truest affection she had for Louis and the sacrifice he was making said, "No you don't." She grabbed him in a fierce hug and they just held each other close as the two friends they were. They both knew without words that defending Mike and proving he was innocent was promising to be an uphill battle.

"Goodnight, Donna," Louis said at last and turned swiftly out the door.

"Goodnight, Louis, " Donna rejoined watching him go.

Now she just needed to tell Harvey in no uncertain terms that she was coming back to him tomorrow. Whether he wanted her back the other way remained to be seen.

Harvey had spent the entire day trying to secure anyone who may have been responsible for letting it slip that Mike was a fraud. That meant encountering his ex-girlfriend, Dana Scott. He knew she would never say anything, but he promised Mike that he would ask her anyway.

Of course she was not pleased to see him because she knew exactly why he was there. Scottie's feelings of outrage were only more increased because recently she had heard that Donna and Harvey had become a couple outside the office as well.

"Well, I guess I'm not the only woman you're visiting today. By the way congratulations to Donna and you, I understand you finally got your head together about who you really love."

"Scottie, you know why I'm here and it has nothing to do with what happened between us."

"I swore to you that I would never tell anyone. What did you think that once I found out about you and Donna I would want to hurt you so badly by taking your best friend away?"

Harvey looked at his former girlfriend. She's so different than Donna. She's not only physically different but mentally as well. We could never be happy. All Scottie ever wanted to do was compete with me. I know she's smarter than me especially after I taught her a few things, but I can't let her know that. She'd whip my ass! I can't help thinking of our friends with benefits arrangement we always enjoyed. I can't do that now even if I wanted, too. I love Donna too much. It's enough I betrayed her with Esther. That's not why I'm here eating my pride. For Mike's peace of mind that's why I'm here.

"Scottie, I told Mike you would never say anything, but I promised that I would come here and look you in the eye and ask," Harvey said in a more gentle tone of voice hoping to release some of the hostility in Scottie's body language and voice. Harvey still cared about her and did wonder about how she was doing. Before he and Donna had become a couple he had thought of contacting her again to salve her hurt after asking the favor of throwing a case last year for him as payment of a debt he owed Robert Zane.

"Well, it wasn't me."

"I never thought it was," Harvey said softly.

Scottie looked up at this man she had more or less known for half her life. She had fallen very hard for him. He had told her that he loved her, but not in so definitive terms. The statement was more like an afterthought and she was grouped in with others that he loved. That would never be enough to make her stay with him. It had to be definitive love or it was nothing at all. However, Scottie always knew one way or another that Harvey and Donna really belonged together. It was always those two who never knew it.

Scottie move forward and took Harvey's hand in hers.

"I would never say anything. I wish you and Donna every happiness in the world. You always loved her, didn't you? Even when we were together, right?" Scottie said instantly turning the tables away from Mike and that whole sore subject between them.

How to answer without hurting her? I guess I already did that by not choosing her. Women! Why didn't I just stay a womanizer? Because I fell in love with someone who was loyal and returned my love and asked nothing for herself. I also found I do not want to grow old alone. I miss you, Donna. I miss us.

"I guess I did Scottie. What difference does that make now? The outcome would have been the same and we would have done things and said things to each other that would make even a little encounter like this even more painful than it already is."

Scottie's answer was to kiss Harvey on the cheek and say, "Good luck with Mike's case." Then turning on her heel she walked up the flight of stairs that were in the lobby of the building that housed the firm where she worked.

When Harvey opened the door to his condo, he knew someone had arrived before he had. He walked to the living room part of the penthouse, placed his keys on the kitchen counter and was not sure whether he should smile or not at the occupant sitting on his couch with her beautiful long legs crossed sipping his Scotch.

"Well, I see it's still living," Donna said swirling her drink and pointing to the cactus she had given him over a year ago. The living area was dimly lit and there was a fire going in the fireplace.

"What did you think? I'd let it die," Harvey softly commented with a wisp of a smile in his eyes at seeing her. I want her so much! We could just do it right here in front of the fireplace. I know that's not why she's here. She's probably still dating that Mitchell guy.

"Well, I thought you'd give it away, at least."

"I'm a little more sentimental than that," Harvey said truthfully. "What are you doing here, Donna? I thought we agreed that we had to focus on Mike and put us on hold."

"I'm here because of Mike," Donna said looking up at him as he had remained standing while she sat there with her legs not quite still and her hand swirling the Scotch she barely drank. Honestly, she was not much of hard liquor girl. She did not mind occasionally when she wanted to get drunk quickly or when she was sharing it out of friendship and love with Harvey.

"You need me," Donna said firmly. She almost waited to see the look on his face. She knew about his panic attacks and how much he missed her professionally. She was not sure personally since they had agreed to put their situation on hold until Mike's problem was solved.

Before he could say anything, Donna continued, "And as good as Gretchen is, she can't be involved in this."

Harvey's heart began to beat in his chest again as if it had stopped permanently after she left him. He smiled a little smile because he could not believe his ears.

"You mean you're coming back to me?" Harvey asked his voice almost faltering at the end of the question.

Donna looked up at him and her expression softened when she saw how much he really had missed her.

"Yes. I am."

Harvey smiled a little bit bigger. Not too much to really reveal his gladness but enough to know that he was happy. He knew now that together they could prevent Mike from going to prison. He had his Donna back.

"Good."

"Good," Donna said. Then realizing she had completed what she had wanted to accomplish she uncrossed her legs and placed her Scotch on the table. Before she rose to leave, Harvey shocked her by saying that he would see her in the office the next morning.

"How did you manage that?" Donna asked stopping midway in motioning to rise.

"I've got a little insurance policy called Mike Ross."

Donna dipped her eyes a little and then gathering her purse, standing up and straightening her skirt, said, "See you in the morning then."

Harvey reached out and caught her hand. He turned her around and kissed her sweetly on the lips.

"See you in the morning."

Donna's heart started to flutter in hopes that maybe, just maybe, them working together again would help them ease into the other areas where they should be together. Oh Harvey, how I've missed you!

He took her into his arms softly and looking deep into those green eyes, he asked, "How did Louis take it?"

"It was his idea."

He then just drew her to his chest and they hugged. Not as the old friends and companions they were but as lovers who had just rejoined after suffering something catastrophic but were taking things slowly.

Harvey buried his face in Donna's shoulder and whispered in her ear. "Someday."

Donna gathered him closer to her body and squeezed him tighter as a tear escaped from her eye.