I hope you enjoy this chapter. Thank you to all those who are following and have favorited this. I truly appreciate it and I look forward to your comments each time I post a chapter. I am working on another story in my Adventures of Mr and Mrs Specter series; however, I am still critiquing it. Until I post it please enjoy this. Chapter 15 will up very shortly. It is half written all ready - Carebearmaxi

Donna Meets Lily -

Chapter 14

A Break Into Action

Harvey and Donna rode home that first night together in Harvey's car driven by Ray who was very happy that the boss finally got the woman who should have been with him all along. They left not too early and arrived not too late.

"Donna, it's 6:30." Harvey said coming out of his now bigger office.

"You want me to call Ray to take you home." Donna said succinctly.

"Correction," Harvey said approaching Donna's now more spacious cubicle. "Call Ray to take us home."

"What did you have in mind, big boy?" Donna asked giving Harvey one of her "come hither" looks.

Harvey looked around and entered Donna's cubicle. He put his mouth close to her ears sending shivers down Donna's back as he spoke.

"Let's finish this case up and then about nine we can take a bath together, make love, and then we drop into our big comfy bed."

Donna breathed in heavily. "You're on, lover."

Harvey swiftly kissed Donna on the lips without any one else looking.

"I want more of that later," he said to Donna as he quickly popped up with a great big grin on his face and walked swiftly back to his office to pack his brief case.

Donna had to admit that this was much more pleasurable. They could eat together and work while they ate like they did at the office but it would not be pressurized since both she and Harvey did not have to separate to go to bed.

It was now a couple of nights later. Presently, Harvey sat on the couch with his legs stretched out the length of the couch with his socked feet crossed and laying next to Donna's side who own long legs were stretched their full length with her bare feet crossed and laying against Harvey's hip where once in a while his hand would stray and give her perfectly painted toenails a soothing rub.

"I told you. I'm sending an official memo around the office that sky high heels are no longer required and are against the law at PSL. Have you looked at your poor feet lately? They are red and pinched and you have a blister starting on the back of your ankle." Harvey stated concernedly. He was so concerned that he put his laptop on the table at the back of the couch and took both of her feet in his hands. He looked despairingly at them and then looked at Donna.

"I don't understand. Why do women do this to themselves?"

"Vanity and sex appeal. You can't tell me that women don't look better walking in high heels than in flats?"

Harvey shrugged. "I do appreciate a beautiful woman in heels. I have to say."

"Again, counselor the defense rests. But you can keep rubbing my feet if you feel that guilty about it," Donna said pointing but not looking at Harvey. She just kept her eyes peeled on her laptop.

Harvey smiled and felt so happy that he and Donna were together and at home and at ease with one another. He still respected Donna's rule and had faced the reality that she would, in two weeks, be somewhere else during the day, but he tried to remain happy in the moment in knowing that she was still his in the office and his at home for the time being.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Are we expecting company?" Harvey asked.

"I don't know," Donna said and swinging her bare feet from Harvey's grasp padded her way to the door.

"Scottie?" Donna asked seeing the shorter dark-haired woman. Donna always felt a little jealous over Scottie's relationship with Harvey. A little jealousy and a little wariness because Scottie's relationship with Harvey had been selfish. Harvey was not perfect either but basically that came from immaturity and an inherent mistrust in women thanks to his mom. However, Donna knew the real Harvey had a conscious underneath his huge ego and seeming selfishness. Donna knew Harvey could hurt and she also knew Scottie had hurt him.

Scottie did love Harvey in her own way and had wanted a relationship with him, but too many obstacles stood in their way. Harvey thought he loved Scottie but upon examination he loved Donna much, much more as Donna was the one always there for him when he needed a friend.

"Donna!" Scottie said surprised to see Harvey's tall redheaded assistant standing on the other side of Harvey's door in her bare feet.

"Scottie, what brings you here?" Harvey said when he finally got to the door. Scottie noticed that he was dressed casually down to his socked feet.

Harvey eased his way past Donna and ushered Scottie into the condo. She was dressed casually in jeans and a hoodie with her parka covering her as it was still very cold outside. February was being stubborn in allowing NYC to have a day in the 50's once in while. Scottie's thin round face was still red from the cold and she was still crouched as if she stood outside trying to conserve body heat by making herself smaller.

Perhaps, it was just the chill in the room when Donna and Scottie eyed one another from across the threshold of the condo. This was, perhaps, what made Scottie almost crouch and Donna stand taller.

"Look I didn't mean to interrupt. I just wanted to talk to Harvey about a case that's going to hit PSL soon."

Donna walked behind Harvey and Scottie as suddenly at the sight of Harvey's ex-lover captivated his whole attention forgetting that Donna was even there or what he had said to her during their ebullient time together.

"What case is going to hit soon?" Harvey asked again. He turned to look at Donna and noticed she was getting her heels on and grabbing her coat. Harvey's focus became so engrossed in what Scottie had been saying that he did not even notice when Donna turned around and left his apartment.

She had called a cab and stood shivering in the lobby of Harvey's building waiting for the cab she called.

"Everything ok, Ms. Paulsen," Harry the doorman said.

"Everything is fine, Harry. I need to get home. Mr. Specter is a little preoccupied at the moment," Donna responded to the kindly young doorman.

I will not cry...I will not cry was Donna's determined mantra. Finally the cab pulled up and Donna shivering in her bare legs and heavy pink woolen coat quickly entered the back of the cab. She gave her apartment as her destination and watched the bright streetlights as they dwindled dimmer and dimmer on her way back to Brooklyn.

What was I thinking? Observe the rules and you will have the man you love. The only problem is that it looks like Harvey loves both of you. He's had both of you so it doesn't take a genius to know who Harvey will choose for love when he's lonely. He chooses you for the tough love, but when you need love and affection from him he gets too easily distracted by his former lover who by the way made him cheat on her one time fiance Steven by sleeping with Harvey. I know that still burns in the back of Harvey's mind. I was such a fool for telling him to get over his issues with infidelities back then I was willing to let him be happy with Scottie. Of course, all this was before he reconciled with his mother.

Shortly, the cab stopped and getting out she paid the man. She found her key and walked the two flights of steps. When they had arrived from Grand Central a few days ago, she had taken her luggage and placed it just inside the door of her apartment grabbing some clean clothes for the office from her bedroom. Now, she tripped on her suitcase bumping her sore feet, and in her high heels, it did not tickle to have hit them against an immovable object like her overblown luggage.

Donna's normal reaction upon seeing Scottie would be to tell the little whiny bitch to stay away from her man knowing Harvey's weakness for Scottie's "damsel in distress" call. However, Donna did not think she would have to resort to Scottie's tricks to keep Harvey her own. Scottie had mentioned the only other thing that Harvey would have stopped time for. The firm. PSL. Jessica's legacy left to him to manage and maintain.

She decided to wait for a few minutes in case Harvey tried to call. How could he let Scottie come between them? Donna thought Harvey and Scottie had been on the outs ever since he told her too late in their relationship about Mike's fradulent law practice and then had to use her knowledge as a bargaining chip as a favor to soon-to-be Mike's father-in-law, Robert Zane. Scottie returned once during Mike's investigation before his trial, and Harvey did his best to say he wanted to call her if he came out the other side in tact. That was another moment that Donna had perceived Harvey's feelings for Scottie were may have been more than passing. It hurt Donna then because it had not been that long since he said he loved Donna but could not tell her how. Donna was always the one that Harvey ran to for a heart to heart or a bearing of the soul. Never once had she even known he had called Scottie for something more than a dinner and easy sex.

It could have been different if I had not had my rule, but Harvey is Harvey. He would have taken our relationship for granted then. If I had given in and been there for him that way would he depend on me for being his friend and be that moral compass that kept him from hurting himself most of all. Oh God, I love him so much and I thought he loved me the same way.

I guess I was wrong...

Donna fell asleep on her couch still dressed in her office dress and when she woke up it was the middle of the night. She checked her phone, but Harvey had not called.

Scottie had left shortly after she had arrived. The case was a Class Action Suit for Child Endangerment. Scottie's firm was the legal firm for the customers whose children were harmed by the toxic smoky chemical of which Katrina's client was the defendant.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your evening, but I thought you should know that I am the lawyer on the other side of this. Had I known it Pearson Specter Litt's client I would have declined taking the case," Scottie had said.

Harvey had invited her for a glass of Scotch and momentarily wonder where Donna had gone. He saw she had been putting on her Louboutin's but he thought she would have returned by now. Harvey's attention to Scottie began to wane as she prattled on trying to engage him. He said it was Katrina Bennett's client directly not his but then it was his firm and he had to do his best for the firm's client.

Where is Donna? She should be here. Not only as my girlfriend but she is still my assistant and I need her to observe and do her Donna shit that she does at the office. Donna can perceive body language and words like no other. Her intuition is very much needed. I also can't wait for Scottie to leave because I want to take a shower and jump into bed and feel Donna warm beside me.

"Ok, well, I know we're not done with discovery on this," Harvey said to Scottie. "As a matter of fact, Donna and I just returned from Boston a few days ago and I have only spoken to Katrina on this a couple of minutes yesterday. Understand, Scottie, I will speak with Katrina and let you know what we find," Harvey said rising and finding Scottie's parka.

"Do you want me to call you a cab? Nonsense, I'll drive you home. My car is below in the parking garage. It needs a little drive anyway," Harvey said seeing Scottie's concerned face light up.

"Look, I don't want to put you out of your way. It looks like you and Donna were rather comfortable. Are you happy with her?" Scottie asked allowing Harvey to help her on with her coat.

When Scottie turned around, Harvey looked into her eyes and smiled.

"Yes, I am. I really love her," Harvey told Scottie.

Scottie looked up at Harvey and standing on her tiptoes kissed him on the cheek.

"I always knew you belonged together. I am very happy for you," Scottie said. "By the way, where did she go?"

"She probably went to get something at her apartment. Let me take you home and I will tell you about Boston."

Harvey looked at his watch after he dropped Scottie off at her apartment. He declined an invitation for a drink because he was in a hurry to get back home.

Donna must have returned by now. It's 11:00 pm Damn! I must have left my phone on the counter at home, so I can't call her. I have to get a car phone. They still install those, don't they? Harvey thought to himself. I'll just drive home.

When Harvey returned home the place was just as dark as he left it.

"Donna!" Harvey called out. "Donna?"

He looked in the bedroom and the bathroom and found she was not there. He found his phone on the counter and immediately retrieved it and began dialing.

"This is Donna. Leave your awesome number and I will call you back!"

"Donna? Where are you? It's 11:00 pm. Where are you?" Harvey asked. He did not want to panic.

I should just drive over to her apartment. She must be there.

A few minutes later, Harvey retrieved his keys and descending once more to the parking garage jumped back into his Aston Martin. Coming out of the parking garage underneath his building, he looked both ways and saw that all was clear. He began to pull out of the street. Harvey remembered he heard a huge crash before everything went black.