Mike struggled against the metal cuffs that were holding him to a table that was bolted to the floor in this extremely official debriefing room. "No use, Michael." He looked up into slightly familiar eyes. If his eidetic memory had anything to do with faces… but it doesn't. He couldn't place the guy, but he was familiar. His close cut silver hair, his dark eyes, that wickedly alarming smile. Mike fidgeted, uncomfortable in the handcuffs and even more in the situation but it was useless.
"Where am I?"
"Somewhere very difficult for you to be located. I can't imagine Harvey would have had a tracking device installed in you yet."
"Where's Harvey?"
"Right now? I suspect he's talking with Jessica and Donna, trying to figure out where you are, how to get you back, he's probably called the police already which means it's probably around the time for me to call him." He pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed send before putting it on speaker.
"Harvey Specter." Harvey's voice was more than agitated, it was furious and from the sounds of the people around him trying to get him to sit down he was being completely untamable.
"Ah, Harvey. Hello. I'm quite sure you've realized that you miss placed your associate." His voice struck Mike, something about the way he said Harvey's name was so familiar. And that's when Mike noticed the small black device clipped to the phone, a voice modulator. If he was disguising his voice, he was afraid that Harvey would recognize it.
"I will find you and I will make you wish that death was the punishment that I'm going to inflict on you." Harvey was terrifying even over the phone and Mike had a flicker of hope in his stomach.
"No you won't because see we hold the only thing that you really care to get back and we can easily take that away from you." Harvey remained quiet on the other line. Show no fear. "Now that we're on the same page of who has the upper hand to make the threats here, let's get down to business. There's a case at the New York district attorney's office right now, they are getting ready to overturn it. You are going to stop that from happening. If you do, you get Mike back, if not, well… let's hope you do. It would be such a waste."
"Even if I wanted to keep this case you're talking about from being over turned, I couldn't. I don't work for the DA's office anymore."
"Well, then you better get to filling out a resume. I don't really care how you do it. As long as you do it… before tomorrow night. Otherwise." The man hung up the phone and looked at Mike who was wide eyed and terrified. "Oh don't look at me like that; I have total faith in Harvey. I won't have to follow through. Remember? The threat of sanctions is better than actually filling them."
"You won't get away with this."
"Oh yes I will."
Harvey slammed his phone down and continued pacing while Jessica and Donna looked on with horror struck eyes. "Call the DA, tell him I need to have a meeting with him and that I'm on my way down there, right now."
Harvey stepped up beside the hefty new DA, Wolf. "Harvey. What an unpleasant surprise. I was in court when your secretary left me that message. Didn't expect you to come this quickly." Harvey ignored the double meaning. He didn't have time for games.
"I need your help."
"Someone always does." The man was so self-assured that it actually pissed Harvey off, even he wasn't that self-centered.
"Yeah, but you owe me." Harvey insisted and Wolf raised his eyebrow. "I got an innocent man out of jail."
"An innocent man whom you and your crooked ass boss put there in the first place."
"But I didn't have anything to do with the initial… you know what? There are more pressing matters. There's a case you're working on right now, someone filed to get the verdict over turned, apparently it's not going so hot on your side."
"How do you know that?"
"Listen to me. Someone took Mike. They're using him as leverage for me to fix this case."
"Oddly enough, it's your former bosses case that's about to get overturned. Another buried evidence case. There isn't much I can do." He looked at Harvey sympathetically. "As sorry as I am for your associate, this is a matter for the police."
"Please. He's not just my associate." Harvey admitted pleadingly, he would beg and grovel if he had to, but he was going to fix this.
"If you don't follow me to my office, I won't lay the case file down on the desk and then I won't need to be out of the office for a meeting I won't return from until three." Harvey let out a breath that he hadn't been aware that he was holding.
Martin Caverns. That name was familiar. Cameron had had that case when Harvey was there. The guy had allegedly raped his thirteen year old niece and then killed her father. There wasn't much evidence to begin with and the guy had an alibi, of course it only checked out by his girlfriend, but it was an alibi at least. Harvey hadn't known how Cameron had done it but the jury had handed over a very hefty sentencing called life without parole.
Harvey sat at the desk, it was two thirty and he had no idea how this was going to pan out. The evidence in dispute was the gun that had been registered to Martin, Martin had claimed he gave the gun to his brother because his brother's next door neighbor's house had been broken into and he was nervous, and a police report from the night of the robbery had been produced, helping to solidify his claims a little. And then apparently a video tape had been lost before trail, a video that showed martin going into his girlfriend's apartment building two hours before the murder and never leaving, and a video that was just found. This didn't look good at all. This case could be overturned so easily.
Harvey's eyes slid shut as he tried to calm himself down. He was going to fix this, he was going to get Mike back no matter what it took. Back. Back! He thought to himself.
"We can dispute the tape." He said as Wolf came back in at precisely three o'clock.
"No we can't. We've already had tests conducted it wasn't tampered with." Wolf answered, taking a seat across from him.
"Of course not, I completely believe that Martin had gone to his girlfriends. Do you have the video of the front door from the next day?"
"What would you need that for?" Harvey just raised his eyebrows at the man. "That video is only a twelve hour tape. That's all we've got."
"But, Martin goes in within the first ten minutes of it."
"So?"
"A twelve hour tape and he never leaves through the front door. And there's no record of him leaving the next day because there is no tape of it. But he and his boss said he made it into work at seven o'clock the morning after the rape and murder. How did he get there without leaving the apartment?"
"Reasonable doubt."
"His girlfriend lived on the ground floor, he could have easily slid out of a window."
"What if he is innocent?"
"Then he should stop lending out his guns and start using a front door."
Wolf smirked at Harvey. "I can use this as my argument?"
"I give you permission. Take it, freely I give it."
Hey guys! Update? Don't forget to check out my other Suits works! I'm kinda on a Suits kick! Their characters are just so pliable! I love them. Anyway! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry that there isn't much to it! Please make sure to give feedback!
Love Always,
Alice