"Thank you again Juls for helping me with this."
"No biggy, so what's going on?"
"Mr. Becker is being sued for 2 million dollars. His former employee Vivienne Dupont says she was wrongfully terminated. According to Mr. Becker she wasn't showing up to work on time and when she was there, her work was sloppy. After a while, Mr. Becker kept a close eye on her. Well, come to find out, she would take money from the company and slip it into her personal account. Oh, did I mention she was the accountant? Anyway, she denied it when questioned, but Mr. Becker had the proof, so he let her go."
"If he had the proof, then what's the issue?" Juli asks wondering why he needed help on this case.
"The issue is Mr. Becker and Miss. Dupont had a relationship at one point. Only god knows what the other side is going to throw at us. Harvey wants a solid case. So now, I need to find something that will help with that."
"Wow, okay. Give me some time and I'll see what I can do."
(4 hours later)
"You are going to love me!" Juli says as she rushes into the conference room Mike has taken over.
"Why? What did you find?" Juli hands Mike a folder full of papers; Mike flips through them all and looks up at her. "Wow, this is great. How'd you come up with all this?"
"I have a friend who is a D.A. here in New York, I gave her a call and she did some digging for me and came up with the first page there, all the rest I found. Crazy isn't it?"
"Crazy indeed. Let's go show Harvey."
They reach Harvey's office and he is on the phone, so Mike and Juli sit on the couch that Harvey has in his office. Juli can hardly contain her excitement, she feels like they may have found a way to discredit Miss. Dupont and they hope they it's enough to convince the judge.
"Please tell me you finally found something Mike." Harvey says as soon as he hangs up the phone.
"Actually, it's something that Juli was able to dig up."
Harvey looks at Juli and notices that she wore her hair up today; she even put a cute yellow bow in it. He realizes he's doing it again, unintentionally checking her out, but he can't help it. There is something different about her.
"Let's hear it then Julianne." I love the way he said my name. Oh my god, what am I thinking?
"Here, look at this, it has it all outlined."
Harvey takes the folder and starts to thumb through the pages. He looks up from the folder, "This is brilliant." YES! He likes it!
"Thank you Harvey."
"Mike, you're not coming to the hearing on Friday. Julianne is. She deserves to see this thing through."
"Harvey, are you sure? I don't mind staying back. I know Mike always accompanies you to these things."
"Yes, I'm sure. I know Louis never takes you to any of the cases you help him on, so you are coming with me to this one."
"I don't know what to say."
"Don't say anything. It's not a big deal."
Mike just stands there dumbfounded; Harvey Specter is actually being considerate. He can hardly believe his eyes.
"So that was awfully nice of you to take Juli with you on Friday."
"Why wouldn't I?"
"I don't know. It's just… I don't know."
"No, what is it?"
"You're not exactly the nicest person to the other Associates. So for you to be doing this…"
Harvey just sits there silently, doesn't even make eye contact with Mike.
"Oh no, wait! Do you…? Are you…?" Mike covers his mouth.
"What? Don't get that look on your face; there is nothing more to the situation. Stop jumping to conclusions. She did the digging so I think she see firsthand what happens, not just hear about it after the fact."
"No, I've seen you act like this before. You have a thing for her don't you? I thought I seen you check her out earlier today in your office." Harvey just rolls his eyes.
It's now the day before the hearing and Juli has just got back from meeting with a client. When the phone at her desk rings, "This is Juli."
"This is Donna. Harvey would like to see you in his office, with the courtesy briefs in hand."
"I'm on my way." Juli hangs up and opens her desk drawer. Thank God I finished these last night before I went home.
Juli is now walking towards Harvey's office. Why does he make me so nervous? Oh just face it Juli it's because you find him incredibly attractive. There is no denying it. The way he carries himself, it's just so, so, hot. What is wrong with me? I need to snap out of this, FAST! Juli now knocks on Harvey's door. He signals her in.
"You wanted to see me?"
"Yes. Do you have briefs done?" Harvey tries not to look at her for long.
"Yes, they are right here." She leans over and slips the briefs onto his desk.
"Good. I'll have Donna fax these over to Judge now."
"Okay, anything else, sir?"
"Sir? Please, everyone calls me Harvey here, no need for the 'sir' business."
"Right, sorry." Harvey just sits in his chair, staring at her. This is uncomfortable.
"Are you going to be okay going into Court tomorrow?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know, some Associates get weird the day of a court hearing. I just want to be sure that you'll be fine."
"I can handle it, thank you for your concern though."
"Of course, just don't tell Mike."
"Tell Mike what?"
"That I showed concern; he doesn't need to know I'm capable of it." Juli starts to laugh.
"You got it, our secret"
Juli starts to head towards the door, "I'll have my driver pick you up in the morning. We'll be there by 8am. Okay?"
We'll? "Yeah, okay. I'll be ready."
[Alarm goes off]
I am crazy for waking up at 5 am! I should just go back to bed. No, I should really get up, that way I have plenty of time…but my bed feels so good. JUST GET UP JULI!
Juli, finally being able to talk herself out of bed, stumbles her way to the kitchen to get a pot of coffee started. Once she's done, she heads to the bathroom to take her shower.
"Today's the big day Chessie!" Since Juli has no roommate, she is forced to carry on conversations with her cat. "I am so nervous. I won't be saying anything in court today, but I am freaking out about spending this time with Harvey."
Juli sits down on her bed to comb her hair, Chessie jumps on the bed to sit beside her. "Harvey. I need to get him off my mind. It's hard though Chessie. He's just so cute. I am glad I don't work directly for him or else I wouldn't actually get any work done." Her cat just looks up at her, "I know, I know. He's my superior; he's Harvey freaking Specter, the greatest closer in New York. And who am I? Just silly ole Julianne Monroe from California."
It's now 7:30am and Juli is getting increasingly more nervous. "Okay girl…" Juli starts off while picking up her cat, "…I'm going to put these thoughts about Harvey out of my mind. I need to stop it. Nothing will ever happen. Guys like him, never go for girls like me. That's just life."
Juli grabs 2 to-go cups of coffee from her cupboard and fills them both. She's hoping Harvey hasn't stopped for coffee yet or else she's going to feel dumb. She picks up her purse and glances at her cat one more time, "Wish me luck girl."
She's out the door and headed down to the car.