Skyfall

Chapter Twenty-One

"Rebecca…tell me you have a plan for this to make it all magically go away." Brian greeted as soon as she walked through the door with Harvey right behind her.

"Don't worry. I'm working on a plan right now." She assured him. "Brian, let me introduce you to Harvey Specter."

"Nice to meet you." Brian sighed before turning back to Rebecca. "Can I speak freely in front of him?"

"Yeah." She nodded. "I trust him completely and I have no secrets from him."

"Ok. If you trust him, that's good enough for me." Brian nodded. "Do you think this was Alyssa or Morgan?"

"I honestly don't think it was either of them." She shook her head. "They seemed happy with the settlements they got and they both understood that the paperwork they signed would keep them from being able to talk about what happened and filing a lawsuit. Plus they know if they do, then we can sue them."

"Then who could it be?" Brian asked.

"I want you think very carefully and be completely honest." Harvey spoke up. "How many women in this organization have you slept with and how many of them could be the ones filing this lawsuit?"

"I'm not sure I want to disclose that…"

"It's either you disclose it to us now or we get blindsided by it later. If we get blindsided by it, I can't guarantee I can help you. I need total honesty about everything or this won't work." Harvey pointed out. "So what's the number?"

"I think the number is somewhere between 12-18 over the last fifteen years." Brian answered. "But not many of them worked for me. Maybe four or five have worked for me. And of those, all of them signed some kind of non-disclosure agreement. The only person I can think of that would want to sue for wrongful termination is Nicole."

"Who is she?" Harvey asked.

"She worked in the marketing department."

"Why was Nicole fired?" She asked.

"She had a problem being here on time. She was chronically late. If she wasn't late, then she was leaving early. I gave her three months and then I had let her go." Brian explained.

"Was it noted in her employee file?" Harvey asked.

"I believe so but I don't know off the top of my head." Brian admitted. "Are you guys going to be able to help me? I'm getting a lot of pressure from the top about this already. I need it to go away as quickly and quietly as possible."

"We'll do our best." She assured him.

"What she means is I'll do my best." Harvey interjected. "Rebecca is named as a defendant. I don't want her anywhere near this case so I'm taking over."

She looked over at him and glared. They would be talking about that later.

"Ok. Just let me know what you need from me and I'll give it to you." Brian sighed.

"I need the names of every woman in this organization you have ever slept with, as well as their employee files. And I'll need it by the end of the day." Harvey told him. "So you better get started."

She followed Harvey out of the room and stayed behind him as they walked to the elevator. She thought they would be able to talk once in the privacy of the elevator but at the last second another person came in so she stayed quiet. It wasn't until they got back into Ray's car that she started to talk.

"You don't want me anywhere near this case and you're taking it over?" She asked. "Since when?"

"Since I thought about it in the car ride over here and realized that Tanner is only coming after you to get to me and I need you as far away from him as possible." He answered, looking over at her.

"I am a grown woman and can take care of myself."

"I know that." He sighed. "But you don't know Travis Tanner. He is like a dog with a bone. He will try anything to get into your head and if that doesn't work then he will destroy you to get to me."

"I can handle a guy like him." She protested.

"Did you miss what I just said? He is like a pit bull and won't stop coming after you until you are shredded into tiny pieces." He asked. "Just let me handle this myself."

"What happened to being a team?" She scoffed.

"We're still a team." He reached over to grab her hand but she pulled it away. "Rebecca…"

They pulled up to the office and she got out and shut the door afterwards.

"Where are you going?" He asked, rolling down the window to talk to her.

"I need to be somewhere else right now. You're being a little too condescending." She poked her head into the car and looked at Ray. "Would you mind please driving him around the block a couple of times? I don't want to have to be on the same elevator with him right now."

Ray laughed, locking the doors. "Sure thing."

"Thank you." She closed the door and saw Ray drive off before Harvey could get out of the car.

Rebecca approached her office, stopping when Donna called her name.

"Rebecca! I thought Harvey went with you."

She went over to Donna's desk. "He did. I had Ray drive him around the block a couple of times."

Donna laughed. "What did Harvey do to piss you off this time?"

"He told me he doesn't want me working on the Tanner case, even though Brian is my client and I know more about this case than he does." She complained. "He also feels like I can't handle Travis Tanner's tricks. It's condescending." She looked over at Donna, expecting to see her support, but instead she saw Donna grimace.

"Don't tell me you agree with him." She groaned. "Donna…"

"I am staying out of it, except to say I can see where both of you are coming from." Donna chuckled.

"But I'm right…" She said. "Right?"

"I see where both of you are coming from." Donna repeated.

"Traitor." Rebecca laughed as she went into her office.

Harvey walked towards Rebecca's office, only stopping when Donna called out his name.

"Harvey!"

He turned and gave her a smile.

"Ah, I see you got her favorite coffee drink." Donna smiled. "Making up for something?"

"Something tells me you already know that." He chuckled.

"Good luck." Donna smiled back. "You'll need it. But something tells me you already know that."

He didn't bother to knock on Rebecca's door. Instead he just entered her office and placed the drink on her desk before sitting down. He watched as she looked at the drink and then him, before looking at the drink again.

"It's not poisoned, is it?" She finally asked, reaching over and grabbing it.

"No." He chuckled. "I would never do that to you. I'd only poison your food, not your drinks."

He could see that despite her anger, she couldn't help but smile at his joke.

"Even though I had Ray hold you hostage in the car?" She chuckled. "I know you don't like it when I do that."

"No, I don't like that." He admitted, unable to keep from laughing. "I also don't like that he now listens to you more than he does me. I tried to get him to let me out anyway but he refused, claiming loyalty to you. How the hell did that happen? He was my driver first."

"He just likes me better." She smirked.

"Obviously." He laughed. "Do you have some kind of special language with him? You said drive around a couple of times, but he drove around that damn block twenty five times."

"Oh! He must have known I was really angry with you. I'll have to do something nice for him." She grinned. "I'm sorry though."

"I'm sorry too." He apologized. "Hence why I brought you the drink. It's a peace offering of sorts."

"Can you see why I'm angry?" She asked.

"I can." He nodded. "You want to help me put Tanner in the grave on this. I appreciate it and I understand it. But I don't think it is a good idea."

"Because I'm also a defendant?" She asked. "May I point out that I have helped with my own case before?"

"I know that."

"So then let me help on this."

"I can't." He shook his head. "Tanner is using you to get to me. We both agree on that, right?"

"Right."

"Can't you see how I don't want you any more connected to this case than you have to be?" He asked. "If you are a part of this case and helping out, then he is just going to keep coming after you even more. And I can't sit by and watch that happen to you. There have been too many other times that my enemies have used you to come after me. I can't watch it happen again."

She sighed deeply and got up from her chair. Walking around her desk, she sat on his lap.

"I thought this violated your no PDA in the office rule." He smirked.

"I'm capable of making exceptions from time to time." She grinned back. "Look Harvey, people are going to come after me to get to you because they know I mean something to you. I'm not going to lie and say this will be the last time. You tend to be very polarizing and some people love to hate you. But we need to be on the same page about this. We need to fight back together. We'll show anyone who challenges us that we are stronger than they are and we will destroy them."

"You're really sexy when you talk about destroying people." He leaned in for a quick kiss.

"You're just now learning that?" She winked.

"Sometimes I just need a little reminding." He chuckled.

"I'll remind you anytime you want. So can we be in agreement that we'll work on this together?"

"Alright." He conceded.

"Wonderful." She then leaned in close to his ear. "Now that we have that settled, do you want to meet me in the file room in ten minutes?"

"Hell yes I do." He whispered back.