Morning Musings, a suits fanfic

Harvey comes into a conscious state in response to the sound of the alarm on his phone , eyes still shut, he silences the alarm , turns and reaches for the other side of the bed , determined to postpone the demands of the day ahead in her arms , which he is soon disappointed to find cold. He blinks his eyes open to adjust to the warm yellow rays of the city wafting through the curtains of his bedroom and searches for her.

As he fumbles between the sheets searching for his boxers , disregarded messily last night as soon as they arrived home. She emerges from the bathroom , towel wrapped against her petite frame , and her wet red hair further contrasting with her pale hued skin , a view he was unsure he would ever get used to.

" There you are. " he mutters deeply and hoarse due to his recent emergence from his sleeping state.

She rounds the bed , approaching him with a smirk against her lips. " I was beginning to think you might not wake up"

He laughs and reaches for her " Hey , we both know the reason I overslept the first alarm.

She leans into him tilting her head into his neck and pressing her lips against his ear, and replies smugly " I didn't hear you complaining".

" Oh no no I'm not complaining , not about last night or in fact .. * He pulls her towel and throws it across the floor , now in similar state to his boxers the previous night. " right now " he murmurs against her lips.

" You're not ? " she replies, teasing against his mouth enjoying herself in amusing his attempts to make her fall right back into bed with him before the day had even started , to which he had succeeded but she wasn't about to let over just yet.

" No I'm not.. " he pulls her body beneath him , and she finally succumbs to his ministrations and they are soon tangled limbs beneath the sheets , their bare skin attached by the moisture generated by their bodies as they become one. They both fall apart in each other's arms , and follow their release by collapsing into the sheets and enabling themselves to drowse back into a soft sleep whilst remaining wrapped around each other's frames.

Harvey is first to be brought back into consciousness, and he can't help but watch the woman in his arms as she sleeps beside him peacefully , his fingers dancing against her back , left warm from the effect of the sunlight falling directly over her frame. He finds himself beaming , as his gaze falls on her freckles which are enhanced by the sun , something he is aware she secretly hates but another thing that he loves about her.

She stirs in his arms , turning into him further and burying her head into his chest blocking out the light , seemingly to now be the one to have the urge to disregard the day ahead completely and remain in his arms.

He lifts her chin slightly in attempt to rouse her from her current state " Donna , what time are we supposedly meeting Mike and Rachel ? " he softly asks in order to clarify how much longer they could bask in the seclusion of their bedroom before they'd have to begrudgingly leave and enter the public domain which they'd have to tread carefully with their behaviour towards each other and put withhold on the actions they could freely pursue in their homes.

They had decided that they wanted to wait until everything blew over at the firm with Faye , they wanted to share their news when the people they cared about were in the right frame of minds to hear it , that decision was proving harder each day with profound desire to display to each other their new development in their feelings and abilities to access them.

She mumbles incoherently against his chest , before turning and checking her phone for the time. Unexpectedly she perks up , smirks and straddles his lap " Rachel just texted , Their flight was delayed and they won't be able to make dinner we're rescheduled for tomorrow. "

" Great , dinner for two then we better get ready if we're going to make our reservation " he teases her , deciding to have his own fun with her.

" You want to go to dinner ? " she feigns shock and questions him curiously.

"Yeah , why not? It'd be a shame to lose our reservation , don't you think ? " He continues to ridicule her for his own satisfaction.

"Right , yeah .. okay I'll get in the shower" she replies still in disbelief and slight disappointment that he'd rather go to dinner than spend the day beneath the sheets with her.

He lets a beat skip before he gives in , he follows her to the bathroom and gives her his Specter smirk , the smirk that gives it all away and states her name in a teasing tone which before he can finish his sentence , she's hurling a bottle of shampoo towards his chest reprimanding him by calling him an "idiot" before storming towards the bedroom and entering her own act of fake annoyance to toy with him.

He follows her quickly enough , he can't contain the smirk spread across his face but he soon learns when he sees her serious expression. She starts fumbling through his wardrobe and a pair of jeans and T-shirt of his land on the bed.

" Don , what are you doing ? We're not going out for dinner. Reaching for the clothes in attempt to put them back into his wardrobe and take his redhead back to bed for the entirety of the day ahead.

"No Harvey, we are. You're right it would be a shame to lose our reservation considering how difficult it is to get a table there. We wouldn't be able to go back there tomorrow on such short notice , so we should take advantage of the reservation we do have today."

She wasn't about to back down , he'd had his turn and this was hers and she was about to one up him.

" But Donna .." he says almost pleadingly

" Go and get in the shower" , … " I'll be in here getting ready" she responds calmly , leaning up to peck his lips with a small smile.

He sulks his way towards the bathroom and Donna's mouth perks up at the corners , enjoying every second of this.

She hears the spray of the shower turn on and meanwhile , she searches for the bag from La Perla she'd hidden at the back of his wardrobe to surprise him when the moment arose , and this was the perfect opportunity.

She reaches into the bag and pulls out the royal blue laced lingerie set complimentary of her skins pigment , revealing a heavy amount of cleavage. She looks in his mirror and carries a self satisfied smirk , a fraction for the image of her body clad in lingerie and the rest for being able to pull this off with a completely oblivious and dumbfounded Harvey in the bathroom.

She positions herself on his bed , awaiting his entry into the bedroom. She had thought about the effect she'd have on him but she didn't anticipate what Harvey Specter , wet hair , chiselled chest and muscles covered with droplets of water with a towel wrapped around his waist would do to herself.

"Fuck" they spit out in unison.

He follows sharply with " Donna Paulsen you'll be the death of me"

She can see the tent in the towel wrapped around his waist mere seconds before he's discarded the towel and practically ran towards her devouring her with his eyes , just like he did that night after the hearing.

After another 2 rounds they are both completely spent. They are coming down from their release panting their way back to civilization , Harvey manages to breathe out a " 4 rounds in less than 24 hours , do you think I could add that to my business card ? "

" I could go again " she finally manages to rationalise her breathing and counter him

" No you couldn't" he says knowingly

" No I couldn't" she laughs

He pulls her on top of him , circling his thumbs over the lace on her hips and smiles up at her " Donna , you're remarkable you know .. this , you look beautiful.

She blushes instantly and buries the impact his words had on her in a witty remark of "I know" to which he laughs and places a soft kiss against her lips , she can still feel him smiling against her , and she thinks she has never felt happier than at this spend an amount of time caressing each other and sharing small kisses both still relishing in the fact that this was their new reality , that their denied feelings and happiness was now behind them and that they had everything in each other.

He stares both at her and at the city , she can tell his thoughts are travelling but instead of her usual routine to question him , she waits it out and sees if he will come to that on his own.

" Donna , I never thought I could have this. You , here right now , this is everything , your everything. I'm so sorry I wasted so much time in denial , we could have had it all.

" Harvey , stop it. Everything happened the way it was supposed to , well perhaps having the chance I would have taken Paula out of the equation but.." she rambled in an attempt to make light of the situation and address his insecurities without hurting him.

" Donna stop , I reflected my feelings for you onto her , I know that that is difficult to understand but I denied myself the possibility of us because I couldn't lose you , and then I did and I realised that either way there is a risk of losing you so why not risk everything for the one thing that matters. I want a life with you , whatever that contains , whatever it doesn't , I want that with you. "

Donna chokes at his words and a few tears fall down her cheeks despite her best efforts to contain her emotions , he swipes his thumbs against her catching the tears and she sobs out a soft " I love you Harvey"

Harvey can't help but feel his own emotions arise hearing her say those words to him for the second time since the night of the hearing , he pulls her impossibly closer and kisses her forehead as he responds " I love you Donna Paulsen."

They kiss each other softly until Donna's stomach rumbles , and he mumbles against her lips the question of "Late breakfast ?" She nods against him.

"What are you after?" He questions.

" I was thinking… waffles , layered with whipped cream and strawberries and a side of the Specter special" she replies with a tease to her tone.

"I don't think they provide those specific requirements of your's for delivery " he teases back.

"No..? well I'm glad because I happen to have those specific requirements available to me at home" she lays wanting kisses on the bridge between his shoulder and the nape of his neck .

" 5 .. now that's definitely going to be added to my business card .. Harvey Specter , Corporate Lawyer and 5 round handler. " he states smugly.

Her ministrations come to an end and she swats at his chest " I'll get in contact with Louis and arrange that , I'll just make sure he adds a line about your prematurity in one particular situation out of those 5 instances. " she teases, shutting down his smugness immediately.

" First of all , don't ever mention Louis when we're doing this .. and secondly , you left your underwear in my desk drawer within an hour of being at the office , my pants were tight all day , you are solely responsible for that rare occurrence, In fact singular occurrence , and you are the only woman that has that effect on me".

" Is that the case? " she smirks

" You know it is " he replies as he pulls her beneath him , lips falling against hers and they get lost in each other once again.

They take a second shower after , washing off the physical effects to their body a morning beneath the sheets has , while she continues her ministrations in the bathroom with a handling of products Harvey doesn't understand the use for but he knows better than to raise questions , He places a delivery of a local breakfast place , he orders himself a bacon bagel and her teasing request of waffles accompanied with strawberries and whipped cream and both of them a coffee.

She makes her way back to the bedroom , he informs her that he's ordered in but both of them fail to get dressed just yet. They lay in each other's arms , his fingers caressing her arm in a gentle rhythm as they scroll through their phones checking their emails and messages they may have received over the last 24 hours.

She suddenly suspects that the delivery is likely to be nearby , to which Harvey confirms and she panics that neither of them are in appropriate conditions to open the door.

"So which of us is going to answer the door? Because neither of us can answer the door like this"

"I don't know about that , I don't think you'd hear any complaints"

"Ok if you insist " she gets up mockingly , before he grabs her hand and pulls her back into the sheets , wrapping her naked frame