After telling Jessica what he had done with her letter and how they were in the same boat, Mike brought Meghan home. So long as nobody else knew about the Harvard secret or his sister, they were safe as was his job.

Meghan spent the trek up their many stairs in the elevatorless apartment complex telling of how she met up with Mozzie.

"I swear, if it were anybody else, I would have chalked it up to paranoia. But I can't say Mozz has led us wrong too often," Meghan said. She stopped at a landing to take a breath, something Mike gave her a pat on the back for doing. Of course, he wasn't giving her much of a choice. He was walking ahead of her and carrying his bike up the stairs so every stop he made, she had to make as well.

"You ran into Mozzie, today?" Mike asked as he inserted his key into the door. He turned the knob and pushed the door open, allowing Meghan to go in first.

"Yeah. And it was weird... I mean, he was acting like someone other than Jessica was on to us, and I don't mean the brother/sister thing either..." she hung her laptop case on a hook near the door.

"Which investigator was flowing you?" her brother did the same thing with his bicycle after closing the door behind them.

"Vanessa. We stopped at five different headstones, ten in total, put a camera on each one and watched from the tree line. Had to avoid Mom and Dad's." She entered the bathroom, pulling her toothbrush and toothpaste from the medicine cabinet.

"The birthday tradition," Mike sighed. "I'm gonna talk to Harvey tomorrow. Just hope he understands."

"You do that now and he'll never forgive you." Her words were garbled as the toothpaste did its job.

"He won't forgive me either way, Megs."

She spit. "He wants to forgive you, Dad. The fleeting glances every time he passes you or you walk by. He only said that stuff after the merger because he was upset. He doesn't think that little of you."

"How can I possibly believe that?"

"If he hated you as much as you think, would he have used your work on Ava's case, knowing it came from you, instead of doing it himself or having me do it so that it wasn't your work anymore? He wouldn't have even acknowledged your existence when you told him you blackmailed Jessica, even if it meant losing me, but he did."

"Are you saying I still have a chance to change his mind?" Mike looked at his sister incredulously. Maybe he did. She learned how to read people a lot better than he ever had with all of Neal and Mozzie's lessons. She could see Harvey and Donna missed him. It wasn't just the teasing. They missed the family the four of them had become.

Donna was like their big sister. Meghan would have thought of Donna in the mother role as well but didn't want to voice that thought. Even if she did like messing with the woman's mind, Donna would have given her dirty looks for the rest of her life. And Harvey... he definitely filled both roles for the siblings.

"Maybe... but his finding out you have a sister for whom you are legally responsible and said sister has been at the office all this time won't help your case if it comes from you. It'll look like a last-ditch effort to get on his good side and be seen as a lie."

"And who exactly should this information come from?" he leaned against the door frame.

"Who are the three people he listens to most?"

"Donna, Jessica, and himself."

"You're not wrong, but somehow, you're wrong. He still listens to Jessica, even after learning she was behind this mess. Mostly because he made a deal with her and must live up to it. He listens to Donna because he loves her and will do anything to keep her around, probably even break the law, but he won't say it out loud. Then there's Vanessa. His go-to PI."

Mike motioned for her to continue. He didn't need to ask how she knew Harvey loved Donna. They both have eyes, and Meghan didn't need experience to see it either. These siblings had learned to see things others missed, one more than the other, thanks to their brother and friend.

"If I were to say anything, it would just look like I was defending you, and Donna already accused me of doing that earlier. I gave her your letter so that our secrets would come from her. I also made a copy of your resignation letter, and the one Jessica has ready to send to the DA in my file which I'm going to slip into his office while he, Jessica, and the client meet with Cameron in the morning."

Her plan was to make it look as though someone found dirt on her. The kind of dirt that would grab Harvey's interest. Mike couldn't help but wonder how she came up with such an idea.

"Mozz?"

"Mozz," she replied.

Two mornings later, before Harvey and Jessica were to meet with the special prosecutor, Donna walked into Harvey's office. She still wasn't sure if she understood what Mike's letter had read. Every question she ever had about Meghan was answered in two pages. It also explained Mike's tendency to avoid certain subjects.

On her desk was a surprise gift. The file Mozzie and Meghan had put together that would tell Donna and Harvey even more than Mike's letter. She opened it to find things even the internet didn't have on either of them. Things that, if the Witness Protection part was true, would be buried, or not even exist save for this file.

It told of Neal's father, a former police officer, and how he was falsely arrested for murder, eventually joining the program like his two-year-old son, then-wife, and his partner.

It told of how Nina and James Ross met in another state and left for New York without telling the US Marshal's. Having Mike. How the Marshal's found them again. The accident. A six-month pregnancy ending in their deaths and a child being born three months early.

She read some more. The eldest Ross, or was it Caffrey? She didn't know anymore. He had left home as soon as he turned eighteen after learning about his biological father. He couldn't cope with what their aunt had told him on top of his parent's deaths and having to help raise a baby.

That left Mike and Edith caring for the little girl. At seven, the little girl, Meghan, disappeared from the face of the earth. She didn't die or go missing. Mike just didn't want them to be relocated and he couldn't opt out of the program without risking what was left of his family.

Aside from Jessica, Donna was the only one allowed to walk through Harvey's door without knocking.

"Harvey, remember when you asked me to run a background check on Meghan?"

"I asked for one on her every day since she got here, Donna. We never get anything on her unless she gives it to us. Why?"

"Well, I wasn't sure how to go about this. I found an article dated sixteen years ago. The same one I found for Mike's."

"What about it?"

"His mom was pregnant. Six months along... It would explain the hole in Meghan's heart... She gave this to me," she said, passing Mike's letter to her boss and friend. "I've had it since yesterday morning. Still processing what I read." Harvey's eyes scanned each paragraph.

He looked up at Donna, then back at the letter. He had an even harder time processing the same words. Not once did Mike mention having siblings, but if he was an only child, who had claimed to not know the kid that well, how did they know everything about each other?

"I also found this on my desk," she said as she gently set the file on his desk. "I don't know who put it there, but I'm inclined to believe they are in witness protection."

Both adults had allowed themselves to become caught up in the file and the letter that they never heard Meghan's knock. Nor did they see her come closer to the desk.

"He's not expecting your forgiveness anymore. He just hopes you'll understand and not turn on me as well... I wanted him to tell you from the beginning... about us, all three of us." She held her voice steady and her eyes to the desk. Eye contact wasn't necessary for this conversation. "Because whether or not you admit it, even to yourself, you want to know why Mike did it."

Harvey reread the letter. Meghan was wrong. He didn't care... or did he? He didn't know anymore. If she was wrong, and he really didn't care, the letter and file would have been in the trash or even shredded the second Donna gave them to him.

Maybe he did want to know if what either said was true.

Harvey still needed to process the bomb that had been dropped on his desk so he gave Meghan an assignment that he hoped would get rid of her for the day. Time was of the essence so the time he needed to process had to be put on the back burner.

Mike had gone to what he thought was lunch with Louis, but also met a client at the same time. He realized what Louis was doing and had to think about becoming the man's associate. He had to admit, it was nice to be wanted after a week of trying to get back in the good graces of those who had rejected him and refused to even let him explain.

He was glad to see that upon his return to the firm, Meghan was on her laptop doing schoolwork. How she caught up with her classes and her work, which he now had to sign off on and have a doctor give approval for her to work at fifteen, he didn't know.

What he wasn't pleased about was learning that Rachel talked to Donna about him, trying to get him back to working for Harvey.

"Is something wrong?" Mike asked Rachel.

"Oh, I just got into a fight with Donna."

"About what?"

"I went to tell her about you and Louis, and she just—"

"You went to Donna about me and Louis?"

"I thought she could help."

"You what?"

"I thought if she knew, she'd go to Harvey, and they'd just put an end to it."

"Someone butting in and telling him what to do is only going to push him further away."

"I didn't tell him what to do. I went to Donna," Rachel corrected.

"If Donna tells him, all it says is that I'm too weak to fight my own battles. God, if it's coming from you, that makes it so much worse."

"Why?"

"Harvey forbid me to tell you anything. He thought it only meant the Harvard part, but it also meant Meghan."

"You and Harvey talked about me?"

Mike's expression saddened as he answered. "After we went out, I went to him, I said I wanted to tell you—"

"And he said I wasn't trustworthy... He didn't want you to go out with me."

"No, it's not that either. He didn't have a problem with us going out, he—"

"Oh, so it's okay if you screwed me so long as you lied... Oh, my God. That's why you cut things off with me."

"He didn't just risk everything he had for me once. When Jessica found out, he put everything he had on the line for me again."

"I hope you know as you stand here defending him, he has no intention of ever forgiving you. Because I found out when Louis asked Harvey for his blessing, he said, Take him. He's all yours. So instead of getting mad at me for trying to get Harvey to forgive you, maybe you should get pissed at Harvey and think about moving on."

Now he wasn't so sure Meghan's plan would work. It was still possible because Louis had been courting him for the position for a week, which he assumed was how long ago Harvey had said that.

He was angry but he wanted all the information before he went barging into Harvey's office. So, he called Meghan.

"Did Harvey get a chance to look at that file?"

"Hello to you, too. I'm fine, how was your day? It sounds like it went from bean and cheese burrito to squid in a matter of seconds," Meghan remarked. "He read it this morning. Sent me on a wild goose chase so he could process the bombs we just dropped on him."

"Don't go in there for at least an hour. I'm gonna try again."

"D—" Mike hung up before she had a chance to protest.

From where she was in the library, Meghan could see Mike storm into Harvey's office. Mike only wished he could close blinds to keep her from witnessing.

"What the hell is wrong with you? I said I was sorry, I gave back the office, I helped you with your case, I even blackmailed Jessica. Harvey, I get that you are pissed off at me, but eventually, you are going to have to forgive me."

"Forgive you for what, making me hire Katrina after the hit-and-run case? Getting high on the job your first week? Betraying me with Jessica? Telling Rachel about your secret? Or not telling me about your siblings."

"You're not gonna add Witness Protection to that list?"

"Why would I? You wouldn't be allowed to tell me that without threat of being relocated."

"You cut me loose. Okay? You fired me. I was at my lowest point. They were there for me. They're still there for me."

"Congratulations. I hope you three are happy together."

"So, you're gonna punish me by giving me to Louis? Well, let me tell you something. It failed. I actually like working for Louis. He makes me feel like I'm working with him, not for him."

"Well, I'm glad to hear that. Because I didn't give you to Louis as punishment, I gave you to Louis because you and I are done."

"Harvey, I regret what I did. But I'm telling you right now, you're gonna regret this."

"Maybe you didn't hear me. I said you and I... We're done."

"Fine. We're done. But don't take this out on my sister. She wanted to tell you from the beginning, and I wouldn't let her."

Mike left, wondering if he'd just made things worse if not for himself than for his sister.

Harvey had no intention of taking this out on Meghan. Aside from being one of Mike's secrets and used against him in Jessica's blackmail scheme, she had nothing to do with the merger. But he needed to be alone, so he went up to the roof. Only a handful of people knew how to get there.

He was alone with his thoughts for about an hour.

I have every right to be angry with Mike. And Meghan? She deserves better, doesn't she?

What happened to me? What happened to the Harvey who didn't care unless it was a paying case?

I would have done the same thing had I been in the same position... Then he thought of his brother and the deal he'd unwittingly made with wealthy criminal to get the money his brother needed to open a restaurant... I am in that position. Dammit. It's not just hypothetical.

His train of thought came to a screeching halt as he heard the stones shift under someone else's feet.

"Whatever it is, I'm not really in the mood right now."

"Harvey, I know how Cameron works." It was Jessica. "He's setting something up."

"You think I don't know that? He's setting Ava up to bribe Nick."

"Isn't that what you just did, yesterday?"

"No. I went to him and told him he'd regret being disloyal to her. Something I know a little bit about."

"Harvey, do you know what started it between the Hatfields and the McCoys?"

"I didn't catch the miniseries, but I heard Costner killed it."

"Doesn't matter. Because whoever they say started it, I guarantee you, the other side says, bullshit."

"You went to Darby for this merger behind my back."

"And then you picked a fight with him behind my back."

"And then you blackmailed Mike behind mine, using Meghan to do it."

"And I was only able to do that because you brought a fraud into my firm in the first place."

"So, you do think it's my fault?"

"What I think is I regret using a child against the only family she has left. I regret where we are, and I've been trying to get us back to where we were."

"And what would the evidence of that be? Why don't you tell me the truth about why the hell I'm on this case?"

"All right, Harvey. I lied to you. When I told you I fought to get you on this case, I didn't. Darby made that call. And I used it as an opportunity to reach out to you. Which I am now here doing without using anything. So, do you want to let it go or not?"

"I want to know two things... If you had it to do over, would you do it again? And would you use the same method?"

Jessica looked right at him. Her lips said nothing at first, but the way she held her head and eyes spoke for her. "Deposition's on the books with Cameron tomorrow. You want me there or not?"

She would do it again...

"I do. I also want Meghan there."

"You want a child, a witness protection participant, on a case that would get her recognized?"

"She wouldn't be the face of the trial. Mike got her into a pre-pre-law program and it's a school requirement to be part of a real case... She told me so when I brought her onto it after you gave it to me. I've never brought her into the court room. Only assigned her to research which gets double checked by Rachel."

Jessica relented, allowing a teen to watch the deposition. Her condition was that Meghan was not allowed to speak. If she had questions, she was to write them down and give them to the lawyers.

Meghan jumped as wind blew across her arm. An earbud was removed from her ear in the same manner Mike's had been so many times before.

She sighed. "Now I know how Mike felt all those times you did this to him..." she froze. "Crap."

"You put that on Donna's desk this morning," Harvey stated.

"How mad are you?"

"Nothing's going to happen to you. I realized that if I had to be put in similar situation, I would have done the same thing for my own brother. He didn't have as many options as I originally thought... However, I do need to talk to you in my office."

"I told him all you needed was that letter, the file, and some time to process."

"You seem to know me better than Donna does."

Meghan closed the lid to her laptop. Harvey started walking away with her having to run to keep up.

"You're going to be watching the deposition tomorrow. Jessica will be there. From what I understand, you haven't been near her since you went to the hospital, am I correct?"

"I'm not going to scratch her eyes out if that's what you're asking. She probably doesn't even want me to speak."

They crossed the threshold of his office.

How many times did this kid have to impress him? "If I believed in psychics, I would have said you were one when you called out Paul Porter in your journal a few months ago... Where did you learn to read people without even meeting them anyway?"

"Iiiit didn't used to be that way. Then Neal came back into our lives and started teaching us a few things. One of the cold cases you had me look at over this past week was one of his, actually. The only time Big Brother couldn't read a person was if he liked the woman, and I mean liked."

"Well, we can consider that case closed now that it's passed the statute of limitations," Harvey said, avoiding the words Neal is dead. "Go home. Get some sleep. Cameron Dennis will not go easy on Ava just because you're there. He'll try to drag you into this as more than a viewer so that we will have no choice but to forfeit the case and Ava would go to jail."

"Okay. I guess I'll see you tomorrow."

"Don't tell Mike anything. I'll take him back, after the deposition."

"Why the change of heart? I mean, other than the bold honesty that came straight from our WITSEC files?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow."

True to Harvey's word, Cameron Dennis did try to rope her in by insulting Harvey's ability to work for his client.

"You think you can get me to go easy on your client because there's a kid in the room? What's she even doing here?"

"She's in an accelerated program. It requires her to watch the different portions of a trial and write a report on the process used, which doesn't violate the client's confidentiality," Jessica defended.

"Harvey, I'd introduce you to Nick, but I understand you two already met when you witness-tampered," Cameron said, gesturing to his witness once he accepted Meghan's presence. If she was there to learn, she was going to learn who he believed her examples were defending.

"Nick works for Hessington Oil. We're their lawyers. Therefore, I didn't witness-tamper. And if you say it again, I'm gonna slap you with a slander suit," Harvey replied.

"Well, let me slap you with something. Tony Gianopolous got a hold of that video somehow, and he gave it to your shareholders." Cameron was proud of his move. He even thought he had them cornered. "They're filing some sort of lawsuit. I think he's trying to take over the company."

"You son of a bitch. You leaked it," Ava said angrily.

"I deny that. And if your client says that again, I will slap her with a slander suit to go alongside her bribery charges. And by the way, Nick wasn't swayed by your attempt to tug at his heartstrings. Emotional pleas? What did you do to him, Jessica? This is not the kid I mentored."

"You were never my mentor. Jessica was. You're just a fast-talking car salesman that hides behind the line, I do good. Now get out of my face while I confer with my client."

Harvey and Ava turned to each other to talk while Meghan looked through the glass wall.

"You're not taking notes?" Cameron asked, still trying to make her speak.

"She doesn't have to," Jessica replied for her. "You remember Mike Ross, correct?"

"What about him?"

"Meet his sister."

Meghan offered a shy wave with a smug grin.

"Let's continue," Harvey said, giving her a pointed look.

Nick explained the process of how the clearance was given to build the pipeline. First they would meet with the country's leader, in this case that was a Colonel Mariga. Then they would pay a pollution remediation fee that didn't need to be paid which was really a bribe.

"And Ava Hessington paid this fee with the full knowledge that it was a bribe?"

"Yes, she did," Nick answered.

Cameron drew everyone's attention to the screen. "Nick, are you sliding a briefcase full of cash across the table to Colonel Mariga? And you were aware it was a bribe?"

"Yes, but—"

"How was Ms. Hessington as a boss?"

Ava had taught Nick a lot about the business. She was training him to take over for when she was ready to retire, which meant she trusted him with everything, including the meeting with Mariga, a meeting she did not attend.

Meghan started writing something down. While it seemed pointless to Cameron, Jessica had taken notice of the teen's action of putting pen to paper. She had seen Meghan's work so she knew if they didn't think of the question, Meghan more than likely had.

"Did she look over your shoulder on everything you did?"

"No," Nick answered.

"Was she aware of everything you did?"

"She was aware of this."

The teen slid her note to Jessica who was sitting beside her.

All we have is Nick's word. Ava groomed him but he got caught and cut a deal.

Jessica read the note, then passed it down to Harvey who had continued speaking as he read.

"Yet all we have is your word on that. So let me get this straight. She groomed you, promoted you, gave you autonomy, then you engineered a bribe. And when you got caught, you cut a deal to lay that bribe on your mentor. Is that correct?"

"She knew."

"Yes. You claimed that before. If Ava Hessington were convicted of this crime, who would be considered next in line?"

"That's speculative."

"Is it at all possible it would be you?"

"Yes."

"Wow, sounds like you have a lot to lose and even more to gain."

"We're not in court. Your testimony doesn't help you here."

How is that a testimony? I heard observation.

All Jessica did was look at Meghan. She agreed, but she couldn't voice that until the deposition was over.

It took a while, and Meghan did have more questions she'd written down and given to her superiors, but the deposition finally came to an end.

Meghan had watched as Mike stopped at the half-wall across from them. He was talking to another associate, looking over something they'd asked him to check. It was just Donna, Harvey, and Meghan now. Jessica had left the conference room.

Mike was going to accept his fate and agree to be Louis' associate. And it was something he was happy to do.

If Harvey was going to do what he told her the day before, he needed to act quickly.

Donna turned to see what had Meghan's attention. She couldn't say she was surprised it was Mike.

They had said goodbye to Ava just before Donna asked:

"Do you want me to send a copy to Darby?"

"I do," Harvey answered.

"I thought maybe working with Jessica would change your mind about taking over the firm."

"It didn't. Because if she had it to do all over again, she would. But it did change my mind about something else."

"You made me wait to hear something I already knew? If someone willingly does that even once, they're more likely to do it again," Meghan said after growing up and seeing what her brother was willing to do to make ends meet for them.

"Harvey, if this whole thing is really Jessica's fault, maybe it's time we considered forgiving Mike..." her head whipped around.

"What?"

"Where's Meghan?"

Meghan had moved surprisingly quick. When Harvey did find her, she was standing still in the middle of the hall. Her focus was on Mike as he meandered the room like he used to with Harvey's office. He could see she thought it was too late, but it wasn't. It wasn't going to be too late until he heard Mike say no.

Harvey gave her a pat on the back before he continued down the hall, entering Louis' office. He released a sigh before breaking the silence Mike didn't know was between them.

"I can't let you do this."

"Let me?"

"Don't do this."

"I already said yes. I can't go back on my word."

"You're not going back on your word. You're going back where you belong... Where you both belong."

"I am," Mike chuckled. "I am sorry."

"I know. Look, why don't you take tonight off and go out with your sister and your girlfriend?"

"Thanks, Harvey." Mike reached out to shake his hand.

"No, we're going up top."

"Oh, really?"

"Yeah. But if you come in late tomorrow, you're fired."

"We'll see about that."

Meghan came running in, tackling her brother the best she could. Everything was out in the open now as far as the people that mattered in their lives were concerned. They could be more open. By now, everyone in the firm probably knew they were siblings, so that secret didn't matter anymore. But they kept the rest of their secrets among those who already knew.