005. Floor 37
"Floor 37", Closer
Summary: Mike's last three days of indentured servitude to Louis (and whoever Louis farms him out to) are spent in the service of an elderly lawyer named Jack, who poached him from a partner and knows more than he's letting on. Written for the suitsmeme on the prompt "Louis pimped Mike's shiny, shiny brain out to at least one of the other partners, which means that at least one one the other partners has found out that Harvey's new associate is even by Pearson Hardman's high standards honestly pretty amazing."
Suits -- one of my summer obsessions. It's one of those shows that everyone keeps saying I should watch, like Star Trek or Community, and true enough, I loved it. All to do with the chemistry of the two leads; USA does know when a formula works. First season followed a case-of-the-week formula, fair enough. Second season tried to tie the episodes together with a story arc... not so good.
So in Suits they're all lawyers at a firm called Pearson Hardman, and the boss is an African-American lady named Jessica Pearson played by none other than Gina Torres. "Floor 37" imagines the "Hardman" in the firm's masthead to be an awesome old guy -- past his lawyering prime but still sharp and a patient, excellent mentor, the type that you imagine every young protagonist in an epic story to have. However, the canonical Hardman in the show is creepy, awful, and bogs the whole story down. It goes without saying I prefer fic!Hardman.
The Hardman arc in Suits is pretty much resolved for now in the summer season, but there's still the winter break episodes and I hope the writers give us something a little more engaging, like the charm of the first season.
Summary: Mike's last three days of indentured servitude to Louis (and whoever Louis farms him out to) are spent in the service of an elderly lawyer named Jack, who poached him from a partner and knows more than he's letting on. Written for the suitsmeme on the prompt "Louis pimped Mike's shiny, shiny brain out to at least one of the other partners, which means that at least one one the other partners has found out that Harvey's new associate is even by Pearson Hardman's high standards honestly pretty amazing."
Suits -- one of my summer obsessions. It's one of those shows that everyone keeps saying I should watch, like Star Trek or Community, and true enough, I loved it. All to do with the chemistry of the two leads; USA does know when a formula works. First season followed a case-of-the-week formula, fair enough. Second season tried to tie the episodes together with a story arc... not so good.
So in Suits they're all lawyers at a firm called Pearson Hardman, and the boss is an African-American lady named Jessica Pearson played by none other than Gina Torres. "Floor 37" imagines the "Hardman" in the firm's masthead to be an awesome old guy -- past his lawyering prime but still sharp and a patient, excellent mentor, the type that you imagine every young protagonist in an epic story to have. However, the canonical Hardman in the show is creepy, awful, and bogs the whole story down. It goes without saying I prefer fic!Hardman.
The Hardman arc in Suits is pretty much resolved for now in the summer season, but there's still the winter break episodes and I hope the writers give us something a little more engaging, like the charm of the first season.