Fic - Notes in the Margins (Donna/Harvey) pg, 1/1

[abvj]

Title: Notes in the Margins 
Summary: Five times Harvey and Donna touch. 
Rating: pg 
Author's Notes: 5,036 words. General series spoilers. Written in part for phrenitis because she indulges me, and this whole thing stemmed from a long conversation about why it is these two actively do not touch each other. That's just how we roll. All mistakes are mine. These

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[bristow1941]

I vote Film Studies - NYU is known for it, totally useless for finding a job other than in a mailroom, and it explains the movie quotes. Just did a rewatch today while working and noticed a few mentions for the timeline:

1989 - Shoulder blow out was his senior year of high school prior to the championship game according to Travis Tanner's taunts in "Undefeated". To be MLB draft-eligible, he must be 18 by June of his senior year of high school, so he can't have skipped grades (plus it's the last thing anyone looking for a college scholarship for sports would do).

1993 - Graduates from NYU

1993-1994 - Works in the Pearson Hardman mailroom after college (at least one year to allow time to take LSAT & apply after college graduation)

1995 - First Year Summer Internship (Usually public interest, firms like PH rarely have first years, maybe even the DA's office?)

1996 - Second Year Summer Internship (This had to been at Pearson Hardman, perhaps when he met Louis as a First Year?)

1997 - Graduates from Harvard Law, Inside Track - Harvey when asked about his rookie dinner: "I came into the league as a sophomore", so he was never a first year associate at PH.

1997-1999 - Two Years as a ADA as seen in this screencap: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4os8zdCB21r0t38oo1_1280.jpg, "Rules of the Game", worked as ADA for two years, Harvey to Alexander Leeds, 'I haven't worked for Cameron Dennis for over a decade', Clifford Danner was put in jail twelve years ago.

1999 - Donna & Harvey meet, "Inside Track" - Harvey to one of the Senior Partners: 'Except you, Fred, I gave up on making you proud in 1999', McKernan Motors, who was the first client he brought in, the bylaws 'were written a dozen years ago when I was two years younger than you', Mike's age is unknown

2003 - Harvey meets Ray after leaving $3,000 in his car (8 years prior to 2011)

2007 - Harvey is a Senior Associate (usually have at least 5 years experience or equivalent), Louis Litt make Junior Partner, Harvey helps Jessica oust Hardman and Harvey makes Junior Partner, Harvey's father dies

2011 - Harvey makes Senior Partner (which is about on track for what I see online when I search for youngest ever senior partner and agrees with the intel from the 2 generations of law insiders in the family)

[phrenitis]

Btw. I've been meaning to say. I LOVE THIS. AND I LOVE YOU.

I have this bookmarked because it is perfect and wonderful and exactly the sort of ridiculous detail I love. THANK YOU.

[bristow1941]

Just random spitballing on exactly how old Harvey is versus Mike:

McKernan Motors, who was the first client he brought in as an associate, had their bylaws 'written a dozen years ago when I was two years younger than you', Mike's age is unknown but is supposed to be in the Harvard Law 2011 class and was already thrown out of college by 2007, so he is 25 or older. Remember, Harvey had to take a year off between NYU and Harvard Law to work in the mailroom and get his ass kicked into taking the LSATs and apply (although it could have been a part-time job while he attended NYU) so there were 7 or 8 calendar years between high school graduation and graduation from Harvard Law in 1997. If Harvey was two years younger in 1999 than Mike was in 2011, Mike has to be older than 25 to have realistically gone to Harvard Law, Harvey had already spent two years at the DA by 1999, and Harvey had to take 7 or 8 years between high school graduation and his graduation from Harvard Law, Mike is definitely at least 26 or 27.

So if Harvey graduated High School at 18, he would be 40 when he made senior partner which is a year older than Gabriel Macht's real age. If he was 17 when he graduated high school, he would be 39 when he made senior partner and Mike would be 27 in Season 1. Or if he worked in the mailroom while at NYU, he could have graduated high school in 1990 at 18, NYU in 1994 at 22, Harvard Law in 1997 at 25, join Pearson Hardman in 1999 at 27, and be exactly Gabriel Macht's age....

Randomly, I reread a story on ffnet that said in their notes that they capped Harvey's wall and saw 1997 on his Harvard Law diploma. I don't know if it's iTunes being a bitch or my vision, but I couldn't get a close enough view in High Noon. Does anyone else remember another time we could clearly see Harvey's diplomas?

And fandom, most fanfic about how old Mike is oh so wrong... he is 29 in 2011 and 30 in 2012!