The Marvey Chronicles [11/31]
Title: The Marvey Chronicles
Pairing: Harvey Specter/Mike Ross
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,303
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters.
Warning: none
Summary: Coworkers fangirl over Harvey/Mike.
Author’s note: Originally written for suits_meme. The prompt was ‘The Pearson-Hardman employees ship Harvey/Mike and try to get them together.’
On Wednesday night, one day before the party, Harvey was sitting on the couch at his place, thinking about the one thing that he couldn’t stop thinking about; his associate.
‘At this rate, I’m going to turn into an alcoholic.’
Harvey snorted at himself holding a drink. He had been drinking every night (and sometimes even in the office during the day) since he had kissed Mike at Jessica’s party.
‘It’s not like he was a great kisser. So what is this all about?’ Harvey asked himself as he thought about ‘spin the bottle’. At first, he had been amused at the idea of teasing his associate who blushed and panicked way too easily. He would never admit it out loud but he found it endearing when Mike blushed or panicked over the tiniest things.
‘Then he kissed me back. That’s when this whole mess really started.’
Harvey groaned as he remembered all too clearly how it felt to have Mike’s trembling tongue shyly caress his own. He had felt a quiver of excitement run through him and had to break the kiss immediately. When he had let go of Mike, the kid had melted down on the floor and all he wanted to do was hold him up in his arms and kiss him again. He knew that it wasn’t a normal reaction so he had been avoiding Mike for the rest of the party. He had even eaten more cake than he should’ve had to lessen the urge to drag Mike into a room and kiss him. He had felt Mike’s eyes on him for the rest of the night but he had had no idea what to do about it since Mike clearly wasn’t a one-night stand.
‘Then he had to draw hearts all over the documents and insult my kissing skills.’
Harvey sighed but he didn’t regret kissing Mike in his office. Mike had kissed him back with more enthusiasm and there had been something more comforting about kissing on home turf.
‘Too bad he avoided me after that and we never got a chance to talk it through. Then Jessica snatched him away.’
He poured more alcohol in his glass and closed his eyes. He was aware that Mike had been equally confused about the kisses; the kid’s behavior had screamed confusion. He probably didn’t think that it was appropriate to kiss someone whom he worked for and didn’t know what to do about his feelings. It was quite possible that he didn’t even know exactly what he was feeling.
‘Oh Mike…’ Just thinking about Mike made Harvey’s heart skip a beat.
‘It’s the alcohol.’ He told himself as he tried to calm his pounding heart.
‘And, now he’s going to pose as someone else’s date.’
Harvey knew that he was being overly dramatic about the party and that he had been overprotective of Mike when Jessica had asked to borrow him, but he simply couldn’t think clearly when someone tried to take Mike away from him. It didn’t matter if they were just ‘borrowing’ him; it made him turn into a possessive beast.
Harvey realized that there was no use denying his feelings anymore. As he had told the librarian the other day, he had been trying to suppress his feelings but it clearly wasn’t doing him any good. And now that Jessica had taken him for the week, it had become obvious that he was (heavily) emotionally invested in his associate.
‘Does he want me too?’
Harvey came up with an answer right away. He didn’t think that Mike had been drawing those hearts, thinking about someone else. Besides, the kid had kissed him back with feelings and at the time, Harvey wasn’t willing to think about it too much but deep down in his mind, he knew that Mike must have felt something similar to him during those kisses.
Then his thoughts drifted to the revised fraternization policy. Legally there was nothing stopping him.
‘Let’s see how it plays out. At this point, it couldn’t get worse anyway. When did it all start though?’
Harvey reminisced about the day that he had first seen Mike. The kid had given him a name that didn’t suit him as well as ‘Mike Ross’ and had spilled weed all over the floor.
‘I still can’t believe I didn’t hand him over to the police and hired him on the spot.’
He chuckled at his awful judgment and realized that perhaps he had been a little bit fond of the kid even on day 1. It was obvious that he hadn’t been able to think clearly.
When Harvey arrived at the party with an older woman on his arm, the first thing that he did was to locate his associate.
‘Ah, there he is.’
Mike was wearing a suit that he had never seen before and had a bow tie that wasn’t a clip-on. An emotion that he could only describe as jealousy flared in his stomach.
‘So Luthor helped him buy a suit that looks decent for once and taught him how to put on a bow tie? But those are my responsibilities.’
Growling like an animal that had spotted an unwelcome visitor on his territory, Harvey let his date mingle with the ladies and headed straight to Mike who was at the bar, talking to the bartender.
“Good evening, Ross.” He didn’t know if Mike was supposed to be Luthor’s associate as well so he decided to play it safe.
“Harvey?” Mike turned around with surprised yet smiling eyes. He hadn’t expected to see his real boss here.
“Shouldn’t you be calling me Mr. Specter?” At Mike’s confused expression, he generously added, “To maintain your cover.”
“Oh, that. Nah, the client knows that I work for someone else.”
“Really? Then I suppose he wouldn’t be surprised when you leave this party with me.”
Mike’s eyes grew wide.
“Unless you have plans with your date after the party.” Harvey had never found the word ‘date’ so repulsive.
“Of course not.” Mike responded quickly.
“Good. Where is he anyway?” Harvey scanned the room as the bartender handed Mike two drinks.
“He’s taking a phone call somewhere.”
“Well, do what you have to do and when it’s over, come find me. Enjoy the party, Mike.”
Mike didn’t get a chance to ask why Harvey wanted to see him after the party as he became dumbfounded at the sight of Harvey waving at a blond woman on the other side of the room.
‘What! He brought a date? Oh gosh, why is she wearing like four layers of makeup? Harvey’s going to absolutely loathe her if she gets makeup on his suit.’
Narrowing his eyes at Harvey who was brushing off a hair from the woman’s forehead, Mike cursed inwardly. ‘Stupid blondies. And, where did Harvey even find her? In a coffin? She looks totally ancient! God, I really hope she gets makeup on his suit.’
“Oh, you got me a drink. Thanks, baby.”
An arm curled around his waist and Mike knew that it was time to act some more.
On the other side of the room, Harvey was pretending to listen to whatever his date was rambling about while he watched his associate show off his brilliant memory to a small group of ladies. There was so much light in Mike’s eyes that even from this far, he could see it without squinting. It was an enjoyable sight if he didn’t look at the man who was standing next to him with an arm slung around Mike’s waist.
“So who is he?” The woman asked, sipping her drink.
“Pardon me?” Harvey looked at his date.
“Who’s the blond boy who’s stealing all your attention away from me?” The woman asked again with a smile.
Harvey felt awful. Whatever his motivations were, he should have paid enough attention to his date. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be. I think my evening has just got more entertaining. So tell me about him. You want him on your arm by the end of the night?”
Harvey laughed. “He’s my associate. It just feels strange to see him with another partner.”
“You mean, with another man.” The woman eyed Harvey with a knowing smile.
Harvey neither admitted it nor denied it. He wasn’t going to come clean to a stranger but he didn’t want to deny his feelings if there was a way this woman could help him. He was planning to tell Mike how he felt about him after the party, but he wasn’t sure if he would last that long without exploding.
‘Perhaps she can fake a heart attack and end the party early.’ He mused as his eyes caught the truly disturbing sight of Mike leaning into Luthor’s embrace.
‘Why does he always have to overdo things? There’s absolutely no need to overact like that!’
The woman’s laughter made Harvey’s head turn to her. “What are you laughing about?”
“You.” She laughed some more and pointed at the dance floor. “Let’s go make Bambi jealous.”
“He’s a puppy actually.” Harvey felt stupid for pointing it out.
“Well, then you have nothing to worry about. Puppies always remain faithful to their first owners.”
The woman’s light words strangely made Harvey feel better.
Meanwhile Mike had impressed yet another guest with his knowledge and was getting showered with compliments by his boss for the night.
“Care to dance?” Lex asked and Mike nodded.
Mike felt good for the first time since he had kissed Harvey. With the kisses at Jessica’s party and in Harvey’s office, getting to work for Jessica, and posing as another senior partner’s date, he hadn’t felt relaxed in almost a week. But now that he felt pleasantly tipsy and he was going to leave the party with Harvey, and he would be working for Harvey again by tomorrow morning, things finally looked better.
“Oh, I didn’t know he could dance.”
Lex’s voice brought Mike out of his thoughts. He looked at where Lex pointed with his chin and saw Harvey slow-dancing with his date.
‘Geez, is it really necessary to stand that close to each other?’
Harvey was smiling gently at the woman and Mike wished that he had drunk more so that he could throw up all over her.
“Come on. Let’s dance. We can do better than that.”
“I agree.” Mike took Lex’s hand and headed out to the dance floor.
He made sure that they were in Harvey’s sight and kept an eye on him as he started to dance.
‘He moves with such grace.’ Mike noticed. He had never seen Harvey dance before. The man was simply breathtaking.
When he saw Harvey whisper in his date’s ear with a gorgeous smile on his face, Mike realized that there was nothing but pure jealousy in his system.
‘How can he smile like that for someone else? He really didn’t feel anything when he kissed me? Can’t he tell that I’m failing miserably at hiding my feelings for him?’
Mike plastered himself to his dance partner and glared at the person who was making him miserable.
It only took a few seconds for Harvey to spot his associate comfortably nested in another man’s arms.
‘Don’t push it, puppy.’ He warned Mike with a death glare.
‘You started first.’ Mike stuck out his tongue and wrapped his arms tightly around the other senior partner.
Lex could tell that his evening might end with a hard punch in his face, but he had known about the risks before he had signed up to play such a vital role. He had a Mike poster (in which he was making a heart with his arms over his head) on the back of his bedroom door and drank morning coffee in a Harvey mug that gave him confidence to leave his apartment and go kick some ass.
‘Anything to get the two together.’ He reminded himself as he let Mike use him to make Harvey jealous.
But after a few minutes of getting used (aka getting touched all over the upper body), Lex had to speak up for himself. “Uh, Mike, I’m more than happy to dance with you so intimately but you may want to remember that I’m a guy.”
“Huh?” Then Mike realized what Lex was talking about. “Oh, sorry! I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”
Harvey couldn’t hear what the annoying pair was talking about but he could definitely see Mike blushing adorably.
‘What does he think he’s doing? What the hell did Luthor tell him? That he looks incredibly stunning tonight?’ The built-up jealousy exploded and Harvey couldn’t stand the frustration any longer.
“Would you mind spending the rest of the evening with another gentleman? He’d give you his full attention that you deserve.” He asked his date who laughed and said, “Go get him, Tiger.”
So Harvey let go of his partner and leapt across the dance floor, his eyes locked at his prey.
“Luthor, I’d like to get my associate back if you’re done with him for the night.” Harvey’s growling voice sent shivers to both men.
“Sure. He was brilliant tonight.” Lex was relieved that Harvey’s anger seemed to be aimed at Mike and not at him.
“Of course he’s brilliant. He’s my associate.” Harvey hissed and ripped Mike off the other partner.
“Oh, and I left a beautiful lady there so please take good care of her, will you?” Harvey added and Lex fled the scene with joy.
Mike stood there with his mouth closed, feeling both terrified and excited at Harvey’s angry form. Harvey looked so hot when he was angry and he was now sure that the senior partner actually had feelings for him.
“You’re coming with me.” Harvey’s voice was softer and Mike gladly followed him out of the client’s house.