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New rounds will open at suits_meme Round Two now has an overflow post, all new fills should be posted there. Incomplete fills can still be posted here.
Round Two is officially closed. Round Three will open on Sunday. Feel free to continue posting fills.
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Mike isn't sure why; all he did was thank her for her help with the Yates subpoena from the week before, but she didn't say anything in return, and only barely acknowledged him at all. She just glared at him for a moment, and then started opening and slamming shut her desk drawers, pointedly, as showily (and falsely) busy as possible, until he got the picture and left.
*
Harvey calls him into his office at around eleven.
When Mike walks in, Harvey is sitting at his desk, attention centered on the papers in front of him. He stills for a minute when Mike walks in, but doesn't immediately look up, and Mike takes the opportunity just to look at him.
The bend of Harvey's neck looks strangely vulnerable, but - Harvey is wholly composed, of course. His slicked-back hair is an abomination. The man in front of Mike has likely reduced any number of lovers to a quivering mess of lust, but he's never come undone for anyone, let alone for Mike.
The carefree smile fades from Mike's mouth before Harvey even raises his head.
"Good morning, Ross," Harvey says carefully.
Mike summons another grin from somewhere. "Morning. Hey, so, Yates's staff sent over those figures. I've been going through them all morning, and I really think we've got him."
Harvey watches him through this, and doesn't reply immediately. "That's excellent," he says eventually, and takes a breath to continue, and Mike just - breaks.
"Listen, about last night," Mike says, just to say it first. Harvey looks at him expectantly. "It shouldn't have happened."
And Harvey just freezes.
"I mean, I enjoyed myself," Mike adds quickly, and something tense in the set of Harvey's shoulders seems to relax a bit, "but of course it didn't mean anything."
There's a pause, a long terrible moment where Harvey's face is just distant, and then something coolly amused drifts into his expression.
"Of course it didn't," Harvey drawls. Harvey sits back, settling comfortably in his six-thousand dollar desk chair. He's wrapped in the kind of effortless presence and authority that makes a power play out of being the one having to look up. Mike stands there, feeling ridiculous.
He shouldn't have said it. It didn't need to be said.
"Was there anything else?" Harvey asks, and Mike breaks eye contact.
No. There's nothing else.
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So heartbreaking...
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