Set after their dinner in 9x03. I loved how their first date went from awkward to him not being able to get any closer to her!


They had ended up staying at the restaurant until even the staff were anxious to get home, heads bowed together as they giggled and tasted wine on one another's lips. Eventually, the owner cleared his throat politely and they apologised profusely, Donna gathering up her purse while Harvey paid the check with a generous tip. Outside, the night was cool but pleasant and Donna gently guided his phone back in to his pocket when he fished it out to call Ray.

"You want to walk? It's nearly midnight."

"We've both got used to late nights recently."

And so it was settled, and they strolled back to his apartment hand in hand. On the way he stopped to push her in to a store doorway, pressed her against the cool glass and kissed her hungrily. It was obscene, how much he needed her, how much he wanted to feel them skin to skin and hot and slick and tangled together. But she pushed him away with a laugh and pulled him back out to the street, her hand gripped firmly in his, and he watched her hips swing and her hair sway and quickened his pace along the side walk to get her home sooner.

His elevator had never travelled so slow and Harvey was tempted to hit the emergency stop and have her right there and then, security cameras be damned, but then the doors slid open and they were at his door, hands all over one another again as he blindly felt for the lock and backed her in to his hallway.

They got as far as his couch and later, when their limbs were laced together and he was struggling to catch his breath, he pawed at her hair to brush it away from her face and kissed her hard.

"Tell me something else I don't know about you," he whispered softly between kisses, rolling her on to her back so he could meet her eye while still keeping her pressed against the length of him

"Do you know how handsome I think you are?" she teased and he laughed, breaking them from their suspended high. She wore the languid grin he'd grown so used to- soft and teasing and dreamy and just for him- and he tightened his arms around her.

"No, but that doesn't count. Of course you think I'm handsome. I mean look at me."

"Modest as ever, I see."

He kissed her once, softly, on the tip of her nose and sighed, pushing himself up on to both elbows to see her better.

"I'm serious, Donna. I want to know everything about you. If there's any piece I'm missing of the Donna puzzle… I want to know."

Her face softened and he felt himself falling a little bit deeper as she cracked herself open and offered him everything she could.