Cruising: Harvey and Donna Style

Harvey and Donna waved at all the watchers as the huge ship pulled away from the port. A total week, just the two of them, on this "Loveboat" cruise to Puerta Vallerta was Harvey's wedding gift to Donna. He knew she had always wanted to either be on a cruise to some wonderful resort or to be the entertainment on a cruise ship. She had threatened Harvey one night after they had had a fight that she would audition for the part of Guinevere as one of the ship's theater actors were performing Camelot on the next trip out of Miami. Harvey said he would not have minded only he could not be without her (personally and professionally) for three months which was the current tour of the ship's theater group.

Donna looked over at Harvey as they walked away from the railing and intermittently between horn blasts, she asked," Are you all right?"

Harvey raised his head and nodded. "Sure. Why wouldn't I be?"

However as Harvey said this to his wife of ten days, he knew he was lying. The great Harvey Specter who had whethered his mother's betrayal and departure as a child, had become a great ADA and helped put criminals away, had become a shark of a corporate lawyer, had whethered the guilt emanating from his partial responsibility of his best friend winding up in jail, had slept with many women and finally recognizing the one who fit him best was the one he slept with fourteen years ago was now no longer that man. He had one foe of which he had forgotten or from which he had thought he would have evolved. The great fearless Harvey Specter suffered from chronic seasickness.

"Excuse me," Harvey said to his new wife as he swiftly escaped to find either the nearest restroom or run back to the railing and vomit.

Donna could not believe it. Poor Harvey. He only wanted to take her on this cruise because she had said how much she wanted to be in a romantic setting with him. Donna, herself, was fine. She was an old salt having grown up in New England and helped on her Uncle Jacob's fishboat. When not acting or practicing her craft, Donna, as a young girl, would put on her rubber leggings and rubber boots and help pull in the net and separate the keepers from the tossers.

When Harvey came back after wiping his mouth and making sure he had not allowed Donna to know he was seasick, she handed him a small brown plastic bottle of pills.

Harvey took the bottle from her and looked at the label.

"What's this?" Harvey asked in all innocence trying so hard not to run back out to the railing from where he had just come.

"It's Dramamine. It will help with your seasickness."

"Donna, I-"

"Yeah, right. Now there's no guarantee but that should help you not feel so bad."

Harvey asked, "How did you know?"

Donna smirked at him. "I'm Donna. I always know."