SLASH! SLASHSLASHSLASH! SLLLLAAAAAASSSSSHHHHHH! Okay, so this chapter is nothing but slashy short-shots and short-shots with slashy undertones. Its nothing too graphic or extreme (I'm bollicks at writing sex scenes XS) Anyway, if this offends you please don't read! This is all just for fun, right? ^.-

1) Apartment

When Mike's apartment got broken into, the first person he called was Harvey. Not much had been taken (his TV, the microwave, and a few other random things here and there) but it was the idea that someone had been in his house that unnerved him the most. Harvey didn't need any further explaination; he and Ray were at the apartment within fifteen minutes.

Harvey helped him pack a bag for the next couple days, looking around quietly at the mess the thiefs had left in their wake. While Mike was grabbing another pair of shoes from his closet, Harvey was silently making plans for how to move the rest of Mike's stuff into his own apartment and keep it there.

2) Breakfast

Harvey never eats breakfast and never has. He can't force himself to eat anything at the crack of down when he normally gets up so he usually just settles for coffee. It keeps him alert and focused and he doesn't have to worry about getting anything on his suit.

However, by around noon when he's been working for six hours and has at least another six before he's done, that's when he starts to get hungry. Usually he can get away for an hour and find a hotdog cart or something but every once in a while there's days when he'll work straight through. Its on those days, the days he knows he's in for the long haul, that Mike will drop by his office with a sandwich and a bottle of Gatorade. He knew he kept him around for a reason.

3) Cold

Mike has the lowest body temperature of anyone Harvey has ever met. He likes to keep the air conditioner in his apartment kicked down to its lowest point so its nice and cold when he gets home at night. He can't sleep if he's hot and it makes him very irritable to be around. Before Mike, he never had to worry about how cold his apartment was.

Now that the younger man is practically living with him, he's constantly complaining about the temperature. He walks around in a sweatshirt and jeans when they're there together and makes snarky comments about being able to see his breath. When Harvey's on the couch, Mike will practically plant himself in his lap and wiggle and squirm until he's as close to him as he can get so he'll stay warm. Harvey doesn't really complain about this part and makes a mental note to hide all of Mike's sweatshirts so that it can happen more often.

4) Damp

Harvey can't get over how sexy Mike looks when he's just gotten out of the shower. His hair is tousled, skin still damp from the shower, and he looks absolutely adorable. He's comfortable enough around Harvey now to walk around in nothing but a towel. He really shouldn't be surprised anymore when Harvey suddenly jumps him, snatches the towel away, and lets his hands explore the smooth, damp skin beneath.

5) Early

Mike is used to waking up early now. It had taken several weeks to get into the habit of actually getting up when the alarm goes off and getting dressed. Now, he can wake up without the use of an alarm; his internal clock is quite literally set for 6 am each day and there's not a damn thing he can do about it. Its handy for when he falls asleep and forgets to set his alarm but it happens every morning.

Its Sunday, they don't work on Sunday, and Mike opens his eyes at 6:03. He sighs a bit, his mind now instantly awake and alert. He's not going to be able to get back to sleep anytime soon so he might as well just get up and go find his messenger bag and pull out the latest file they'd been working on and-

Harvey wraps an arm around his waist and pulls him against his chest, effectively pinning him against his body. He sleepily tells Mike that its too damn early to be up and tells him to go back to sleep. Harvey is warm and the bed is comfortable and Mike finds himself snuggling a bit more into him before closing his eyes again.

6) Freckles

Mike has freckles all over his shoulders and back. He's naturally fair-skinned so the sun likes to play havoc on him in the form of tiny, brown speckles all over him. He has a few on his nose and arms, little dots of color to break up the eveness of his skin tone. Most of them are on the tops of his shoulders though, sloping down the smooth planes of his shoulder blades and back.

Harvey likes to count every single one of them with his tongue.

7) Gaydar

Donna has amazing Gaydar. She called Mike and Harvey eventually sleeping together the first day the younger man showed up at the office. She watched them like a hawk, evaluating their interactions and scrutinizing every sentence and gesture they made toward each other. She was just waiting for the day when something would snap and they'd end up in bed together.

The day Harvey walks Mike to the door, his hand pressed ever-so-gently into the younger man's back, Donna nearly squeals to herself. She grins like a maniac for the rest of the day and makes a star on her calendar. The next morning, Mike and Harvey come in at exactly the same time and Mike actually smells like Harvey's apartment. Donna dies a little bit inside from the excitement.

8) Hand

The first time Harvey holds Mike's hand is when they're watching The Ring at his apartment. Harvey quickly becomes aware of the fact that Mike hates horror movies and tends to jump like a little girl at all the scary parts. There's a moment of silence before the telephone rings on the movie and Mike literally jumps and grabs Harvey's hand.

The older man just smirks and tightens his grip, rubbing his thumb across the younger man's knuckles soothingly. He smiles even more when Mike is practically in his lap at the end when the little girl crawls through the TV.

9) Ice

The rain had frozen sometime during the night, creating a thin layer of ice on the ground and the steps leading up to the building. Mike is trying his hardest not to slip and bust his ass as he's rushing up the stairs to work but nature has other ideas. His foot hits a patch of slippery ice and he stumbles to the side, nearly tumbling down the stairs backwards, but someone catches him.

He looks up to see Harvey holding his arm gently and smirking that devilishly sexy smirk at him. He keeps his grip on the younger man's arm and allows him to cling to him as they climb the rest of the way up the stairs.

10) Jealous

Harvey is not jealous of Rachel. He's not jealous of the fact that Mike always seems happy when she stops to talk to him or when he goes out of his way to ask about her day. He's not jealous when she flirts with him and when he flirts back. He's not jealous when he sees him eyeing her long legs as she walks away.

Harvey is not jealous of Rachel. He keeps telling himself that as he kisses Mike deeply, possessively.

11) Knee

Harvey always knows when they weather is about to turn bad because of his left knee. He'd torn his ACL in high school playing football and had had trouble with that knee for years after. The surgery had helped but every time the weather changed or it was about to rain, the muscles began to cramp up and seize. It was damn annoying.

At night when they're sitting at home on the couch, Mike will take his hands and gently rub circles across the fades scars, his fingers warm and comforting. Even if it doesn't do much to help the pain, the contact makes Harvey relax and become boneless at his touch.

12) Lightweight

Mike can't hold his liquor for shit. Being as small and skinny as he is, any kind of alcohol goes straight to his head and leaves him a drunken mess for the rest of the evening. Harvey finds this out the hard way one night when they're meeting a new client for drinks.

After a few highballs of very expensive and high quality bourbon, Mike is flushed and giggly. Harvey calls him a lightweight and Mike just laughs at him. When he tells Harvey he thinks he's pretty and that they should make man-babies together, Harvey know's he's had enough.

13) Manhandle

Harvey loves that fact that he's taller and bigger than Mike; it gives him more opprotunities to manhandle him. If Mike is taking too long coming to the bedroom, he'll walk out and toss the younger man over one shoulder and haul him into the room. If he's standing in the way of something Harvey needs, he'll lift him bodily and move him over a foot.

His favorite is when Mike is standing in the kitchen. He likes to come up behind him, pick him up and set him on the counter, and kiss the living daylights out of him.

14) Nosebleed

When Mike works too hard or is overly stressed about something, he tends to get a nosebleed. The first time Harvey notices is when Donna comes into his office with a haggard-looking Mike pressing a tissue to his nose. There's a shocking amount of blood on the tissue and for a second Harvey thinks someone took a swing at the younger man.

Mike smiles behind the bloody tissue and just tells him its stress-related and that there's nothing to worry about. Harvey frowns and takes away some of his files, ordering him to go home early that afternoon.

15) Octopus

Mike likes to leave goofy little notes of Harvey's desk every time he leaves his office. Most of the time they're little love note and poems, sappy quotes from movies and songs. Harvey never minds; he kind of thinks its kind of cute, really.

He comes in one day to see a yellow post-it note sitting on his desk. There's a little octopus holding a briefcase doodled on the paper. Beneath the cartoon is the words "You octopi my thoughts!" Harvey smirks and rolls his eyes, tucking the note into the drawer of his along with all the other notes Mike has left him.

16) Punch

Harvey has a busted lip and blood covering the front of his shirt. Mike is in front of him in the bathroom, fretting around with a washcloth and a bag of ice, absently bitching at Harvey for being so stupid as he dabs at his lip gently.

Harvey didn't think he was being stupid. He saw the man grab Mike's ass and threw a punch. It was instinctual and came as naturally as breathing. Sure, the man got a good hit in as well but Harvey was pretty sure he'd broken his nose with that one punch. No one touched what was his.

17) Quit

Mike is definitely a movie buff. He's seen more movies than Harvey can count and knows nearly every line from them. Occasionally when they're laying in bed, he'll pop out with a random quote and try to get Harvey to guess which movie it came from.

One night he actually says "I wish I could quit you!" and Harvey briefly considers smothering him with a pillow.

18) Raspberry

Mike's favorite flavor in the whole world is raspberry. He likes raspberry flavored Jelly Beans, bubble gum, LifeSavers, anything he can find with that flavor. He likes red raspberry and blue raspberry though he doesn't really know why people associate blue with red berries.

Harvey is an enabler. He'll go out of his way to find raspberry flavored anything for Mike because he likes the way it makes him taste when they kiss.

19) Scar

There's a long, jagged scar that runs from the tip of Mike's shoulder blade and arches up across his ribs, ending just near his sternum. It was from the car accident that killed his parents. Mike had told him once that all the ribs on that side of his body had been crushed and that his lung had collapsed. The scar was partly from the surgery but mostly from the accident.

Late at night, when Mike is sound asleep and dead to the world, Harvey traces the scar with his fingertips. He can feel the ridges of torn skin, the bumps and odd angles of healed bone beneath his hand. Mike's heartbeat is slow and even under his hand and he keeps it rested against his chest for a long time, just feeling him breathe.

20) T-shirt

In spite of all the fancy, expensive suits and the matching shoes, the designer briefcase and the silk ties that cost more than a house payment, Mike thinks Harvey looks incredibly sexy when he's relaxed in a faded Harvard t-shirt and sweatpants. His hair isn't gelled to perfection and he's barefoot and Mike thinks its the most amazing thing he's ever seen.

Harvey's shirt is soft and warm from resting against his body and Mike relishes the feel of it on his cheek as he rests his head against his shoulder while they're watching TV.

21) Under

Mike is a stealth cuddler. When they go to bed at night, they start off on opposite sides of the mattress, facing the other way and keeping their distance. At some point in the night, Mike somehow manages to make his way across the bed and latch onto Harvey like he's made of Velcro.

Harvey usually wakes up in the morning with Mike wrapped around him, arms and legs all tangled up in the sheets. He's usually under Mike by this point too, the smaller man half-way on top of him and half-way on the bed. He doesn't mind, he just wraps an arm around his waist and falls back asleep.

22) Violent

The one thing Harvey does mind are the nightmares. He's never asked because he's pretty sure that Mike doesn't want to talk about it. He figures most of them are related to the car accident but there are others he doesn't understand and doesn't really want to know about. They don't happen very often but when they do, its like being caught in the middle of a tornado.

The nightmares are violent and brutal and Mike tosses and turns while he's trapped in the middle of them. He's hit Harvey on more than one occasion but the older man never gets angry. He'll capture Mike's arms gently and pin them to his chest, drawing him into a tight embrace and holding him until the dreams stop.

23) Wilted

Harvey always knows when Mike has gone too long without food. The younger man is notorious for working straight through lunch and never stopping to take a break. He'll start off the day up and alert but by about 3 o'clock he's slumped and wilted in his chair.

Its times like these that Harvey literally has to drag Mike out of his chair and force him to get something from the vending machine before he passes out. He wonders if the kid needs constant reminders to keep himself alive.

24) X-rated

Harvey likes making Mike blush. He loves sending him dirty messages and ideas for after work when they're at home. He has a whole list on his phone of the things he's like to do to Mike with those damn skinny ties of his. The more explicit the idea the better because it makes the younger man turn pink faster than a sunburn.

What's even better is when they come to to work the day after and Harvey sends him a discreet, x-rated text reminding him exactly what they did the night before. Mike's face turns scarlet.

25) Yes

Mike had gone through every possible outcome of him asking Harvey on a date. His first thought was the older man looking at him in disgust and firing him right there on the spot. His second thought was Harvey shutting him down coldly, telling him he wasn't interested and that it was completely innappropriate for the work place. None of the scenarios he played out in his head ever ended well; they almost always ended with Mike alone and heartbroken.

It came as a great surprise when Mike finally did work up the courage to ask Harvey out for a drink and the older man said yes. There was no question, no hesitation, just yes.

26) Zipper

Mike figures all the tailors on this side of New York know him by a first name basis now as the guy who always comes in to get the zipper replaced on his pants. He shudders to think what they say about him when he drops them off, leaving the cash and simply walking out the door before they can ask him what happened this time. Honestly, he's running out of excuses.

He can't help it if Harvey is especially eager to get his pants off sometimes and in the haste ends up breaking the zipper. He knows he shouldn't care, New York is a pretty open-minded place after all, but he just has a problem telling other people that his boss literally rips his pants off when he gets home at night.

Annnndddd...done. =p