Grace Williams: fangirl edition

You can move to scroll in another space (if you haven’t gotten out of bed yet, move to the couch; if you haven’t left the house yet, you can sit outside)

You can make your current space more pleasant to scroll in (if it’s not possible to move spaces, open a window or light a candle in your space)

You can scroll while taking care of your body (change into clean clothes, scroll while brushing your teeth or washing your face, scroll while drinking water or having a snack)

You can stay on social media but avoid depressing or mindless content (try searching for fun facts, hobbies you’re interested in, or good news)

Hard mode: try just making the switch on your phone from short-form to long-form content (from dozens of short posts to an article, a fanfic, or an ebook; from TikToks/Reels/Shorts to a interesting or fun YouTube video, podcast, audiobook, or film) — this can be the first step in transitioning out of being “stuck,” because you can, for example, go on a walk while listening to an audiobook, fold clothes while watching a video, etc.

Expert mode: Set a timer for one minute and put down your phone. Do anything else. (Take deep breaths, go get a drink, pick up a book or craft.) If you can do this, aspire to two or five minutes and keep increasing your time away from scrolling. (Use your phone to play music, a podcast, or an audiobook if this prevents you from picking it up again)

It's set in the omegaverse, (alpha) Harvey and (omega) Mike just won a very exhausting case. They celebrate at a nice restaurant, just the two of them, as set by Harvey and which Mike is surprised about. Harvey has just realized his feelings while Mike is in denial with his feelings, especially after Trevor, Jenny, and Rachel.

They get personal. Really personal. Mike feels seen, Harvey feels vulnerable. They both don't want the night to stop.

The conversation moves to Mike's catastrophic love life.

"I know I have some fault in what happened with the three of them, but... I did love them all, you know? I thought Trevor was the one before he met Jenny. Then I thought Jenny would stick around longer. Rachel was Rachel... And I was me. With all of them. That's probably the issue," Mike said, playing with his nth glass of the night.

Harvey lets the statement hang over their hands for a few moments until he replied. "That may be true. But you work for me for a reason. If you were the issue all along, you're not."

"Yeah, said by who?"

"The best closer in this damn city."

Mike smiled at Harvey's cocky smirk even if he didn't feel as confident about it as the other man did. Love wasn't for him and he's accepted it.

Harvey refused to back down, though. As usual.

"No, no, look at me."

Mike, the puppy he is, looked. Really looked at Harvey, not as a lawyer or a senior associate or even a superior, but as a cocky, arrogant of an alpha he's been attracted to from the very first second they met when his inner omega reacted to the other man's strong scent.

"You're a great omega, Mike. Some might say the best omega in this damn city." Mike felt the heat rush to his cheeks as Harvey puts a heavy hand on his thigh. "Anybody would be lucky to have you, much less have the privilege of you loving them back."

Mike wants to pull away, but Harvey's hand on him was like a nail on his body. He couldn't move even if he wanted to.

He licked his lips before proceeding with the next words out of his mouth, "prove it."

Louis will be mid sabotage effort when he just stops glaring and asks, "Oh by the way, are we still on for brunch this Saturday?" and then Mike will also pause and give a very cheery "Oh yeah, definitely. You pick this time," before immediately dropping back into a sneer and taking files from him

Everyone is very confused by the seemingly random switches, and when pressed about it both parties just say that they're friends outside of work. Immediate cut back to the two of them glaring at each other across the office and making threats on their lives

The person most perturbed by all of this is, of course, Harvey. He doesn't even pick up on the fact that the two hang out until months in when he just so happens to overhear them talking about something related to a hangout

He is immediately overcome with a BURNING anger thinking that perhaps Mike is betraying him for Louis of all people. He sort of stews in it for a while slowly getting more and more agitated, snapping at Mike more because of it before Louis finally pulls him aside one day

Turns out Mike talks about Harvey a lot during these hangouts, but not in the way that Harvey was thinking with betrayal and subterfuge. Instead it turns out Mike really looks up to Harvey, and has quite the crush on him. Not that Louis explicitly said that, but he sure did imply

Louis basically tells him to get his head out of his ass because he hurt his friend's feelings by being mean to him for weeks on end over some stupid assumption instead of talking to him like a grown up

Harvey tries pressing by saying that Louis is using this "friendship" to try and sabotage Harvey or turn Mike against him and Louis just looks at him like he's stupid. He's like, "That kid would rather kill everyone in this building and then himself before even THINKING of doing anything even slightly harmful to you"

Cue Mike walking in and Louis straight up asking him if he would rather work for him instead of Harvey and Mike gets the most DISGUSTED OFFENDED face ever before physically recoiling and saying "Never in a million years. You suck"

Then Marvey kiss and live happily ever after and get married and Harvey has to put up with Louis showing up at his and Mike's shared home for brunches and such

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.