If only they allowed Gabriel Macht into that damn writers' room and live out his best fanfic writer life.
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If only they allowed Gabriel Macht into that damn writers' room and live out his best fanfic writer life.

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Then do me a favor. Just think about it.
“Marvey is canon.” I say into the mic. The crowd boos. I sigh and begin to walk off stage.
"She's right" a voice says, I turn and there he is. Gabriel Macht.
rachel asks Mike if he actually believes that Harveys innocent of burying evidence in s2. She heavily implies that he's willing to do anything to win and therefore is guilty. Mike never doubts Harvey and defends him to Rachel.
Knowing that Harvey plays in the gray is one thing, but Rachel has a habit of assuming the worst of Harvey and trying to rope Mike into it for no clear reason. I always read so much animosity between Rachel and Harvey and can't help but see them fighting over Mike's loyalty and attention.
one of the things about this that i find to be interesting is that rachel has zero reservations about acting very antagonistically to harvey despite the fact that he is, you know, her boss. she may be a damn fine paralegal, but she's eminently replaceable, and i seriously doubt harvey would have any reservations about finding a reason to fire her, or inventing one, if she crossed him too many times, or too far over the line. i think she considers her connection to mike to be some kind of protection, despite the fact that it's kind of the opposite; they're both very territorial over him, and though mike would surely stand up for rachel if harvey tried to get rid of her, harvey has the authority to do so regardless.
i've said this before, but harvey almost certainly had no idea whatsoever who rachel was before mike showed up and started showing an interest in her. his entire frame of reference for her is "person who mike knows and spends (wastes) time with," and for someone like harvey who likes to be the center of attention in a crowd, is deeply insecure about the people he loves abandoning him, and needs to be in control of (or at least able to manipulate) every aspect of a situation in which he's involved, rachel is pretty much the worst thing he could possibly have to deal with.
i have to wonder if rachel would be so dead set on believing that harvey buried evidence if she wasn't fighting him for mike's attention. he is, again, her boss, and she seems to have nothing but admiration and reverence for pearson hardman as a firm; without mike, harvey wouldn't treat her any differently from any other paralegal, and jessica may have taken a personal interest in her when she was hired (four years ago at this point), but i doubt any of the other senior partners treat her like she's special, so he probably wouldn't stand out as being excessively rude by not remembering her specifically. that is, rather than "that unscrupulous bastard harvey specter," he'd just be "harvey specter, yet another senior partner." she might have some uncertainty about the allegations at first, but would she really, genuinely believe that the firm she loves so much would employ somebody like that? she accuses him as a means of trying to control mike, but does she even think it's true? has she given it any real thought, or is it a knee-jerk reaction, the most convenient way to get what she wants?
well, try to get what she wants, anyway. as if mike would ever do something as disgusting as turning on harvey. 😁
I always felt like, once they got engaged, Harvey made something of an effort to view her as 'extension of Mike' and 'anything I do to hurt her hurts Mike so I shouldn't do it no matter how much she pisses me off' while Rachel remained actively adversarial towards him. It's very obvious she blames Harvey and Harvey alone for Mike's predicament and has convinced herself that Harvey pulled some dark magic bullshit to draw Mike into it when the reality is that Mike was literally begging for it. It's very convenient for her to make Harvey the Most Evil and Unethical Lawyer alive so its like she only takes in information about him that fits her narrative. Hiring Mike and intentionally wrongfully sending an innocent man to prison are nowhere near eachother on the sliding scale of morality, and she acts like they are.
And you know drives her INSANE that Mike ran to him when she cheated on him despite the fact that Harvey is also the one who told Mike it was okay to forgive her (despite it being completely Ooc for him).
She wants Harvey to take all the blame while she gets a Mike without a felony conviction on his record who is finally just hers and not Harvey's. The worst part is that she knows damn well that she would not have even looked twice at Mike if Harvey hadn't found him.
And she remains anti-Harvey even after Mike gets out of prison. I guarentee you part of the reason she wanted to move across the country was to get Mike away, specifically, from Harvey.
absolutely. harvey would never, ever hurt mike (except accidentally when trying to act in what harvey perceives to be mike's best interest, but let's not get into that right now), and if rachel is someone mike has chosen, then harvey has to protect her, too. for mike, though, all for mike.
@historycat makes a really good point that rachel is very used to getting her own way and being other people's priority; her mother clearly adores and dotes on her, her father wanted to use his connections to get her a job and only backed down at her insistence, jessica hired her despite her lack of experience and lack of harvard pedigree; it's clear in her relationship with mike, as well, that she's not used to compromising or looking at issues from multiple sides. she wants what she wants, and she expects others to give it to her. not that she won't put in the work, but she refuses to accept failure mainly on the grounds of "because it's me" rather than "i am objectively in the right."
i hate that harvey was the one to tell mike to go back to rachel after she cheated on him, but i do have one interesting little thought experiment to make it the slightest bit more palatable: harvey told mike to take rachel back because he saw how happy she made him (or how happy he claimed to be with her, in any case) and he knew mike wanted to take her back. mike wanted an excuse, he wanted to be told it was okay to forgive her even though he was hurting. he wanted reassurance that it wouldn't ruin his life to give her another chance. harvey will always do his best to make mike happy, so if that's what mike wants, that's what harvey will give him, even if it kills him.
but what if harvey was waiting for mike to say no?
mike knows well enough what harvey's history is with martial infidelity, and he knows that harvey would never, ever fool around with a woman in a committed relationship, or advocate for someone else to do the same. what if harvey told mike what he wanted to hear to give mike the chance to say thanks, harvey, but i know you don't mean that? i know you're trying to look out for me, but i can't do it? what if harvey saw this as his last greatest chance to get mike away from rachel, to "save him," if you will?
and then mike basically says fuck that, thanks for the seal of approval, bestie, let's just pretend this never happened and go right back to where we started.
anyway yeah rachel was definitely gunning to get mike away from harvey when they moved to seattle. how mad do you think she was when mike came back from his trip to new york with harvey in his suitcase?
I think it's definitely plausable that Harvey just wanted Mike to make a decision. I've done some writing on this, nothing published as of now, but if we removed the inherit heteronormativeness from the show, it can be read as Harvey wanting Mike to make a choice one way or the other. Imagine a Harvey that has acknowledged his feelings for Mike internally having him sleep just outside his bedroom. Absolute torture.
If we allow for Harvey having romantic feelings for Mike, there are other reasons to stop himself from making a move. Harvey knows Mike is very vulnerable at this moment:
- He may or may not be getting out of a serious relationship with someone he thought would never betray him.
-He's coming back to the firm and carrying a secret that seems to be hurting him more by the minute, one where he is breaking the law
-He will be Harvey's subordinate again if he returns to the firm. While this is a fun dynamic in fanfiction, realistically, Harvey would never ever want Mike to feel like he'd hurt Mike or treat him differently if Mike said no to a relationship. Harvey likes having power and authority in his relationships, but ultimately he wants people to choose to be with him. If there is even the slightest chance he'd scare Mike, he wouldn't go through with asking him out.
In some ways, it's easier if things go back to normal. If things go back to working at the firm and being with Rachel. He could be self-sabotaging, especially since Harvey could feel the fantasies and the want creeping in. If he can remove the temptation, maybe then they will stop.

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