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The Best Version of Yourself by wearemany (PG-13)
Fandom: SUITS
Pairing: Harvey/Mike
Length: 4,391
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wearemany
Author Website:AO3 page
Why this must be read:
Becausewearemany is the best of the best at stylish, subtle writing and this fandom is made for that. Because Mike is people-smart here in a way that you can believe and Harvey is NOT in a way that is also believable. Because she gets at the way that professionally, there are power differentials between these two, huge ones, but personally, they can often find themselves on equal ground. Because I'm not a big five things fic person, but this one is modeled really well and executed even better and it hits every note perfectly.
Tom turns to face Mike. “You work in a world of suits,” he says. “Do you want them to see you -- or be too busy worrying about what you’re wearing?”
Harvey does his little shifty-eyed side glance towards the street, staying out of it. Two taxi drivers honk at each other. A hundred people push past them, rushing to work.
Tom stares steadily at Mike. There are flecks of gray among the stubble. Every single hair in his eyebrows is the same length, groomed at precise perfect angles to his face. He makes Harvey look thrown carelessly together.
Mike says, “Okay, yeah, thank you,” and Tom brushes a quick, bristly kiss across the far edge of Mike’s cheekbone, almost all the way over by his ear. Mike feels himself flush.
The Best Version of Yourself
Pairing: Harvey/Mike
Length: 4,391
Author on LJ:
wearemany Author Website:AO3 page
Why this must be read:
Because
wearemany is the best of the best at stylish, subtle writing and this fandom is made for that. Because Mike is people-smart here in a way that you can believe and Harvey is NOT in a way that is also believable. Because she gets at the way that professionally, there are power differentials between these two, huge ones, but personally, they can often find themselves on equal ground. Because I'm not a big five things fic person, but this one is modeled really well and executed even better and it hits every note perfectly.Tom turns to face Mike. “You work in a world of suits,” he says. “Do you want them to see you -- or be too busy worrying about what you’re wearing?”
Harvey does his little shifty-eyed side glance towards the street, staying out of it. Two taxi drivers honk at each other. A hundred people push past them, rushing to work.
Tom stares steadily at Mike. There are flecks of gray among the stubble. Every single hair in his eyebrows is the same length, groomed at precise perfect angles to his face. He makes Harvey look thrown carelessly together.
Mike says, “Okay, yeah, thank you,” and Tom brushes a quick, bristly kiss across the far edge of Mike’s cheekbone, almost all the way over by his ear. Mike feels himself flush.
The Best Version of Yourself