while we breathe, we hope.

OR: the one where he somehow ends up spending Halloween with her (details up to the writer) and it turns out that she spends it with her nieces and nephews, dressing up and everything, and Donna is completely blindsided by how awesome Harvey is with them, and by the end of the night they're teaching her nephew how to properly throw a baseball because Donna's brother in law isn't into sports and Donna's sister simply doesn't care for sports after a childhood of having them forced upon her, and Donna isn't around enough to pass all her knowledge on because of her selfish boss... so it all gets condensed into one evening of playing catch at twilight, Harvey half in his suit with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and Donna in some sort of costume, totally in character as she slides into their makeshift first base because it doesn't matter if she's playing against a six year old, she plays to win.

ALSO: when/if I write my own baby!fic, their first kid is going to be a boy, not a girl. First name undecided, but it will not be Gordon, because Donna was named after her grandmother and it's rough life living in somebody else's shadow, and she doesn't want that for her kids. Middle name will be Gordon, of course, and they'll tell him when he's old enough about Harvey's dad and teach him to like Jazz and Gordon will try to play the saxaphone that first year of band because he feels like it's his duty, but it turns out he's much better at, like, piano or something.

SAVE ME FROM MYSELF, UGH. THESE TWO.