Hey gorgeous 💕💕💕 so can you please write something for me?
harvey specter x reader where they finally get a puppy (he caved 😭). reader has to go on a business trip and leaves him alone with it for a few days and he slowly loses his mind trying to take care of it lol
if I’m being honest, harvey would choose a pit bull ♡ they’re loyal and not easily intimidated
── ⋆౨ৎ The Case of the Unmanageable Client ౨ৎ⋆ ──
Harvey Specter did not cave easily. Everyone who knew him could attest to that—closers don't cave, they close.
But after three weeks of you pulling up rescue listings on his tablet during Sunday mornings in bed, "accidentally" leaving them open on his monitor at the office, and casually mentioning to Donna within his earshot that a dog would really round out the apartment, he'd finally set down his scotch, sighed like a man conceding a multimillion-dollar settlement, and said, "Fine. One dog. And I'm picking her."
Which was how you ended up with Sloane—a five-month-old pit bull with a brindle coat, ears that never fully decided which way they wanted to point, and a smile that made even Louis Litt momentarily forget how to be Louis Litt.
Harvey, despite himself, was obsessed.
He'd never admit it, but you'd caught him narrating his closing arguments to her in the mornings while she gnawed on his shoelaces, and once—once—you were nearly certain you heard him call her, "the best associate this firm's ever had."
So naturally, the week you had to fly to Chicago for a four-day deposition marathon, Harvey insisted he'd be fine.
"I run one of the top law firms in Manhattan," he said, straightening his cufflinks like that settled the matter. "I think I can manage a thirty-pound puppy."
"She's thirty pounds of pure chaos, Harvey."
"She's disciplined. She respects authority."
You kissed him goodbye, privately certain that within twelve hours, one of them would have broken the other.
Text from Harvey: Everything is under control. We had breakfast. She's very calm.
Attached photo: Sloane, mid-air, having just launched herself off the couch, ears flying, one of Harvey's ties dangling triumphantly from her mouth.
Text from Harvey: Okay so she does not, in fact, respect authority.
Text from Harvey: She ate a legal pad. An entire legal pad. I watched her do it and I was too tired to stop her.
Text from Harvey: I bill $1,200 an hour and I just spent forty-five minutes negotiating with a dog over my tie again.
Text from Harvey: I lost.
You woke up to seventeen missed calls, which for a man who considered a single voicemail an act of desperation, felt significant.
"She won't stop barking," Harvey said the second you picked up, his voice raw in a way you'd never heard from him—not in court, not during the merger that almost tanked the firm, never.
"I took her for a walk, she barked at a pigeon. I brought her back inside, she barked at the elevator. I don't understand what she wants from me."
"I gave her food, I just—the bag said a cup and a half, but is that before or after she's already eaten a legal pad? Does the legal pad count toward her daily intake? I don't have this information."
You had to put the phone on mute so he wouldn't hear you laughing.
Text from Donna: He came into the office and asked me, verbatim, "Does a dog dream about winning or is it always about being chased?" I don't think he slept.
Text from Mike: he brought her to the office. she's currently sleeping ON HIS BLAZER, the one he keeps for closings. he's letting her.
Attached photo: Harvey, mid-deposition prep, one arm curled protectively around a sleeping Sloane, looking simultaneously furious and completely undone.
Text from Harvey: She had a nightmare. I think. She was doing the little leg thing.
Text from Harvey: I sat on the floor with her for twenty minutes until she calmed down.
Text from Harvey: Harvey Specter, on the floor. At two in the morning. For a dog.
Text from Harvey: Don't tell anyone.
Voicemail Transcript — Harvey Specter
"So, funny story. I left her alone for twenty minutes—twenty minutes, that's it, I had a conference call—and I came back and she'd pulled every single throw pillow off the couch and arranged them into what I can only describe as a nest. She's sitting in the middle of it right now looking extremely pleased with herself.
I don't even know how to be mad. She looks like a very proud, very stupid queen.
I bought her a squeaky toy shaped like a gavel because I thought it'd be funny, and I have to tell you, watching a dog systematically destroy a symbol of the justice system has been the most honest thing that's happened in this apartment in years.
Anyway. Call me back. I need to know if peanut butter is a breakfast food for dogs or if I've been doing this wrong."
You got back to the penthouse expecting disaster. A shredded couch, an exhausted, disheveled man, finally humbled by a five-month-old puppy.
What you found instead was Harvey, sleeves rolled up, sprawled on the living room floor with Sloane curled against his side, one hand resting on her back, both of them fast asleep.
The living room looked like a war zone. There were two chewed remotes, a suspiciously legal-pad-shaped void where a legal pad used to be, and at least one throw pillow that had not survived the ordeal.
But Sloane's ear twitched at the sound of the door, and she lifted her head, tail thumping against Harvey's ribs hard enough to wake him.
He blinked up at you. Tie abandoned and all.
"You're back," he said, his voice thick with sleep.
Then, with the particular gravity of a man delivering a verdict-
"I think she might be actively trying to end my career."
You sank down onto the floor next to them, and Sloane immediately abandoned Harvey to climb into your lap, licking your face like you'd been gone a decade.
"Traitor," Harvey muttered, but he was smiling—that rare, unguarded one he only ever gave you.
He reached over and tucked a strand of hair behind your ear, his thumb brushing your cheek.
"Never leaving me alone with her again. I aged a decade. I called opposing counsel Sloane in a deposition."
"I did. Nobody caught it. I'm that good."
You laughed, leaning into him, Sloane wedged happily between you like she'd always belonged there—which, you supposed, she had.
"So," you said. "Same time next month?"
Harvey groaned and let his head fall back against the couch.
"Ask me again when the feeling comes back into my legs."
But his arm found its way around you anyway, pulling you both in close.
And later, once Sloane had finally settled into her third nap of the hour, you caught him pressing a kiss to the top of her head, murmuring something that sounded suspiciously like—
"Good girl... best associate we've got."
You decided some things were simply better left unmentioned in court. 🤍
i chose the name Sloane is because it feels upper-class, polished, and expensive sounding. it just felt very Harvey to me.