Changed: Jessica had a baby but he was kidnapped when he was six months old. No one ever found him or had any leads. Eventually Jessica moved on but always held out hope. There will be more information to come but for right now, so as to not give anything away that's all I'm going to say. Just know that I try my best with the facts but there will be some things that are a little different so as to fit with the story better.

Chapter 1

Jessica stared at the results in her hand. She couldn't believe it, after all these years of searching and she had finally found her son. Through some fluke of a long shot she had found him. She still couldn't believe that she had agreed to do it, it was only because it would lower the insurance costs at the firm for a year – some promotional thing or something – which she'd agreed and yet it had led to the most important discovery of her life.

As soon as she'd gotten the results she'd had them retested, twice. Once she'd been certain she'd looked over her son's history, doing a thorough background search. There wasn't much. Her son had been found when he was eleven – where he was until then no one knows. He was never adopted but bounced around from foster home to group home and back to foster home all throughout his childhood until he was eighteen at which time he tested out of high school and law school at some local college – not Harvard but she'd live with that – before falling off the map for almost a year until he had been hired by one Harvey Specter and come to work at her firm.

She didn't know how she would approach him, didn't know how he would react. She didn't know if he had been looking for her or if he hadn't wanted to know anything about her. She hadn't seen him since he was six months and now here he was, nineteen years old, and working as an associate. She decided to just watch him for a little while. She had been watching him for a week and she did not like what she was finding.

He was always here before everyone else and he stayed longer than anyone else. She wondered when he had time to sleep? Given her son's crazy work hours she took a look at the charges on the firms account for food bills but there was no increase from what it was before so although he was here most every night he didn't seem to be eating anything. She couldn't help but wonder when he was finding the time to eat or what he was eating?

He was constantly running around between Harvey's office, Louis's office, the file room, and for some reason the IT department as well as visiting the paralegal Rachael Zane. He also spent a great deal of time at his cubicle; sometimes he would stay at his cubicle for up to twelve hours at a stretch without ever getting up. She couldn't believe that he could have such single minded focus. He didn't seem to know everything, there were a lot of things that he didn't understand that all of the other associates had learned in college but she chalked that up to the fact that he hadn't actually gone to a college but rather tested out so those experiences would be unknown to him.

She knew that her son was Caucasian but then so was his father, and she wasn't all that dark skinned actually. She was willing to bet that if her son were ever outside long enough to tan then he would do so quickly and also that he probably never burned. It wasn't unusual; it just wasn't common.

After watching her son for an entire week she came to one conclusion. He had no idea how to take care of himself. She was worried. She had just found her son and she was thrilled about it but her son wasn't eating, he wasn't sleeping, he was over working, he lived in a horrible part of town where he could easily be mugged or killed, he rode his bike through the crazy new york streets and came close to being hit on at least three separate occasions that she'd witnessed in the past week, let alone how many times he'd come close since he'd started riding. She wondered if he ever had been hit? The odds were good that he had, multiple times. No the boy needed supervision.

After a week of watching her son she finally came up with an idea. She wasn't going to tell him, not yet, but she was going to make herself a larger fixture in his life. Sure she was his boss's boss but every time she saw him he would offer a small, nervous smile and then go the opposite way. She was rarely in the same room as her son for more than five minutes.

Having made her decision she spent an entire day finding a case that was lengthy and would keep her son in close proximity to her the entire time. Eventually she found one that had over a hundred file boxes – all of which could fit into the corner of her office by the table where se could set her son up so that she'd be able to keep an eye on him the whole time. It was a very detail oriented case and was big on numbers but from what she'd learned both of those things were in her son's wheelhouse. Based on her math this one case would keep her son with her for a good three weeks especially since she had other cases to work on at the same time so her son would be doing almost all of the work himself. She had already had everything required brought up and set in her office including anything that might be needed from the file room so her son would have no reason to leave. She also made sure that she was fully stocked with highlighters, pens, markers, tabs, and anything else that her son might need while he worked. She even had someone from IT set to come up and bring a laptop for her son to use.

With all of her plans made she went to Harvey's office. "I'm borrowing your associate for a case" she informed him.

"Excuse me?" Harvey asked confused, looking up from his work.

"I'm borrowing your associate for a case" she repeated.

Harvey arched an eyebrow, "We're working on something at the moment, I need him. Couldn't you take someone else?"

"I know for a fact that you've just finished with your latest case and I will take whom I like, you may take another associate though. This case may take a while and I want him exclusively for the entire duration" Jessica said. Not waiting for a reply she headed out of Harvey's office.

Harvey sat back in his chair completely confused, what the hell had just happened? He watched as Donna made a phone call no doubt informing the associate of his new, temporary, placement.

A knock on her door brought Jessica back to her thoughts, she was nervous she couldn't deny it but she was also excited. She gestured her son in while finishing up with a document. She looked up once she was done and took a good look at her son. He was doing his best not to fidget but she could see that he was nervous, he was also rather thin and there were slight bags under his eyes. The boy needed food and rest and that was something that he would be getting while working with her, after all that was one of the biggest reasons that she wanted him to work with her in the first place.

"You wanted to see me?" He asked nervously when he saw that he had her attention.

"Yes. I've decided to put you on one of my cases" she said gesturing to the boxes piled up next to the table. She took the time to explain the case and what was needed of him.

He listened intently to her instructions, once she was finished he walked over to the pile of boxes and started to grab a few and carry them out. "Where do you think you're going?" she asked.

"Um… to my cubicle" he said hesitantly.

"There are too many boxes to fit in your cubicle and I can't have you coming in and out randomly, you'll work from here. Everything you need is set up at the table" she said.

He hesitated for a moment before moving back to the table and setting his boxes down. "How long will I be working from here exactly?" he asked.

"As long as this case goes on" she answered as he sat down.

Just then there was another knock at her door. She looked up to see it was one of the IT people with the computer she'd requested for her son. She gestured the IT guy in. "Please put it on the table and set it up as instructed" she said. She had requested that she have access to see what was being done on the computer and have control over it if she wanted and that the computer be able to print from the printer in her office.

The IT guy just nodded his head and then went over to the table where her son was now sitting.

"Hey Benjamin" her son said looking up at the guy that had come in.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" The guy, Benjamin apparently, said.

"A case" her son replied, "You?"

"Getting a computer set up, for you I'd guess" Benjamin answered.

Her son turned a confused look to her, "So that you don't need to run back to your desk in order to use a computer" Jessica explained.

"Right" her son said before turning back to Benjamin, "So, did you crack it yet?"

Benjamin shot her son a glare, "Haven't had the time" he said.

"Bull" Her son objected, "Let me know if you need a hint"

"Not gonna happen" Benjamin said to her son. He stood up then and went over to Jessica's computer, "I need access to your computer for a few minutes in order to finish" he said.

"Very well" Jessica said as she stood up and moved out of the way. She was curious as to what the two of them had been discussing and how they knew each other. It was clear that they were friendly and it explained why her son would head down to the IT department but how they met to begin with was beyond her. What they had in common was a mystery to her as well seeing as Benjamin was a computer person and her son was an associate.

Benjamin finished quickly and moved away from her desk, "Do you need me to show you how to use it?" he asked.

"No thank you" she answered, she was aware of how these things worked.

Her son shot Benjamin a confused look and mouthed, 'use what?'

Benjamin shook his head and mouthed back, 'mobile'

Her son nodded his head and turned back to his work.

Benjamin left Jessica's office then and she turned to her son, "So, you two seem to know each other" she commented.

Her son turned and gave her a confused glance, "I guess" he said shrugging his shoulders and turning back around.

She let it alone for now, knowing she'd get more details later. They worked silently for a few minutes before she realized that her son was rather restless. The boy didn't appear capable of sitting still, ever. If he wasn't tapping his pen then he was shaking his leg, or tapping the desk, or turning his chair or any number of annoying little ticks. Eventually it became too much, "Is there any reason that you're incapable of sitting still?" she asked.

Her son turned to her, "Um… Sorry. Didn't realize I was doing it"

"Is this an every day occurrence?" she asked. She hadn't noticed it and there hadn't been any complaints from the other associates.

Her son seemed to think about it for a minute before shaking his head, "Not that I know of"

"Then why is it that you are having issues now?" she asked.

Her son shrugged, "Usually I have my music" he offered.

She thought about it for a minute, realizing that every time she'd seen him at his desk he did have his headphones in his ears, "Very well, go grab what you need and come straight back."

"Huh?" he asked.

She set down her work and looked up at him, straight in the eye, "I cannot have you constantly fidgeting, I'll get nothing done. If your music allows you to work without doing so then go and get it" she instructed.

He hesitated for a moment more before deciding that she was being serious and got up and hurried out of the room. He came back in a couple of minutes later with his messenger bag, sat down and put his headphones in his ears before getting back to work. She stared at him a moment longer before shaking her head and getting back to work herself. Yes she was going to have her hands full with Michael Ross.