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The guy shouldn't have been able to sneak up on him the way he did—not with the acoustics in this building. Every tiny sound seems to be magnified ten-fold. He manages it, though, and Harvey gets smashed upside the head with what feels like a fucking brick. He goes out like a light without even seeing the culprit.
When he comes to, he feels like a crate of dynamite just went off in his skull and it takes a couple minutes for the ringing in his ears to subside and his vision to clear enough to notice that someone is hovering over him, talking. It takes longer to realize that it's his partner. When he focuses in on what Gordon is saying, he hears something about an ambulance and cringes internally. He hates hospitals.
“I don't need an ambulance,” he tries to say, but it just comes out as a pained groan. So, to demonstrate that he's actually fine, he attempts to sit up. Gordon tries to push him back down, but Harvey bats his hands away and manages to get somewhat upright. As a reward, he is hit by a wave of nausea and dizziness so bad he nearly falls over again. Jim has his hands on his shoulders trying to support him.
“'Mm fine,” Harvey manages to get out after the worst of the nausea has dissipated.
Gordon snorts. “Yeah, sure you are.” He settles on the floor next to Harvey, keeping an arm around his back for support since he seems to have realized that Harvey isn't going to lay back down.
Jim's muttering about something and Harvey isn't really listening. It suddenly seems like a good idea to kiss him. Before his currently-struggling brain can catch up, he's pressed his lips against his partner's. It's clumsy and it probably lasts less than a second before Jim flinches away a little (but doesn't retract his supporting arm) and stares at him in shock for a couple seconds. Harvey's still out of it enough to not try to cover it up. Blinking, Jim seems to shrug it off and just goes back to talking about whatever he'd been saying before. He keeps throwing Harvey searching looks, though.
Later, in the hospital, Harvey remembers what he did. He wishes he didn't.
Later still, when he's back to work, he notices that every once in a while Jim is still throwing him those strange looks. Harvey does his best to pretend like he has no idea why, all the while wanting to melt into the floor.
