Warning: This isn't nice all the way through - but it does have a happy ending - I give you that.

I don't own the characters, nor the song. Just the idea.

This is something that crossed my mind when thinking of Gail and Holly and listening to this song - Where The Road Meets The Sun by Katie Herzig and Matthew Perryman Jones. First heard this song on Grey's Anatomy (Izzie's fantasy) and was immensely struck by it. I would urge you to listen to the song first and then read this fic. I hope you stick around till the end.

(Also this idea first struck me as a music video idea than a fanfiction - do bear with me - with the color and the black and white)

Angel wings spread over water worn wishes
Guarding the dreams and the things left unsaid
Here we are wandering, aimlessly roaming
Lovers who linger and never forget

And when it's done we will walk where the road meets the sun

Gail was bored and was staring blankly at the T.V. She could hear Holly rambling away in the other room about her report. She found Holly's little freak-outs over the little anomalies in her autopsies rather cute. However Holly seemed to be more flustered now than usual.

"Hol."

Gail could hear Holly muttering to herself - "I have to get this done by tonight. It's due tomorrow. Did I attach all the evidence photos?"

Gail knew Holly wasn't going to answer her anytime soon. Deciding that her girlfriend needed to take a little break from life - Gail trudged upstairs to find Holly checking through her report - for God knows the how manieth time.

"Hol!"

Holly at last looked up so see Gail staring at her with an anxious expression.

"What?"

"You're gonna give yourself a heart attack at this rate. I am sure the documents are all in order.."
"Technically, I can't give myself a heart attack - Myocardial infarctions are caused by the heart muscles itself not receiving sufficient oxygen and.."

Holly never got to finish her scientific rambling - Gail had already pulled her out of her chair and was now dragging her down the stairs.

"I kinda like the other way you make me stop talking", she quipped with a little smile.

Gail couldn't help but think back to the time she said that, the time she kissed Holly at the station. How everything had suddenly changed. How it had all felt - how overwhelming it all was - and how her perspective on the world suddenly shifted. Gail couldn't help but feel that the colors around her where richer now. Deeper, more 'coloury' she couldn't help but think. Gail couldn't help but feel how all the colors in the world came to life after Holly walked into her life - and how it all faded to black and white when she wasn't with her.

"Okay Nerd, but you need to take a break. Get all this nervousness out of you. Besides - when did you start getting so nervous about stuff?'

"It's a big case tomorrow! And they are charging him with all my evidence! Excuse me for being a bit thorough."

"Yeah yeah it's the right guy Hol, relax. Now catch!"

Holly didn't have much time to react - but managed to catch the controller just fine.

"Mortal Kombat? Really?"

"Well I'm bored - I didn't come all the way here for you to freak out over a stack of papers."

"Not a stack of papers - Evidence reports Gail."

"Pick Noob Saibot and let's get this over with. Ten minutes of your time won't change much."

"Noob? Kitana for me, Thanks."

Soon enough - after 4 games later the two of them found themselves sitting up on the couch, madly mashing their controllers for what they both had unwittingly decided was a sudden death.

"Come on bloody Scorpion!"

"Kitana Wins."

"Argh!"

Holly couldn't help but chuckle at her girlfriend - who had now flung herself back of the couch and thrown her controller at the ground.

"Who's the Noob now?"

"Not fair - I was letting you win to beat the stress - I wasn't expecting you to actually finish me off!"

Holly moved closer to Gail, her lopsided grin never leaving her face.

"Yeah? How romantic of you."

Gail couldn't help but scoff at that, she wasn't romantic. She was Gail Peck.

Staring at her girlfriend's grin however, Gail didn't feel so for bad being a romantic.

She pulled Holly closer and gave a slow, warm kiss.

Soon Gail found Holly on top of her - at what seemed to be the very promising beginning of a heated make out session.

However, the two were interrupted by an alarm that had started ringing - which was from Gail's phone.

"You have a shift tomorrow?"

They both realized that their evening together had inevitably come to an end. Holly got up and allowed Gail to get up , and she started walking to the door.

"Yeah. Early one. Must have set that alarm so that I would remember I have to go home and pick up some actually clean clothes."

Holly slumped. She had been looking forward to spending the night with Gail.

"You could have called me. I wouldn't have been so busy if I had known." Holly said as she opened the door into the cold, dark night. She was missing Gail already.

"Yeah, well maybe next time you'll finish your reports on time."

"That report was done. I was going over it again."

Gail turned to look at Holly with what Holly had learnt was fake horror.

"That report was over?!"

Holly knew it was her turn to shut Gail up - and gave her a soft kiss on her lips.

"Be safe, Gail. See you soon."

"Later, nerd."

As Gail walked to her car and as she drove away from Holly's house - she could have sworn she could feel the world fading to black and white again.