The night was young as exhausted Gail Peck came back to the station after working a double shift. She knew that after that she was going to sleep for days but no, she had to go back to work in ohh 10 hours. Officer Shaw walked up to her and noted that she looked like crap, " Gail when was the last time you had a day off call." Gail surprised by the sudden interaction told Oliver the truth, he knew the expectations of being a Peck, " I have not had a day off call in four months, Sir," Oliver looked at her stunned; "Gail go home get some rest and if I see you within 100 feet of the police station I will book you and have Nash make sure you relax." Gail took that as an order and headed toward the locker rooms to change into street clothes. Before she changed though she had one stop, the morgue.
As Gail makes her way down to the morgue people got out of her way or if they are feeling brave smiled at her. She has quite the reputation of being an Ice Queen. Gail makes it down to the morgue and stands in the door way and watches her girlfriend work, Holly looks most a peace when she is decoding a dead body. After a few minutes Gail lightly taps the doorframe she was leaning on to get Holly's attention, "I will be right with you," is the response Gail gets. Holly then looks at who waiting for her and does that smirk that melts Gail's heart, "Hey, are you still working? What is going on?" Gail loves when Holly rambles slightly, "Well nerd I am on my way out and just wanted to let you know that Oliver gave me the day off so…" Holly raises her eyebrows and looks at Gail kind of funny, " What are you suggesting Gail that I call in sick and so we can hang out tomorrow." Gail just rolls her eyes at Holly, " Yes, I am suggesting that we both have the day off and go do something fun," she says with as much sarcasm and she can muster in a way that Holly knows that she is serious. This was nothing new for Holly who by now was use the snarky seriousness that she had come to love. Holly then called for one of her interns to come and help finish up what she was working on so she could start packing up to go home. Holly did not know it yet but these next twenty-four hours she was going to remember forever.
After Gail got changed, she met Holly by her car so they could head to Holly flat but not with out a stop first. "Hey Hol do you mind swinging by my place so that I can get a few things for tomorrow," "Sure just make it quick." Gail knew this was going to be quick as she only needed one thing but she was not going to let that Holly know that information. When they reaching Gail's flat, she popped out and quickly ran to her room to go get the little box she had been hiding from Holly for the past month along with some clothes so that it did not look suspicious. She really did not need anything as she had a set of clothes and all things that she would need to stay at Holly's already there as she was over there so much that she was practically moved in already. The only reason that she still had things here was because she was afraid that there was not enough space at Holly's.
Gail took a quick look over her room and then hurried back downstairs to her girlfriends car and was surprised to see the there was a police car behind it. She recognized the car as belonging to the next division over and wondered what it was doing here. When she saw that Holly was about to get a ticket for waiting in the street for her she walked over to the officer who looked up to see who was walking over. The officer regretted looking up as he was met with a pair of blue eyes and a very tired, snarky police officer, "Is there a problem here officer?," Mitchell, the officer in question looked startled for a minute as Gail talked to him "Ummm…. I was just about to give your friend here a ticket for parking in the fire lane, but I guess I can let it slide this once...", Gail gave him a pointed look, "You better or you will hearing from both my mother and 15 division on why there top forensic pathologist got a ticket." He then hurried back to his squad car completely forgetting that he still had this women's information in his hands. "Uhhh Gail, we have a bigger problem." "What?" Gail said with an eye roll for added measure, "He still has my license and registration." "That bastard, lets head down to 15 and see what we can do." At this point Gail was about to explode with the fact that she one was going to ask Holly to marry her tomorrow and some dumb rookie stole her girlfriend's information.
After the quick ride over to 15 Gail was meet by Nash who stopped her on the spot "You do not want to go in there." "Traci some dumb rookie just drove away with Holly's information I have to go report it." "Ok, but do not say I did not warn you." Gail then gave Holly an I got this look and headed inside, whatever that may hold. It took Oliver all of 30 seconds see who had just walked in and just as Traci had said he did not look happy at all, "Gail, I thought you had gone home in fact I saw you leave this very building." She had to break the news to him, "Oliver I here on official business. An officer by the name of Mitchell stole Holly's drivers license and registration." All he had to say was Oh.
He started to walk away and she followed him as she assumed that is what he wanted her to do. "Gail I am going to tell you something and you have to not freak out or tell Holly understand" Gail nods with a serious look on her face a Oliver almost never talks to her like this. "Gail, that officer Mitchell, was just found dead in the trunk of his squad car and he had been dead for about 3 hours when they found him." Oliver stopped only to allow Gail to process what he had just said. Gail was now furious "Oliver you could have told me that there was a fake cop roaming the streets would have saved me a whole lot of trouble and maybe have changed my plans a little." Oliver had seen Gail in the best of and worst of times but this was a different side of her that he had not seen and frankly he was terrified. "I want this bastard off the street now. Holly." Gail stopped herself at the beginning of the rant remembering that Holly was still outside in the car.
Gail looked at a stunned Oliver grabbed his gun and ran as fast as she could outside to bring her girlfriend into the safety of the building. She got outside and breathed a sigh of relief as she saw that her girlfriend was waiting for her in the car probably listening to some nerd station on the radio or some lecture that she had recorded. What Gail failed to notice, rather could not see was that Mitchell was armed on the other side of the car. Holly looked up noticing the movement of someone out of the corner of her eye and smiled at Gail. That is when Gail saw it the tiniest flash of that blue uniform she knows all to well. Holly was still looking at Gail and saw concern and worry in her eyes, she knew something was up as she had not seen Gail look that way since the Perik case. Gail then signed to her to get down and Holly did within a fraction of a second and was meet with familiar face on the other side of the glass. It all happened so quickly: Gail shot her gun, heard Holly scream as glass was being shattered above her head, and then the sound of a body hitting the cement next to the car. Once people inside heard the shots go off they rushed outside to see Gail Peck holding Oliver Shaw's gun pointed at the car in front of her and a very concerned person in the car. "Gail," Traci had come out and was now close to Gail but not too close that she felt like she was being suffocated, "Lets get Holly," Gail just nodded as she was still trying to figure out what just happened. Traci and Gail walked over to the car and saw a very frightened Holly Stewart inside and motioned for her to come with them. Holly did but not before during off the car and opening the door with a plastic baggy over her hand as not to disturb or break the chain of evidence.
Once Holly was out of the car Traci ushered her and Gail inside to Oliver's office, there they could talk; well once Gail came out of shock. Holly looked at Gail and finally saw how small she looked, "I shot someone Hol. I shot and killed them and did not even give it a second thought." That is when Gail finally let go curling into Holly and just sobbing into her while letting her rubs comforting circles on her back, "It is going to be ok. We will get through this together." This was out of character for Gail and Traci who was still in the room excused herself and Holly gave her a look of thanks as she knew Gail would not want anybody other than Holly to see her like this.
After a good hour of Gail crying she looked up she saw that Holly had fallen asleep with her in her arms. Gail did not want to disturb Holly but also needed to know what happened. Holly then stirred as Gail has slightly shifted her weight against Holly. "Hey you," Gail was so happy to hear those words not because that is how Holly always greeted her and there was both familiarity and comfort in that phrase. Gail managed to push herself up into a sitting position but still close to Holly. She knew better than to ask Gail how she was doing as she knew that Gail hate that question more than anything instead she just waited for Gail to talk. "Holly, I love you; your big brain, your lunchboxes, you rambling, your big words, the way you smirk when you hear something inappropriately funny, but most of all I love the way that you know just what to say or do to make me feel better, laugh and most of all to make me happy. Holly Stewart in your car that I am most positive is currently being processed right now there is a little box and in that little box is a ring, So Holly Stewart will you marry me?"
Holly just looked at her stunned for a moment, thinking about how nervous Gail looked earlier and how she was just trying to make everything special when she proposed. Holly looked at Gail with those sexy black framed glasses and a trademark smirk and said, "Yes Gail Peck I would love to do the honor of being your wife more than anything in this world that is what I want." Gail felt like a weight was lifted off her shoulders and then grabbed her girlfriend wait fiancé into a mind numbing kiss and she did not care who saw.