Disclaimer: Rookie Blue does not belong to me. I am merely borrowing the characters.

A/N I love the Gail/Holly relationship. It has the potential to be what Rizzoli and Isles should be but isn't. This fic will probably be quite short. It is about coming out to your parents.

You can be out to all your friends and at work and to your sisters and brothers but if you're not out to your mother you're not out.

Funnily enough this thought was in Holly's mind, not Gail's, and Holly was thinking about both herself and Gail.

They had been going out for two months before Gail moved in. That was three months ago.

Gail had told all her friends about them. Well not quite told all of them, Andy found them kissing in an evidence locker and had told Sam. But Gail had told Dov, Chloe, Nick, Chris, Traci, and her brother by then, so that only left Oliver and Noelle. Oh and Frank of course.

Celery had solved the Oliver problem. She saw them together off duty in the street and being Celery she'd picked up the sex vibe immediately. She had sounded Oliver out. Invited Gail plus one to dinner with her and Oliver. As it turned out Oliver had already guessed most of it. Surprisingly, given they're completely different worldviews, Holly got on well with Celery.

Frank and Noelle had been told by Gail the day after Sam had been shot. She'd overheard him make some remark to Noelle about Gail holding hands with the cloak closet attendant from their wedding. So Gail had told them who this reallly was. Noelle had reacted warmly Frank less so. He'd also asked her about her parents. She asked him not to mention it to them. He hadn't.

For Holly too things had changed. Previously Holly had had two sets of people in her life. Set one were her friends, set two were women she had sex with. The intersection between these sets was empty. So there'd been no need to tell her parents. Meeting Gail had changed all that.

It had been a slow burn. There had been a spark at the first meeting at the crime scene. This smouldered on later in the lab. But for Holly the realisation that she cared, really cared, about Gail came when Gail was in danger, indeed it turned out she had been shot at. And Holly had made that lame excuse to see her... That had been a shock. She found that for the first time in her life she both cared about and fancied someone. And Gail had initiated a passion filled kiss. Holly felt that her heart had nearly escaped from her pericardium!

So when Gail had shaken her head at her the next day as she was about to head out with one of her colleagues in hospital and another missing. That was definitely a downer. But then Holly reminded herself that this was very new for Gail and she was being watched by most of her fellow officers. Then the call from Gail warning her that Gail was about to go and try to rescue Oliver. The call later from the hospital had been both a cause of anxiety and relief. Three officers now in hospital beds but none of them was Gail.

Holly had simply handed everything off and ran. When she got to the hospital.. That hug! Then being introduced to Gail's brother Steve and colleague Chris. Then Gail held her hand while they waited for news...

After that the fuse got to its end and the bomb that was their relationship exploded. There was the sex of course. That was great. But Having got through the heavy defences built out of top quality materials to the soft inner core of Gail Peck. That was the big unexpected bonus. She doubted if Gail had let even her family see that. She felt both incredibly trusted and incredibly privileged.

But neither of them was out to their mothers.

Holly's parents lived in Vancouver and were a little estranged as they were deeply Christian and that made them slightly opposed to Holly's choice of career and belief in science. This also meant they were less likely to hear it accidentally. Gail's were senior Police Officers in the same force as Gail. This meant they would almost certainly hear about what their daughter was up to sooner rather than later.

And Superintendent Elaine Peck had a fierce reputation.

And she kept trying to find a boyfriend for Gail.

So Gail had decided to talk to her mother alone.

And Holly was waiting for Gail to come home.

Holly jumped as her phone rang. It was Gail.

"They want to meet you. Now!" said Gail.

They had prepped for this, they had prepped for hours like they were going to court in a major case. They had even prepped for Gail being forced to have this conversation by speaker phone.

"OK where?"

"I'll text it to you."

"Bye babe see you soon."