A/N: Hi there! I started to write this fic a little over a month ago as a Secret Santa`s gift and I have been posting the chapter on my Tumblr ever since. Now it`s finished, though, so I decided to post the whole thing in here as well.

It's slightly AU because Holly and Gail met on the first year of Rookie Blue and every chapter is a different season. There's not much about the show itself in here though and the chapters are almost completely independent, it's basically just lots of sweet moments between the two of them.

Hope you guys like it, sorry for the mistakes and please let me know what you think ok? :)

Chapter 1 (Or the one with a dead third wheel)

"Who did you piss off?"

The words were followed by the - already familiar - sound of pages being lazily turned and it took Holly a moment too long to acknowledge the question. She frowned and kept her eyes glued to the body lying on the table in front of her.

Even with her backs turned to her visitor she heard as the blonde cop lowered the magazine, Holly knew the woman was waiting for an answer but after being pulled away from her thoughts she needed a minute to calm her mind.

"What?"

The chair creaked as Gail rolled her way a little closer to the doctor. The hot doctor with the pretty chocolate eyes and the sexy librarian thing going and, where the hell did those thoughts came from? She must have inhaled some serious chemicals in the past hour. The lab did stink a little bit.

Gail took a deep breath, as if to fill her lungs with the acrid smell and scrunching her nose on the process.

"To be working on New Year's eve, who did you piss off?"

The brunette shrugged under her lab coat. "No one. I just didn't had any plans for this year so I volunteered."

"Oh."

Gail watched as the woman picked a inner part of the body and placed over the scale, Holly looked at the numbers and took off her gloves to write it down on the file. She glanced at the cop and found Gail staring at the red, glistening organ with a frown. She didn't seems disgusted, though, only confused and Holly couldn't help but to found it utterly cute.

The intense stare was a little unsettling, however and so she cleared her throat to gather the woman's attention. When Gail's gaze met hers she asked. "Is everything ok there officer?"

The blonde simply pointed a finger towards the scale. "Is that a liver or a kidney?"

"That's a spleen." Holly answered putting her gloves back on suppressing her smile.

"Are you sure?"

"I have been for a few years now."

Gail raised an eyebrow at the answer, rolled the magazine and went back to watch the doctor cutting and tugging at body parts. It wasn't a very pleasant sigh, but for some reason it really didn't bother her that much.

She liked the quietness and the peace.

And the doctor wasn't entirely annoying. Though she would never admit that out loud. Yet.

When Holly looked at the relaxed expression on Gail's face she couldn't hold the smile anymore.

"Who did YOU piss off?"

"No one either." The blonde putted the magazine over the table and scooted forward in her chain, sitting on top of her hands. "I just needed a good excuse not to go to the superintendent's party."

The brunette stopped and placed a hand over her heart. "Way to make a girl feel wanted."

The mocking tone took Gail by surprise but she shook the astonishment away and looked at the table. "Sorry, I didn't realize she could still hear me. The spleen being inside your body is important for that isn't?"

Holly laughed and Gail smiled at the sound. "You do could go back to the station, right? I can call when I'm done."

"It's alright." She sighed. "I have nothing better to do anyway."

"Wow, aren't you a charmer."

"Thanks." Gail perked up with a happy voice that didn't really suited the sarcasm of her words. "Is the sunny personality, it just draws people in…I'm like the light that attracts all the annoying bugs."

"Good thing I'm Cancer then, I don't need to worry about getting fried. It's still an arthropod but not really known for phototropia like insects." She raised her head from the body and stared at the ceiling for a moment. "Only some immature stages, but I don't think I fit that category anymore."

The cop stared at her for a moment but just when Holly started to worry about Gail getting up and walk away, scared by the weird ramblings an amused grin broke over the blonde's features. "Nerd."

Holly felt a blush rising to her cheeks and quickly brough the back of her hand to adjust her glasses, trying to cover some of her embarrassment.

"Want to see what I'm doing?"

Gail jumped out of the chair almost immediately, but still couple of steps before reaching the table Holly was working on.

The doctor tilted her head, silently questioning the cop's behaviour.

The blonde squinted her eyes. "Will it make me throw up?"

Holly looked back at the open chest cavity and tried to assess the real situation of what she was seeing, after a moment she met Gail's eyes. "How much do you like strawberry jelly?"

The cop thought for a few seconds and shrugged. "Meh, I can live without."

"Then I think you'll be fine."

The brunette nodded towards a box of gloves and stepped aside so that Gail could stand next to her.

Almost two hours later Holly had completed the autopsy, finished the report, filled all the files, talked to the detective in change of the case and now all that was left do to was packing her bag and going home.

That is, if she could somehow peel the blonde cop away from her chair. Gail had stayed with her for the better part of the night.

She had watched the rest of the autopsy with curious eyes, making questions and paying attention to all that Holly explained, teasing her only a little for the times she found herself rambling or quoting articles or previous cases she had read about.

When the time came to fill the files and make a report, the cop had gathered Holly's order and left in search of an open coffee shop to get them some much needed caffeine. Returning with two steaming cups and a bag full of treats, it wasn't what Holly used to eat but the sugar rush was just what she needed to power through the rest of her paperwork.

They were half way through their small feast when the detective stopped by to gather the report and ask a few things. When she had finished explaining all that she had discovered during her examination, he had made a few questions, some of which had been answered by Gail as if she had been the one performing the tests herself.

Swarek had smirked and made a remark about it, but the blonde had simply shrugged off as if it had been nothing. To say that Holly had been impressed was an understatement.

She was also vey happy she hadn't had to spent her New Year's Eve alone. Holly usually attended her best friend's party, but this year Rachel had traveled with her husband to visit his parents and, since her brother would be working until after midnight – perks of being a 'living doctor' – she had been left with no plans.

Gail had been a great surprise.

Holly closed her bag and turned to the blonde. "All done."

Gail hummed and kept starting at the, now empty and clean, autopsy table.

"Is everything ok?"

She hummed again but before the brunette could enquire her again, her phone buzzed with a text. Picking it up she saw her brother's name under the clock's numbers but chose not to open the message just yet, she knew it was probably him saying that he would be running a little late for their already delayed celebration.

Instead she poked her phone and pointed to the clock hanging from the wall. "Hey, look. Five minutes to midnight."

Gail raised her eyes before leaning back on the chair. "Doesn't really matter does it?" She crossed her arms over her belly and extended her legs. "It is just a stupid invention."

The brunette frowned. "…clocks?…"

"Dates. Mondays. First Days of the month. New Years." The blonde slowly stood up and dusted her pants. "It's all bullshit. An invention by mankind so it can fool itself into thinking they can somehow out wrong their mistakes and start anew." She shook her head absently and picked her jacket. "It never lasts though, everything is always the same and 24 hours later all our promises and all our hopes are back into being exactly that. Empty words and wishes that will never be."

Holly stared at her with wide eyes, nodding. "Wow."

"Hum."

"And now we welcome the New Year, full of things that have never been." The brunette quoted, fascinated by this strange, sarcastic being that had landed on her crime scene.

"What?" Girl stared at the deep chocolate eyes, gulping the sudden pull she felt towards them. This wasn't just the sexy librarian thing that made her want to stay close to Holly, it was something else. Something more.

"Nothing, just something I remembered."

The doctor took couple of step in her direction and she couldn't help but to lower her eyes to the brunette's lips, they were so close now her eyes could barely focus and still, she couldn't look away. Gail unconsciously wetted her lips and hummed again, though the sound that reached her ears resembled a moan more than anything else.

She blushed at the sounds. But then again, she wasn't sure she was blushing only out of embarrassment.

"Gail?" Holly asked and she felt the rush of breath reaching her own lips.

Gail's eyes darted back to the dark brown vastness of Holly's eyes as she replied. "Holly."

Two hands came to rest upon her cheeks and she took a deep breath, waiting for the crash to hit her. Bracing herself for the impact, the blonde felt Holly's fingers caressing of her face moments before the brunette`s lips caressed hers. Is was simply just a brush of lips but it left Gail's chest shaking and lips tingling.

She was still trying to regain her balance and her breath when the brunette pulled away.

Her eyelids refused to open just yet, but she didn't need her sight to feel another kiss being planted on her cheek or to hear the whisper that followed.

"Happy New year Gail."