A/n thanks to all those who have taken time to read and review. Hope you all enjoy the next instalment. Read and review, helps the muse to get creative.
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Chapter Three
Gail woke the next morning in a cocoon of warmth, with a body snug against her and an arm across her stomach. She couldn't help but smile, if any one had told her two weeks ago she would be back here with Holly she would have laughed at them. She brushed the brunettes hair back with her free arm and admired the beauty before her. She really had missed these moments when she could just appreciate and enjoy watching the wonderful woman in her arms and she hated that she had almost blown things. Well she had, and she was lucky that Holly was willing to give her a chance. Her silent watching was disturbed by her bladder, she slowly removed herself from the brunettes hold and headed for the bathroom. She gave her teeth a quick brush and went back to the bedroom to find Holly had rolled over to the side of the bed she occupied and cuddled up to her pillow. Gail smiled and went back to the bed, sitting next to the brunette, she brushed her hair back and kissed her cheek. Holly didn't move and her rhythmic breathing continued, the blonde moved her hand under the blankets and found where the brunettes pants met her shirt, she slid her hand under the shirt and gently rubbed her back "Baby" she whispered "Can I have my pillow back?"
Holly's head sprang up she grabbed Gail hand that was up her shirt, she pulled on it as she rolled onto her back effectively pulling the now squealing blonde on top of her, she pulled her into a kiss silencing her. After a few seconds she broke the kiss with a beaming smile "Good Morning" she said against Gail's lips, as she ran her fingers through her cropped hair.
The blonde pulled back a bit "You scared the crap out of me" she said with a pout.
"That was kinda the point" the brunette said with a lopsided grin.
"You're evil" Gail said, her bottom lip sticking out.
"And you love it" Holly pointed out.
"I do" the blonde agreed "I wonder what that says about me though" she pondered.
"Nothing good" the brunette said and tugged on Gail's neck pulling her back down for a kiss, first she kissed her top lip then her bottom lip "Hi" she said when she pulled back.
"Hi" the blonde said as she let her entire weight rest on the woman under her.
"Any morning after freak outs?" Holly asked as her hands moved up and down the Gail's back.
"Nope, I'm right where I wanna be" she leaned down and kissed the woman under her.
The brunettes hand slid down to the bottom of the blondes t-shirt and tugged it up, Gail broke the kiss and sit up allowing Holly to pull the garment off her, it was tossed on the floor with the brunettes following straight away, the blonde lowered herself back down they both moaned at the skin to skin, breast to breast contact. Holly pulled Gail back into a kiss, as she was about to deepen it she heard a noise, she pulled back and the blonde moved her kisses to her neck. She realised the noise was Gail's phone on the bedside table "Baby, your phone" she said, tugging on the short locks in her hand.
"Ignore it" she said and moved her kisses to Holly's breasts.
The brunette moaned as the blonde took her nipple in her mouth and sucked, she rolled her hips against the blonde, needing more "Fuck baby" Holly said as she moved to the other breast.
Gail's phone went off again, the blonde put her head up "I'm gonna kill whoever that is" she said moving further up the brunettes body and grabbing the offending object. She looked at the caller "I'm sorry" she said to Holly and kissed her "What the fuck Dov? It's 7 in the morning"
Holly's hands moved up and down Gail's back trying to soothe her.
"I know, I'm sorry and I'm probably interrupting something but you need to get back here ASAP" her room mate explained.
"Why, can't this wait?" She asked looking down at the bare chested woman below her, she gave her a kiss unable to stop herself.
"No, Chis is using, he's been doing cocaine" Dov said, knowing it would bring her home.
"What the fuck?" Gail said moving out of Holly's arms and sitting up, the brunette sat up in bed the sheet pulled up. The blonde stood and grabbed her shirt and pulled it on "Since when?"
"All I know is last week, that day he called in sick after not showing, when I got home he was drinking and there was lines of coke on his desk" he said.
"Fuck" Gail said, sitting stunned on the bed "What did he say?"
"He said he wasn't a junkie criminal"
"Technically by doing and having the drugs he's both" the blonde pointed out.
"There's some thing else" Dov said.
"I don't think I wanna know" Gail said laying back so her head was on Holly's stomach, she gave her a sad smile, the brunette started running her fingers through the blondes hair.
"When I woke up this morning, my computer, Playstation and all the games are gone, his computer, you're iPad and computer are gone too. I only checked your room because the door was open and you closed it yesterday before you left"
Gail sighed heavily "He's dead when we find him" she said "I'm assuming were gonna do an intervention?"
Holly frowned at her and mouthed 'who?'
'Chris' she mouthed back.
"That's what I was thinking yea, Chloe's coming and I'm gonna call Traci"
"Tell her not to tell Steve about the stolen stuff, he'll kill him if he finds out, call Andy too, she knows about this addict stuff cos of her dad" Gail said.
"Ok" he said.
"I'll be there in 15" she said and hung up, she looked up at the brunette "I'm sorry I have to go, Chris is on cocaine and has stolen some of our stuff so Dov wants to do an intervention"
"Has he done one before?" Holly asked.
"His brother was an addict so maybe, I don't know"
"Make sure everyone involved is strong about looking him in the eye or don't have them there, also you need to have a program ready for him to get treatment because cold turkey doesn't work" the brunette said.
"You sound like you've done this before" Gail said sitting up and straddling the brunettes blanket covered legs.
"I have, my brother's an addict, he's clean now for over 4 years but we nearly lost him before he cleaned up" Holly said looking down and playing with the seam on the blondes pyjama pants.
"Hey" Gail said tilting her head back up so she could see her eyes, she gave her a soft kiss "I love you" she said, she was never really good at this stuff but with Holly, she wanted to try "You can tell me this stuff you know, the good and bad"
The brunette gave her a small smile "I know, there's a friend of mine that works in a rehab centre not far away I can give him a call, see what we can set up for him?" She offered.
Gail gave her a kiss "This is why I love you" she got up "Come on, we need to go"
"We?" Holly asked still on the bed, while Gail was going through her bag looking for clothes.
"Yea well, you have more experience than I do at these things and you know the doctor and everything" she got her clothes and went and sat next to her on the bed " and honestly, I just really want you to be with me today" she confessed.
"Alright" Holly said and got up, she was thrilled that Gail wanted her with her but worried how the day would go for the blonde, she only hoped Chris would listen and get help.
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"Hey" Gail called out as she walked into the apartment, Holly in tow literally, as they were holding hands. She threw her keys on the table in the kitchen.
Dov stuck his head out of the bathroom, toothbrush in his mouth "Hey, oh hey Holly, good to see your back"
"Good to be back" she said squeezing Gail's hand.
"Can you check if anything else is missing from your room?" He asked when he came back in "add it to the list" he added pointing to a note pad on the table.
"Sure" the blonde said, she kissed the brunettes hand and let it go, going to check.
"I called a friend of mine out at Bellview, they have a spot for him ready, if he agrees to go" Holly explained "I'm sorry this is happening"
Dov shrugged "He's done it to himself"
"They only care about themselves but it's hard not to care about them still" she said sitting at the table.
"Who?" He asked starting to make coffee.
"My brother, he managed to clean up, almost died first" the brunette said.
"Yea mine didn't manage the cleaning up thing, just the dying thing"
"I'm sorry" Holly said.
"Do you want coffee?" He asked, avoiding the subject.
"Yes" Gail said coming back in "he took my money stash from my closet" she said sitting next to her girlfriend.
"Sorry" Holly said rubbing her back
"So how do we find the fucker?" Gail asked looking up at Dov.
"I had an idea about that" he said putting two mugs of coffee in front of the two women "He must have taken the stuff cos he's desperate, I think he owes his dealer, so we tell him someone ransacked the place and bashed one of us, maybe you"
"He'd respond quicker if it's me, he doesn't like violence against women" Gail agreed.
Holly moved her hand to the blondes leg underneath the table, offering support "No decent person does" she said.
The blondes hand slid over the top of the brunettes on her leg, she went to speak but was interrupted by the three other people they had called coming in "Hey guys" Chloe said but stopped dead when she saw Holly sitting at the table "Holly" she said as the pair behind her ran into her back.
Gail sighed and rolled her eyes "Yes we're back together, I went and begged forgiveness and she graciously agreed to give me another chance"
"Good" Chloe said "you were getting weird"
"Yea, that's great" Andy added with a smile.
Traci came over and put her hand on the blondes shoulder "That was your mysterious plans last night?"
Gail looked up at her with a smile "Yea" she said and looked at her girlfriend who beamed back at her.
The detective smiled and leaned down to whisper in her ear "You told her you loved her didn't you"
The blonde let go of Holly's hand and stood up, the brunette raised an eyebrow at her, she just smiled at her and dragged Traci aside "Don't say that too loud"
The detective smiled again "Gail we all know, you've been so miserable without her, as long as your happy, that's all that matters"
"I am" Gail grinned at her "hopefully I won't fuck it up again"
"We'll help you" her friend said and they went back to the problem at hand.
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Once they had discussed what they were doing and what to say, Dov sent Chris a text saying that the apartment had been robbed and Gail was beaten by the intruders.
"One thing you need to remember with anything he says it's the drugs talking" Holly explained just before Chris arrived "Stay strong and remember you're doing this for him, not to him"
She had barely finished speaking when Chris barrelled in the door "GAIL" he yelled.
The blonde closed the door and stood in front of it "Chris" she said.
He span around, why hadn't she noticed before how bad he looked, he looked strung out and sick "You're ok?" He said confused, looking her up and down to make sure.
"I'm fine but your not" she said and crossed her arms.
It was then he noticed the other people in the room "What is going on?" He span to face Dov "Why the hell did you lie?"
The other man copied the blondes arm crossed stance "You've been using and you have to stop" he said.
Chris's temper flared "It's got nothing to do with any of you" he said looking around the room.
"When your stealing our stuff and money then yea it does, plus it will kill you" Dov said.
"I'm not your brother, I can handle it" he said back.
"Chris" Gail scolded.
"Your one to talk" He said to her "You fuck with everyone's feelings, I don't know why Holly would even want to be with an ice queen like you, let alone put up with your crap"
Gail controlled her physical reaction but part of her wondered the same thing. The brunette saw the slight reaction in her girlfriend and walked over and hugged her from behind, she was stiff at first "I love you" Holly whispered in her ear and the blonde relaxed into her.
Traci stepped in as Chloe went to support Dov by taking his hand "You almost destroyed an undercover operation because you knew that dealer" Chris's shocked expression kept the detective talking "We're detectives for a reason, we notice things, it was obvious you knew him, it was only let go because he wasn't actually carrying anything that night, otherwise Steve was going to put you under investigation"
"Your a cop" Andy said "This could ruin your career and you could go to jail"
"You stole from me" Gail said "You even took the money from my closet, I trusted you"
Chris looked around the room and sagged against the wall "I'll pay you back, the computers, games and your iPad are in the pawn shop on Lawson, I just..."
Holly stepped up she let go of Gail and stood in front of Chris "Sit down" she said pulling out a chair, he obeyed "These people are here because they love you and want to help you" he looked at her in confusion "I'm here because Gail asked me to be"
"Oh" he said "you two worked things out?"
The brunette smiled "Yea we did, but this is about you, do you know how cocaine effects the body? I do, I see it a lot and to be blunt with you Chris, I don't ever want you on my table"
"I'm not..."
Holly cut him off "Short term side affects of cocaine use are loss of appetite, increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and rate of breathing, Disturbed sleep patterns, nausea, hyper-stimulation, bizarre, erratic, violent behaviour, Hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and depression and if you overdose, Convulsions, seizures and death" Chris just looked at her shocked so she continued, speaking as if she was reading it from a list "Long term, Heart, kidney, brain, liver and lung damage, malnutrition, weight loss, severe tooth decay, sexual problems, reproductive problems, infertility, delirium and psychosis. Addiction occurs usually after just one dose and if your sniffing it will destroy the tissue on the inside of your nose, even short term use you can do irreversible damage"
"I'm not addicted" he said "I can stop"
"Sure" Gail said from near the door "That's why you stole from us"
"This is it Chris, with Holly's help we've organised a spot in a rehab facility, you either go or you get out of our house and we go straight to the inspector and tell him what's been happening, if you go we talk to Oliver and find away to keep your job and you'll always have a room here"
His eyebrows shot up "You wouldn't do that would you?"
"You wanna see if we're bluffing?" Gail asked.
It took a few of hours of talking by everyone but eventually Chris agreed to go, Gail drove Holly, Dov and Chris out to the facility and Holly booked him in, they stayed for his orientation and then left, promising to visit once he was allowed visitors. As they we're leaving Chris hugged his friends then pulled Holly aside "Thank you" he said "I didn't realise what could happen if I kept doing it"
Holly nodded and put her hand on his arm "Just get better"
They left, once Gail was on the highway she turned to Dov "You on shift tonight?" She asked.
"Yea, you?" He answered, looking out the window.
"Yep, we'll talk to Oliver together, he's on till 6 so we'll have to go early, do you need to go home first?"
"Yea, I'll grab my gear and take Chris's truck"
Holly's phone interrupted the conversation "Dr Stewart" she answered.
The pair continued talking quieter as the brunette handled the call "What are we gonna say?" Dov asked.
"The truth" Gail said "He's done this to himself Dov, we can only help as much as we can, if we lie and get found out we could be implicated"
"He's our friend Gail" He said sounding disappointed in her.
"Yea" she agreed "But he's also an addict, he just sold our stuff and stole five grand from me so forgive me for not wanting trouble at work" she snarked at him.
"I'll be in soon" they heard the brunette say and hang up. Gail looked over at her questioningly "There's a body, suicide they think, I need to go to the scene then do the autopsy"
The blonde put her hand on Holly's leg "I'm sorry this wasn't what I wanted for today"
The brunette took her hand and laced their fingers leaving their joined hands on her leg "It's ok"
They pretty much travelled in silence until they arrived at Gail and Dov's apartment as he got out of the car the blonde spoke "I'll go in early and talk to Oliver about Chris so you don't have to feel guilty" she added just enough attitude to show she wasn't happy doing it.
Dov sighed "I can come" he offered.
"I'll do it" she said "We'll talk about getting our stuff from the pawn shop tonight" he nodded and walked up the walk to the apartment.
Gail wound up the window and pulled into the traffic "I'll have to go in now, I'm sorry" the blonde said.
"It's ok" Holly said squeezing her hand "I need to as well, so nothing to be sorry for" she lifted up their joined hands and kissed the back of Gail's "I'm just glad we sorted things out"
Gail glanced at her and smiled "Me too" she slowed and stopped at a red light and leaned over and kissed her, then took off when it turned green.
"Any plans for tomorrow?" Holly asked running her fingers of her free hand across Gail's forearm.
The blonde shuddered "Aside from some sleep because I'm back on days on Monday, nothing"
"Well since I'll probably be up all night you could come over when you off and we could nap together" Holly said as she released Gail's hand and slid hers over the blondes thigh, slipping it down to rub on the inseam of her jeans "and maybe find a few other things we could do" she added dropping her voice to a husky whisper.
"Fuck" Gail said and swerved "I'm driving"
Holly smirked and leaned over and whispered in her ear "I've been so turned on since I saw you last week, I don't think I could wait another day to taste you"
The blonde whined "Holly, I have to go to work"
"So do I" the brunette said as she kissed the blondes neck.
Thankfully Gail was just pulling into 15, she got into the car park, quickly parked, threw off her seatbelt, grabbed Holly and kissed her passionately. She instantly felt Holly's tongue enter her mouth and locked their mouths together tasting the coffee the brunette had earlier, she started to slow the kiss knowing they didn't have a lot of time, she broke the kiss and rested her head on Holly's "You're a tease"
The brunette was grinning "I'm just making sure you have incentive to come over"
Gail bought her hand up and rested it on Holly's cheek "I don't need it, Hol" she brushed her thumb across the brunette's lips "I wanna see you as much as possible, I've wasted enough time without you" she kissed her softly.
Holly moaned into the kiss "I wish I could just take you home"
"Me too" Gail said sitting back, she pulled the keys from the ignition and handed them to her girlfriend "I'll get a lift to yours"
"Why are you giving me the keys to someone else's car?"
"It's mine" the blonde explained with a smile "I need to go talk talk to Oliver before shift so I can't take you home"
Only then did Holly look around and realise where they were "Oh" she said "When did you make such a serious purchase?"
"I figured it was time, can't keep asking everyone for rides all my life"
"Such a grown up" Holly mocked her.
The blonde narrowed her eyes "Just for that not coffee drop off during my shift"
"Aww" The brunette said and leaned over to Gail "I could make it worth your while" she said as she cupped the blondes sex through her jeans.
"Fuck" Gail moaned and leaned over to kiss her, Holly pulled her head back but kept her hand firmly in place "Alright, Coffee visit during my shift"
The brunette wiggled her fingers and captured the blonde lips kissing her slowly, she moved her hand to Gail's thigh and stopped the kiss, she looked at the time "You'd better go"
The blonde groaned in frustration "Yea" she said "you're a fucking tease" she added as the both got out of the car.
Holly met her at the drivers side she gave her a kiss "So I'll see you in a few hours?"
"I hope so" Gail said "As long as I don't get stuck doing UC or with one of the detectives" the blonde reached out and wrapped her arms around her girlfriends waist "After today, a quiet shift would be awesome"
Holly hugged her back "He'll be ok, he's in the best place to deal with his problems"
"I know" Gail said "I know it's selfish but I really wanted today to be about us"
"Tomorrow will be" the brunette said and gave her a kiss "You need to go"
"I do" the blonde said not moving.
Holly released her then got her bag and uniform from the car and handed them to her "Do you want me to pick you up?"
"No, go home when your done, one of us should get some sleep"
Holly put her hand in her pocket and handed Gail a key "I was going to give you this before, I figure you should have it now since your lending me your new car" she said with her lopsided smile.
The blonde grinned "A key to your place?"
"Yea, no freak out required, just helps make our lives easier" the brunette added "Now go" she said as she turned Gail and slapped her on the ass.
The blonde walked away but turned and walked backwards, she gave her a smile "You'll pay for that"
"I hope so" Holly said leaning on the SUV.
"I love you" Gail called out.
"I love you too" the brunette said, she watched until her girlfriend disappeared into the station then hopped into the car and left.
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Holly was back at the morgue at about 10pm, she had gone to the scene and what should have been a quick visit blew out because a rookie from 15 had stepped into the blood on the floor from the gunshot wound to the victims head, after finishing the scene she spent a good hour lecturing him on forensic procedure. She was tired and not really wanting to do the autopsy but going home to an empty bed now that she and Gail were back on track did not appeal either. If everything went smoothly Gail would be done around 4 and would be with her by 4.30, if she got the autopsy done now and the report, she could be home by 3 ready when the blonde arrived. She went to the cupboard and pulled out some scrubs.
She was examining the head wound around 30 minutes later, when she heard footsteps coming down the corridor, Gail came in, coffee in one hand and pastry bag in the other "Hey beautiful" she said as she entered.
"Hey" Holly said, she pulled off her gloves and quickly washed her hands. She took the offerings from the blonde and put them on the nearby desk "How long?" She asked grabbing her and pulling her against her.
"Not long, 10 minutes tops, I'm suppose to be giving you this" she said pulling an evidence bag from her pocket with a bullet in it "Then heading back to 15 to try and chase down this guys possible killer"
"This definitely wasn't suicide, trajectory is..." Holly couldn't say anymore as Gail's lips met hers.
About 5 minutes later they were disturbed by Gail's phone ringing, as she had switched off her radio before walking in the door "Shit" the blonde said pulling back a little, Holly was currently sitting on the desk and Gail was between her legs, they were both panting heavily from the make out session. The blonde pulled her hands from inside the brunettes scrub top and pulled her phone from her pocket, she didn't move away and put one arm back around Holly "Peck" she answered, seeing Swarek's number.
"I've been calling you on the radio, the doc know anything yet?"
"She said it definitely wasn't suicide, the trajectory was all wrong" she said as she rubbed Holly's back, as the brunettes head was on her shoulder.
"Good, I've got a lead, get your ass back here and you and Epstein can run it down for me" he said.
"Okay" she said and hung up, she twitched her shoulder so the brunette would look up "I have to go"
Holly lifted her legs and wrapped them around Gail's waist "I know" she said and rested their heads together.
The blonde ran her hands up and down the brunettes legs "I should be ho..." She stopped herself just before she called Holly's place home "I should be there about 4.30 if all goes well"
"Home" the brunette said "You can call my place home honey, it's ok" she ran her hands through the blonde hair putting it back in place.
"I just..." She sighed knowing she didn't have long "I don't wanna push you, you know"
"Gail" Holly said tilting her head to the side and taking the blondes face in her hands "Do you feel at home when your at my place?" Gail nodded "So call it home"
"Okay, I should be home at 4.30"
Holly nodded gave her one last kiss and released her, the blonde straightened her uniform and turned her radio back on "Let me know when your home safe" she said. Gail gave her one last kiss and headed for the door.
"Gail" Holly called.
"Yea?" The blonde said stopping in the doorway.
"Be safe, I love you"
"I will, I love you too" Gail said and disappeared out the door.
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A little before 5, Holly was woken by Gail's body sliding into bed next to her "Gail" she said still half asleep.
"Yea, go back to sleep" the blonde said as she wrapped her arms around the brunette from behind.
"You're warm" Holly said moving back, closer to her.
"Yea, I had a shower, I went dumpster diving for evidence, I showered before I left the station but Dov said I smelt on the way over here"
"You smell wonderful now" the groggy brunette said.
Gail couldn't help but smile "Go back to sleep nerd" she snuggled on closer burying her face in Holly's neck "I love you" she said softly.
"Mmmm love you too" the brunette murmured as she dozed off.
The blonde held her tighter, thankful that she had the woman in her arms back, hopefully for good.
