It's been about a month since Gail moved in with Holly and Rory and everything has been going wonderfully. The amount of extra time they have together as a family is better than any of them could have imagined, and Rory adores having Gail in the house full time, even if they both still struggle a little with Gail's role as parent rather than friend. Slowly but surely they are working through the issues and none of them would deny being happier than ever before.
One evening when Holly is working late Gail and Rory are home alone, Gail is making dinner while Rory is watching some cartoons. She notices the little boy get up and head into the bathroom, but only notices about 20 minutes later that he still hasn't returned. Growing concerned Gail goes to check on him. 'Rory? Are you alright?' she knocks on the bathroom door 'Yep' 'Can I come in?' 'Yep'
Gail opens the door to the bathroom and feels the blood drain from her face at the sight in front of her, Rory is standing on his stool that helps him reach the sink, in front of the mirror with a giant pair of scissors in his hands. His gorgeous hair is all over the floor and sink and the hair that's left on his head is horribly uneven, to put it lightly. 'Rory! What have you done?' Gail exclaims, moving forward to take the scissors out of his hands, beyond relieved he didn't cut himself before she came in. 'I cut my hair like yours Gail!' He beams up at her. He's so proud of himself it's hard for Gail to keep a straight face. 'Rory, you aren't supposed to cut your hair by yourself! There are people called hair dressers who would do a much better job sweetheart! And you're only 4 you could have really hurt yourself with those scissors!' 'Um excuse me, I'm four AND A HALF and everyone knows scissors are for cutting things not people Gail' Rory says, sounding quite exasperated with her. 'Wow, ok' Gail says, finding it hard to believe Rory really is so young, the things he comes out with sometimes 'well let's try and get your hair fixed a little before your Mum gets home' Gail goes about trimming the longer pieces of hair trying to get them as even as possible, she doesn't get far before Rory becomes bored and starts reaching for different things around the sink, making her job quite difficult. 'Hey, what's this?' he asks 'That's hair gel, it's for styling your hair in different ways, and actually I might use some of it on you to distract your Mum'. 'Will you use some too?' 'Ok if you want me to'. Gail starts rubbing the gel into Rory's hair, which he finds very amusing while looking at himself in the mirror, he pushes Gail's hands out of the way and starts styling it himself 'hey look at me I'm a rock star!' Rory exclaims while sticking out his tongue, his hair styled into a Mohawk 'Your turn Gail!'. Gail is dubious but decides to indulge the little boy, she can discipline him later once she's spoken to Holly she supposes 'Alright, but not too much!'
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Holly walks in the door and kicks her shoes off, extremely grateful to be home after an incredibly long day. She notices a half prepared dinner sitting on the counter. The TV is paused with one of Rory's cartoons on it and neither of her loves are anywhere to be seen. Holly is slightly concerned and when she stops moving around she hears a loud thumping coming from upstairs, a loud thumping in the rhythm of a song she knows very well. She heads up to her and Gail's bedroom and the source of the noise. She walks in to see Rory kneeling on their bed doing a very impressive air guitar while Gail belts out the Somebody to Love by Queen into a hairbrush microphone both of their hair styled in to ridiculous Mohawks. All Holly can do is laugh. She has no idea how she managed to fall in love with someone as insane as her son, but she is very grateful she found Gail. Once the song comes to an end Holly begins to applaud and both Gail and Rory's heads snap up looking rather guilty. 'Ummm…I can explain?' Gail says rather weakly.
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A few hours later after explaining the entire hair situation and finally getting around to finishing dinner while Holly does a little more damage control on Rory's hair, Gail and Holly finally settle into bed. 'We really need to get some locks for the bathroom cabinets' Holly murmurs 'Yeah that's probably not a bad idea, I'm really sorry I let this happen Hol, I should have done a better job of watching him' 'Gail it could have happened to either of us! I know you worry about being a parent to Rory, but sometimes you have to look at it as a win that he didn't get hurt and turn it into a fun situation. Tomorrow we can make sure he never does something like that again' 'Ok' Gail replies sheepishly. Holly starts laughing quietly 'I can't believe he just cut it all off! He's lucky he's so easy to love' 'mmmm he's lucky he's so adorable' Gail responds. 'You are too you know' 'what? Adorable? Of course I know that' Gail scoffs. 'No, well yes, but you're also very easy to love, sometimes I feel like maybe you haven't heard that enough in your life'. 'I love you too Hol'.
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