Wow, thanks for all your reviews guys, I am seriously appreciating them. Also thank you to the reviewer nice enough to point out my mistake in the last paragraph. if you guys see something like that just let me know because I do miss them. I wasn't going to post this just yet but I thought in honour of the Rookie Blue season finale that I would. This is my longest chapter to date, I was considering splitting it but decided not to. Hopefully his helps with finally explaining the relationships between the Peck's and the Collins' families. This is also the chapter that contains the 'talk' between Bill, Nick and John. I hope you enjoy it, I've worked hard on this chapter fixing bit's here and there so alas!


Chapter 7- History and Confrontation


Dov remained at the hospital after all the others had left, he wanted to stay near Chloe.

He took a seat and closed his eyes until he felt someone sit beside him.

He opened his eyes to glance at the red headed woman beside him, she was nearly a replica of Gail, minus the hair, her skin was also not as pale.

The woman cracked an eye open and then looked at him, Dov noticed that her eyes were also a hazel green, not the ice blue of Gail's.

"You're Dov Epstein right?" She said, though she could read his name tag.

Dov nodded, "Yeah. And you are?" he asked curiously.

Giana smiled tiredly, "Giana Collins, Gail's cousin. You're one of her friends?"

Dov was confused but nodded, "Yeah. We share an apartment. We went through the academy together and still work with each other." He said.

She smiled, "Oh, you're brave." She said chuckling.

Dov raised an eyebrow, "Why?"

The woman rolled her eyes, "Seriously? She's Gail. You can't go five minutes without wanting to slap her in the face, I know I've wanted to for a long time." She said grinning.

Dov shook his head in disbelief that Giana was talking about Gail like she wasn't fighting for her life.

Uncomfortable with the conversation he changed the direction of it.

"Wait, your last name is Collins?"

Giana nodded biting her lip in a very Gail-like way, "Yeah, I'm the Chief's daughter. Gail's my cousin and Nick's my uh, god brother, I guess you could say. But Nick and Gail aren't related, just for your information." She said smiling as if she could see the cogs turning in his head.

Dov nodded slowly but was still confused.

Giana grinned, "Don't look so confused. Gail's mother Elaine is my mother's twin sister, identical by the way. Nick's parent's died when he was younger and my father was named as his god-father, apparently Nick's father and my father went to university together, not that I ever met the guy. So Nick and his younger sister became a part of our family." She said.

Dov lifted an eyebrow, "Nick has a sister?" He asked. He was seriously learning a lot about his colleague's tonight, and somehow it felt wrong that after all these years he was suddenly learning about their pasts only because of what had happened.

But truth be told he was kind of happy for Giana's conversation as it took his mind off Chloe.

Giana nodded, "Yeah, Heidi. She's studying fashion in Montreal. She's really talented. Gail, Heidi and I spent a lot of time together during our teenage years. Nick and Heidi had lived in London, before they came to live with my family. Gail was attending a boarding school and Steve was already at college. When Gail returned she was sixteen and I decided to introduce Nick to Gail. Turns out I didn't have to because Elaine had Gail take a part time job and it turned out Nick had met Gail at the restaurant she was working at literally the day before, and, to no one's surprise she was rude to him; by the way that job didn't last very long." She chuckled while watching Dov's facial expressions.

She continued once she believed Dov had caught up. "That's how Nick and Gail met. I can't explain to you how awkward it was when I introduced the two of them not realising that they had already met; and that Gail had managed to offend Nick in only three words, though internally I was trying desperately not to laugh. We spent a lot of time together but we kinda drifted apart in the last year or so of high school. Heidi was two years younger than Nick and Gail, and one year younger than me. We just, stopped talking." She said shrugging with a raise of her eyebrows.

Dov thought he saw something akin to sadness in her eyes as she spoke about them drifting away from one another but didn't question it.

He settled for nodding instead, "You and Gail do look similar." He said dumbly and somewhat awkwardly unsure of how to reply to the information he had just received.

He felt like he shouldn't even know what he had just been told since it had come from someone other than Gail and Nick.

Giana laughed noticing the uncomfortable look that had appeared on his face, "I know we do. Our mothers are identical twins. It's kinda freaky. I am a year younger though. Once I did bleach my hair and put in blue contacts and we pretended to be twins. It worked on a few people who didn't know us, but Gail's always been taller than me so it didn't work very well in the end when there's three inches of height difference between you." She laughed.

Dov nodded and chuckled at the thought of two Gail's. He was still struggling to wrap everything he had learnt tonight up into one package.

He glanced at the clock and saw that a bit of time had passed, and that Giana looked like she was ready to fall asleep at any second.

He realised she was just as freaked out as him at what was happening, so he decided to open up to her a little bit.

"My girlfriend was also shot; I'm waiting 'til the Doctor finishes with her tests before seeing her so I will probably be here a while as well. Did you want a coffee? You look like you could use one."

Giana looked at her watch and bit her lip, "Yeah; that sounds like a good idea. I really don't fancy falling asleep on these chairs, got enough back problems as it is." She said chuckling before standing up and following Dov down to the hospital cafeteria.


Inside the small room Nick was staring into the angry face of his god-father, otherwise known as the Chief of Police.

Inspector Bill Peck was standing up against the nearby wall, his arms crossed and looking at his nearly ex-son in law.

"What the hell happened with you and Gail?" John demanded suddenly.

Nick swallowed. The man was nice enough but could be scary, especially when it came to Gail. He adored her like she was his own. Something he had learned the first time the two of them had separated.

He still remembered vividly the confrontation that had occurred when he came back from Afghanistan the first time.

He cringed at the memory.

Nick looked down at his hands, "We broke up." He said.

John looked at him, "You broke up with her?" He asked.

Nick nodded before defending himself, "She cheated though. I did the right thing."

John stared at him, "Yes, I know she did. But I also heard that you and a certain colleague were getting rather chummy."

Nick's eyes widened, how the hell did Andy get dragged into this?

Nick nodded a little bit, "Nothing happened. Gail just assumed it had. We spent six months undercover, of course we would develop a friendship. Gail was the one that cheated, not me." Nick said defiantly.

Why didn't anyone see that Gail was the one in the wrong? It was frustrating him.

John stared at him, "But you didn't tell her otherwise did you?"

Nick looked down to his lap, "No, I guess not. I guess I didn't really give her a chance to talk. But she never came to me with her concerns. When I discovered she had cheated I couldn't stand to hear her excuses, she was making me so angry. I told her I had feelings for Andy after I found out about her cheating. It might not have been the best way to go about it, looking back at it now. I left her standing in the rain."

John nodded, "So you made it seem like she was the bad guy. Nice one Nick. I thought we talked about this after the last time."

Nick looked stood up defiantly, "It wasn't my fault though. She cheated. I had feelings but I didn't cheat. I could have, I wanted to, but I didn't, because I loved Gail." He suddenly realised what he had just said about wanting to cheat even though he was in love with Gail.

John crossed his arms knowing exactly what was going through his mind by reading his face, "And now?"

Nick let out a breath and sat back down, it felt like an interrogation, "Andy and I are together now."

John nodded, "Thought so."

Nick stared at him this time, "Why did you drag me in here? Just too talk about my personal life and my relationships? With all due respect we haven't really talked this past year or two."

Nick was curious, especially since Bill, who had been rather quiet during the confrontation had now moved closer and Nick could see the pain in his eyes.

This was imitated by John's own eyes. He sat down across from Nick giving him a serious look. Nick started to feel the dread forming in his stomach.

"Nick, I am going to tell you something important, what you choose to do with this information is up to you." John said sternly.

Nick felt fear creep into his heart. What had happened to Gail? The tone of voice that John was using terrified him.

He'd only heard it used one other time in his life, and that was a tragedy that no one wanted to think about.

Nick nodded in preparation, steeling himself for whatever devastating blow his God-Father would deliver.

John took a deep breath before sighing, "Nick, Gail was pregnant."

Nick's heart dropped to his stomach and he felt sick. "Was?" He asked. His throat suddenly felt dry.

John nodded, "Yes, she was twelve weeks along. And while I know she cheated on you I believe that only occurred six weeks ago."

Nick nodded dumbly in agreement, trying to wrap his head around what he had just been told, "So she's not pregnant anymore?" he asked clarifying.

John nodded, "No, she's not. The baby died when she was shot. We don't know if she even knew that she was pregnant. We thought you had the right to know. Steve told us about what happened, but we wanted to hear your side."

Nick felt himself go cold. This whole time Gail had been pregnant, with his child.

He suddenly felt angry for everything that had happened. If he hadn't acted the way he had, confided in Gail, maybe things would be different.

Maybe if he'd pressured her into telling him what was on her mind instead of leaving it to bubble into fears of him leaving her again.

If he hadn't been so focused on trying to still enjoy his relationship with Gail while trying to maintain his feelings and friendship with Andy, maybe Gail might have been paired with him today instead of Chloe; and she'd still be pregnant with his child.

His brain was running overtime thinking of the what-ifs. But he knew better than anyone that what's done is done, there's no changing it no matter what you want.

He felt his eyes sting as he let tears creep to his eyes for everything that had happened over the last few months.

John placed a hand on his shoulder as he watched the overload of emotions wash over Nick's face, "I'm not going to tell you how to live your life but you have got to think about it carefully, what you decide to do is up to you. I'm sorry mate." He said as he left the room.

Nick just sat there in silence contemplating everything he had just learnt.

He looked up and saw Bill standing across from him; Nick had almost forgotten he was in the room.

Nick sighed, "I'm sorry Bill, I really am. If I had known." He started but didn't know how to finish.

Bill nodded, "Nick, once upon a time I thought you were good for my baby girl. She changed when you were around, but now, I don't know what's going to happen; or even if she's still going to pull through, but I don't want the two of you together ever again. It may seem harsh but you weren't here to see the damage you caused when you shipped off that first time, how broken she was. I'm not your guardian, I don't have a say in what you do in life, but when it comes to my daughter, I never want you to hurt her again, understand?"

Nick nodded numbly understanding exactly what he was saying and Bill nodded in acceptance.

Nick followed Bill with his eyes as he also left the room.

This day just got worse and worse, not only had Gail been pregnant, with his baby; but now her father; and his own god-father weren't happy with him. Then his mind went back to the baby Gail had been carrying for the last three months, a baby that was now gone, an innocent life lost.

Looking back he realised it was entirely possible that Gail had no idea about the pregnancy because he had seen her at the Penny many a night, even recently, downing tequila shot's like they were water.

Knowing how Gail's mind worked he closed his eyes and rested his head on the table.

He could only imagine how she would be feeling when she discovered what he had just learnt, that was if she even pulled through.

How had his life turned to shit like this? Everything had been going well and now? Well now everything had changed and become complicated.

He was beginning to question everything that had happened the last few months.

His relationship with Gail and his relationship with Andy were at the top of that list.

Hell, even his relationship with his own family was coming into question. When was the last time he had spoken to Heidi?

Nick sighed sadly wiping at the stray tears that had managed to creep from his eyes.

One thing was for certain, Gail would be in for a tough recovery.


So there we have it, the long awaited talk between Nick, Bill and John. I hope it lived up to your expectations. I really wanted to try and capture both sides of the story because I know both of them are to blame even though there are A LOT of people who believe it was entirely Gail's fault, so I tried to make it that Nick believed that to until he realised how his own actions contributed to Gail's retaliation of cheating on him because of her own trust issues. I really liked writing this chapter but I was trying to make it not seem like I'm focusing on Giana to much, but I really just needed her to help explain the dynamic, so I hope that helps. I did take a little creative initiative and had Gail and Nick meet earlier than what was stated in the show but still had it be at a restaurant etc. So yeah, enough of my babbling and extremely long authors notes. Pretty please keep reviewing, I would love to know how you are enjoying it. The next chapter looks a little bit at Chloe's past and Andy's future.