Part 23
Gail folded her arms as she found Holly. She'd just finished her shower and had lingered for a while in the hopes of company but apparently Holly had better things to do. Other than Gail.
"You do know that by changing her sheets she's going to know exactly what happened, right?" She said as she leaned against the door jamb in complete amusement.
Holly felt herself blush. She did understand that, but she couldn't stop herself from continuing. There was just something very wrong about the idea that Eliza might come back and actually use the bed herself.
Holly had to wash the sheets and that meant replacing them with a fresh set. Unfortunately the new set wasn't the same as the old one. She glanced over to see the smirk on her girlfriends face.
"You could help you know."
Gail snorted. No she couldn't. "I woulda let her figure it out for herself."
Holly rolled her eyes. Of course Gail would do that. "That's disgusting."
Gail shrugged. She still would have left the bed the way they had late last night, all messy and sexed up. It would only have taken Elizabeth seconds to realise why it looked like that.
"I showered alone Holly." Gail reminded her girlfriend, still perturbed by this fact.
Holly smoothed down the top sheet with a grin then turned and made her way slowly over to Gail. She walked right into Gail's personal space and leaned in further, her lips an inch from the blondes. She paused there as Gail straightened and smirked as blue eyes darkened and flicked to her mouth.
Gail was so easy to tease.
"You can come keep me company now if you want?" She offered in a soft velvety voice before brushing against Gail as she eased past her and took off down the stairs.
Gail groaned as Holly left her mildly aroused and somewhat frustrated. She couldn't follow Holly into the shower and have breakfast, her favourite meal of the day. She pouted then blushed as her eyes fell to the freshly made bed, images of last night's activities flooding her mind.
Maybe another quick shower wouldn't hurt.
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Holly grinned as arms wrapped around her waist as she turned her face into the shower spray. That hadn't taken long at all.
Gail pressed her lips to the skin at Holly's shoulder. "You're lucky I like to get wet around you so much." She muttered into Holly's ear earning herself a chuckle as Holly pulled her arms tighter around her.
"I guess I am." Holly replied in a happy tone.
They stayed in that position for a long moment before Gail reached for the liquid soap and started to lather Holly's body, taking her time with certain areas as Holly let her do all the work.
"Isn't this nice?" Holly mentioned as Gail came up from soaping off her toes to press a kiss to her lips.
"It's the only way to shower, which is why I showered in disappointment this morning." Gail informed her with a pout as Holly wrapped her arms around her shoulders and went in for another lingering kiss.
"I'll have to make that up to you then." She whispered to Gail teasingly, waiting for the smile to reach Gail's dark blue eyes before continuing her comment with, "Turn around so I can get your hair." Holly instructed Gail who after a moment of pouting did as she was told, but she made it clear from her stiff back that this wasn't what she had in mind when invited to shower with Holly.
Holly grinned behind the blonde and worked the shampoo into the blonde locks before bumping Gail out of the way of the shower head and continued to massage the froth all over Gail's head. It took all of 30 seconds for Gail to relax and start to enjoy Holly's attentions. And not much longer than that for the blonde to let out a pleasurable moan.
"That's it," Holly encouraged softly. "Just let my fingers work their magic."
Gail snorted and couldn't stop from giggling after that. Instead she turned back around to see the smug look on her girlfriends face. Gail then stood in the spray and let it work the shampoo from her hair. After a few moments she opened her mouth then, with her eyes locked with Holly's, she spurted it back out of her mouth and into Holly's face.
"Charming." Holly said in answer as she shook her head in fake disappointment at Gail's behaviour. "This is exactly why some people are better off showering alone."
That earned her another pout from the blonde.
Holly sighed as she started working the conditioner into both of their hair, with Gail finally joining in. They really didn't have the time for what Gail wanted and Holly was disappointed in herself for that because she knew Gail had been expecting company earlier. When they would have had time. But no, Holly didn't want to get teased for the rest of her life from Eliza so she'd had to go wash the sheets.
Right now, looking into Gail's understanding eyes, Holly knew she'd made the wrong decision.
"Sorry," Holly said to Gail before pressing their lips together gently. "I'll make it up to you tonight." She promised.
Gail shrugged, their arms still around each other. "Tonight, tomorrow, for the rest of your life. Sucks to be you right now Holly Stewart."
Rest of her life?
Holly couldn't contain her grin at that. As much as Gail had gone on about being some scared of relationships cat up a tree, Holly's knowledge of Gail was anything but a reflection of that.
Gail was a really good partner in a relationship. She was tender and thoughtful and really good at showing Holly that she was important to her and wanted and loved. Gail always made Holly feel so special.
"I am but your love slave." Holly replied with a cocky grin.
"Oh, can I have that in writing please? Your sister would love to see that!" Gail said as her face lit up at the prospect of teasing Holly's sister with it.
That pulled Holly out of the moment. Taking her hands away from the blonde, Holly made sure her hair was rinsed properly before easing by Gail and out of the shower. "On second thoughts no, I take it all back."
Gail grinned as she turned around to watch Holly dry herself off. "Now don't be like that my little love slave honey bun." She said to Holly in an overly fake sweet and innocent tone. She even batted her eyelashes at Holly when the older woman paused and gave her an incredulous look back over her shoulder.
Holly shook her head and hurried to dry herself. "You know I'm not sure whose sanity I fear for more, yours because you're clearly crazy or mine for hooking up with you in the first place."
Gail grinned to herself as she switched off the shower and stepped out beside Holly who held an oversized towel out for her. "Clearly yours, because I'm happy with my crazy."
"Yeah, but that's the crazy talking."
"You know, if I don't get something for breakfast before I get into work this morning the whole of Toronto is going to get an up close and personal look at my crazy." Gail warned as she narrowed her eyes at Holly.
Rolling her eyes Holly left the blonde and headed to their bedroom to dress. They only had thirty minutes before Gail was due at parade, they'd be lucky if they managed coffee.
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Gail grinned as she munched on her second doughnut. She was getting crumbs all over Holly's interior but the pathologist was just looking on with a tolerant expression.
Gail shrugged as yet more sprinkles flew around the car. "You know this all could have easily been avoided." She reminded Holly.
"It was due to be detailed anyway." Holly replied nonchalantly, trying to make Gail believe that this wasn't killing her but Gail knew better. Holly hated anyone eating or drinking in her car.
"You're such a liar." Gail said giving Holly a knowing look.
Holly sighed in defeat and rested her head on her arms against the steering wheel and let out a pitiful groan. "Okay!" She cried out. "You win okay? Yes, fine, I hate that you're trashing my car,"
Gail snorted and took another bite of her doughnut, again sending little reminders of this moment all over her seat for Holly to find later.
Because seriously? Trashing her car?
But Holly wasn't done.
"And I'm sorry about this morning," She said in a quieter tone as she lifted her head this time to look at Gail. "I'm sorry we didn't have time for shower sex, and I'm sorry that was because I didn't want my sister rolling around in a bed we'd spent most of the night coming all over the sheets on."
Now that made Gail blush and place her doughnut back down into its box.
Seeing that the tables had turned slightly more in her favour, Holly shifted closer to Gail and lowered her tone, making it sound deep and husky. "But I promise, I promise, I will make it up to you tonight."
Gail swallowed hard as her eyes widened, but she couldn't look away from her girlfriend. "Well, when you put it like that."
Holly's eyes lit up, that was definitely a win for her. Quickly she closed the box of sugary, messy treats and shoved them into Gail's hands. "Good, then take these things and get the fuck out of my once spotless car."
Gail narrowed her eyes at Holly, but she then did as she was told and opened the passenger side door and climbed out.
"I don't know why I put up with you sometimes." Gail moaned as she watched Holly flick some of the sprinkles out of the now empty passenger's seat as Gail still held the door open.
"Right now Gail, I'm right there with you." Holly replied straight back to the blonde as she continued flicking.
Gail pouted and slammed the door closed, first there was no morning sex and now it looked like she wasn't even going to get a goodbye kiss from Holly. But then she weighed that with no morning with Elizabeth and the box of doughnuts still in her hands.
It was hard to judge where those went in her win/loss column for starting her day right.
Just as Gail started to walk towards the station parking lot entrance Holly called her back.
Gail took her return steps cautiously, and when she knelt down beside Holly's window she made sure her box of doughnuts were well out of harm's way.
Holly grinned at the move. "Oh, I see how it is, you love them more than me do you?"
"Right now I do." Gail replied, still wondering what Holly had in mind for her.
"Ouch." Holly shook her head then lifted her hand out of the window and touched a strand of Gail's hair, giving it a tug as she smiled at the blonde. "I'm sorry. Have a good day and I will make it up to you tonight." She promised.
Gail shrugged then felt her phone buzz in her jeans pocket. She fished it out and found a text message from Elizabeth. She grinned and showed the screen to Holly.
Holly groaned and slid lower in her seat. This was exactly what she'd been dreading all morning.
"Why have you changed just my bedding?" Gail read out for Holly before letting out a chuckle. "Smart girl." She must have checked their room and saw that their bedding hadn't been touched.
Another message quickly followed.
"Tell me you guys didn't?" Again Gail read it out loud for Holly's benefit, although when all the older woman did was cover her face with her hand Gail realised that maybe she was enjoying this more than Holly.
Yet another message buzzed through Gail's cell phone.
"You guys are gross!" Gail read that then found herself shrugging. She actually thought Elizabeth would have been more dramatic or at least more colourful in her texts.
"I'm kinda disappointed." Gail muttered as she started to type out a reply. It was Holly's idea to change the sheets, I woulda left them as they were… She hit send then typed out, Soaking wet from all of our love making! She grinned to herself as she sent that along too then she looked up at Holly who was staring back at her with a puzzled expression.
"She's disappointed?" Holly asked, thinking that didn't make sense.
"No." Gail replied. "I am, I thought she would have reacted worse, those texts were pretty tame."
Holly shrugged. "Wait until we have to endure the looks of disgust when we get home tonight." She warned. There was no way this was going to be over with a text message or two. In fact Holly no longer planned to check her phone all day.
Gail grinned. "I'm actually looking forward to it, it'll be fun!"
Holly rolled her eyes then tugged at Gail's jacket, pulling her in for a kiss. "Like I said, you have your own brand of crazy." She said as they eased apart.
"You like my crazy." Gail reminded Holly before kissing her again, this time making it last.
"Yow PECK!" Came a shout that broke them reluctantly apart.
Gail groaned and turned to see Oliver stood there in his civs eyeing her box.
"Those for me?" He asked making his eyes big as he pushed his lower lip out into a pout.
Of course it wasn't the two hot women making out in front of him that caught his eye, it was the well known doughnut company's box in Gail's hand.
Gail turned back to Holly and gave her a beseeching look. "If it wasn't for you I could have ate all of these in the safety of your car."
Holly grinned as she saw Oliver hadn't moved away and was still looking hopeful. She cupped Gail's cheek and brought her back in for one last kiss. "Tonight, I'm going to make it all up to you."
Gail snorted before she stood up. Her phone had buzzed again mid-kiss and she was eager to read Elizabeth's reaction to her texts. It might even be worth giving up a doughnut for, but she wasn't going to let Holly know that.
"Oh don't worry Hols, I'm going to make you work for it tonight." She told the pathologist. "Don't work too hard, you're going to need all your energy for later."
Holly blinked before watching a smug Gail turn and walk away from her with a sway to her hips that almost made her drool. She watched Gail hand over the box to Oliver whose face quickly transformed into the happiest she'd seen him in a while. She then heard Gail let out a belly laugh that made her wonder what was going on.
Gail grinned down at the message. She ignored Oliver's curious gaze as she turned back to Holly still sat in her car then she held up her phone and pointed to it, letting Holly know she'd got another message from her sister.
Holly shook her head rapidly and started her car. She really didn't want to know. Tonight would be soon enough right? Maybe she could work late? She had to be in court on Friday, maybe she could convince Gail she had files to go over?
She sighed as she returned Gail's wave and turned out into the street. Gail would never let her get away with that, the blonde would just come to her office. And Holly might have got over the thought of sex in the spare bed at home, ignoring the fact her sister was using it, but sex in her office, at work?
No way. Not happening.
Gail shook her head as she and Oliver entered the station and headed for the changing areas.
"What's that?" Oliver asked as he watched the blonde grinning down at something on her phone.
Gail couldn't stop herself from showing the message to Oliver.
They paused in the hallway as Oliver took the phone and lifted it closer to read it properly.
Gail refrained from commenting about eye sight and old age.
"Ewwwwwwwww ewwwww ewwwwwww ewwwwww?" Oliver looked back at Gail wondering if there was some sort of joke that went along with that but Gail just stared back at him blankly. He made a face then handed the device back. "That's the kinda thing Izzy used to send me a few years back."
Gail snorted. Izzy. Like she could forget that kid.
"Close," She told Oliver when he gave her a look for snorting at the mention of his daughter. "It's from Holly's kid sister, she's in that leaving home, stubbornly defiant stage too."
"Oh." Now Oliver went from cop to father mode. "Well, if she ever needs any advice you tell her to come talk to me." He said before patting her on the shoulder and disappearing into the male changing area taking the last of her doughnuts with him.
Gail rolled her eyes, the idea of setting Oliver up to talk to Holly might be fun but she was sure Holly would make her pay for it for a very long time afterwards.
Ah well, she'd find her amusement elsewhere.
And just like that her phone buzzed again. With another uncontrollable grin she checked her messages only this time it wasn't from Elizabeth, it was from Holly.
Gail!
That did not sound good. With a chuckle Gail put her phone away and decided to just focus on work for a few hours.
Tonight was sure to be interesting though.
She hummed her way into the changing room.
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AN/
I'm sorry this was such a long time coming but would you believe this wasn't how this chapter was supposed to go?
I've held off the drama until next time.
Or maybe the time after that, you'll all have to wait and see!
Thanks for reading :)
ETA
Fixed
And to think English is my only language. But to be fair I am Scottish, and it is now 2.30am
Goodnight!
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