Tumblr Golly Secondhand Rapture MS MR entry - Track 4 - Fantasy. Perhaps with Holly the fantasy can become a reality.
"I've seen your best side and you got to see my worst…" (Avril Lavigne, Hello Heartache). There are always loses in the line of duty, all of them are unexpected and unwanted, some more than others.
Gail thought growing up in the Peck household had number her to any pain, but other the last few weeks - months - she's grown to understand that she's not numb. She's been hanging on by a thread and it takes a few simple words to break that thread and send her spiralling into the unknown.
Gail Peck is confident in most things - she's proficient with a pistol and more than effective with a Police issue baton. She's confident in her body and the uses of it when applied to sex with a man, but she's not sure what to do when it comes to having sex with a woman. Holly decides that perhaps the best course of action is show and not tell.
Holly is away at a conference but that doesn't stop Gail missing the good Doctor, resulting in a late night phone call to relieve their shared tension.
The morning after the party to celebrate the end of the war Hermione wakes up in an unknown bedroom, but she doesn't mind the woman that she wakes up to. At the end of a journey the people that are with you do not have to be the ones that were with you at the beginning... This is just a short fluff piece with very little plot, if any.
Gail Peck the Cop is an individual born from years of endless shaping by her parents, but behind that training there once stood a young girl who smiled and laughed. Steve Peck remembers this girl, and tells Holly about her as they sit beside Gail's bedside.
It happens in the middle of a routine investigation. Which, when Gail thinks about it, is when most of the bad things actually happen. In the middle of nowhere, without a second plan or back up. However, this time she doesn't know whether she will get another chance to say the things she's never said.
One of Holly's newest set of interns tries to move in on Gail's territory but she's not having any of it. Cue the need to claim Holly loudly and publicly.
From Tumblr: "Holly arranges for a crate of cheese puffs to be delivered to Gail's home the day after their fight, Gail comes to see Holly waving the white "bra" flag of peace."
They came together in a fit of passion, but they break apart in a wave of differences and loneliness. They will not come back together. They love apart.
When Ron and Hermione get into an argument she knows the entire school is going to talk about the secrets that were revealed, but she can't find it in herself to care about the consequences.