When a bizarre corpse is found in Toronto, Medical Examiner Holly Stewart calls in a favour from one of the most internationally renowned experts in the field, Dr. Maura Isles. Unbeknownst to Holly, Maura has a much closer connection to the case than anyone might wish.
When you're at a bar and you tell people you have a girlfriend in Canada, it feels like a trope. And a little bit of a lie. And you hate everything except your job and you miss her, but she's not really your girlfriend, is she? (Was a One-Shot, then it got a sequel.)
Gail Peck is not "just" a Peck, but getting to reinvent yourself beyond your family when you've been born into the Peck Dynasty is not a simple nor easy journey. Gail probably wouldn't have bothered to change, but then there was Holly. It's messy, it's complicated, but sometimes you come out the end a better person, snark intact.
Written for AO3's International Fanworks Day challenge, an #IFDrabble about a secret fandom. To clarify, yes, this does take place in the universe with "Out With The Old" but it doesn't matter much to the story.
Jane, Korsak, and Frankie get blown up. Romance, haircuts, bad smells, and misunderstandings ensue.