Gail's Pov

As soon as Holly had opened the door to her family's house they had been separated, Holly being called into the kitchen and Gail being pulled to the living room by Holly's sister, their bags abandoned by the front door. The main thought going through Gail's mind was that she should have stayed in the car but instead of finishing what she had started with Holly she was being held hostage on the Stewart family couch by Holly's siblings wondering how long Holly would be away but she was informed that Holly was helping Maddie make dinner and wouldn't be coming to her rescue anytime soon. She used this time to observe Holly's brother and sister; Josh was lean and tall like his father but had a mop of mostly out of control curls for hair and Charlotte looked almost identical to Holly with the exception of being a little shorter and having much shorter hair.

"So Gail how was the flight?" Charlotte asked as she sat down next to Gail, sandwiching her with Josh on Gail's other side.

"It was fine." Gail replied, she was hoping that if she kept her answers short than she wouldn't have a chance to embarrass herself.

Charlotte smiled, "Good…good…and the drive here from the airport was that good as well?" Not sure where Charlotte was going with this line of questioning Gail simply nodded. "That's great, I already know that you had a fantastic time in our driveway, from how Josh tells it our baby sister was giving you the grand tour of it." Gail's face threatened to burst into flames as both Stewarts broke out into loud laughter.

After several minutes of them laughing Gail rolled her eyes, "Are you done?"

Charlotte wiped a tear from the corner of her eye and nodded, "It's just that it's Holly, our little baby sister, she was always the good girl, up until now I saw her as this sexless little kid that used to wear a toy stethoscope around her neck and diagnose our hamster with lupus. Now she is this horny woman having sex with her hot girlfriend in front of the house. It's a big change."

Josh nodded as he cringed, "I for one would like to go back to thinking of her as a nun, no offence Gail but I could have gone my entire life without seeing my baby sister in that…that position."

Gail remembered that Holly had told her to not take any of her siblings shit so she rolled her eyes, "If you had been three minutes later you would have gotten a much better show." She teased and enjoyed how Charlotte laughed and Josh choked.

"Just don't knock her up before she finishes med school." He joked when he could speak again.

Gail tilted her head to the side and with mock sadness she ribbed him, "Oh Joshua…did you not pay attention in sex ed? Does Holly need to explain how babies are born to you? Because as good as I am…and I'm awesome in that department…"

Josh jumped up and covered his ears, "Enough! Enough! I will never bring it up again." With a smirk Gail relaxed into the couch, she liked Holly's family.

It wasn't long before Holly returned to the living room with her parents in tow. Gail let them dominate the conversation as she enjoyed how the Stewarts differed from her own family. What interested her the most was how Holly's father Nathan kept shooting her reassuring glances as Maddie discussed their anniversary party and who was coming; it felt good to know that she was welcome in their home. After describing the menu for the party Maddie stood up, "I suppose we should let you girls get situated. You had a long flight, I'm sure that a shower and fresh clothes would feel nice." Maddie said and Holly nodded.

"A shower sounds great. " Holly agreed, she stood and offered her hand to Gail to help her up. Gail walked towards the entry way and grabbed her bag, she reached for Holly's when Nathan spoke up.

"We should talk about sleeping arrangements."

"Dad…" Holly started but Gail shook her head. If the Stewarts didn't want them sharing a room then she would be okay with it, it was their house and even though Gail hated the thought of not holding Holly at night she would respect their wishes.

"I was going to say before I was so rudely interrupted was that since we no longer have a guest room Gail will have to sleep in your room but if that is a problem I'm sure that we can dig the old army cot out of the attic…"

Holly stopped him, "No! I mean there's no problem. I will show Gail where the extra towels are and we will get cleaned up before dinner."

Gail held back a laugh as Holly rushed her up the stairs as if she were worried that they would change their minds about where Gail would sleep. "Separate showers please!" Nathan shouted after them.

"Damn… and here I was going to suggest we conserve water." Gail said as Holly pushed her into her childhood room.

"Hush you." Holly said as she pressed a kiss onto Gail's pouting lips.

Gail smiled into the kiss before breaking away to check out the room, it was almost exactly as she imagined it, right down to the Star Wars poster on the wall. "I always knew that little Holly was a nerd. Please tell me that you have Star Wars bed sheets."

"Lots of kids had Return of the Jedi sheets…they were really popular." Holly justified as Gail hopped onto the bed.

Gail kicked off her shoes, "Sure and I bet all of them also had the periodic table hand drawn on their ceiling too."

That made Holly blush, "Okay that might have just been me."

"It's a good thing that I love your nerdy side." Gail teased as she reached for Holly and pulled her on top of her. "I bet this is the most action your bed has ever seen."

Holly rolled her eyes but nodded all the same. "Sadly my bed is a virgin." She said in mock despair.

Gail kissed a spot on Holly's collar bone that was a surefire way of getting the med student hot and bothered, "We could fix that you know…"

At the suggestion Holly laughed and pulled back, "I think you need to go and take a long cold shower."

"Party pooper." Gail muttered as Holly threw a towel at her head, she begrudgingly grabbed her bag of toiletries and the towel and walked in the direction that Holly pointed at and took a very chilly shower.

The next morning- before the ass crack of dawn.

Gail's alarm was going off and she immediately regretted agreeing to go with Nathan to work in his bakery for the day, no human should be up this early she thought as she silently slipped out the warm embrace of Holly and found some clothes. She was nervous about spending the entire day with Holly's father but he had seemed so excited to show her how everything was made and she had to admit that she was looking forward to taste testing all of the donuts that the bakery had to offer.

Nathan was waiting in the kitchen for her with a big thermos of hot chocolate and gave her a smile as he held the door for her. "Ready?" Gail nodded as she accepted the drink and gave him a grunt of thanks. "Not a morning person?" he asked as they walked to his car.

"It isn't even morning yet." Gail countered as she got in the old dodge challenger.

Nathan laughed, "I guess I'm so used to it that I don't even notice it any more. Drink up we have a busy day ahead of us."

A few hours later- almost noon

True to his word it had been a busy morning, Gail learned that there was a lot more to running a bakery than glazing donuts, so far she had learned how to make four different kinds of bread and had successfully baked a batch of apple fritters. They were currently kneading dough for a batch of raised donuts when Nathan cleared his throat, "I umm wanted to talk to you about something…"

"Okay here we go the 'dad talk'." Gail thought as she kept on working the dough in her hands. She had been expecting it and nodded for him to continue.

"I know that we have only just met but…"

Gail interrupted, "Sir I love Holly. I really do…and I know that she is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I promise that I will do everything in my power not to hurt her."

Nathan gave her the same lop-sided smile that Gail loved on Holly, "That's wonderful to hear but I already knew that Gail. I knew that the second I saw you with my daughter. The fact that she brought you here means that you are special to her, she has never brought anyone home, let alone introduced us to anyone that she was seeing. What I wanted to talk about was you…well you and your family. Holly told us about your mother and how she reacted…I hope I'm not overstepping but I wanted to ask how you are holding up."

"Oh…"

"See the thing is I can relate a little on what you are going through." Nathan offered.

"You accidently blurted out that you were in love with your lab partner?" Gail joked.

The older man rolled his eyes, "No, no once upon a time I told my parents something that they weren't ready to hear and it caused a rift in my family for a long time."

This got Gail's attention, "What did you say?"

"I told them that I was dropping out of law school, getting married and going to work in my soon to be wife's family's bakery. Needless to say my father was not pleased and threatened to disown me on the spot."

"Wow." Was all that Gail could say as Nathan took a tray of cookies out of the giant oven.

He set the tray on a cooling rack, "You have to understand that in this city the Stewart name is synonymous with power and money, my family runs banks and has the biggest law firm in the city. My uncle was the mayor as was my grandfather. My family had plans for me since before I had been born and I wanted none of it and when I told them that I had different plans they cut me off and didn't look back. It wasn't until Holly was born that my parents started to talk to me again."

It surprised Gail that Holly had never mentioned any of this before, "Do you ever regret your decision?"

"Not once." Nathan said and Gail believed him. "I wanted to tell you this because I understand the pressure to live up to a family ideal…"

"I know that Holly worries about me becoming a cop but I'm not doing it because I'm a Peck and that it's expected of me. I mean at first it was but over the last couple of months I realized that I really do want to put on the uniform." Gail admitted as she pressed the dough into a ball.

Nathan nodded, "As long as it is what you want."

"It is." Gail paused as she thought if she should ask the question that had been on her mind for a while and decided to go for it. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure. Hopefully I have an answer."

"When Holly came out to you what went through your head?"

"Is this about your mother?" Nathan asked but he didn't wait for a response before answering Gail's question. "You have to understand that even before Holly told us her mother and I had suspected that she was gay since she was a child but hearing the words come out of her mouth…I don't know how to describe it. The thing is as a parent you have this plan in your head for your kid, they are going to be healthy and happy, they are going to be smart and go to good colleges, they are going to find someone that loves them and makes them feel like they can take on the world. You imagine weddings and babies and when your child tells you that they are gay it makes you falter a little, for a moment you forget about the weddings and babies and you worry about how much harder it is going to be for them. You worry about how society will treat them and how you want to protect them but it is out of your hands. I got scared when Holly told us, that's what went through my head. Now I know that she can still get married and have kids, she can still have everything that her mother and I ever wanted for her but in those few seconds after she told us all I could think about was how much harder it was going to be for her than it was for Josh or Charlotte. I don't know your mother Gail, I can't tell you what was going on in her head but think about this, how did you feel when you started to have feelings for Holly? Did they confuse you? Did you try to dismiss them because you were straight? Did it take you a while to accept that what you were feeling was very real? Now imagine how your mother felt when you told her. I'm not condoning her response but she had only a few moments to process what was going on. Before you write her off completely give her a little while to wrap her head around your news." He brushed his hands on his apron when he heard the front door bell ding as it opened. "I will be back soon, don't over knead the dough."

Gail nodded, Nathan had given her a lot to think about. Maybe she did need to give Elaine time, maybe with time she would accept Gail's choice and be supportive. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she didn't notice a pair of arm embrace her from behind. "Hey hot buns, what's cooking?" Holly teased as she kissed Gail's neck.

"Hot buns? That's the best you've got?" Gail scolded as she turned in Holly's arms and placed a kiss on her lips.

Holly smiled into the kiss, "I missed waking up to you this morning, I can't believe dad got you out of bed that early."

"Well he promised me lots of donuts."

"Of course he did. Are you having fun? Is my dad boring you to death with baker jokes and stories about how he once made the world's second largest cookie?" Holly asked as she let go of Gail and grabbed a scone.

"He made a giant cookie? He didn't tell me that! That is so awesome. Your dad is kind of cool in a dad sort of way."

Nathan chose this moment to come back into the kitchen, "Hear that Hols, Gail thinks I'm cool. I vote that we keep her around, I like her."

Holly laughed, "Good, I plan on her being around for a good long while."

Gail liked the sound of that.

Holly's Pov

It warmed Holly's heart to see Gail getting along so well with her dad, not that she had been worried but she wanted everyone to get along. Holly liked how serious Gail was about helping out in the bakery, she loved how there was flour covering her girlfriend and how she smelled of freshly baked bread. As soon as her dad left to go check on a customer Holly pulled Gail back into a kiss, careful not to pull her flush against her since she didn't want to be wearing flour as well. "I wish you were coming with me now." Holly said as she rested their foreheads together.

"No we decided that this was a day for you and your friends catching up and talking about Jade and Allie's wedding, if I go then it becomes interrogate Holly's new girlfriend day." Gail replied and Holly knew that she was right. "I think you can handle a few hours without me nerd."

Holly pouted, "Maybe I want to show off my hot girlfriend."

Gail kissed Holly's pouting lower lip, "And you will tomorrow when we go to lunch with them, I will dazzle them with my awesomeness but today go and have fun, do nerdy things and tell me about it when you get home." Gail looked up at the clock on the wall, "You are going to be late, now scoot. I have bread to bake and donuts to taste test." Gail said in an oh so serious tone.

"Yes ma'am."

Holly stole one more kiss before passing her dad in the swinging double doors that led out to the front of the bakery.

Many hours later at the Pour House Tavern

Holly really couldn't remember the last time she had been this drunk, it had been a long while and she was unsteady on her feet as she accepted the shot of some liquor that Jade had pressed into her hand. It hadn't been her idea to drink so much but when Jade started making toasts to her soon to be wife it had snowballed into toasts about Holly's return and that turned into shots because Holly was finally getting some action and now they were taking shots because Gail was hot and Holly couldn't agree more.

"Did she really have her hand down your pants when Josh found you?" Allie slurred as she leaned on Jade's shoulder.

"Yep." Holly replied popping the 'p', "Her fingers were just starting to tease under my panties when he interrupted us."

"Stoooopid Josh! Here's to pussyblocking idiot brothers!" Jade yelled as she drank a glowing green shot of something. Jade's eyes were wild as she shook her head as if to clear it from its drunken haze. "You really love her don't you? It's not just unbelievably hot fucking right?"

Holly nodded so vehemently that she almost fell off her stool, "I do. When I'm with her I feel whole…she is like gravity she pulls me in and I just want to stay in her orbit."

Jade laughed, "You are such a science nerd."

"She loves it when I talk nerdy. It turns her on." Holly said as she stuck her tongue out at her friend.

Allie always the peacekeeper jumped in, "Well I can't wait to meet her in person, she almost seems too good to be true."

Jade smirked,"Hols did you cook up a hot blonde in one of your lab classes? Is Gail a sexbot? Leave it to Doctor Nerdbian to build a lover."

Holly grabbed another shot and grimaced at the taste as it went down, "First off I'm not a doctor yet…" She shook her head wildly, "and second she is not a robot and Gail is far from perfect but she is perfect to me." Holly suddenly laughed so hard she snorted, "Gail does this thing with her tongue…gawd I love her." She sat her head down on the bar as she felt the world spin out of control.

"Spoken like a woman in love, let's get you home to your sexbot." Jade declared as she settled up their tab and pulled Holly from her bar stool. She leaned in and whispered in Holly's ear, "I'm happy for you and your blonde sexbot."

The Stewart home

Gail's pov

She heard Holly long before she saw the extremely drunk woman make her way into her bedroom, her nerd wasn't a graceful drunk. Gail smiled as she watched her girlfriend's silhouette kick off her boots and struggle with removing her pants before crawling into bed next to her. "Did you have fun?" Gail asked as Holly snuggled in close.

"I missed you but yeah it was fun. Allie made me try on poofy bridesmaids dresses, I look terrible in pink." She pouted.

"I thought that you were standing up with Jade?"

"Oh I am, they just thought it would be fun to torture me with pink nightmare dresses." Holly clarified as she situated herself over Gail. "But they bought me shots of all kinds of liquor to make up for it." She said with a smile.

"I can tell." Gail smirked at seeing her girlfriend so wasted, she had never seen Holly this inebriated before and then she remembered that a drunk Holly was an extremely horny Holly. She hadn't even completed her thought when Holly started kissing the hollow of Gail's throat. It was only a second later that Gail felt her sleep shirt being bunched up, exposing her breasts. As much as she wanted to continue Gail knew that they needed to stop, one Holly was drunk and Gail wasn't and two drunk Holly was loud…like wake up the entire house and neighborhood loud. "Holly…" Gail started but was muffled quiet by a searing kiss, that she let go on for a few seconds before protesting. "Hols we need to stop."

Holly shook her head and sat up peeling off her shirt in the process. "Nuh uh, I wanna keep going. My bed doesn't want to be a virgin anymore." She leaned down and pressed her bare chest against Gail's barely covered on and kissed her once more. "Com'on my hot sexbot you know you want me, I can feel that you do."

While this was true it didn't change anything and Gail rolled them over so that they were laying side by side. In her 'I mean it' voice Gail said simply, "We aren't doing this tonight and we will talk more about the sexbot comment in the morning. Now go to sleep." Holly opened her mouth to protest but Gail shook her head to cut her off. Holly pouted but reluctantly let herself be wrapped up in Gail's arms and in moments Gail heard her snoring softly. She let herself relax and laughed internally, "Sexbot? Really?

A/N Nearing the end, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Up next Gail and Holly finally talk about what lies ahead for them. I don't want to beg for reviews but they do help me know if I'm going in the right direction so if you can take a minute to tell me if this sucks or not. Thanks.