Having lost her badge, Gail Peck no longer has to worry about expectations. She does things her way now, and if 15 Division doesn't like it, well, they'll have to arrest her.

"She did her share of breaking, of swinging and striking where it was good and painful but you'd dealt the final blow. San Francisco, a world, a country away." My Season 6.

"It's been a month since she has seen her and yet she is still a weight, a presence, a force that pushes at Holly. Hard. She looks tired, but beautiful. But she'll never stop being beautiful. She has the kind of face that is almost violent in its loveliness, even at its most faded and weary." A month after 507. Told from Holly's perspective.

Gail gets hurt on the job and Holly takes her home where the evening takes an unexpected turn.

This story is about Gail Peck. About Holly too, but mostly Gail. About Gail learning to grow & to like herself better ... if her mother doesn't get in the way. Told from both Gail and Holly's perspectives. A sequel to an earlier story, It Has Been a … Day (but you don't necessarily have to have read it- see Author's note).