Sequel to OWtO: Youthful ambition meets experience when Gail and Holly face the next great challenge. Their daughter, the cop. The Old Guard is still there to help the new batch of rookies through the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of police work, but there are some things a rookie has to learn on their own. (Updated regularly)

Gail Peck meets Dr Holly Stewart, Ottawa's top forensic pathologist on a plane on the way to a crime conference in NYC. In a rather un-Gail-Peck-like manner, Gail makes fast friends with Holly, whose easy going attitude doesn't for once put the blonde off. When Gail feels herself letting down her guard, things start to get a bit complicated.

Gail is a lonely teenager in a new town and a new school who is sure she doesn't know the first thing about friendship. Holly is a disgustingly cheerful girl who doesn't mind teaching Gail a thing or two. There's laughter, bloody knuckles, and a kiss or two, sign language, and teenagers trying to grow up right.

Canon divergent from the beginning of 4x12 - Gail Peck has never had a best friend before..that is until she met Holly. Slow burn floofiness.

Based after the events of 4x13 Gail attempts to come to grips with her feelings and eventually confronts Holly with what's on her mind, in her own specific Gail way. My first Rookie Blue fic after a while away from writing. Please let me know what you think. Now a multi-chapter piece.