"It's time for me to take it
I'm the boss right now"

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Gabriella, Troy and Amy walked inside the precinct together. "Morning!", said the two teenagers together. "Who are those for?", asked Jake Amy as he saw the flowers in her hand. Troy and Gabriella shared a look. "Captain Holt's uncle passed away. They weren't close, but I wanted to do something.", explained Amy. "And I told her that uncle Ray hates pity. All kind of but Amy didn't want to listen.", said Gabriella to Jake. "Interesting. Flowers are a bold choice, Santiago, but we can still beat you.", said Jake as he sat down. "Beat me at expressing condolences?", asked Amy confused. "Yup, it's on. Flowers are a gift.", said Jake and looked at Troy. "And Holt hates gifts.", finished the Jinx boy. "I think a thoughtful email is the best way to go here.", said Gabriella and looked at Jake who got out his phone on time.

"Dear captain, we were all so sorry for your loss." Group sentiment, very meaningful. "Please let us know if there's anything we can do." Selfless act.", said Jake as he wrote the email. "Very respectful.", said Charles to him. "Correct, I'm the king of respectfulness, bitches!", shouted Jake. "Yeah, super respectful to call us bitches.", said Troy sarcastic. "Especially because you're the one.", joked Gabriella and laughed. "You mean it's you!" "No you!", said Gabriella pointing at him. "No! You're the one Gabriella!" "Stop it!", said Amy frustrated, making the two kids to look at her. "Sorry.", they mumbled giggling. "Did you send that from your personal or work account?", asked Amy Jake. "Personal--it's a personal matter involving a personal friend and his uncle.", said Jake calm. Gabriella and Troy then looked up in shock. "You remembered to turn off your signature right?", asked the young girl. "Oh, no.", said Jake in realization. He then got up and ran to Holt's office together with the two kids.

"Hey captain, I just sent you an email,  uh--", said Jake knocking but was interrupted by Holt reading his email out loud. "Dear captain, we were all so sorry for your loss. Please let is know if there's anything we can do. Sent from my stinky butt." "I was hacked?", said Jake nervous. "Thank you for the email. It means a lot to me.", said Holt. "You're very welcome.", said Jake. "I was addressing your stinky butt.", said Holt making Troy and Gabriella to burst out laughing.

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"Okay, guys, captain and I are going to a charity event in Brighton Beach. Have a great Thanksgiving.", said Terry to the whole squad. "Ahem." "Sorry Boyle. Turkey Day.", corrected Terry himself making Charles giving him thumbs up and smile. "Once Sergeant Jeffords and I are gone, Peralta and Peréz will be the officers in command.", announced Holt. "Jake and Gabriella in charge. No-look five.", said Jake and high fived Gabriella before moving his hand to Holt's face. "That's not your hand, wait. Is that a heald-over earring hole?", asked Jake making Gabriella gasp. "Do you have a scandalous past?", she asked curious. "I was stabbed in the line of duty. The scar extends through the lobe into the neck.", explained Holt. "No one likes it when you do that." "Anyway, thank you both for taking command of the precinct over the holiday.", thanked Holt.

"Not a problem. As you all know we hate Thanksgiving. The pilgrims were murders and turkey tastes like napkins.", explained Jake while pointing between him and Gabriella. "We just hope that no Amys feel bad  that we were chosen over Amy.", said Gabriella and looked at her friend. "Actually, captain asked me first, but I had plans. Teddy brewed a Thanksgiving pilsner and it's bottling day.", explained Amy smiling. "Bottling day? Why'd come in at all?", asked Troy earning a neck slap from Rosa. "Ow!", he said. "Don't be such a baby.", she said smirking.

"Frankly captain, we're a little hurt that we weren't your top choices to be in charge.", said Jake. "I actually wanted Gabriella to be in charge because I trust her, but she also needs an adult besides her.", said Holt making his niece smile. "Gabriella? Really? She's a child!", said Jake hurt. "I'd like to remind you of what happened when I asked you to run the blood drive.", reminded Holt. "It's one 12-hour shift. What are you afraid is gonna happen?", asked Jake. "Injury, death, general calamity.", said Gabriella without blinking. Holt and Jake just stared at her. "What? Those things can happen!", she defended herself. "Just don't burn the place down.", said Holt and turned to Jake. "You can count on us, sir. Happy Thanksgiving.", yelled Jake to him. "Turkey day." "Sorry Boyle."

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"We know you're all leaving in an hour, but until that time, you're under our command.", said Gabriella to the squad. "And as leaders it's our job to make our employees' lives better, so what can we do for you?", asked Jake. "Gina?" "I would like to answer the phone always like "eh-heh?", said Gina making the noise. "Done. Charles?", asked Gabriella turning to the older man. "Lift the precinct-wide ban on me saying the word "succulent.", said Charles. "Done." "I want to work in the break room, so I don't have to hear Charles say "succulent.", said Rosa. "Done, done, done-zel Washington.", said Jake pointing to everyone. "If she's working in the break room, can I move my nap couch into the bullpen?", asked Hitchcock. "Brooks and done.", said Jake. "Oh, so your plan is to not take this seriously at all?", asked Amy ironically. "Oh, we're serious as serious as a heart attack right guys? No offense Scully.", said Jake to Gabriella and Scully. "Of course we are!", said Troy for Gabriella. "Why's he here anyway?", asked Rosa Gabriella. "Because he's my best friend and we wanted to buy some stuff for Thanksgiving and Annabelle.", explained Gabriella not listening to Scully's heart attacks.

"You can't just grant wishes, Jake. You're a boss not a genie.", said Amy. "He's both. He's a boss-genie. And this is his lamp.", said Troy smiling. "Who likes us being in charge?", asked Gabriella loud. Everyone except Amy raised their hand.

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"Okay, the elevator door is the goal. Try and score on Jake and Troy.", said Gabriella and began to throw her pumpkins. Gabriella hit Troy making him wince. "Sorry Pumpkin!", she yelled. "All right, it's noon. We're going home. See you later, boss-genie.", said Rosa checking her watch and saying goodbye. "Succulent bossing Jakey and Gabby. I'm gonna go home and stuff my goose", as Charles said that, a package with white ingredient fall out of his bag. "Wait Boyle, powder. What is that powder?", asked Jake unsure. "I don't know. I don't know, what do we do?", asked Boyle scared.

Men with yellow hazmat costumes started to close the precinct. "Okay everyone, we're in lockdown, which means no one can come in or out of the precinct.", said Gabriella to everyone. "Now, apparently, three other precincts recieved similar packages this month, and they were all baking powder. Nevertheless, hazmat has to run a quick test but I anticipate we'll all be out of here momentarily.", explained Jake. "In the meantime we suggest we turn this lockdown into a pop-and-lockdown. Right? Are we right?", said Troy and began to dance. "Okay, we'll keep everyone updated, and keep working on your dance moves.", said Gabriella and got down of the chair with Jake.

"Jake, Gabriella, Troy what are you doing? This is a crisis.", asked Amy worried. "We're trying to keep morale up, because hazmat said it's almost definitely a hoax.", whispered Jake to Amy. Well obviously not quite enough because Gina heard him. "Almost? What if it's anthrax? We are all 100% gonna die!", said Gina panicking everyone. "Guys! You're freaking people out.", whispered Gabriella. "Can you please calm it down? We're doing fine here.", said Jake to the others. "Not Hitchcock.", said Troy and pointed to the window. "He got trapped out on the balcony. I don't like him alone out there, not with his history. I mean what if he gets up on a ledge?", said Scully worried. Gabriella looked at Troy giving him the sign to go and hug Scully. And that's what they did. "He's going to be fine Scully, don't worry.", said Gabriella and rubbed his shoulder in comfort. Scully smiled at both teenagers earning a smile in return. These two knew how to comfort a person.

They knew because they had to comfort each other including Eliza and Charlie. Mostly Gabriella and Charlie had anxiety or panic attacks before something important. So Troy and Eliza learned how to help them. They did researches and watched videos about it so they knew exactly what to do. Even went to therapy! But sometimes Eliza and Troy also had some anxiety attacks on their own, leaving Gabriella and Charlie to comfort them. They all valued mental health a lot and always talked about how everyone was. They listened and tried to help each other when someone had a problem. And they were all pretty good at that. So they decided to help other people copying with similar problems like them.

"What, you think he's gonna jump?", asked Jake confused. "No, he's just always falling off things. He's got a worm living in his ear that affects his balance.", explained Scully letting go of the group hug. "Oh, well, then he's not truly alone out there, right?", asked Jake nervous. "Gabby, I'm gonna call Holt.", he said addressing the young girl. "You want to come?", he asked turning to Amy. "Yeah.", she said. "Too bad you're not invited. We're in charge. Bye!", he shouted the last part.

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"All right, sorry for the delay but I have some news.", said the hazmat guy. "I gotta say, your hazmat suit is super scary.", said Troy jokingly. "Yeah, you should talk in a silly voice, so you seem less terrifying.", finished Gabriella his sentence. "Well, we ran our tests." "See, even that would be much less ominous if you just did a Grover voice. Well, we ran our tests.", said Jake imitating. "And it's not baking powder. There's a chance it's toxic.", said the hazmat guy making Gabriella to look at Troy in shock. "What?", asked Jake in his Grover voice scared making the whole squad to worry.

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"We know it's not baking powder. What is it?", asked Holt through the tablet. They were video chatting. "We don't know sir, but we are--", began Jake but was cut off by Amy. "Sir, you shouldn't have to be below eye level, so I'm gonna hold you up." "Okay, you do look good in Amy's purple shirt.", said Jake and stood up. "Anyway, it's Thanksgiving, so the emergency services lab is closed. They're gonna reopen them, but it'll be at least five hours till they can run detailed tests.", explained Gabriella. "Boyle, status report?", asked Troy and turned to Charles. "We're locked down with 42 civilians, divided into four factions. First, we have 12 perps locked up in holding." "Okay, we call them the Dirty Dozen.", said Jake. "Oh, I love it. Second faction is the innocent people who just had the bad luck of being here, some witnessing, some mugging victims, couple food delivery guys." "Great, we'll refer to them as the Normies.", said Jake again. "Third faction is the trouble: your snitches, your suspects, couple of gang members here to pick up their friends.", stated Charles. "Permission to give them a nickname, sir and ma'am?", he asked. "Permission granted.", said Gabriella.

"The Naughty Boys." "Permission denied.", said Jake. "We will refer to them exclusively as the Doinkmeisters." "Way better. The last faction is the worst, six lawyers.", finished Charles. "Ugh, you know what, I'm just gonna call them the Vegetable Medley, because that's the grossest thing I can think of.", said Jake to everyone. "So what's the plan?", asked Holt. "I forgot about him!", whispered Gabriella to Troy making him stifle out a small laugh. "Sir, I think we should separate the factions, so we don't become outnumbered. We should start rationing the food now, and we should tell people that we're in for a long night, because the substance is not baking powder.", said Amy as she turned Holt to her. "Whoa, whoa, that's just gonna freak everyone out. We want people to be happy and calm.", said Troy to Amy. Jake then gasped. "We should play them shade."

"Keeping the peace is important. I'm not there to read the situation, but--I can't believe I'm actually saying this--I did leave Peralta and Peréz in charge, so call me if you need anything.", said Holt. "Oh, sir, one more thing, Hitchcock got trapped outside on the balcony.", mentioned Jake. "Good, sounds like we dodged a bullet there.", said Holt not really worried. "Yeah. Well that's settled.", said Troy. "Diaz, Santiago, we want you out there with us, keeping people's morale up. Boyle you go through security footage and see if you can see who brought in that box.", ordered Jake. "Okay, but, I mean, I thought since you were in charge, maybe I could be your right-hand man, your tinkerbell.", said Charles. "Tinkerbell?", asked Rosa. "Let me tell you something about Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell is a loyal lieutenant and a real thorn in the side of Captain Hook.", explained Boyle. "No thanks Charles, we already have Troy.", said Gabriella pointing to the Jinx boy who waved at him. "Jake?", asked Charles and looked at him. "Fine, done, you're my number two.", he finally said. "Yes! I made number two. I hear it. Why would I ever say that?", said Charles realizing and left.

"So I'm your Tinkerbell?", asked Troy his best friend making her smirk. "No. You're Peter Pan and I'm Tinkerbell, but in my story, she's the one who leads the lost boys.", explained Gabriella. "Why don't you want to be my Wendy?" "Because I don't like Wendy. Tinkerbell is more badass. Just like me.", she said and winked at him. Jake turned to him, seeing the boy slightly blush. "She was flirting with you!", he said excited. "No she wasn't. We're just friends you know.", said Troy brushing off the thought of Jake. "What about you and Amy?", he asked. "Don't change the subject mister!", said Jake raising his voice a little making Troy laugh. He threw his hands up in defense. "Sorry man!" Jake laughed and threw his hand over the boys' shoulder, walking out with him.

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"Hey, hey, hey, people. How about everyone come on, bring it in here, gather around? So how we all holding up?", asked Jake as he walked out of the office with Troy, his hand still resting over the boys' shoulder. "Not good. We're trapped on Thanksgiving. What's going on man?", said a lawyer angry. "Okay, great, first off, happy Thanksgiving everyone. Shout-out to Turkey.", said Jake. "Whoo-Whoo!", cheered Hitchcock. "Thank you. All right, so here's the deal. We are all still awaiting the initial test results, but hopefully, we'll hear soon that it's all harmless and we can all go home soon.", explained Jake to everyone. Jake was busy to talk to Charles, so Gabriella decided to take control. "Please don't worry about it, if someone needs help or anything just ask right away. Me and Troy will try to understand your problems and talk about them and--", as Gabriella was talking, Jake decided to cut her off. "Thank you Gabby. Anyway. At any rate, I figured we could pass the time and do something fun, maybe a movie night. Our options are bootleg copy of the Diane Keaton classic, Something's Gotta Give." "Movie's hilarious.", said Rosa. "Okay, surprising opinion. We'll talk about that later", whispered Jake to Charles. "And our second option is surveillance footage of detective Amy Santiago soliciting drugs using perfect grammar.", he continued. "It's not that weird to say 'May I have some cocaine?'", defended Amy herself.

"It is.", said Jake sarcastic. "Those options suck.", said a guy. "You suck!", yelled Gabriella to him defending Jake. "Fair enough, why don't we have a talent show then? Who has a special talent?", asked Jake. "Oh, I just learned the Single Ladies dance.", mentioned Charles. "Hey! Yes!", said Jake.

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Gabriella was watching Charles do the single ladies dance while Troy trying to keep up with. She then let out a small laugh and turned her attention to Jake. "People love it. Look at that, two painted ladies just joined in.", said Jake to Amy and pointed to the ladies and Charles. "You got to admit, Boyle really knows how to move his pelvis." "And Gabby's loverboy has the amazing dance moves.", said Rosa earning a small punch from the girl besides her. "I can't believe this is one of the last things I'm ever gonna see.", said Gina. "Actually, with Anthrax, the last things you'll see will be doctor, blood, doctor, pus, scab, nothing.", said Rosa making Gina to turn around. "Why are you saying that? You're traumatizing Gabriella!", said Gina and looked at the younger girl. "Cause you're being melodramatic, so I'm making fun of you.", explained Rosa. "And I didn't mean to traumatize you little dum dum.", she finished and put her hand on Gabriella's shoulder. "Fine. I'm writing you out of my will. Say goodbye to my sculpture of two "Jag-U-Ars" making love.", said Gina to Rosa.

Boyle and Troy then walked in, both sweating from dancing. "Whoo! This is why I became a cop.", said Charles to Troy. "Really?", asked the younger boy ironically. "People love the talent show. Lawyer guy's doing stand-up. He's got really good material.", said Charles making everyone to turn around and look at the lawyer. "There are two jobs where you have total control over the people that pay you: president of a country and cleaning lady.", they head the guy says with the megaphone. Gabriella only made a disgusted grimace. "I can't believe you gave the mob a megaphone.", said Amy to Jake. "First of all, we didn't have a mic, and second, it's not a mob. It's a happy group of unlikely friends.", explained Jake. "Maybe not so happy. People are starting to get hungry.", said Gabriella from besides Rosa. "Oh. Okay, not a problem. Let's get them some food.", said Jake with a smile. Gabriella only rolled her eyes.

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"Voila, a Thanksgiving feast from two delivery guys who are trapped in here with us, and paid for by me with Boyle's money.", said Jake presenting to everyone the food. "What about me?", asked Hitchcock.  "We already called a friend. He's going to get you some pretzels!", yelled Gabriella to him. "And soda too?" "Of course!", she said back. "Call him to get soda.", whispered Gabriella to Troy. "Jake, I know you think this is going well, but you can't keep putting out fires as they come up. You need to set down some rules.", said Amy strict. "I agree with Ames.", said Gabriella honestly. "It's fine. Everyone is happy. Now we just coast to the all-clear.", said Jake trying to ensure Gabriella and Amy. But that wasn't working. Obviously. "We're freezing in here! We want heat!", yelled one of the perps. "We want heat!", shouted everyone inside the precinct. Amy and Gabriella then looked at Jake, both with crossed arms. "What? I'm glad I gave them the megaphone. It helps me hear their concerns.", said Jake defending himself. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go find a couple bags...of heat. Come on Troy."

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Gina walked up to Charles, Gabriella and Rosa. "Okay, I have finished my last will and testament. To Rosa, I leave you nothing." "Pass.", said the older woman. "You can't pass on me leaving you nothing.", said Gina. "Just did." "Not today Rosa. To Charles, I leave you the memories of my supple form. I'm reminding everyone of my embarrassing sexual past 'cause I'm hoping it's the act of charity that gets me into heaven." "Why's she talking about heaven? Is there something wrong here we don't know about?", asked the same woman from before. Gabriella shared a look with Rosa. "No, no, no! She's just being a funny weirdo. Everything's fine. More importantly, I was not able to find any "heat" because it's more of a concept, but we did find these beauties. They're all faux fur and all the best brands. We've got Chanelb, Grucci, Stella McCarkeys.", said Jake and started to count everything out.

"I want the one with the muff.", said another perp. "Great choice, sir, but there's actually only five coats, so we're gonna have to figure out a way to share them. I was thinking maybe a trivia contest.", said Troy. "Screw the coats. I want more food.", said a lawyer. "Interesting fact there---it turns out the one-time-only feast was all the food that we had.", said Gabriella and shrugged her shoulders. "What? You didn't ration the food?" "Not me. Him!", said Gabriella and pointed to Jake. "I'm not gonna sit here and starve. It's Thanksgiving. You said it was a hoax. We're only here because of some dumb protocol. I'm leaving. I'm walking out that door.", said the same lawyer angry. "Jake we have to arrest him.", said Gabriella worried. "No, it'll only make things worse. We're doing this my way. I'm the captain now!", said Jake stern. "So you totally forgot about me? Uncle Ray gave us both the control, not only you!" "I'm an adult, you're just a kid!", said Jake making Gabriella, Amy and Troy gasp. "How dare you Jake Peralta! Calling me a kid when you're always acting like one!", she said, slapping him and going to the break room, leaving a shocked Nine Nine squad.

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Gabriella was sitting in the break room with a bag of almonds and a coke on the table. She was truly done with Jake and after what he said, she just couldn't keep it together. Why do men always have to prove everything to everyone? When actually women are the ones who got to prove it. She just wanted to help, but he kept pushing her away. "May I sit down?", asked Troy Jinx bringing Gabriella out of her thoughts. "Oh yeah, sure.", she said. "Are you okay?" "Troy, we don't have to do this right now.", she said. "Oh yes we do. Because that girl that I'm seeing right now is not the Gabriella I know. Because the Gabriella I know doesn't let anybody tell her shit like that. The Gabriella I know would've punch him in the face before whooping his ass all over. The Gabriella I know is a badass feminist and leader!", said Troy proud. Gabriella looked him in the eyes. "You mean that?" "Of course I do.", he said and opened his arms, letting the short girl to hug him.

Gabriella hugged him tight, taking in his comforting scent of lavender, his favorite perfume, and men deodorant, the one she got him last Christmas for secret Santa. He kissed her head, taking in her rose scented hair, which was her favorite shampoo, and hair spray she always used. "You know how much I appreciate you being in my life right?", she asked him. Troy smiled. "Yes, I do Gabs. I do.", he whispered.

"Ahem.", said someone behind them, breaking up the moment between the two. "Here's someone who wants to apologize.", said Jake. "I'm listening.", said Gabriella and crossed her arms. "I'm sorry for calling you a kid and for acting like a jerk." "And?", she asked. "And for not listening to you. Am I forgiven?", he asked with open arms. "I think this answers it all!", said the girl and hugged the older man. Whenever they both fought, a hug was always the right apology. "Gabriella Peréz, we need your help.", said Jake make the girl to look at him. "I thought you would never say that!", said Gabriella and grabbed Troy's hand, leading him outside the break room.

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"All right guys, listen up.", said Gabriella. "Listen up, people!", yelled Troy making the squad to turn around. "Thanks Troy. Okay guys we need to work fast.", began Gabriella but was cut off by Boyle. "I thought Jake was captain, I mean you're just a kid and he's an adult-" "So you think because I'm a child I can't be captain? Is that right?", she asked him. Boys nodded. "Wrong! I'm a woman! A powerful one in fact and now I'm in charge.", she screamed to him, making Boyle to nod his head in fear. "Charles, I need you to find where that powder came from. Scully, I need you to help Charles.", she said making Scully to stand up and pointing to Hitchcock. "Don't worry about him. He'll be fine. Jake saw him once fall down three flights of stairs, get up, and keep eating his hot dog, like nothing happened." "You're right Gabby. He's the strongest man we know.", as Scully said that Gabriella only had to smile at his words. She really adored their friendship.

She then turned to Gina. "Gina, I know you're scared, but you really got to stop freaking everyone out.", said Gabriella to her. "Yes, I'm very influential.", said Gina impressed by herself. "And Rosa. You have to stop making fun of Gina and help her.", said Gabriella turning to her best friend. "Fine. But only because you're saying it captain.", said Rosa and smiled slightly at her badass friend. "All right, everyone listen up!", shouted the young girl and got up on a chair while making everyone to turn around to her. "I know this is tough to hear, but we still don't know what the powder is and we may be here for a while yet. Also, per Jake's idea, the copy room is now a detention center for anyone who gets out of line. This is a police station in lockdown, not a summer camp or anything like that. Stay tuned for more details. That'll be all for now.", finished Gabriella her speech and got down from the chair.

"That was awesome!", said Amy and high fived the junior detective in training. "I'm impressed by your power!", complimented Jake his friend and hugged her. "Yeah, you were great.", said Troy and gave Gabriella a hug. "Such a badass!"

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One hour later, the hazmat dudes came back. They announced that the powder wasn't harmful and everyone could go home now. Everyone applauded and cheered, while Scully opened the balcony door and went to hug Hitchcock.

"What happened? What's going on?", asked Holt while walking in. "Lockdown's officially over.", announced Jake. "Squad's hiding home for Thanksgiving." "I don't understand.", said Holt confused. "Last I heard, the precinct was on fire, and we wouldn't get lab results for another three hours." "Boyle sped things up.", said Gabriella. "I noticed an I.T. guy we fired two years ago in surveillance footage. Turns out he was also fired from the other precincts.", explained Charles.

"E.S.U. raided his home and found bacillus streptomoo-cocomo- I can't pronounce it. Regardless he confessed, and it wasn't poisonous.", added Jake smiling. "All right, it seems like you turned it around.", said Holt. "Actually it wasn't me. It was Gabriella. She got everything in control. She's the hero today.", said Jake to Holt making him turn to his niece. "You were the one?", he asked unbelievably. "Yes, captain!", said Gabriella and stood proud. "This is incredible. Very impressive. I'm very proud of you.", said Holt and hugged his niece. "Your father would've been proud too.", he whispered so only she could hear and it made her smile. "Anyway, everyone head home and happy Thanksgiving!"

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I really love this chapter because it shows what a badass Gabriella can be, but that's just the beginning of it. Please enjoy!

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