The Gathering 01.12 – Consequences

            Tina sat by Shane‘s bedside, amazed at how pink her skin was now.  When only hours before it had been a blue hue of death.  She shuddered to think of how she might have reacted if that person laying on the mattress had been Bette. 

            How she loved her no matter what happened, she would always have a place in her heart for Bette Porter.  The one and only woman she’d ever loved and ever intended too.  She had thought the same about Bette, but she’d cheated on her.  With someone totally different from her, her opposite.  She was beautiful though, Candace.  She seemed smart and was very creative.  Good with her hands.  Tina groaned pushing that thought from her mind, the thought bringing forth the many imagines of Bette with Candace.  Candace holding Bette kissing her making her come holding her afterwards.

            “Oh ***** me.”  Tina said out loud, rubbing her hands on her thighs.

            “I don’t think so, but thanks for the fetching offer Tee.”  Shane said her voice even deeper than normal.  Tina quickly got up and sat on the edge of Shane‘s bed.  Her green eyes looked vague and sad.

            “Hey Shane how are you feeling baby girl?”  She pushed back her hair, remembering she’d done it before when she died.  Shane died it was a harrowing thought to contemplate that one of them could die and no longer be one of them.

            “I hurt all over.  This rib thing that Sam did to me really is killing me.”  She caught herself and saw the look of utter horror come over Tina‘s face.  “Tee…”  Shane sat up, wincing at the stabbing pain in her side, and the grabbed at Tina.

            “You died Shane.  I saw you laying there dead!  Do you understand that?  Huh?”  Tina shivered Shane stopped.  She didn’t know what Tina was talking about.  All she knew was what Marty Summers had told her, that Sam had gotten her here and that she’d be ok.

            “What?”  Shane asked thickly.

            “You stopped breathing for 10 minutes.  You were turning blue Shane you were really dead.  But Sam didn’t give up, nope.”  Tina shook her head, breaking down again.  “No she didn’t give up she wasn’t going to let you die.  You should have seen her, she wouldn’t let you go.  Nope.  What do you do Shane; she cares for you are you understanding that?  And you go and steal from her run away and ***** kill yourself!”  Shane sat back on the bed, aghast at what Tina had just told her.