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Tina wakes up…………
Tina heard the answering machine make the familiar clicking sounds as she rewound the message again, as she heard the sobbing voice, she began a new set of tears.
“…..I just want to be able to kiss you goodnight, ……I just……I want my life back……I want….I want….I want, I want, I want…..I want, I want” Tina held her head in her hand as sobs rack her own body. “Oh Bette,…..what have I done to you….what have I done…..” as she slides further down the wall and onto the floor.
Memories of the days events start to flood her mind, being with Henry all day at the beach, and the plans that lay ahead for the evening…….dinner…..and then, the inevitable, what she was about to do….. she cringed and shuddered almost in disgust as she swallowed deeply to keep the bile from rising from her stomach.
“Tina” his voice startled her back to the present. “Tina, are you okay, you were taking so long, I was worried……” Tina quickly wiped the tears from her eyes and gets up from the floor putting the machine back on the table.
Henry comes closer and touches her forearms, “Tina, what’s the matter,” she flinches at his touch.
“Henry,…….uh…….I can’t do this, I’m sorry, you have to go, I’ve made a horrible mistake, I’m sorry I really am, but please get Mikey and leave, you have to go now” she almost ran down the hall and into her bedroom, closing the door behind her.
Once the door was closed, she sunk to the floor again and heard her own words echo in her head. Everything she had said to Bette not so long ago. Her confession of fucking Daddyof2, telling Bette she was having feelings for men. That morning when Bette flung her arm over her like she’d done every morning for eight years. ‘She must think that her touch repulses me’, thought Tina. ‘What am I doing?’…….she gets up after hearing the front door close. Cautiously she heads down the hallway and hears a car starting outside and the headlights backing away from the house. She breathes a sigh of relief.
Tina quickly checks on Angi not surprised that she is sound asleep, she gazed at her daughter, their daughter and saw the face of her wife reflected back to her. Remembering the first time she saw Bette hold their little girl, the first time she changed her, Tina lets out a light chuckle, “oh baby, your Mama B, she was so green when it came to you, but she sure learned fast baby”. Tina left the room and headed back out to the kitchen where she went over to the machine again. She played the message one more time, taking in all the raw emotion, the most desperate she had ever heard her wife be in a……well never. “I want my life back,…….I want…….” Tina began to cry again.
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(51 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
This was beautifully written. I wish it had been this way on the show only without Dana dying. Can you be persuaded to continue with this story please? :) I would love to read your version of the season. Thanks for the story! Keep going !!
I agree with you…IC really did ruin that scene. It’s sad, she sets herself up for what could be these incredible scenes, yet she always goes to the negative rather than the positive…she always writes the storyline to show the bad side rather than the good side. This was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. I won’t make you cry, cause you made me cry first. Thanks!
WOW
You are so spot on. Ilene had such an opportunity after the phone message, but did nothing with it. I agree with Seahurst, unfortunately Ilene loves exploring the negative. Your writing is just beautiful…
Thanks a lot, sweetheart…
That was a much needed re-write of that scene. Lovely and very touching. great job!! You should write more stories!
You made me cry instead of us making you cry. I totally agree with you about ic. She screwed up everthingand still has not fixed it. I miss Dana and I miss Tibette. Really I miss the show from season 1 but add Carmen to the mix.
Smashing, had me crying; Would that it had been this way, forget S4
Beautiful, just the way it should have been on the show. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
that was great!
Loved it and that is exactly how it should have been. And I agree totally with Seahurst. Would love to see more of this but if you can’t, I understand. Great post.
Again, I’m right there with Sea but I have been saying that for years. IC is into the negative which can and does often make for compelling TV but I just feel in this case does more harm than good. When you’re telling the same old story over and over then by all means shake it up – go for the sad/negative ending – but why do that when you’re trying to bring a story to the forefront that has never been told? Never understood that. Anyway, great alternative Kant, very compelling and reaffirms the traits in Tina’s character that we were presented with from the beginning!
So we can’t beg you to give us another chapter to this story??? Please, please, please!
Be nice to you??? I would but Dana should never have had to go…the B and T was absolutely spot on…great story telling….and no I won’t pressure u to go on…that was superbly sufficient…
Yup I have to agree with others…IC (assuming that IC directs the writers and the directors) sets up these wonderful scenarios and then fails to deliver over & over…I wonder if it will all come 2gether in s5??? The final season…such a shame that the potential of s1 went down the proverbial drain…
oh god you are so right… IC FUCKED UP THAT SCEEN AND ALL OF SEASON 3 AND 4 AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED… well you made me cry… i miss dana… i miss our bette and tina together… i miss the love… now all we get is heartache… i know you said this is a one time story… but think about the next sceen… thanks…PPS
I want…I want…exactly what you wrote :) Thank you.
Aw, Dana. :( Anyway, I vastly prefer your version of Tina getting that message from Bette than the non-existent version we got from IC. And it goes without saying I prefer your ending. Thanks for this one, and post again! Cheers