Bette sat up in the bed sweating bullets. She had been having the same vivid memory of her last time with Bryon for a month now. At first she had been screaming and sobbing until Tina calmed her down, but now she just got up and swam it off in her pool.

She never told Tina what her dream was about and Tina never dared to ask. They had basically become hermits in the last month, only going out to see Shane at the hospital and checking up on Jenny who was quite shaken.

Jake had visited a few times but Bette couldn’t even get near him. Alice had called it the ‘one step forward two steps back’ phase, and had suggested that Tina help Bette come to terms with whatever dream she had been having.

As a result, everyone stopped visiting, even Kit. Kit only came around to pick up Reed for the day and Jenny went around the back to take Oz on daily walks. As for Tina, she was at a loss. On one hand she was terrified that she was losing her wife and on the other hand she wanted to go down to the prison and kill Bryon herself.

She didn’t know what to do. Ask Bette straight-out what was going on or just stay silent until Bette came to her?

The answer came soon enough when Bette walked into the house wrapped in a towel after a swim. Reed was taking an afternoon nap and Oz (who had grown considerably bigger) was lounging on a lawn chair.

"Hey babe, you hungry?" Tina asked as Bette limped past her into the room. "I feel like Italian today, I can order something to go from Olive Garden."

The word Italian was all Bette needed to hear before she threw herself on the bed and broke into tears. Tina, completely floored by the reaction, ran to her and touched her back gently, "Bette, baby what’s wrong!"

"T-Tina," Bette said in between sobs, "I keep seeing it. The last time I saw Bryon. I keep seeing it everytime I close my eyes."

"Shh," Tina said pulling Bette into a hug, "tell me about it baby."

"H-he he said if I didn’t make myself cum he would cut off my clit," Bette said her voice shaking with tears, "I had to do it Tina, I had to! So I imagined an Italian woman going down on me and it happened."