A PROMISE

Background S6 E1.

INT. DRIVEWAY – BETTE’S CAR – NIGHT

The car is pulling into their driveway, coming home from the hospital where they earlier rushed Angie.  Both Bette and Tina are feeling relieved that Angie is fine.  It is way more acceptable for them to be told that they had read the thermometer wrongly rather than Angie actually suffering with a high fever. 

It’s nearly morning, the night had been very eventful for all of them.  The couple is pretty exhausted with the movie wrap up party, their friends issues blow up, the idiocy of the people in the film industry Tina works with, and Angie’s health scare.  These just gotten Tina feeling quite drained. 

But as she recalls how Bette forced her way at the hospital receptionist, she couldn’t help but smile at how different and yet the same Bette is.  After all these years, Bette is still an Alpha.  Her Alpha for sure.  An absolute force to be reckoned, especially at times when she is on a mission to put her family first.  Tina inwardly chuckles how forceful Bette had been when she berated the person-in-charge at the hospital reception for prioritizing conformity with stupid forms, than essentially doing the job of helping people in need of medical attention.  That is a total alpha Bette.  But the ‘please’ from her is the precise change Tina had spotted in her.  The old Bette would cope by simply being an almighty and demanding bitch.  But this Bette is the perfect mixture of tough-loving Bette.

But even with that so tough Bette, it will never escape Tina how Bette is actually trembling inside.  She knows how much vulnerability eating inside of Bette at that time, all tucked under that robust act.  Tina can see through the delicate way Bette steels herself in order to provide the needed might for her loved ones.  

That is just one of the many things that make Bette dearest to Tina.  And she just couldn’t help but love Bette more and more.  With these musings, she smiles at how their lives are turning out seemingly the way they have always wanted. That no matter how grueling her day, she goes home to Bette and Angelica, to her family.  Tina feels this is the absolute kind of life she had always hoped for.  And she sees the exact certainty in Bette’s eyes when she looks at her and Angelica.