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Air Supply…Chapter 6
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“Fucking you…yes I know, I heard you the first time.”
“Unbelievable.”
“We’re all grown women…we’re professionals…this shouldn’t be an issue.”
“Oh really!”
“Yes Emma…really.”
“Then why didn’t you tell me?”
“Tell you what exactly?”
“Are you serious?”
“Emma…it’s not important. Besides, it never came up.”
“That’s my point. I seem to know very little about your life. Given the circumstances, seeing as we’re all so mature, and professional and everything, do you not think it would have been the prudent and respectful thing to do to have been honest with me and told me?”
Bette’s eyebrows come together yet again, “Why? I don’t understand why. And it’s better…was better this way…I didn’t want you to feel weird about it…I didn’t want you to worry about it. Tina’s my business…my life. It’s not your problem and I didn’t want to complicate things for you or this to affect your professional life at all.”
Emma looks at Bette with her eyes glaring, half way between wanting to throttle her and wanting to just cry. Bette reaches to touch her face but Emma pushes Bette’s hand away.
“Emma…”
“NO…you can show yourself out.” She turns to leave the kitchen…
“What?! Emma…”
As she turns back… “You know what…I pitty you…”
“Excuse me…”
“I don’t want to be you when she finds out…”
“What do you mean?”
“You don’t get it, do you? You just don’t see through your immediate little world do you? If I feel like crap because you think I’m good enough to sleep with but you can’t trust me to share something so basic and fundamental, imagine how Dr. Kennard is going to feel when she finds out you were fucking her junior resident but didn’t have the decency to tell her…I really won’t want to be you at that moment, and right now I don’t want to be WITH you either. Goodnight.” She walks off, leaving Bette standing there with nothing but her uneasiness and unexpected solitude to keep her company.
(At the hospital, Madeleine and Tina are looking out a window…)
“He ended up surviving but there was really little hope of recovery after that.”
“What did you do?” Tina asks.
“What COULD I do? I moved on. I would visit him in the ward almost daily. The silence was deafening but he seemed at peace to me for some reason. I thought that the mental anguish I couldn’t alleviate for him was nowhere to be found on his face…his physical destruction seemed to do more for him than I could…it was an irony that I struggled to recover from.”
“And how did you overcome it?”
“Perspective…I had to learn to adjust how I was viewing things. It wasn’t my place to save him. Some things are just beyond our control.”
“Feel like my life is out of control sometimes.”
“Well, you’re certainly not unique then or alone in that predicament. You haven’t forgotten that very basic reality have you?”
“I suppose not.”
“Come on…let’s go. I really need that latte right now.” Tina smiles as they turn to leave Dr. Schmidt’s office.
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Good to see an update Merlin! Bette is unbeleivable sometimes. ALthough I love Bette it served her right in being dismissed. She must not care all that much about Amertadi, which is too bad because I liked them toegther. As for Tina, I am in the minority with NOT wanting a reunion but would like to know more about their past realtionship. I hope you post real soon! lol
i want a REUNION :)
I really enjoyed this update, by page 7 I didn’t want it to end.
Hey there Merlin, I love your stories so, of course, I’m still reading. I almost feel sorry for Bette, self-absorbed as she is sometimes, seems like she’s about to get a tongue-lashing from all sides! Your author’s note left me thinking and brought to mind the saying that happiness is not getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. Take care.
Who’s a stranger? Maybe Bette won’t be in so much hot water with the boss with Amertadi giving her the kiss off. Is it permanent? Why shouldn’t it be with Dr. Kennard on the scene? You know it’s not that I don’t like the senior staff, it’s just I don’t much care for authority figures meddling in the private affairs of adults who are their professional juniors. Merlin, believe me, I know being alone is no picnic, but what many fail to realize that there ARE worse things. Like settling for less. Keep your chin and your standards up.
Great chapter Merlin! I think Bette just got dumped! Yeh!! Now maybe she & Tina can start to talk. PPS!!
This is why I prefer to just not date anyone from work. Well, not like I have that problem anyway seeing as I’m the only lesbian where I work. lol I’m with B&TF. I want a reunion! ;)
Glad that you are back. I have missed this story. I am glad that Emma has seen through Bette. Did Bette leave Tina or vise versa? Of course being a Tibetter at heart I will always want them together, no matter what. I too have been alone for many years, sometimes it is better and other times it drives me insane. Oh yeah I am already insane.
Ido believe that Emma just blew Bette off. Would like to know why the break up between Bette and Tina. Lets go with the flow of your story and get our Bette and Tina together but not soon as then the story would end. thanks
Merl, loving it as usual. The banter between Bette and Em was serious, and yet at one point, after Em keeps referencing their sexual encounters as “f*cking”, Bette finishes it for her. That caused me to chuckle. The story is brilliantly laid out and being developed. Thank you for sharing your creative mind with us, as well as taking the time to do shout outs. On a personal note, I hope that wherever you are in your life, you are able to find some belief that you are where you are meant to be “at this moment.” That doesn’t mean that it can’t change tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. I truly believe we are all learning lessons in life with what we experience. Take care Merl, and always try to look for the positive, because believe it or not somewhere even in those darkest moments, there is a slice of it there. We just need to find it. ((((( HUGS )))))
Hey Merl, thanks for the update. Bette can be so self-absorbed sometimes. Amertadi is so right to get pissed off, and I can’t wait for Tina to put in her two cents worth and Bailey also. Sounds like Bette is about to get hit by a truck (lol). Maybe she should do a tour in psych. to learn behavior modification techniques. Don’t stay away too long!
I’m still reading…how could I not be? Your writing is too good to miss! Thanks!
What a tangled web you weave….and I’m thankful for that!!!
Glad to see an update from you Merlin. What a story. I wish Bette and Tina would get together at some point :-)
Hey Merl, Great to have you back with this exciting post. I love all of the shenanigans and messing around. Now more of Bette and Tina’s past needs to be revealed. Just lapping it all up. Thank you so much for returning and continuing this most excellent tale. Your Loyal Fan.