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Again she shook the container hoping the distinctive sound would rattle her thought process. It seemed like she would need one of the pills soon too. Leaving the vanity she approached the familiar form who sat where she slept through the night.
“I’m sorry about this.” Fingers massaging her temples Tina tried to rub away the persistent throbbing.
Bette replied, “It’s okay.”
“No actually. It isn’t.”
“Weren’t you able to sleep?” the well-meaning brunette queried.
“I was.” Tina sighed thoughtfully. “Too well.”
“Was it the pot or the alcohol?” Bette endeavored to tear through the tension that surfaced almost instantly.
Tina twisted off the cap and reached for the glass of water the woman she faced brought. “It was because I was here.” In this house. Where everything felt like it fit.
She breathed out then wet her lower lip. “I can see why you love her.”
“And why is that?” Bette tested.
“Because.” Tina answered as if the rest had already been divulged.
A neighbor’s door slammed shut. Hurried steps then the revving of an engine followed signaling a departure.
“Why did you drink so much?”
In the back of her mind was a peculiar if not irrational idea – a wish even – that Tina did it because of what she told her. To want her ex to have reacted to her admission of loving another.
Of course it sounded selfish. Yet there was a part of her that couldn’t help it. Wanting Tina to behave a little foolishly because of her. If Tina felt enough to lose herself in alcohol maybe she wasn’t as sorry as she said she was about them having kissed. That she was affected by the fact that she had feelings for someone else. That she cared.
Because if she did… if Tina felt even an inkling of something it might mean …
“Where’s Jodi?” Tina’s question interrupted her musing.
“She left for the day.” Bette peeked at Tina to ask for a second time, “Why did you drink so much?”
“It was a party.”
“A noisy one.”
“I wasn’t going to drive. I was trying to call a cab but Jodi brought me here.”
“I see.”
“You don’t believe me? Do you think I wanted this to happen?”
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I loved it, timeline or no timeline.
Just as the first time you presented this story, I felt that you had a better handle on Tibette than the writers of the show. They need to take a refresher course taught by you.
Even better the second time around!!!! :)
Thanks for reposting the story in its entirety. I enjoy your approach to the characters and the explanation of motive is often what we don’t see. Thanks for writing, and I hope you have time to share more soon.
i love how you’ve put all the chapters together. it does give a better sense of continuity. and also gives me another reason to read it again (and again).
”…the timeline is not perfect. ” Never worry about that, lwordid. (*my feeling is that anyone who watches tlw has already been innoculated against timeline detail frets. ;-) _ thanks for writing!
aww…loved it and i read the whole thing again, it worked better this way :)
simply lovely……great “stolen” line too! thx for this :-)
12 pages and still not enough! Thanks for putting all the chapters together and allowing your readers to enjoy this story in its entirety. Great stuff, as usual. Thanks for this.
*sigh *exhaling *PERFECT