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Chapter 17
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“Bette you know I only got involved with her after the fact. I earned that grant legitimately. You suggested I submit it. You helped me with several parts of it. It’s insulting to me that you would even allude to something so sordid?”
“Tina I know the truth, but that is what I’m trying to explain. It’s all about perception. There is evidence that your proposal got special treatment. There were a lot of organizations that were overlooked by Peabody. She didn’t even read the CAC proposal and I know for a fact that she gave her assistant instructions to move your proposal to the top before it even arrived.”
“I don’t believe this shit. Is this all part of your conspiracy theory that she’s out to destroy you and somehow using me to do it?”
“It’s not a theory Tina. It’s documented fact. If you don’t open your eyes to what this deceitful bitch is capable of then you’re liable to lose everything you’ve worked so hard to build at that center.”
“You’re telling me that Helena Peabody granted the center $100,000 as a ruse to get my attention? That is so ridiculous. She told me she transferred the money to the center’s account yesterday. I haven’t slept with her and she never led me to believe that getting the money was predicated on our personal involvement.”
“She would never say it Tina. She’s too smart for that but her actions speak for themselves.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Tina. I went to New York several months ago to meet with Helena Peabody to discuss the CAC grant. She didn’t even have the decency to treat me with a modicum of professional courtesy. She acted like she didn’t know who I was and she admitted she hadn’t read our proposal. She gave me all this bullshit about changing the focus of the foundation and shifting the resources to social services projects. She even let me read a proposal for a program in Boston that she was considering. That’s when I mentioned my involvement with the center, and talked about your program in the hopes that we could find some common ground.”
“She told me that you were arrogant and demanding about the arts projects.”
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Love the quick update. Tina is such a fool. Thanks
OMG!!!!! If only Tina would listen to common sense. She will live to regret being so impetuous, maybe. I knew she would not listen to Bette.Tina acts as though she has lost her ability to discern negative actions . Poor fool. Thanks for posting.
Hi Bat, thanks for the update. The bad news is that Tina is still sinking the good news is that she is back into women, well indeed it seems that Tina has to keep falling more and more, I am surprised that she didn’t get any professional psychological help (she was the one looking for it in the show, well, I know this is not the show) and she really need it, Tina should stop the placebos as Henry the situation here is that Tina doesn’t have a real friend and Henry is just a friend with benefits, but the one that get the more benefits is Henry and not Tina, as we read, after several months Tina is still subsiding. I think Bette must have talked to Tina before Helena arrived to LA, because now is too late everything looks too awkward. As sad as the story is, I love it, please don’t hesitate and keep posting and I will be waiting for tomorrow’s chapter. Thanks again pps.
proteonomics – I agree that Tina continues to sink and her relationships with both Henry and Helena is disturbing. She should get some professional psychological help but if you recall on the show she didn’t. She went to Foxworthy when they were trying to have the baby and after she miscarried but once she got pregnant with Angelica she dismissed therapy and it was Bette that sought out Foxworthy on her own. It was also Bette that suggested they see the sex therapist after the baby was born and they were having problems. That’s the main reason why I had Bette in therapy even though it was also to introduce her love interest (Emma) because I think Bette really wanted to be a better person while Tina just acted on her impulses with total disregard for how it hurt other people. Even in the way she used Henry was heartless.
As for Bette talking to Tina before Helena arrived in Los Angeles – I don’t think she anticipated Helena using Tina or putting her in danger.
Getting ‘back to life’ and ‘back to reality’ after my break and happy to see your regular postings continue.
I love and will read all your stories regardless of my aching Tibette heart at them not being together simply because of the talented way you write both the stories and the characters. I find myself wanting to ‘smack’ Tina in this post but you will know that! Wkm is right she is ‘a fool’ and your Author’s Note was not quite correct in that she certainly did not ‘hear’ Bette.
Thank you and look forward to your continuing posts.
Hi SassyGran – it is hard to get back to life and reality but glad you were able to take a break. Sorry this story is so heartbreaking. I hesitated to re-post it but I appreciate that people are still reading and commenting. You are correct Tina didn’t ‘hear’ anything Bette said, but she will come to her senses in time.
TINA is another forecast:cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.How in GOD’s name does she not see the control HELENA is exerting over her life.BETTE did warn her but the storm is fast approaching and TINA will get caught up in the downpour all because she is letting a cunt do her thinking instead of using her head.I PITY THIS FOOL .THANKS,ps.
dunnthat – I love your analogy. I would increase the slight chance of thunderstorms to tornado warnings!! Tina is going to sink pretty low, but all is not lost. She will come to her senses eventually. Thank you for reading and commenting