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Another Left Turn – Chapter 4a
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Quickly, Bette now took a note of the address, phone number and email. Her contacts were synched but Dani was right: if it’s important, make it analogue.
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Temecula was about an hour north-northeast of San Diego. Tina sank into her driving seat and set the satnav for De Portola Road. She thought about calling Angie, but decided to leave it until later. The drive would help clear her head, and anyway Angie was with Shane while Bette was away on some kind of retreat. They were fine.
That initial session with Wendy had been hard, but hard was what Tina had expected. They’d spent a long time talking about her current life, current relationships, current issues, and then only towards the end did Tina get the chance to explain why she was really there: to talk about the incestuous relationship she had had with her older sister.
Saying the words out loud, for only the second time in her entire life, had made Tina feel sick to her stomach. Wendy had topped up her water glass while Tina swallowed rapidly to control the nausea. But then it passed and she was able to say that it had gone on for three years. That no one else in her family knew. That she hadn’t seen or spoken to her sister since their mother passed away, more than twenty years ago. Tina had seen her father once since then.
It took Tina a long time to say these simple facts. She paused for whole minutes in between sentences. When the last pause went on for about four minutes, Wendy had said they had plenty of time to talk about anything Tina wanted to talk about later, then guided the conversation gently back to ask where Tina was staying.
‘With a friend in Temecula,’ Tina told her.
‘That’s good. You need to be with someone you can rely on for patience and support.’
‘She’s one of my best friends.’
Wendy smiled. ‘Tina, you’ve been very courageous today. It’s not easy to address aspects of our lives that we’ve lived with a certain way for a long time.’ She lifted her glasses from her chest, put them on and picked up her notepad. ‘You have a Xanax prescription, don’t you?’
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Thank you for the new updates!
Bye, Carrie, we will not miss you. Good for Tina what she decided to talk about that she was raped by her sister, by for me this interrogation never where cannon, so i not going to more talk about that.
By the way – i’m not watching Gen Q besides parts with Bette and Tina, and briefly Bette, when she mention Tina, so when Shane from aunt became uncle?)
Thanks for commenting, Zenhya. In GenQ, Angie calls Shane ‘uncle’ as kind of a joke?
Thanks for reading even tho you don’t agree with everything. I appreciate it. :-)
Hi Largo, hope you’re feeling better!
I actually felt a little bad for Carrie, people should learn not to get involved with either Bette ot Tina… Still, happy to see her go ;-)
I remember being worried when I first read this that Bette and Dani were gonna start something with this trip, I’m so happy you didn’t go this route. There’s anough drama between Bette and Tina without adding anyone else to the mix.
I just love the way you describe things, characters and spaces, it really help me get into the story. I especially felt it here with Wendy and her office.
On to the other half of this chapter
Hi Noa – I am feeling a bit better. Very kind of you to ask. :-)
I’m glad you enjoyed the descriptions of Wendy’s office. I enjoy daydreaming about things like that. And yes, Carrie had a very rough ride with Tina. I felt bad doing that to her but at least there wasn’t any cheating a la Jodie.
Thank you for commenting x
Finally, Tina getting some proper therapy!
Most of TiBette’s mistakes would’ve been prevented if they just committed to some good long-term therapy. Emphasis on long-term and not something they stop after a few sessions when things get good or bad again.
Look, I’ll admit here that although I’m a TiBetter, I do ship Dani/Bette I haven’t found any actual fics that properly explore what a relationship between them would have looked like, but I can’t help but think it would have been good. I thought in S1 of GQ the writers were setting up SOMETHING between them, but obviously they chickened out of it. I really liked their dynamic, I thought they worked very well together, their similarities AND their differences were very compatible, in a strange way. I think a relationship between them would have been a very interesting one to explore – not necessarily an endgame forever relationship, but I think it would have been good for both of them. They both obviously cared for and protected each other, Dani took care of Bette, and managed and negated a lot of stress for her (which is something Bette really needs, despite her controlling/Alpha tendencies, sometimes she just needs to be taken care of and have someone to lean on), while Dani benefitted from and needed Bette’s mentorship/advice/drive/passion, without being made to feel inferior or incapable in any way.
I’m looking forward to their trip :)
Haha, yes! Danette had potential, didn’t they?? Some people felt it was icky bc of the age difference, but if they’re both okay with it then it’s really no one else’s business, is it? In the end I didn’t feel it was right bc I wanted Bette to try and do something different, to make an effort to heal from Tina’s desertion. I love what you say about how they protected one another. I loved that too.
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