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Come Back to Me – Bette Porter Tina Kennard #4

“That’s the thing with lesbians,” Peggy looks at Gloria and Shirley to fill them in on her encompassing assessment. “They bed hop as frequently as the surrealists did in Paris a hundred years ago!”
I roll my eyes as Peggy approaches and a very small waiter wheels out a drinks cart. Peggy smiles at me slyly as she ignores the dwarf at her elbow and pours two fingers of chilled Blue Goose vodka in a martini glass instantly and quickly adds a twist. She fixes me and Tina with a look of encouragement, “I hope you girls write fabulous, sick, neurotic, tortured love poems to one another.”
I smile back at Peggy seductively as I take Tina by surprise. As I turn her to me she loops her arms behind my neck and slowly flows her fingers through my hair. We roll our lips together again before I break our kiss.
I smile conspiratorially at Peggy, “I’m actually working on several right now.”
Peggy hands her martini over to me to taste, “Send me a poem would you please, Bette?” She asks as I take a long sip of the martini she hands me.
“I prefer mine with olives. At least two but ideally three.” I say after I swallow the delicious vodka.
“I’ll have to remember that if we’re ever in need of such information again. And in the morning I like my first cup black. After that I’m open to suggestions.” Peggy smiles and takes her drink back. Tina puts her arm around my waist.
<!–nextpage–>“Listen, Baby if you want to get drunk this afternoon, I get it. I do. But we have Gloria’s thing tonight at the Wiltern. We can skip it if you’d like. I just don’t think you’re going to like the memory or lack there of, by getting shit faced after your father’s memorial.”
Shirley’s voice comes from behind us. “You two come inside. I have just the perfect gift for the baby, a little blessing pillow I brought back from my many travels.”
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The siren overhead in the ambulance is making it impossible for me to hear if Tina can speak coherently any longer or if she’s delirious again. My arms outstretched I brace myself as the driver takes a turn very fast. I look helplessly down at Tina who’s face is being strapped with oxygen and I can longer hear anything from her incoherent or otherwise. But I do want something.
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Amazing writing. I remember how heartless Franklin was …..firing Bette at her father’s memorial. What a jerk! Just an empty suit. I may be in the minority but I did not think that Bette was super controlling. She knew what she wanted, how she wanted it and was willing to work toward that end. The birth scene was terrifying. All of the control was in the doctor’s hands. Bette felt and was helpless. I just loved Bette and Tina together. The actors had amazing chemistry together even when Chaiken’s writing was subpar.
Amazing.Thank you for another great Story.
Franklin had an axe to grind. He tried to fire Bette when she failed to get the Peabody collection for Provocations but was stopped by Peggy. He took great pleasure in firing Bette on her father’s memorial day and knowing that she had a baby on the way. It was not one of Helena’s finest moments either. Excelling writing as usual.
What a repulsive cretin Franklin was, and his timing for Bette’s dismissal was diabolical. Of course it pales in comparison to burying one’s father and having one’s partner and baby being whisked away under the harsh lighting of an OR, but still.
Thanks for posting.
Franklins timing could’ve used a bit of work yes, but no one else seemed particularly sympathetic. off to the next
Thank you for another great story
Franklin, Leo and Helen for that matter are pure assholes out with jeslousy over the one and only Bette Porter. Franklin mad because shes brilliant, Leo wish he was brilliant like her, and Helena is jealous of the brilliance and her brilliance life with Tina…the baby being born makes me tense up for some reason seems like alot of pain…Amazing writing
You so ‘get’ Bette don’t you Blackbird!
Had to have a drink after the birth, and I knew what happened.
Great writing.
As with the previous posts, I was utterly mesmerised at the chain of events in this post.
My heart bleeds for Bette as she is fired and then Tina is in labour and if not for Dr Wilson, she may have missed Anjelica’s birth.
Once again I was there in the emergency room watching it all.
What an incredibly gifted writer you are.