Bette (stepping back): Thank you…

Kit (nodding): Sure. Let me go help Papi with Porter the Third (sensing they needed sometime alone.)

Bette (waiting to the door shut): How are you feeling?

Tina (craving Bette’s warmth and security): Better that I told you, hurt, angry, lost because it’s come back and it’s hurt you…

Bette (kissing her): I love you Tina Kennard. I’d give my life for you, in a heartbeat (another kiss) I don’t want you thinking about hurting me. Don’t you see if you hurt I hurt. And you not telling me all this time changes nothing. What happened to you, changes nothing, what happened was terrible and I want to beat the shit out of everyone involved (feeling Tina try to pull back.) No don’t go there in your head. Look at me (seeing sea green eyes full of fear and anxiety) what you went through no child should ever have to (brushing Tina’s lips with hers) and I vow that I will do everything I have to, to protect our child and you. (Brushing back blond hair) this, this pain, this horrible tragedy changes nothing of what I feel for you. If anything it makes me love you more, makes me see how much strength you have and Gods Tina, if I had known…

Tina (laying her head on Bette’s chest): I’m sorry…

Bette (rubbing her back): Sorry for what? Sorry that I wasn’t your first (anger in her voice) sorry that someone else touched you before me. That’s horse shit babe. Absolute horse shit. If anything I’m the one that’s sorry because you were hurt. And as far as not being your first, I am, because I was the first one that truly loved you. What happened, doesn’t change things babe? Nothing and I’m not going to push you away, turn my back on you. You should have never kept it from me but I understand, that the past hurts. No more what ifs, no more sorrys and no more guilt. You are a victim, a victim of something no child should suffer.  

Tina (tightening her hold on Bette): I love you…