Kit arrived at Twilight just in time to see
Bette barreling out the door and down the staircase to the side, a
clearly worried Candace close behind, saying “Bette, honey, don’t! You
don’t have to do this!” Candace cried out, waving a quick hello to Kit
as she dodged around her.

Ivan followed the couple with a worried expression on his face. He
grabbed Kit by the shoulders and pulled her close to him. “Wait,” he
whispered, then called out “Girls, wait on us! Don’t go.” He stopped,
seeing the door close, “down there”

Kit gave him a blank stare. “What the HELL is goin’ on? Where are they goin’?”

“The basement club,” Ivan answered calmly, a small smile on his handsome lips.

“Well, fine, let’s get goin’!” Kit stated, making a move to the door.

“Not yet.” Ivan rested his hands on Kit’s shoulders. “The clubit’s a
leather bar. More than your normal leather bar, my Queen.”

Kit looked at him, confusion in her eyes. “So?”

“So, Tina is in there.” Ivan informed her; Kit blinked as if not making the connection. Then.

Her eyes widened. “In there?” She nodded toward the stairwell.

“With Shane.” Ivan filled in the blanks for his lady love.

Kit’s mouth dropped open. “With Shane?” she echoed numbly, the pieces
falling into place, then with a bit of attitude. “When you say, ‘with
Shane’, you don’t mean, like, with her?”

“Yeah, Tina and Shane. Together. As in, together.” Confirming the
suspicions and gossip that had started with Tina and Shane’s appearance
at Dana’s wedding, Ivan had a quirky smile on his face, as if he almost
approved of the pairing.

Kit shook her head, putting her hands on her hips and grunting a bit. “Well, maybe they don’t know what kind of.”

“Oh, they know,” Ivan nodded. “Believe me, they know.”

Kit snapped her mouth shut and chewed on that bit of information.
“Well, then, why my baby sister chargin’ down there like the cavalry
then? Ain’t her business, is it, who Tina sees, how Tina lives?”

“No, but .” Ivan began, but then stopped. Kit knew Bette better than
anyone, and she should have known that Bette would never go for
something like this, Tina in a leather bar. Especially THIS leather bar.