After lying in bed for most of the day she’d gained some semblance of normalcy and began moving through her apartment. Her eyes were drawn to a DVD sitting on her kitchen table. Her name was written on it. The note next to it was in Alice’s handwriting. She put it in and watched as instructed by the note. What she saw nearly frightened her to death.

　

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“Bette if you’re watching this then it means that we’ve woken up. Hopefully not to much time has passed since November 16^th.”

“November 16^th?” Bette looked over to the clock beside her couch and saw the date read 12/10. “No fucking way…”

Her attention was captured again by Alice popping into the screen, “By the way I’m totally against this. But as usual you’re forcing me to do something I want nothing to do with. You’re so lucky I love you.”

Bette grabbed the camera again and turned it towards herself annoyed with alice’s interruption, “Anyway,… whatever day or month or even year it is just try and get back into the swing of things. We had to do this in order for the disconnect to leave our body. So go see Alice and everything should be fine.” Bette paused the DVD on her face. She looked ghastly, her face was pale and thin as hell. She released the pause button and saw how Alice had to help her to stand. The DVD cut off and she still couldn’t believe what she’d just seen.

From what she knew of disconnects illnesses she knew that her magic was going to suffer for a while before it came back full strength. She’d tried to at the very least move a lamp in her living room and it didn’t even budge.

“That’s just fucking perfect.” Bette said to herself. She began to try and figure into her mind how long it would take for her to get her full strength back. Sitting there she’d been trying to figure a time frame into her mind when it suddenly dawned on her. She had no idea who she had the disconnect from?

　

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“And I promise to increase…” right then is when Tina tuned out the same speech she’d heard countless times from her stepfather. He’d promised , guaranteed, assured, pledged, given his word, and damn near swore an oath to this, that and the other. She could care less. Her only thought was Bette, so much so she’d almost forgotten how to function properly in this world. A pinch to her back brought her back to reality.