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“I did notice. I wanted to run after you.” Tina is crying as her own memories come flooding back.
“But you didn’t Tina. You chose to stay with Helena. When I got home that night I walked into our bedroom and I noticed some things had been moved around. I knew you’d been there earlier. You still had access to the house, and you’d been moving stuff a little at a time. When you had things at the house, I still had a little bit of hope that maybe you’d come back, but that night I walked up to our bedroom closet and saw the empty hangers on your side.
You’d taken the last of your clothes along with any hope I had of you ever coming home. I walked out of the house into the back yard and submerged myself in the pool fully clothed. I floated and I cried my eyes out for everything that I’d lost. It was so quiet yet so loud. My loneliness was so loud. I couldn’t stand it. I wanted for everything that had been taken away from me. I wanted my life back. I wanted you. I wanted my art. I wanted my home life. I wanted love and respect. I wanted friendship and loyalty. I wanted to have a family. I wanted to have my livelihood. I wanted… I wanted… I wanted…
I lay in the pool with my face under water. I held my breath, but I came awfully close to letting go. I just had to open my mouth to allow the water to fill my lungs, but something held me back. A faint ringing penetrated the loudness inside my head. It took me a while to realize that it was the phone. The will to let go was gone. My head cleared. I got out of the water and answered. It was James; the only person in my life at that time that was steadfast in his love and loyalty to me. He said he just had a gut feeling and he called to check on me. I didn’t tell him that he saved my life that night. I didn’t tell him until last year at Angie’s birthday party.”
Both Bette and Tina are in tears. Tina draws Bette into an embrace. They hold each other and cry together and try to comfort each other. The pain and emotions are so raw, so close to the surface. The revelation of the suicide attempt is cathartic for both.
Finally, Tina realizes how fragile and vulnerable Bette has become as a result of both her and Helena’s callous treatment and malicious actions against her. In defending Helena against Bette and Peggy Tina had allowed her malevolence back into Bette’s psyche, inadvertently breaking her promise of never causing that kind of pain and suffering.
“My God. What have I done? How did I not see this?”
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Thank you, so much, for returning to this Story. As usual you have made me smile and cry.
Looking forward to more posts on this story and your other stories.
Stay safe and well,
SG
Hello SG – thank you. It was your comment that inspired me to go back and update a new chapter of this story so I appreciate the gentle nudge :-)
I will continue this one and alternate with updates on A Different Outcome.
Take care.
Wow…. so Tina now sees what Helena did to Bette. Does she really understand how deeply hurt Bette was because of Tina’s actions. I never understood Tina’s relationship with Helena. Was it just a novelty? Someone who wasn’t Bette? Something to make Bette jealous? Yet, the way Tina was treated by Helena, why would she keep the relationship going? And why could she see that Helena was destroying Bette – professionally and personally? She was pregnant committed to having Bette as her other parent, yet she stayed with Helena. This was bound to cause problems with both Helena and Bette and she knew it. Yet she persisted. Why? Was it to punish Bette for her past deeds? Tina does have a lot to do some self examination on. I see now why Bette is scared. Tina has no idea that her continued support for Helena as her friend is a threat to her relationship with Bette and their family.
Now how will Tina respond? Will she really take this information to heart? She came very close to losing Bette forever with her relationship with Helena. And Bette has been sitting on the wound now for eight years and its is still as painful as the night she walked into that pool. Does Tina now see that? I hope so. And as long as she continues to be sympathetic toward Helena and her plight of being without money and in a mental facility, the wound will continue to fester. Now maybe Tina can help Bette to heel, but only if she understands what Helena did.
Thanks for this chapter….. very well done. Love to see more…
Have to go back and reacquaint myself with the changes you have made in the B and T story. In the series I grew to eventually like Helena but certainly did not when she first came on the scene. That being said and focusing on your story – Bette’s retelling of the history of “Some Kind of Wonderful“ is still heartbreaking. Regarding those events through Bette’s eyes – I may never totally forgive Tina for how she threw her affair with Helena right in Bette’s face. She was intentionally cruel. Finally Bette has shared the suicide attempt. Tina better understand once and for all the sheer magnitude of her having flaunted Helena but I have a nagging doubt. Perhaps the title of the chapter? With Tina there seems to be a but where Helena is concerned. Does Tina really get it – finally?? I suspect that dangerous BUT may still be there in spite of all of the hurt and the evil. I know Peggy has eyes on Helena but I still fear she is out there plotting – as this chapter perhaps foreshadows. Will it take Helena’s return and a face to face to test Tina’s commitment and allegiance to Bette? Hopefully I am reading too much into it. Bette’s looking over her shoulder regarding Helena and Tina’s blind spot for that evil woman (as depicted in your story) are a bit worrisome for this couple. I seriously hope I am wrong.
I agree with Martha’s and Billy’s comment!!!
Heart breaking to read about Bette’s pain in that time, how she was feeling and the hurt she felt due to the actions of both Tina and Helena.
I never understood how Tina could still defend Helena after everything she heard from Bette and Peggy.
Maybe this will help to finally open her eyes. If not i am seriously worried for their relationship.
Thanks for coming back with this story!
Bibi thank you for reading and commenting. I don’t understand Tina either but I will try to make some sense of it as I continue the story. Thank you for sticking with me.
Billy, Tina’s next move is yet to be written but I have asked myself all those questions. Will it take another tragic event to bring Tina to the realization that Helena is pure evil. Will she sacrifice her family, her marriage and Bette’s mental well-being for a sociopath? Does the evil lurk within?
I hope your worries are unfounded, but we will just have to wait and see.
Martha, thank you. You’ve summarized it well. I too was perplexed by Tina’s relationship with Helena. I think at first it was out of hurt and the need to feel desired after Bette cheated, but then it became cruel and vengeful in my eyes.
That’s part of the reason why I didn’t have Bette cheat in this story. I didn’t want to give Tina an excuse for her behavior it was just plain malicious intent and that is worrisome especially if she can’t see it.
Bette has unburdened herself, now we just need to see what impact it has on Tina and her allegiance to Helena in favor of her family.
Thank you. I’m glad to read a new chapter of this story and of course I’d like more
Stay safe.
izzie, thank you for reading and commenting. I’m thrilled to be back writing again. Really appreciate you sticking with me despite the long absences. You stay safe as well.
Referencing way way back to the chapters: First last and forever and A new kind of partnership we are still in the same story line in which Tina cheated with Helena and there was no Candace correct? From your backstory
“Tina had not intentionally set out to have an extramarital affair or to hurt Bette Porter but the opportunity presented itself in the person of Helena Peabody. Tina was feeling dejected, undesirable, rejected, and most of all like a failure. She was vulnerable and Helena took advantage of her fragility.“
“As if the professional blow wasn’t enough, after two years of trying to have a baby and making all the sacrifices that they had Bette and Tina‘s marriage was over. Tina had met someone else and moved on. Now the prospect of having a family and living the happily ever after was lost to Bette Porter. Bette didn’t think that things could get any worse but she soon realized that denying the grant was just the beginning of Helena’s intrusion in her life. The woman had launched an all-out war to destroy Bette Porter’s personal and professional life as well as her livelihood.“
We are in a continuation of this story correct?
I will keep this posted but was able to trace it back to Sand Art. The original is one of my favorite stories. I thought that including so much of Angie was precious. A lot of love. Glad they are having another baby. Just had to get myself oriented again. Three months later. I’m good now.
Hi Billy, thank you for reading and posting your comments. Yes you are correct in tracing the backstory and thank you for bringing it forward here as a reminder to other readers. In this story Bette did not cheat/no Candace.
I could never reconcile how Tina could be with Helena and be so blinded by what Helena was doing to destroy Bette. My attempt at tackling this storyline is very much exaggerated from what was portrayed on the show. Helena was not as evil as I make her out to be in this story. I even have Bette joke that she may be responsible for killing Mr. Piddles (Dana’s cat) but the point is she was malicious and Tina was party to it.
By now Bette and Tina are in a good place, they are pregnant with their second child but this dark period has to be brought into the light and dealt with. Bette’s fear is that Tina has an unnatural affection for Helena that could again intrude on their lives and destroy everything they’ve build together should Helena be allowed to once again take hold.
“Out of the mouth’s of babes” was my favorite story to write. I’m glad it’s one of your favorites. I really hated that they didn’t focus more time on Bette and Tina parenting Angie. It seems like most times they forgot they even had a child, and if she was mentioned it was usually during an argument.
Anyway, this 2nd baby experience will be much better and Angie gets a sibling.
Thank you so much for your reply. I particularly loved Bette collecting angels for Angelica. What a lovely sentiment. It is a very beautiful story. Glad that Bette will be part of this pregnancy. And I really enjoy Grandma Peggy.
B
So glad you decided to continue this story. Out of the mouths of Babes was the first FanFic I had read and started me down the road of writing myself.
I love how you approached that specific scene of her walking into the water, heart wrenching. How you filled in the emotional turmoil and long term impact of bad Helena on their relationship. I never understood why either, Tina always seemed to second guess herself with a Helena. Knowing the hatred Helena had for Bette made Tina’s actions even more hurtful.
Looking forward to the next chapter
K