Tina stretches up to place a little
kiss on Bette’s lips “Yeah I would, thanks.”

Tina moved in front of Bette to precede
her out the door and onto the patio where everyone had taken a seat.  Shane, Dana and Alice where comfortably
sitting around the table while Kit was pulling up a lounge chair and taking a
seat.  Tina had that twinkle in her eye
as she scoped everyone out. 

“So what brings everyone over here?”
Tina asks walking up to Alice and placing her left hand on her shoulder but
first waving it around a little trying to catch everyone’s eye.

Alice
totally misses the gesture, all the girls are so focused on the news of Helena‘s house and her
obsession with Anna that they failed to see Tina’s wave.

Alice
feeling pressure to respond since Tina had her by the shoulder “Well you know
we just hadn’t seen you guys in a while and well we were wondering what was
new.  So Tina anything new you want to
share with us?”

Bette watched the whole hand move by
Tina but was surprised by Alice
not picking up on it, she just started laughing “Yeah Tina anything new you
would like to share?”

This gets Bette a dirty look from Tina
but it was enough for Alice and Kit to look closer at the two of them.  It was Kit who spotted the rings first.  “Bette Bette what do you have on your
finger?  Is it what I think it is?”

Before Bette could say a word Alice had grabbed Tina’s
left and was staring at the ring there. 
“Holy Smokes and everything sacred Tina you have your ring on.  You have your ring on!”

Tina now joined Bette laughing, “Yes I
know.”

***

Bette was seated in Jack’s conference
room looking at some of the pictures that he had left hanging on the
walls.  Most of the other pictures had
been stacked up on the corner of the conference room table.  All of the pictures on the wall were the ten
photographs that had been displayed to the public at MOCA.

Standing in front of ‘The Delivery’
photograph once again Bette is taken back to her own experience in the delivery
room as Tina had delivered Anna.  The
look of determination in Tina’s eyes as she is about to push her final
push.  In Bette’s mind’s eye she
remembers that look but not with the clarity that was reflected in this
photo.  This was a much closer view than
the one of Bette’s from the back of the room. 
Bette knew that Helena
wasn’t really the one holding Tina’s hand it had been a nurse.  Standing here looking at the picture Bette
knew she wanted to be the one holding that hand the next time.