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Great Unexpectations Chapter 34
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Bette emerged from hiding and gently said, "We’ve been looking for you, Cora. It’s alright."
Cora looked at Bette. At Bette’s long dark curly tresses. At her mocha skin. This woman looked familiar. How did she know her? Who the hell are these people? Cora, frightened now, backed her way to the door that Richard guarded. Tina stood silently while Bette approached the young woman carefully. Cora removed her can of pepper-spray and pointed it at Bette’s general direction. Bette froze in her tracks. Her eyes began to water. She’d not yet been sprayed. She did not fear being sprayed. She assumed it would happen. What she feared was that Cora would get away. To have gone through this long search, to have watched Faye die, and then to have finally found Cora only to lose her now was more than she could bear. The tears fell from her eyes. And that’s when it clicked for Cora. That’s when she recognized Bette. "I know you. You’re the lady from TV. The lady that my mom…"
"I’m Bette Porter."
Now there was real fear in Cora’s eyes. She began to cry. "You can’t blame me for that. That was her. I had nothing to do with that."
Bette again began to approach very calmly. "It’s ok. Shh. I don’t blame you. That was a long time ago." Cora looked from Bette to Tina and back to Bette again. The expressions were identical. Sincere.
"If you don’t blame me, what do you want with me?"
"We’ve been looking for you. We’ve been helping your mother. We…We’re here because of your mother."
"My mom? She’s an old bitch! Why would you help her?"
Hearing this attack on Faye’s character angered the drunken Richard and he punched the door with his fist. "That’s enough!!", he said loudly.
"Richard, please", Bette said, trying to entice an atmosphere of calm and serenity out of a potentially explosive situation. "Cora", Bette continued. "This may be hard for you to believe right now but your mom and I…we’ve made our peace with each other. We’ve been helping her. She’s been trying to find you. We all just want to help you. To keep you safe."
"Even him?", Cora asked, pointing behind her with a thumb.
Tina smiled. "Even him. Maybe even especially him."
"Where is she? Why isn’t my mom here?"
Tina and Bette exchanged tentative glances. "Well", Tina started. "Your mom has been sick. Very sick."
"So where is she? Is she at the hospital?" Again, there were silent glances. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation she turned to Richard. "Where is she?!", Cora demanded. Richard’s only response was a trembling chin and moist eyes.
Cora turned back to Bette and Tina. Correctly fearing the worst, she weakly dropped the pepper-spray to the floor. Richard slowly walked up behind her, still keeping himself between Cora and the door. "Honey", Tina said, stepping nervously toward her. "I’m so sorry to have to tell you this. Your mom…she died."
Cora stood in a stupor. Her ears filled with an annoying hum while the lights faded from the room. Before it went completely dark she saw Bette lunging for her with an outstretched arm. And she heard Bette call out, "Richard!"
TBC.
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Damn Red, you always so that!!!! Stop when it gets to the good parts. I am so loving this. Thanks PPS
Ok Red, this is what we’ve been waiting for, please do not make us wait to long. Md
I’m sorry you’re bringing “Great Unexpectations” to a close, but I love how you’re going about it. The Betsy/Albert ruse was a hoot. It figures Richard would try to take advantage. Good thing Tina’s so handy with a fork.
Sorry to see this story come to an end but so happy they found her. Hopefully when she wakes, she will listen to them and take their advice, comfort and the protection they offer. This has been a very interesting story from the start, and believe me I had my doubts, as you well remember from my comments early on, that Faye was being honest and genuine. I believe I offered an apology somewhere in there for my comments but, if I did not, please accept my apologies now, I was wrong. You’ve done a wonderful job with this story. Please post soon.
I dunno what upsets me more, that this story is coming to an end or that Cora missed her mom by a few days. *sigh* I hope Cora stays, and lets them all help her. “Bet” let “Albert” off too lightly, with only a fork jab. That doesn’t matter though, once she sees to Cora, I think Bette is going to give Richard a thorough pummeling. Or at least I hope so. I take it Kit and T have something really good worked out (I have an idea what it is), I’ll be waiting to see. Great chapter, red, post when you can. Thanks!
u really had me going there. more when u can. Thx.
Hopefully Cora will forgive her Mother,and can peacefully morn her passing. Now it up to Bette and Tina to protct her from other evil thing that is lurking in the background. thanks so much for posting
shit, i’m kinda afraid to have dinner with you. stabbed in the leg? if i pass the salt instead of the peeper do i get a bread knife in the eye? another great update red but you and your damn cliffhangers. i’m curious where you’re going with this and don’t worry ladies, red is such a stickler for details that she’s got a long way to go before she can wrap all of this up. oh, she’ll threaten us and swear it’s almost the last one but it will drive her nuts to finish hap hazardly so don’t worry there is plenty of story left! lol. ok, red post when you can and you better have an even better story to tell after tonight…
Excellent update. Eagerly awaiting the next :)
They finally find her and now they have to tell her that her mother is gone. It sounds like Cora really did love her mother but was unable to live with all that had happened to her in her life. I hope that she allows Bette and Tina into her life. It would be nice to see her around the gang. I hate to see this end and I hope that you will continue to write after you have finished this story.
Brilliant, as always, red. This continues to be one of my favorite stories. Emotional as it was, this chapter also had me cracking up… Betsy and Albert, lovely couple! I wouldn’t have guessed at the onset that I would have felt sad that Faye didn’t have the opportunity to right things with her daughter. Look foward to reading Cora reaction to their story. Thanks for such a wonderful read!
This is so freaking good and we all waiting for this moment, so emotional and hope Caro will let B&T and R to help her and get her life safe. Please post more, thanks!
Great story …..still. Nice to see that there can be drama without it being between B&T.
As usual you’ve outdone yourself. However, the cliffhangers are killers. :) I am glad Cora didn’t take off before they could start to talk to her. I feel so bad for her and hope she will let them help her.
Great chapter! Tina stabbing Richard with a fork & him limping off was soooo funny. Hope B&T&R can help Cora now that they’ve found her. Thanks!
oOoO c’mon you gotta post soon, i read the whole thing in one night n now i want to know how it ends, its been awesome xx