“We need to know Kit,” Her legs failed her as memories of Dana washed her soul.  She couldn’t bear to lose another from her family again. Not when it’s still so fresh. The hurt of parting ways with her biggest love yet and now she’s losing Bette. She feels like a little kid caught up in her parent’s divorce. The animosity between her family especially between Tina and Kit is unbearable. It is one thing to keep things hidden from Tina after what she did but it was simply unreasonable to keep the rest of the girls in the dark. They needed to know. They needed to be reassured – to feel safe in the knowledge that the family was still intact in some way.

“Kit, please…” The quiet and collective brunette pleaded with her for the first time. Shane’s eyes were reflecting her helplessness at the moment. She was aware of the internal struggle that her friend had, trying to decide the best course of action. Regardless of the absence of any blood relation, they were a family and Kit had always cared for the girls like they were all her baby sisters. She played up that fact today in order to get Kit to open up with them. She felt bad for it but this had to be done. They haven’t heard for Bette since she took off with Angie and her disappearance as well as Kit’s silence over it concerned her deeply. This was big, she concluded, and they would get to the bottom of it once and for all.

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 Tina stood in front of her former home, silently regarding it with fondness. Her garden was gone. The greens were replaced with brown deadness. She shut her eyes tight and hugged her body as a breeze passes her sweaty body. She was there again, on the outside looking in. This was her place, she acknowledged with some bitterness, always the outsider when it came to her lost love.

She never felt truly accepted for who she was ever since the beginning of their relationship, Bette had always managed to keep some part of herself strictly unreachable to the blonde. She remembered how much Bette worried about her leaving with another man. That went well, she thought. She returned her attention to the house in front of her.