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Heartbeat – Chapter 4
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Bette heard Tina talk to someone behind the curtains. She was getting ready to give Tina a warm smile when the curtains opened and she saw the love of her life and her soon-to-be ex-wife standing next to each other.
The two women stood at the foot of the gurney. Unsure of what the next step should be. Tina glanced from Bette to Andrea. She bit her lip and adjusted the stethoscope hanging from her neck. “I’ll leave you to two alone. I still need to check on other patients and close out charts before I leave tonight.” Tina turned to Sue. “Sue, please call if there’s a change in her EKG and please call respiratory to do a stat ABG on her.” Tina took another look at Bette and Andrea and turned to leave.
“T…Tina…um…are you coming back?”
“Sue and I will bring you upstairs once the bed is ready on the telemetry floor.” Tina turned and pulled the curtains to a close.
Andrea watched Bette watch Tina leave. She walked over to the nurse. “Excuse me, Sue. Can I have moment with Bette please?”
Sue checked the reading on the cardiac monitor and wrote it down in a notepad. “Sure. If you need anything the call bell is on the side of the gurney.”
“Thank you.” Andrea watched as the nurse left the room. She turned back to Bette. “So, I finally meet the ghost that I had to compete against.”
“There’s no ghost.” Bette sighed. She looked at Andrea. “What are you doing here?”
“James called me. He felt it necessary to let me know you were here.”
“I didn’t ask him to do that. You didn’t have to come.”
“And what…let everyone think that I’m a piece of work or some heartless bitch.” Andrea pulled a chair and sat down. “Your ghost…I mean, Tina…she’s very pretty. I know a lot of people have told me that we were similar in how we look, but seeing her in person…wow.”
“I told you that you looked like her and the way you carried yourself. I didn’t hide that.”
“I thought you were kidding around.” Andrea sighed.
“I told you when we first started seeing each other that I would not be able to commit fully to you and you told me you were okay with that.”
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Wonderful update. Interesting twists. First you make the people hate Andrea, then like her. Tina is not the only guilty one in this story. Bette showed her the big stick.
I know you are a Tibetter and I hope you give “our”girls a second chance.Thank you very much,great update.PPS
ABG..is that an arterial blood thingy…. I had one of those done and it is bloody painful!! No wonder Bette is in hospital with chest pains.. I’d be stressed too with all this carry on around me! And (you only will know what that means) continue if you so wish…! ;0) xxK
Thanks for the update. Great comments from everyone. I love yours justkeepswimming. AH, the journey we take with other souls all throughout our life. WE do repeat performances until we learn what was wrong about them enough to make the changes. ENjoying the story so please keep it coming.
Great job.
So does that mean that Tina’s been celibate over the years ince she left Bette? She’s maybe having as hard a time as Bette truly moving on. I feel sort of sorry for Andrea. Thanks for the post, tg. :)
just caught up, love this story pps
This story is getting really good. Second chances don’t happen all the time and in fact it’s hard to get the lost love again esp if the root of the break up is cheating. The fact that Tina cheated with a man made me think that there could be a deeper reason/s why Tina made a liaison with a man instead of another woman. Interesting story T please keep the chapters coming(-;
Thats good
I know cheating is wrong, but in remembering the show and Tina’s relationship with Oscar-who had a wife,(they were in B&T’s theraphy group) maybe he was just trying to help her and Bette have another baby after, the son they had just lost, I know still wrong-but trying to lessen the blow of my Tina, cheating and sleeping with a man.
Great update. Thank you
“I told you when we first started seeing each other that I would not be able to commit fully to you and you told me you were okay with that.” Wow…tough start for Andrea to have those be the conditions for dating/having a relationship with Bette. I’d be pretty bitchy too if I had to compete with an elevated memory. The “approach-avoidance” conflict of past loves – you remember all the good you had with someone better than you remember the challenges. And it’s why we end up going back to someone over and over…Now having said that, it seems as though Tina’s one mistake was the affair with Oscar. Were there a whole pile of other problems? Are they forgiveable? Will we find out about their past together as envisioned by you? If no heart attack was it anxiety that had Bette drop to the track? I like the metaphor of Bette having a weak heart due to the history of lost love, but I would like to see her healthy and out of the hospital. Okay, shutting up now. Thanks!
Great update. It is becoming more clear with each post, especially this one. Wish Tina had not walked away but stuck around out the curtain to hear what Bette had said. Andrea is right this is their second chance. Thanks for posting. Agree with justkeepswimming.
I guess “affair with Oscar” really ruined this Tina for me. Plus the fact she walked away so easily. Bette seems so pathetic. I like Andrea much more than Tina, but it looks like she is history by now.
ok im catching on and loving it, oh how I wish Tibette, oh how I wish