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Honesty chapter 2
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Bette, please leave. I’ve heard your side now. Please just go. I’ve got work to do. I HAVE FUCKING WORK TO DO BETTE. Please go!”
“Please Jodie, we have got to talk this out. I cannot leave with this so ugly and hanging over my head. I came here so that there would not be any regrets from California. I don’t want to just move the ugliness to the other side of the country. I didn’t mean to hurt you. When you left California without seeing me, I thought it was over. I processed that and decided that I didn’t want you completely erased from my life. We need to remain friends Jodie. I just can’t imagine never seeing or talking to you again. I .. just .. cannot .. imagine .. that!
Jodie is just too emotional to really make any sense of this.
“Bette, give me some time. I need time to think. We’ll talk later, in a few days.”
Not wanting to leave things like this, there was so much sorrow in Bette’s face. “I need to call for a car to take me back to the city.”
Bette took her cell phone from her pocket and made the call for a car.
“Walk with me Jodie. Walk down to the road with me. Wait with me until the car comes. We can talk. We can make it through this. We can remain friends Jodie. Don’t you want that too?
“I don’t know what I want right now.” Anger and hurt resonated in Jodie’s words.
With that Bette takes Jodie by the arm. Walking arm in arm they start down to the main road. Neither of them looks up. Neither of them speaks. There are quite sobs coming from Jodie. Hearing Jodie’s faint cries, Bette squeezes Jodie’s arm a little tighter. It is meant to be a reassuring gesture but this gesture like the grand apology gesture haven’t worked out as planned. Jodie stops and turns to Bette.
“I love you. I’ve loved you since I first met you. You are more than your reputation can ever conceive of. You are smarter and funnier and so knowledgeable about art. You are savvy and sexy and I knew that I had met my match when I met you. You challenged me. You didn’t agree with me just to make it easy. I could be difficult and you did not give up on me. What happened?”
“So many things happened. Tina and I have Angelica. She is our number one priority. I love her so much. I wanted a child so badly. Now that I have her. I am not sure that I have time for anyone else or the capacity to share my love with anyone else. It sounds aweful. I sound like … I don’t even know what I sound like! And Tina. I don’t think that we will ever get back together. I don’t think she wants to get back together, but, whether we do or not we are committed to raising Angelica together. That would involve a lot of sharing and understanding. I cannot realistically ask someone to share me with both of them. It just would not be fair.”
It really didn’t take that long for the car to arrive and Bette knew that it was still unresolved but, she took solace in knowing that she had done everything in her power to leave things better than there were when she arrived. Or, at least, that was what she was hoping for.
Jodie was painfully silent. So unlike her animated self. She was never really at a loss for words. Not until now.
Bette tried to hug her. She put her arms around her and tried to give her that reassuring hug that says it will be all right but, there was a silent response. A numb, rigid, cold response. No words. No gestures. No look for understanding. Jodie just turned and walked away.
Bette got into the car and it turned and headed for the city.
As aweful as the previous moments had been, Bette could not process the words that Jodie had spoken. She looked out the window wishing there was someone, something that could explain all of this. Something to ease the pain of hurting Jodie. Erase the whole event. She should not have come. If she had just left it alone. She should have let it run its course. But, no, she had to be the saving grace. She had to steal the sign and make this grand overture of apology. She buried her head in her hands. She cannot believe what just happened.
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Well, that went about like I thought it would now let’s get Bette back to Tina and Baby Angie.Tina and Bette belong together. Jodie could never get used to having Angie around and didn’t want to be around her. enough said. Happy it’s over for those two. Get Bette back to CA and her two special loves. Let them open up to each other when Bette gets back, it just has to happen. PPS
Bette should just give up trying to form a friendship with jodi and just get on the first plane back to Tina and Angie.While she is in New York (wasting her time with Jodi) she is missing time with her daughter and Tina (not good)Bette get your arse back to LA girl!!!!!like others have said,you really should have written your version for the show because it is ssssssssssooooooooooo much better than their version. :) PPS thanks
Just found your story and look forward to the next chapter. Hopefully, the honesty will continue when she sees Tina. I never saw the connection between Bette and Jodie to be anything more than friends, at best… no chemistry.
I don’t think Bette knew that she was going to do that when she first got on that plane to NY. I think in her head she had planned to reunite with jodi, but when push came to shove Tina will always be in her heart.
That is what I’m talking about..not get Bette’s ass on a plane and back to Tina. ; )
As much as I’m not a big Jodi fan, Bette should have attached a note, stating that this was an apology. But, then again I think she was flying by the seat of her pants. Ironic how her thought was that “Tina” had not prepared her for that. HEllo, that’s because she wants your ass back home with her. I have no doubt that Bette loves Tina, I think she’s just scared because she’s not sure how Tina feels. So get your butt back home and find out.
Wow, that was brilliant. I know that Bette did the right thing but unknowingly she rubbed salt in Jodie’s wound. I do think she needed to know that she wouldn’t cave in at Jodie’s begging before she returned to Tina. Now if you can just get them to admit to each other their feelings.
yeah, bette still hasn’t learned that she can’t control another persons feelings and responses…sad, because she’s hurt jodi but jodi will recover…bette belongs with her family wherever they are…
Bette did the right thing and now let her go home to Tina !
Bette did the right thing. Her heart belongs to Tina. PPS!!
Wow, the show writers should have hired you. I am with skycaptain though, FED EX, UPS BETTE!. She’s knows her heart will always belong with Tee.
History and a child are not of themselves going to be enough to keep Bette and Tina together. I’m getting Bette’s overwhelming love for Angelica, but her love for Tina is not as clear to me. Sounds like Bette is still uncertain about that. Look forward to reading what happens next!
FED EX definitely might have worked but it is so NOT Bette. She needs to connect personally with those in her life. I wish the writers of TLW would have used this approach in the show – it really makes more sense for Bette to go to New York with an apology rather than as an attempt to bring Jodi back with her. Bette was pulling away from Jodi before her exhibition. On top of that, Jodi takes the job in NY and resigns her position at CU without even speaking with Bette. That would seem to indicate that their relationship as lovers was over. Oh well! Thanks for posting the story. I’m looking forward to Bette’s return to LA… PPS!!!
it is about time bette came to her senses and she should have never flew to NY if she had any doubts, the break would have went better! awesome update yeah no tractor now lets get bette home to tins ASAP :)PPS
this may sound bad…but if she wasn’t going to “be” with jodie…she could have fed-ex that sign with a note…her being there along with the sign sent mixed messages. i would have thought she loved me and wanted me too. more please.