“I ran you a bath” said Tina, “I also put some epson salt in the water, it will help you to relax”.

Bette went into the bathroom. It looked great. There were candles lit and it smelled of lavender. She came back out.

“T, you did not have go through all this trouble” she said.

“I have ulterior motives. It is all part of my plan to seduce you” said Tina with a smile, “and it’s no trouble Bette. You’re not feeling well and if you sleep well I will too…so it works out perfectly. Go enjoy the bath”.

Bette enjoyed soaking immensely.

“Hey, did you fall in?” Tina asked as she stuck her head in.

“No…” Bette chucked, “Can you hand me the towel?”

“Yeah, hold on a second”

Bette stood up in the tub, allowing the water to run off her body. Tina hadn’t expected the sight before he when she turned around.

“Damn!”, Tina gasped as she dropped the towel to the floor.

“Glad to know that I can leave you speechless” Bette said smiling.

“Yeah, that and a whole lot more” Tina said, “Here is the towel, I will be waiting in the other room”.

Tina left the room quickly, taking a deep breath and trying to composer herself for a moment. Bette put on a pair of boxers and a tank top, then went to sit by Tina on the bed.

“Hey T, can you wrap my ribs for me?”

“Sure…”

Bette sat on the side of the bed, as Tina brought the wrappings over to her. She asked Bette to open her legs wider so she could get in closer to her body to wrap it tight.

“Pull your shirt up a little.”

Tina looked at Bette’s ribs which were black and blue. " Oh my god” she gasped.

When she touched my skin it hurt a little less as she started to wrap them. My breathing got short. "Is this too tight?” she asked.

“No.” I replied huskily you’re causing a whole different set of problems.

"Oh” she said.

Our eyes engaged for a moment. The burning desire was present in her eyes, as much as I was sure they were present in my own.

“Come here T.”

I pushed her back on the bed, and hovered above her, lowering my body onto hers by degrees, torturing us both. Then I proceeded to steal her breath like she did mine when she was wrapping my ribs.

“B—Bette.” she panted as I started kissing her neck. “We have to stop.” she moaned. “Not because I want to, but because you’re hurt.”

I slid off of Tina’s warm body and allowed myself to lay on my back. She turned towards me.

“Let me wrap your ribs and we can lay down.”

She gently stroked my hair. “what really happened to your ribs? You can tell me trust me please…Ok?” she whispered.

“Well Binks and I were walking along the docks talking. We heard a noise I put Binks behind me..” Bette struggled to get through the story.

“Breath baby” Tina offered softly.

“Then he… Jon– Jonathan he started talking crazy. I fought him as hard as I could.” Tears started streaming down my face. “He punched me in the stomach. I fell, and he kicked me twice.”

“Then what happened Bette..” Tina coaxed.

“When I woke up he was trying to r– rape her. T all that was going thru my head at the time was not again. I was not there to protect you the first time. But not this time. So, I limped over to them and I s– stabbed him.”

I buried my head in her shirt and started sobbing while she held me.