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Insight. Ch10
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Her candour unnerved Bette, making her fiddle unconsciously with her glass, wishing she’d thought to bring along Alice or Shane for back up.
“You should just leave …” Helena mumbled, “we’re done.”
Bette downed her drink and got up, surveying the rest of the room as she did so. Amidst the chaos there were elements of order and routine, her bathing suit and towel hung drying at the bottom of the stairs. A series of newspaper clippings and framed articles adorned the walls and where Bette at first had taken them to be just nonsense, a second look revealed they were evidence of Helena’s self-admiration.
Hidden on a shelf behind the sofa amongst a pile of books and dvd’s Bette spied an award, and leant across to pick it up. Reading aloud Helena’s win for the film Evangeline had directed, the one and only picture they would ever work on together.
“You won best screenplay,” Bette stated, looking back at her with mingled pride and misunderstanding.
Helena glanced inside and nodded. “I see her twice a week,” she announced, “I go to her office and we spend an hour making polite chit chat and avoiding the very subject that keeps us both there,” she paused, recognising that Bette was listening. “It serves us both, not that she’d admit it, but seeing someone keeps me off meds and out of hospital, and for her … well … she gets to feel like she’s making amends.”
“Why won’t you take meds, if you need them?” Bette asked, picking it first from the slew of questions clamouring to be heard inside her mind.
Helena stubbed out her cigarette and stepped back inside. “Because they fuck with my mind, and because without them, sometimes, I feel like me again.”
Bette shook her head, “That’s insane,”
“Is it?” Helena shot the reply back at her, she advanced on Bette, causing her to instinctively back away. “I used to self medicate,” she continued, “uppers when I was down and downers when I was up, a little coke here, a lot of weed there … but …”
Bette stared at her, half-terrified, “Yes …”
“It was fine, when it was only me … but Evie and her, they used to fight, mostly about us working together …” she paused to stare earnestly at Bette, emotion slowly creeping into her voice. “Tina resented the fact that Evie wanted to help me, that she was okay with the way I was handling my illness, wanting to manage it by myself. Tina kept saying I should see someone and urging me to let her make a referral …”
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I love this twisted story of yoursWho’s playing who
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh! No no no no no no no! Helena’s not lying! You’re driving me crazy!!!!!!!! :P :P :P(Hope you found your passport)
Sofa I hope you found your passport.I knew your Tibette side would come out even if it was a messed up sexy way of doing it.
WOW WOW WOW WOW!!! You’ve got us going all over the place but really nowhere at all. I love it, I love sofasitter, AMAZING!!! So lucky to have your fic!!! Can’t w8 4 next post.
OMG, blaspheme…you’re making Tina out to be the bad guy! There’s a twist I wasn’t considering. So Helena’s Bipolar, but is there something a little crazy with Tina…she’s exacting her revenge against Helena because Evie and her were having an affair and Helena feels guilty about Evie’s death, so she’s letting her. But how is Peggy fitting into the picture…was it just happenstance that she turned up around the same time. Damn, it’s too hard to guess. I’ll just have to wait until tomorrow again!
I detect some Satina-ish behavior… Is there a black crow that follows Tina around or a black cat that’s taking it all in? This story keeps getting better. : )
I can’t keep what is what and who is who. It Helena the good,bad or evil one. It Tina the sick one. Bette we know is just Bette. So we will find the good ,bad,and evil one soon. Why do I think its Tina. Heck it couldbe Bette. Just write. hope you found your passport. thanks
I am lovin’ it. Great job Sofa. Can’t wait to see where you take this. Most excellent
damn that tina…great update…loved the twists and turns…PPS
What??! What???!! What??!! OMFG! And here’s another fucking twist! You keep me on the edge of my seat! I can’t stand it!! But i want more!! Please!!
I’m sorry I haven’t commented before. I’ve been so unsettled after each chapter that I couldn’t figure out what to say. It has taken me ten chapters to get my bearings. :-) This is an incredible story, pulling us along, spinning this way and that, just like Bette, as the story twists and turns. Big big kudos.
Wow, sofa! The things that go on in that mischeivious mind of yours… I did not see that coming. Every chapter leaves me wanting more. As much as I can’t wait for the next post, I have no desire for this twisted tale to end. Excellent!
I actually check for new updates of this story before I check my email thats how bad I got it. Helena might be a little cuckoo for cocoa puffs but a least she’s loyal. Bette believes a woman she hardly knows over Helena who she supposedly care about, maybe Helena should be the one running away. I have just one question….if Bette is trying to forget a sexy ass woman like Helena why would she downgrade to Dr. Kennard?
I’ve been wondering why Bette is so willing to disbelieve Helena and believe Tina without question. If the good Dr. Kennard is NOT Helena’s shrink, why, oh, why does Tina have a file on her? Maybe the file isn’t medical as the label implies? Maybe Tina isn’t even a shrink! But apparently, she’s a good lay. Anyway, I was very pleased to see HB reference Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, but come on, don’t you think Bette should play Bette?
oh fuck whose the crazy one here??? But Helena doesn’t have to go there does she???? In fact, she shouldn’t and its no wonder she’s still a mess if she’s going to the gf of the dead woman for therapy?! And for Tina to fuck Bette is totally unethical and evil. B is obviously an obsessive compulsive, H bipolar & Tina a control freak who doesn’t want Helena to get well. Between them they r going to drive Bette CRAZY between them no wonder Marina won’t even discuss it. Whose is the car keeping an eye on Helena? If its a Peabody then Mrs Peabody needs to DO something for her daughter soon. Where is big sista Kit in all this; Bette needs her urgently. PPS.
Tina scares me… I think she tried to kill Helena but instead she killed Evie o.O hmm I don’t know.. this story is making me paranoid heheh.. I loved this chapter!!! PPS
lol, i’m loving reading comments babe. i totally agree that helena is seeming more and more sane by the page…absolutely wonderfully drawn out story. i seriously think that when this one wraps, i want it in novella form. i think you’ve drawn out the story in a way that (by the way i’m in awe of) unfolds the story perfectly, revealing just enough with each chapter, and giving only very brilliant clues to how each character tells or does not tell, the truth of the story. faaantastic. and the growling was a good touch. very good. it turned me on AND made me go “uh oh, tina and bette aren’t so good together right now whats going on with TINA????” good show baby xo
OMIGOD, rau hit it on the head!!! tina doesn’t want helena to get well, it’s like like…joan crawford is tina and bette davis is helena and, no, wait, other way around, tina is bette davis in ‘whats the matter with baby jane’ and she won’t let her sister get well!!! i LOVE that movie. oh, and i love this story more because its not really like that movie, because if it were, there would be no one wanting to have sex. bette is obsessive, she’s acting very strangely. she could have a hot british girlfriend by now if she weren’t so worried all the time. ok, fine, she’d be a drug dealer, but she’d finance all of her ventures. more! can’t wait! lol
Well, damn. And here I was thinking Helena really was lying… Tina’s a bit heartless, isn’t she? why won’t she let Helena into her “real” office? Why is Tina screwing with everyone? Is she twisted, or just consumed with some need for revenge? Questions, questions… This is so so good, I can’t wait to see how this all turns out. thanks sofa!