Tina: Kit – Can you please
just tell me where I can find her?

Kit was silent for a
moment. Tina was fighting hard to hold back her tears and get a grip on her
emotions and trying to deal with the situation at hand.

Tina: Kit – PLEASE – I still
love her. I I don’t want to lose her. (Breath) I’ve been selfish and should
have tried to work out our problems with her but I was too hurt to forgive her.
Kit – I need her WE need her (placing her palm on her belly for added effect).

Kit: That’s all that I
needed to hear Tina.

Tina’s visage changed from
one of heartfelt emotion to questioning.

Tina: What?

Kit: Tina, I had to be
sure that you felt the same about Bette as she feels about you.

Tina’s expression softened
as her thoughts were confirmed about Bette’s feelings for Tina. She knew that
Bette was trying to tell Tina how she felt, but she really didn’t have anything
to gain by telling Kit her true affections for Tina.

Kit: I realize that you
have gone through your own ordeals and dealing with your own emotions and
feelings over this whole mess, but my baby sis has as well. I don’t think that
you have any idea how low Bette really was over the matter. I didn’t know if
she’d ever pull herself out of the downward spiral she was in.

Tina looked intently at
Kit. She knew that She and Bette’s time apart had been difficult for herself –
she just never thought about what Bette had endured. The few times that Bette
had tried to share her thoughts and remorse about the affair and separation,
Tina shut her out. All that Tina could do about it now was listen to Kit and
get and outsider’s perspective. Kit continued to recount to Tina what she had
witnessed of Bette.

Kit: You do know that she
never stopped loving you or caring about what you were going through right?

Tina nodded her
recognition of Kit’s question but didn’t really know that until now. She had
wondered how much Bette cared but was never sure since, in the beginning of
their estrangement, Bette had failed to contact Tina and continued her affair
with Candace.

Kit: Tina – you were her
life – her passion – her love. When you left, Bette lost all of that.