Bette nodded,"I’d say devastated is a better word to describe how we both reacted to the results of those home test kits."

They fell silent, thinking back to the extreme disappointment each had felt when test kit after test kit yielded the same result when they ran the tests at home.  They’d each had difficulties falling asleep for the next few nights after that.  Which was partially the reason why Tina decided, on impulse, to have Liz’ clinic run its own test.  Unfortunately, the result had come in a couple of days following their break-up on a bridge in Central Park during which Tina had revealed cheating on Bette.

"Well, as low as I’d felt when we ran the tests ourselves, on the flip side I was over the moon when you told me that magical afternoon in Chateau Versailles that you’d gotten pregnant after all," Bette recalled, breaking the silence they’d shared. "And again, after I met Angie, and fell in love with her."

Overcome by emotion all of a sudden, she recalled the scene in their old apartment, when, upon returning with Tina to New York, she’d picked up Angie, who had approached her with a winning smile, crawling on the floor towards Bette.  She and Angie had locked eyes, when Bette swung her up to her eye level, each one looking deeply into the other’s.  Tina and Kit had looked on at the heart-stopping scene, tearing up.

Bette had clearly fallen instantly for their little girl, promising, "I will love you forever baby… you and your mommy.  Change the world if I have to, to keep you both safe, and happy, and with me.  Forever."

Now, nearly two years later, as they enjoyed a quiet moment in the home they had built together, Bette reached for Tina’s hand, and brought it to her lips, kissing each finger in turn, a few tears falling on the blonde’s fingers as she did.  "You brought me back to life, baby.  You and Angie.  Completely changed my life. I am still the luckiest girl in the world because I have the two of you in my life."

Tina was tearing up also, caressing her wife’s tear-stained cheek.

"We’re all lucky, baby," Tina whispered, "that we have each other.  That you took me back…"