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Mud Cookies (Short Story)
She sat in her car, her car parked in the driveway. She stared at her wife’s car parked under the carport. Tina was home. She had been home for the last six months since the studio executives had fired her. Home making a home for her and their daughter while Bette worked long hours at the California Arts Center. But now Bette was home at 1:15 in the afternoon on a Thursday.
She got out of her car and retrieved the box in the back seat of her luxury sports car. She was thinking that she still had three years of a very expensive lease on the car. She turned to head up the steps to the front door and saw the pool pole waving over the back fence. The pool boy must be cleaning, for Bette could see the tip of the long pole swing back and forth. That was funny, Bette thought. She looked around for the pool boy’s pickup truck, but it wasn’t parked on the street. Bette held her box under one arm and unlatched the side gate and went through.
There was Tina in sweat pants and a hoodie brushing the sides of the pool. She had the hood pulled up around her head keeping the damp chill air off and she wore ear buds. She was humming and dancing a little to whatever song her IPod was playing at the moment. Bette shut the gate and stood there holding her box. Tina was totally unprepared for what Bette had to tell her just as Bette had been totally unprepared that morning when Franklin called a special meeting of the CAC board.
“Tina?” Bette said. Tina continued to brush the pool. She could not hear Bette over the music piping in her ears. “Tina!” Bette said a little more forcefully. The brunette grimaced with impatience and went over to her wife and tapped her shoulder. “TINA!”
There was a yip of surprise and the blonde dropped the pool pole and jumped backward. “Jesus, Bette! You scared the crap out of me!” Tina growled. “What are you doing?”
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tibettenation1 says
This is the best story on here hands down,so realistic, so powerful, so emotional, so dramatic….i lovvee this
tibettenation1 says
Omg read it again, this is just powerful omg!!!!
azmama says
Such a great story! You’ve captured exactly how it feels to lose one’s job and the intimacy w/one’s partner. You were on point w/Bette and Tina’s reactions to each other. Their interactions were perfect. I could totally relate to them and their relationship. Better than anything that Ilene Chaiken wrote about them.
BenMac says
Thanks Tibettenation1 and Azmama for commenting! I had forgotten all about this short story, and the comments were dropped in the transition from the old to new site. I was certainly going for realism and for the actual TLW characters versus my interpretation of them. This was actually much harder to do, to try and stay true to the original Bette and Tina, rather than spin off their basic characters for a story outside the TLW universe.
Thanks again for reminding me of the story! :)
mscully says
I have to bow to his talents, for
you give your loyal readers stories
fantastic and wonderful.
You captured the characters realistically B & T
I had the feeling of watching the episode of TLW, with
lógicco better quality, something that IC over the course
forgot to do the series.
You have the realism of its history with that
wonderful couple that with the emergence of problems
often surrounded our lives, such as unemployment,
the lack of intimacy, debts and etc. You did not
Bette and Tina seek solace in the bed of his neighbor,
as unfortunately occurred in serie.Você did they circumvent
the problem based on love, honesty and respect.
I love this story.
All stars for you.
Ps: sorry my english.
BenMac says
Mscully, no worries about your English. It is very good. Thank you for going back and reading this old story. It was hard to write because I stayed within the TLW universe, which I usually don’t do.
I’m glad you liked it and I’m glad I spotted your comment. I usually have no idea when a reader comments on an old post.
Thanks again and for following me on Twitter!
kingg says
BenMac….thx for this heart-wrenching short, but very powerful story. Truly enjoyed it and you captured Tibette so realisticly… the way it should’ve happened in the series. You’re an amazing storyteller…Bam!…homerun!..x
SassyGran says
Nice one BenMac
. Truthful to how life catches up with and affects relationships.