They were both so scarred, so fragile before finding each other that neither knew if they would ever find happiness. There in each other’s arms it had become clear that they found everything they had been searching for. They were two halves of a broken heart. They completed each other.

"Please say something" Bette said with the slightest chuckle, smiling at the woman who held her face in her hands.

The truth of the matter was, there was nothing Tina could think of to say that could even compare to the way she was feeling. There were no amount of sentences she could string together that would do her emotions any justice and so she answered in the next best way possible.

Her thumbs gently stroked the soft skin of Bette’s cheeks as she leaned in for a deep kiss and poured her every emotion into the embrace. She let Bette feel the love she had inside her, kissing her in a way that silently told Bette that she ever wanted to stop.

Bette wrapped her arms around the blonde and kissed her back with the same intensity until neither woman was able to breathe.

They pulled back and their eyes met instantly, fully expressing the love they felt for one another in their darkened orbs.

*****

‘Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know

"If you can’t do this anymore then why are you still here?!"

". . ."

"I can’t keep doing this with you, Bette. If you really wanna go, just go. You don’t have to be here"

"You know what? . . Fine. I’m leaving"

It took Tina a split second of watching her turning around to walk out of the door before she reached forward and grabbed Bette’s wrist.

"Wait"

Bette froze in place, her body half turned and her head facing the door. Her heart thumped so hard against her chest it nearly hurt, adding to the burn she felt in her eyes from her rapidly forming tears.

"I’m sorry" Tina whispered after a moment of silence as she grabbed onto Bette’s hand with both of her own, letting them travel up Bette’s arm to get a better grip.