Fan Fiction
This story has been set to a rating of R. Age verification is required to proceed.
neon
Login to add story to favorites
(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)You need to be a registered member to rate this post.
Loading ...
I hold Bette’s hand tightly and press my head against her chest. I feel her heart beat. It’s faint, but any sound is better than no sound at all. I’m comforted by her smell.
I can hear Tina getting up to leave and the door shutting behind her.
I whisper softly to her.
“I’m going to get better, okay? I’ll be good. I promise you, Bette. But I need you. I need you to be here when I get back.” I lift my head and look into her face. She looks like she is at peace. I rub her smooth face and feel my tear running down my cheeks, “I’m so sorry and I know you may never forgive me, but you have to know that I’m sorry. I love you. I’ve always loved you. I’ll never stop loving you.”
I stay with her for an hour, but before I leave, I tuck a note under her pillow. I hoped that she would wake up and find it.
That next morning, I flew to Oregon with my mother. I entered a treatment facility upon arrival.
Bette:
They told me it had been three days before I started breathing on my own and another day before I regained consciousness. Shane, Alice, Kit, and Tina had been by my side day and night. I haven’t seen or heard from Helena since the incident, but Shane told me that Helena stopped to see me for an hour.
I relax and close my eyes. I’m lucky to be alive. My head is wrapped tightly and around my chest is even tighter.
I can hear a knock on the door.
“Come in.”
Peggy Peabody’s frame becomes apparent to me. As she sees me sitting up and alert, she smiles. I guess she’s pretty happy to see me alive too.
“Oh, Bette. I—I can’t even form the words to tell you how sorry I am. If I had known, I could’ve…”
“You couldn’t have done anything, it’s not your fault. I had to find her, I had to help. And if that means that I would almost die, than it is what it is.” I take a pause to say what I say next, “I love your daughter.”
“She loves you too. She’s in a treatment facility in Oregon. She’ll be there for two months.”
I hear the door open and Tina entered the room.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know anyone else was in here.”
“That’s okay.” Peggy says, “I’m just leaving.”
Peggy stands and leans over me. She kisses my forehead and then says, “Don’t break Helena’s heart. I don’t know if she can take it.”
Peggy makes her exit and Tina sits beside me.
She stares at me blankly. I wonder what’s on her mind, but she takes a while to tell me how she feels.
“I know everything.”
She doesn’t have to say anymore because I know exactly what she means.
“I know everything about you and Helena.” She continues, “I can’t believe you would do this to me.”
“I’m so…”
She puts her hand up, “I really don’t want to hear your apologies.”
“Listen to me Tina.” I sit up, “I never ever wanted to hurt you. I love you, I do.”
I see the tears lining her beautiful eyes.
“I forgive you and I will be there to help you heal, but it’s over between us as far as a relationship.”
I tell her I understand and I do. I wouldn’t be with me either.
And though I’m sad, I’m also relieved that the lie is over and that Tina and I are no more.
Comments
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
I guess I’m first :)i’m glad Helena finally decided to call Mrs P and ask for help. I hope she will get better soon and her and Bette will have a fresh start.Good to see the relationship between Bette & Tina will end as well cause a relationship based on a lie is doomed to go wrong anyway.Thanks for the update Ash :)
Glad that Helena decided to get help. A little surprised that Tina and Bette ended with so little drama.
Ash once again you did a great chapter and that Helena finally took the courage to make the step into the right direction and that was to call her mother tell her what happened and that it was not Peggy’s fault but hers, then going to Bette’s side and telling her that she loved her and that she was going to get better for both of them. Bette always loved Helena and Peggy going to see her telling not to hurt Helena was awesome. At the end of this chapter Bette was happy that she and Tina were nolonger a couple, she always loved Helena and to me taking the blows and almost dying for her was more than she could show to Helena that she loved her.
You are so right. I loved it! I’m also happy too see that Tina and Bette ended things on a somewhat positive note. Bette may love and think the world of Tina, but Helena is the love of her life. Great update!
Wow…honesty is something else – now isn’t it..we will fast forward two months with the next post, right???
can’t wait to see what happens when helena is out of rehab!!!
Hello Love… sometimes making that initial phone call… admitting the truth is the hardest thing to allow into your life… but once its there you have to make sure you deserve it… you have to make sure you work for it… cause if even a fraction of Helena’s love for Bette is real she needs to push forward cause its going to be a lot harder for Bette to forgive her and look her in the eyes if she can’t even admit she has a ‘problem’ Bette is like a magnet to these situations… her soul always calls out to someone who is in pain… let us hope that they can reconcile this and find within the other what they have been missing their whole lives… love and hugs my beautiful Ash, JC
***putting headphones on*** Only Frank can say it: ” The mere idea of you, the longing here for you,You’ll never know how slow the moments go till I’m near to you” … thanks, ash
Great update Ash! I was teetering on the edge trying to figure out what was going to happen. Helena finally did the right thing reaching out to Peggy and going to rehab. So grateful that Bette finally woke up, but where’s the note? Did Tina find it and trash it or did a nurse maybe throw it away by mistake. Will Bette heed Peggy’s words and not break her little girl’s heart? I do feel bad for Tina but Bette’s heart is really w/ Helena so it’s better that she knows the truth now before she grows anymore attached to Bette. I’m sure Bette loves Tina , but she’s in love w/ Helena….the heart wants what the heart wants. PPS!
Personally I’m a tibetter but I can’t help but to feel bad for Helena. She needs Bette more than Tina. I hope it works out between the two of them. Btw, I like the name too. Very eye poppin’ :D
Excellent installment. I really hope Helena comes through with the rehab & i’m so glad Bette’s alive & out of the relationship with Tina. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
bad the way Bette and Tina end things but again I don’t know how Bette could manage t be in two relationships at the same time. I guess Tina’s relationship has been sacrified hey. Thanks for the update PPVS