Sergeant Duffy paused the video, the picture remained, flickering its incrimination "What happened?" the Sergeant presses, taking advantage of Bette’s frustration, offering her a chance to explain.

Bette gathered her thoughts together quickly and spoke matter of factly "She made a pass at me, I pushed her back, she fell against the table, the glass fell, it broke, I bent down to clear it up" Bette spoke through her obvious hurt and disbelieve, her fear was almost tangible in the small room.  Again "That is just not what it looks like…"

"How long have you been with…" the Sergeant flicked through her notebook "…Tina?"

"eight, nine years"

"Which is it, eight or nine?"

"We split for a while…"

"Does Tina know that Kelly made a pass at you?"

Bette was slowly realising the gaping holes in her position, she felt guilty. Her head found both her hands "No, no she doesn’t" she admitted.

"You didn’t tell her…"

Bette regained some resolve "I just didn’t want her to think she had anything to worry about, what with Kelly and I working together"

The Sergeant wasn’t sure "Or, is it because you are having an affair with her?"

Bette half stood, rising forward slamming both hands on the table in front of her "No, I am not, I am not!"

"Sit sown Ms Porter!" Sergeant Duffy demanded pointing to Bette’s vacant chair. She was keen to see how far she could take this "Ok, not an affair, maybe just an indiscretion – we could call it that…"

Bette sat down her head finding her hands again and she reiterated her words to the table top "No absolutely not, I did not have relations with that woman"

"Why didn’t you tell Tina, if it was as innocent as you say…" the Sergeant continued relentlessly.

Despondent, with tears glazing Bette caught the Detective’s gaze "No, look… I was… scared ok, I have a history, I’m not proud of it. I am overwhelmingly ashamed of how I behaved in the past, I failed Tina completely and I nearly lost her. There is absolutely no way in hell that I’d risk losing her again. I didn’t tell her because I don’t want to put even the smallest seed of doubt in her mind, that I might be in a position where I could be unfaithful to her again. I made a promise to be true."