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    Pick A Part – 15

    Story written on February 16, 2006 by tiff_duke.
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    Story Shortlink: https://lesfan.com/?p=59607
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    Chapter 15. The end – in some cultures.

    Something in her had sparked earlier, the part about honesty and trust and love not being enough once that trust had been broken. It had been a strange thought, how she was lecturing her daughter about trust and honesty in the same hour after she’d just thought of how the girl was the reason she still had Tina.

    The strangest part was that she had not felt like a hypocrite. Somehow, at some point during the past sixteen years, she’d forgiven herself, or had learned to stop putting herself as the center of the universe. Not everything was about her anymore, and when she gave a lecture about trust and honesty, it wasn’t about her defending herself or beating herself up. Her family had changed that. Tina, Angelica, even Katie: they’d changed the landscape somehow, and had reinvented Bette Porter.

    And Bette liked that Bette Porter.

    "Babe?"

    Bette blinked, and looked at her wife, the same woman she’s trusted and had entrusted her heart and soul with, for what was over two decades and counting. Even when they were pushing each other away, she had not given up on this woman. When Tina questioned themselves, she had relied on fate and destiny, trusted Tina to return to her. She oftened wondered what it was, the reason why she and Tina stopped pulling away from each other.

    She wondered when it was that she learned to like how she was. The woman who put up her own gallery again, although less ambitious than the first one. The woman who allowed the wife to earn more. The woman who carried the second child without complaint.

    Melvin would not have accepted what Bette had become, but she liked herself. Why?

    Maybe it was the fact that Tina Kennard liked Bette Porter so much that Bette Porter learned to like Bette Porter as much as she did.

    "So the wide-eyed pity-me Porter package works for you, huh?" Bette grinned, shaking off the maudlin sentiment.

    "What can I say? I can’t resist," Tina returned, then paused. "So that means the Porter charm and ambition is in that sixteen-year-old’s blood?"

    "Are you kidding? That’s all you."

    "Marcus is your friend. There must’ve been something in him that you thought reflected yourself." Tina replied.

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    1. One of my favorite things about this story is that Bette and Tina are still together and after 2 kids and many years, they are still hot for each other. Great stuff. In fact,I think it should be a sitcom.

    6. Thank you for the story. I read most of it in one sitting (again, 4 years late). And thank you also for knowing when to end. In a good way (not with the negative connotations). It’s refreshing to see a story that has an end that doesn’t drag on for eternity. Or leave us poor readers hanging. But honestly, it’s not like i mind the ones that do go on for 80 chapters or so… :)

    7. Btw. I’ve been reading every single word you’ve written on this site (it’s winter break), and it’s really interesting, knowing what we know now about the direction of the canon storyline, to see how everyone had reacted to the show versus the narratives that happen on this website. Some of the authors on this site should have been writing for showtime…

    12. Loved it, loved it, loved it! So, no pressure, but when are you starting your next story? Tiff, you are such an amazing writer, I get so excited everytime I see you have posted. Don’t let season 3 get you down. Your B&T’s are better than IC’s any day. Lets all pretend season 3 isn’t even happening. Selfishly, your writing helps me do that, I wish you could escape the madness by reading someone as amazingly talented as yourself. Thanks for writing :)

    15. love this story and the family that B&T finally became…sad to see it end but i can’t wait for you to continue with Let me in and see how the two of them got to that perfect point

    16. LOL I’m reading this story for the 2nd time and still felt a bit sad that it came to an end.. I’m so in love with your Kennard-Porter family.. Let Angelica be gay and I’ll hook up with her.. LOL.. Thanks for giving us hope..

    18. “You know what, let’s blame Kit and the rest of our friends.” ROFLMAO, all I can say is Thank you for this lovely history about B&T. Looking forward for the next! (Babysis)

    20. This was such a cute story. I’m sad to see it end, but in a way I think the pace and length were just right so as not to run the whole thing into the ground.

    23. The end? I think Katie’s getting short shrift. Me, too. Alas should this be true. And if so, this has been most enjoyable. So much so I’d prefer you’d carry on.

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