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Posthumous Wisdom (35)
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Bette reached out and took Tina’s hand in her own. “How do we stop it from happening again? That’s all I really care about now. We could sit here for days recounting all the bad things we’ve done to one another and apologising for them. It wouldn’t do us any good though. As you say it’s not the individual acts that were the problem it’s the people we allowed ourselves to become that was. We have to work out how to avoid that in the future.”
Tina sighed loudly and looked at Bette, “I know it shouldn’t, but I think the fact that I am back at work matters. Don’t get me wrong, Angelica means the world to me and I love spending time with her. I think though we never really thought things through properly. I mean we talked about the fact that I would be the birth-mother and that seemed to be what both of us wanted but somehow that suddenly meant that I was choosing to be a stay-at-home mom. That’s never been something I ever envisioned for myself. My career had always been a significant part of my identity in my adult life. I didn’t realise how much until it was gone. Quitting my job changed me as a person and that changed the dynamics of our relationship, at the time though I didn’t realise that it was happening.”
“It’s funny, you know, we spent so much time discussing the practicalities of actually getting pregnant, but we overlooked a lot of the logistics of actually having a child. I admit I’m guilty of having assumed that you would just want to stay at home once the baby arrived, it didn’t even occur to me that we should be discussing all our options. Conceiving a child was such a hurdle for us I think we assumed that it would be the most difficult part. We underestimated the impact she would have on our lives and we overestimated our ability to respond” replied Bette.
“God we fucked up” declared Tina despondently.
“We did” acknowledged Bette, “but from her point of view, she’s not going to remember most of it.”
“That makes all of this even more frightening. If it goes wrong again this time she will remember. It will be much more traumatic for her, should we even be taking that risk?” challenged Tina.
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Al’s at Imalakaha, right? Lol just a hunch. This is incredible, you’ve gotten me to actually LIKE Bette and Tina. I always loved Shane but she’s such a good friend in here that I love her more…and please don’t hurt Alice. She’s been through enough. You, m’dear, are freaking amazing.
Either you are a great writer or an excellent shrink. Even after almost 2 years later, I still cannot get over D’s death. I know I am projecting this big time. So it is natural for me to think when A found out that she was the love of D’s life, A would have a much harder time dealing with the loss. Yes, of course I want A to be happy again. That means you will have to keep on writing to show us how A overcome this devastation. Deal? 2 place, MT has already said one, the other place I guess would be the countryside where they had the picnic and A picked up the rock. Finally, whether I like how the story has unfolded or how is going to end is insignificant. You have given us an astonishingly beautiful story and have gone far beyond the show to honor D. That alone, I cannot thank you enough.
I am so loving this story. Thank you
whoa brain fried…I need knew friends cause wow…aww left hanging!!!
Alice went to see Dana so to speak, right? I hope that Shane gets to her as I am sure she needs her friends right now. I am glad that Bette and Tina are reaching out to one another. Taking things slow is a good start.
Maybe to the picnic spot. I love the story. I still get upset about the whole dana thing to. I dont get it. anyway I love the story keep up the great work
Alice went to finally let go of dana. sometimes it’s something you have to do to move on.Bette and tina WOW, tina have much more patience and more assertive with bette and upfront and honest about her working. Love it, awe don’t worry about the tissuses,lol this story is so well written the depth of emotion is amazingly powerful.
I am going to ditto what HD said — I don’t think I could write a comment more elequent than that. Poor Alice. This is something she needed to go through, though. Her life was moving forward but I don’t think she ever dealt with the reality of Dana’s death. “Yay” for Bette and Tina. What a mature discussion on the issues and they both seem committed to being more active in maintaining the relationship this time around. Another amazing update, wondering! Thank you!
The camp and the picnic spot are two obvious choices, but I wonder if Shane even knew about the latter. I just hope she finds Al soon… The way Bette and Tina are moving forward is totally believable and they’re at least doing it with the right amount of caution this time. Great as always, wa, thanks for the post.