“Let me carry it for you!” Helena said a bit too brightly as she reached for Bette’s suitcase.  Bette eyed her suspiciously but could think of no good reason for Helena to act this way.

They walked through the terminal and grabbed a couple of Slurpees before walking outside.  Helena was to cue the gang by surreptitiously sending a text message to Alice while they were ordering, but in spite of Alice walking her through the steps of composing and saving a draft message to send, she was fumbling with her phone at the counter when it rang.  “Hello…I can’t work this bloody thing!   Yes….yes…YES!!!!  Okay—okay then.”  Then she shoved the phone back in her purse, looking sheepish.

“Was that Catherine with a summons to service?” Bette inquired with a bit of a smirk as she sipped her drink.

Helena rolled her eyes at Bette and said, “No, I am not at her beck and call as you all think I am!”

“Yet…” Bette responded. “Let’s get out of here!”

“NO!!!!!  I mean, we have to go out the next door!”

“What’s the difference, Helena?  All we’re doing is going outside!”

“I’m just no good at this sort of thing…just exit through the next door, please,” she said dejectedly.

Bette shook her head as she wondered how this formerly Alpha woman had become such a whipped puppy.  As they walked along the line of cars discharging passengers for their travel, music drifted above the usual noises. 

Curious, they walked in the direction of the melody.  Bette was shocked at the sight before her:  Outside of a limousine, Angus was playing his guitar and singing backup with Alice and Papi, who danced behind Tina, who fervently and off-key, serenaded Bette with a Hall and Oates song:

Does anyone know what love can cost
It’ll take you so high then leave you lost
Is it a mystery
that runs too deep
for such a simple heart
Can anyone stop the hands of time
and put back the loving in your eyes
Though it’s his name I hear when you are sleeping
I’ll pretend it’s mine

(chorus)
When they ask me how long I’m gonna love you
If the road to my heart will always stay true
I’ll say forever
I’ll say Forever For You
When they ask will I stand right there beside you
and they don’t see you and me the way that I do
I’ll say forever
I’ll say Forever For You

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