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Provocations Linger- Chapter Five (revisited and revised)
2004- Alphaville
Tina’s office
“Tina, its Bette,” the machine on her desk took a message as Tina sat listening.
“… I need to talk to you about tonight. I know Alice invited you and I think you should go. I think we should both go. Something is going on with her and Dana…”
Tina picked up.
“Hi Bette.”
“Tina, oh… hi,” Bette faltered a minute. They hadn’t spoken in several weeks. Not since Bette had arrived uninvited at Tina’s new house in Santa Monica.
“Did you hear any of that?”
“Most of it,” Tina admitted. “What is going on with those two? Dana’s been awfully twitchy lately.”
“I know! At first I thought it was just about her breaking up with Tonya. It sort of started around that time.” Bette agreed.
“But Alice is acting weirder than normal too, and that started around the same time.” Tina added.
They both knew what they were leading up to, the topic of Alice and Dana getting together was one they had enjoyed speculating on for years.
“Did you actually talk to Alice or Dana?” Tina asked. She herself had gotten a vague but insistent email from Dana and a clearer and mildly threatening voice mail from Alice. The message had been the same: Be at the Planet tonight at 8pm. No excuses.
“I talked to Alice. She laid a major guilt trip on me about how they’ve all been there for us the last few months and now she needed us to be there for her,” Bette disclosed.
“I wonder what they’re up to?” Tina sounded intrigued and amused.
Bette reveled in simply enjoying a relatively ‘normal’ conversation with her ex-wife.
“So you’ll come?” she prodded.
“Yes, Bette,” Tina agreed. “If they really are announcing themselves as a couple we should be there for them and we should behave ourselves. No arguing. Tonight will be all about Alice and Dana,” Tina declared.
The image of the two of them blushing and ‘coming out’ with their announcement made her smile.
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THE PLANET
“Are Alice and Dana here?” Kit questioned Shane.
The hairdresser shook her head, signaling ‘two beers’ to the bartender before turning her attention to the café owner.
“No, and neither one is picking up her cell,” Shane informed her.
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(44 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)
Glad to have you back! I really love this story.
Such a difficult conversation, when there’s differing recollections of what happened. thanks for posting
I remember the pages and pages of debate we had on TWOP over that supercharged word. Tempers flared, lines were crossed, people got bounced from the site for their inflammatory rhetoric. Rape. There, you said it, and I’m proud of you for going there. So many years later, can we cooly reflect on the passions of that night? Wow, what a way to end a season!!! Bette and Tina wrecked on the shores of infidelity! Season One was great, even with the Marcus Allenwood’s stupid girlfriend and Jenny’s mushroom trip. It was great, I tell you! You’re bringing it back. Thanks!
” The dominance of the act had aroused her and she had allowed herself to view it as sexual rather than controlling.” – interesting to finally see what was going through their minds at that time – wow
This was such a hard scene to watch in season 1 and it is still hard to remember it this far out. It brings up such uncomfortable feelings still. This conversation was great. Thanks for bringing this story back!
What an excellent chapter. The way you wrote about the rape scene was extraordinary. So complex, and so subjective. I’m really loving reading this story.
Wow this was a hard conversation. I, too, shuttered at the word ‘rape’. It is so hard, I remember at that time a lot of conversation going on around whether that was or was not rape. What I do know is that the conversation was hard in this chapter and will continue to be hard. You’ve got me hooked, amazing writing, and thank you!
This was the chapter that got me so hooked on your story in the first place. When Tina used the word rape, I remember thinking, What?! And then I went through the scene in my mind. You’ve written this so well, from both perspectives…I can’t wait for the rest of the conversation. Fantastic writing!! Thank you!!
I just have one question, you are going to finish it? I remember reading the first post and you left us hanging. please tell me we’re going to get a good ending
I think this story remains one of the most thoughtful and sensitive on the site. Glad you’re reposting.
that was the hardest scene to watch in season 1, so well done…the way you wrote about it brought back all those painful memories for them both but if they will survive that, they should be okay, right? i hope so :)
Awesome story and update. Thank you for posting. Excellent!