"I know what I did was wrong and getting Angie involved was wrong too," Christian said breaking into tears, "I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, please don’t kick me out."

Tina looked at him and sat back down next to him, "you don’t know any better Christian and I plan to teach you everything that my sister couldn’t. I will be the mother she couldn’t be."

Christian broke into sobs and wrapped his arms around Tina’s neck. Tina held him for a minute before saying, "Patty was wrong."

"What?" Christian said sitting back up wiping his tears.

"I don’t want to see my sister," Tina said, "I don’t want to speak to her or ever see her again. Tell her I will never forgive her. Her presence will only serve to hurt me."

"That’s what Bette thought too," Christian said slowly, "that why I’m telling you this now, the only reason Bette had gone to the Bronx was to see my mom to see if she would be a threat to you."

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Bette’s eyes flickered open and she took in her surroundings. It looked like she was in the recovery room. She was all alone except for a nurse who was attaching something to her IV.

"Ah you’re awake Mrs. Kennard-Porter," the nurse said smiling, "how are you feeling?"

"Like I got hit by a truck," Bette responded groaning and trying to move but then noticing she had a bunch of cables attached to a contraption on her chest. "What the hell is this?"

"Just relax a bit Mrs. Kennard-Porter," the nurse said when the beeping in the room became louder, "this is a heart monitor. One of the bullets hit your right arm which dislocated your shoulder and the other hit your chest which fractured your sternum bone. We removed both bullets during the surgery and right away did the procedure to remove pieces of broken bone in your body. That’s when we realized the bullet that struck your right shoulder had grazed your heart and you were hemorrhaging. The medic who saved you noticed it right away so we were already looking for it going in."

"Jesus, no wonder I died," Bette said in shock.

"We don’t call it that, we call it flatline," the nurse explained, "and it happened several times during the surgery."