Tina- (without looking at Kit and still looking at the door where the doctor came out) Yeah, you’re right Kit. I’ll go change, I’ll be right back. Please come get me if the doctor comes out, ok?

     Kit- I will girl, you go change.

Tina stood up and walked to the nurses’ station, talked to the nurse Kit had talked to and then the nurse walked her to a closed door, the nurse opened the door and let Tina in. Kit who was sitting in the waiting area, waited until Tina disappeared in to the room, rested her head in the chair she was sitting and again let her tears flow freely. Her baby sister was in a coma thanks to a mad man and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.

Her baby sister was in a coma thanks to a mad man and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.

In the bathroom, Tina stood in front of the full length mirror and took a good look at herself. For the first time she saw how much blood she had on her clothes, blood that Bette had lost. She closed her eyes and started crying, weeping for the first time. She was scared of loosing Bette, scared Bette would leave her and Angie, scared Bette would not die but that she would never come out of the coma. Plain and simple she was scared. But she was mad, mad at Bette for being stubborn, mad at Jodie’s brother for shooting her lover, mad at Jodie for killing herself and making her family blame Bette and mad at the world that seemed hell bent on keeping her and Bette apart and unhappy.  She went to the bag and took out a shirt and a pair of jeans, took off her green top that was covered in so much blood that it looked red, and the jeans she was wearing, changed in to the clean clothes, opened the water and rinsed her face and her hands that were also covered in blood. She didn’t know how to stopped crying, so she kept doing it until she felt strong enough to calm herself, rinsed her face again took a deep breath and looked at herself in the mirror and told herself “You can do it Tina, Bette it’s going to be fine and you need to be there for her, you need to be strong and be there for her, for you and for Angie. You can do it”. With that said she went out of the bathroom, thanked the nurse and went to the waiting area. When she was arriving to the waiting area she saw Kit talking to the doctor and rushed over there.