Tina started thinking in her wicked uncle’s menace, she didn’t tell Bette what was happening because the brunette was usually very short-tempered and could face and threaten her uncle; and, even though the blonde was very concern, she rejected again her uncle’s offer; but what made her take the sad decision to break with Bette was when Bette’s family almost die for a gas leak in their house, then Tina understood the she had to protect the people she loved, only her mother Mani, knew about her inner heart struggle, Mani loved Bette and also the Porter’s, but she also knew what Donovan Kennard was able to do. Bette didn’t accept the breaking and asked her girlfriend for an explanation, Tina couldn’t tell her the truth, so, she told her that she wasn’t feeling attracted to women anymore, of course, Bette was devastated, but things got worse when Marcus intervened and Tina told him the truth, unfortunately Bette had followed Tina and saw her crying in Marcus’s arms, misinterpreting the facts, and leading to a nasty confrontation with her brother; the next person in knowing, the now Tina’s and Marcus’ secret was Kit who had to intervene in the fight between siblings, and was then when Bette start dating all the girls around and showing them wherever Tina was.

The blonde was very sad about Bette, but she knew her ex, was acting with spitefulness, however the straw that broke the camel’s back was during their graduation ceremony almost one year after they finished their PhD, Bette brought with her a beautiful blonde making a very bold public display of affections, that night Tina had sat at a table with James, Eric, Coleman, Marina, and Jenny, the blonde, who usually didn’t drink alcohol, started drinking all types of cocktails, and got very drunk, which was Eric’s opportunity to take her to a motel, Eric was after Tina during all the time she studied at MIT, but Tina never gave him any hope, on the contrary, she set a far distance from him though keeping their initial friendship, mainly because she didn’t like boys, but Bette’s jealousy was another factor; fortunately James saw it coming, but when returning to the table Tina and Eric were already gone, he told Maura, who called Jane who was outside the building and saw Eric pushing an almost unconscious Tina in his car, Jane followed them to a motel, but as she was recently promoted to high-rank police officer  and as she knew both persons the attacker and the victim, she couldn’t intervene without a legal justification, so she called her friend Stef and report a fight in the motel’s room, which, indeed, was happening because Tina has suddenly awaked by the unpleasant pawing and touching she was feeling from the man and she started defending herself from Eric’s violent advances, unfortunately Tina was wounded as well as Eric, Stef arrested Eric, who was sober and called the paramedics to take Tina to the hospital, the blonde got a black eye, congested face a bleeding lip two broken ribs and her clothes were partially ripped.