Tina: (after two minutes) “I have to go”

Bette: “I will walk you to your apartment…, there are people walking around, some of them drunk…, I want you to be safe…”

Tina: “thanks…, but what about you?”

Bette: “I will be fine”

They walked to Tina’s apartment where Bette left her, now it is the brunette who feels dizzy, intoxicated with deep feelings and desires for Tina.  

Now

All the way Tina’s home, Bette had her arm around the blonde’s shoulders, pressing softly her fingers on her neck to relax her, kissing her occasionally, while talking.

Bette: “why are you so tense, baby?”

Tina: “didn’t Jane tell you what’s happening?”

Bette: “yes…, Jane, and Maura…, we all know what’s happening”

Tina: “it’s all, my fault”

Bette: “no Tina…, to do research is our job…, as is the job of an educator to teach, the job of a soldier to defend a country, the job of a physician to heal…, we don’t make decisions for others, we don’t play God, we don’t hurt or kill people…, those sons of a bitch are the culprits of this madness, not you”

Tina: “Bette…, I should have kept my experiments in secret”

Bette: “baby, you were studying the side effects of drugs that can cure cancer, you were doing the right thing, they used a spy, a traitor for their devious purposes…, you are a victim as the others who were reported at the police station to Jane”

The blonde stayed silent until the couple arrived at her house, the garage door opened, the car entered and the door closed again, inside the car, Tina finally broke and cried.

Tina: (sobbing) “I don’t know what to do Bette…, I don’t want to think what else could happen, I think I’ve failed…”

Bette: (cleaning the tears in Tina’s cheeks and eyes with her hands) “no Tina…, you don’t, you didn’t fail, they robbed you”

Tina: “I failed to everybody, to our community, lesbians, gays, transgenders, bisexuals, I failed to my friends, to my family…, and the worse of all…, I failed you”

Bette: “Tina, baby, you never failed to anybody…, and it was me who let you down…, I’m sorry honey…, but I was so blind…”

Tina: “oh babe…, I love you so much…, I just couldn’t let them hurt you and your family”