Bette pulled her close, wrapping her arms around her waist. Tina immediately put her own arms on Bette’s.

“I’m not mad at you Tina. Well, I was. I was fucking furious actually but…then I thought about it. What happened was really my fault.” She could feel Tina about to move and she closed her arms tighter before she could. “Let me finish.”

“I jumped into being a slayer. I wanted to feel…I don’t know…special, you know. I mean there was nothing special about me anymore. I didn’t have the aura of a vampire, I was just me. And to be perfectly honest it made me feel good about myself to be something close to a superhero. I was doing something important, I thought. But everything that happened, T… you did what you did to protect me and to be honest, I probably would have done the same thing. But it’s too much now and it’s because I decided to do this that all of this happened. Being a slayer has brought too much danger to this family and I’m not going to do that to us anymore. I resigned today.”

Tina turned so quickly that half a gallon of water shot out of the tub. “You did what?”

“I had to Tina. I know I should have told you before I did it but I didn’t want you to talk me out of it because you think it’s something I enjoy doing. That isn’t a good enough reason to put you and Angie in danger; nothing is.”

Tina just looked at her as tears filled her eyes.

“I guess it’s your turn to be pissed at me?”

Tina wiped her eyes and smiled. “Just when I think that I can’t love you any more, you make a liar out of me. I don’t want you to be unhappy Bette. I don’t want you to regret opportunities in your life because you feel you have to for us. I couldn’t live with you resenting your family. I’m not going to lie and say I love seeing you walk out the door to put yourself in danger every night but I’ve made my peace with it. I told you I wouldn’t stand in the way of you being a slayer if it makes you happy.”

“Tina, the only thing I would regret is if being a slayer cost me my family. You and Angie are the most important things in my life. I have no life without you both and I won’t risk losing either of you again.”

Tina held Bette’s face in her hands. “Bette…”

“Sshhh, let’s not talk anymore. How ‘bout we have some make-up sex now?” She pulled Tina onto her lap enjoying the view of the blonde’s body from her position below her. Tina pulled her head into her bosom and closed her eyes. They were both instantly aroused, not having had sex in a week. Bette felt Tina sit up on her knees slightly signaling to her that she was ready. As she entered her she felt Tina tighten and grab her arm.

“Wait, wait baby.”

Bette wondered if she had read her wrong. “What’s wrong T, don’t you want to?”

“Yes, I want to…it’s just…Bette I wanna ask you something first…”

Bette pulled her back slightly so she could see her face. “What is it, T?”

Tina looked at the brunette’s lips and touched them with her thumb. “Bette, I was thinking maybe we could have another baby.”

The look on Bette face was hard to read even for Tina and she caught herself holding her breath.

“Another  baby? Really?” She was smiling now, her patented smile. It was the happiest Tina had seen her in a long time.

“Yeah. Want to?”

Bette kissed her, holding her so close that Tina could barely catch her breath. Bette looked at her.

“Yeah, I want to. You got any magic baby making potion lying around?”

Tina laughed. “No, we’re gonna have to make a new batch from scratch before we can make a baby together. But maybe we could…practice the technical part, you know just so that we do it right.”

“That may take a whole lot of practice. I mean we might have to do it all the time.”

“I like your work ethic, Porter."