The dark is welcomed.

Forced freedom from pain, from being.
        Seeing.
    Doing.

There was no need for a front in the ether.  To pretend.

She could just, Be.

And find freedom in the place where light couldn’t touch.

**********

Helena walked back from the bathroom on her families private jet, determined to talk to Tina while she had her as a relatively captive audience.

“We need to talk.”  Now, didn’t that sound ominous Helena?  She smiled at herself, enjoying, albeit briefly, the way that sounded.

Tina lifted her head from the window and blinked the sleep from her eyes, “About what?”  she questioned, holding Angelica’s hand.

“Let’s start with where you are staying.”

Tina blinked at her, perplexed.  “At the house, until I find somewhere to stay.”

“What about Bette?”  Helena asked, trying to gauge where Tina was.

“It’s my home too,”  Tina defending, arms gesturing wildly, “my name is on the deed.”

Nodding, Helena realises that Tina is defensive, angry and not at all rational.  “So, you don’t care how uncomfortable you make her?”

Shaking her head Tina looks up at Helena “I’m going to let her see my daughter, what more do you want?”

“Let her ‘see’ your daughter?  What is Bette going to be to her, an Aunt?”  Helena scoffed.

“You expect me to allow more the visitation?  We are going to live in the same house, so she’ll get to see a lot of her while I am around.”  Tina explained, trying to be calm.

“No she wont.”  Came the quiet reply from the British woman.

“No she wont, what?”

“Bette hasn’t been staying at the house, and I don’t think she should start living in the same house as you again.”

The honesty and the gall of Helena interfering in Tina and Bette’s relationship annoyed her.

“What, are you fucking her?”  She questioned flippantly, then her eye’s widened and she asked again, breathy “You’re fucking her aren’t you?”

**********

“Ms Porter, I’m Doctor Hyse.  I was the surgeon who operated on your sister.”  The tall man introduced himself, offering his hand to Kit.

Kit smiled at him “Doctor Hyse, please call me Kit.”  She shook his hand, “Is my baby sis going to be okay?”