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The Journey 32
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Tina: “Bette.” I say it firmly. “I was mad as ***** with you but I never stopped loving you.”
Bette: Without thinking I say it out loud. “God, you did a good impression of it.”
Tina: “I needed to make my own way, to re establish myself. We couldn’t go back Bette. I couldn’t go back to just being your wife again. I needed to be me. I was not trying to hurt you further.”
Bette: “I know.” I say quietly. I start to laugh, rather inappropriately.
Tina: “What, come on you can’t do that and not tell me what is funny.”
Bette: I tell Tina about Mr Green, the ***** dwarf and the series of events that happened involving him, from me screaming at him at the scene to the conversation in the board room where I thought
Tina: I laugh as Bette tells the story but I also feel a sadness that I didn’t know this story already. “Yeah well, you have a way with words Bette.”
Bette: I look at the fire and rest my glass on my leg and look up at Tina who is waiting for me to set the pace. “Tina, I need to talk to you about the last time we were intimate.” I don’t hesitate and I say it unapologetically because if we are going to make it together I need for these things to be resolved.
Tina: I nod. “Yes, I think we should talk about it too.”
Bette: “I guess Tee” I look at her in my mind, needing forgiveness “I want to apologise, I should never have..things should never have gotten so”
Tina: “Apology accepted. I’d like to make an apology of my own in that area. I’m sorry Bette, I should never have slapped you”
Bette: “Tee, it’s OK, it was deserved.”
Tina: “Bette, please don’t interrupt.” I say firmly but gently. “It is not OK, that is not how we are going to do things, and I should not have ” I search for the right words “..bitten you.”
Bette: I look down at the painful memory and nod in acceptance of what Tina says. Tina sips her champagne. “Tina, there are things I need to tell you.” I tell Tina how I was nearly fired, how if Peggy hadn’t shown up I would have been fired. I tell her about the protestors out the front of the house on the night we lost the baby. I tell her how sorry I am I was late to that appointment. I tell her I know these things do not justify my actions with Candace. Silence.
Tina: I say nothing as I listen to Bette and even when she stops I say nothing. How could I have not known these things?
Bette: “Tee?” I probe. “I don’t want to make the same mistakes again, that is why I am telling you.”
Tina: “Christ Bette, how could you have not told me before?”
Bette: “Tee, you kinda had enough to deal with.”
Tina: “OK, that stops right there.”
Bette: I’m confused. “What?”
Tina: “That type of thinking Bette. Sounds like you had plenty to deal with too. Maybe if we’d shared with each other?”
Bette: “Maybe.” She is right and I know it.
Tina: “I wanted to apologise to you Bette, for you not being the first to know about the baby.”
Bette: The baby is not something that needs clarification. I know it is not Laurel Tina is talking about. “Thank you.”
Tina: The main meal arrives, there is not entre or desert. Just a main meal and a cheese platter. I ordered us a steak, simple salad and a jacket potato. With it came a bold red wine. It offers us a much needed break in the conversation. “Well I think we about covered alot? Bette, you seem different, I mean in a good way. I mean the same but different” I’d never encountered Bette willing to share so much of herself and I like it but she was still Bette, determined, passionate, fiery.
Bette: “I’m glad Tee. This is the perfect setting.” I offer nothing further as I start to eat.
Tina: “Yes, yes it is.”
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Glad to see you back. I hope they can bring themselves together in all ways that count.
Wow they covered a lot is right. You hesitant Bette and confident Tina is appreciated. They seem to be finding the middle ground that they can only have with each other. Thanks for the telling
you’re back, hurray, i’m glad they are talking, they need to talk to get closer and be a family again…thanks
nice
That was great,they need to talk. And I’m glad they brought Laurel. spend some time apart from the citya s a family. Please post soon, I can’t wait.
im glad you back..i love Tina..she is so confident and i hope Bette lose that fear of her..they are together she have nothing to worry..cant wait for more thanks :o)
I’ve missed this story. Great to see them talking and listening to one another.
glad to see you are back with another great chapter. Thanks.
Great Story.. I was hoping you would continue.. I wish or should I say hope that in the show they bring up some of these topics that have never been discussed..Please post soon..
Great chapter. Here’s hoping that they can mend themselves and get back together as a family and friends and lovers. Thanks for the post.
Great great chapter. Our girls have alot of talking to do But I hope they make it Soon
Nice to have you continue your story. Wonderful as always!
Wow…talking, wine, steak…what the evening might lead too…thanks for the great story!
unbeknown…missed you! I loved the chapter and so happy that they are talking. Understanding and forgiving….thanks and post soon.
simply fabulous – i love your story . so looking forward to your next chapter
Love the way they are talking.and the way that bette has open up to Tina they need this. Laurel is quite protected by Bette thanksbette
I don’t know how I missed this story, but I have just finished re-reading your first story start to finish, and now read this one. Both are wonderfully written…so beautiful. I am totally hooked on this second story, and now I have to wait for the next chapter…hopefully the wait won’t be long!! Thank you for your beautiful writing.
Good chapter. Love the conversation that they have and they open up and share thing to each other. Ok post soon please, thanks!
So glad you’re back. Missed the story, but love the update. B & T need to continue to talk…mend themselves and each other. It’s great to see how Tina see’s Bette as different yet the same. I hope some of these topics are covered in S3…that would be great…especially, that “night” at the end of S1. Thanks again and welcome back…what a treat!
just wonderful. loved the talking. always up for a good talk. more please. thanks
yay,you are back..! they needed the dinner and talk. this is great..baby steps!