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The Return Chapter 4
Tina’s feelings for Carrie grew, but cheating was not something Tina was about to play out again. So when she came home during the Cable show’s first hiatus, she asked Bette for a divorce.
”A divorce?” Bette had repeated as she sat down in shock.
”I have developed feelings for someone in Toronto. I don’t want to cheat on you Bette, I still care about you and I would never disrespect you like that.” Tina said tentatively.
Bette took a deep breath and looked hard at Tina. ”How did we get here?” She asked despondently.
There was silence. ”Bette,” Tina sighed, ”we have been here for awhile, you have just chose to ignore it.” She started to walk over to Bette and thought better of it, changing direction to sit on a chair across from her, fighting her protective instinct to comfort Bette.
Bette looked at Tina in a bemused sort of way taking a long pause before she then shot back angrily, ”You wanted space, I gave it to you. You said you needed to find yourself. Is taking up with a new lover the way you found yourself?”
Bette saw the look on Tina’s face and before Tina had a chance to respond Bette said with her voice sounding shaky, ”T, I’m sorry, I love you, I always have. You are the love of my life and that has never changed for me.” She said as her eyes welled up.
Tina knew this woman as well as she knew herself. Bette always had trouble hiding her emotions from Tina and as hard as Bette was obviously trying, Tina could see that Bette’s heart was broken. But there was nothing she could do, or for that matter willing to do. Tina was trying hard to unravel herself from a life that she saw as suffocating and stifling to her personal growth.
”You will always be my family Bette, we share a beautiful daughter and that will never change. But I need to be with someone who will give me room to grow, room to be the best person I can be and be happy with who I am. No matter how much I love you, I can’t do that when I am with you.” Tina said as tears welled up in her eyes.
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Sorry, too sad for me. Can’t accept not happy finale for Tibette in any stories.
Excellent background story…..your rendition of this background for the ten years is the only thing that even makes some sense as to what happened in the then years since TLW. I’m not sure about the molestation by the sister. I have never accepted that as canon for the story. That was just too bizarre for me. As for the breakup and the divorce, yes that is the way I imagine it. I don’t see them having a lot of screaming fights, just basically drifting apart until on day Tina thinks she needs to get away for a while. And then she get hung up with her job and meets Carrie and all of a sudden she’s being carried away by the stream of life and away from Bette and from Angie. Tina becomes so engaged in her life and her schedule, that she simply fails to do any real self examination as to what it is she wants in life or how to resolve her prior life with Bette. So she does what is easy – she ignores her past life or as least avoids it. So Bette is left with a failed relationship which has no closure and no real understanding as to why it broke up. That is the reason Bette is having difficulty moving on.
As the author, you are the one who will have to explain this. And you have had a real good start with this chapter.
Thanks for this chapter….. Keep it coming…. i think your doing great.
Thank you for your thoughts. I had put a lot of thought into what the writers did and without a back story it just isn’t believable. I am a social worker by profession and the molestation stuff I jus couldn’t let go of, but that is just me.
Took me some time to catch up but I’m intrigued with your story line. You said, you are a Tibetter, right? So I trust that you will present a better solution/ending for the Tina and Bette situation than the LW GenQ did. Your background story already is!
Please keep writing, I’ll keep reading and commenting ;-)