“Which is to what?” Tina asked after she politely waited a fair amount of time for the agent to continue, the problem was that if she kept on waiting she would die of asphyxia, since clearly the anticipation of what the brunette may say next had taken away her capacity to breathe.

“To be overly protective” Of you… Of course the brunette conveniently forgot to verbalize those last two words; those two short and very simple words which, strangely enough, could make a huge difference if spoken.

To see the always cool and collected and almost impossible to reach Agent Porter admitting something of the sort took Tina completely by surprise. The blonde didn’t know much at the moment except for one thing: the almost uncontrollable desire to just cut the distance that separated them and simply taste those lips. Bette was showing her human and tender and caring side and Tina found it just irresistible; or almost humanly impossible to resist, for she had to put up one hell of a fight with her most basic instincts to do so.

My heart could certainly not beat any faster… how could you ever think that I would remotely want to ditch you, when all I can think about is you? Why don’t you see Bette? Why can’t you see? That would certainly make my life so much easier, if you could just see the things you do to me… especially when you say things like that or look at me like you are doing right now…

I am such a coward, I would put myself in front of a bullet for you but I cannot even begin to tell you how you make me feel. How am I going to cope with this, considering all the time we still have ahead of us? How am I going to remember to breathe around you, especially when you look at me like that? I thought this wasn’t possible, I thought I simply wasn’t cut out for this stuff… until I shook your hand in Peggy’s office…

“Ok, I’m glad we settled this then…” Bette was the first one to break the conversation their eyes were having.

“Yeah… me too” Tina simply said for her ability to sound coordinated and coherent had fled through the window somewhere along those long minutes of intense eye contact.