Darkness fell upon the sleeping mothers still holding each other in the same position.  Tina’s pickled-ice cream breath brought Bette out of her slumber.  She smiled at her sleeping girlfriend with mouth opened, eyes rolling behind her eyelids even as she slept.  Tina rolled on to her back exposing her tummy to Bette.  Taking of advantage of the moment she lovingly caressed the womb and was rewarded with a kick.  Her eyes grew wide at the feeling and kept on with her ministrations hoping to evoke another reaction.  Checking to make sure she did not wake Tina she lay her head back down on the same pillow, and whispered. 

“I promise I will never cheat on you again.  I love you so much.”

     A single tear formed and slid onto the pillow as her words were carried into Tina’s dreamland.  Bette watched as her love turned back on to her side, faced her and in her slumber reached her arms out to wrap around Bette.

“I love you too babe, I promise I will never let you go again.”

     The whispered words gripped Bette’s heart as tight as Tina was holding her and she knew in that moment that here is where she belonged.  Here with her family, with the love of her life the only thing worth fighting for.  Her father he passed on without any reconciliation with her mother she knew that she did not want to go through that.  Bette Porter was not going to be alone, and she was happy she waited for Tina to give her another chance.  Not that it would have been a problem, as long as Tina showed that she cared Bette would have waited forever.  Luckily, she didn’t have to.

“Babe”

     A soft voice uttered the term of endearment she as she slept changed her dreamscape from being in an art gallery to being in their home with Tina sitting in a rocking chair nursing their baby.

“Baby?”

“Babe wake up”

“T?”

“Come on babe wake up, I brought us something to eat”

“I had the most incredible dream”

“Was it about food?  Cause your stomach was sleep talking”

“She was?”

“Oh yeah, but don’t worry my stomach was doing the same thing, as a matter of fact I think they had a sleep conversation”