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Work to Do Chapter 10
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Bette pursed her lips. “I see.” She nodded. “Well. That answers all my questions” They both laughed.
”To quote my dear friend Alice: ‘What’s with the sleep-overs?’ ” Bette asked, arching her eyebrows.
Dana shrugged. She had gathered that her ‘visits’ were the object
of some speculation. “Sometimes I just go over there to sleep,” she
explained. She left it at that and Bette let her.
After a pause, Dana knit her eyebrows and summoned her nerve. She looked at Bette shyly.
”Is it any easier now? For you and Tina?”
Bette considered her question. “Do you mean easier now that we’re
back together? Or easier now that we’ve been back together for a
while?”
“Both, I guess.”
”Well then I’ll answer “yes” to each question,” Bette laughed.
“And when we first got back together it was your basic nightmare, so
that’s saying something.”
Dana smiled sympathetically. The first months after Angelica was born Bette and Tina were kind of a mess.
”It was still better than thinking we might not get together had
been,” Bette told her. “It’s a clich but spending time together does
help. We’ve both worked hard.
I’ve had to spend a lot of time looking at some of my less than
stellar qualitiesand a lot MORE time looking at Tina.” She admitted,
not seeming uncomfortable.
Dana nodded, absorbing this.
She looked into her coffee, trying to figure out how to ask her next question.
”Do you think Alice will ever trust me? You know, to stick it out?”
Bette considered Dana for a moment. She really didn’t know, Bette marveled.
“Trust you? Dana.” Bette crinkled her eyebrows at Dana in a sad smile. “Alice trusts you.”
”Did it ever occur to you that that is exactly the problem?
”Oh my god, just look at the people she dated before you: one
Bette Porter, in my ally cat days, Gabby, ‘Miss Unfaithful’
personified, and a bunch of other people she either didn’t care about
or who cheated too! Dana, she has always trusted you.
I think you scare her to death precisely because she knows you
do love her and you would stay. Have you ever wondered why she fought
so hard against getting together with you in the first place?
Who ran out on whom, Dana?”
Dana narrowed her eyes as she listened to Bette. She recognized the reality of a lot of what she was saying.
She looked at Bette. “Mind if I use some of this in therapy? It’s good.” she asked straight-faced.
“Just don’t quote me,” Bette returned solemnly.
TBC
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“I’m no Lady-Gray.” Lady-Gray/layla-gray, are we sure we’re not the same person. We have asked this before you know.If you do start posting under a different name, please, I’m begging please let me know, so I don’t miss any of you wonderful stories. That’s with or with out steamy sex.By the way I did the same thing with my name and email. So when I googled my own name sure enough there were my stories. Whats even funnier is my name is Deb, so I guess if anyone googles my email the cat is out of the bag. LOL
Very good. I loved the Dana/Bette scene.
Oh how I look forward to your updates. I love this story. And so that my family and friends don’t find out about my “dirty” secret of reading L Word fanfics and commenting on them, I changed my user name to something totally unidentifiable to me. LOL!
I also loved how you filled in the gap left by the show. I was also happy to see Bette having meaningful interaction with Dana. Sometimes Bette seems so removed from the other characters.
I’m getting ready to read the story, but I had to comment now because I loved your Author’s Notes. Don’t worry – you are not the only one who spends WAY too much time reading and writing TLW fanfiction. I’m not very keen on most of my friends knowing about my most recent obsession either. ;-)
Fist off I just wanted to say that this was the best Damn Author’s Note I’ve ever read! Secondly I just wanted to alert you that putting you new alias in the Author’s note might still make it accessible to those you don’t want to see it so you may want to change it. Third if you do change it let me know because I’m looking forward to reading that filthy story.But seriously I loved this chapter you write the all of the character so well. I also really liked the flash back because it gave a lot of in site into what happened. Thanks!
I was laughing already at the author’s note. Let’s hope your mother’s more Lenore than Sharon, then . . . (though, on the other hand, no ‘excessive use of the verb “thrust” . . ‘ – I’m thankful for that at least!) I’m off to google ‘Capesquad’ now too. The flashbacks and Dana/Bette were great. Love the way you write.
I love it and I think what bette said to dana is mostly right about alice but can’t wait to see what happens next please post soon
Ask anyone – I am officially the hater of season 2, I think it’s pretty weak after season 1. Very badly written and awkwardly rushed. You really know where you’re going and you’re doing great. You don’t have to promise me anything accessories and / or food. I’m with you reading this all the way :)
1. Love the Bette and Dana’s scene, I like this side of Bette and Dana feeling a little out of place after the breakup was so in character.2. Dana continuing with Tonya after the 4am kiss was well explained, thanks for fill in the gap left by the show.3. I’ll be waiting for that flithy fic under “the artist formerly known as capesquad” with unrestrain glee.
hey capesquad – great job. I love this line – “Where Alice’s kiss had been an admission, Dana’s response was a declaration”. Its so true. Great update. Post soon.