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The Fast and Fevered Fall – Chapter Fourteen
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“Will you tell her how sorry I am?”
“I think that’s better coming from you.”
“But you just said that she wouldn’t ever want to talk to me again.”
“I think that regardless of what’s happened Tina still loves you. She just needs to find that love amongst all the hurt that she’s feeling right now.”
“I still love her, so much.”
“Bette, I need to go. I can hear her coming out of the bathroom. I’ll call you back later. Try not to worry about Tina, I’m going to take care of her. Just think about all the things that you are going to do and say to make it right.”
“If I ever get the chance.” said Bette, morosely.
“You will, you just need to be patient.”
“Thank you Alice, I owe you.”
“Yeah, you do. We’ll talk later.”
Alice looked up to see Tina standing in the doorway of her bedroom. Tina looked defeated, slumped against the door frame, like she barely had the energy to stand.
“That was her, wasn’t it?” asked Tina, accusingly.
“She just wanted to check that you were OK.”
“OK? She wanted to check that I was OK? Maybe she should have thought about that before…” said Tina, stopping herself before she said the words that would bring back all the painful memories of the night before.
“You didn’t tell Bette where you were going.”
“I didn’t think that she deserved to know.”
“Maybe not, but she was still worried about you.”
Tina didn’t respond to this. She just walked over to Alice’s bed and sat down. Tina started to play with the edge of the blanket, deep in thought about what the last twelve hours had done to her. Everything that she had known, everything that she thought that she was sure of had changed, almost beyond recognition. Tina felt the tears starting to form again, she didn’t want to cry today, but was powerless to stop the tears from falling. It was then that she felt Alice’s hand on top of hers, the smallest of touches providing so much comfort.
Tina moved her head so that she could look at Alice. The picture of compassion that Alice presented made Tina’s heart break a little more. She found herself collapsing into Alice’s arms, like she done the night before. Tina felt like she was holding on for dear life, she felt that if she let go of Alice she would slip under, never to reach the surface again. Alice held Tina tight against her, telling her that it would be alright. Alice didn’t even know if she believed that but she wanted to provide some relief for Tina and this was the only way that she knew how.
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Oh, Alice. Hard thing, to be caught in the middle. Again, a chapter that’s made me sad, even though I know there’s a brief respite coming. I always love your posts, give us another soon. Cheers, citygirl.
That wasn’t a nice trip down memory lane!! But so good at the same time. You forgot your rule – well can I do one for you?? Thanks, I knew you wouldn’t mind: Rule No ? – Never sleep with a carpenter!
I like Jo’s rule. A lot. And shall live by it. Because I can. Always great, always heart wrentching. Pretty much what I can always count on with you. And that was NOT a nice trip down memory lane! LIAR! ;)
I hate remembering all that pain…regardless of how well you write it…pls next post!!!
You would have thought that the carpenter would’ve been the one to end up with splinters. And they become infected so easily.
I liked the danish 4am kiss trip down memory lane lol :D
When Bette betrayed Tina by sleeping with Candace, I don’t think anyone knew how badly it destroyed her. I don’t think a person can be the same after having their soul mate, their first last and forever screw them over like that… That said, I beleive true love can overcome anything and I think Bette should be the one to put back the shatered pieces of theire life and help bring back the woman Tina once was.
Damn that was sad and painful for B&T. Ok let see whats next, thanks!
i love the show but they do leave a lot of things unsaid and unexplained, i really liked this chapter because i could see what could’ve happened at the end of season 1…anyway, still hope for happy ending :)
You took me back down that dark sad road…I just want IC to make it better in season 4 I want the light hearted group back. I want Bette & Tina back together…I want …I want…I want…
OMG…I don’t know about that being a good trip but I did enjoy reading. That was the beginning of the end for our girls…wasn’t it?pps
get a grip lament, this is just my opinion, and gathered from all the stuff I have read since season 1. I know also that there were differences in the situations of cheating but IMO, it was way wrong of Alice to turn her back on Bette for doing something she herself was doing. Not being a good friend at all, but as I said, there was a level of bitterness still there toward Bette. Peace!
Painful…thank you for reminding us about the terrible pain that Tina went thru with her sense of absolute betrayal by Bette…it is a terrible thing to go thru when you love so deeply and have committed so deeply and I believe it is that which leads Tina to cut a path of destruction thru Bette’s life up to the end of s3…I am hoping tho that during s4, recovery will set in and they will find their way…I live in hope or I have to give up watching the L Word; of which s1 is just about to appear on my screen…the episode with Marcus’ gf shouting at T…NZers seem to love ity, its been replayed 3 times now…PPS
I know how everyone feels about the affair, but I feel that both people bear the responsiblity for the breakdown in a relationship. Yes, Bette made a mistake, a big one, but she is human. She made a mistake, she didn’t do it to destroy tina! I get very tired of Tina expecting her to be perfect..Tina has made ALOT of mistakes, would she like to pay for them for the rest of her life? The thing that really bothers me though from the show, is Alice..who absolutely crucified Bette, when she and Dana were cheating on Tonya. I always thought that she has alot of bitterness from Bette ending their few week relationship, Alice is very needy, asnd she saw this betrayal of Tina as another of her.I just wish people would stop making tina a blameless saint in all of it..she and Bette are human beings and should be treated as such.
Great chapter Citygirl. So loved the way you had penned the trip down memory lane although it brings painful memories to the surface..
I don’t see ANYONE making Tina a blameless saint. If anything there’s a shitload of stories floating around these days where Tina is one of the most evil characters I’ve ever read. This story shows how far Tina herself as fallen not just from Bette’s actions, but from her own. I also don’t think Alice and Dana getting it on behind Tonya’s back is on the same level as B&T and the carpenter. Dana and Tonya were engaged, yes, but they were together for like 10 seconds compared to B&T. *repeating to self* it’s fiction, it’s fiction, it’s god damn motherfucking fiction…