Title: goodnight story (Chapter 1)
Author: rey201 [ Send a Private Message ]
Copyright: REY 2008
Content Rating: R
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. But I'll bet you knew that...
Author's Note: This is my first time posting a fic here...and my first time writing one in a long time. I'd very much appreciate feedback, formatting notes, whatever.
Summary: My version of what happens when Bette and Tina and Angelica head home after the events of 5x11. Its gonna be all romance and gooeyness and emotional development.
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goodnight story (Chapter 1) by rey201
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Two cars pulled into the driveway, one right behind the other, headlights picking out details. Porch steps. Curtains. A bloom blushing on a bush. Glints of reflection from the pool. Home.
There were sounds, but not much talking. Car doors chunked open and shut. Click click clicks as Angelica’s car seat belts were released. The rustle of diaper bags and briefcases. Beeps from cell phone messages left unchecked. Happy nonsense whispers from the baby.
Just inside the front door, life was both familiar and impossibly strange. Bette and Tina stood there for almost a full minute, facing each other. Silent. Adjusting. Incredulous.
And then a small cocky smile quirked a corner of Bette’s pretty mouth. An answering grin spread slowly across Tina’s face. And then there they were, standing in the doorway with coats on and a squirming baby, laughing at the ludicrous beauty of their situation. In that moment they were un-contrite about where they had been. Their sordid, sad, sloppy, singular past had brought them to this moment, and they were giddy with the possibility of what they might become. Together. Again.
Angelica caught the giggles from them. Bette and Tina both turned to her, and gazing at her chubby cheeks, in the echo of her sweet baby laugh, life was recalibrated. Useful things could be said. And done. Starting with taking their coats off.
Bette took Tina and Angie’s jackets to hang up, while Tina settled Angie on the couch to take off her shoes.
“Are you hungry?” Bette called over her shoulder from the closet.
“Yeah, starving. I didn’t get a chance to eat today.”
The jackets taken care of, Bette wasn’t quite sure what to do with her hands. The house was different with all three of them there. With a family in it. Surfaces seemed to be at a slightly different height. Items she had not noticed in a long while reasserted their presence. Bette was suddenly, irrationally, afraid she might accidentally break something. She shoved her hands in her pockets tried to affect a nonchalant air.
“I can make us dinner…”
Tina wasn’t fooled. She heard the notes of insecurity in Bette’s voice and looked up from a stubborn knot in Angelica’s shoelace.
“I would love it if you would make dinner. Thank you,” she said with a reassuring smile.
“And I,” Tina continued, “will get Angelica ready for bed.”
She gave up on the shoelace and yanked the shoe off without untying it. Picking up the baby, she walked toward Bette.
“Then you and I can have dinner and…” Tina placed a soft kiss at Bette’s jawline, “relax.”
Bette grinned. Minutes passed.
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