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Another Left Turn – Chapter 4a
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‘Yes.’
‘How’s your sleep?’
‘Not very good.’
‘Do you use Xanax to help with that?’
‘I try not to.’
‘Fine.’ Wendy took her glasses off. ‘It’s okay to use half a Xanax to help with sleep. Too little sleep can become a cumulative burden, so if it requires Xanax, by all means take it. Try to eat as well as you can. Is your friend going to be away at all, while you’re here?’
‘No,’ Tina shook her head. ‘She knows I’m seeing you, but . . . She thinks it’s work, divorce stuff, but she’s . . .’ Her voice faltered with emotion. ‘She’s there for me.’
‘Good.’ Wendy had stood up, a little stiffly. ‘And you work with Ben? Making all these amazing movies!’
Tina smiled. ‘Well, like I said earlier, it’s television, but yeah . . . Ben’s great.’
‘Yes, he is.’
They’d reached the consulting room door. Wendy held it open. Tina felt the odd energy she always got from therapists: anyone else you’d just told this stuff to, and received such patience and understanding from, you’d hug them. But you don’t.
And now, as she started up the car, Tina began to feel the very edges of her mind start to blur. It wasn’t unpleasant, it was just a feeling of change. Like when they lived in New York and they’d drive up to a cabin they loved in Vermont. The car was always freezing up, and they had to run the heater for ages to get the windshield to melt. Tina closed her eyes and pictured the way tiny patches of ice would turn from being hard and opaque to smooth and transparent. Many little pools that gathered in different parts but then quickly coalesced into a soft slush, one flip of the wiper and it was all gone.
She smiled. They’d de-iced it that way because, as Bette explained to Angie, chemicals were polluting and the windshield scraper was bad for the coating on the glass. Her voice muffled by Angie’s huge neon pink bobble hat as she sat on Bette’s lap in the passenger seat. She was too big to sit like that, but they both knew that was what made it fun. Their faces glowing . . .
Tina backed the car out of the driveway before Wendy came out again to see why she was still there, and headed out towards the highway. She’d skip lunch and eat something when she got to Temecula. She’d call Angie then too. And Bette?
She bit her lip. She felt bad that they hadn’t spoken yet. Not when she received the ring, not when the election was lost. Tina had texted Shane and Alice, and spoken to Angie of course, so she knew Bette was okay. Even knew she’d been on a date last night.
She reached a junction and sat with her blinker on. The ticking was soothing. Time passing was what everyone needed sometimes.
[continued in ANOTHER LEFT TURN Chapter 4b]
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Thank you for the new updates!
Bye, Carrie, we will not miss you. Good for Tina what she decided to talk about that she was raped by her sister, by for me this interrogation never where cannon, so i not going to more talk about that.
By the way – i’m not watching Gen Q besides parts with Bette and Tina, and briefly Bette, when she mention Tina, so when Shane from aunt became uncle?)
Thanks for commenting, Zenhya. In GenQ, Angie calls Shane ‘uncle’ as kind of a joke?
Thanks for reading even tho you don’t agree with everything. I appreciate it. :-)
Hi Largo, hope you’re feeling better!
I actually felt a little bad for Carrie, people should learn not to get involved with either Bette ot Tina… Still, happy to see her go ;-)
I remember being worried when I first read this that Bette and Dani were gonna start something with this trip, I’m so happy you didn’t go this route. There’s anough drama between Bette and Tina without adding anyone else to the mix.
I just love the way you describe things, characters and spaces, it really help me get into the story. I especially felt it here with Wendy and her office.
On to the other half of this chapter
Hi Noa – I am feeling a bit better. Very kind of you to ask. :-)
I’m glad you enjoyed the descriptions of Wendy’s office. I enjoy daydreaming about things like that. And yes, Carrie had a very rough ride with Tina. I felt bad doing that to her but at least there wasn’t any cheating a la Jodie.
Thank you for commenting x
Finally, Tina getting some proper therapy!
Most of TiBette’s mistakes would’ve been prevented if they just committed to some good long-term therapy. Emphasis on long-term and not something they stop after a few sessions when things get good or bad again.
Look, I’ll admit here that although I’m a TiBetter, I do ship Dani/Bette I haven’t found any actual fics that properly explore what a relationship between them would have looked like, but I can’t help but think it would have been good. I thought in S1 of GQ the writers were setting up SOMETHING between them, but obviously they chickened out of it. I really liked their dynamic, I thought they worked very well together, their similarities AND their differences were very compatible, in a strange way. I think a relationship between them would have been a very interesting one to explore – not necessarily an endgame forever relationship, but I think it would have been good for both of them. They both obviously cared for and protected each other, Dani took care of Bette, and managed and negated a lot of stress for her (which is something Bette really needs, despite her controlling/Alpha tendencies, sometimes she just needs to be taken care of and have someone to lean on), while Dani benefitted from and needed Bette’s mentorship/advice/drive/passion, without being made to feel inferior or incapable in any way.
I’m looking forward to their trip :)
Haha, yes! Danette had potential, didn’t they?? Some people felt it was icky bc of the age difference, but if they’re both okay with it then it’s really no one else’s business, is it? In the end I didn’t feel it was right bc I wanted Bette to try and do something different, to make an effort to heal from Tina’s desertion. I love what you say about how they protected one another. I loved that too.
L