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The Thawing of the Ice – Chapter Thirty-One
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Helena nodded and Bette disappeared outside and sat down near the pool. “Hello,” she answered.
“Hi. I just wanted to check in and see how things were going.”
Bette nodded absently. “Everything is going pretty well. How are you?”
Tina struggled with the answer to that question. She wasn’t well at all. She missed Bette terribly but she knew better than to let those thoughts surface. In the end, she responded that she was just fine and gave updates on Angelica’s day. Their call ended on a high note and as soon as she got up to resume her evening meal, the phone rang again. “Hello Alice,” she answered.
“Hey Bette. Have you seen Helena?”
Bette smiled mischievously and her voice conveyed the mischief. “Maybe. I know that Helena saw you.”
Alice groaned. “Oh come on, Bette. I know she saw me. I haven’t seen her since. She didn’t even come back last night.”
“Maybe you scared her to death.”
“Fuck off, Porter.”
“Never again, Al.”
“So you haven’t seen her?” asked Alice.
“No, I have. She’s safe and well. She’s going to stay with me for a little while. Give you and your soldier girl some space.”
“Are you kidding me?” asked Alice.
“No. I’m serious.”
“You and Helena are living together? Fuck my mother.”
“No Al. My friend, Helena is staying with me until she gets back on her feet. I have more space than I need and I like her company. It all works out well.”
Alice’s voice got very quiet and she said, “I know you, Bette. What’s the deal? You hated Helena. Are you going to poison her or something?”
Bette laughed out loud. “God no! Is it really so hard to believe that we’re friends?”
“Yes, yes it is.”
“Well, we are. And I’m honored that she’s staying with me.”
Alice nodded knowingly and replied, “Oh, I see. So how long have you guys been shacking up?”
Bette shot up from her seat, as though struck by a motivating force. “Great talking to you, Al. I gotta go.”
“Wait, Wait! Just tell her to call me later. Okay?”
“I will. And best of luck to you and Tasha. You deserve to be happy, Al.”
“Thanks. Talk to you later.”
“Bye.”
Bette walked back inside and said, “That was Tina and then Alice. Tina wanted to remind me that she really does want to get back together. And Alice was looking for you.”
Helena had surmised it was Tina calling. The look of timid anxiety written all over Bette’s face had told her so. As soon as Bette’s brain had connected with the identity of Tina calling, a deep wrinkle laid itself down at the space between her eyes. Helena had watched her beautiful roommate through the glass door and she’d known when one call ended and the other began simply by Bette’s body language.
Helena wasn’t quite sure of what the protocol should be just now. Did Bette want to talk through things or should she just let well enough alone?
“Alice was looking for me?” she finally said.
Bette nodded, her gaze heavier than she wanted it to be. “She was. She said for you to call her later.”
“I think my phone’s dead. I haven’t seen it since this morning. Lately I’ve just been calling you and Jai. You’re here and it’s the weekend,” she said with a smile.
Their eyes locked again and for the second time that day, that familiar yet foreign feeling tickled Bette’s spine. She forced her gaze back down to her plate, grabbed her knife and fork, and cut into her lukewarm chicken breast.
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If Bette’s ” familiar yet foreign feeling” leads to her and Helena becoming lovers, then I will have to stab myself.
Yep I get a knot in my stomach each time Bette gets one of her strange feelings. Not sure if I can take a Bette and Helena gig… may have leave this story alone for a while and come back and jump to the ending. To see if it has either a Bette and Helena ending or a usual Tibette. Great story but the suspense is killing me.
I’m sending an SOS out for Nadia, then maybe Bette might be kinder to her ex and her other friends that don’t have crystal blue eyes. She’s really got a stick up her butt and it looks like Tina isn’t the only one that annoys her these days. Maybe she’s just pissed that crystal blue eyes didn’t fall for the ‘I have something to show you’ in the bedroom line… When this friendship started I said I would need to skip the Helena parts in order to get through it – obviously that would mean not reading the story but now I’m intrigued. I hope they do have sex because I’d love to read how you write a sex scene between them. I know I’m a glutten for punishment but what can I say…. Thanks for the story.
LOL i’m with vegas on this one…nice update
Hmmmmmm… I sure hope that “familiar yet foreign feeling” leads them to a budding love. =) Either way tis story goes, I love your writing style. I’ve got to say that I am definitely rooting for some Belena, though. Unless Tina’s personality drastically changes in this story, I don’t see myself wanting her to be with Bette. She just rubs me the wrong way. Thanks for posting. PPVS!
Oh please, no Bette and Helena romance! I will have to close my eyes. :) Never could see this pairing during the show and I still can’t. Thanks!
Helena is like an alien that has absorbed human characteristics but doesn’t feel them. Does she need a ‘friends handbook’ to tell her that if she’s been living with someone for several months and then she suddenly moves out that the least she could have done was leave a note. This BeLena friendship is really creepy – it’s like no one else matters to them except each other. Bette is acting like she’s possessed or something – it almost feels like a suspense thriller which I think is why I’m so hooked. In my imagination I’m thinking that when they have sex Helena is going to get Bette pregnant with some kind of alien creature…that will contain all her evil parts. Can’t wait to read what else you have in store for us. Now that Alice knows that they are living together it won’t be long until Tina finds out. I really have no respect for this Bette. It’s like Helena is her dirty little secret, and if Helena is as innocent as you portray her to be about Bette’s feelings then I might start to feel sorry for her too. Did I really say that :-)
Damn. Thanks for posting.
I… love this story. That’s really all. Thanks, MTS!
I’d like the knife as soon as Vegas513 has finished with it.
That convo between Bette & Tina is going to be rich. Bette: Ummm your ex and I, we’ve been “hanging out” for a while unbeknowst to you & our circle of friends and well, I have not only decided that I have feelings for your ex, but she’s also living with me. I’m not really considering our daughter, your feelings, the drama this will cause, or the fact that you were previously involved with this “dragon”. Have a nice life though. Tina: (searching frantically for a barf bag) Thanks for showing me what type of person you truly are. I deserve better. I hope you have a nice life and that our daughter only inherits your looks because she will certainly not learn anything about being a decent human being from you. Good luck. I hope I never see you again. Oh yeah, shit, I’m forced to be around you for several more years because we have a daughter together. Fuck me. Believe me, I love people to be happy, but not at the expense of others. This is just wrong on so many levels. Thanks for the story.
The lack of Tina POV and more of Helena and Bette moment as if they are the only characters in this story makes me think that this will be a Belena story. I am having a hard time reading this B&H moments. Bette is still as cold as a snow to Tina. It will cause more hurt to Tina if she hear it from Alice that Helena is staying at Bette’s. This is torture for all the Tibette fan. I hope Helena’s friendliness is nothing but just platonic….I don’t know if I can still bear the torture.
BeLena Bena BoBena…so love this story and really enjoy how you write the interactions between B and T and BeLena!! Enjoying every word!!
yyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeesssssssssss Belenathey are so hot together , nice update PPVS :o) xx
Pass the knife around…..#@@!%%$!! my mother.
vegas513, you have company.
Think Bette really is caught between a rock and a hard place. On one side there is Tina, with whom she shared seven years with, and also a lot of pain, which has openly confessed that she wants to try again. And on the other hand, there is Helena, which is subtly flirting with her and showing her interest in her, when Bette felt the least attractive and desirable. I really believe that Bette still loves Tina, but is still afraid what they could do to each other, or she would have long given into her attraction to Helena. Don’t know what’s best for either of them to do at the moment, but agree that Bette should tell Tina, that Helena moved into her guestroom. But it also should be in person and not over the phone. In addition Bette never told Tina to stop living her own life and wait for her, Tina as well as Bette have every right to live their own lives and be happy. If Tina decides to put her life on hold for the moment after just leaving Henry to wait if Bette comes back to her, that’s her choice. I really like the fact that Bette didn’t succumb to Tina’s advances right away, they have been through a lot and just because Tina is ready to start new with Bette, doesn’t mean that Bette is. It took Tina what, 3 years and a lot of punishing to forgive Bette for cheating with Candace, but Bette is supposed to just forget everything that happened and get back together with Tina, sorry but that’s really not working for me. MTS thanks a lot for this wonderful story.
wow I knew that your story would finish in a cat fight between Tibette & Belena’s clan lol Just for the record I AM SO BELENA!!!! *don’t kill me* :) Anyway, Helena is so sweet, but Im wondering if she has the same feeling as Bette coz you’re only describing Bette’s feeling even though Helena don’t back down the sex eye context. lol And I agree on the fact that Bette is acting like Helena is the only one around and when she has to talk to someone else it’s like a wake up call but I disagree on the fact that she’s not looking after Angelica. And I would really like that it’s in fact Bette whose telling the clan about the sleeping arrangment and not Alice coz I think it’s her part to do so. Even though I’m a belena in heart, I feel sorry for Tina, coz even though I have some mixed feelings about what she’s doing for Bette, she’s really geniune to the fact that she wake up (a little to late) and she knows that she wants and still is in love with Bette. And as for Bette sooner or later she has to said something about Tina’s confession, she can’t go around like this it’s not fair to either one. Thanks for the part, update soon!!!!!
Ummm…there is really too much debate going on here. Bette and Tina BELONG together. Anything else is just…not natural. I do really like the Bette-Helena FRIENDSHIP but this is getting a little too close for comfort. What else does Tina have to do (outside of confessing her undying love and being INSANELY patient) to get Bette back?!?!?!
OMFG:))) I looove the way you’re leading the story!!! and your writing…please, do continue! and I vote for Belena! Love how you explained B’s emotions!!
well well I understand that Tibette fan are really crushed and such, but plz, be mature enough to slow down on comments :)As for CamTurn well Tina doesn’t have to do anything else it’s Bette’s turn to act if she doesn’t that’s her pb, and yes she’s way to patient to wait a move by Bette, but it’s her choice to be stuck in that situation, Bette never asked to leave a light open. Well, it’s true to the fact, that while asking for time indirectly she make Tina on stand by but if Tina may have a chance to have a fling or sthing with someone else she can. The only thing that they shared right now it’s Angelica even that I have the impression it’s more to get Bette back than a wake up call, I think. But we’ll see how the story goes on :)
I’ll take this bait: stop reading more and go back to tibette.com to get some comfort. I am sorry for saying this because you are really a brilliant writer. Helena is from another planet and bette is so attracted to an alien. As an ordinary person, I just cannot understand this whole thing. Maybe some scientists can give me an answer :). Let me say this again: Helena and bette together is NOT RIGHT!Bye!
BatnAA_2009 and LuHstrous said it better than I can. And 56ying, wait for me!
LOL at the hilarious comments. It does look like it’s developing into a Belena. I am a Tibetter, but your writting is sooo good I’ll go along with you.
I know I hardly comment but hahahaha.. I agree with Vegas.. :D Am totally not a fan of Belena, but I would like to see where you plan to take this. I think you’re an awesome writer and I’m definitely along on this ride, can’t guarantee no barfing if Belena moments do occur.. :/ Thanks MTS!! :))
NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Bette acts as though she is losing her damned mind. Hope helena brings her up short and reminds her they are just friends. God, I can’t handle the implications of this chapter. Thanks for posting, I think.
I like Bette and Helena together. I’m always happy if Bette is happy.
Aaa, I was hoping this is a Belena fic and it seems it is:) I just love the idea of those to together
Okay I woke up and had to say something else. Is a “familiar yet foreign feeling” another way of describing a little bit of ‘transference’? Cause wiki definition goes: “when we encounter a person who reminds us of someone who we did or do like and who is or was important to us, we infer, unconsciously, that this person is indeed like our significant other (whether a lover, friend, relative or other person). Myriad effects arise from this, including inferring traits belong to the new person that in fact belong to their significant other…. which illuminates how one may repeat relationship patterns from the past to the present.” Whew. Right? Helena has had to reinvent herself and this newfound kindness and generosity reminds Bette of Tina. She can cling on to those feelings invoked by Helena without having to deal with Tina herself. And Helena is reeping the benefit of the feel good reciprocity of a newly discovered friendship relationship. It’s like she’s unknowingly using Helena as a diversion to resolving her situation with Tina one way or another. I think even Helena recognises the different and confusing reactions Bette still goes through when having to interact with Tina. I agree with another person who commented that before all of you get your Belena kicks, Bette needs to go to a therapist before moving forward with anyone. I’ve never seen such debate over a fanfic MTS you sure now how to wind us all up……