I Need You, No Matter What
Summary: So I wasn't happy with the McBond ending, so what would happen if someone showed Teresa that she still needs Betty, and Betty still needs Teresa.
Rating: T (For now, it may change).
Disclaimer: I still don't own Bomb Girls, what a shame, hey ho, I'll just borrow the characters for a while!
A/N: I REALLY hated the McBond ending, and I live in hope that Teresa comes back for Betty later on in the series, so I wrote this.
Sergeant Teresa Hill walked down the narrow corridor of the radio station she was stationed in, exhausted. She hadn't slept in twenty four hours, and she was feeling the effects. Normally Teresa would be walking towards her small room that she shared with Lance Corporal Jane Lingley, but the officer in command, Flight Lieutenant Susan Brown, or nicknamed 'Hermit' (as before she became an officer, she lived almost like a hermit) had called her to her office.
Teresa was too tired to actually be worried over what the meeting was about, Hermit was a curious woman who was way too complicated for anyone to figure out, that was why she was such a good officer.
She raised her fist to knock, but before her knuckles even touched the wood a muffled "Come in!" came through the door, it still freaked Teresa out how Hermit could do that, but entered nevertheless.
"Ah, Teresa, bang on time!" she said joyful as ever. "Please, shut the door and sit down!"
"Yes ma'am," Teresa did as she was told, quickly sitting down and shifting nervously in her seat. Hermit stared at her for a minute or two making Teresa feel like she was being stripped apart by her eyes.
"Ok Teresa, I'm gunna cut to the chase here, I know your secret." Teresa's head snapped up and she looked at the Brit in shock, she couldn't mean that secret could she?
"Ma'am?"
"I know that you're a homosexual Teresa," Panic flooded her system, this was it, she was finished. Goodbye promotion, goodbye job, and goodbye world here comes jail. "Don't worry hon, I aint gunna tell a soul," Hermit stood up and walked around the desk, perching on the corner looking down at Teresa with a small smile, "'sides, that'd be hypocritical of me." The brunette's eyes widened to the size of saucers and she looked at her superior in shock.
"Ma'am? I don't understand."
"What I mean by that, is I'm like you. Don't worry I probably wouldn't have noticed if I weren't one myself, after a while you can pick up signs, tell if someone's like you, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about."
She did know, that was how she knew that Betty was safe territory. The thought of Betty still hurt, but she quickly blinked back the tears threatening to escape from her eyes and looked back at Hermit.
"Let me tell you something, when I was a lot younger, and by that I mean when I was in school, I fell madly in love with a girl in my class called Eve Black, she was the sweetest person you ever did meet, and I couldn't help but love her, she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen! Somehow she found out that I was attracted to her, but she never told a soul, and she never treated me any different than before, if anything we grew slowly closer. I never told Eve that I loved her, and I regret that even now." Teresa noticed that when she was speaking of something passionately, like she was about Eve, her Northern accent became more pronounced, for some reason that reminded her of her farm girl. Hermit looked at Teresa pointedly, "So if there's someone out there that makes you happy, you need to be with them and if you have to beg 'em, do it, trust me it'd be worth it"
There was something about the woman that made Teresa instantly trust her, she couldn't help it when she spilled everything out about Betty, and about their separation, and she also couldn't help the tears that slipped down her face, she never cried, and certainly would never ever cry in front of someone else, especially her CO, but she couldn't help it.
At the end of Teresa's story, Hermit laid a hand on her shoulder, squeezing lightly. "As your platoon and you have been working overly hard these past two months, I've decided to grant you all four days leave effective tomorrow morning, go to Toronto, find your bomb girl, and be with her." Teresa nodded and smiled at the Northerner in gratitude.
"Thank you ma'am," Hermit nodded going back to her seat, Teresa took that as her cue, so stood saluted and left, intent on packing for her trip. Once packed, which didn't take that long, she spread the word among her platoon, and went to bed. After all tomorrow would be a long day.
Betty woke early, washed, changed and ate. She walked down to the common room to finish sewing the blouse that she ripped yesterday, she didn't expect to see Kate down there, but lately Kate had been acting strangely.
"Morning," she said walking over to her favourite seat.
"Morning! Isn't it just a wonderful one at that?" Betty didn't see what was so wonderful about it, but then again, ever since Teresa left, Betty didn't feel anything was wonderful anymore. Every day was the same, get up, go to work, go to bed. She missed her soldier, and would do anything to see her again.
She tried moving on, but she couldn't, it was even worse than when Kate left. All Betty thought about lately was the brunette sergeant, wandering what she was doing right now, if she was thinking of her, and if late at night she was wishing to be in Betty's arms as Betty wished she was in Teresa's. She wandered if Teresa had moved on and found another woman, but Betty didn't like to think about that.
Her pillow still smelled slightly of her, and she slept in the shirt Teresa accidently left. If she had a picture of her, Betty knew that she would stare at it constantly, but as it was, she didn't. The girls tried to get her out of the house and take her out, but they didn't understand.
She wished more and more each day for Teresa to come marching through her door, wrap her arms around her and kiss her senseless, but it was an empty wish, one that would never happen, Teresa had gone and Betty had to move on.
She finished her sewing and went upstairs to get her coat, today would be like any other.
A/N 2: So whatd'ya think? I'll try to update ASAP! And what'd you guys think about Hermit? She was fun to write, and we will see more of her later on! So next chapter will be the reunion, will it be happy or will it be sad, not even I know!
Scout