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The L Word: recaps: Episode 2.07 "Luminous" (page 2)
by Scribe Grrrl

Alice and Dana Helena and Tina

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Good morning — Alice and Dana are in a big orangey peachy bed, smooching and sleepily talking.

Alice: "We have to do it."
Dana: "But we did it all night long. We just went to sleep three hours ago, Alice — I'm beginning to think you're a sex maniac."
Alice: "Not that, c'mon. Sounds great though.... we have to tell our friends."
Dana: "Oh god."
Alice: "I know. They're gonna freak. It's a lesbian curse, you know: whenever two people in a group of friends become girlfriends, it throws off the whole balance."
Dana: "But they should be happy for us."
Alice: "I know. It's just... I don't know, it messes things up. It's like, one minute we're their friends individually, and the next minute they're like, 'well if I wanna hang out with Alice, does that mean I have to invite Dana too?'"
Dana: "Thanks, Al."
Alice: "I didn't mean it like that."
Both: [smooch smooch]

Cute. Damn, but they're cute. I wanna be in a Dana/Alice sammich. Look how cute Alice is with her messy morning hair! And kudos to these two for making it look so real... well, I think it is, anyway. I live in the land of the real, not the land of the super hot uber Bette sex.

Yawn — Jenny is wishing Mark good morning and wondering how he is. We don't care. Mark is still fixated on what makes Shane so Shane, and Jenny offers the obvious angle: people want what they can't have. Jenny also says that she has no interest in Shane as a lover because they're very good friends. Hallelujah. That must not change.

Somewhere in there, Jenny tells Mark, "You're weird. Weirder than me." And with that she proves she's not hyper about grammar — otherwise she would have said "Weirder than I." But that would make her more anal than me, or anal than I, and that's not a good thing.

Another good morning — Tina's lovely. Helena's making her smile, which is probably the only good thing I'll ever say about Helena. So Tina's smiling, and responding as Helena's hand wends its way under the covers. But then Helena's kids rush in, so Tina stops Helena's hand, despite Helena's assurances that it's okay. Helena starts to say "They have very healthy attitudes towards —" but Tina interrupts because she's a prudish American.

Wilson, Helena's son, wants to hear Tina's "baby's hearts beating." Oh, so it's an alien baby with multiple hearts? That explains a lot.

After the kids leave, Tina says the whole thing freaked her out because "It's not natural for them to see their mother fucking someone they barely know."

Well. Word. But Helena just gives Tina some "I'm a parent and you're not" line and says she's taking Tina and the kids to San Diego, and she's already talked to Tina's co-workers about covering the youth arts outreach thing Tina was supposed to do, because Helena is Bette minus the heart and Tina has no idea what she's in for. That last part was mine, if you were wondering.

But Tina does like the kisses, and she does look great in the golden morning light. Yeah. And Helena has perfect teeth.

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