Rating: K/PG
Disclaimer: The characters do not belong to me...They are the property of ABC, Reveille Productions etc... I am only borrowing them for this story.
Timeline: Set during "Fake Plastic Snow" and beyond . It changes the outcome of the episode, so I guess this would be considered AU. There will be NO Charlie and Betty and Walter... well you'll have to read and find out!!!
Story: This story is written in conjunction with Tracy's fic "Henry's Little Secret". I hope the readers enjoy BOTH stories. Thanks to Tracy and all the ladies at I-C for the inspiration and for the faith that Tracy and I could pull this off!!!!
Betty's Little Secret
Betty sighed as she dragged herself off the elevator and into the offices of MODE. The dream she'd had last night was still fresh in her mind. Her and Henry, alone in the office. She could recall vividly how he had looked at her in the dream, his hand touching hers as she had handed him Daniel's expense report. Then Henry's holly comment and that kiss!!!! Betty's palms started sweating again as she remembered the feeling of Henry's lips against hers. She shook her head trying to clear the thoughts from her head as she approached Amanda's desk. She and Marc had their heads together as usual.
"Jeez Betty, you look like you fell out of the insomnia tree face first." Amanda said.
"And hit every branch on the way down." Marc added.
Betty rolled her eyes at the pair as she made her way to her desk. She looked through the glass separating her from Daniel's inner office. No Daniel yet. Betty sat her coffee and bagel on the desk as she put her purse in the bottom drawer.
Daniel was just finishing up some early spring cleaning when Betty announced she was heading to lunch with Christina.
Daniel nodded and waved her off as he went through the final drawer in his desk. An old newspaper, mock layouts, phone
numbers hastily written on scraps of paper went into the box next to his desk. As he reached the bottom of the drawer,
his hand stumbled onto a large manila envelope. Curiously, he picked it up. He opened it and pulled out a sheaf of glossy
test shoot photos. His eyes widened as he looked out towards his assistant's desk as if she were about to catch him doing
something wrong.
Betty's "photo shoot" pictures. Oh god, those pictures!
Daniel remembered setting Betty up to pose in the test shoot. He had been so sure he'd wanted her to quit when he'd basically told her to stand in for the missing model. Daniel had been smug, so confident that this assignment would be above and beyond, even for Betty.
Boy had he been wrong!!!
No one had been more surprised than Daniel that Betty had DARED walk out in that costume! Except maybe Phillippe the photographer. Betty had held her head high against all the snickers and outright laughs as she walked out in that pleather costume. Daniel had done a double take when she'd looked at him almost defiantly as she made her way towards the other models. Even as Phillippe had begun shooting, calling out orders to the models, Betty had tried her hardest to pose and face up for the camera. Daniel's conscience had begun to eat at him as Betty posed with the other models while the entire crew got a nice laugh at her expense. Even after he insisted Phillippe stop with the humiliation of Betty, she kept her head up. After she'd ran out and given Daniel an earful, he'd known that Betty was head and shoulders above every assistant he'd ever had. And she'd come back to work for him gladly.
He was going to get rid of those pictures. Maybe burn them!!!!
Betty was a true friend and had blossomed into a quick thinking assistant. He didn't wish for her to relive the embarrassment and humiliation she'd have to deal with if those pictures ever surfaced. Especially not since Daniel had a feeling Henry the accountant had a little crush on Betty. No, he would make sure no one EVER saw these pictures again.
Especially NOT Henry!!!!