I just want to say up front that this is my first ever attempt at an Ugly Betty story and that I hope it turns out alright. This story will be a different take on Season 4, but might include a few minor details from the show along the way.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ugly Betty or any of the characters used in this story just the plot. This starts from season 4, episode 1.

"Good news, I can stay a little while longer!"

"Betty you really don't have to stay with me. I know that you have this new job and you need to work…I'll be fine. "

Betty looked up into Daniel's sad and yet hopeful face and knew what she had to do. Giving him a slightly forced smile she looked into those beautiful blue eyes of his.

"It's not a problem, it's already done."

Betty woke with a throbbing headache and no idea what had happened to her. The last thing that she could remember was watching a movie with Daniel and then him asking her to have a drink with him.

Slowly opening her eyes she discovered that she was in a bed with someone lying right next to her. Turning her head to the right she was shocked to see that it was a sleeping Daniel that was beside her and on further investigation she also noticed that they were both naked for some unexplainable reason.

Feeling her cheek flame in embarrassment Betty slowly scooted off the bed, being careful not to wake Daniel, and quickly dressed. She wasn't sure what had led to this but knew that it would have to be dealt with later since she was already running late for work as it was. After making sure that he was still asleep she slowly gathered her things and rushed off to deal with the photo shoot at the UN, never noticing the set of blue eyes watching her hurry out the door.

At the moment Matt was the last person that Betty wanted to deal with, especially after the morning that she had been having.

So far the photo shoot had been nothing but a disaster and now she had to put up with his snarky attitude on top of everything else.

"Maybe this would have turned out better had you actually been at the concept meeting instead of being out with Daniel all night! What's the deal with you two anyways? Are you sleeping together now?"

Betty just stood there completely stunned that Matt would say something like that to her.

However before she had time to react he was already laying on the ground holding his face with a very pissed off Daniel standing over him.

Betty couldn't do anything but looked back and forth between the two men before turning to storm out of the building.

Daniel had originally come to the photo shoot in the hopes of talking to Betty about what had happened the night before. She had run out of the apartment so fast this morning that he just needed to make sure everything was ok between them.

However, when he first walked into the shoot his attention had been instantly drawn to the heated discussion that appeared to be happening between Matt and Betty. Once he was close enough to hear what the argument was about he couldn't help but become enraged by the way Matt was behaving and the next thing he knew he had lashed out and punched the man in the face.

He didn't know what had come over him but when he heard Matt talking to her that way he just completely lost control. Betty didn't deserve to be talked to like that by anyone and he would be damned if he let a little punk like Matt get away with that bullshit.

After seeing Betty storm from the building though he wished that he had handled the situation slightly different. The last thing that he ever wanted to do was embarrass her further. Nevertheless the damage was done, the only thing he could do now was to find her and apologize for making the situation worse.

Daniel turned from Matt and made his way through the crowd of shocked faces and out of the UN building in search of Betty. He found her sitting on a bench outside just staring at the giant globe statue in front of her while silently seething with anger. He slowly approached the bench, stopping at what he assumed was a safe distance, and waited for her to acknowledge his presents.

Betty had never been so embarrassed in her life, and that was really saying something. She couldn't believe Matt had talked to her like that and in front of all those Mode employees no less. The things that had been said about Daniel and her over the years were bad enough without her own ex-boyfriend adding to the rumor mill.

She could practically already hear the gossip starting to spread as she sat down on a bench outside.

Then to further add to her growing pile of embarrassment there was Daniel and his own hand in the rumors that were sure to follow this day. She still couldn't believe that he had really punched Matt in the eye.

She knew that as her friend he had always tried to protect her from getting hurt over the years but this was taking things a little too far, wasn't it?

As if he could hear her inner conflict the man in question slowly approached her side.

Without looking up or moving Betty quietly asked the question that was currently on her mind. "Why did you do it?"

Sighing to himself, Daniel slowly sat down beside her on the bench. "I'm not really sure what came over me Betty. All I really know is that when I heard him acting like a jerk to you I lost it."

Betty thought about that for a second before responding with a slight smile on her lips. "You still shouldn't have hit him though."

Daniel couldn't help teasing her a little when he saw that she was smiling and not nearly as angry with him as he first thought. "Ok then why are you smiling?"

"What can I say he kind of deserved it…he was being a jerk!"

"It still doesn't mean it was right though. You should have let me handle it, I am a grown woman that is capable of taking care of herself you know."

Letting out a heavy sigh Daniel decided that now was the time to be honest with his feelings…at least some of them anyways. "Betty I know that you can handle yourself and from now on I promise to not interfere unless you ask or it's absolutely necessary."

"You should know though that it killed me to hear him talk to you like that. You don't deserve to be treated like that by anyone, ever."

Betty sat there in silence for one moment thinking about what Daniel had just said to her. She was touched that he thought that much of her but she wasn't sure how she should respond to his declaration.

She decided to just change the subject to something that had been on her mind all morning.

"Daniel can I ask you a question?"

"Of course, you know you can ask me anything Betty." Daniel was slightly nervous as to what her question might be but he knew that he would always answer her as honestly as he could.

Biting her bottom lip anxiously Betty let out a slow breath before asking the one question she knew could change things between her a Daniel forever.

"Was Matt right about us?"

AN: I just want to apologize, I am not that best writer I know (I'm trying to work on getting better) and I have never written Detty before but I hope that it was ok. I am also sorry about the cliffhanger but I promise that you will find out what exactly happened in that next chapter.