"If no one here today has any objections as to why these two should not be wed, we shall begin. First, the lord's prayer, our father…." "STOP!!!" Betty was at the alter, after three years of engagement Betty had finally agreed to be Walter's wife. Here she was at her childhood church where her first communion had taken place. The place that had also bared witness to her fifteenth birthday celebration. The place where Walter had proposed and now in front of her family, dear friends and close work relations from Meade she was doing what she had always wanted, get married in the church of her childhood someone had to interrupt.
The attendants along with Betty all turned as one to the church entrance where security was trying to hold back a girl in her Electronic Super Store Uniform. "Let go of me! I have to tell them something!!! Walter, I'm pregnant and its yours!!!" Betty turned to look at Walter who was staring straight ahead at the priest. She did not have to ask him his quite stance said it all. She turned to look at all those in attendance and saw Marc and Amanda. She half expected them to be somewhat smirking but instead they had a shocked and saddened look upon their faces. She turned to look at her father and he was being restrained by Hilda and her Justin. She set the bouquet at the alter and turned to look at the attendants, "Thank you for coming. There will be no wedding today." She picked up her dress to begin her walk down the aisle alone but was stopped by Walter holding on to her right arm, "Betty wait we need to talk. It was …" Walter didn't get to finish, Daniel landed a right hook that floored Walter. He took Betty's right arm and proceeded to escort her out of the church. Daniel had arrived late and his car was still parked behind the limo that was supposed to take Betty and Walter to the reception instead Daniel helped Betty get in his car and he proceeded to the drivers seat.
Betty was quite for a few moments but then turned to look at Daniel, "Daniel could you please stop the car." Daniel maneuvered the car to the curve and Betty stepped out she stood for a moment but then doubled over in spasms. She was throwing up, Daniel stepped out of the car and raced to her side to help her but she shoved him back, "No. Not anymore." Daniel if you would please tell Sophia that this does not change anything. My notice is still official. Would you please just take me home there's a vacation waiting to be taken." Daniel nodded and he stepped away from Betty as she got back in the car. He turned around to head back to her home where her family would surely be waiting.
When they arrived, Daniel turned off his engine and turned to Betty, "You could always come back and work for me." Daniel had missed working so closely with Betty after she had gone of with Sophia. Sure they still saw each other frequently due to still working in the same building, with the same people they were bound to still be associates but those four months that they had worked together they had been the best four months of Daniel's career. Betty still helped him when he had been in a real pinch, which was at least every other month, but he missed his shadow.
Betty turned and smiled at him. It was not her radiant smile or her happy content smile it was, a smile, "I'll call you when I get back." She let herself out and Daniel waited until she was inside before he drove his car back to his apartment. Maybe it was time for him to take a vacation. Sophia and him had called it quits two months ago and he had not given his heart time to heal. Maybe Betty was right, who was he kidding she was always right; it was time for a vacation.
Hilda had walked with up with Betty to her room when she had arrived but Betty refused to give in to her tears. Hilda helped her undress and waited for her in her bedroom while Betty showered. Betty finally cried in the shower and it tore Hilda apart listening to Betty's heart wrenching sobs. She wanted to go in there but stopped herself, Betty had asked her not to enter no matter what she heard. When Betty stepped out, she seemed more calm. She walked to her vanity and handed Hilda pen and paper. "Hilda I'm going to take the vacation but, instead of being gone for one week I'm going to change it to two weeks. I want you to return all the gifts with my apologies and thank you for their thoughtfulness. I want you to take the dress and get it out of the house. Burn it sell it give it away, I do not care I do not want to look at it when I come back. I want you to strip my room down of any stuffed animals and pictures of Walter and send those back to him, if he refuses them trash them." Betty stepped to her biggest case and pulled out her winter coat and the clothes she had planned to change to once her and Walter got to the airport in Sweden. She got dressed and proceeded to tell Hilda where all her important documents were and the passwords needed to access them. "Hilda, I need you to cancel the apartment contract and all the furniture orders. They were scheduled to begin arriving on July 26th, a few days after Walter and I returned but since there is no longer an us I want it all stopped. If anyone gives you any grief called Amanda at Meade she helped me out when I was making these arrangements and she may be able to convince people not to take my deposits. I'm going to need those back." Hilda nodded and placed the pen and paper next to her on the bed, "Are you sure you still want to do this. Maybe you should stay here with us instead of going to Sweden." Betty shook her head and picked up her jacket, purse and small carryon. She had saved for the last year and had more than enough in a savings account to buy her whatever she needed when she got there. Right now leaving without anything felt good.
Ignacio was waiting at the foot of the stairs when Betty descended. It was June and the weather outside wise stifling hot but Betty was holding her winter coat in her left hand and her suitcase on her right. She had repacked for her holiday since she wouldn't be needing that many clothes. "Honey, stay we will help you." Betty gave her father a crushing hug and a kiss on his cheek, "Thank you dad but I need to be alone for a while and a vacation is always a good place to start." Justin was behind Ignacio and was about to voice his concerns as well when his mother shook her head no, "Cab's here Aunt Betty." Betty smiled at her family as she stepped out into the hot Queens air. A vacation was good.
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So I've been trying to cook up a way for Daniel & Betty to be / have a moment together that of course in the long would result with them together plus 1 or 2, so bare with me on this. I thought of maybe Daniel showing up on her wedding day with gift in hand and find Betty being stopped by Hilda from running out because she found out Walter cheated on her again and him offering her an escape think the hotel assignment. Betty dumping Walter at the alter after some woman shows up claiming she's pregnant with Walter's baby and again Daniel offering her a work assignment. Betty finding out the day before the wedding and them accidentally hooking up minus the alcohol, never like those accidental alcohol induced trysts. Thinking option 2 because keeping in line with all good soap opera dramas what's better than a fight at the wedding.
Minor details are going to escape me such as, where does Walter work again? So sorry for those inconsistencies, if you can clear them up for me appreciate it, I will return to make the necessary corrections.