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An Ugly Betty fan fiction

Summary: So why exactly did Matt accuse Betty and Daniel of sleeping together? Was it more than just jealousy? How the rumor mill of Mode views the relationship between Betty and Daniel.

I sat down and wrote this right after watching the season premiere.

Absolutely love the episode. Betty is definitely back

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Spoilers for episodes 4.1 and 4.2

Rated T for sexual innuendo and some hard language

Due to a disability, I write these stories with the use of voice recognition software. So expect some very strange grammar mistakes. Feel free to point out thing I can't see in a PM.

Matt was absolutely furious with Betty. It was not the first time she chose someone else over him. It was not even the first time she chose Daniel over him. He remembered the first time that it happened with a certain amount of pain. A few weeks into their relationship, he and Betty were out on a date when Daniel called for some emergency. Before he even knew what was happening she was out the door to help Daniel. Matt doesn't even remember the reason why she blew him off. She even started this job a few weeks later, so she could help Daniel through the grieving process of losing Molly.

From his brief but painful relationship with Betty Suarez, he knew she had a serious problem with letting go. She couldn't let go of his past. She could not let go of Henry. The woman couldn't even get rid of her glasses that were currently held together with scotch tape. So why should he expect her to let go of her co dependent relationship with Daniel now that she had her dream job.

As her boss, he should demand her to come in and work on her project. Her trying to work from Daniels apartment just was not working. However, he wouldn't do that, because he was afraid to find out the answer if he made her choose between him and Daniel. The situation with Daniel seemed like a repeat of the situation with Henry. There was no way he was going through that again.

He decided to get his mind off this disastrous situation with a cup of coffee. He would need the caffeine to make it through tonight. He was about to walk in when he heard people talking. The only voice he recognized was the person that Betty shares an office with Megan or whatever.

"I don't know how that walking fashion disaster got this job in the first place. Anyone pitching stories involving malaria at a fashion magazine should be kicked out on principle." Said a female voice in the room that Matt did not recognize.

"Jacqueline, everybody knows the ugly one got this job on her back." Said Megan in a very icy tone. Part of Matt was upset at her accusation, as if he would ever give Betty a job just because they used to sleep together.

"I thought she received the promotion before Matt came on board. Besides they wear already broken up at that point," Said a male voice that Matt didn't recognize from his department.

"You're a bit new around here Nikolai. I'll forgive you for not knowing the true nature of the relationship between Daniel Meade and Betty Suarez. She is probably screwing him right now." Part of him thought Megan's accusation were completely false. As the managing editor he should probably break up this little gossip session. If it were about anybody else, he probably would have.

"She was just his assistant. One who was quite capable at her job. That's probably why she received a promotion." Nikolai said to the others.

"Everybody knows they're screwing. Daniel Meade has had a special relationship with every single assistant he's ever had. Betty is no different. Actually she is because their relationship is probably more than just sex." Megan said with an angry bitter laugh. Okay Matt had no idea that Daniel had a reputation for screwing his assistants. He remembered competing with Daniel for space on page six, but didn't remember anything like this.

"Marc would have made a better fashion editor." Jacqueline added as an afterthought."You would assume with her looks that Daniel sleeping with her would be out of the question, apparently, looks are not everything.

"He did marry Molly. No one was more ordinary than she was, so anything as possible. Although she did know how to dress slightly better, for a normal person." Megan told the others.

"That's not proof of anything." Nikolai argued.

"Fine you want proof before you got here; about a year and a half ago Daniel was dating Ms. Slater's sister. As office rumor has it, his girlfriend accused him of sleeping with Betty. She was so freaked out about it that she tried to kill Betty. You don't try to kill somebody if the rumors were not true. Apparently he felt so guilty about it he bought her all expenses paid trip to Rome." Megan told everyone. Matt wasn't sure what shocked him more that someone actually tried to kill Betty or that she had no problems whatsoever taking expensive gifts from Daniel.

"I remember that almost trip, it happened right when I got here. She was supposed to go with someone other than Daniel. The version of the story that I heard, that girlfriend was convinced that Betty had a crush on Daniel and Renee tried to kill her because she was monopolize in his time." Nikolai told the others.

"She didn't even go on that trip. You remember that's when that accountant Harry or whatever showed up and asked her to marry him." Megan said with a sneer. Okay Matt definitely did not know about the marriage proposal. He did not know that her relationship with Henry involve the possibility of marriage. Another thing she lied to him about. Although if she was so in love with Henry why did she turn him down?

"Everyone knows the real reason she turned down the proposal was Daniel. She couldn't handle being away from him." Jacqueline pointed out to everybody.

"I thought it was her career," Nikolai said with a touch of anger.

"Possible factor, but not the real one. The relationship between Betty and Daniel has always been inappropriate. I mean a couple weeks ago, before Molly died, I saw her feeding him water in the gym. They are always touching and hugging. She stayed with him the first week after Molly died in that one bedroom apartment. He even stayed at her house for a few days. There's seriously something going on between those two. There obviously sleeping together." He knew what Megan was saying about the nature of Betty and Daniels relationship was true. He always saw the two of them acting in a way that definitely went beyond a platonic relationship.

"Their close because they have a brother/sister like relationship," Megan started laughing hysterically at this comment.

"If they have a brother /sister relationship, it's an incestuous one." Everyone in the group except for Nikolai laugh at this. However, Matt did not find it funny. Before tonight, Matt always thought their relationship was a sibling type of relationship. Thinking about it now, there are aspects of the Daniel/Betty relationship he never quite got. They were always sharing inside jokes and touches that seemed to go beyond friendship. The more he listened to this conversation, the more he thought that maybe Megan's rants were not just coming out of jealousy. There was a certain amount of truth to the accusations that he was not willing to see.

"Find believe whatever you want Nikolai. However, when Betty comes in wearing the exact same loud outfit as today, we will know that Betty blew off this entire project just so she could fuck Daniel Meade last night."

"You're just bitter because you lost your office to Matt." Nikolai said to Megan as he walked out of the room. Matt quickly walked in to get his coffee before he could think about the discussion he just over heard.

The next morning when Betty walked into the photo shoot wearing the exact same close as the day before he couldn't help but remember Megan's words. He try to push everything away by making the whole shoot as painful for Betty is possible. The Mosquito was his own special revenge for her breaking his heart into a million little pieces. He felt the smile was a nice ironic touch.

When Daniel walked into the photo shoot, he watched their interaction. They were just too close to each other. He wasn't completely sure why he voiced his suspicions out loud. At least he had the decency to say sleeping together instead of that other term that Megan used last night.

He was sure that Betty took Daniels actions as pseudo big brother protectiveness. However, she didn't see Daniel's eyes when his fist made contact with Matt's face. Matt knew exactly with that look was. He saw it a million times when he was still in love with Betty. Daniel was in love with his former assistant/best friend, he just didn't realize it yet.

When he saw her leave with Daniel, he realized something. First, Megan was just jealous. He was positive nothing had happened yet between Betty and Daniel. Unfortunately, the keyword was yet. The second thing he realized was he did not lose her to Henry. She was already lost to Daniel. However, neither Betty or Daniel were aware of it yet. There was no way he was going to enlighten her. He still had his pride if nothing else.