Thanks for the wonderful reviews, I know the last chapter was rather evil, but don't worry the story will end with Betty and Daniel together!

Didn't want to keep you guys waiting for too long, so here's the next chapter.

Hope you like it,

Phia

Oh God, why does she have to look even better than when I left? Daniel asked himself as he looked down at Betty sitting in her office chair, rubbing her own, slightly sore, forehead.

'Yeah, it's me.' Daniel replied softly, his gaze meeting her eyes and locking. 'How have you been?' He asked, grabbing an empty chair from another desk.

'I… I've been good thanks. How was… Milan?' Betty asked, barely getting the words out; a lump had formed in her throat.

'It was ok. I would have preferred to stay here, with you.' Daniel admitted, giving a honest smile.

'Daniel, I've actually, erm… I've got something to tell you.' Betty cast her eyes downwards, to her hands which were knotted together. Daniel tried to catch her gaze, when he did he started to worry. There was pain and tears mixed in her eyes, mixed with another emotion he didn't place.

'Betty, what is it?' Daniel asked moving his hand on top of her shaking hands. She flinched slightly, but didn't move her hands. This definitely isn't good. Daniel thought to himself.

'Daniel, while you were away, I, erm…' She trailed off, unable to finish the sentence, to break his heart, and her own.

'Betty,' Daniel said keeping her gaze and giving her hand a reassuring squeeze.

'Daniel, I've been seeing someone.' Betty said softly. She looked into her lap as a tear fell down her own cheek, unable to look at the pain and hurt in his eyes, knowing that the emotions were reflected in her own eyes.

'Oh, well, you know, we decided to break things off before I went, so you know, I should have expected it, I mean you're gorgeous, of course you would find someone else.' Daniel rambled, it was Betty's turn to take his hand.

'Daniel.' She said, making him stop.

'Who is he?' Daniel asked quietly.

'His name is Adam, I met him in my writing class about six months ago.' Betty replied.

'Is it serious?' Daniel asked, with almost a spark of hope in his eyes and voice.

'Depends what you class as serious. We're not living together or anything. But we have talked about it.' Betty admitted.

'Oh, well, congratulations. I'm glad you're happy.' Daniel said as he got up. He shuffled through to his office before Betty could say another word. I'm so stupid he thought to himself.

'Christina, I am a horrible, horrible person. If you could have seen the look on his face. It looked like I had slapped him.' Betty said sadly, sitting opposite Christina in a little café during her lunch break.

'Betty, what could you have done? You and Adam have been really happy the past six months. Daniel's a big boy, he can take care of himself. If he was that mad about you he shouldn't have ever given you up.' Christina said, trying to assess the situation before she chose a side.

'But Christina, he gave me up so I could be happy, and I have been, I was, I am, but now, I'm beginning to question everything.' Betty admitted, playing with the napkin on the table.

'Betty, do you love Adam?' Christina asked, wanting to get straight to the bottom of everything.

'I think so, I mean we haven't said it to each other yet, but I think I love him.' Betty said, unsure of where this was going.

'Do you love Daniel?' Christina asked, Betty snapped her head up, surprised at the question.

'That's the problem, Christina, I don't know. My heart's screaming yes. But my head's saying no, come on, you love Adam. I'm with Adam for God sake!' Betty said, somewhere deep inside her, she knew the answer, she just wasn't ready to admit it to herself yet.

'Then stick things out with Adam. If things work out then that's great. If they don't, well, we will have to come up with a new plan.' Christina said, Betty gave her a small smile in response.

'Hopefully, it won't be the latter.' Betty said before she got up and paid the bill.

Back at MODE Daniel was having what can only be described as an emotional breakdown. Just this time Betty wasn't there to turn to. Instead he went to Alexis.

After telling Alexis about his conversation with Betty this morning, she looked slightly perplexed.

'Danny, do you love her?' Alexis asked, she had a feeling that there was only going to be one way to get this through to her slightly thick-headed brother.

'Alexis, of course I do, I always have done. You know that.' Daniel replied, almost with a defeated tone in his voice.

'Then fight for her.' Alexis said with firmly before leaving the office, her words ringing in Daniel's ears.

'Then I will.' Daniel mumbled to himself before leaving the office.

In two weeks Daniel had not really got any further in winning Betty back. He decided just to be there for her as a friend, it was possibly the best way to win her over, without being obvious.

Everything for Betty and Adam were going well; in fact they agreed that it would be better if Betty moved into Adam's slightly bigger apartment. Betty moved in and everything was working out.

Until one Friday night. Betty had been out for the night with Christina. Adam had stayed at home, giving the excuse that he was extremely tired after work.

Betty searched for her key in her purse that was far too full of junk. Putting the thought of cleaning her purse out aside, she slid the key into the lock and turned it.

The first thing Betty noticed when she walked into the apartment was the foreign smell. It wasn't her perfume. And it wasn't Adam's aftershave. The second was two wine glasses sitting on the table, both half full. Betty assumed Adam had left them out for them to have when Betty got home. Of course on closer inspection Betty would have noticed the already lip-stick stained wine glass.

It was what she heard next that confused her that little bit more. It was an odd moan, obviously Adam. Maybe he was feeling a little worse for wear, after all he was really tired when he got home from work Betty thought to herself.

That was until she made the mistake of opening the bedroom door.

Nothing in the world could have prepared her for the sight she saw next. Adam, naked, another woman, naked, her on top of him, kissing, having sex.

It was all Betty could do to shout 'You bastard,' at him before she stormed out of the apartment, slamming the door behind her.

Betty decided against driving, and decided to walk. Where to she wasn't sure. She wandered for what felt like hours, until she ended up on a familiar doorstep, hoping that the person who lived there would be home, after all, it hadn't been that long since she had seen them that evening.

Knocking on the door, she held her breath in anticipation. Tears still streaming down her cheeks. The door opened and a concerned gaze met her tearful one.

'Betty, what happened?'

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