Author's Notes: So this is the second to last chapter to this seven-part story. Here another chapter. Enjoy! I also have the fanfics in the works that include The 100, Blood Ties, Hunger Games, Lost Girl, and Percy Jackson. I don't know if I will never get to them done with my school work in the way but I'm in my senior year of college and hopefully after I will be able to post on a regular timeframe.

Warning: ***Flashback/Trigger Warning***

Summary: Daniel and Betty have a unique relationship. And in the Bahamas things between Daniel and Betty heat up. But when they come home not everything the happened in the Bahamas stays in the Bahamas. AU.

The Rumor by 3sth3r

Disclaimer: I don't own Ugly Betty.

Chapter Six: An Hour Later

Betty woke up in a daze. She was laying on a hospital bed connected to wires and tubes. She was confused and frightened. She looked around the room and stopped when the pain in her neck became too much. She woke up on an angle and her neck didn't seem to be fond of it.

She found her sister sitting weirdly upright and sleepy. Her sister's hair and make-up perfectly done, dressed in perfect Hilda fashion. Betty had always envied Hilda. She was perfected in Betty's eyes. Despite having a baby when she was sixteen, she finished high school and was in the middle of building a Hilda based empire with her hair styling skills. She was stronger than Betty never knew.

Betty wouldn't admit it but she was terrified when she started working in New York for Daniel Meade as his secretary. She knew she had to start somewhere. She knew that it was at least an hour and a half ride commute to and from the city. But she had to move on it was time. She was graduated from college, with a degree and needed o support her family and pay back her debt for going to school. Betty, years later, was now a working girl, with her own apartment and her own life. And now she was in the hospital.

Betty could remember the last time she was in a hospital. It was an 8-week check-up for the baby. She couldn't help but think about what Daniel had said only a few days before.

"I promise Betty. No matter what happens we will always remain friends." Daniel said when they were waiting for the doctor in her office. It wasn't often Betty was dressed in a paper grown with her best friend turned lover beside her. She was always a worrier when it came to the important things in her life. Worried about you father's health, her sister, and her job.

"Daniel," Betty said to Daniel, "We will never be friends, again." She didn't meant it to be mean but encouraging. Betty and Daniel were never going to be friends again after what happened in the Bahamas. They would always more than that. "We are going to be parents."

Betty looked over to her sister, who was sitting beside her bed. She thought about the time a week ago. When she walked out of Hilda's apartment upset and crying.

"Daniel. How could be so smart but be so stupid, Betty?" Hilda had a cruel way of trying to be helpful. Hilda always had go intentions, but she had the worse way of showing it.

"Hilda, please." Betty begged. "Don't tell anyone." She was afraid to tell anyone. Especially, once it got out in the office that she was pregnant, and pregnant Daniel's baby. She could hear the comments now.

Betty waited what seemed like forever but Hilda sighed. "Fine, but don't expect me to be happy about it." Hilda never liked how close she and Daniel got over the years.

"Hilda?" Betty said weakly. Hilda looked over to Betty, and pulled her in a hug. Betty had been on the verge of crying all night, until she sobbed over Hilda shoulder quietly.

"Go home Betty." Hilda said after a few moments. "Go home and rest." Hilda smiled sadly.

"Ok." Hilda watched Betty leave, with a sigh. She never felt as worsen as she did in that moment.

It took Betty a while to find her voice. "Hil…Hilda." She whispered from her bed. "Hild…Hilda." She called again. Betty was tried and her head felt dizzy. "Hilda?" she asked louder.

She heard muffled sound to the right of her and turned to the sound. Daniel walked into the room, and saw her. "Betty." He whispered. Daniel came over to her in the bed. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm tried." Betty. "What happened?" She remembered the collapse after she saw the blood. They were cerebrating the baby. Betty invited Daniel over for a Saturday dinner to tell her father and her family. Betty and Daniel told her family and they were happy.

After dinner they settled down on the couch, they were ten minutes into an episode of the fashion news before the pain and cramps started. She stood up before she fell. Betty remembered hitting the wood floors, and seeing the fears in their face before the world went dark.

Daniel looked worn out. Dressed in the same suit he wore to the dinner but the shrit was wrinkled and his hair was a mess. "Daniel." Betty paused, "Please just tell me."

Daniel looked into Betty's eyes. "We lost the baby." He whispered.

To be continued…