Disclaimer: I do not own Ugly Betty or any of its characters, unfortunately...

Rating: T (PG-13)

Pairing: Daniel / Betty

Author's Notes: Thank you so much for all your lovely reviews, and advise. I hope you like this chapter. Its turned out a bit longer than I wanted, but once I started writing it I couldn't stop. As always please review. Thanks

Daniel was in his office sitting at his desk, while his mum was sitting on a chair by the window looking at some paperwork, she had taken out of Bradford's office. He had noticed that Betty was late, not because he was annoyed by this, but because he was worried. Betty was very rarely late, if ever, and he was worried that she was maybe sick. Although it was only just gone 9.00am, Betty was usually in at 8.30am. He knew this because by the time he normally got in at about 9.00am she was already working away happily with his breakfast perched on the side of her desk.

He had been watching Henry loitering round by her desk, obviously waiting for her to come in, and for some reason it annoyed him. It wasn't that he didn't like Henry, it was just that he didn't think Henry was good enough for Betty, after everything that had gone on between him and that girl Charlie. He had tried to warn Betty, but she didn't want to know, and he had only ended up hurting her feelings in the process, so he had then taken a back step and let Betty get on with it, instead deciding to just be there when she would inevitably need him, after having her heart broken. Who was he to give her relationship advice anyway, he didn't exactly have a good track record with relationships himself.

He had always just slept around with women, moving from one to the other without a second thought for their feelings, to be honest their feelings hadn't crossed his mind until he met Betty. She had slowly over time changed the way he looked at things, and he was sure he was a better person because of her.

He didn't want Betty to get hurt, she didn't deserve it, and what made the whole situation worse, and him even angrier at Henry, was the fact that Betty after getting back together with Henry had supported his decision whole heartedly, without thinking about her own feelings once.

He looked back up from his desk to see Henry still waiting around her desk, and he was thinking about getting up and telling him that he paid him to work, not to stand around, when her saw Betty come flying round the corner hands full, straight into Henry, chucking coffee all over herself in the process.

Daniel jumped up to go out and make sure Betty was ok, but stopped as he saw Betty's highly irritated look, disappear as she looked up and met eyes with Henry. Daniel sat back down at his desk, and was completely shocked at how Jealous of Henry he felt at that particular moment.

Claire sat in the window smiling to herself, she had stopped looking through the documents she had in her hands a long time ago, and had been sitting observing her son for a while. She had noticed him keep looking at the clock, and had seen the dagger like looks he was throwing in Henry's direction, however she had watched the tension wash off his face in an instant, the moment Betty had rounded the corner before running straight into Henry. She had never seen her son, move from his desk so quickly, and then stop dead again in his tracks, disappointment filling his eyes as he sat back down, still watching the way Betty interacted with Henry.

She could tell he was Jealous by the way he was sitting, holding his body rigid as he watched them, tapping the end of his pen continuously on the table. She was sure he had completely forgotten she was there, not that she minded, it meant that she got to see a side to her son, she had never seen before, and a side that she would quite like to see a lot more of.

As Daniel sat watching Betty and Henry outside his office, he saw the look change on Betty's face, it stated off as quite a puzzled look, quickly turning into one of complete anger. He watched intently as Henry stood there looking annoyed, yet slightly shocked at Betty's demeanour, and then suddenly Betty exploded with anger. Daniel had never seen Betty lose her temper like that, and was adamant Henry must have said something awful to warrant such an explosion. He stood up from his seat, and went to go out of his office door, with the intention on throttling Henry for whatever he had said to make Betty so angry, when he heard someone say

"Daniel, I know you always wanted to be a knight in shinning armour, but somehow I don't think this is the time or the place"

Claire knew exactly what Daniel had intended to do the minute he had stood up from his desk. His fists clenched with a mixture of anger and frustration at the fact that Betty was so obviously upset.

Daniel stood still for a second, staring out of the window, to where Betty had calmly walked away from Henry, keeping her back to him so that he could not see the pain, on her face.

Without saying a word he slowly turned round to look at his mother, he had completely forgotten she was even in his office. He saw a smile slowly creep across her face, and before she could say anything he said

"What are you smiling about"

"Why don't you tell me" she said standing up from her seat.

"I don't like to see Betty upset, especially when the person upsetting her, is supposed to care about her"

"I see, and you thought that going out there and throttling him would solve all her problems, right?" Claire said as she moved closer to her son, sitting down on the edge of his desk.

"Who said I was going to touch Henry?" Daniel said defensively "I was just going to go out and tell him to get back to work, I don't pay him to upset my staff"

"Daniel, I know exactly what you intended to do, You always used to stick your chest out like that and clench your fists, before getting into a fight with Alexis, Well Alex as she was then"

Daniel looked at his mum for a moment, before looking down at his feet. He shoved his hands in his pockets and walked across to stare out of his office window.

"Yeah well, he would have deserved it" Daniel said under his breath

"I'm sure he would have done, but do you honestly think Betty would have thanked you for it?"

Daniel turned to look at his mum. As much as he didn't like to admit it, she was completely right. Betty would not have thanked him at all, and to be honest he had no right getting involved. He walked back over to his desk, and smiled at his mother.

" She might not of thanked me now, But she would have done, when she realises what an idiot he is" He said with a cheeky grin on his face.

Claire just laughed, she knew he knew she was right.

"So, why were you staring at your assistant so intently before your little macho display" Claire said, looking at her son intently.

Daniel stared at her for a second, not sure of what to say. He realised she must have been watching him the whole time. He could feel his cheeks burning up as her turned red.

"I err didn't realise I was" he said unconvincingly "I was just thinking, that's all"

"Oh I see, so do you always stare at Betty when your thinking Daniel or was it Betty you were thinking about?" Claire said, amusement at her sons reaction evident on her face.

Daniel was about to reply rather sarcastically to his mothers question, when he heard his office door open and in walked Betty the object of their conversation.

"Morning Daniel, sorry im late I somehow managed to, oh sorry I didn't realise you were in here Mrs Meade, well I wouldn't do would I as I didn't knock, I must remember to start doing that! Sorry to interrupt, I'll come back in a minute"

"Don't be silly Betty you aren't interrupting anything of importance, me and Daniel were just chatting that's all" Claire said looking at Daniel and smiling.

Daniel squirmed in his seat slightly, unsure of what his mother would say about their previous conversation in front of betty. He looked back at Betty, and smiled, he stood up and walked round to the front of his desk, perching himself on the edge.

"So what were you about to tell me?" he said flashing her one of his smiles

Betty loved it when he flashed one of those smiles at her. She very rarely saw them given out to anybody else, and they made her feel appreciated, something that Henry had definitely managed not to do this morning during their completely unnecessary argument.

Betty stood there frowning to herself, when she realised she still hadn't replied to Daniels question. She looked back up from her feet, and saw Daniel looking at her, concern and something else which she couldn't decipher at the minute in his eyes.

"err yes sorry! I was in a little world of my own then" She shuffled her feet, feeling the colour rise in her cheeks " Yes sorry im late Daniel, I somehow managed to sleep straight through my alarm clock this morning, Im really Sorry."

"Thanks ok Betty" Daniel said smiling "I'm not bothered that you were a couple of minutes late, as long as your ok"

Betty smiled at him. A lot of people didn't get to see the caring side of Daniel Meade, and she always felt very privileged to get to see this side of him so often.

"No I'm fine Daniel, apart from being soaked to the bone, after managing to throw my cup of coffee over myself, after I was so impressed with myself for getting all the way here with out spilling a drop"

She looked down at her top, and noticed she was still holding Daniels Breakfast in her hand.

"Oh yes, and I stopped and got you your Breakfast from that Little Coffee shop you love so much just down the road, to make up for being late, although I expect its probably cold now, Sorry"

"That's ok" Daniel said taking the breakfast off her "It's the thought that counts."

He looked at his assistant standing there, soaked in coffee, and realised that in the whole time they had worked together he had never got her breakfast once. He decided it was his turn to be the thoughtful one.

"How about I call the town car, and we take you home so that you can get changed, and we can stop off on the way back and have some breakfast and a nice hot coffee each, while talking over this months layout."

"Oh no Daniel, its fine. You don't have to do that"

Daniel walked over and put his hand on Betty's shoulder. He looked down at her

"I know I don't have to Betty, but I would like to" He said "and anyway I can't have you catching a cold from sitting around in wet clothing, who would I have to help my with the layout then"

He flashed her one of his trademark smiles, and she couldn't help but laugh.

"Ok, you win" Betty said laughing "I'll just go and get my coat"

Betty turned to walk out of the room. "Bye Mrs Meade" She said smiling.

"See you soon Betty, and please call me Claire"

Betty nodded, and exited the room still smiling to herself.

Daniel turned round and walked to his desk, picking his phone up he called for the town car to come and pick them up. As he turned back round he saw his mum smiling at him. He realised that Alexis wasn't going to be in the office till later on in the day, and he didn't really fancy leaving his mother in the office by herself, in case Whilemina made one of her impromptu visits to try and convince them to give her the Creative directors position back. He didn't really want to ask his mother to come along, as he wanted to have a chat about what had gone on between Betty and Henry this morning, but he was hardly going to leave her by herself.

"Would you like to come with us mum" Daniel said

"I'd love to Daniel" she said smiling "I'll just get my things together"

Daniel nodded and walked out of his office towards Betty's desk.

Claire watched him and smiled, she loved to see her son happy. Thinking back to the mornings events she grabbed her belongings and walked out to meet Daniel and Betty, there was no way she was going to miss this little breakfast outing for the world.