Disclaimer: Zach, Kendall or any other AMC characters are not mine. If they were... well, Lavery would take another header over the cliffs!
A/N: Sequel to "Love Walks In". It's a soap, so you know that the family can't be COMPLETELY happy all of the time. Well, this is one of those times. As for the 'he' - your first instict will probably be right. I'm not looking to psych anyone out, so the first name that pops up in your head is more than likely going to right! Enjoy and fear not, all will end Zendalliciously!


"Oh god… Zach… just… right there… Oh my god, Zach!"

He never got tired of hearing his name the way she said it when they were making love. He pushed himself up into a sitting position. He balanced himself on one hand and wrapped his other around her back while she climaxed. He was right behind her, calling out her name and trying to remember how to breathe. He laid back on the bed and pulled his wife down on top of him.

"Hmm… that was by far the perfect end to a perfect day" she mumbled into his ear. She could feel every inch of his body shake as he started to laugh. "I couldn't agree more, my dear."

She pushed herself up and smiled. "I'm going to jump in the shower real quick and then check on Will."

He ogled Kendall as she walked across the room. "Leave it on when you're done." She nodded and entered the bathroom. He sighed and threaded his fingers together behind his head as he listened to Kendall turn on the shower.

Today had been Will's birthday. He thought Kendall went a little overboard for a party for a one year old, but she had insisted. "You only turn one once" she exclaimed a couple of weeks before.

"Well, yeah, but he's also only going to turn two once and three once…" That did not go over so well – he could tell by the glare he received from her over dinner, so he quickly agreed to whatever she wanted to do. There were streamers, balloons, more gifts than a one year old could ever need and a cake that Will went face first into as he and Kendall tried to blow out the candle. Zach found that much funnier than Kendall did and managed to take three or four pictures of the two of them before Kendall started yelling. Everyone left at about 6 and it took them a good three hours to get the house cleaned up and to get all the toys and other gifts up to Will's room and getting him to finally go to sleep. They had spent all day doing 'one year old things' as Kendall had put it, so when Zach suggested they do something a little more adult, Kendall raced him to the bedroom.

"All yours" Kendall said as she walked out of the bathroom, tying her robe around her waist. She opened the bedroom door and walked out into the hallway, only to stop on the threshold and turn to look at him. "You know, we really do need to get our clothes off the steps."

Zach sat up and smirked at her. "Hey, I do believe it was you who said, and I quote 'Do we really need to waste our time with the clothes in the bedroom'."

"Shut up" she said, smirking back at him, remembering the look on his face when she took off her blouse and bra at the top of the stairs.

"I'll get them after my shower" Zach said, getting out of bed.

"No, I'll get them…" and with that, a wail came over the baby monitor next to the bed. Zach cocked an eyebrow at her. "I think you are being paged my dear. I'll get the clothes, you go get him." Kendall headed toward the nursery as Zach went into the shower.


Kendall walked in and turned on the lamp to see her son sitting in the middle of his crib, crying his little heart out. She had gotten very good at interpreting his cries – this one, with the bright red face and loud wail meant that he needed a new diaper. She grabbed him out of the crib and made quick work of the dirty diaper, replacing it with a new one in no time. She had become quite adept at changing a diaper and could do it while being completely distracted by something else. Zach had yet to pick that up, as was evident when he dropped a dirty diaper right into his lap one afternoon while he was trying to carry on a phone conversation and change Will's diaper at the same time.

Kendall walked over to the large window in the nursery. It was by far her favorite thing about this room. Zach had built a huge picture window with a seat because he wanted his son to have light and sunshine and he wanted them to be able to enjoy it when they sat in there with him.

Kendall flipped on another lap next to the window and sat down on the window seat, scooting back till she was up against the wall. She pulled her legs up onto the seat and looked down at Will, who was currently wiggling around in her arms. She started to hum – that always seemed to calm him down. It didn't have to be anything in particular, jus as long as it was some kind of melody. Will was starting to fall asleep when Zach walked over to them. Without saying a word, he picked up Kendall's feet and sat down Indian style, putting her feet back in his lap. This had become a routine of sorts – they found themselves like this a couple of times a week. Kendall tried to steer clear of the window during the winter, but it was a warm night at the end of May. The windows in the house were open. It was nights like this where they would sit and watch Will till he fell asleep. Zach would rub her feet and they would talk. Bianca and Simone always asked what they could possibly have left to talk about, but Kendall would always say "We don't talk about anything – we just talk and it's nice." They always felt safe and secure in these moments that it didn't matter what they talked about – all that mattered it that it was the three of them.

He was on his fourth lap around the house when a light in the back of the house came on. He ducked behind a bush and watched as Kendall appeared with Will in the window. He watched as she rocked him back and forth, trying to get him to calm down. He felt the anger build inside of him when Zach appeared and invaded their space. The perfect scene he had been watching was now distorted and that made him so very angry. "This ends now" he whispered to himself, watching this family until they turned off the lights and went back to bed.

TBC...