Disclaimer: none of these characters are mine. Trust me, if they were, Zach would have tossed Dixie out a long time ago. Owned by ABC and written, sadly, by McTavish.
A/N: Trust me, if you are a Dixie fan, you will hate this story, so turn back now. I'm not nice to her in this and well... that's just it. I'm so over Dixie and this whole story line. I feel bad for Cady - I can't imagine that this is what she thought it would be like when she agreed to come back!

"Zach is my husband and I plan to keep it that way." Kendall didn't see it, she couldn't have – there was no way for her to know that those words, that one sentence, had made her snap. Kendall couldn't know what was in her mind, what had been in her mind since that day at the cemetery, the day she met the handsome stranger with the wicked good looks and sad eyes. She knew then, as she did now, that she could make him happy; to give him the life he seemed to want so desperately. She had been trying, all these months spent trying to make him see what was in front of him, but it all kept coming back to Kendall – got to get proof to show Kendall, have to protect Kendall, have to keep Kendall and her baby safe. She was about tired of it.

Dixie squared her shoulders and glared at Kendall. "Kendall, I'm well aware of the situation."

Kendall took a step toward Dixie. "Well, I'm glad we agree on something. You've got JR, you've got Tad, you've got Di and Del. Leave my husband out of your poor pathetic scheme or whatever you're cooking up in your head. He's got a family now. Make sure you remember that!" Kendall looked her up and down once before turning on her heel. Dixie glared at her retreating form, seething with anger. Dixie would never understand what it was about Kendall Hart, of all people, that made other do the craziest things. She knew what Ryan and David had done for her during the Cambias trial. She had to watch as Zach left her to go to the island to save Kendall from whatever Madden had planned for her. She had all these plans for when Zach returned, only to be told he had married Kendall on his way back. She knew she almost gave herself away that day in the suite, that she almost let Zach know, but she knew she needed to wait, to revise what she wanted, what she had planned.

Dixie grabbed her purse off the bench and looked at the direction Kendall had gone. "Your husband, huh? I guess we'll see about that." Dixie looked at her watch and headed out of the park.

Whenever he was around, she couldn't take her eyes off of him, this virile man that was expending all this time and energy on a woman who could never truly appreciate him, his heart, his mind, who he was. She could relate to him in a way that Kendall could not, ever. They both had lived with secrets, had done things that they knew those that cared about them wouldn't look favorably on. Watching him sitting there, talking to the baby, made her realize how much he needed her, how much they needed each other. She could give him what Kendall couldn't – a real companion, someone to spend the rest of his life with, talking about important things, not lip gloss and Jimmy Choos.

She ducked around the corner as she heard Kendall coming down the hall. She watched as Ryan fawned over her. She watched as they watched Zach. Dixie watched Kendall watching Zach and she knew. She knew that Kendall didn't have a full appreciation for the type of man he is. "Piece of cake" she whispered to herself.

Kendall wrapped herself around Zach, unaware of the prying eyes down the hall. "That's nice" he whispered to her.

She pulled back and looked at her husband. "I've been wanting to do that all day."

"You gonna tell me what's going on?" Kendall looked at Ryan, remembering his words from earlier. "What's going on with you and Dixie?"

Zach rubbed his hands up and down her arms. "We'll talk, but not here. Go see your son, spend some time with him, then we'll get out of here and talk. I'll tell you everything, I promise."

"Everything?"

He nodded. "Everything. Go see your son."

"Come with me. I'm dying to hear the end of the princess and her magic hockey cup."

"Shut it" he said, laughing along with her. He threaded his fingers through hers and they walked back into the nursery.

Dixie snuck down the hall, and observed through the window at this dysfunctional family and how happy they seemed to be. "Delusional" she said to herself. She knew that no one was happy, especially not him. She knew that he was with her because she was a challenge and, even in the short time that she had known him, she knew he loved a challenge. But, she would make him see, soon, that he needed a woman that would challenge him without being challenging. She smiled at him and blew a kiss to his turned back. "I'll see you soon" she whispered at the window. She glanced at Kendall one last time before leaving, smiling the whole way.

TBC…