Zendall has become lost in different timelines, each unaware of the other's existence. In a world without Zach, Kendall has married Ryan. In a world without Kendall, Zach has taken up with Dixie. But something seems wrong to them both. They sense that the best part of themselves is missing and so slowly they begin to search without knowing what they are searching for. Can Zach and Kendall successfully defy the laws of space, time and Soaps? They told each other more than once that they would always find their way back to one another. Can they?

Chapter One – "Kendall Hart Lavery"

She was dreaming again. Lately she was sure the best part of her life was spent in dreams. He was there with her. He was always there with her. Speaking words that felt like kisses in between kisses that set her frozen soul on fire and brought all of her back to life. Why was she only alive when she was asleep? Who was he? How could she be completely in love with somebody she had never met?

"Kendall, wake up! You're having a nightmare!"

Kendall's eyes flew open. "It wasn't a night mare," she told Ryan, trying not to sound as annoyed as she felt. "Whatever it was, it wasn't a nightmare."

Ryan propped himself up in bed on one arm and quietly studied his wife of almost two years, as she lay beside him, awash in the moonlight pouring through their window, framing her perfect body in its glow. "I married a goddess," Ryan realized, not for the first time. The Ancients went to war over a face like that, he reflected. No woman had ever meant more to him. They were destined to be together. And yet. The truth was that she seemed less and less to him the Kendall he had known and loved for years, although he couldn't begin to understand why. "You sounded like you were having a nightmare. You were moaning in your sleep."

She nodded. "I bet I was." There was that long-suffering tone in his voice she hated the most. The Sighin' Ryan Tone. "Sorry my moans woke you up."

He moved closer, the smell of her intoxicating him as ever it did. "In the mood for some more moaning?" She was so damn beautiful, so exciting, so alluring.

"Not tonight, Ryan," she said, turning away from him.

So distant. So remote. So incredibly sad.

"What the matter, Kendall?" he had asked her more than once. More than a hundred times.

"Matter? Nothing. What could be the matter? I have everything I've ever dreamed of."

He knew that wasn't true. But why wasn't it true? They were the Golden Couple. Everybody thought so. Even Erica . Especially Erica. "My mother-in-law is crazier about me than my wife is," he realized soberly. But it was good to have her on his side. Especially in the ongoing war between Jackson Montgomery and his brother, Jonathan. Jack refused to accept Jonathan as his son-in-law, even after Lily had given birth to a beautiful baby boy. Ryan couldn't fathom that. If Spike couldn't bring Jack around, what could? Erica's unflagging support of Jonathan nearly tore her marriage to Jack apart. But it didn't. Through it all, come what may, Erica and Jack still loved one another.

"Do we, Kendall?" he asked her in a whisper he hoped she wouldn't hear because he was terrified of what she might answer.

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"Have you decided what Ryan is getting you for your anniversary?" Erica asked her daughter the very next day. She had appeared unannounced at Fusion and dragged Kendall off to a lunch she was hardly in the mood for.

"I think you should take off on a romantic second honeymoon to Paris," Erica gushed when their salads arrived. "Paris in the Spring! Ohhh-la-la!"

"That's an idea," Kendall acknowledged listlessly.

"What's the matter, Kendall?" Something was wrong with her daughter. Erica had known that for months. But what could it be?

"Matter? Nothing? I have everything I've ever dreamed of."

Erica couldn't agree more. "You do! I know that! Everybody knows that! Ryan is perfect for you!"

Not knowing quite how to respond to that, Kendall stared in silence at her Mother's yet to be eaten salad.

"Never to be eaten salad," she thought idly. She blinked. Why was that?

"Mother, why aren't you eating?" she heard herself asking.

Erica smiled in utter bewilderment. "Eating?"

Kendall pointed to the untouched entree. "You haven't touched your lunch, and you're not going to touch it. You never eat when we're at a restaurant! Well, maybe you nibble, but that's about it! Why is that?"

Erica laughed and shrugged. "Oh, I don't know! I never noticed! But you're not eating either, Kendall!"

Kendall looked down at her pristine spinach salad. Not a crouton out of place. "Oh, you're right! Why is that?"

Erica's expression turned to one of concern. "Kendall, are you feeling all right? You don't seem right somehow."

Kendall put aside all thoughts of their salads. "I know I don't, Mother," she admitted haltingly. "I haven't been sleeping well lately." Actually, sleeping was about the only thing she WAS doing well lately. She wished she were asleep now, dreaming about him. Him? Who?

"I'm pretty sure I'm going crazy," she confided to Erica. "More than pretty sure."

Erica sighed. "I've gone crazy," she commiserated. "It's no fun. Remember when I ran away to become a Showgirl in Vegas? Talk about crazy!"

Kendall had begun to listen with intense care. "I remember that, Mother." Her heart had begun to beat faster. "You met a casino owner you didn't much like. He sent you to the hospital because of your drinking." There was a drumming in her ears now. "What was his name again?"

"Zach Slater," Erica spat out. "Horrid man! Thank goodness he didn't follow me back to Pine Valley!"

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No Zach Slater in Pine Valley? OMG! Stay strong, Zendallites, our Adventure is only beginning!