A/N: See disclaimer in chapter one. I wasn't really going to do another chapter, but the 12/15 ep really just... well, let's just say it made me very, very, very, very, very mad. So, I decided to do something TPTB don't seem to want to do (sorry if you are a Ryan fan, but BLAH!) OK, I'm better now, so enjoy!

She's not sure what even caused her to do it. Watching him through the window, talking on the phone of all things – it almost became too much for her. Before she was really aware of what she was doing, she was across the courtyard and knocking on the door.

He threw open the door and gave her a once over, which made her heart flutter.

"Kendall, are you alright? Is something wrong? Do you need…"

She held up her hand. "Just… Zach, just be quiet for a second, alright?"

He nodded his head and stared at her.

She stared at him for a moment and walked into his condo. He shut the door and turned to see her doing laps around his couch and coffee table.

"Kendall, really, is there something…"

She stopped walking and held up her hand again and he was immediately silent.

So, he just watched her. He hadn't lied to her when he said he found himself unable to take his eyes off of her. It was like every time she moved, she was doing something he had never witnessed before, so he just had to watch. Even now, as she lapped his condo in her tank top and pajama bottoms, he was riveted by the way she moved.

He smirked and leaned back against his front door, knowing she would talk when she was ready to.

After a few minutes and a countless number of laps around his small living room, she finally stopped and looked at him.

"I've been… it's just… I've tried to think and think and think… I went for a walk to see if the fresh air would clear my head. It didn't. I tried a hot shower, praying that would work. It didn't. My apartment felt too small, so I came over here."

He gave her a confused look. "Ok?"

She looked at him for a moment before doing another lap around the couch.

She stopped in front of him and looked at him hard for a moment before speaking again.

"You love me. You say you love me… after everything you learned today… about me and how my family feels about me, yet you say that you love me after all that. What am I supposed to do with that information?"

She stared at him for a moment.

"Oh, sorry, I can talk now?"

"Zach, really…"

"Kendall, I just thought you need to know. It can mean whatever you want. After everything that happened at the Valley Inn today… well… umm… I just wanted you to know that someone was on your side. I know that your intentions were honorable and nothing but pure. I'm sorry that Greenlee couldn't see that, but I do… I know what kind of heart you have. I do love you, Kendall that I mean from the bottom of my heart. But, again, there is no pressure. You are going to have people coming at you from all directions, pressuring you to do this and that. But not me. I'm here to just be here for you as whatever you want – a husband, an ex-husband, a friend, a protector, a money source…" He was glad that made her smile a bit. "…whatever. I just… I just wanted you to know… I just thought you should know where I stand. That's all."

She had a slight smile on her face. Zach wasn't real sure how to read it, but any kind of smile was better than no smile at all, that he knew.

She looked him up and down a couple of times before looking him the eyes again.

"Anything I want?"

"What?"

"You said that your confession can mean whatever I want it to mean."

His mouth suddenly went dry and all he could do was nodded at her.

She looked him up and down again before smiling at him brightly. "Well, alright then…"

And before he knew what was happening, she had her arms wrapped around his neck and was kissing him.

This kiss was nothing like the kiss they had shared earlier in the day. She was no longer hesitant. She held nothing back with this kiss.

The rest of the world seemed to melt away as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to his body. He let out a soft moan as she deepened the kiss and ran her fingers through his hair. He pulled her in tighter and lifted her up off the ground, ever so slightly.

When the need for oxygen became a necessity, they broke apart, but just barely.

"Kendall, I don't…

"Zach, you said whatever. You said that you were here for me and were on my side. You are the only person to ever tell me they were on my side 100 percent, no questions asked. That means more to me right now than you can ever know. And I feel… I feel things for you too, Zach, things that I seem to have trouble putting into words right now, but believe me, those feelings are there and they are strong."

"I believe you" he said in a whisper, as he kissed her jaw line.

"Oh god" she moaned as her head lolled back, giving him more access to her neck.

He stopped and pulled her up to his eye level.

"Kendall, what do you want?"

She sighed and smiled at him. "I want you to lock that door and keep the rest of the world out for a little while."

He smiled back at her. "Anything else?"

"You're a smart man, Mr. Slater. I'm sure you can think of something."

Slowly, he lowered her back to the floor and flipped the deadbolt with his left hand. Kendall reached over and flipped off the small lap that had lit the room. Now, they were locked in, from the rest of the world, with just the moonlight lighting their way. He wrapped his left arm back around her.

"Now what, Mrs. Slater?"

Just hearing that phrase come out of his mouth made her want him more. She assaulted his mouth again and he lifted her back off the ground. This time she wrapped her legs around his waist as he maneuvered the two of them through the condo to his bedroom.

As he kicked the bedroom door shut and laid her out on the bed, he knew that there would be no divorce and that a new relationship, one that neither one of them thought was possible, had come into full bloom under the moon tonight, and for that, he would be forever grateful.