A/N: Okay, this is not my first fanfic but it is my first SLZC fanfic so please be nice! Also, if anyone has any suggestions for future chapters, I am more than happy to accept them and may put them in the story! Thoughts will be in Italics.

Summary: Maddie is harboring a dark secret and it is threatening her life. Who will be there to help her? Cody runs away and no one knows why. Can the twins find each other again? Will the people inside the Tipton Hotel ever be the same?

Disclaimer: The almighty Bob says that I own Disney Channel! I shall rule the world… one TV channel at a time! ((Do you think that anyone will believe that?))

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Shattered Pieces of The Tipton

Chapter Eight

Zack rushed forward to the circle of teenagers and saw Cody lying in the middle of the floor. Maddie was kneeling over him, crying. She kept screaming for him to wake up but nothing happened. Zack pushed the people aside and knelt beside his brother. "What happened?" Zack asked Maddie. She wouldn't respond. "What happened?" Zack demanded. She looked at him, tears streaming down her face.

"He came here. I though that you had sent him. I told him to leave but he wouldn't." Maddie sobbed.

"Maddie, what happened to him? What did he do?" Zack asked. Suddenly, someone else spoke.

"Maddie? Who's Maddie?" the voice asked. It was Rae. Maddie looked at her, stunned. She didn't know what to say. Zack ignored the girl and asked Maddie what had happened to her brother.

"He came and he… there was nothing I could do… he wouldn't listen to me… Zack, I'm so sorry!" Maddie said in between sobs. She finally stopped crying and looked at Zack. "He hung himself."

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"What?" Zack exclaimed. Maddie was crying uncontrollably now.

"He played hanging monkey with us. We couldn't do anything. He wouldn't let us untie him." Rae said quietly. The rest of the group was silent. Zack stared at them. They had let this happen. This was their fault.

"Maddie, help me get him out of here." Zack ordered. She didn't move. "Please. I need to get him to a hospital. Someone please help me!" Zack was screaming as he began to cry. Suddenly, someone picked Cody up. It was Rae. She carried him out and Zack followed momentarily. Maddie was soon behind him.

London raced towards Zack and stared at Cody's motionless body in Rae's arms. "What happened?" She asked, holding back tears. Zack and Maddie were both crying.

"He hung himself, London! We need to get to the hospital." Zack said. Suddenly, a car pulled up. Mr. Moseby stepped out.

"I had to call him. Just in case." London whispered. Moseby walked up to them and grabbed Cody without speaking. He laid Cody in the backseat of his car and the rest of the people all crawled in. Rae went along, too.

Zack held Cody's head in his lap the whole way to the hospital. Every now and then Cody would let out one ragged breath. It was the only way Zack knew that he was alive.

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Zack paced the waiting room impatiently. He had called his mom and she had booked the next flight home. Maddie was hysterical. Rae didn't speak. Moseby and London just sat in their seats, staring at the wall. Finally, Mr. Moseby said something. "What happened to him?" Everyone hesitated. Maddie finally spoke once she had calmed down a little bit.

"He was playing hanging monkey and wouldn't let us untie him. We tried but couldn't. By the time we did untie him he had passed out." Maddie explained. Mr. Moseby stared at Maddie in disbelief.

"What were you doing there, Maddie?" He asked. She hung her head in shame.

"I play it too. On a daily basis along with other things." She admitted. Then, she rolled her sleeves up like she had when she showed Zack what had happened to her. Moseby cringed and looked away. London refused to speak at all; she was too shocked.

Finally, a doctor came out. "I just wanted to tell you that you got here just in time. He is going to be fine. Would you like to see him?" The doctor said. Everyone nodded. Rae decided to leave them alone with Cody.

"Codester?" Zack said quietly. Cody opened his eyes and smiled at his twin.

"Hey, Zackster." He replied. Zack smiled. Everyone greeted Cody and talked to him for a while. They left about an hour after he woke up and went back to the Tipton. Zack's mom would be there in the morning. Cody was all right. Everything would be all right. Zack thought as he went to sleep that night. In the morning he'd go back and see Cody.

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So, that's chapter eight! Hope you guys liked it! The ending of this chappie was kind of dull but I couldn't think of anything else… it's 2 o'clock in the morning and I have no idea what to write now! I am almost done with this story! Probably the next chapter or the one after that will be the last. Thanks to everyone who reviews! You guys are the reason that I write! You all mean so much to me! Time to make me happy! Smiley… smiley… smiley… ((That is what I'll be doing if you guys just click that little purple button in the corner! I think that your thumb muscles could handle that)). I love you all! Thanks!

-Kelsi

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