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: Last night, while sleepwalking, I snuck into the Disney Channel filing room and found the contract. I signed my name on it and I now own part of Disney Channel, the part that is The Suite Life of Zack and Cody! ((I'm sure that no one believes that. I don't sleepwalk.))
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Shattered Pieces of The Tipton
Chapter Nine
Zack woke up the next morning to the sound of his mom bustling around their suite. He went out and hugged her tightly. She was crying. "Don't cry, Mom. He's okay!" Zack said, trying to comfort her. Honestly he was trying to comfort himself. He was worried, too.
"I just don't understand why he would do something like that! What was so wrong with his life, with me, with you, that he felt he had to do that?" She asked. Zack shrugged, not knowing what to say for he didn't know the answer.
"We'll just have to ask him. Let's go." Zack said. He was already dressed and so was his mom.
They went down to the lobby and found Mr. Moseby. "Would you like to go with us to see Cody?" Carey asked.
"I'm afraid I can't. Tell him I said hello, though." Moseby responded. Zack spotted London across the lobby.
"London? Would you like to come see Cody?" Zack asked quietly. She smiled and nodded. She walked over to Carey with him. "Mr. Moseby? Where's Maddie? I was gonna ask her to come, too." Zack said. Mr. Moseby hesitated but decided to tell Zack where Maddie was.
"She's gone, Zack. She had to go to rehab and Cody probably will, too. Maddie will be back soon though." Moseby explained. Zack gasped but didn't speak. He wanted to cry. Maddie was gone for who knows how long and Cody would soon be joining her. Zack would be all alone. Suddenly, Zack felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see London. He smiled at her. Well, he wouldn't be all alone. London would be there.
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Zack knocked on the door to Cody's room and went in. London and his mom had agreed to let him see his brother alone. Zack walked up to Cody and sat down in a chair. Cody was sleeping. Zack picked up the remote control and turned the TV on. It came on really loud and woke Cody up. Zack quickly turned the television off and looked at his twin. "Sorry, Cody!" Zack cried. Cody smiled slightly.
"It's okay. They said I have to go to rehab. Fun, huh?" Cody joked. Zack smiled back to him.
"Well, Maddie will be there." Zack said, suddenly feeling depressed.
"Yeah. We're leaving you completely alone, huh?"
"Not really. I've got London." Zack replied. Suddenly, he had to ask Cody something. He couldn't wait any longer. "Cody, why did you do what you did?" Cody was silent for a long time.
"You remember how I went to see Dad last spring break and you stayed with Mom?" Cody asked quietly. Zack nodded. "Well," Cody began, not quite knowing how to break it to his brother. "He beat me, Zack." Cody finally said. Zack stared in disbelief. He didn't want to believe that his dad would ever do that but he had to believe that Cody would never lie to him.
"Why?"
"He was drunk all the time. Apparently, he hadn't been doing that good with his band and concert sales went way down. He was angry because his job was going down the tubes. He started drinking really bad and then would come back at night and drag me out of bed and beat me. I didn't figure out why he was doing it until I got back home but I still felt bad. You had stayed with him not too long before me and nothing happened to you so I thought he just didn't like me or something. I found out what Maddie was doing and went with her one day. I couldn't stop going there after that. We both used fake names. I just couldn't leave there. I felt like I had to go back there. Dad refused to talk to me on the phone and when he did he always seemed mad at me. I just couldn't take it anymore so I went there and begged them to kill me. I thought that no one cared anymore. Maddie was the one who untied me. They wouldn't let her because I had told them not to but she finally knocked some guy out and untied me. She saved me, Zack." Cody explained. "Are you mad?"
"Kind of. I'm mad because you didn't tell me what was going on with Dad. I'm also mad because you thought no one cared about you. We all love you, Cody! Never forget that, okay? I'm just glad that you're okay and you're gonna get better." Zack said. He and Cody smiled at each other. Just then, Carey walked into the room.
"Ready to go?" She asked smiling.
"I don't wanna leave yet, Mom!" Zack exclaimed.
"You're both leaving. We can take Cody!" She said excitedly before exiting the room. Cody hopped out of bed and changed out of his hospital gown. They packed up all his stuff and left the hospital.
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"I don't want you to leave, Cody." Zack said as tears began to form in his eyes. Cody, Zack, London and Carey were standing outside of the rehab center. Cody looked at the building.
"I'll be okay. I'll be back soon. It's gonna help me, just remember that. It's gonna get me and Maddie off those stupid games and those drugs." Cody said, using air quotes when he said games. Carey shuddered when he said drugs. She still couldn't believe that Cody had done drugs and all that other stuff. She was angry with their father and planned to sue. Zack hugged his brother one more time. London walked up to Cody and pulled him into a firm embrace.
"I'll miss you, Cody! Be careful and I'll see you soon." London said lovingly. Cody smiled at her and hugged his mom. She didn't speak and neither did he. Cody hugged Zack again and then a man walked towards them from the direction of the building.
"Cody, are you ready to come in?" The man called. Cody nodded and looked at his brother. They were both crying.
"I love you, bro!" Cody whispered to Zack as they hugged once again.
"I love you, too." Zack whispered into Cody's ear. "See you soon!" Zack said as Cody walked towards the man. Maddie had come to the gate and was waving at Zack, London and Carey. They waved in return. Cody hugged Maddie and they walked inside the building.
"Ready to go, Zack?" Carey asked. He could hear her voice breaking from the tears that were welling up in her eyes. Zack nodded and climbed into the car. They drove off to the hotel. Zack pulled out his cell phone and typed in a note in the reminder's section. He wrote: 5 more months and three days before Cody and Maddie come home.
THE END!
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That's the end of my story! I just want to say thank you to everyone who reviewed… you're the only reasons I kept writing this! I am glad it was such a success! Just so you know, I am going to be writing a sequel to this! It will be called 'Picking up the Pieces' so be sure to keep watch for that. I should have that started within the next couple of days. The Trailer is the next chapter of this story. Thanks again to my dedicated readers and I hope you like the sequel just as much! If you have any ideas for the sequel, let me know. I am going to put most of my ideas into the Trailer but I can change the story if anyone gives me suggestions. Also, I promise that the sequel will have lots more Maddie/Zack so be on the lookout for the sequel! Thanks again, I love you all!
-Kelsi
((KelsiLovesLucas))
