She bade good bye to the old lady and made her way down the hall to her "father's" room. She walked in and immediately spotted him lying in his bed wide awake. "London?" he asked and she nodded while walking in. "I missed you s-" she interrupted him with an upward hand signaling him to stop. "Save it. I came here to ask you some things." she said before sitting down in a seat.
"Before you do. I want to know about what your life is like." he said. She was becoming furious. But he asked for it. She left nothing out. She told about her life and scolded him for not knowing how it was already. He was a bit taken aback from this, but he understood all the same. "I didn't know you felt that way." he replied after she finished her rants. "Yeah, you don't know a lot of things about me." she retorted.
He felt truly miserable, and she still wasn't going to take it easy on him. "Why wasn't you around? Was I not good enough for you 'Mr. Tipton'? Why did Moseby raise me, instead of you? Why wasn't I good enough?" she asked all of these questions. And each question was harder on her; she began to sob. He had tears welling in his eyes as well. "You were good enough. I was never around but I really did love you, London. When me and your mother divorced… we decided that you would be better off in Boston, at the Tipton, with Mr. Moseby. It's no excuse, London, but I really didn't think you were unhappy." he explained tears evident in his eyes. "I wasn't unhappy with my life. I was unhappy that I didn't have you." she replied.
Meanwhile, Zack was in class. "Mr. Martin what is the definition of biomedical, in your own words?" the professor asked a very bored Zack. "The study of the body's ability to withstand the stresses of unusual environments, for example, outer space." he replied nonchalantly. "Very good Mr. Martin." the professor said right before the dismissal. Zack packed up his things and left quickly with the bustle of people.
He reached his dorm room a few minutes later, but noticed the door was slightly ajar. "Cody?" he asked. No answer. He walked in, despite his best judgments, and found none other than Owen sitting on Cody's bed. "Oh hey Zack!" he said excitedly. Zack felt his muscles tense at the mere sight of this man. "Get the hell out of my room." Zack warned, throwing his bag down.
"Well, I was just asking you if you'd seen Maddie. Because I really need to talk to her." he said. "She wasn't at her apartment." he added. Zack felt himself tensing again. His fists were clenched tightly, he wanted to hit him. "I don't know what you want, but you need to leave! Maddie is never going to go for you again. She knows what kind of asshole you are! Stay away from her and her brother!" Zack warned again.
Owen laughed slightly. "Look, I'm sorry I just wanted to know if Maddie ever had the baby." he said before walking past Zack with a smirk. What baby? Zack asked himself. He had to find out what that meant. He reached into his pocket and grabbed his phone. "Maddie?" he asked after she picked up.
"Yeah?" she said. "What is it?"
"Where are you?"
"Um…me and Liam are visiting mom and dad…why?"
"Owen was just here…stay there."
"Oh my God…did he hurt you?"
"Hell no…but he said something that kind of freaked me out a little bit, and I think we need to discuss it."
"Okay…what was it?"
"Uh…I think we should talk in person…I'm on my way. Please, don't leave."
"Okay."
"Bye." he said before clicking the phone shut.
He ran out the door and to his car to see Owen leaned against it. "Damn it! What the hell do you want Owen?" Zack asked in a shout. He smirked. "Where's Maddie?" Owen asked again. "Look I don't know. We've been fighting lately and I haven't seen her much…alright?" Zack replied moving him away from his car. "No not okay, I want to know what ever happened to my baby. I want to know if she had the baby." Owen explained.
"Look, I don't have a clue what you're talking about!" Zack yelled outraged. "I'm talking about Maddie being pregnant when we dated. That's kind of why I broke up with her to begin with, but when I was in prison and all those guys showed me pictures of their families I decided I want one. I just wanted to know what happened with my child." he said with a smirk. He didn't want a family, he just wanted to cause problems. "Look Maddie sure as hell hasn't had a baby! And I don't think she could! I mean she's never done anything more than kiss!" Zack explained, clenching his jaw.
Owen was laughing. "P-lease Zack! She's twenty three! Wait a minute! Are you saying?… You mean you haven't…Ha!" he started laughing harder. Zack couldn't take anymore. He wailed off and hit Owen in the jaw, knocking him against his car, he didn't care though, he wanted Owen to pay. "Well, well…was that hit because you don't believe me or because you do?" Owen asked a little too calmly.
Zack grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him into a punch with immaculate force. Owen wasn't just taking the beating, he tried to push Zack away, but Zack was much stronger. He pushed Owen to the ground and kicked him, knocking all visible breath out of him. He was going to leave it at that and get into his car, but Owen had different motives.
When Zack opened the drivers door to his car he felt a pain in his side. A knife. He saw it penetrated into his side causing profuse blood flow, but not too much. Zack whirled around to see a terrified Owen, he had obviously tried to kill him. Owen removed the knife from Zack's side to try to strike again, but Zack reached into his car and in the passenger seat lay a baseball bat. Thank God for baseball Fridays with the guys! Zack thought with a smile. He pulled it out in the knick of time and hit Owen, though he wasn't clear where.
He fell to the ground with much force. Zack didn't mean to hit him that hard, he just wanted to knock him away. He saw him, unmoving on the ground and immediately called 911. He was scared, he didn't want to go away for murder, and there were plenty of witnesses hovering around.
He checked for a pulse, though he felt none, he had hope. He leaned his head back to make a good enough passage for air. He then blew two slow breathes into Owens mouth and pumped just below his chest seven times before repeating. He administered CPR until the ambulance arrived, but still no sign of Owen coming to.
Zack gave his statement as well as the students around and they ruled it in self defense. Zack refused to go to the hospital, so he got roughly stitched in the ambulance. Owen was ruled dead fifteen minutes later, when Zack's stitching was finished. Truth was he tried, he didn't know why, but he tried to save him.
Zack knew Owen deserved to die for all the pain he had caused, but he didn't want to be the one to afflict it. He was angry, confused, and upset all in one. He didn't know why he tried to save someone who tried to kill him more times than he wanted to recount. He didn't know what he meant by the 'baby' incident. He was angry Maddie had lied to him, if Owen was telling the truth. He wanted to know what she was hiding. He leapt out of the ambulance and into his own car. He was going straight to Maddie's parents house.
Cody was in a political science class, when he heard sirens outside. "Yo, Cody! That's your brother, he's giving CPR to someone!" Max yelled from the window seat, she was in his political science class as well. Cody instantly turned his head. "That's Owen on the ground!" Cody yelled and Max looked at him in disbelief; she knew the entire story.
"Please have a seat class." Professor Newman said loudly and everyone complied. Cody still stole glances out the window during the class, wondering what was happening, but not wanting to get involved in whatever it was. If it would have been Zack on the ground, he would have immediately left, but seeing how that wasn't the case he felt a little more at ease.
Zack sped all the way to the Fitzpatrick's residence. He wanted to know the truth. He wanted to know if she was hiding something that big. "Maddie?" he asked opening the door. He didn't knock. Didn't find the need in it. "Zack?" she asked, coming around the corner.
Upon seeing him she started to worry. "Oh my God! What happened to you, you're shirt is covered in blood." she yelled, rushing over to him. "Owen stabbed me but I got stitched." he said, taking her outside. He didn't want her family to hear. "Ugh! I swear I'm going to kill him!" she yelled frantically. "That isn't necessary anymore…he's dead." Zack replied.
Maddie looked horrified. "You…killed him?" she asked desperately. He nodded and told her the entire story, but left out the part about the baby. "Now I have something I need to get straight. He came to my dorm and started talking about a baby, then at my car he said you were pregnant which is why he left you to begin with. Were…you?" he asked.
Her eyes were wide with fear. She forgot how to breathe. Never would she think that this would come up. Never did she want to explain that she was pregnant. For all he knew she hadn't went further than kissing. For all he knew, she was a virgin. She couldn't do anything, but nod. "I lost it." she finished. Now was his turn to forget how to breathe. He wasn't shocked like she was. He was angry. Furious, even.
"Why the hell didn't you tell me?" he asked in a shout.
"Don't be mad…I didn't tell you bec-"
"Don't be mad? Don't be mad! What the hell do you expect? You keep a secret like this from someone you're suppose to love and you expect them not to get angry! Hell I'm not mad! I'm furious!" he yelled.
"Zack, calm down. We need to talk about this like adults not twelve year olds."
"That's what I'm always going to be to you! Twelve! So why not act like one? You led me to believe that you still had your innocence or whatever, so I never ever pressured you! But truth is you used to pregnant! Turns out you weren't saving yourself for marriage! You were saving yourself for the next asshole in line! Waiting for us to break up, so you can have yourself a wonderful man to screw! Well, guess what, Maddie…you can have that next asshole now…cause we're through!" he finished before stalking off.
(A/N) Yeah I wanted to get rid of Owen once and for all! I hope ya'll liked that. It might have been a lil rushed but trust me the next one wont be. The next one is going to be unbelievably LONG! And this story is far from over there is a lot more that is going to happen I mean I think this is only like chapter 6 or sumtin. Owen was an asshole and I was getting tired of writing him in, so sorry if any of you liked him lol! Next chapter, "What's Here For Me? Zack's Despair"
