Eliza would get to the bottom of everything if it was the last thing she did. She hated the way Zed was acting. She thought that he was bad off after Zarah left him but she now knew it was nothing compared to this. He practically dug himself a hole and had been living in it ever since.

She had gotten Addison's entire side of the story. Having her recant everything that Zarah had said and deciding that the bitch definitely had help in what she had done to them. There was no way she was cunning enough to do it alone.

If she wanted to figure this thing out she needed to go right to the devil herself and confront her. She had been asking around and found out from some acquaintances where Zarah had been staying. It was on the far end of Zombietown in a newer developed area. As the zom population boomed, the area they lived in expanded.

She made quick work of traversing through the town, even taking people's backyards as a quicker way to get to the other end of it. She arrived at the address she was told Zarah would be at and took a deep breath before going to knock on the door. She would strangle the bitch if she needed to.

Eliza knocked a few times and waited for the snake to answer the door and when she did, she didn't look surprised to see that Eliza was standing there. She reacted as if she had known she would get caught all along.

"Well well well, look what the cat vomited up." Zarah taunted. She folded her arms across her chest and leaned against the door frame.

"Alright bitch, start talking." Eliza was here for answers, not petty games.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." she feigned innocence.

"Don't give me that bullshit. You drugged Zed and possibly Addison at that Zom bash. Now give me some answers before I have to kick your ass, which I'm more than happy to do."

"And what gave you the impression that it was me?"

"He can't remember a thing and he never drinks that much. Addison told me all about how you tried to scare her off at the coffee shop. This has your stink all over it."

"Alright fine, yeah, I drugged him and for his own good too. He brings that human here and sleeps with her and pretty soon all of Zombietown has a human in their bed and this place will be crawling with their stink." Zarah stood to her full height, which wasn't much more than Eliza, to try and show her dominance. Eliza wasn't having it. She clenched her fists, ready to swing if she needed.

"Fuck you! If anything they were making things better. Showing people we could coexist peacefully. It's that sort of shitty attitude that's kept us back for this long. Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you have to drag down everyone else with you. Where the fuck would you even get drugs that could do that to him in the first place?"

"Oh that was easy, her darling cousin was all too happy to help." She turned to go back into her house but only for a moment before she returned with a small glass vial in her hand. "I'm not sure how he got them but he easily obtained some vials of drugs from the zombie containment center. All I had to do was mix it in their drinks." She stood smug with herself as if what she had done was some ingenious thing. Eliza was dumbfounded; Addison's own cousin? She must be talking about the cheer captain cousin.

"Why? Why would he do that?" She asked the question out loud, but really meant it more for herself.

"This just goes to show how evil humans really are. They treat us like we're the scum of the earth while they prance around all high and mighty; giving their own family the same disgusting treatment they give us. It's terrible."

That was all the news Eliza needed from Zarah. She got the why and the how and who and now it was time for justice. "I can't believe I'm going to say this, but thank you for your cooperation." Eliza put on a fake smile before she slung her arm back and punched Zarah square in the face. Just for good measure.

Her head flung back and she put her hands up to cover her nose that was now dripping blood and dropped the vial in the process. "Augh you bitch!" she hollered. "I gave you what you wanted! What was that for?"

Eliza quickly scooped up the glass container and picketed it. "Just a happy little gift from me to you and a warning; stay the fuck away, or it wont be my fist hitting you next time. Have a great day." She hollered as she turned and ran down the walkway in front of her house. She had all the information she needed, and now it was time to pay good old Bucky a visit, but first, she would tell Zed everything she learned.

They talked all night, strategized the best options and formed a plan. Zed felt better knowing what had happened wasn't his fault. He felt guilty about it, thinking that if he hadn't have drank or brought her there, then none of this would have happened. Eliza had to reassure him that it wasn't his fault and that Zarah would have done this one way or another. After hearing this news, he was ready to go; ready to go fight to get his love back and face the challenges. Eliza had to stop him with promises that they would strike when the time is right.

They waited until the day of the rescheduled cheer championship. The plan was to wait it out under the bleachers where they wouldn't be noticed and as soon as it ended they would call Bucky out in front of everyone. They would show the vial and Bucky would get in trouble and Addison would be so happy at the revelation that she would jump into Zeds arms.

The vial had Bucky's last name on it and with a little snooping and little hacking on her computer, she was able to piece together that Bucky's dad worked at the containment center and that must have been how he got in to get the drugs.

When the day came she, Zed and Bonzo went to the cheer center to wait out as planned under the bleachers. As soon as the teams were finished with all their routines, they would loudly make their presence known when the crowd quieted down in anticipation for the winner announcement.

Eliza stood, peering through the cracks in the bleachers, concentrating until the moment was right, when Zed nudged her. "Ouch, what you lug? What are you doing, they're about to make announcements?" She turned to notice him pointing at a certain person that was sitting within their view a couple rows away.

"Who does that look like to you?" he asked her. She squinted, and tried to decipher just where she had seen him before. Then it dawned on her.

"Ew is it that wiener Chad?"

Zed nodded his head. "Yeah, but what's he doing here? I thought I scared him off last time."

"Well she had said something to me one time about how his parents are friends with hers; maybe they just came to watch the show. It seems like all of the rest of Seabrook did."

Chad was an oversight that they hadn't taken into consideration and why would they? He had practically thrown Addison to the ground in his haste to get away on their last meeting. But maybe it was a good thing for Zed. Maybe this meant that if she were willing to forgive Chad and be friends with him, then she would be willing to get back with him. But it was too late.

Their thoughts on Chad had gone on for too long and before they knew it the crowd was cheering as Seabrook was announced the winner, yet again. They missed their opportunity. They ran out from under the bleachers, trying to salvage what they could of the plan but it was too late. Chad had made his way down from his seat and Addison met him halfway. She gave him a big smile and together they walked out of the gym.

Zed stood still with shock. This wasn't the plan. She was supposed to run into his arms, not that little turds. Eliza added one more name to her shit list. "Come on, this doesn't change anything. We still need to call out Bucky." Zed couldn't tear his gaze away from the door that they just left through however. Eliza sighed, "Fine, you go after them, I'll take care of Bucky." He hugged her in thanks and left without a word and Eliza turned around to zero in on the cheer captain.

With the plan compromised, she had to quickly formulate a new one. People were clearing the room as they went home to either sulk about losing or celebrate the win. She scanned the room and noticed Bucky lingering near the back entrance, clearly trying to figure out a way to get the newly won giant gold trophy out the door to his van.

"Need a hand." She snapped.

Bucky startled and turned to see Eliza and Bonzo standing behind him. He screamed and jumped back further than when Zarah had approached him. "Aaaahh it's two of them! Don't hurt me." He shouted and covered his head.

Both zombies stood staring at him like he was crazy and when he realized they weren't going to make a move on him he righted himself.

"Do you mind explaining this?" Eliza held up the little glass container with her finger and thumb and stuck it right into Bucky's face. He flinched back again before squinting to see what she had.

"How uh...how did you get that?" he questioned.

"Oh just had to cut a bitches fingers off but it's mine now." she lied. "I see it has your last name on it, mind telling me why in the world you want to drug your own cousin."

"Oh no, no no. She wasn't supposed to drug Addison, she was supposed to drug your friend, the tall one." He eyed Bonzo up and down. "Well, the other tall one."

"Yeah well, you had no idea who you were dealing with when you gave her this because she so happily doped them both."

"I just wanted Addison back for the team and she said she just wanted the tall one. How was I supposed to know?"

"Well, how about I turn this into the authorities? I'm sure they would love to know where this drug came from and how it ended up in the hands of a zombie."

Bucky laughed. "Like they would believe you." Eliza lunged for him and once again he flinched and cowarded away from her. "Aahh don't hit me." He screamed in a high pitch voice. "Ok ok. I'll take care of it. I'll tell Addison what I did just dont hurt my beautiful face."

"Yeah you'll tell Addison what you did, or I'll cut your fingers off too." Bucky was flinching back more and more from her.

"Please don't," he said quietly. "I need them for my jazz hands."

On the other side of town, Zed was zoning in on where Addison and cheese dick could have gone. He checked several places he thought Chad would have taken her and was coming up empty.

Man were they fast, they had walked out the door, hand in hand, and then they were gone. But Zed had to find her. If he could explain what happened then he was positive she would take him back. There was no way she would pick that loser over himself, and he would beat him up as promised before just because he could.

He stopped on the sidewalk, having ran the entire way across Seabrook. He leant on the wall of the building he was standing next to and tried to catch his breath while he racked his brain of places they could have gone. He was trying to think of anywhere he would take her if he were human. He looked up and it was as if some magical force had stopped him where he stood. There they were, sitting in a sandwich shop across the street. She didn't look totally repulsed by Chad like she had before, she looked like she was maybe a little happy to be there with him.

Zed felt defeated. He fell back to lean against the wall once more as he watched them interact with each other. She sat with her head in her hand and a small smile playing on her lips. He was talking animatedly with his hands and she laughed at whatever he had said. He should go, he felt like a creep standing there watching her.

That's who she really deserved to be with. A real living person who she could be happy with and who her parents would be happy with and who all of Seabrook would see as a valid husband for her. He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out the little ring he had purchased several months back.

It was rose gold with a single diamond in the middle and two smaller diamonds on either side of that. It wasn't much, and it wasn't what she deserved, but he had hoped when he gave it to her that she would have said yes. He stared at the ring for a moment before pocketing it, preparing to walk away when Addison looked up and saw him.

Her expression was one of surprise, as if she thought she would never see him again, and then it quickly changed to something he thought was happiness and then possibly sadness. Out of all of the expressions the one she ended with was confusion. She quirked her head to the side and then politely excused herself from Chad. He looked up at her with questions and followed her gazed outside towards where Zed was standing. His expression was easier to read, his was one of anger and rage and possibly a little frightened.

Addison walked outside and crossed the street towards where Zed was standing. She stared at her shoes with her arms crossed across her chest as she walked and took a second before she could compose herself to look Zed in the face.

Zed was stunned when she looked up to face him. Just like the first time he came face to face with her the library almost a year ago he was blown away by her beauty. "Hi." she whispered.

"Hello." He said back, in a way similar to when they first met.

"I guess we have some things to talk about?" She stated.

"Addy I'm so sorry. For everything. For the party, for not calling for...for not coming after you." She cut him off. "Zed." she started, "Eliza told me some things and I'm willing to listen but we have a lot to discuss and I don't think this is the right time. I'll call you and we can meet somewhere." She looked up to smile at him but was drug away by someone tugging on her arm.

"Uh ah. I don't think so. Not this time." It was Chad. He was dragging Addison away from Zed and towards his car. "You had your chance and you ruined it, you won't ruin this for me. I've put way too much time into this. And I deserve this too." He yelled out as he pulled Addison towards his car with her struggling against him the entire way. "Wait Chad..stop…Zed.." She reached her hand out towards Zed as he pushed her into his car and went to his side. Zed chased after them but Chad was faster, speeding away.