Hey everyone! I know that it's been a while (like 2 months) *chuckles weakly* I'm sorry that I hadn't updated earlier, just with finals and my AP exams I didn't have much time to write. But I hope this new chapter will be worth the wait... ehhhh I hope.

Special Thanks to all the wonderful people who reviewed!

~shadowzelda-43 ~leobutler ~XxUnleashed-imaginationxX ~deantastic

I do not own Zack or Cody, they unfortunately belong to Disney :'[

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-*-*-*-*-*-*- Cody's PoV

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Always having been someone with somewhat acute senses Cody Martin had always been able to simply know when the S.S. Tipton was moving or not, having spent so much time on said ship. The sudden halt he felt in his bed shook him from his sleep, he looked over at the alarm clock on his nightstand reading 3:48 a.m. Cody suddenly felt slightly panicked, they weren't suppose to land in Sydney till noon, a sickening churning in his stomach made him wheezy and anxious, the knowledge that his mother stood in that port waiting for him and Zack almost caused him to spiral back to a desperate and panicked state as before. Calm down Cody, calm down. he took deep breaths and let himself calm down before he let himself lie back down on his bed and fall back asleep.

***Morning***

The second he had finished his daily routine Cody walked out to the cabin opposite of his and knocked on the door shifting nervously until he heard the shuffling of feet on the other side and saw the door open revealing his twin brother.

"Cody? Man you wake up too early." Zack said through a yawn as he rubbed some sleep out of his eye.

"Its ten."

"Exactly." he stepped out of the way to let Cody into his cabin and closed the door behind him. Cody had simply walked in and went straight to Zack's bed and sat at the edge looking down at his hands that were nervously shaking, Zack felt himself worry but he knew why Cody was feeling so anxious.

"We weren't suppose to land till noon." Zack sat next to his brother.

"I hadn't noticed."

"Think she's already on board?"

"I think Moseby would've told us." Cody nodded in agreement. Zack took hold of both Cody's hands in order to stop them from shaking, Cody stopped but didn't make any other movement. "We're not alone on this. Our friends are here. They're here for us Cody, don't forget that alright?" Cody slightly turned his head to look at Zack from the corner of his eye and gave a shaky smile. He leaned in and gave Cody a loving kiss on the lips, he rested his forehead against his and gave him the most reassuring smile that he could. Zack let go of Cody's hands and patted his back as he got up from the bed and let out a deep breath. "Well since you got me up so early might as well go get some nice hot breakfast!" Cody smiled and waited for Zack to get dressed before they walked out of the cabin towards the cafeteria. Before they had turned the corner Woody appeared by their sides.

"Hey, you guys know that brunch just started? If we hurry up then we can get some steak and pancakes!" the brunet excitedly said as he sped walk quickly looking back at the twins.

"Woody watch-" before Cody could finish Woody had hit the wall in front of him so hard he fell on the floor with an 'oof,' "… out…"

"Nice one Woodster." he rolled over and smiled sheepishly as Cody helped him up.

(Next Scene)

"There you guys are!" Zack and Cody turned away from their pancakes and eggs to see London rush over to them.

"Hey London, what's going on?" the brunette sat down in the chair across from the two and sighed.

"Zack, Cody… Maddie called me and told me that she's landed in Sydney."

"London that's great!" she shook her head causing the them to look at her confused.

"She told me that Carey had been on the flight with her. They're both here…"

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*-*-*-*-*-*-*- To Bailey

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The blonde had been sprawled on the floor looking up at the odd pattern that she saw whenever she closed her eyes due to the fluorescent light above when the door had opened revealing the dark male who she had for so long looked up to.

"I've received a phone call from your father informing me that he will be landing in Sydney later today. I hope that you've packed because he is planning on taking you home the following morning." verbally she didn't respond to what he had said, she simply shut her eyes and listened the Moseby's breathing until he turned and closed the door behind him as he left. Not exactly knowing how long she had been laying on the floor Bailey felt a sudden burst of energy as she jumped off the carpeted floor and completely turned the room upside down until she found what she was looking for. Simply looking for a way out of the her situation she held on to the small object in her hand tightly and walked into the bathroom.

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-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Zack

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It was definitely the circumstances of the early 'visit' from their mother that had Zack scared out of his mind and Cody on the edge. Not knowing how the subject would be approached they stood at the lobby of the S.S. Tipton with London and Woody awaiting the two expected persons. Mr. Moseby had walked into the lobby having almost given up looking for the two Martin boys when he saw them standing there in the lobby, it was definitely the last place he was expecting them to be. Already knowing that they knew what who was expected to walk through the elevator door he took the empty space between Cody and Woody. Zack felt like he was about to jump out of skin every time the elevator opened, after the fourth time Cody grabbed hold of his hand tightly and continued to look forward. It seemed like forever as the little arrow above the door traveled from 1 to 5, both boys tightened their grip on each other and closed their eyes as the golden colored doors opened, when they hear a sort of relieved but also confused sigh from Mr. Moseby did they open their eyes. The persons who walked out of the elevator doors were definitely not the ones expected, but the one man's tall tanned figure and others light brunet and fair complexion made both boys let out the large breaths they both held in and made a huge weight on their shoulders just vanish. Kurt Martin rushed over to his sons and embraced them both tightly.

"Dad!" both boys held on to their father as if for dear life as both felt a new pressure on their chest and stinging in their eyes from newly forming water. When the three separated they shared a moment of silence as the other four watched the interactions between the three.

"I'm so glad to see you boys."

"What're you doing here though?" Cody asked motioning the two males.

"Not that we're not glad to see you dad." Zack interjected, Kurt smiled and silently motioned to move their location of their meeting. Moseby left the group to deal with some business somewhere else, the others walked to the sky deck and took seats around a large table located near the edge of the ship and settled down with some smoothies.

"Well you're mother called me yesterday, and since me and Daniel were in-between tours in southern Europe we took the first flight here."

"Your father and I were really worried about you two and the stress your situation was causing you." Daniel added as he looked at the two sincerely, Zack felt himself calm knowing that he and his father was here.

"So you two are like, togeth-oof" Woody had started before London's elbow hit his side. "Owww. London…" a light chuckle left Kurt's lips as he watched the two.

"It's alright London. Yeah we are, umm."

"Woody." he replied to introduce himself, he hadn't really been introduced the last time Kurt had been on deck to visit.

"Woody, right." he turned to look at his two sons and let out a heavy sigh, "look, Zack, Cody. I cant say that what's happen between the two of you is traditional, but what aspect of our lives ever were right?" he added in attempt to lighten the mood he had been making, after a few seconds of awkward silence he coughed and continued. "But you boys are the most important people to me, and I accept you two as is. Your mother loves you two so much, I'm sure she'll say the same."

"Thanks dad." Cody replied with a small and breaking voice, Zack took hold of his hand under the table and squeezed to comfort him. After the air had been cleared the group spoke lightly of the places they had been to since the last time that Kurt had come to visit and some of the craziness the tours the pair had experienced. Woody and London had left after a while, London wanting to re-prepare for Maddie's visit with Woody volunteering to help. The four were standing to leave the sky deck to head to a room for Kurt and Daniel to recover from the jetlag when they saw Carey Martin walking toward them with Mr. Moseby following close behind.

"Kurt? What are you doing here?"

"Good to see you too Carey." She and Daniel shared a short greeting, "I'm here for the same reason you are. And as their father, I'm here to support them." The older brunette felt a headache coming on as she stood there in the heavy atmosphere, the added jetlag she had been feeling did not help.

"I need to lie down." she rubbed her temples trying to sooth the throbbing, not knowing what to do exactly Mr. Moseby took Carey and led her to a room in order for her to rest. Cody looked over to his brother being surprised to see him crying silently.

"Zack?" said blond wiped his eyes and sniffed as he tried to speak.

"She's angry… I don't think she's going to accept us…" Zack's reaction, although unexpected, was not completely surprising. Although he had always been a troublemaker and didn't always listen to their mother, he had always held his mother very dearly-just like on the first day of 7 Seas High Carey was leaving the boys, Zack couldn't do anything about it and he couldn't take it. Cody grabbed Zack's shoulders and pulled him into a tight hug in order to comfort him. "Dammit I'm sorry Cody…"

"Don't worry Zack. She'll come around."

"Just give her some time." Kurt added as he walked over to the pair and hugged them both tightly for reassurance. Zack was completely grateful that his father was here for them, when they separated Zack had calmed down. It was when they were walking toward their cabin after dropping Kurt and Daniel their room to rest that in the distance did Cody hear a distant fire alarm ringing that soon traveled to the rest of the ship.

"What the hell's with this alarm!" Zack shouted over the ringing covering his ears to lessen the loud sound banging against his ear drums.

"Come on, we're suppose to go to the sky deck!" Cody shouted as he took hold of Zack's hand and quickly led them both towards the open sky deck where all the guests from the front half of the ship gathered. Just when they had reached the crowded area did the alarm stop, there were scattered conversations from the confusion that arose from the unexpected alarm.

"Do you think that it was just a drill or something?"

"I don't know, usually they would tell us ahead of time so we don't panic or anything." all the guests dared not move in case the emergency was real, they held their breaths for another minute until a large security guard walked in from the fiesta deck and shouted over them from the flight of stairs.

"Don't worry everyone! Everything is under control, there's no need to worry. Please proceed as was, but please be cautious." Everyone was relieved from the news and left to respected cabins or previous locations. The security guard had hurried down the stairs and approached the two blonds before they had left the deck. "Zack and Cody Martin?" the two nodded, "I was told to get you two and bring you to Mr. Moseby." both confused and worried they follow the guard toward the main lobby of the ship.

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[*o*] (Next scene) [+x+]

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When they entered the lobby of the S.S Tipton they saw Mr. Moseby speaking to Kirby, the larger dark male was visibly upset and anxious. Zack and Cody walked up to the two, "Moseby, Kirby what's going on? What was with that fire alarm?" Kirby looked over to Zack and let out a shuttered sigh.

"I'm sorry boys, this is all my fault." the two looked at him confused, Mr. Moseby grabbed Kirby's shoulder.

"No it6 is not Kirby, you did what you should've."

"Mr. Moseby what's going on?" Cody asked becoming very anxious the more time passed without having being answered.

"I have bad news boys. The fire alarm had gone off in the room where Bailey was being held in."

"Was?" he nodded. Kirby interjected to tell what had happened.

"You see I was watching over her room like I was suppose to. Thing was that when I saw smoke coming out from the cabin door and the smoke alarm going off I ran into the room. She had put a whole lot of paper and clothes on fire in the bathtub. But after I put the fire out Bailey wasn't in the room anymore."

"We haven't been able to locate her. But we're doing the best we can Zack." Zack felt angry, he knew that it wasn't either man's fault, he was angry at the fact that Bailey refused to accept the fact that Cody wasn't going to be with her again, but mostly that she was taking her personal vendetta on him far. "I suggest Zack that in the mean time to not be alone and stay with a group so nothing happens to you. If you want we can have Kirby here watch over you until we find her."

"No thanks Moseby, I'll just watch myself for the time being." Knowing that Cody was feeling nervous and scared he took hold of his hand in order to provide some comfort. Kirby excused himself to search with the other few security guards for Bailey, although he knew that the situation wasn't very easy going Zack still didn't like the 'white elephant in the room.'

"Well on a lighter note, since mom is on deck that means Maddie's on deck too right?" The mention of the beloved blonde lighten the two others.

"Ah yes, Madeline did come too. I was glad to see her again after so long, she seemed excited to be able to see us all again. I believe she's with London right now, probably resting in her cabin right about now."

"Well we should be on our way to catch up with my 'sweet thing.'" Cody smacked Zack's chest with the back of his free hand which made Zack laugh. "After you of course." Cody rolled his eyes half-heartedly but let Zack kiss his cheek as he led them out of the lobby and toward London's cabin after bidding Mr. Moseby a 'later.' By the time that they had made their way to London's cabin the thoughts of Bailey had almost been forgotten. Cody knocked on the door and waited anxiously as he heard the shuffling of feet on the other side of the wooden door.

"Hey Cody, hey Zack. I'm guessing you already know who's on board with us." London beamed as she moved out of the way in order to let the two enter the cabin.

"Zack, Cody!" Maddie who had been sitting on the recently unoccupied bed jumped off and hurried over to the two boys that she had known for so long and embraced them both in a tight hug. "I'm so glad to see you guys again! I totally missed you!" the two hugged back and said the same to her. When she let go of them she settled back on the bed next to London and Zack and Cody settled on the empty bed on the right, Woody was sitting on the wheelie chair in front of the beds. They spent hours talking about what both they and Maddie had been up to since the last time she had come to visit. They told Maddie about their entire experience they had when Hannah Montana had been on the S.S. Tipton when they had landed in Hawaii, and even about the whole spy adventure Zack and Cody had. After they had finished talking about the things that had passed did Maddie bring up a deeper conversation. "Zack, Cody. London and Woody were telling me about what's been going on with you two for the most part. And I have to tell you both that I'm proud of what you're doing, it takes a lot of courage to stand by each other like you two are."

"Thanks Maddie." Both Zack and Cody were grateful for Maddie's words and didn't know what else to say to show how much it meant to them that she was there.

"Hey guys it's time for me to go eat!"

"All the time is your time to eat Woody." Zack retorted back with a grin, Woody laughed and motioned to head out to eat. They all got up and walked together to go to the cafeteria, it had probably been a bad idea when Zack said that he had to go back to his cabin to get something, alone, but any thoughts of the troubled teen who had recently escaped from watch was so far from both twins' minds that Cody let Zack go alone and Zack let his guard down as he walked down the halls toward his cabin humming happily as he did so.

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So yes! Lots of loose ends right now huh? I wonder what Bailey's dad is gonna be like right? Hmmmm.

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