Again, i Own Nothing from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

It was now the early hours of the morning, Cody had managed to get to sleep with the help of the drugs given to him by the doctors, Kurt was sleeping across two chairs and Zack lay motionless in his bed, the room was mostly silent save for the hushed chatting of the night nurses and the beeps and mechanical noises of various machines. Carey had gone back to the Tipton hotel hours earlier and after her encounter with Mr. Tipton had managed to sleep; despite being away from Zack and Cody she knew they were only a phone call and short drive away. The sleep of many people was a light one, filled with various images and dreams, For Cody and Carey images of Zack filled their dreams, thankfully for them the dreams were of a happy Zack, of the normal Zack, and not the comatose lump who lay in a bed next to Cody clinging to life. The hopes everyone for Zack's recovery had been buoyed by his survival of emergence surgery earlier that day and the astoundingly quick recovery he was progressing on, though all had hoped he would have awoken by this time, unfortunately up until that point there had been no sign of Zack's awakening, he had just lay, eyes closed on the bed.

Maddie Fitzpatrick also thought of Zack in her sleep, but for Maddie sleep was a difficult proposition, thoughts of London had filled her mind, causing her unimaginable pain, and Maddie couldn't help but think of London's dead body, whilst she hadn't seen it, she had been the white sheet covering her on the table and the thought chilled her blood. Maddie felt sorry for Mr. Tipton, but mostly she felt sorry for Moesby, and those thoughts consumed her mind as she attempted sleep as well. London was like Moesby's daughter, and he had no one else to talk to, Maddie wanted to talk to him for his sake, but she couldn't bring herself to talk substantially to anyone about London's death and the events causing it except for Zack and Cody, they had been there, and in Maddie's mind only someone who had been there could possibly understand it. Maddie hoped someone could understand how she was feeling, but deep down Maddie was sure no one would really be able to understand how she felt.

Since the second explosion Zack martin had not felt anything, not dreamt anything, not heard anything, his mind had been blank, like it was switched off. Zack remembered hearing the second explosion and his instinct being to protect his younger twin Cody, Zack knew he was the stronger one physically, and probably mentally, Cody had always been a more vulnerable person emotionally and Zack felt it was his duty to protect him and so without thinking had jumped over Cody to shield him from the blast. Zack was completely unaware of what had happened after he had jumped in front of Cody, not aware of how injured he had been, or how close he had come to dying, the only thing that Zack had felt that had been there the whole time was his connection to Cody, and Cody had felt it too. The difference between the Twins was that when Cody saw Zack come so close to death his logical consciousness had weakened his connection with Zack, the part of him that saw Zack was dying made Cody believe Zack was going to die, Zack had not known this and his Connection of Cody had always stayed strong, they had promised each other that they would survive for the other one and in Zack there lay a force which refused to break this promise.

For the past few hours Zack's brain had been coming back online however, it was still not at a level of being able to comprehend where he was or what was happening, nor was he able to substantially make it clear to anyone he was waking up. The drugs which had kept Zack comatose were wearing off and he was waking up, Zack drifted from sleep to a groggy awake, to sleep again, never being able to see anything other than light and blurred shapes. Zack could occasionally let out a weak moan, but with Cody and Kurt asleep neither of them noticed he was waking up. It was still unknown to everyone, including Zack if he had suffered any brain damage from his massive head wounds as he had not sufficiently awoken enough to be able to process any comprehensive thoughts, expect for one, he wanted to see Cody, to know Cody was alright, if Cody was alright then Zack would know he had done his Job and kept his promise.

Cody had woken from his light sleep a few minutes previous and now sat silent in the bed, he had just heard one of Zack's light moans and his heart raced in the hope that Zack was waking up. Cody felt his connection to Zack energise and he began to feel like his brother was back there with him. A part of Cody told him he needed to go to Zack, and be close enough to talk and feel him, but Kurt would never let Cody out of the bed. Cody looked over at his dad and decided he was sleeping deeply enough, Kurt lay on chairs on the opposite side of Cody's' bed to Zack, and so Cody thought if he was careful he could get out of bed without waking him. The curtains were drawn around Zack and Cody's beds and so the nurses would not see if Cody carefully got himself out of bed and over to his brothers bedside, Cody needed to see Zack awake and he knew now was his opportunity. Cody carefully positioned his IV drip into a location allowing him to get out of bed and began to move, with his broken and plastered leg it made it difficult but Cody eventually managed to get out of bed and used the railings of his bed to stabilise himself and moved over toward Zack's bed.

"Zack, Zack, are you there?" Cody asked

The words began to bring Zack further out of his comatose state than before; Zack was able to let out a quite but audible moan. Cody was excited by Zack's response and grabbed his hand and squeezed it tight, Zack's hand was cold.

Zack could see a blurred shape that looked vaguely like a head; it was out of focus but was coming into more focus as time went one.

"Zack, please wake up, It's Cody" Cody said again, Zack let out another moan, not being able to comprehend yet that it was Cody talking to him, but being taken further and further out of his Coma.

Cody was holding Zack's hand tighter, using his other hand to stay upright as he couldn't stand on his plastered leg

"Zack, I love you bro, please wake up" Cody said again, this time with a tear running down his cheek.

For the first time in what seemed like an eternity Zack's brain was able to comprehend a voice, and a part of him recognised it, but his brain couldn't make the link just yet but he managed to speak for the first time

"W...w...what?" Zack managed to say, his eyes still half closed, the shape of Cody's face still out of focus.

Cody burst into tears of joy at hearing Zack's voice, even if it was weak

"It's me, Cody, I'm here bro" Cody said with a great deal of joy

"C…Cody, Hey" Zack was able to say, his brain now able to comprehend just who Cody was, and for the first time the features of Cody's face became visible to Zack, and he felt happy.

Zack was too weak and groggy to speak much, but Cody had heard all he needed to hear, he knew now his brother was going to be OK, and that they would never be separated.

ITS ALIVEEEEE!!!! and I'm back from my break! hope you all like this story and this chapter, a little dissapointed that i'm not getting that many reviews, but its OK because the ones i get make it all worthwhile! i've pretty much decided i'm not going to make a sequel to his story, but chances are i will be making more suite life stories, possibly in the suite life on deck universe though, but yeah, please read and review and tell me what you think.