Well, this chapter was written over four days, I had so much going on, that I had to rush through this, and still only last about half a page of what was planned.

Hopefully you all enjoy it, and the question that everyone seems to want answered is "Is Cody and or Kyle gay?" well you certainly don't get an answer in this chapter but keep reading cause there will be some pairings coming up soon.

*Warning*Will say now this chapter has parts that are slightly darker than will be the norm.*Warning*

Disney Own the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and On Deck, and all characters that have appeared in either show, I own, Molly, Kyle Alison, and the new character who's name will be shown later.

The Suite Life on Deck 2
Back On Board

Episode 2: Stowaway On Deck!

The floor was filthy, a jumble of clothes, books, paper, food and general debris was scattered everywhere! On the bed closest to the door a blond boy lay snoring, Zack Martin had spent the previous night partying in his cabin with a few of the guys. He had been able to sneak a few cases of beer from one of the ships bars, and would soon be waking to one hell of a hangover! On the other side of the room on the opposite bed, Woody Fink was in the same state, although his snoring was much louder as the two boys slept the morning away.

The grill on front of the vent shaft was being forced open. It swung open and a girl climbed out of the shaft. She looked around the room. This had become one of her favourite spots for finding food, the kitchen was always manned and so sneaking food from there was tricky, but using the vent shafts to get around and into cabins with food wasn't so. Luckily for her the boys in this cabin were heavy sleepers, very heavy sleepers. She reached back into the shaft and pulled out a backpack, and started to fill it with food.

She slowly prowled the room carefully lifting the scattered clothes. Her ears pricked up when ever she heard someone move outside the door, ready to jump back into the shaft before she was caught. Under the clothes she was finding left over slices of pizza, candies, and unopened cans of coke. Anything that was edible, and not dried out was pillaged and thrown into the bag. Which once full she placed in the vent shaft, she then clambered in and pulled the grill shut behind her.

She had to pull rather hard on the grill to get it to close properly and when it did, the crash it made was deafening. Or it was to her as the vent echoed the sound making it much worse. Panicking she grabbed the bag and quickly crawled away, not caring about how much noise she made, just about getting a safe distance away.

Back in the cabin, the grill slamming shut was nothing more than a minor sound, under the snoring of the two boys, but was enough to wake the blonde boy Zack up. He sat up in bed ands rubbed his eyes, his hair was pointing in ten different directions. His blue eyes studied the room. Nothing seemed out of place, if there was such a concept in this cabin. The clothes still littered the floor, the desk was still piled high with unfinished homework and Woody was still snoring loudly.

Holding his head he looked over to the clock, it was almost noon. Deciding a shower and some breakfast would wake him up he climbed out of bed and staggered to the bathroom. Taking note of the fact that Woody had obviously got up in the middle of the night and had a "snack".

After having his fill in the students canteen Zack left for the sky deck to see if he could find his friends. The sky deck was a busy when the older twin arrived. Kyle was chatting to Cody and Molly from behind the bar, where he was now working alternating shifts with the him. As Zack approached they turned to greet him.

"Mr Moseby wants to see you!" Cody stated when zack took the seat next to him.

Zack looked confused, "But we haven't did anything this week?" he replied questioning

"I said he wanted to see you not me." was his younger brothers reply

Molly chimed in with, "he didn't seem that angry, I think he just wants to talk to you."

Zack and Cody laughed deeply and Kyle added "C'mon M, even I know if Moseby wants to talk to one of them, its because there in trouble!" Zack stood up again and walked off towards Moseby's office, looking back and watched as his brother's attention seem to flit between the new twins.

He knocked on the door, and listened for a reply, "Enter!"

Zack pushed open the door and stepped inside, the room was an exact replica of Moseby's Office in Boston, right down to the tiny bit of wallpaper that was peeling in the top right hand corner. The effect was unnerving for the young boy who stepped closer to the desk cautiously.

Zack immediately started "Look Mr Moseby, I didn't mean to do it…"

But the bald man cut him off, "Oh Zack your not in trouble." he said smiling.

"I'm not?" zack replied questioningly

"No, its just some of the DJ equipment you used hasn't been put away properly," Moseby stated, but still not blaming Zack, "and most of the crew don't know how to put it away without breaking it, so I was hoping you would be able to do it for me!"

Zack smiled "Your gonna let me go down into the hold and sort everything out?" he asked not quite believing his luck.

"Yes, and you can take someone with you to help!" Moseby said suddenly feeling a bit nervous about allowing Zack to be unsupervised down in the cargo hold.

By the time Zack walked out of the office, he had been able to convince Mr Moseby that he would take someone responsible to watch him, and also thought up about fifty different schemes he could implement down there as well.

He had to wait almost a full week before he was able to go down, the intervening five days had been filled with school and work, which had left him exhausted. He arranged to meet Kyle, who would be helping him at the smoothie bar. Everyone else had been unable, or unwilling to help.

The metal steps echoed and seemed to buckle with every step as they made their way down the stairs. The air was colder down here and zack regretted wearing shorts, and not bothering with a sweater as the cold air stabbed at his skin. When they reached the bottom, zack flicked at the light switches. The first few bulbs sprung into life emitting an eerie glow. They the could see the equipment a few metres from where they were and walked towards it.

When they reached the equipment zack realised that all his planning would be for nothing. There was so much that he wasn't even sure if they would get it all finished that day. It seemed as if the crew had brought the Djing equipment down stairs and dropped it at the first possible spot. Nothing was packed up, parts were spread out all over the pile, while Zack looked on in disbelief Kyle uttered "Oh Sh…."

A loud sound echoed from behind the pile. Kyle jumped back in surprise, while zack did the same he was quick to move around to see of he could find what made the sound. Past the pile only a few lights were on, and he couldn't see past a few metres apart from a metallic shine and the outline of boxes.

He turned back to Kyle who had taken a seat and was clutching his chest. "Sorry, I, I get a bit scared" he said letting out a wheezy laugh.

"No problem!" replied zack "I cant see anything anyway, was probably just an old box getting knocked from the movement of the boat."

Kyle nodded, "Ye proba…" he started before a look of fear crept on his face, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" He shouted pointing at the boxes crates above Zack., before taking off up the stairs screaming as he went.

Zack turned around and saw a whip of black, as it bounded off along the top of the crates, away from him. He rushed over to the light switches and turned them all on, before making his way after what ever it was.

The light made the chase easier for him, as he rushed down the tunnel. He could still see whatever it was in the distance jumping from crate to crate, back and forward across the room. Eventually zack was able to catch up with it?

It had collapsed close to where they had started. Behind a packing crate stamped, LINEN. As Zack got close he saw that what it was, was a girl! She looked to be about his age, her hair was Black, and looked like it hadn't been washed in a few was gaunt, her skin was a pasty white and she looked like she hadn't eaten a proper meal ever.

She was panting heavily and didn't even try to run as Zack bent down in front of her. He reached out and pushed the hair out of her eyes. She looked scared and sat up slightly as he touched her. The grey in her eyes seemed washed out, and were bloodshot. He cupped he cheek. "I'm Zack." he whispered. She smiled and zack took this as a signal to take hold of her hand. "Who are you? What's your name?"

She pulled her hand from his, and pushed herself back, as if trying to push herself through the wall into the water on the other side.

"Don't be sacred." zack said softly, as he took her hand again and stroked the back trying to clam her down. "Just tell me you name?"

The girl stared deeply into his eyes, as if looking for a chance that he was lying. "Ta, Tab, Tabitha, my name is Tabitha." She eventually stuttered out.

"Ok," Zack said nodding "Would you like to get to something to eat?" she nodded slowly as he helped her to her feet and directed her towards the stairs.

The sky deck was buzzing, Kyle was sitting in a seat near the hot tub, with Cody, Molly, Bailey, London, Woody, Alison, Nia and 4 or 5 other student surrounding the table. He was blabbering away about a monster in the hold. His sister was sitting on the arm of the seat and was rubbing his shoulders reassuringly. "and then Zack ran and got caught by it!" he said and everyone looked at each other sceptically.

Zack came down the stairs still holding Tabitha's hand. They walked over to the bar and zack ordered a ice cream, she quickly started to devour the ice cream while he walked over to the crowd around Kyle

"and then I got right out of there, I don't even know what happened to him." Kyle said looking around at the confused faces.

"What happened to who?" Zack asked peering over Nia's shoulder.

The crowd all turned around to look at him, Kyle jumped from the chair and threw his arms around Zack's neck. "Ok, what happened to who and why is Kyle hugging me?" Zack asked confusion on his face and in his voice as he looked uncomfortably around at the staring faces.

"You were attacked by a monster, apparently?" Cody said sarcastically, which caused Molly to kick him in the shins

Kyle loosened his grip on Zack and returned to his seat, "you were attacked by that thing, I didn't know what to do!" he said looking up from the seat.

"That thing was a girl!" zack said through gritted teeth pointing back at Tabitha who was wolfing down a third bowl of ice cream. "She's a stowaway, she's been using the vents to sneak into different cabins and steal food. She's been here ever since we left Boston." he told them recounting the story she had told him on their way up from the hold.

Molly, bailey and Nia made their way over to her with zack introducing them, before he left with Cody to go and see Mr Moseby. He wasn't busy and was quite happy to listen to the story. He then asked them to leave, while he though of what he was going to do.

When Moseby arrived on the sky deck, Tabitha had gotten to know every one, and was chatting to Molly and Kyle about soccer which they all shared a mutual interest.

Moseby introduced himself to her and ask her to accompany him back to his office to discuss the situation. Cody, Zack, Molly, Kyle, Nia, London, Bailey, Alison and Woody all sat outside his office, waiting for Tabitha to reappear.

The door opened and Tabitha stepped out, her eyes were even more bloodshot than before. "I'm sorry my dear, but we simply can't allow that to happen. Trust me you'll feel much better once you get home!" Moseby said as he followed her out, "I see you have quite the reception committee." he added as he saw everyone waiting outside for her, "Well I'll inform you of when its happening, until then I'm sure one of the girls will be more than happy for you to stay in one of their cabins." and with that he stepped back into his office and shut the door.

As they made their way back to the student cabins, Tabitha told them what was going to happen. Once they arrived at their next stop, she would be dropped off, picked up and taken back to Boston to her Mother. When Kyle expressed the thought that this was a good thing she shouted at him.

Molly had a cabin all to herself, but had a spare bed which she said Tabitha could use. The boys left the girls at Molly's cabin, and made their way back to their own. Bailey offered to go down to the hold to collect her belongings with London, who looked thoroughly repulsed at the thought of carrying something. Leaving Nia, Tabitha and Molly to prepare the bed for the new girl.

"I don't mean to be funny or anything. Nia started as she returned from the utility cupboard with some clean sheets, "but why did you stowaway on the boat?"

Tabitha finished making the bed and sat down before she answered. "I ran away two years ago. My mom and dad got a divorce when I was ten, and my mom had just gotten engaged to her boyfriend. She had been with him for about a year, but I didn't like him."

Molly jumped in with a "you don't just run away, because you don't like someone!" he voice was scolding, as if she was talking to a small child.

"It wasn't because I didn't like him!" Tabitha shot back coolly, "just after he started seeing my mum, he would insist on taking me out places, always being nice to me. At least he was during the day. At night he would visit me, and he would hurt me." her voice was starting to break and small tears ran from her eyes. "I had to get out, I had to get away from him, my mum was so in love she would never have left him." she fell back on the bed and let out a great sob, curling up in a ball. Molly rushed the bed and cuddled into Tabitha.

Nia sat at the desk pondering the story that she had just been told , she watched Molly comforting the young girl. When the other girls returned Nia motioned for them to leave everything on the desk and forced them out, despite bailey's protests. She told Molly to make sure that the new girl got some sleep, and then left.

Nia marched to Moseby's office, and knocked on the door, she didn't wait for a reply and walked in "Uncle Marion, We need to talk!" she said before closing the door behind her.

A few days later the ship docked in a small town in Canada. Tabitha was waiting on the sky deck, all of her belonging were stuffed into a old backpack, that Zack had donated. While she didn't look much healthier, it was obvious that a good bed, and some proper food had done her a world of good.

The plan was for Tabitha to be escorted off the ship around midday by a social worker who would accompany her on a train back to Boston where she would be returned to her mother. Zack was treating her to one last bowl of ice cream. "Thanks so much for this." she said once she had emptied the bowl.

"No problem," he said smiling "as long as you promise to stay in touch with me!"

Tabitha smiled and placed her hand on Zack's, "Of course."

"well I guess its time!" he stated, as he glanced at his watch. "I'll walk you down to the reception if you want?" he asked hopefully. Tabitha smiled and stood up taking hold of his hand.

They walked through the ship, to the reception, where everyone had gathered to say goodbye. Everyone gave her a big hug, although they didn't know her that well she had been quickly accepted into the group, and Molly was especially upset to be losing her roommate and returning to more lonely nights in her cabin.

Once everyone had said their goodbyes, Zack escorted her onto the deck outside and they looked out over the harbour. "So I guess this is goodbye then." he said nervously

Tabitha once again placed her hand over his, "Yeah I guess, thanks for everything."

"It was really no problem, I'm just happy I got too meet you Tabitha."

"Call me Tab, or Tabi, I hate the name Tabitha!" she said and they both let out a laugh,.

"Tabitha!" they heard someone shout from inside.

"well this is goodbye then!" she said leaning forward to kiss zack on the lips. Before turning and going back inside, followed closely by a slightly dazed teenager who was touching his lips, as if shocked they existed.

Inside Moseby was standing, his arms behind his back trying to look official. "Tabitha." he started surveying her closely. "Over the past day, I have been in contact with both your mother, and Mr Tipton. Your mother has agreed that if you wish you can stay aboard the S.S. Tipton as part of the semester at sea program."

"really?" she asked excitedly, looking round at her new friends who all returned her smile, as they watched anxiously. "but there's no way she could afford that."

It was Mr Moseby's' turn to smile, "Which is why Mr Tipton has agreed to start a scholarship program which will allow you to be a student on board for one year, and with a reduced price if you wish to return for next years program."

Yes, please!" Tabitha shouted and rushed forward to hug Moseby. Who smiled, before pushing her away.

"Yes well, I'll take that as a yes. Your mother would like you to get in contact with her at some point though. She says that she has missed you very much." He walked away, Tabitha turned around and was immediately set upon by the girls who hugged her and congratulated her on not having to leave. The boys expressed similar sentiments, apart from Zack who waved and smiled as the group made their way back to the student cabins for a party in Molly and Tabitha's room.

Nia stayed behind and followed her uncle to his office, this time she never even knocked she just walked in and hugged her uncle "Thanks Uncle Marion, you did good."

Well that's the second episode. Hope you all enjoyed it!

Ok first I mention someone called Alison well some of you may have worked out that Alison is Woody's little sister and we will learn more about her in the next chapter.

I realise that Zack was a bit out of character in this chapter but I'm trying to show that zack had matured, and does have a soft side.

am thinkign of setting up a forum on for discussing different aspects of this story, as well as giving reader the chance to ask questions. let me know if people are interested in this?

Next chapter should be up by the 8 of February, so until then

"Later Days"

And I know who it is now its Tito, from the weekenders who says that