AN I own nothing. This is AU and alternate some history. I hate following history. Inevitably I get things wrong and some reviewer calls me out on it. I mean really is it that important? If we all loved every TPTB plotline we wouldn't write fanfiction anyway. Let it GO people… This is my first real attempt at a Zendall. It starts shortly after Ryans death and the surrogacy insanity but it is AU/Anti-history of the real AMC.

You'll notice my love of only a few characters: Zendall (they're really one person anyway we can all admit that), Bianca, Miranda, and Myrtle. I liked Maggie somewhat but they didn't use her much after she got with Bianca…

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Zach had been baffled by his wife for some time now. Kendall was everything he never expected and this idea with Greenlee was more than a little out of orbit. It was inconceivable.

Ryan was a selfish bastard and Greenlee wasn't much better[ although she did have some moments were the little monster was more human. His Kendall was so loyal though that she couldn't imagine disappointing anyone she loved. That was the problem, Zach knew.

Every time that Kendall really got crushed was when she was doing something loyal for the ones who claimed their love for her. His wife's big heart was what had gotten them married in the first place, and it was all for a loyalty to another person. Bianca, Miranda, and Myrtle were the only people that would be worthy of Kendall's loyalty in Zach's personal opinion. He excluded himself, because as a Cambias he was naturally a liability for Kendall and given his business relationship with her, he would never wish her feelings to deepen and for him to hurt her.

It was the one thing he was truly afraid of. That he would inadvertently be another person that hurt his Kendall. He couldn't live with that and he refused to watch others do the same. Kendall thought he didn't know about her offer to be a surrogate. Casinos were places filled with cameras for the owners' eye for a reason.

Short of locking her down in a prison ward, it was going to get interesting to keep Kendall from doing the surrogacy. With Kendall's luck, Ryan would waltz back into Pine Valley tired of playing dead and somehow those sanctimonious twits would blame Kendall. The saddest part being that her mother and step-father would take Ryan and Greenlee's side because they wouldn't know true loyalty if it bit them in the ass.

Zach knew he needed to out Ryan, it was the only way to protect Kendall. After the accident he had put private investigators into searching since there was no body. It didn't take long to find out that Ryan had run away.

The man not only was such a coward he beat his wife and joined a fight club. He also ran away anytime the going got tough and pretty much always had. Kendall always talked about how he saved her and Erica was always in agreement. Zach never understood how none of them noticed that he only arrived after the most horrible things had happened and the entire emergency pick up was done.

Ryan didn't actively save anyone but Ryan. Eddie had been giving Zach a hard time recently about Kendall. His own assistant had even gone so far as to tell him that he was in love with his wife. When he had scoffed at the idea, his attorney and assistant had shared a look of exasperation. Zach admired his wife, he liked spending time with her, she was very beautiful…none of this meant he was in love with her. You just got use to people…it didn't matter that he missed her when they had to be apart. It didn't mean anything, he kept telling himself stubbornly.