Zach and Kendall reunite, tear up the divorce papers, and promise to love, honor and cherish each other, till death do they part, next week on "All My Children."

Again.

"A lot has happened to both of them," says Thorsten Kaye, who plays the brooding Zach. "He thinks she wasn't there for him, and that she was hanging out too much with Ryan. When things went bad, she turned to Ryan, instead of Zach. So there's a lot of healing for everybody to do."

It starts with the newly returned Bianca, who has a heart-to-heart with sister Kendall about her true feelings for Zach

"Bianca is the angel of mercy," says Alicia Minshew (Kendall). "She always knows better."

That little chat prompts Kendall to think back on her marriage. Even though she has a baby with Ryan, she decides she wants to stay with Zach.

"Kendall and Zach really hurt each other, and in some of those instances, they meant to," says Kaye. "Whether it was to push the other person away or make sure they were still in control, they both did it. And it caused a lot of pain."

So, it takes a while for the big kumbaya to really take.

"And then they have sex!" says Minshew. "The scenes are really nice. The fans are going to like them. They're not cliché. It's not flowers and overly romantic and mush."

The reunion will be very happy, but don't look for Pine Valley's two angriest characters to suddenly be all sweetness and light.

"Kendall won't be too good for too long," says Minshew. "No one likes to see her that way. It's nice to show that side of her, but it really is boring."

Some viewers still want Kendall with Ryan, but most have been clamoring for the Zach side of the triangle to win out.

"The cool thing about this love story is that it's different," says Kaye. "It's a lot more human than you're used to seeing [on soaps]. There's a lot more dark than happy, and that's okay. It's more 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - you just look at these people and you see that they really need each other. But they will push each other's buttons as much as they can."

They'll unbutton some buttons next week, too.

"The last time they had sex they had to do it really carefully, because she had just had a C-section," recalls Minshew with a laugh. "All of a sudden, she had lost the belly, was all fine and was having sex."

"Yeah," quips Kaye. "This time, it lasts 10 seconds."