A/N: Alright. Before it gets too late, let me post the second chapter of ZADR Orange here. Not much to say save for hope you all enjoy it and feedback will be much appreciated. =3

Warnings: EXTREME OOCness

Rating: M for later chapters

Disclaimer: We do not own Invader Zim, nor any of the characters from it. We do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Zim: Notgonnadie

Dib/Gir: Me

Beta: Notgonnadie

After giving the other's proposal some thought, Dib finally frowned and shook his head. "No! You're lying to me!" he said, but Zim wouldn't give up.

"Oooh, come on! How will you know if I am or not unless you let me go and see?" he said, still trying to convince Dib to let him go.

"I just know! You always lie to me!" Dib protested, obviously not believing a word of what Zim was saying.

"Cooome ooooooooon! Aren't you at least a LITTLE curious?" he asked the other, holding up on his promise to reward the other for letting him go.

When he realized Zim wasn't going to stop tempting him with promises of gifts and such for letting him go, Dib finally gave in and dropped Zim back onto his feet, still frowning. "Fine! You can go! I already know you're not going to give me anything no matter how interesting you try to make it sound to me!" he said before sending Zim a truly hurt look then turning to shuffle away somewhat angrily. But before he could get too far, he felt the other grabbing hold of his arm again to keep him from going anywhere.

"HEY! Zim didn't lie!" he glared at the boy before yanking him back around so he could plant a big kiss right on his lips.

Eyes growing wide at the small gesture, Dib could only blink a few tears out of his eyes before pulling away with blush, taking a few steps back as he brought his hands up to play with his fingers shyly, gaze fixed on the ground beneath him."Wh-Why did you kiss me? Y-You could have just left without giving me anything." his voice was surprisingly calm now.

Zim merely crossed his arms, looking away and pouting. "Hmph. ZIM is not a liar like YOU are." he said, which had Dib looking back up with wide eyes again.

"What? I'm not a liar!" he then glared at Zim. "YOU'RE usually the one who lies to ME! Remember when you lied to me about Ultra Peepee?"

Zim's eyes snapped back open at that before sending Dib a slightly nervous look. "Oh yeaaahhh..." he then shrugged. "Oh well...HAH! I'M FREE!" he screamed out triumphantly before running off, leaving Dib standing all alone in the middle of the hallway.

Face falling once again as Zim ran off, Dib could only sigh to himself before bringing his hands up to hug himself and murmuring in a quiet whisper, "Why DID you kiss me, Zim?"

It wasn't until later that night that both Dib AND Zim found themselves wondering about that kiss they had shared.

At Zim's base, Zim couldn't help but figit on the couch. "Mmmm...Dib didn't follow me..." he said, having been expecting the large headed human to come crashing through the door at any moment now.

Meanwhile, back at Dib's house, Dib was merely laying on his bed, staring up at the ceiling. "I wonder what he's...doing right now..." he said out loud to himself before sitting up to look at the door to his room. He wondered whether he should go over there or not to make sure the green menace wasn't plotting some evil plan to take over the world. Giving in after a few more minutes of thinking on it, he finally stood up to head over towards his door. "Maybe I'll just take a quick walk before bed and pass by his house really quickly to make sure he's not up to anything. Yeah. That's what I'll do." he told himself before leaving his room to head on out.

Zim, meanwhile, had begun banging his head against the wall frustratedly. "Where. Ow. Is. Ow. He? Ow! He ALWAYS follows me!" he screamed to the ceiling before taking to pacing back and forth about the room. "Ahhh! Where is he?" he said one last time before hearing the proximity alarm go off. Gasping excitedly, he took to his PAK legs to climb up the wall into the wires on the ceiling. "IT'S HIM!" he said giddly as he went to peek out the top window. Upon seeing no Dib, however, his face fell. "Awww...It's just a STUPID cat." he pouted, turning off the alarm and plopping down onto one of the hanging wires in the ceiling, not noticing when the real Dib was coming up.

On the sidewalk, Dib could only stare at the oddly shaped, green house, tempted to go up and knock on the door but something holding him back. Shaking his head, he sighed. "What am I doing here? Zim's not doing anything "evil". If he were, he probably would have come straight to my house first to show it off and annoy me." he said before looking back at the house one last time. Then, hesitantly, he made his way past the opening in the fenced in area, still compelled to walk up to the door and knock on it just in case. But before he could get too far in, he stopped himself, the lawn gnomes turning to face him, just staring at him and him staring back at them, trying to remain as still as possible so as not to pose any kind of threat and risk being shot at.

Back inside however, the oblivious Zim merely sighed to himself. "He doesn't care anymore, does he...? I shouldn't have kissed him! WHY DID I HAVE TO DO THAT?" he screamed before smashing his head against another wall and losing his balance, falling back to the ground, the wires caving in on him.

Hearing the loud crash from inside, Dib couldn't help but look up suddenly, causing the lawn gnomes to start firing up their eye lasers. "Uh-oh..."

For several moments, firing could be heard from outside, then Dib's screams.

"AH! Stop!" he screamed, running up to the front door and knocking on it several times frantically, hoping that if Zim answered it, he'd be able to escape the assault.

But Zim was crushed underneath all the wires and was quickly losing consciousness from how hard he had hit his head. So rather, he made an incoherent command that the computer somehow translated into "Open the door".

Upon unlocking it, Dib immediately managed to stumble into the room, closing the door quickly behind him to block out the laser shots before falling to his knees, panting, only looking up once he had caught his breath. But he wished he hadn't as for the first time he noticed Zim laying under a pile of rubble, completely unconscious now and gasped. "Zim!" he pushed himself up and ran over to the prone body on the floor, wasting no time at all shoving aside wires and other debris, all the while mumbling one thing to himself over and over again. "Oh please, God, no! Oh please, God, no!" he said before finally managing to push everything aside so he could scoop the Irken into his arms and carry him over to the couch to lay him down on it gently. "Zim?" he reached up a hand to touch the other's cheek but stopped centimeters from it, hesitating and then pulling his hand away, placing it back down by his side, unsure what he should do about Zim.

That's when Gir came skipping into the room, gasping upon noticing Dib there. "Big-Head Boy!" he squealed before bolting over to give him a hug before looking down at Zim. "D'awwww...Mastah's sleeping!" he said happily.

But Dib could only turn on him at that. "No, Gir! He's not!" he yelled before his voice grew softer. "H-He's hurt...A-And I think it's my fault..." he closed his eyes just to realize that a few tears had slipped down his face. Bringing a hand up to feel them, his body began to shiver. "Th-This is so...weird...Why am I-?" he fell silent before he could finish his sentence as more tears began to slip down his face.

Gir, however, couldn't comprehend such a thing and merely smiled back at him. "Awww...I'll go get him a bandaid then!" he said before running off to go search for the band-aids.

Watching the insane little robot leave, Dib then turned his attention to the ceiling. "Well, can't you do something about this, computer?" he said, wanting at least ONE of Zim's "minions" to do something about it.

But the computer was no help either as it merely responded back in a bored voice. "No...not really...He broke the section of the house that I can control from up here when he fell...You'd have to bring him down to the lab if you wanted me to do anything about it..."

Those words had Dib's eyes widening as Gir came flying back into the room with a band-aid that had little pink bunnies on a purple background on it, which he stuck against Zim's forehead before smiling happily. "There! All better!"

Ignoring this, Dib picked Zim up into his arms again. "Gir, where's the elevator?" he asked, turning to look down at the little android.

Gir only smiled even wider. "Oh, that's easy! It's in da kitchen!" he said, getting up to show Dib.

Following after Gir, he stopped in front of the elevator and watched as the doors opened for him. Then, looking down at Zim, he said, "Hold on, Zim. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make this right again." Stepping into the elevator, the doors then closed and began their descent into Zim's lab.

Meanwhile, in his still unconscious state, Zim's mind began subconsciously playing several odd thoughts in his head. 'I should get up...' he thought to himself, but found he couldn't wake himself up no matter how hard he tried. Then, his mind instantly jumped to Dib. 'If only Dib had come...Why didn't he?' he asked himself as he pictured the human sneering down at him, holding up photo evidence of him being an alien. Then, without warning, the picture changed to Dib smiling down at him instead, holding out a hand to help him up. 'When did this change?' he questioned himself.

Back in the conscious world, Dib exited the elevator as soon as it came to a stop and looked about the place, noticing an area that kind of looked like a medical bay. "Just hang in there, Zim. I'm going to have you fixed up in no time." he said, carrying Zim over to an examination type table to lay him down on before looking up once again. "Alright! We're in the lab now! You can help him now, right?"

The computer could only respond back in a slightly annoyed voice. "I guess..." it said before running a scan on Zim's body to locate all his injuries. "He's got some broken bones and a concussion. There's some cooling gel over on that table behind you that you can use as a sort of ice pak for that. And if you need some bandages, there are some right behind it. "

A/N: Yep. There's chapter 2 for you all. Thanks to everybody who faved the story or added it to your story alert list. And thank you for the review springfly. Indeed this will be updated weekly. I hope the wait isn't too horrible for you. But here's the next chapter to hold you over until next week. =3