A/N: This is slightly AU, based upon my fic "Hear You Me".
038. threesome
Zim elbowed Gaz so her grip on her video game controller slipped.
"ZIM! YOU SUCK!" she grumbled.
Dib watched in slight annoyance from the sofa where he sat reading. He turned a page in his book. "I wonder how I can get any of my schoolwork done with you two always arguing over video games in the living room."
"You're smart, you can do it -- GAZ! SERIOUSLY!"
"That's what you get!" she snickered to herself.
Zim grumbled as he waited for the game to respawn his character. "Besides that, that assignment isn't even due for another week."
"You haven't looked at it yet, have you?"
"What? Oh like I have to. You know that my mind is still way ahead of ---"
"Not mine."
Zim glanced back, allowing Gaz to mercilessly kill him again. "Not yours, I wasn't going to say YOURS, I mean your Earth school system."
Dib gritted his teeth slightly. "It's your planet now too, remember?"
The purple-haired girl actually looked away from the game to stare at the two. "Uh .. oh ..."
The Irken dropped his controller to the table and came over to stand in front of Dib. "What's your problem today?"
"Nothing! It's just sometimes, I get sick of you always talking about how superior you are to us. I thought you had changed, Zim."
"That's not fair, Dib, that's fucking low of you to even say it like that."
Gaz facepalmed at this moment. Dib and Zim had stopped their everyday battles since they became a couple, of course, but when they did have a fight, boy was it a huge deal. "You guys ..."
"It's the truth, deal with it, alright?" Dib exploded, glaring at his boyfriend.
"Yes, well it's also the truth that Irkens are superior to humans, and I've lived longer than all of you."
"Hurrah, what do you want, a medal or something?"
"You guys, chill the hell out." Gaz said, without needing to raise her voice hardly at all.
Zim clenched his fist and unclenched it, taking a deep breath. He let it out with a sigh and sat next to the boy on the sofa. "Gaz, could you please excuse us for a little bit?"
"Fine. But if I hear any more of your nonsense, I'm coming back in here to destroy you both." She disappeared into the kitchen.
The Irken took Dib's hand and the boy tried to pull it away but Zim held it tight. "What's really the problem?"
"I told you."
"Do you think that I'd actually believe that lie? I've known you too long."
Dib sighed and shifted to look at Zim. "You do still sometimes treat everyone like we really are inferior to you. We're not. Technologically speaking, maybe yes, but seriously, it's not fair."
"I don't --- I don't really treat you that way, do I?"
"Not me as much as you do to say Gaz, or some of our friends at skool."
"You know I don't mean it. I just .. slip sometimes. Really .. I'm sorry."
"It's -- alright, I know. I'm sorry for getting upset for no real reason. I'm just a little stressed out still from the start of skool."
"I do understand. I talk big, Dib-thing, but I really don't get some of the more human aspects of skool sometimes. I'm glad I have you to help me out."
Dib squeezed his boyfriend's hand. "You always will." He leaned forward to kiss the Irken lightly.
Gaz strolled back in from the kitchen. "Alright, good. You two made up. Now, Zim still owes me some more rounds of video games, so c'mon! You can do your smootchy lovey-dovey thing later."
Zim shook his head. "Insistent always, aren't you, Gaz?"
"Just pick up the controller before I throw it at your green face." she grinned at him.
Zim passed a controller to Dib as well. "Play too."
"Alright. But homework then, okay?"
"Of course." Zim leaned over and kissed him quick before the game started.
Gaz smiled. She was glad that everything had actually changed. And she was also glad her brother and his boyfriend managed to go out of their way to make sure she really didn't feel like the third wheel when they spent time together.
And besides that, she was always happy to kill them both at video games.
