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I believe Computer deserves someone to speak to, right? Invader Johnny.
Well it is Dib after all, Everclear. :)
As with the anniversary of her being missing, he comes to the same spot every time. Hoping. Praying, to find something that will show him the truth of where she is. Dib felt in his soul that she is still out there. Each night he would take a look in her room and tell her that he isn't giving up on her. How many stories do you hear nowadays of people suddenly finding someone missing years later? Miracles happen, and Dib always liked to think of himself as a positive person.
Standing in the spot he last saw her, he looked around him finding nothing amiss. The sky no evidence of what took her. Something he felt to be a U.F.O. Something that was hard to say so he just said there was something in the air and then it was gone. There was blinding light. They assumed she was taken by air since she was a daughter of a valuable scientist. But no calls regarding ransoms.
Dib hated to admit it, but his sister was growing up to be very attractive. The guys noticed already as they tried to hit on her, but she rebuffed them away. Seeing younger pictures of their own mother years back, Gaz did take after her in that department except for one thing... Mom smiled a lot. Gaz hardly did. Dib forgot the last time he saw her teeth. He did know that his sister loved their mom a lot. Her passing was what changed her even though, Gaz once said she was always that way.
Dib knew best.
Hearing a crunching behind him, he turned around to spot a female hiker coming his way with a walking stick in hand. Dib considered her for a moment before choosing to ignore her. It wasn't unusual for him to see a hiker around. They always just passed him, but she decided to greet him.
"Not an ounce of hiking gear on you. I guess this walk was a whim to you." She observed.
He was amazed that she chose to talk to him. He was a stranger to her. How did she know he wasn't going to hurt her? "Do you always talk to strangers in the middle of the woods? Especially males?" Dib asked. Sure it was rude, but since it was the anniversary, he was more frustrated than ever.
The woman smiled at him. "Actually no. Anybody else I would avoid all together, but I recognize you. You are that Professor Membrane's kid, aren't you? You look like him, except younger."
Dib turned to face the red head that looked like she came up to his chest. "Yeah?" He asked cautiously. "Dib. And you are?"
"Sabrina. Look, now we aren't strangers." She replied still smiling as she unscrewed her bottle to take a sip of water.
Dib thought she was incredibly attractive, but he turned away from her. "Nice to meet you, but we are still strangers."
Brushing a stray hair from her face, she walked to his side. "I heard about your sister. I hope you find her one day." She said gently. "I guess I'll leave you be, Dib. Take care."
Dib watched her walk off towards the hill that he last seen, Gaz. Dib noticed that he started to become a bit colder to others since she vanished. He hardly socialized outside the Swollen Eyeball. He was consumed.
Zim entered some commands to flow into his subject. He always needed to test her out because when the time comes when she finally wakes she will listen to only him. Entering the history of the Empire, he found it fascinating how her head would go back as if enthralled by something. The tendrils that were attached to her would dance around lending to something completely macabre before a hand moved up gently, than falling as if she went into something more graceful. There were times he wanted to do something to her to see if he can make her repeat what just happened or if she will do something far more different, but equally graceful.
He did notice how petite she still was, but he can tell the strength. They will underestimate her at first glance. Zim smiled at this thought. They underestimated him as well. They think he is something entirely stupid.
Hearing, Gir's screams of excitement in the hallway, Zim groaned as he turned his attention there not noticing the faint twitch again from his subject. Turning back to her, she was still the same as before when he told her, "I'll be right back."
While it was unnecessary to tell her that, he just felt like he wanted to after desiring something else to talk to except the Computer and Gir.
Head tilting off to the side and hair covering her face, one amber eye opened up slightly before closing again.
"Gaz, there are so many things out there to experience. So many and here you are playing video games." Dib pointed out as he sat on the couch next to her.
Eyes still on the tiny screen, she grumbled before saying, "And what about you? I don't see you out anywhere right now."
"This is different. Tonight I'm resting. Tonight, I'm..."
"No one to ask out or they all said no?"
Taking a glance at her, he saw her smirking there. "No, I'm just tired."
Pausing her game, she spared him a look. "Yeah I know chasing Bigfoot and ghosts at all hours is tiring, but there are girls in your class who like you. Why not ask out one of them?"
It was weird when she occasionally seemed to care about him. "I guess I don't like them just the same. Besides what about you? Why don't you have friends or go out?"
Gaz didn't shrug like she normally did, she didn't look offended or give a sarcastic response. "There is no one that I like enough for either of those activities and until I do, I'm right here. Be happy I'm not going out simply because I'm bored and end up with the first guy who asks me out and I come home pregnant. Be happy of that."
"And how would you view me in this case?" Dib wanted to know her answer.
Gaz examined him. "You do have a life. I admit that because you do have this thing that drives you, like games drive me along with reading, and drawing. You, and I swear if you tell people I said this to you, I will doom you, you are... Good looking, brother, so why not? I do see you checking girls out."
"You are a good little artist."
Gaz didn't seem to know how to respond to that as she glanced over at the television. "Are you afraid of being rejected by them?"
"They call me a freak."
"They call me a freak and a bitch, but it doesn't stop them from looking at me or asking me out, just like it doesn't stop those girls from looking at you in that way, Dib." Looking back to her tiny screen, Gaz went to unpause it.
Dib observed her for a bit longer before turning his attention away from her. There were times she always ended up saying something that surprises him.
Dib opened his eyes up not realizing he fell asleep on the couch. Getting up, he rubbed his eyes before going into the kitchen to find something to eat. Those memories plagued him in his sleep. Yawning as he looked into the fridge and cabinets, he realized it was time to go shopping so he grabbed his keys to head out.
Unlike his dad, he never worked weekends. He really refused to get that way. Dib didn't have a life, but he did like to catch up on his sleep when he could. As he drove to the store, he realized 6 months back that he didn't mind working with his dad. His dad always praised him and didn't seem to call him insane as much when he talked about the paranormal. Dib figured his dad only accepted it because he was doing his type of science and not paranormal research. Although that was what the weekend was for. To find that type of life out there.
Arriving at the store, Dib stretched after leaving his car before grabbing a cart to do the weekly shopping. Grabbing some healthy items he wasn't paying attention when his cart rammed into someone else's. "Shit, I'm sorry." Dib said.
"It's okay, Dib."
Gazing up, he saw Sabrina's smiling face. "Oh, hi. Sorry, Sabrina."
Stopping his cart as he was passing by, her smile fell a bit. "Are you normally cold to others or is this just me?"
"Wow, blunt." Dib leaned into his cart. "I'm pretty anti-social now to everyone, not just you."
She had sharp eyes, they were these dark blue as she narrowed them. "I get that you probably blame yourself for your sister's disappearance, but do you think she would like you like this?"
Dib chuckled there. "My sister was the epitome of anti-social people."
"I'm sure she still cared for you in her own way." She pointed out.
Dib knew she did, but didn't verbalize it. "Look, I'm sorry I was rude and I bumped into your cart. I need to go, Sabrina. Bye."
Arm being grabbed, he was surprised by her strength as she placed a hand behind his head to force him into kissing her. She tasted so sweet. Pulling away as abruptly as she pulled him to her, she smiled at him. "Sometimes you gotta do something spontaneous." She stated before rushing off.
It had been forever since he had been kissed and to be kissed in that fashion, Dib just stared at her in disbelieve. What the hell was she? Some type of specter herself that shows up out of no where to surprise you?
The Computer didn't think that one of his jobs was being a babysitter to a little insane robot. Gir wasn't allowed in this room unless he was escorted in with, Zim. Cursing his look while doing some calculations, he constantly warned, Gir not to touch the chamber holding the small human.
"Gir, what did he tell you?" The Computer asked sounding like a parent more than a machine.
Staring up at her with a sort of longing, he looked over to the monitor and said slowly, "I don't know."
Groaning aloud, the Computer had to remind him. "He said not to come into this room without him. Also you are not allowed to tap that chamber."
Standing with one leg up, Gir thought about it. "Oh yeah. Mastah would be angry at me."
"Yesssssss. Now leave before he catches you." The Computer ordered.
"Okay!" Laughing insanely he skipped out.
If he had eyes, they would bulge out of him right now. What a stupid job, he kept thinking.
"What is my name? Where am I? Am I dead?" Thought the girl in the containment chamber, but her body did not do any unusual movement to the naked eye. It was her thoughts waking up again.
Poor Computer. Sometimes he needs a hug in the hard drive.
