All righty! Last chapter! Dang, all in one day? Man, my brain works way to fast. This one is mainly focused on Dib, but whatever, I love it anyway! And I hope you will too! ^-^
Dib walked into his room and sat on his bed. He looked down at the picture of him, Gaz, and his dad. Gaz was only three and Dib was five. Their dad stood in the same proud stance he always had. Dib and Gaz stood about a foot away from him holding hands. Gaz clung to her brother as if he was her lifeline in this photo. Dib picked it up and sighed. Those were the good-ol' days when he and Gaz were best friends. But that changed when Dib turned eight because he learned a truth that changed his life forever. He and Gaz never met their mother, and they had always been different somehow. Dib put the picture down and remembered that day as clear as what he seen this morning.
He ran through the forest after the fight he had gotten in with his father and climbed up that tree he had found a few days ago. He climbed as high as he could and held tightly to the tree limb in front of where he sat. His eyes opened and he looked down below him. There stood his father and someone else. The other person removed a bracelet from their wrist and turned a funny looking green and their eyes became purple. Dib gasped quietly.
"You didn't tell them, did you?" she asked timidly. The voice soothed Dib, and he almost thought he had heard it before, but he didn't know from where. His father shook his head in silence. "Thank you. How old are they now?"
"Gaz is six, turning seven in a few months, and Dib just turned eight," he told her. The other person nodded. "Listen, I want you to leave our planet and never come back!" The other person gasped. "I dont want them finding out, I dont want them knowing their mother is an alien!" Dib covered his mouth to silence himself before he screamed. The other person nodded and walked away. His father stood there a long moment before walking back home. Dib jumped out of the tree and looked at where the person had walked away too.
Dib wasn't stupid, he knew Zim was the same race as his mother. Dib looked at the floor. He could never tell Gaz this, she wouldn't believe him. No wonder their father didn't care overly much of them, his children weren't human. Dib thought a moment as he walked downstairs and into his father's lab. Dib was surprised as he saw his father working there.
"Um, dad?" Dib asked walking in. His father didn't look over at him but grunted in response. Dib clenched his fist. Zim had made a really dumb decision with Tak, now it was Dib's turn to give into being a dumb teenager and do something he should've done a long time ago! "I know about our mother." His father stopped working and turned to Dib, silent. Dib glared at his father, and suddenly felt angry towards him.
"I know she's an alien. And dont pull that whole 'aliens dont exist' thing, I was in the tree above you when you talked to her and told her never to come back!" There was still silence between them. "You know, you could've just told us that we were alien scum, at least then we would've known why you didn't care about us!" His father opened his mouth to speak, but Dib cut him off. "No! Not a word! Not one word outta you! Why did you lie to us? Tell us our mother was dead, that I was to young to remember that she died when Gaz was born, why did you have to lie to us? Why didn't you just tell us!" At that Dib ran out of the room, leaving his father in his lab.
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Dib lay on his bed with his face buried in his pillow. He wasn't crying and no tears were shed. But he felt awful. Not for yelling at his dad, his father had that coming. He was upset that his father hated them just because of their mother. Dib wouldn't mind it so much because he never really cared. But Gaz looked up to him, she wanted him by her side and wanted him to care for her. She never did anything wrong, she didn't deserve this! A hand set itself on Dib's back. He knew who it was, and he didn't want to talk to him. Not now, not ever.
"Go away," Dib mumbled into his pillow. The hand didn't retract. Dib whirled around to face his father and glared. "I said go away! Leave alone!" Dib moved away from his father into the far corner of his bed and curled up into a ball.
"Dib," his father said. Dib looked away but he continued to explain. "I do care about you, but my research is..."
"So important, you have no choice, blah blah blah. Yeah, like i haven't heard that shit a million times," Dib snapped. His father sighed a bit.
"My research is trying to find a cure for you, so that-"
"WHAT!" Dib screamed as he sprung forward onto the ground so that he stood only about six inches or so from his father. "You would want to take away our mother's DNA? Are you that angry at her that you would harm us in any way? No! Dont even think about responding to that! You can't do that! Are you so vain that you would try to change your own children?" He rested a hand on Dib's shoulder.
"Son, I-"
"NO! Don't call me that!" Dib said backing away from him. "I'm not your son and you're not my father! I hate you! Damn you to hell!" Dib ran passed him and out the door after grabbing his cloak and headed to Zim's. Tears filled his eyes as he ran as fast as he could away from home, away from his dad. His father, still standing in Dib's room, looked at the ground sadly.
"You have an alien disease your mother passed onto you," he murmured to the silence.
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Zim ran his right hand through Dib's hair as his friend cried into his shoulder. Dib hadn't told Zim what was wrong yet, but the Irken was being quite patient with him and was going to simply comfort him until he could tell him what was wrong. Dib's crying slowly stopped and Zim sat him on the couch where he sat criss-cross so that he could look over at his friend. After a short moment Dib shifted so that he sat the same way. He used his arm to wipe away his tears. Zim had lost GIR just the other day, and was still hurting over it. But whatever was wrong with Dib seemed serious. Dib never just burst into tears like that, ever.
"All right, spill, what's got you all bursting into tears like a girl when it's 'that time of the month'?" Zim asked as an antenna twitched. Dib took a deep breath.
"When I was eight I ran away from my house after an argument with my dad. It was then that I found out *deep breath* that my mom was an alien," he said. Zim's eyes widened greatly. Dib looked up at him. "She was an Irken, like you." Zim nodded so that Dib knew he was listening. He just didn't know what to say. And of course Dib understood this. "I finally got the guts to tell my dad that I found out, and I really lashed out at him. Although, he had it coming." Zim nodded in agreement. Dib sighed. "And he told me that he wanted to cure us! Like being part alien is some sort of disease or something! I hate him!" Zim put a hand on Dib's shoulder.
"Did you listen to him?" Zim asked.
"Well, no," Dib admitted. Zim smiled a bit.
"Than I think you should go back and hear the whole story." Dib sighed. Once again, Zim was right. He needed to listen to his dad. Dib thanked Zim and his friend gave him a tight hug and wished him luck. After a goodbye Dib walked out of Zim's house and headed home. He took a deep breath and prayed this would end well and he didn't end up having to go to Zim for comfort again.
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Dib walked into his dad's lab to find silence. He opened the door a little more and saw his dad sitting on his chair, and he seemed to be thinking. Dib quietly shut the door and walked over to stand behind him silently. He shifted his feet uncomfortably and looked at his dad. He took a deep breath. Here goes, well, everything.
"Dad?" He turned around to look at Dib, who was staring down at his feet. He looked up at his dad. "Sorry I didn't listen to you, so, what exactly are you curing?" His father sighed and turned around to face his son.
"I'm sorry that I've been ignoring you two, I really am Dib. But when you turned nine I found that you and Gaz had some sort of alien disease your mother had passed onto you. I dont have time to see you anymore because I'm busy trying to find a cure for you." Dib looked at his dad in shock.
"Oh," Dib said, rubbing his arm nervously. His father put a hand on his shoulder and Dib looked up at him. "Sorry that I jumped to conclusions, I should've listened." After he had finished his sentence his father pulled him into a hug.
"That's ok son, I should've told you in the first place," he told him. Dib smiled. Zim was right. It really does pay off to listen! Well, sometimes. Sometimes people are telling lies and you can never trust them. But Zim? Dib could ALWAYS trust Zim. Zim was his best friend after all! Dib let out a sigh of relief. Well, that's high school for you! Dib smirked. Zim was starting to rub off on him, he could tell.
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The next day was Saturday. And Dib and Zim were at a pool party at Sam's house. Everyone had water guns and Dib had to tell Zim how to use his. After which he found water being shot up his noise. Zim and Gaz both laughed. Although, Zim stopped laughing was Dib started chasing him. Everyone followed their lead and started squirting each other with their water guns. Zim and Dib couldn't help but laugh at one another as they soaked each other with water. Zim slipped and tackled Dib into the wet grass. Dib shoved him off and jumped to his feet. Gaz shot him right in the back of the neck and he whirled around. He smirked and cocked his water gun.
"Oh, I'm gonna get you now!" Gaz shrieked and ran away from her older brother. Zim laughed and couched as he swallowed his gum. Dib burst out laughing and Gaz shot water into his mouth. "Why you little!" Gaz screamed again and ran away from her brother.
"AH! Help! Help! Put me down!" Dib and Gaz looked over as Sam, Nate, and Steven all tossed Zim into the pool. Everyone laughed and Zim came back up to the top of the water to glare at them. Dib smirked and nodded to Gaz, who nodded back. They ran up and knocked the three boys into the pool. And with that, everyone dropped their guns and jumped into the pool. Tak simply stayed up in her tree. She was immune to the water as Zim was, but she didn't like it. "Come on Tak, the water's great!" Tak smiled as Dib dunked Zim under the water and Zim kicked him away.
Tak jumped down from her tree and jumped into the water. Everyone cheer at this and clapped their hands. Zim and Dib fought playfully in the water with one another as Dib pretended to make Zim drown. Zim grabbed Dib from behind and pulled him under water. The two boys gasped for breath and started splashing each other like crazy a few seconds later. That's when Tak came out of nowhere and shoved them both under the water as she laughed. Gaz smirked and jumped onto Tak's back. Tak shrieked and tried to get her off. All three others laughed at this. Crazy teenagers. But hey...
That's high school for you.
Well, that's all folks! And all four in one stinkin' day! I'm on a roll! :D Anyway, let me know what you think!
