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Chapter 9: Motherly Love
Emma P.O.V.
I felt paws prodding at my hands before a wet tongue began licking my face. I groaned and cracked my eyes open to see Dee-Dee panting at me. The second she saw my eyes open she yipped and jumped up on me.
I sighed and shoved her off me, accidentally making her fall on the floor. Gir climbed off my legs and cuddled her on the floor. I would've at least taken notice to the adorableness but I wasn't really in the mood today. Zim and Gir have been completely draining me of my energy and sleeping on a hard lumpy couch wasn't doing me any good.
I sat up and rubbed my throbbing head as I heard someone moving around near the front door. Zim? What the hell are you-? Wait, those sound like...HIGH HEELS?! Oh no. I grabbed my phone and looked at the date. It was Monday! Mom…
I jumped off the couch, making my head spin for a few seconds before I rushed to my bed and started shaking Zim in panic. "Zim! Wake up!" I yell-whispered. He tiredly groaned and looked up at me with dazed eyes. I pulled him out of bed and shoved him into my closet. I slammed the doors shut and saw Gir and Dee-Dee were gone!
I ran out of the room and right into a certain someone.
"Morning sweetie! It's good to see you." my mom greeted, hugging me tight. "Oh! Hey, mom. How uh...how was your business trip?" I asked, glancing around the room for Gir and Dee-Dee. "Oh, it went great. I'm sorry I had to leave you here but when duty calls!" she laughed as she started to carry her bags to her room.
"Ugh, I'm exhausted." Just before she went into her room at the other end of the hall I saw a small flash of blue and silver.
"Uh mom! Don't you want a drink or something before you lay down? I'll make you a smoothie!" I called desperately. "No thanks hun. Maybe later, alri-" she froze.
Shit.
I ran down the hall and saw Gir playing with Dee-Dee on her bed.
"Emma...what am I looking at?" my mom muttered, sounding horrified. Gir spotted us a few seconds later and beamed. "EMMY!" he jumped off the bed and used his rocket feet to land on my shoulders and knock me back.
"E-Emma?! What the hell is that thing?!" I gulped and tore Gir's arms off my neck, making him face my mom. "Mom...this is Gir. He's a new friend of mine." I said calmly and slowly. Gir beamed and waved at her. She nervously waved back and examined him closer. "What...is it?" she asked with a squeak in her voice.
Before I could answer we heard a banging noise coming from my room. Zim, you moron.
"Now what was that?!" mom asked making me back up her loud voice.
I gulped as she pushed past me and marched towards my room. I ran ahead of her and tried to pull her away, saying that it was probably just a bird that hit the window or a pile of stuff fell over in my closet but no matter what I said she ignored me and swung the door open to her absolute horror.
Zim P.O.V.
As soon as I was more or less awake I tried to figure out what had happened while in my state of half-consciousness. I was in a camped space with a rack of clothing covering my face. I heard people conversing outside of the small space. I tried to listen in but they were too far away for me to make out what they were saying.
I pushed past the clothes to try and hear better and slammed right into a wall. As I rubbed my head I noticed light streaming though a large crack in the wall going all the way up to the top. Wait...this was the door. With this new knowledge I pushed it with all the force I could muster. Perhaps a little too much force as when I collided with the door it opened instantly and I ended up falling on the floor with a loud thud.
I groaned and stood up just as the door to the bedroom swung open. I froze seeing another human staring at me in horror. I couldn't bring myself to move as I gave a pleading look to the Emma-human who was standing behind the woman. Finally after what felt like years of silence she finally spoke up.
"Uh...mom? I-I can explain." she choked out. I noticed a bit of sweat on her forehead. She stood between us as her mother's face began to pale. Her eyes rolled back into her head and she fell to the floor.
We stood there for a minute before the Emma-human began rolling her mother onto her back.
"Uh...human? What just happened?" I asked finally being able to speak.
"She fainted Zim. Now can you help me carry her?"
I cocked my head as she began to lift her torso off the ground and drag her out of the room. I sighed and reluctantly picked up the human's legs. I followed her lead into another bedroom and set her mother down on the bed.
"Sorry about that. I'm sure she'll calm down later."
I just shot her a glare and headed for the backdoor. How many humans would have to see me out of my disguise before I could just get out of this horrid place?
Mom P.O.V.
I opened my eyes to see Emma sitting by my bed with Dee-Dee asleep in her lap. "Are you feeling okay mom?" she asked.
I nodded and sat up slowly. "I had the weirdest dream where there was a robot jumping on my bed and then there was an alien hiding in your closet." I muttered knowing she'd get a laugh out of that ridiculous dream.
"Uh mom...that wasn't a dream. You fainted."
I gasped. "What?"
"Look at what's next to you." she said, pointing.
I turned my head and saw the little robot from earlier curled up next to me on the bed.
"So...the alien…"
Emma nodded. "He's outside in the shed. You wanna go meet him?" she asked.
I gathered up my courage and nodded. I couldn't possibly understand how my daughter was so calm about this. How long had this thing even been here?!
I stood up and followed Emma out the backdoor and towards the little shed in the corner of the yard. I really have to think about tearing that old thing down. She opened up the door to reveal a tiny purple spaceship. I heard some noise coming from behind it.
"Hey Zim! You got a minute?" Emma called.
"What!" a shrill voice responded.
The same alien from before poked its head out from behind the ship and crossed its arms as it glared at the two of us. I tensed a little at its unsettling gaze.
"Alright I think you two got off on the wrong foot. Mom, this is Zim. Zim, this is my mom, Jade." A bit of my confidence came back as Emma told it my name so casually and stepped closer.
"It's nice to meet you miss."
"Eh?"
I heard Emma start to snicker. What did I say?
"Mom, Zim's a guy." she said between holding back laughter.
Zim then looked really offended.
"Oh uh sorry! It's just all the pink and all." I said embarrassed.
I heard Zim growl at me but he didn't look like he was about to disembowel me. He then shot a small glare at my daughter.
"This is all your fault human. You picked these filthy Earth rags for me to wear."
"Oh, bitch, bitch, bitch. I thought you should at least have a similar color scheme to what you usually wear."
"Emma. Watch your mouth." I warned. I saw her roll her eyes but decided not to dwell on it.
"Are we finished here? Zim has important things to get back to." Zim boasted.
I had a feeling he was going to get on my nerves real quick.
"Actually I'd like to know how you ended up in my house!" I demanded. Zim sighed, clearly getting annoyed with me.
"I crashed here and your daughter took me in. I don't have anywhere else to go until my ship is fully repaired."
"He also sort of ripped through space and time." Emma added.
"And when did all this happen?"
"Friday night."
So my daughter was alone with this thing all weekend?!
"Are you satisfied yet human?" Zim asked sarcastically.
I growled at him until I felt Emma tug on my arm. "I'll come get you for dinner later Zim." she said to him as she pulled me back towards the house.
As soon as I was sure he couldn't hear us I pulled Emma back to face me.
"Emma we are not keeping that thing in the house! He's dangerous!" I hissed.
"I know that but I'm not just going to leave him in a place he barely understands to fend for himself! He'll be here a few more days at the most and then everything will go back to normal." she protested. "I've been taking responsibility for both of them and so far it's been fine. Just trust me okay?"
I sighed and reluctantly nodded. This is certainly going to be interesting.
