Hey there all my loverly reviewers! And you just regular fans I guess. Sorry updates have been so slow in coming. I kind of lost myself and got discouraged but NO LONGER is that the case!
Yes yes I know, the chapter is very short... VERY short. I'm actually ashamed of how short this chapter is but that's why I wrote another one to go along with it. It's short too but together they make enough of an update to keep the angry mabs at bay!
I hope...
The months following Dib's first visit to his mother in years were magical. Simply magical. Not only had Dib's mood lifted dramatically but so had Zim's. They visited her once or twice a week and ate lunch and/or dinner with her every time. She of course, after a few accidents always made Zim something special.
Dib was delighted to get to see his mother and he ended up seeing her more in six months than he ever had in his entire memorable life. To which he was incredibly grateful to Zim for.
Zim had taken a liking to Dib's mother who always insisted on playing with his antennae when they were over, usually ending in him falling asleep in her lap or something and Dib playing a harmless prank on him to wake him up. Overall the three of them had a grand time together.
Zim and Dib's bond only seemed to increase with the presence of the female in their lives. Zim seemed much more human to Dib when around his mother and Dib was a much happier person when around her. The moods carried all the way home and got them through the week until their next visit.
Naturally though, she would eventually become a suspect in Dib's disappearance.
Dib was getting ready to head over to his mother's house, when the phone rang. He looked around for Zim but seeing the alien nowhere went over to answer the phone himself.
"Hello?"
"Dib, sweetie?" His mother said over the phone. "I'm afraid you can't come over today."
"What, why not?" Dib asked, disappointed.
"The police came here last night." His mother's voice seemed to pick up, a smile he was able to hear over the phone, alerting Dib to the face that she was being surveyed and was smiling for the cameras.
"They're watching you?" Did asked, beyond disappointed by this point.
"Yes, I'm afraid so. They're going with the 'Mother goes crazy and breaks her son out' theory." His mother said, rolling her eyes.
Dib sighed, the sound staticing over the phone. "Did they say how long they'd be watching you?"
"No, I'm so sorry, Dib." She said, letting out a sigh of her own.
"Me too," Dib said, staring at the ground.
"I have to go now, son." Dib's mother said sadly. "They're coming to bug my phones in an hour."
"Alright."
"Dib?"
"Yes?"
"I love you."
"Love you too, Mom."
"See you when this mess blows over."
"You too."
"Bye,"
"Bye."
His mother hung up, but he couldn't bring himself to put the phone down until Zim came up from the lab in full disguise.
"Ready?" He asked cheerfully, his cheer leaving at the sight of a depressed Dib. "Something wrong?"
"Yeah," Dib said, placing the phone gently down. "We can't go to my mom's the police are surveying her house to make sure I don't show up there or that she doesn't have me there."
Zim walked over to Dib's side and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry."
"Not your fault." Dib replied, putting his own hand on top of Zim's.
"Is there something you'd like to do instead?" Zim asked with a wide grin, trying to cheer Dib up. "Gir made sandwiches; we could have a picnic or something."
"No, I'm not that hungry." Dib said with a sigh. In all actuality he was very hungry, but he'd rather be having some of his mom's homemade soup at the moment rather than Gir's sandwiches.
"Ok," Zim said, his grin dropping. "A movie then, maybe?"
"No thanks, maybe I'll just watch some TV." With that Dib slunk over to the couch and put himself in it, staring at the TV despite it's off state.
Zim shifted uncomfortably, not liking to see Dib this depressed.
But not wanting to be around it either.
" I… guess I'll go back to working in the lab then?"
Dib just gave a grunt as Gir ran up and turned on the Scary Monkey Show… like clockwork he was.
Zim sighed and disappeared into his basement once more to work on his miracle cure for old age.
Review for this chapter please. Even though it's short and doesn't deserve one.