Theories

"Can I ask just one more question?" I asked as Zim flew his ship quickly. He didn't paid attention to the road.

He sighed.

"One," he agreed.

"Well, you knew I hadn't gone to the bookstore, and that I went south. I was wondering how you knew that."

He looked away.

"Answer me before I turn this car around." I grumbled.

He smiled a little.

"Fine then, I followed your scent."

My eyes went wide. Then it twitched. Oh God, please don't tell me.....I shook my head, trying to calm myself down.

"And then you didn't answer one of my first questions," I stalled.

"Which one?"

"How does it work --- the mind-reading thing? Can you read anyone's mind, anywhere? How do you do it? Are you the only one in your family that can do it?" I felt weird, but trying to act like a police questioning the criminal for what he has done.

"That's more than one," he pointed out.

"Just answer the question before I hurt you," I glared at him.

"No, it's just me. And I can't hear just anyone, anywhere. I have to be fairly close to them. The more I'm used to a person's...'voice' is, the farther away that I can hear them. But still, no, more than a few miles." He paused thoughtfully. "It's a little like being in a huge hall filled with people, everyone talking at once. I got to focus on one voice, and then what they're thinking is clear

"Most of the time I tune it all out --- which can be very distracting for Zim. And then it's easier to seem normal" --- he frowned as he said that word --- "when I'm not accidently answering someone's thoughts rather than their words."

"Why do you think you can't hear me?" I asked curiously.

He looked at me, smirking.

"You have a very dark mind. A mind so dark and scary, that Zim is too afraid to enter in, even such a brave soldier such as I." He grinned at me.

"I like the thought of that." I smirked. He laughed. "Don't worry, it's just a theory...oh yeah, back to you."

I sighed. How to begin?

"It starts out with the beach on Friday." He looked puzzled.

"I ran into my brother, Dib," I continued. "He and Dad came here for science and paranormal as I said."

He still looked confused.

"He said someone's great-grandfather is one of the Quileute elders." I looked. He was still as a statue. "We went for a walk and he was telling me some old legends about a scary story that I like. He told me one..." I paused.

"Go one," he said.

"About alien vampires." I whispered. He made a fist again.

"And you thought of me?" He said calmly.

"Maybe...but he did mentioned your family."

He was quiet, staring at the road.

"He said he wanted to prove the world about this, I doubt it."

"Good thing."

"But I'm not a moron. I heard lots about this from my brother even if he did left long ago."

"Do you believe him though?"

"Don't know, don't care."

"You don't care if I'm a monster? If I'm not a human?"

"No."

Zim was silent. His face was also bleak and cold.

"I'm curious again."

"About what?"

"How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

"In human years?"

"159 Earth years."

"How long have you been that age?"

"For a while, it will be my birthday soon in a few months."

"Okay," I smirked. More stuff about vampires I want to know from him. God, please tell me he's the good kind of vampires.

"Don't laugh --- but how can you come out during the daytime?"

He ignored my commands and laughed anyway. "Myth."

"Burned by the sun?"

"Lies."

"Sleeping coffins?"

"Slander. We don't need to sleep. The thought of it is just sickening."

"Really?"

"Yep."

"So I won't ask on the whole blood thing?"

"Why?"

"Dib thought that you were SUPPOSE to be dangerous. Hunting humans, but you ended up eating animals."

"He remembers lots of the Quileutes history. Don't think that you are safe, though. We are still dangerous."

"What do you mean?"

"We try...we're usually good at what we do. Sometimes we make mistakes. Me, for example, to be with a human."

"This is a mistake?"

"A very dangerous one," he whispered.

We were both silent. The headlights that were moving fast remind me of a video game. Time was going by fast, but I might as well learn more about him.

"Tell me....why you hunt animals instead of humans?"

"I didn't want to be captured by humans and be used for experiments." His voice was low when he responded.

"Why don't you go back to your home planet or something?"

He paused. "Well, we are actually here for some secret mission. It's very difficult to hide yourself from the world when there is millions of your kind on this planet."

"Isn't it difficult now?"

He sighed. "Yes."

"But you're not hungry now."

"Why do you think of that, human?"

"Just a feeling."

He chuckled. "We'll see about that."

I listened to his laughter until I spoke again.

"So you were hunting last weekend with Sizz-Lorr?" I asked again.

"Yes. I didn't want to leave, but it was mandatory. It's more easier to be with you when I'm not thirsty."

"Why didn't you want to leave?"

"Zim feels anxious to be away from you."

His eyes were being gentle, but was intense to hide it. "I wasn't joking when I asked you to try not fall in the ocean or get run over last Thursday. Zim was distracted all weekend, worrying about you. And what happened tonight, I'm surprised you made it through without a single paper cut. Three days of having to worry about you."

"I thought you came back today."

"No, got back on Sunday."

"How come your family wasn't in skool?"

"Well you asked if the sun hurt me! And it does not! But I can't go out in the sunlight --- at least, not where anyone can see it."

"Can you show me sometime?"

"I might as well..."

I thought for a moment.

"You know, I'm always safe, hardly any danger."

"Don't you see you woman?!! I am dangerous!" he yelled.

"I swear, if you say that you are dangerous one more time, I'll put a stake through your heart, burn you, and then put your ashes down the bathroom in the toilet!" I threatened him.

"What happens if we did get into a car accident and I still live? Huh?!"

"I'll make sure that I won't die alone..." I said in a dark voice.

Zim gulped as he stop the car at my house. I took off the jacket and handed it to him. "Here, you can have it back."

"Keep it, you might need it for tomorrow."

"What if my brother comes and see this?"

"Oh, right," he muttered, but giggled. "Would be funny though. Also...don't go into the woods alone."

"Why?"

"There are things more dangerous than I. Let's just say that."

"At least you didn't say that you were dangerous." I rolled my eyes. "See you tomorrow." I opened the hatch.

"Gaz?" I turned around and he was leaning on me, few inches close to my face. I was frozen now.

"Sleep well," he said. I felt his breath on my face. A feeling came of having someone that is like......Then I realized he was THAT close to me. I glared at him and punched Zim as he flew back. I was blushing as I marched to my house. Zim grumbled some stupid words and left.

I went inside my house as dad came through the live recording camera. "Gaz?"

"Yeah, it's me."

"You're home early."

"Yeah, got some good games."

"I see. Well, I got to go help with the global warming. Goodnight honey."

After I brushed my teeth and put on my pajamas, I thought of something. I stared at a picture of the Vampire Piggy Hunter then at my bed. I went to there and laid there, curled up in a ball.

About three things I was pretty sure about. First, Zim was an alien vampire. Second, there was a part of him - and I didn't know that part might be - that yearned for my blood. And third, I was disgustingly and hideously in love with him.