Sorry for the wait! Hope you enjoy the chapter...
He had to talk to somebody. And the only other person who would listen to him was his little sister.
Two days had passed since the failure. Two days full of thoughts about Zim. The newbie was brought back to the Organization and he still couldn't hide his smirk for their look of embarrassment. What happened to Zim he had no idea. Ok, to be true, he knew where the alien was but he wanted to make his own research about this situation. The OFUE would never tell him anything about the projects of theirs, so he just let himself get information.
"So, here I am" he said, getting out of his car and walking towards his sister's apartment. As he reached her door he heard explosions and shooting noise. He ringed and the noise ceased. The door opened and revealed a tired and annoyed looking Gaz. Her hair was pointing in every direction and her eyes rings where dark from tiredness. The glare she gave him made him nervous. How could she look like that?! He just came in the brightly afternoon!
"Where have you been…" Gaz asked him treating. Before he could answer she dragged him in her apartment and threw him on the couch, beside her with a game controller in his hands. He watched how she restarted the game and turned it to multi-player. "Gaz, what-"
"I called you a dozen times to help me play with multi-player! I have to preview this sh!t of a game for the next presentation in my company! AND IT'S IN TWO HOURS!"
So much to 'talking'…
After one hour...
Gaz, finally through the game, made herself ready for her presentation. Dib still sat on the couch. When he saw her come back, she was back to her not-so-creepy-appearance, which was very welcomed for the older brother. "Normally you play through the games on the first day, why of the sudden?"
"A friend of mine got problems and needed help" his sister stated.
"Understand"
Silence…Gaz gave her brother a glance.
"What?" he asked in defense.
"You are here for a different reason, Dib, no need to hide it. I still have a half an hour left. Go on."
She sat beside him and waited. After a while Dib spoke up, explaining the letter he got from an organization she doesn't know, that he had to catch a project of theirs, which escaped and hide with a traitor of them and that he almost got him. "What shocked me… as that idiot and I waited for this…uh…'project'…in this primary school, I never would have thought that HE would cross my way…again…" he leaned his head on his crossed fingers.
"What do you mean? ...Dib?"
He avoided eye contact. "I saw Zim"
Gaz flinched. She couldn't stop the thoughts about him shooting Zim. But the alien clearly said, Dib knew nothing about him.
"Are you sure it was him?" she asked carefully.
"You think I'm going crazy again? No, Gaz, I'm sure it was him. 100%. I saw him running into the building. As I heard shots, I ran in to check out what happened. Our target shouldn't get injured." The way he said 'target' made her shiver, "It should get back to the organization safe. I didn't know that IT was HIM. As I arrived I saw my partner injured and unconscious.
"…and Zim?"
Dib was watching around as if he was searching the right words to appear. "He was lying there, in front of me… curled up and fighting against the narcotic, antennas twitching like crazy-even one antenna was much injured, maybe broken-and he was bleeding. I… I couldn't do it"
"What? Catch him?"
Dib shook his head, "No, take him back where he came from…or where he was taken…"
Gaz had to fight with her inner self, she really wanted to know what happened there between her brother and her boyfriend but she can't freak out now or her brother got suspicious. Also, not to forget, she's Gaz Membrane, she never freak out.
"What did you do then?"
"I took my partner and fled from the scene. I…I even made sure his disguise sat right! Why did I do such thing?! He's an alien! A bad, crazy alien!"
She was just about to defense that 'alien' when her brother stopped himself. "But what I saw there…was just a guy… a normal guy who has trying to survive for now about twelve years… more frightened than any other human. And the thought for what he actually was perfected… I can't bring him back."
Gaz nodded in understanding and watched the clock, "Sorry, Dib. I have to go now. You can stay here if you like. A little nap would be could for you"
"Thanks, good luck."
Gaz walked out to her car. All the way to her destination, she only has one question screaming in her mind.
What was Zim perfected for?