Chapter 10 "I Love You Zim."

"I should warn you, Alex will probably freak out when she wakes up." Sally said to Zim who was bandaging up the hybrid in question's arms.

"What makes you say that?" He asked.

"I'll let Alex explain that later." She answered.

A small groan escaped from Alex as she put a hand on her head and slowly opened her eyes. The sterile medical smell filled her nostrils and she sat up immediately and looked around frantically, not really seeing who was in the room with her and she immediately jumped up and started pulling the IV from her arm.

"Alex, it's okay." Zim said rushing up to her. He was still wearing the medical white coat and sterile gloves. She pushed him away roughly and jumped over him. Sally quickly grabbed her and said, "Alex, it's just me and Zim, calm down. It's okay."

Alex blinked and looked at her friend, she stared at her for several seconds before taking a deep breath and really took a look around and studied Zim in the white coat and said, "Since when do you wear white coats?"

"Um, it was only to clean your wounds and all." He said pulling off the gloves and the coat.

"You really don't like hospitals do you?" He asked.

"They're very similar to the lab I grew up in." Alex answered.

"You've told me about how you grew up in a lab, but how exactly did you grow up?" Zim asked her.

"Like an experiment that has no say in what is being done and even named themselves, not even being talked to like a person but an object with a number." Alex answered shortly.

"Oh, er, yeah that sounds really bad." Zim said. Alex didn't notice but Sally could tell that he seemed nervous in the guilty way when responding but she didn't call him out on it, she would wait and do that when Alex wasn't around.

"So, um are you okay?" Zim asked Alex.

"I don't feel any pain, and I'm betting I probably should be, and my brain is all fuzzy and-hey why is Filler Bunny dancing with a bottle of nail polish remover on Zim's head?" Alex asked confused. Her eyes were glassy and seemed slightly unfocused.

"That is just the pain killer-wait what's Filler Bunny?" Zim said.

"We'll show you later. What makes you think that it was safe to give Alex painkillers for Irkens?" Sally asked.

"I had the computer run an analysis to make sure it would be safe." Zim answered.

"So I'm doped up on pain killers hu? He, he, ha, ha, ha." Alex said giggling.

"Seemed to have a delayed reaction since she was in her right mind just a minute ago." Sally answered.

"Yes that is one side effect that does not affect Irkens, however it shouldn't do any sort of damage. The computer said it is similar to an old human painkiller called Valium in the sense that it is strong and it will make Alex act…. what was the word he said?" Zim said thinking.

"Loopy?" Sally guessed.

"Yes. Loopy, and hallucinating too apparently." He answered.

"Alex doped up on hallucinogenic, loopy inducing pain killers… this should be funny, do you have a video camera?" Sally asked.

"Why would you need a video camera in the basement? There's nothing special about a basement. Besides Filler Bunny has one already." Alex said.

"Who splashed Gir with blood? Ha, ha, ha. Bloody Gir. It's funny because he doesn't bleed." Alex added with a giggle. What was worse was that Gir wasn't even in the room anymore. He had long gotten bored and left even before Alex had woken up.

Zim just stared at Alex blankly, his mouth twitching as he tried to keep a straight face. He had to admit, this was amusing, but he was still going to try to keep from showing that he found it amusing.

Sally, however, had no shame in laughing at Alex's loopyness and hallucinations. She stopped laughing when she noticed that Alex was now staring at one of the chairs, as if she were having a staring contest with it.

"Why are you staring at that chair?" Zim asked, also noticing.

"Because it's staring at me!" Alex said and moved to another spot in the room and said, "It's still staring at me!" Sally laughed again and asked, "So how long will these painkillers last?"

"About five hours. But we may need to give her more when it wears off depending on how much pain she will be in. Her healing rate is faster than normal humans but not as fast as yours or my own. I'd say she'd have to refrain from flying for a good week or two based on the way they were broken and I can't place any time on the burns and the cuts will be healed by morning most likely." He answered.

"So it mostly depends on the burns that will determine if she needs more pain killers or not since neither of us know how long that will take to heal. Well I guess it wouldn't really be called burns since what caused it was cold so more of frostbite." Sally said.

"Being burned or frostbitten still damages the cells in a similar way, there really is not much difference, other than the obvious fact that one is caused by cold and the other by heat." Zim said.

"Which would explain why there is a burning sensation when someone holds dry ice for too long and so on." Sally finished.

"Yes." He answered.

"Who set Tak on fire?" Alex asked.

"You did." Sally said simply.

"But she just showed up already on fire." Alex said confused.

"Then it was Zim." Sally said.

Alex looked at Zim with a smile and said, "You sir, are awesome. And Tak is awesome simply because she is Tak even if I hate her guts."

Zim really had no idea how to react to this. He wasn't use to Alex acting so strange, not that she wasn't weird anyways but she was acting really happy-go-lucky instead of her usual self. It was strange, annoying and amusing.

Alex walked over to Zim and gave him a hug saying, "You're so huggable."

She swayed around while hugging Zim making him sway around with her. It was a funny sight and the look on Zim's face made it all the more entertaining. He had a look that said he was at war with himself, debating on weather to push Alex away or hug her back. He choose neither and just stood there awkwardly and waited patiently until she stopped. Sally just sat on the bed laughing at the scene before her holding a camera the computer had given her to record this on. She would show it to Alex later, and possibly put it on the internet.

"Why are you recording this?" Zim asked.

"Because it is funny." Sally answered.

"Turn off that camera or I'll feed your brain to the brain parasite." Zim responded.

"Assuming it could get through my head to my brain." Sally countered and kept recording.

Alex let go of Zim and started spinning around, although she looked like she was drunk with the way she was stumbling. Zim stopped her and directed her to the bed and made her sit.

"Ha, ha, ha. The room is spinning." Alex commented and fell back on the bed staring up at the ceiling.

"Why are you dancing on the ceiling Filler Bunny? Aw poor thing your skin is falling off again. You can stop dancing if you want. I don't mind." Alex said staring at the ceiling.

"So who's Filler Bunny?" Zim asked Sally.

"Filler Bunny is a character from comics that a guy named Johnen Vasquez writes and draws. Usually takes up only a page or so, just to fill up space. In one of them Filler Bunny comes back and had been suspended in a liquid and forced to stay awake. The liquid was making his skin fall off in that specific comic." Sally explained.

"I'm sorry I asked." Zim responded.

"Well I'm going to go look up places for us to live so we can be out of your way as soon as possible." Sally said and left the room and went to another level where the room was that Zim said they could stay in for now.

"Where'd Sally go?" Alex asked.

"To find you two a new place to live." Zim answered.

"Hey, hey Zim come here. I have a secret to tell you. He, he, he." Alex said. Zim gave her a questioning look so he walked over and sat in a chair next to the bed and said, "Okay, what is it?"

"Come closer. It's a really important secret." She said and got quieter with each word until the last word was a whisper. She giggled and waited for him to get closer. He did and she whispered, "I love you Zim. He, he, he."

He jerked back and said, "Whoa what?" He wasn't sure he had heard her right.

Alex was giggling uncontrollably now.

"Hey! Alex repeat that please." Zim said loudly but she was just laughing for no reason and said, "You're so funny when you say things in your…Zim way."

"Guess you're just delusional." Zim concluded, referring to the 'secret' she had told him, assuming he heard right.

"You should get some sleep." Zim said to her.

"But I'm not tired. Come on let's dance, and destroy things. Ha, ha, ha. I like destruction. And fire is fun. Let's dance and destroy things and set things on fire. It'll be fun!" Alex responded getting up. Zim pushed her back down and said, "No. You need sleep bird-monkey."

"Ha, ha, ha! Bird-monkey that's a new one, that's funny." She said giggling and picked up a pillow and threw it. It hit the far wall.

"Ooo! It flew!" She said laughing.

"That's because you threw it." Zim answered. He found it fairly easy to stay patient with a loopy drugged-up Alex, maybe because it was also funny. Zim didn't know that Sally had left the camera sitting on a counter and it was still recording.

"It grew wings and flew. Carrying Filler Bunny away!" She responded flapping her hands as if they were wings like a child would do and bouncing in the spot she sat.

"Lay down and go to sleep." Zim said.

"I'm not tired." Alex argued stubbornly.

"Yes you are." He argued back.

"No I'm not." She countered.

"Go to sleep anyways." Zim responded, now starting to get slightly irritated. She was acting like a child, a drunken, child on a hallucinogen.

"No. I want to fly and dance, and sing, and destroy things, and set things on fire cause all of that is fun!" Alex said jumping up again. Zim pushed her back down and forced her to lie down and said, "Go the fuck to sleep."

"You're no fun!" Alex wined.

"Get over it." Zim answered and injected a liquid into Alex's IV that Sally had put back in a few minutes after Alex had woken up. It made Alex sleepy and knocked her out. Zim let out a tired sigh and left the room. The computer had shut off the camera but it stayed where Sally had left it.

Sally walked by Zim and asked, "Alex asleep?"

"Yes. Do not try to wake her up." Zim answered shortly and kept walking.

"Hm." Sally went to the medical room and picked up the video camera and took it back to the room to see what she had missed and watched, laughing. The sound didn't pick up what Alex had whispered to Zim but whatever it was, it startled him.

"Hm. I wonder what it was that she had said. Maybe she will remember." Sally said aloud and saved the recording on her computer and erased it on the camera. She put the camera off to the side and went to bed herself. She may have slept earlier in the night but the healing and magic she had used made her feel like she hadn't slept in several months (to normal humans that would be at least two good nights of sleep).

The next morning, Dib noticed that Zim, Sally and Alex were all missing and couldn't help but wonder why. He shook it off and decided to think about that later, today was the day that he was going to confront Dev.

"Hm. Your friends aren't here today hu?" Gaz said at lunch.

"No, it's suspicious." Dib answered.

"Maybe they're all sick." Gaz answered.

"Not likely. But I'm sure they're fine." Dib answered.

"I can't think about that now. Today I need to focus. Today is the day that I will confront Sally's brother and demand that he give me answers." Dib declared.

"You're still talking to yourself?" Gaz asked.

"Not as much as I use to, but yes sometimes I do still talk to myself. I guess that will never change." He answered.

"Whatever." Gaz replied going back to her game.

Dib went back to eating and headed to class after lunch. He tried to stay focused on his work and his plans to confront Dev, or Mr. Sharp or whatever his name was, but he couldn't help but wonder if Sally was okay and why all three of them weren't there.

Me: Yes this chapter does have a considerably lighter tone, I have been wanting to do this for a while with each character so I start with Alex ^^

Also the "Go the fuck to sleep" thing, that's actually a book, a picture book called, "Go the Fuck to Sleep" that my twin sister, Vivian's boyfriend Reuben introduced me to and he had gotten it for Christmas from a friend. It's actually really funny. So I felt that I just had to make that reference.

Also I do not own Filler Bunny (obviously), that explanation of who Filler Bunny was is both an explanation ad my disclaimer for the Bunny, it was also kind of a shout out (I guess it was) to the fans of Vasquez's other works.

Also the title was originally going to be named Dancing Filler Bunny, but I changed it to freak people out XD and also to make the connection of Andy Berman (voice of Dib) saying "I love you Zim!" for the ZaDr fangirls at Invadercon (I'm not a ZaDr supporter but I found that funny when I saw the video)

Hmm….is there anything else I should address? I guess not.