A/N: Alright, alright, hold your pitch forks and torches. I'm officially back with Chapter 10! Yeah baby! This book has been up for oh maybe a month or two and we're already into chapter 10! Now just to make it all fall together and get into the really juicy stuff =3.

Disclaimer: I don't own both Invader Zim or any books/songs/ movies I mention in this chapter. They all go the their respectful owners. The Guardian is a freaking amazing movie BTW, those of you who have yet to see it…NEED TO SEE IT! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie, other than City of Angels (My all-time fav movie because it premiers my fav song in it (Iris by the Goo goo Dolls) The guardian is at the top of my favorite movie list. Then a bunch of Scooby doo movies under all that XD. I love me some scoobeh doobeh doo! That and Kevin Costner is a freaking AMAZING actor. I just love him! LOL. Alright enough disclaimer more Review responses eh?

To Psychochicken: PANIC! PANIC I SAY, you're review actually made me stop and think for a minute I was like…how do I do that? But then I was all like MMMM GURL I catch yer drift XDDD. Thanks for the review buddy! Kill dat chicken named Phil! He still owes me money! And his…liver….I need it for a few…experiments….=D. Kill them beaver fans, nobody cares bout that boi anyways XD. You said you heard gun fire? I'm the one shooting….8D.

To Fritter Critter: *Cries dramatically* I was a beautiful moment wasn't it? It's about to get GORGEOUS IN HERE! MMMMMM GURL! We see something Tabby don't want us to see *Smiles evil* I love jaxy and Tabby pairings too! They so damn adorable…but…I just have to say this…NOT IN MY HOUSE! (Inside joke XDDDD) My bruise WAS getting better…until I snapped it again...THEN IT Changed COLORS! WHOOO! I gladly accept your taquitos…do I get a few tacos to go with it…*cries* it ain't the full set without taco's man! Misa loves me tacos….I kill anyone who tries for MY tacos…MY TACOS! Hyperness is good…=D…..

And To the amazing Incredible Reviewer (IR for the win! LOL): I DID HAVE A GREAT EASTER! Thank you for wishing me a good one! I'm glad yours went good as well. I'm glad you enjoyed last chappies….this chappie is filled with goo…good goo, the pretty goo that if you throw at your friends it attaches to their faces and slowly suffocates them XD. GOOOO. Jax and Tabby sitting in a tree…one falls out and the other has to…DIE! I was thinking pee…but My Irkens don't exactly have those needs so LOL. But I'm hyper and random…SUE ME!

OH AND I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING! On the Sixteenth of this April, I will officially have been on FF for a whole year! A WHOLE Freakin YEAR DAMMIT! So some kind of celebration is in order yes? Ok, I'm thinking posting as many chapters as I can write in the next two days or maybe something else. A Jax and Tabitha one shot? A Jax and your Oc one shot? IDK… Suggestions? SEND EM IN SLAVES! Also, Misa love feedback! If you've followed and or favorite in the past week or so, please drop a review bomb so I can see what your thoughts are on me amazing book yes? YESSSSSSSSS…..That means review CHILD! DAMMIT REVIEW YOU SLAVES~! MUHAHAHAH. XDD

~Death wishy bishy mish kishy CHICKEN! Can you tell I'm hyper yet? If not…your whole life is a lie -.-

Tabitha's POV.

I shouted in triumph when I found my movie. The Guardian was the absolute best human movie ever other than City of Angels, now that was a movie. It even premiered the best song ever: Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.

"I found our movie!" I shrieked in happiness as I flung myself back into my room and under the covers. I heard Jax laughing as I poked my head from under the covers.

"Are you hyper?" He asked while tilting his head and smiling sweetly at me.

"The answer to that question is the same answer to this question: Are you just a freaking huggable teddy bear?" I said back and puffed out my cheeks at him.

He cocked an eye brow at me while stifling a laugh before answering, "I don't think I am…"

"WRONG ANSWER!" I shouted in defiance while jumping on him and hugging him as tightly as I could. I was really moody today, however I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, "You're MY teddy bear, understand fool!?"

"Can't breathe," Jax wheezed. I loosened up my hold on him with a small blush from the embarrassing outburst, "I think I understand now, if I don't just agree with you, you try and suffocate me so I'm just going to say 'yes dear'." I rolled my eyes and glared at him.

"So you agree with everything I say then?"

"Yes dear."

"Everything?"

"Yes dear."

"What if I said…make me a sammich!"

"Yes dear."

"Stop itttt!" I groaned and flicked his antenna angrily.

"Yes dear."

"Say it again, I dare you to," I growled while lowering my antenna. Jax gave me an unsure look before opening up his mouth to annoy me again. Right as he started to say it I grabbed a pillow and slapped him across the face with it, "NO!"

Jax just sat there with a pillow on his head shocked. He gave me an evilly playful glare before grabbing a pillow for himself, "Did you really just start that with me?"

"Yes dear," I said flatly and winked at him. He glared at me before sighing and rolling his eyes, "Now MOVIE!" I shouted with another victory before springing off of him and shoving the disk in the Irken DVD player. The machine scanned the disk and spat it back out so I could put it back in its case.

"Scanning complete, movie starting," The TV computer thing droned.

"Yes, yes that's very interesting, now you!" I shouted while turning around to point at Jax. What I got instead was a pillow to the face. I froze in place as the pillow slid off my face and hit the ground so I could see my lovely…boyfriend (?) Laughing his ass off at me.

"Oh I'm sorry, did you want me to suffocate you?" I hissed while my right eye started twitching. Jax immediately stopped laughing and gave me puppy dog eyes.

"You've already threatened to handcuff me to the bed and force pills down my throat, how much more torture do I have to go through?"

"So much more," I threatened while slowly standing and holding the pillow up in the air threateningly. Jax pretended to cower making a small smirk grow on my complexion, "That's what I thought." Before he said anything else I shot over to the window and pulled the blinds so the room was darker for the movie.

I jumped into the bed making Jax's side of the bed jump causing him to yelp in surprise, "You planned that," he accused while trying to get comfortable again. I just ignored him while curling up under the covers and covering my head with a blanket.

Jax gave me a strange look that I copied, "It's a good movie, and the blanket helps me love it more."

"Ok," Just said simply before grabbing my waist and pulling me down into his arms, "You're very strange, you know that?"

"Oh yes, people actually used to think I was, Zim's twin sister because I acted like him a lot," I smirked while smiling up at him.

"I don't doubt that," He said while smiling back at me. We stayed like that for a moment just smiling at each other before Jax leaned down and gave me a passionate kiss, "You're my weirdo though and that's how it's going to stay." He leaned down and kissed me again just for a little longer.

I started getting lost in the moment as I repeatedly kissed him back until he pulled away to kiss my neck gently, "We should probably watch the movie huh?" He muttered while continuously ravishing my neck.

"Right about now I'm considering no but since you've never seen it and it's freaking amazing, yes we should watch the movie," I answered sheepishly. Once again I hated being put on the spot like this!

"Alright," Jax groaned disappointedly. He pulled away before kissing me one more time and smiling to himself in satisfaction. I too smiled to myself in satisfaction before snuggling closer to my teddy bear and wrapping my arms around his neck. Jesus I was such a girl…for the time being. I blame it on…embarrassment…yeah that's who I'll blame it on.

As the movie continued on I started feeling more comfortable, like I was in a small cave of warmth. Everything was just…so warm. 'No Jake, think of lives first, not records!' I thought as my eye lids started drooping. 'Besides, Randall's too cool for you boy.'

I moved over and rested my head on Jax's chest with my cheek resting on my hand. I felt his arm wrap around me and give me a soft squeeze before stopping on my stomach where he proceeded to draw patterns on my stomach with his claw.

I sighed contently as my eye lids started drooping again. However before I knew it I was tensely relaxed and I let my eye lids fall over my eyes. Maybe just five minutes of resting my eyes won't make me miss anything too good…

Cari's POV.

I yawned quietly while flipping through the pages of an interesting book called, Between, it was about a girl who woke up on her parent's yacht hearing something thump up against the side of the boat. So she went out to see what the infuriating noise was only to see it was her, she was dead in the water. So technically she is a ghost and she immediately starts freaking out then all this crazy stuff happens. It was actually rather good though. It kept me awake to watch over Mia so I enjoyed it.

As I continued reading the book I started exiting reality and jumping into my book reading world where nothing in the outside world bothered me and the book became my everything. I used to love books back on Earth. They always had so many mysteries with twists and turns and so much more. They kept you on the edge of your seat whereas Irken books were all record books, dead soldiers books and every once and a while I could stumble 'how to be an invader, published by Red himself' Let me tell you one thing loyal reader. WORST BOOK EVER. Red's a stupid idiot that I plan on destroying as soon as I get the chance. Well anyways, Irken books never gave me the thrill human books did, so I was very happy when I stumbled upon such an interesting book in Jeb's library or should I say Ocean of books. This book happened to be published by a Vortarian, probably the only Vortarian to actually have a hint of creativity.

Suddenly as if out of the blue something came in contact with my shoulder causing me to go on the defense right away. I shot to my feet and swung around about to smack whomever touched me with a book. Instead of this well thought out plan, my book was knocked out of my hand by said attacker and I was being yelled at seconds later, "What the hell child! I ain't yer enemy!"

"Well you should know better than to sneak up on me, Vex," I shot back and crossed my arms.

"I didn't sneak up on ya; I've been callin' ya since I reached the stair case! Yer the one that needs ta be a tad bit more aware of yer surroundings!"

"Ok, ok. What is it that you wanted again?" I said in hopes to hurry this conversation along. I wanted so badly to get back to my book.

"Well I need ta talk ta ya 'bout somethin' rather important."

"Is it about, Tabitha's past?" I asked hopefully. Vex's face dropped and he gave me a warning look.

"No."

"Ok then what's it about?"

"It's about the future of this little group ya got. Rae says 'er dad wanted her ta tell ya that we only have a week left a oxygen. She told me cause I was in yer room tryin' ta catch some shut eye but she also asked if I'd tell ya an' ya don't tell, Jeb that I know. Rae wasn't supposed ta tell me."

My brain died in this very moment. Millions of thoughts buzzed through it that my antenna started shaking with emotion, "Your kidding right? This is just some hysterically prank someone set you up to?"

"I don't kid 'bout my life er anyone else's life here. I am a guard, remember?" Vex answered making me frown with worry.

"Then what're we going to do. Mia will not be in any shape to start travelling by that time. We don't even know if she'll get infected or not…"

"Well yer takin' this surprisingly well. I don't know what ta tell ya kid. I was just asked ta come down here an' tell ya what I know, that an' switch watch duties with ya so you can get some shut eye."

"You have to have some kind of suggestion! What are we going to do? Should we all discuss this as a group or should we take the risk of taking Mia is such a vulnerable time? I don't know! I don't control this group!" I said as I started panicking.

"Child if ya don't calm down right now, I'm bout ta knock ya out the same way I did ta, Sky. So take a breather an' start thinkin' things through." Vex warned while giving me a sharp look. He didn't have time to deal with panicking females. That used to annoy him the most was when some idiot started panicking when the answer was so freaking obvious.

I nodded and took in deep breaths to calm myself down. I definitely did not want to be knocked unconscious anytime soon. I covered my face with my hands and took in deep breaths again; this could end up being really, REALLY bad.

"Ok, one week left of Oxygen, no vital plans, no place to go, no idea what's outside this compound…yeah we're screwed. It'd be safer to just stay down here and die a semi peaceful death." I thought out loud.

"When I taught ya how ta drive a manual cruiser, was I takin' a risk?" Vex asked sternly. I thought about it for a second and just as I was about to answer he continued on, "When I took both you an' Tabitha ta the outskirts of Irk without any kind of heavy protection, was I taking a risk? Or when I let, Tabitha use me as a target so she could practice throwin' knives, was I takin' a HUGE risk?"

"Well yes and you got a knife embedded in your shoulder because of that…" I answered calmly, "I don't really see the point of thi-."

"The point is; it can't be all bout bein' safe. We need ta take risks ta survive; I took my risks an' learned my mistakes the hard way, but I knew what I was gettin' into before I even started it. We know what we're doin', we're going back ta yer old tree house after the ball. Ya know what yer gettin' into, ya jus have ta be ready ta take responsibility fer something if it doesn't end up goin' the way ya want it ta."

"But what if Mia's condition gets worse and she gets infected? Without the proper medicine she'd die."

"I hate sayin' this…but that's a risk we're gonna have ta take. I'll watch over 'er as best as I can but I can't promise anythin'," Vex sighed and looked over towards Mia's hospital bed. She was still curled up in a little ball. Her big pink sweater helped keep her warm along with her black invader's pants. Those things were pretty dang warm. Her curly antennas were limp and dangling over her bandaged face. Poor thing.

I sighed heavily and looked at the ground before looking back up to look Vex straight in the eye, "Alright, I trust you which sometimes I think I really shouldn't but I do. I'll take this risk IF the others, including, Mia take it too."

"Sometimes the risks ya have ta take on yer own, not with a group. But go ahead an ask em what they think. Fer now you need ta catch some shut eye, ya get moody in the mornin' if ya don't get enough sleep."

I rolled my eyes and groaned, "If you say so." With that I proceeded to snatch my book back from Vex and walk towards the stairs.

"Hey kid!"

"Yes, Vex?" I called back and looked over at my shoulder at him.

"I'll give ya a hint as ta, Tabs past. First hint, trading. Ya'll get another one later." My antenna perked upon this hint. Trading? What does trading have to do with anything?

"Trading what?"

"One hint a day child!" Vex protested and gave me an intimidating look.

"Alright, alright; I'll go ponder the subject in my room," I muttered before waving goodnight and heading back up the stairs. Trading…trading…trading? Hmm, maybe an Irken history book could help me out.

I made a B-line from my room down the hall towards Jeb's personal library. He let me use it since I still love reading as a pastime. I pushed open the heavy wooden door before peeking my head inside and seeing that no one was there.

Slowly I pushed myself through the door and lit a dim lantern light. There was no power in this room but plenty of lanterns that worked just as well.

I walked through the circular room looking up and down the massive rows of books looking for any kind of Irken history book or trading books, anything. Finally near the second highest shelf, I saw an Irken history book. It was rather large and looked pretty damn heavy but I really wanted to figure some of this out. Tabitha is my best friend and pretty much my sister. I should at least know where she came from.

I set the lantern on a nearby table before looking around for a latter. I spotted one in the back corner so I immediately went towards it. I grabbed it and slid it along the wall until I spotted the book I wanted again, "Now, just climb the latter and bring that heffer down."

I gripped the latter and a few minutes later came back down successfully with my book. I was right about one thing, it was pretty dang heavy.

I brought it over to the table and plopped it down before flipping through some of the pages. I turned to the context page and saw anything that had to do with trading was within the pages 900-945 in chapter 36.

I flipped to those pages and skimmed through the pages not finding anything that might be of use. I finally got to a page that satisfied me. 'Normally unclaimed Irken smeets are traded into th-,' I flipped the page only and gasp in shock.

"Are you kidding me right now? I hauled this damn thing down just to see that! A torn out page! Are you kidding me!?" I growled under my breath seeing as the page I NEEDED to see was torn out of the whole damn book. Oh how this angered me.

'Where did, Jeb get this book anyways. It needs to be updated,' I though angrily while shutting the book and sitting down in a huff.

I had to find out where Tabitha came from…I just had to.

Jax's POV.

The movie I was watching with Tabitha was actually a REALLY good movie. I'd never seen a human so it was pretty freaking awesome to see what some of them do. Thought I must admit, they are rather fuzzy and ugly creatures. All hair and muscle…no brains.

Well except for this Ben Randall guy. He seemed pretty cool. This other guy Jake has what it takes but he's just too cocky to really get his head in the game. Randall seems to have taken a weird liking to him though. I mean he beat the shit out of some cocky soldier boy for him and didn't kick him out of the class even though he had plenty of chances to do so.

This was literally an on the edge of your seat thriller. There was always some kind of action every second. Half the time I was tempted to scream at the TV what to do. And with the helicopter crash…That's was INSANE! Randall lost his best friend in that! And the ships sinking! Humans are so primitive! The only kinds of ships we have here on Irk are massive cruisers that hover over Irken water. Our water is not this pretty blue color but more of a pinkish goo color. It's pretty but it gets old and hurts your eyes every once and a while.

I also remember Zim mentioning water was deadly to Irkens when on Earth. I wondered why…Maybe too much bacteria in it or something? Ok now I was obsessing. It's not like I'm gonna go to Earth and stick my hand in water just to find out. I'll take Zim's word for it.

Irkens did not have a coast guard because the only people whom ever drowned on Irk were drunken idiots or poor souls from the war that were tossed out of ships and couldn't swim. Also these 'Sharks' humans speak of don't exist on Irk. The only deadly animals lurking in the sea are the large plesiosaur kind of creatures. They look like the humans loch ness monster. Tabitha told me about that myth once.

I even wondered at that time if somehow an Irken was transporting the large beast and lost it over the atmosphere of Earth where the beast made its new home. You never know. Humans will believe anything you tell them if you make it believable enough.

The beast doesn't really have a name to classify it. We just call it the beast or the creature we don't speak of. It's a very dangerous creature and can bite an Irken in half just by pinching it with its jaws. This is why I don't go near Irken water. I kind of like my legs to be honest with you.

I was ripped away from my thoughts when I felt Tabitha move…again. She's been shifting her position quite often in the past hour and she hasn't said a word which made me curious. She did like to talk when she got the chance.

"You ok, Tabby? You seem to be moving a lot babe," I said softly while gently rubbing her side. I waited for a response and when one didn't come, I started getting suspicious, "Tabitha?"

Still nothing. So I leaned forwards and moved her little cave of blankets surrounding her to see she had her eyes gently closed and she was curled up in a little ball, "Are…Are you sleeping!?" I said dramatically. How could she fall asleep to a movie like this!?

Now that I thought of it though, I really didn't mind her asleep and cuddled up to me in such a way. She was very pretty when she was sleeping and very warm, which is always a plus seeing as I'm ALWAYS cold when I'm alone in bed.

I smiled down at my sleeping lover before gently kissing her forehead. She needed some shut eye, especially after her hyper outburst about an hour ago, that had to have taken a lot of energy out of her.

I started watching the movie again while gently stroking Tabitha's antenna. Well that is until I heard someone knock on the door, "Movie, pause." I commanded the TV and it did as I say.

"Come in!" I called quietly seeing as I didn't want to disturb my girl over here.

The door opened slowly and Zim poked his head through, "Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes!" Zim said with a bright smile, "I thought, Tabitha might've been dreaming when she said you were alive. It's good to see you again man!"

"Same here, Zim my man!" I said happily. I motioned for Zim to come in and he did so as I pulled a blanket more over Tabitha in hopes that she wouldn't wake up, "Geez who threw you into the shredder?" I asked seeing the many scars lining his chest.

"Well brother, it was actually your brother who killed me…well sort of," Zim answered and grabbed my hand to shake, "I'm guessing the same person did that to you," He motioned to the metal piece over my heart.

"Yeah…I don't really see him as my brother anymore…He's done a lot of horrible things but he saved my ass more than once throughout my life. After a while you just learn to stay out of his way unless he does something REALLY bad and you're forced to stop him," I chuckled awkwardly. It's weird saying your only brother killed one of your closest friends then shot you through the heart after threatening the love of your life.

"I know how you feel, as long as you don't follow his example we'll be on good terms. This also includes the sleeping lump next to you. She didn't grow up with any other parents then a guy named, Vex-."

"Oh I'm familiar with, Vex," I grumbled under my breath. At least I got to hit him in the face with a table when I had the chance, Tabitha would kill me if I did it now…but I wouldn't mind doing it again.

"You are? Well anyways, I'll speak like her father for her. Ahem-If you hurt her I'll shove a gun in your face and blow your brains out boy. Bring her back by ten every night or your dead and don't be trying any funny business while I'm around or even when I'm not around. You'll be missing two friends of yours by the end of the day if you do that- there how was that?" Zim said in a fatherly like voice.

I laughed before looking back down at her, "Very convincing, can't wait until you have a daughter, then we'll see the real father come out of you." I looked back over at Zim before continuing, "But I'm serious, I won't hurt her. She…um kind of means the world to me so I'm pretty sure I won't be doing anything to intentionally hurt her. I'll kill anyone who hurts her though if that helps."

"Oh I believe it. She must've had a hard night last night huh?"

"I'm guessing you heard?" I said and smirked up at my old friend. I'd never felt so connected to Zim before. But ever since we both died and even before that we've kind of grown on each other.

"Oh yes, and I squeezed out every last juicy detail," Zim smirked teasingly.

"Grreeaaatttt," I groaned and rolled my eyes.

"Actually yes it apparently was great for her. I hear you're a good kisser." Zim teased as I blushed profusely.

"Exactly how much did you get out of her?" I asked unsurely.

"Oh more than you will ever know kid. Apparently you're really warm, soft and comfortable to her. And don't get me started on how she mooned over your 'sexy abs'."

"She didn't…"

"Oh she did…ok maybe not the Abs part but I could see it on her face. She's like my sister; I can read her like an open book. However she really likes you, surprisingly, she usually despises everyone and points a gun in their face, so treat her well."

"I guess my sexy abs just must've been a seller for her," I joked and laughed softly, "And I won't hurt her, I promise but you should get out of here, Zim. She'll wake up if we keep talking and she deserves the rest. She's been up all night watching my condition rise and fall. That and I want to finish this movie."

"Understandable. I'll see you around brother, when she wakes up give her a big kiss just for me~!" Zim teased in a singy song voice while prancing out of the room. I groaned and rolled my eyes at his immature behavior. "Hey!" Someone shouted making me jump.

I looked back over to see Zim with a scary look on his face, glaring at me from the door way, "Yes?"

"I'll be watching!" He randomly shouted and made the eye contact hand sign. It actually made me a little bit worried about my safety. Irk only knows what the psycho would do to me!

I started the movie up again but turned the volume down when Tabitha made a small noise of protest and curled more into a ball on my chest, which by the way was still very sore but I wasn't about to complain, "Alright come here," I muttered before leaning over and scooping her up into my lap.

She growled in protest before settling back down again and sighing with her head on my collar bone. 'Best day ever!' I triumphed in my head over and over. Nothing could make this moment any better than it already was.

I pulled the covers over both her and me as she cuddled up more into my body. After adjusting the covers so that they were keeping both of us warm; I wrapped my arms around her and commanded the movie to play again.

As the movie played out I let my hand trail over Tabitha's waist and onto her bare legs where I drew patterns with my claw. I've noticed before I died and the night after I got to her again that she really likes gentle touches, like they comfort her or something.

However my claw traced over something on her leg, 'What the hell?' I thought as I moved the covers and saw what looked to be a burn mark or her upper left thigh, 'please don't wake up and think I'm peeping, because I'm not.' I prayed as I moved her big T shirt up a little. What I saw not only worried me but confused me as well.

There was a number burned onto her leg- 28- it was a brand. She was branded!? Who the hell would brand an Irken! They only used to do that back in the times where Irkens traded other…Irkens without parents into the…Oh…Damn…

"Oh…honey," I said in a sympathetic voice while moving the T shirt back down and wrapping her back up in blankets, "I didn't know, oh geez Tab…and I thought I had it bad…" I mumbled while holding her tightly to myself.

I couldn't even focus on the movie now that I knew that was there…my poor baby. So I made sure to hold her a little bit tighter and gently rock her back and forth while applying little kissed to her antenna and forehead every few minutes.

28…28….28- now I couldn't get it out of my head. How could anyone treat such a beautiful, hard working woman like a soulless zombie? And scar such beauty at such a young age…

A/N: Review, follow, fav...REVIEW! I noticed I didn't get the last two reviews I usually expect to get from me besties! Book Casannova and Isabelle Frost! I was heart broken! But I understand XD. So remember my first anniversary for being on FF is coming up in two days! What should I do to celebrate! Tell me via review or PM!

Jax and tabby sittin in a tree...K.I.S.S.I.N.G, First comes luuuurrrvvveeee then come MMARRRIAGGGGEEE~~~~ Then a honey moon later...comes the smeety in the smeety carriage! And they would have a gorgeous child XD. We all know it LOL.

~I believe I can murder! By Deathwish chicken murder! LOL. IDK man...Iz hyper!