Chapter 11 Finding a New Place
"Oh. My. God." Alex said in response to the video of her being doped up on painkillers. It had been a day since the two showed up at Zim's. The two had barely seen him, not that had surprised them.
Sally laughed and said, "It's funny. Besides I bet painkillers like that would make anyone loopy. Didn't you say a friend of yours, Max is her name right?"
"Yeah, although we're more of acquaintances." Alex answered.
"Okay, well didn't you say she had to have Valium in her system? Didn't that make her really loopy too?" She asked.
"Well yeah but she couldn't even move. Look at me, I look drunk, and as if I were tripping on acid or something." She said, completely mortified that, of all people to see her like that, it had to be Zim.
What's that you're saying there?" Sally asked pointing to when Alex had whispered to Zim.
"I'm not sure." Alex said truthfully. She listened closely. It was still hard to tell but it was enough to get the memory flashing across her mind and she groaned and fell back on the bed.
"Do you remember what you said?" Sally asked.
"Oh yeah. I remember." She answered wanting to go back in time and stop herself from uttering the words that she had whispered to Zim.
"It seemed to startle Zim. What did you say?" Sally observed.
Alex had hid her face in the pillow and responded just that way so of course it had been muffled, so much that even Sally couldn't hear despite the fact that she was usually good at understanding Alex when she was talking into a pillow.
"I didn't understand that, get your face out of the pillow and speak clearly." Sally responded holding up Alex's head as she repeated what she had said, "I told him I love him are you happy now?"
Sally dropped Alex's head back onto the pillow and said, "You did not!"
"I did. And now I want to go die in a hole." Alex responded.
"But, keep watching I think he things you were delusional. Or since that is the only thing you remember you can play it off as if you don't remember anything at all." Sally pointed out.
"I know but I still don't know if I can face him now. I'll end up getting nervous or act dumb or something. Can't I just crawl into a hole and die? Or go live on the moon?" Alex asked.
"No." Sally answered.
"Why not? There's no one on the moon, no one to bug me." Alex asked.
"Because Zim promised the moon to Gir, you'd see him sooner or later. But don't worry about that, like I said, just act like you don't remember anything at all since you don't remember most of it. We need to find a new place to stay so we aren't here for too long. Don't want to be rude and stay longer than absolutely necessary right?" Sally pointed out.
"Right. We might as well start on that now." She agreed.
"Already have. There's a few small houses for sale or rent around and a few more apartments open for rent." Sally said showing her all the ads and locations.
"Are there any small houses for sale? Some in more private areas in case something like this happens again we won't have to worry about getting it fixed right away and if we're attacked again it won't be noticed." Alex asked.
They sorted through the houses, first by price and then tossing all of the ones for rent and it was narrowed down to five and only two were in secluded locations. One outside of the city, in the country area with forests around on one side and another that had property being sold with it in the forest that was still in the city but off to the side where no one cared to go.
"They both work, now to call the agents and ask about them and go visit the places." Sally said.
"Of course at these low prices they will definitely need work done." Alex pointed out. Sally grinned, her eyes flashed a highlighter green and a coffee mug shattered and was frozen in place, the drink in it. The shards everything was frozen in time and jumped back together as if nothing had happened.
"I don't think that will be a problem for us." She said and her eyes changed back to their normal crimson, which wasn't that much less conspicuous, of course their classmates simply assumed that she was an albino verses having no explanation for Alex's obvious violet eyes, until she explained how, with eye color, if both genes for the green and blue eye color are dominant then they, of course, mix and make purple.
Alex herself wasn't sure if that was the actual case for her eye color or if it was something that had been done and was part of the mutations, or maybe they had tried to do something to her eyes and she had simply gotten lucky and didn't end up blind the way another hybrid (me: yes I am referring to Iggy to all of the Maximum Ride fans) had when they had tried to improve his vision.
"Don't try and do it all at once, I don't want you to wear yourself out." Alex said.
"I know, I know." Sally said waving her off. Alex had learned that this was Sally's way of indicating that she had heard what she had said but it didn't necessarily mean that she would actually do, or not do, what had been asked, or ordered, of her. Alex rolled her eyes and decided to try again later.
"Let's go ahead and call this agent and ask them about these two houses." Sally said.
Meanwhile Zim was further down in the base continuing his work. He had been working on and off with fixing the little robots to control the humans, he was also making adjustments to it as well as planning on how to kill the Tallest and destroy the central brain. He had been gathering information, working on these projects and even more various things for the past several months paying little attention to anything unless he needed to, like when Sally had called him for help. Normally he would have demanded why he help but she hadn't even given him time for that before telling him that Alex had been hurt.
Of course he immediately agreed and didn't even think about why he had done so until now. He had stopped working and sat staring off into space, lost in thought. He wondered how Alex was doing.
She's Alex of course she's fine, she wouldn't say so even if she weren't anyways. He thought.
Why do I care how she's doing anyways? Why did I immediately agree to help the second I found out that she was hurt? I'm going to take over this rock they call a planet and enslave everyone I shouldn't care what happens to one of the very few who will actually stand in my way and have a chance of thwarting me. I really should do something about the three of them…maybe Gaz too, before I carry out my plans so there will be no way for them to get in the way this time, but what to do? Killing the Dib would be easy, but Sally cares about him and she is a challenging opponent even holding back and I can't kill Sally, that would be too hard and a waste of time to try. Killing Alex would be a challenge as well. He thought it over.
You wouldn't kill Alex even if it would be easy. You care too much about her to do that. A voice in the back of his mind told him. It was true but he was still too stubborn to admit it, just the small part of him in the back of his mind consistently reminded him of the fact that it was true even if he still denied it. He would not admit to feeling anything towards the female hybrid other than a mild friendship. As he tried to push his feelings aside he thought about her more. The smile on her face when he had woken up after being injured by Tak and the fact that she had taken care of him nearly nonstop for the two weeks of being out to keep him alive.
His mind wandered to the times that he had been alone with her when they would just be talking about anything that came to mind and how she understood when he avoided a topic and accepted him as a friend even though she would still fight against him to protect the Earth. The kiss they shared then crossed his mind and he found himself wanting to know what she thought of it. How she felt about it. Of course he wouldn't ask her about it, again he was too stubborn for that but he couldn't help but want to know.
"I love you Zim." He was sure that is what she had said, but was it because she was being affected by the painkillers? He could ask if she remembered anything, it wouldn't give away anything that she had done, if she didn't remember then they could go back to the way they were, if she did remember then he could as if she meant it…unless she denied it.
She's a hard person to follow. Usually It's easy to understand these pitiful humans but Alex is different. Sally use to be the same when she was keeping her family hidden as well as her heritage and most abilities but now she was more open and her sporadic behavior isn't as sporadic anymore, however Alex was still keeping things to herself even if she's told me a lot, she still keeps details to herself. Zim thought. He shook all of these thoughts from his mind for now, he would like to learn to be able to follow Alex's behavior but it seemed that that would not be happening anytime soon, he had a suspicious feeling that he would have to be at a point where they could both be close enough to have no need to keep secrets. Although he has heard Sally, her best friend, probably the only person she completely trusted as well, telling Alex how crazy her personality seemed to be, but Alex always kept her real feelings and emotions in check, the weather proved that.
If her emotions aren't affecting the weather then she's keeping them under control, so are her daily reactions and sporadic attitude simply a small amount of that? Not enough to affect the weather. He thought. He still wanted to test the power of that ability of hers, he knew it was dangerous, he had seen a taste of Alex's anger, since he himself was caught up in a fight as well he didn't have much time to pay attention. He shook his head to clear it of thoughts of Alex, weather they be confusion, curiosity or otherwise and went back to work.
Dib swallowed his pride and walked to where Sally and Alex had been living only to find out that they had moved out, rather quickly, earlier that morning.
"Do you know where they are now?" He asked.
"A friend of theirs helped them move out, I believe they are staying with him for now. A green kid about your height." She answered.
"Thank you." He said and left running to Zim's house and knocked on the door. A green dog with black ears and an obvious zipper on the front answered the door.
"Is Zim here?" Dib asked.
"No! Wait a minute…yes! He working!" Gir said.
"What about Sally and Alex?" He asked.
"They went to go find these places!" Gir said holding up a booklet with two small houses circled with a black marker.
"So they're staying here?" He asked.
Gir was not listening; he was now running to the kitchen screaming about taquitos and waffles burning or something like that. Dib had a hard time following Gir just as much as Zim and about the same amount of patients during similar situations. He rolled his eyes and left.
Alex and Sally looked around the first house and the surrounding area. They both liked how it was outside of the city, there were no neighbors to stick their noses in their business or people to come out there to try and break in unless it was personal. If that was the case then there would be no humans to get in the way or get hurt. The house was a little bigger than their apartment but it would need a lot of work done, not that either of them cared, they both had lived on and off the streets or out in the woods when they were free of, in Sally's case her family, and in Alex's case crazy scientists.
The second house was in the city but it was located in the middle of a small forest and there were some neighbors around. The house itself needed more work done and it was more expensive, however it was also bigger, not that Alex or Sally cared.
"Either way we'd need to furnish the places ourselves. The work that they would need aren't a problem for us, we can do those things ourselves but if we went with this house then we'd have no money left to furnish it." Sally said.
"And we don't really need that much space anyways. We have some things like the futon already. The first house is bigger than the apartment we had lived in just fine." Alex added.
"That's true. How long would it take for us to pay off the first house?" Sally asked the agent.
"Well considering the condition it is in and the size I would think very long depending on how much you can pay each time." He answered.
"And this one?" Alex asked.
"It would take longer if you worked equal to paying it off as the first house." He answered.
"Okay, I think we're going to go with the first house. We'll make an offer on it." Sally said.
"Let's hurry up and get this stuff done. We have work in an hour." Alex said to her. Sally shrugged her off with, "I know, I know."
They finished what they needed to and headed off to work until about midnight or so. They were both glad that they worked in the same area when they worked so late.
Me: Oh my God! Finally! Sorry y'all had some problems with getting this chapter going so I'm terribly sorry if it seems like one of those filler sort of chapters, there are things in here that needed to be put in. Also sorry if there are grammar mistakes I wanted to get this chapter out since I had planned on getting it out earlier this morning or last night so I'm just posting it now how it is. Oh! And I'm doing this with my other story as well but I want to try and see how this will go, I'm taking character ideas, if you want one of your OC's featured, yourself or one of your ideas I am willing to try it. If your idea does not fit my story line then I will write a side chapter for it. So yeah if anyone is interested just let me know in a review or personal message.
Alex: You're adding more characters? What happened to not bringing in more characters?
Cameron: Hey I might be featured.
Alex: Like hell!
Me: No fighting, I myself am not bringing any of my own characters in besides the ones that pertain to the story, BUT I want to see if others want themselves or their own character/ideas in it, it's a trial thing.
Thanks to everyone that has rated and continue to do so
