I will not give out what will happen, just like I won't say when Dib and Zim will finally meet.

The memories were becoming more rampant lately. She knew they were memories and not just random dreams. It always starred, Dib mostly. He was either annoying, supportive, happy, friendly, and mostly brotherly. Only once she woke up in her bed literally crying as she remembered something incredibly heartbreaking. Something that changed her from this happy child to something like a demonseed. She remembered him coming to her at night holding her as she cried, and even though she pushed him away because she didn't want the touch, he stayed in her room to sleep on the ground. She built these security robots in disguise of these stuffed animals to help protect her, and they did help her, but she knew it was mostly him. It was her brother that helped keep her safe.

After she dressed and got her breakfast, she went into the practice room to watch Zim already in full practice mode. She studied him like she always did before he halted.

"Did you sleep well, little Gaz?" She knew by now how they regarded height on his planet, but it wasn't spoken as an insult with how he said it. It seemed more of a term of endearment as he came up to her to take her hands in his own to hold them up palms up in the air.

"More memories. This one the absolute worse." Gaz replied. "How did you rest?" She knew he hardly slept since he didn't require it like she did.

"Up all night working." Zim studied her face loving her still determination there in her eyes not wishing to relent on how restless those dreams were leaving her. "You well enough to train?"

Smiling at him, she looked suddenly energized. "Hell yes." Zim beamed back at her as he stepped away from her.

While Zim loved her sheer surprising strength and sometimes speed, he did notice she was becoming a bit over eager. Perhaps she was just gearing herself up for his legs to come out like they so often did, but he decided to surprise her by ducking, twisting, and turning till he wrapped his arms around her from behind to whisper in her ear.

"Expecting them to come out?" Zim panted at catching her scent making him close his eyes for a second which was his mistake when she managed to throw him over her back flipping him to the ground to instantly straddle him placing his hands above his head.

She had such a wicked glint in her eye. "I was expecting something to come out, but not that." Gaz winked at him rolling away from him to prepare for another attack.

Zipper tooth grin in place, he kicked himself onto his feet gazing at his vixen. "Oh you were? Missed me already, little Gaz?"

Gaz fought her smile at the way he quirked his eyebrow ridge up just now. "Nah." Making a quirky expression of her own, she saw him spring at her making her jump away. "Is that all the Mighty Zim has for me today?" She teased.

In actual combat you are not to get turned on by the enemy, but Zim was becoming primal with her as he went at her again making him get sloppy and hitting the wall. "Are we getting cocky now?"

Gaz gave him her most innocent expression. "Nope, but I believe you are the one who needs more sleep, Zim." She winked at him again making her tumble away before connecting to his leg making him fall to the ground. Surveying him, she almost went and kissed him.

She looked primal herself as she glided around studying him as he laid there. "See anything you like, Gaz?"

Crinkling her nose, she shook her head. "Nah."

Extending one of his pak legs out he went to snatch her by the foot, making her actually move out of the way of him. Sitting up, he extended another out to attack from both directions in which she moved cleanly out of the way. Zim smiled at her there before getting up to retract them back in. She settled for a second when he quickly extended them all out grabbing her and bringing her to him.

"You did good with two of them just not all of them at once, but there is improvement." Zim had to appraise her there.

"Can you tell me something else about your pak at least." Gaz asked as she remained calmed within the embrace of those legs. She became use to them by now.

"We can't last more than 10 minutes without it if it is removed."

Gaz was surprised he told her that bit of information.

Bringing her closer to him, he brushed his lips against her own. "It would be impossible for you to rip off the pak of every Irken you encounter on the battlefield. Also I would like to have soldiers left to fight for me so I'd appreciate it if you don't do that."

"That would be pointless to do all that and a waste of time and energy." Gaz surmised enjoying that when he spoke his lips kept touching her own.

"Enough training for one day."

Noticing he wasn't letting her go, she gave him an amused expression as she let out a small laugh. "Well this is interesting."

"Don't worry, I won't be using these in bed with you, little Gaz." Zim promised as he went to his quarters. "I prefer my hands and mouth on you instead."

The night felt eerily quieter than usual. It felt like the stars and the moon were missing that night. She didn't see the night light in the hallway for both Dib and her just in case they stumbled heading to the bathroom. She heard the distant crackle of an upcoming storm on the horizon making the air seem more colder. Gaz woke with a start. She felt like someone touched her. She felt her name called out to her. Scared, but feeling her voice catch, she slowly slid out of the bed clutching herself for warmth.

Walking silently into the hallway, she tiptoed to, Dib's room, and opened the door to find him fast asleep. She called his name out, but he wasn't waking. Telling herself to be a brave girl, she walked slowly to her parents bedroom to find it partially open. Slowly she opened it calling out to her parents to find the sheets were messed up on her mom's side while her dad's side was still decent. Hearing a noise downstairs, she assumed her mom was down there getting something to drink so she went down the stairs.

Reaching the bottom step, she heard a gasp, and something clinking on the ground. Gaz's heart started to pound as she took baby steps towards the kitchen only stopping to hear more gasping breaths and the sound of the door opening. Taking a deep breath, her voice sounded even smaller than before, "Mom?" More gasping breaths. Gaz got the nerve to step into the kitchen to find her mother on the floor with a thick glass on the ground with some spilled liquid on the ground.

Scared and panicking, she went to her mom as she saw her scared eyes staring at her. "Mom?!" Gaz attempted to help her, and told her to hold on "DIB!" She screamed out as she jumped to the phone on the wall to dial emergency, but was slammed to the ground by someone. Looking up through her massive pile of hair, she felt a hand go to the collar of her shirt.

"Your father should of listened. He should of done the project." The man warned before dropping her heavily on the ground. "Morals doesn't always win, little girl."

"Gaz?!" Came Dib's voice from above as he was heard running down the hallway and to the stairs.

Gaz watched this man leave in the dead of night before she looked over to see her mom still gasping. "Mom?" She whispered coming over to her side. "Please stay. Dib is coming down. Please stay. Please."

"Gaz?" Dib rounded the corner before his eyes fell on their mother. "MOM!" Running over to her, he looked at her before running to the phone to call emergency.

Gaz remained focused on their mother even as Dib called their dad. Gaz kept begging her to fight it.

"Dad is coming home right now and an ambulance is coming over. What happened?" Dib asked as he tried to help.

"A man was here, he threatened... I know he did this... He attacked me." Gaz told him as she stared at her mom's face.

"I'm proud of both of you. Your mom loves you both. Remember that. Tell dad I love him too." Their mom gasped out spitting up blood.

"Mom! Mom! Dib! Please." Gaz begged him through tears.

Dib was fighting back tears of his own as he kept begging her to fight it, but when they both saw their mother's eyes glazed over and ceased breathing, Gaz screamed out before Dib gathered her up in his arms holding her tight. Gaz remembered how Dib didn't seem to blink as he held her. She remembered their dad coming home as devastation went right through him. She remembered the endless questions asked of her. How she noticed the change in their dad, as Dib tried to hold it together for at least her sake. She remembered that the very second she witnessed her mother's body being carted out of the house like it was nothing to them, that something changed within her. She remembered how she pulled away from even, Dib's touch simply because it reminded her of that man putting his grubby paws on her and her mother.

Gaz's eyes snapped open at the dream as she tried to control her breathing so she doesn't disturb, Zim who is resting next to her. Looking beside her, she couldn't even marvel at his own body as she quietly sat up. She needed to leave. She didn't need him to see her like this as tears are threatening to fall. Hearing him move a little, she felt his hand on her back.

"Little Gaz, come lay back down." Zim moaned out.

Swallowing, she shook her head, as pride kept taking over more and more. "No, go back to sleep, you need it... Um I'm gonna go and uh."

Zim noticed in the reflection and the shakiness in her voice that something was wrong making him sit up to move the hair away from her face so he can look at her. "Gaz, stay." There was moistness around her eyes making her look away from him as she tried to slip away from him, but he held her gently next to her.

This was humiliating. This is a weakness as she struggled against him. "No, I'm not good to you like this. Let me leave, Zim."

Putting his hands on both sides of her face to have her look him directly in the eyes, he told her sternly. "You aren't good to me if you run off like a coward, Gaz. Talk to me."

Irk, those eyes are beautiful when she's like this as well, Zim thought before having to shake himself out of that feeling so he can focus on her.

"My mom's death and me walking in at the tail end only to get attacked." Her voice was so soft she was afraid she barely heard herself speak. "Murdered. I remember being close to her." Gaz placed her knees up to her chest just to bury her head there.

Positioning himself in front of her knees, he kissed the top of her head. He never gave comfort to anyone before, well maybe to an upset Gir, but this was different.

"You didn't intend for me to forget this stuff were you?" She queried.

"No, because I found you unique already. I just added some new stuff like my language, and other things like to obey me. Though you are very strong minded there. I did keep changing my mind on doing it, but I know it really doesn't work." Zim replied. "They tried to re-program me into something I'm not and I fought against the program. So it doesn't work."

Gaz looked up to hold his gaze. "How are you so sure that I will help you if you know how stubborn I am? Thinking your penis is going to keep me properly anchored here?"

Zim chuckled at that. "No, but my attraction to you did come as a surprise to me. I never cared to look at others this way." Brushing some hair back from her face, he mostly used that as an excuse to touch her again. "I think we work well together. I can take the good with the bad just as long as you can with me."

Feeling a little uncomfortable, she laid back down on her back as she scrutinized him. "I don't know if I can take any more bad that you have to give me now." Gaz said in her response trying to make it a lighter conversation.

Fighting his member from hardening again just to make her feel at ease, he tried to adjust himself, but that keen look in her eyes told him he was found out. "I won't apologize for this when it was your fault in the first place."

She smiled in spite of how she was feeling right now. "I'm afraid of having a worse memory than that."

"Well talk to me and don't try to run off like last time. I'm listening."

Getting up on her knees, she hugged him thanking him for that while feeling his arousal against her. Kissing him, she positioned him between her legs. "Is there anything I can help you out with, Zim?"

While she loved his surprising strength, she was still not comfortable with how he can easily move her around as he placed her back on her back. "Do not leave this room for the rest of the evening." He instructed as he nipped her neck.

Letting out a mewling sound, she agreed to that one right away.