Sooo sorry for the wait, I know people have been asking me to continue and I shall. C:

I semi-skipped with Zim to this 'other bathroom'. I guess it was the one he'd always use. I felt a bit bad for making Zim…feel uncomfortable but it was starting to become an addiction to me, I should really stop. The sight of Zim like that was just so new and exhilarating to me. It was like it never got old…and maybe never will. I wasn't sure if that was good thing or not.

We turned a corner that I thought was kind of familiar and then I saw the bathroom. Zim turned around before we got in and gave me a suspicious look.

"Dib, are you sure you want to do this?" the alien asked as if I was risking my very life. I just nodded and smiled huge.

" Sure do!" I said happily. Zim just sighed and headed in the room.

It was a lot darker in hue than my bathroom. This one being a vibrate yet dark purple or maybe magenta while my much more human looking bathroom was white like most human bathrooms.

"Why is it so dark in here?" I asked, looking around at the circular indent in the ground which I assumed was the tube Zim bathed in. I looked to the other side of the room to see that that was pretty much it, besides a rack holding various items for the bath.

"It gets irkens in the mood." I heard the alien say from beside me. If I wasn't mistaken, I could hear a bit of a husky undertone to that statement, I turned to look at the alien and I saw a hint of…lust or something in Zim's eyes and a smirk made itself present on the green skin.

"In…the mood?" I questioned confusedly as Zim took my arm and took me to the front of the tub. He leaned over behind me and turned on some switch and instantly I heard something flow into the tub. It didn't sound like water so I turned to check it out but I was pulled back before I got to see anything.

"Hey-" I complained but Zim shushed me and lightly dragged his long and sharp claws down my chest. Shutting me up and getting my full attention.

"Dib-thing, allow Zim to undress you…ok" the alien asked in a sly yet cute voice. I felt my face go really hot. It was stuff like this that really got to me. Blow jobs and kisses were no problem but sweet little touches were enough to make my knees go weak, which they did, now.

I simple nodded my head and watched Zim slowly slid his fingers under my shirt and just as slowly left the fabric over my front. I could still feel my face go red and now I was getting goose bumps all over. I lifted my arms over my head so Zim could properly remove my shirt and then heard the fabric hit the floor.

"Mmm." Zim moaned as he rubbed his face against my bare chest and my heart quicken. I was kind of speechless, I didn't expect this at all, I actually wanted to simple sit in a tub and maybe wash each other but even that was saying a lot to me. I wasn't big on that stuff for this every reason…it made my heart flatter!

With his body still against mine, Zim slowly snaked his hands into the front of my pants. The action made me jump a bit and make a nervous noise in the back of my throat, which in turn made Zim chuckle. The liquid running in the background creased and I felt my pants release and slid down my hips a little, then Zim took them, along with my boxers, and tugged down.

Zim chuckled and stayed put as I wiggled my legs out of the clothes. Zim didn't even look down when I was completely undressed but he didn't move, yet.

"Y-you know I-I thought you were mad at me for what happened in the elevator!" I almost squeaked from the cold. I was quite sure we came here to get cleaned not dirty again…

"Oh, but Dib, Zim is mad, quite mad." The alien finally said as he stepped back, with that smirk on again. I just stared at the alien, just knowing that something was wrong.

"This is simply pay back, Dib-love~" Zim cooed.

"Huh?" I uttered until Zim pushed both his palms against my chest and in a flash I was falling backwards.

"Ahh!"

Right into the wa-oh,uh…this was not water!

I frantically try to sit up but I was having a really hard time. This liquid was very thick…then it clicked in…

"How's the water, Dib?" Zim asked in that sleazy voice. Once I was finally sitting up straight I quickly examined myself and looked up at Zim with pure anger in my eyes.

"Water! Are you kidding me! That was uncalled for you asshole!" I screeched at the alien as he undressed himself.

"No, you wanted to bathe with Zim and this is bathing with Zim. Zim and his good buddy, paste~" Zim said as he stepped into the tub. I was too frustrated to noticed the naked alien as I tried to swipe the goop off me.

"Oh my god Zim, this will never come off, it's so fucking sticky!" I whined like a bitch as I began to panic, this was just fucking awful and I wanted to punch the other male beside me.

"Well maybe if you humans had silky smooth skin like us irken, the stickiness would slip right off." Zim flaunted as he moved his body around the cursed liquid easily. I felt like shit in the stuff.

"Well, if you irkens didn't have shitty ass skin unlike us humans then water would sizzle on it!" I snapped back.

"Silly Dib, water only evapourites on my skin because it is far to hot!" Zim yelled back.

"Why does it burn then, huh! Explain that space boy!"

"It's sensitive!" Zim whined.

We stared at each other for a bit. Me, pissed off beyond belief and Zim thinking he was the coolest damn thing.

"I hate you." I said, looking away and debating whether I should ditch or not. I really should but I couldn't with Zim still staring at me. Finally, it began to irk me. "What!"

Zim seemed to jump like he was in a daze of some sort.

"N-nothing!" The green boy squeaked and I gave him a weird look.

Zim looked down then around awkwardly. "Dib…why did you say that…nobody loved you…?"

The question really throw me off guard, to the point where I felt frozen in time for a second. "What?" was all I could utter. I was confused, shocked and a little scared.

"At the picnic ta-" Zim said before I interrupted with frustration.

"I know that! But what? What does it matter?" I questioned angrily. Why would he bring it up?

"It does, clearly, Dib." Zim was getting angry as well.

"I was sad! So I said it, it meant nothing!" I argued back. It was half of the truth…if not the whole truth…

"Then what would you do if someone did love you?" Zim said with an edge and looked at me straight in the eyes. He could probably see the fear in mine now spreading.

It was silent. For quite some time.

I thought hard about the answer. I needed to think back to how I used to be, how I would feel if I actually was loved…then I came up with my answer.

"I'd love them back." I said as sincerely as I could because really, I would. Not so much anymore...

I watched as Zim shifted awkwardly on his side of the tub. He had that 'I want to ask more' look on his face.

"Spill it out." I told Zim seriously and he looked at me, shocked for about a second.

"How would you know they…loved you?" he asked as he leaned forward, towards me. I watched as he sat in front of my disgusted body covered in paste. He reached behind me and did a few things before he was back with a sponge covered in soap.

I thought for a minute. "I guess I wouldn't…unless they told me."

Suddenly, I felt the sponge on the chest. "Zim!" I said in shock as the alien started scrubbing.

"It'll repel the paste human." Zim said with a concentrated voice he had. I relaxed and slapped myself mentally when I let out a smile. Fucking cute ass alien.

"I could do it myself you know." I mused.

"Or Zim could do it for you." Zim countered and I couldn't counter that since I liked the idea better.

I made a satisfied and acute moan in my throat at the feeling but I did have a problem with how we just dropped that subject…

Funny because I was pissed when we brought it up.

"So…what was with all the love questions?" I asked as Zim turned me around to do my back, which I found to be very un-Zim-like…

"this love you humans need so dearly is…intriguing." Zim said casually. He was tense about it before…liar, something was up.

"Yeah? Irkens need no one right, so I guess love is not something you guys have…makes sense why you'd find it…intriguing." I said as if it was nothing new to me. It really wasn't though, I knew just about everything about irkens and more specifically, Zim.

"Yes , that is true…" Zim said softly.

I felt the paste just melt away and it was an awesome feeling. It was weird too since I felt like no bath with water would be required any more. Frigging irken technology.

"So why do you keep me around?" I asked curiously.

"You're irken property." Zim quickly stated.

"Nooo, I am a human being." I corrected him.

"Zim's human being."

I blushed. Damn it I blushed hard. I cursed when I blushed ever more as Zim started washing my hair. As if the alien could wash hair when he had none.

For making me so red in the face I figured it was time for pay back.

"How do Irkens mate?" I asked as innocently as I could. I felt Zim's movements jerk and a smirk splashed across my face.

"H-How is Zim supposed to know! I am a irken elite, we were caught no such thing!" The alien said in that snotty voice that I was beginning to love.

"Oh? So I'll be on top since I'll have to show you." I snickered and turned to look at the other male's face and sure enough, it was as flushed as can be.

"N-N-No! Zim will not allow it!" the tiny male flailed his arms in anger.

"Not allow what? Me topping you or having sex at all? Cause I'll have sex with you and being a bottom is no issue here, I just need to know that you know what you're doing." I explained to the tomato faced Zim only to watch it increase in volume with each word.

"You-!" Zim stuttered, clearly speechless and embarrassed. "You dirty human!"

"Hey!" I acted like I was hurt. "There's nothing dirty about wanting to make love!"

That was where Zim froze. After a while even I froze. Maybe that was too much…over-doing it for Zim.

"It was a joke…" I clarified. Zim looked like he breathed again.

"Right. A joke." The alien said dryly.

"Right…" I bowed my head in slight shame. I didn't know what I was feeling, or what Zim was feeling but something was happening…I just didn't know what it was.

"Bath time's over human, you might want to wash your bottom part, it'll still be sticky." Zim said as he climbed out of the tub and grabbed a towel.

I just nodded and watched the green skinned alien leave the room.

I hit a nerve, a trigger and I wasn't sure it if was a good or a bad thing. All I know was that it was an awkward thing...

Only a few chapters left I believe. ^u^