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Chapter 14: Goodnight Glitches

The sound of thumping faded in and then out as a figure ran up the stairs past a few old cobwebs. Swaying as the wind of the figure rushed by them. Crying filled the air as tears fell onto the floor in front of the figure. Collapsing on a bag of cloth next to the window, her Identity spilled in the pale moonlight shining in the room, Caline embraced the bag crying. Why had she run into this rundown abandoned apartment? And why had she ran strait into room 66 on the 6th floor? They all seemed so familiar to her. The window was cracked open, and in the light of the moon you could see dust particles floating freely in the air. Standing up, Caline looked around. The apartment was just a few empty rooms of torn walls and hard-wood floor. There was a dresser next to the window in the room she stood in. Silently approaching it, Caline examined the dresser. She opened the top drawer, peering in and there it was. Her hands reaching in and pulling it out, it was a black heart shaped music box with red vines rounding and growing on it. Caline dusted it's glossy figure and opened it up. The soft sound of music caressed the air, her lips started to word the lyrics of the song. How did she know them? Caline had so many things to ask... so many questions... so little answers.

As you know, Zim and Dib had chased Caline off like this. But what happened after Caline had ran off?

Zim and Dib had sat there quietly in the front yard. Dib, watching his only chance of success running away from him... and Zim... the heart freakishly attached to his squeedly spooch began to ache. But why? Was he scared because he was confused about Caline's appearance? Was he upset that she was gone? What was this horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach?! Without saying a word to each other, for they were both upset and confused, they walked off. Dib did his usual thing, but Zim went back to the base to find Gir still gone. "Gir?" he asked into the microphone to contact him. "Gir get back to the base now... GIR!" Gir had not responded, even as ten minutes went by. Zim knew he wasn't out at the night club dancing with hot girls, that was usually on Fridays.

"Thank you taco lord! I LOVE YOU!!!" Gir squealed as he grabbed his tacos from the counter and left the Crazy Taco. Skipping down the street, his floppy ears bobbing behind him, and his antenna underneath the cloth of his disquise pressed against his head, he hummed a tune. But even though it was pressed to his head, Gir could still hear. And when passing up an old apartment, he heard crying. Looking up, the moon's light just enough for him to be able to use not even half of his night vision, Gir had finished the last of his taco and turned on the rockets in his feet. Flying up and into the doorway, the room was dark except for the bright light from the window. His eyes began to adjust as he saw a figure in the corner, her body was shadowed out but Gir could tell who it was. Creeping along into the room from the windowsill, Gir stopped, his faded shadow casting upon the young girl. Lifting her head, her green eyes flashed in the dark.

"Hi!" Gir yelled at the top of his lungs.

Caline jolted back, "Who are you?!"

Gir cocked his head, "My names Gir!" he said, really loud.

Caline sat up, "You're Zim's robot! He's told me all sorts of things about you! But Gir... have you by any chance seen a black doggy around here?" she asked. Caline was referring to Salem. Where was he? Why hadn't he been there to help her out when she needed him. Gir shrugged and took out a taco from his back and chomped it down. Caline sighed and looked down. A tear gleaming, the moon's light reflecting off it and bouncing into Gir's eye, he winced. When it fell and became a puddle of nothingness, Gir looked from where he thought it landed, up to Caline.

"Why are you crying? WHY ARE YOU SO SAAAAAD?!" he yelled.

Caline winced at the loud voice of his and sighed looking at the window, past his shoulder.

"Some stories are long... But this was what happened..."

Zim got irritated at Gir's disappearance, the fact that it was almost midnight and Gir had been gone for so long. Stomping out the door, Zim used his pak to navigate him where Gir was. Since he couldn't get a hold of him, Zim had to track him. His mind filled with loads of things, the tracking device had dragged Zim all the way across town. Down the streets, cop cars were running everywhere, their sirens blasting off. Zim winced and screamed, now knowing what they were chasing and hid under cover a few times. Finally, the tracker brought him in front of a large building. The walls were brick, but cracked everywhere. The windows were dusty and the inside was completely unseen, for beyond the windows was a blanket of darkness and the color black. Zim sighed and stared at the building for a moment, before crossing the street and up the cracked stone steps.

Gir yawned and fell back on the floor.

"Are you tired?" asked Caline.

Gir began to snore, but then awoke. He had a whole expression of drowsiness on his face. Caline chuckled and picked him up, then sat him back down on the back of cloth. It was good enough. Taking an old newspaper, she opened it up and lie it on Gir for his blanket. Caline opened the music box, the sounds beginning to dance in the air, playing soft and sweetly. She sucked in her breath and began to sing her lullaby that went with it's song for some freakish reason she knew the words.

"Goodnight, sleep tight,

No more tears.

In the morning, I'll be here."

The music paused for a moment then slowly started up as her voice did as well.

"When we say, good night.

Dry your eyes."

Once again the music paused, but played a little bit slower.

"Because we said, good night,

And not, goodbye."

The song softened lightly. Caline's voice grew soft to almost a singing whisper like the wind's.

"We said, good night,

and not..."

Zim's face peered into the doorway in which he heard singing come from. There Gir was, almost asleep as Caline closed her eyes and bowed her head, setting her hand on a box and slowly closing it as her last words to the song filtered the musty air once more.

"Good bye..." she held the note for a few seconds and looked back up. Gir was asleep, beginning to snore, she smiled and pat his little doggy head. But then, it hit her. She looked down at the newspaper. Reading the article but not daring to pick it up for she not wanted to awake Gir. Her finger tips gently pressing on the paper, the headlines read, 'City Girl Missing' with a picture of Caline, smiling like the world was perfect below it. Hot tears ran down her face as her pupils disappeared from her eyes. She was having flash backs, before she forgot her whole past. Caline now knew why Zim accused her of her presence in the lab months before. It was because of that plan. That plan that Renlia had created to destroy her, her species, and her only friend. But there was one flaw... Glitches. She'd had a glitch all along. The nightmares, the reason she stiffened up so tightly, her remembrance of this world. Caline was a glitch. The flashback occurred in her mind once more.

YAY! Finally done with this chappy. The song was 'Good Night' by Evanescence. Also, I'll clue you in and the whole next chappie will be Caline's flashback. Hope you Enjoyed this chappie, even though it was a bit shorter...