ZIM P.O.V.

I held onto Gaz for quite some time that night. I could see the red in her eyes from tears she shed previously, and I couldn't put her through something like that again. This new feeling I had was quite warm and I enjoyed her weight as she leaned against me in my kitchen. What I was doing was forbidden among the irken race, but I was feeling less irken and more ZIM than ever before.

Sadly my mouth said something that broke the contact, "If your brother could see us now he would flip." She jolted up as if remembering something and called out to the computer.

"Is my brother still somewhere in the base?" she asked. Soon a monitor showed up with Dib being attacked by a monkey, something I hadn't seen in years. "ZIM, whatever my brother thinks about my friendship with you is irrelevant, I think I will let him spend the night in there and then he can beg you for forgiveness."

"Neat, I like that side of you." I said admiring how we have both locked him in cages with monkeys now. Then it hit me, "Does that mean you're staying over tonight?"

"Well unless you take back that I can be here whenever I want I would love to spend as many nights here with you as possible." She said walking to the living room sofa, "But you need to acquire a bed, even if you don't sleep I need something more comfortable to sleep on."

I couldn't help but smile at her beautiful confidence and attitude. "Well let's go out then." I said as she stood there with a mouth agape and skin turning red, "we should acquire you a bed just for Gaz tonight." her normal complexion had returned on the second part of my sentence.

We managed to find an earth store open at late hours, I was impressed how they seem to keep the sales slaves there at late hours so obediently, and found her a queen sized bed. Next we picked out purple sheets with a comforter with a certain vampire piggy hunter. We were in and out after handing the register drone some earth monies I've acquired through trading in earth minerals I've found through the volt cruiser scanner. Once everything was loaded onto the ship we made our way back to base.

I was amazed at what had transpired thus far into the night. I had hung myself feeling worse than ever before having these conflicting emotions for the enemy, but the same person who made me feel these once horrid feelings brought me back to my real self. I admired her beauty in my peripherals and smiled. She seemed to be thinking about something the entire way home and soon we were unloading into my houses attic.

"Computer can you make a room for Gaz in the lower parts of the base? Something where her bed and a couple of clothing storage units can fit?" I asked as we came down the elevator from the attic.

"Yes master." The computer obeyed me diligently. Soon we were assembling her bed as she yawned and eyes started getting heavier. She sat next to me and leaned on me as I did my part to get her bed in working order before she would fall asleep sitting like that.

Luckily Gir showed up and started screaming her awake, "Gazzy you gonna live here now?" he asked with his strained smile across his metallic face.

"No Gir, but I am going to be keeping on eye on ZIM to make sure he doesn't try to swing like that again." She said punching me in the arm. "Seriously though, you scared the hell out of me tonight." She said resting her face on her knees.

"ZIM apologizes; these feelings were meant to be out of my system at birth, so naturally we never underwent training on how to deal with them we usually just kill the infection before it spreads on Irk."

"I know, but what you said when you woke up made me happy, you know?" she was looking at me with those amber eyes burning into my ocular transplants. "When you said you loved me, even if that love is as a friend, it made me feel happy." She was getting quieter. Even if she was born into a society that romanticized such confusing emotions she was new at them as well.

"Gaz, too be honest I don't think it's only as a friend." I said as I finished laying her mattress on top of the frame, "For you I am willing to give up my planet, and as I've shown tonight, even my own life. Gaz I want you as my, what do the earth monkeys call it? Love Pig?" I looked at her feeling hot in the head and my heart racing once again.

She stood up and sat down on her new bed, "Well it's not what we normally call those kinds of relationships, and it's certainly not normal for me to agree to that kind of relationship with an alien from the stars." I said looking a little sad and sat next to her. She then wrapped her arms around me and said a few words I will never forget, "It's not normal, but it is mine and I love it."

I reciprocated the exchange of body heat with her and we both lay down. Neither one speaking or moving, just enjoying the feel of each others bodies against the other. Eventually she fell asleep and Gir came up smiling at me. "Oh all right just this once." I whispered to the robot, and he came and hugged both me and my new Love Pig and as he himself fell asleep at the foot of the bed my heart slowed down, my body relaxed and in the first time in what felt like years I closed my eyes and fell asleep in the arms of my purple haired lover.

A.N. so yeah, a little corny and maybe a bit rushed, but this was a hard chapter to write about. I haven't had something like this in a few years so my views on "Love" are a little rusty. Let me know what you think though maybe I'm just paranoid.