Epilogue

It took only a few days for Dib to fully recover. When he was discharged from the lab's hospital, everyone was ready to go back home, as they all stayed in the lab until Dib was fully recovered. They walked into the parking lot together, taking their luggage and Professor Membrane excused himself to go get the car as the teenagers waited in place.

"Hey, boy." Dib heard someone calling him and looked up to see none other than John Darcy staring down at him. "So, you're back."

Dib didn't say anything. He simply lowered his head, ignoring him.

"Look… I must apologize for the way I treated you." Darcy said, surprising Dib. "It was also my fault that you got bitten, so I might apologize for that, as well."

Dib looked up at him astounded. "Why are you apologizing?"

Darcy sighed. "Because I also got bitten." He rose his sleeve to show a bite mark on his forearm. "I've been through the exact same as you and, I have to say, it's no sea of roses."

Dib softened his expression before speaking. "Thank you." They all fell in uncomfortable silence for a moment before Dib spoke up. "Are you walking back home?" He asked Darcy.

"No. I actually have someone picking me up." Darcy answered.

Just as he finished the sentence, a car stopped in front of them. The passenger's seat window retreated to show cable Jovovich on the driver's seat.

"That's my ride." Darcy said as in a way of saying goodbye to them as he walked up to the car.

"Hey, kid!" Jovovich turned her attention to Dib as Darcy got in the car. "How are you feeling?"

"Uhm…" Dib stuttered nervously. "Much better, thank you."

"That's good to hear." Jovovich smiled at him. "It's good to have you back."

Dib couldn't reply to that. He simply scratched the back of his head, smiling embarrassingly. They all looked at Jovovich as she saluted and sped off before Membrane showed up with his car. Everyone got inside and drove straight back home.

Tak sat on Dib's lap as they made out fully naked on his bed. She was taken in by the Membrane family since she didn't have a place to stay, and Gaz never said a word, but they could see that it still bothered her. Not for the fact of having Tak in their house, but for the fact that she and Dib couldn't get their hands off each other. They broke the kiss to stare at each other tenderly before Dib buried his head on her chest, taking in her scent, however, their peace of mind was interrupted by someone knocking on the door.

"Are you two finished in there, yet?" They heard Gaz's annoyed voice coming from the other side. "Dad will be here any minute!"

They sighed before getting off each other and getting dressed before heading downstairs, where Zim and Gaz were watching TV on the living room couch, hugging each other. They looked up when they saw Dib and Tak descending the stairs to meet them. Dib and Tak sat down on the opposite corner of the couch as Dib eyed Zim and his sister suspiciously.

"I still can't believe you two are dating." He said. "Or maybe not so much, since I actually expected that."

"What are you complaining about?" Gaz said. "Do you think you're the only one who gets to bang an alien?"

"Gaz!" Dib exclaimed shocked as he, as well as Zim and Tak, blushed uncomfortable by Gaz's comment.

They suddenly stopped by the sound of the garage door opening. Membrane came into the room, staring at the teenagers before speaking up.

"Hello, everyone!" He greeted. "Are you ready to leave?"

Membrane got different after all the "zombie apocalypse" drama. He was more present on his children's lives, so they had more family moments together. It was all very foreign to them at first, but they got used to it with time. The teenagers smiled at the father figure before getting up from the couch and turning off the TV as they followed him back to the garage, arguing about what restaurant they would pick that time as they got in the car.

About a year passed, and the world was almost completely clean from the zombie plague. It was safer to walk around the streets and the infected were extinguishing with the help of the antidote. Dib and Tak were walking through the streets hand-in-hand as they were heading back home after one of their many dates. They were too distracted looking at each other to notice a family walking passed them. Suddenly, the daughter of said family bumped hard on Dib as she ran to try and catch up to her parents.

"Sorry." Dib said to the girl as she stared up at him with a shocked gaze and Dib stared back at her with equal expression on his face.

He knew that girl: long, brown hair, which was now tied up into a ponytail, brown eyes and the facial features of a twelve-year-old. She was eleven when Dib found her the first time, when she was running for her life from a zombie when he went to gather supplies from the city. He always wondered if he got to save her and what were her whereabouts. They kept staring at each other for long minutes, making Tak confused.

"Doot!" Her mother suddenly called her and she looked back at her, before turning to Dib one more time.

"Thank you." Was all she said before running up to her parents.

Dib stretched out his hand, as if to try and hold her back, but she was already walking away with her parents before Dib could do anything.

"Dib…" Tak called. "Who was that girl?"

Dib took a moment to respond. "She's the girl who I became a zombie to save her life."

Tak was astounded, looking at the departing girl as she didn't look back.

"Was it worth it?" Tak asked.

Dib held an unreadable expression on his face as he watched the girl depart with her parents, taking a glance back to smile at him as Dib smiled back.

The answer to that question was obvious… "Every second of it."

THE END.