"Zim? Zim? Please talk to me." Snapping her fingers in front of a seated zoned out Irken, she looked to Gir and to Mini Moose for hopeful guidance. Double taking in Mini Moose's sudden appearance, she'd have to wonder where he had been keeping himself the whole time. Her responsibility was to Zim right now. "Zim, please talk. It has been two hours since you've heard that recording. I'm worried about you."

"Mastah want a muffin?" Gir hopped close to him presenting a plastic muffin to him.

Gently moving the muffin aside, she shook her head at him. "Gir, that is a toy muffin, but thank you for helping."

"Meep meep meep meep meep." Mini Moose said.

Gaz honestly didn't want to be rude to him since she never understood a word he ever said ever, so she shrugged. "Do whatever you think you feel is right."

Mini Moose came close to Zim's zombie like face, and whispered its indecipherable language to him. Looking down to Gir, he simply offered her a thumbs up with a happy smile.

Oh what I wouldn't do to have, Dib here right now, she thought.

Putting her hands on both sides of his face, she spoke softly. "Zim, I really am worried about you. I know you are not pleased with the news, but I need you here with us. Perhaps you are formulating something in that head of yours, but seriously I need you to do something. Anything."

There is was. Zim's blank, unblinking expression. He wasn't looking at anyone. Blank expression along with tight lips.

"Computer, could you bring him to his room please. I, at least want him comfortable." Gaz requested. Not a single word was spoken from the Computer, just a single clawed tentacle, came from the ceiling gently grabbed, Zim by his pak, and lifted him. Watching him disappear through the ceiling. She smiled at Mini Moose and Gir's worried expressions. "He'll be back guys. He just needs to process." Walking over the the lift, she wasn't forgetting something else. "Thank you, Computer."

"You are welcome, Mistress. He is in his chamber now."

Arriving at his chamber, she shut the door, and walked to his bedside to sit down beside him. Taking his hand, she contemplated many thoughts in her head. She was tired and she was worried. "I'll be here when you decide to come to." Laying down by his side, she faced him placing her hand on his chest, and laid there. It felt like forever before she fell asleep, but when she did it was the deepest sleep she ever felt.

Darkened park with her sitting against a tree crying away. Once again she came to blows with her brother again, and the words that were said would be the words that sent her here. He really didn't know she came here to get away, and that suited her just fine. Her 16th birthday is today, and this is her present. Stupid, dumb tears.

"Again with the tears?" Came his familiar voice.

Sniffing up some snot and tears, she honestly didn't want him to see her like this. "Please go away, Zim."

Ignoring her, he came up to her side, and sat down. "I can't. You made it my duty to make you feel better."

Breathing out a curse, she shook her head. "Thank you, I appreciate that, but please go away."

"You can say that until the Mickles come home, but I won't."

"Mickles? What the heck is a Mickle?"

Zim smiled. "Worm type race that was taken to extinction." Looking at her, he added. "Yes, by us."

"Geez, you guys have any regrets in doing this stuff?"

"No. It is what we are taught and it is what we know." Leaning his head against the tree he studied the night sky. The humans had names for each of the constellations, but he knew most of the names of each 'star' there was up there. "Tell me what he said this time to get you like this."

"No Zim." Scratching her forehead, she then ran her hand through her scalp. "They are just words."

"Hmm really? And yet here you are shedding water." He tried to not sound sarcastic, but it ended up sounding like it.

"Quiet or I'll cry directly on you." Gaz emptily threatened. "He left me a voicemail and a text saying he is sorry."

"But the words still hurt."

"Yes." Looking at him staring up into the sky, she wondered what he thought about. "I need to calm down before I go back home."

Handing her a tissue finally, he simply nodded his head, and told himself he would sit here with his human friend until she was ready.

Gaz woke up and had to recall that she wasn't in her room. Seeing, Zim's arms around her waist, she gingerly turned around to look into his softened expression. "Zim?" Seeing him nod was encouraging. Rolling around to face him, she said. "Where were you? You had me worried."

He gave her a small soft smile. "I'm so sorry, Gaz, I was enraged, then I had to formulate a plan inside my head, and I..."

"You could of said to me, I need to be alone for a little bit, not go catatonic on me." Placing a gentle hand on his face. "Please don't do that to me again, Zim."

Enjoying his hand around her waist, he smiled a little bigger. "Rest assured, I won't."

"So do you care to share with me this plan you have, or do I have to wait?"

"No, my Gaz, you don't"

In the near darkness of Zim's chambers he spoke to her in secret of everything that transpired within the vastness of his great mind.