He had been watching the house, nothing stirred in it for about a week, he couldn't understand what had happened. Dib laid on his bed and stared at the celing. He sighed, wondering if this was just one of Zim's schemes. He reached under his pillow and pulled out a black leather notebook; he unwrapped the strap holding it shut and took out a pen. He scribbled some notes and observations down, like he did every day, and like everyday now, nothing had happened.

Dib slammed the book shut and got off his bed, he had made a decision, if Zim wasn't going to come to him, he would go to Zim. He pulled out some alien link up cuffs and raced downstairs, and out the door. He ran all the way to Zim's house and went up and knocked on the door. He looked around a bit and wondered why the Gnomes weren't doing anything. No one anserwed the door, so Dib slowly turned the knob and went into the room. All the lights were off and he had a hard time trying to stumble over the place. He saw Zim laying on the couch hugging his knees. Dib dropped his cuffs and went over to him.

"Zim, whats wrong, are you sick?

"....no...."

"Why haven't you left the house, is this one of your evil schemes?!"

"...it's over Dib, I'm giving up, you win.."

"But why...."

'It's gone...Irk...my planet...everything, it's all gone...I don't know what to do next..."

"HA! That proves it, you really are an alien! Now I can-" Dib stopped suddenly when he saw that Zim was crying. "Hey...don't cry.."
Dib knelt next to to the couch and put a hand on Zim's shoulder. He had completely forgot about turning him in. Zim pulled away from him a bit and burried his face in his pillow.

"Leave me alone, bring your humanoids here, show them what I am, I don't care..."

"I don't want to do that...I wont do that..."

"That's all you've BEEN doing since I got here!"

"Things change, I don't want to turn in some defenseless person..er..alien."

"Just go...please....."

"Tell you what…I'll come and check on you every so often, after school, make sure your ok…"
Zim didn't awnser, so Dib took it for a yes, and slowly walked out the door and went home.