Disclaimer:I don't own Zim.This almighty person ~drags Jhonen out of shadows~ Does. ~shoves him back into the shadows~. I own Nep, and her bots, and Kina, Bix, and the alternate folks.This story is mine, not anyone else's.I love cliffhangers, and I love lemons and sappy romance stories with action.This is sortof one.Now, shuttup, sit back, and read!




'It's finally over,' thought Zim. 'My life is over.'
He wasn't referring to his being on an autopsy table, oddly. Instead, he was referring to seeing Nep and Dib so happy together. Nep was the beautiful aqua-eyed 14-yr-old Irken princess. Dib was a human, and a despicable one at that. It didn't seem that love could form between two such different beings. But it did, and Zim was left out, in the cold.
'Impossible.' Zim thought again. 'Absolutely impossible.' He shook his head. A single tear rolled down his cheek, the first of many. "Are you going to talk all day or kill me now?" he called out, his voice cracking.
"Zim?Why are you crying?" Nep came and stood beside him, and wiped the tear away, her hand so soft and caring. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing!" Zim snapped bitterly, as a fresh onslought of tears began their journey down his cheek. "I...just...oh nevermind! You wouldn't understand!"
"What wouldn't she understand?" Dib walked over, and Nep motioned for him to leave.
"Can you..leave a moment?I'll talk with you later." Nep squeezed Dib's hand, and he grudgingly left them alone. "Zim?Please tell me what's wrong. I'll understand..or try to." She undid the straps on the table, releasing Zim's bonds. "Please?" She wiped away the new tears that streamed down his cheeks, and he pressed her hand to his cheek.
"You were the only thing that matters to me..and that filthy stink-worm ...Dib... took you away." He looked away from her, new tears falling. "Now I'm going to die of a broken squeadily-spooch or of being dissected. It doesn't matter, though. Dying..is dying. I just wish I didn't have to die...alone." He turned towards her again.The tears now flowed freely down his face, leaving dark green lines behind them. Nep took a towel and dried these also.
"Zim..I didn't know you felt that way..." She sat on the table with him, amazed.
"There's a lot you don't know about me. A whole lot." He set the towel down and placed his hand on Nep's cheek.
"We can still be friends..right? The Tallest don't want me around you..but we don't have to tell them, right?" She stroked his antennae lightly.
"Curse the Tallest!They sent me to this filthy, spinning ball of dirt to get rid of me! And you know it! I wish friends was enough...before it might have been, but it's not anymore. I want to share my life with you. I..." here his voice cracked again.."I want you to love me like you love Dib. I want to grow old, and die with you. Then we can leave this filth ball together and when the time comes, rule as Tallests! No more running around, trying to conquer planets! We'll have each other!" While making this speech, he had got up and began pacing around, occasionally throwing his hands up, or looking at Nep. "But you're about to kill me, so it's all over. But..before you say anything, I want one kiss before I die. Please?" He got on his knees and begged. A single tear fell down Nep's cheek, leaving a light green path behind it. Zim stood up, shocked, and wiped it away. Nep pressed his hand to her cheek.
"Oh, Zim..I can't. Dib....I love him.I won't kill you. I can't. But....One kiss... I suppose so. It can't hurt anything..." She was wrong. But more on that later. She leaned forward and kissed his cheek, but Zim pulled away.
"I mean like you kiss Dib. You said...."He stopped when she kissed him, full on the mouth.He closed his eyes in bliss. "Thank you. I..you don't know what that meant to me."
He held her close, while she sobbed. "It's alright now..."She looked up, the tears falling freely into the air. "Don't cry... oh, Nep don't cry. Please.." He took the towel and dried her face.
"Oh...what have I done...." She leaned her face into his cheast, still sobbing. Zim held her close, and after a moment's thought, slipped out of the lab carrying her. Dib had gone to get a coke, leaving the exit clear. Zim carried her all the way across the city to his house, and laid her on his bed. She fell asleep almost instantly, but when he tried to leave, she whimpered, and groped wildly till she found his hand. He stayed there, and eventually laid down, and Nep snuggled up to him.
"Nite Dib..." she said, sleepily. Zim smiled at her sadly.
"Nite Nep." He fell asleep, with Nep lying against his cheast, smiling.

Dib, back at the lab, was sitting in a chair, with his head in his hands. "Why... how could I have done that? I never should have left them alone. Knowing Zim, he could have done anything to her! Raped her, murdered her..." He sobbed, and then looked up, rage in his eyes. "I'll find him. And whatever it takes...I'm gonna get him for this." He picked up a dissecting knife, pocketed it, and began walking to his house for preperations. "he's going to pay... oh yes, he's going to pay."


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"Where is she?! What have to done to her?" Dib flashed the dissecting knife.He ponted it to Zim's heart.
"She's fine!Asleep, tired, and confused!That's all, desperate human!!" Zim backed away from this new threat, and Nep appeared, sleepily, in the door. She saw the knife, Zim, and Dib, and ran in front of Zim.