"My little angel."

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of this story or the poem. I found the poem and Thought it was perfect for my story.

Professor Membrane toiled tirelessly in his lab below his house. The fact was, he

never left his lab, except to go to work. He started to bury himself into his work ever

since his wife, Kat, died.

Her death was very sudden to him and his children. It happened so long ago, but

was so fresh in his memory. His son was 3; his daughter was 1, when it happened. He

had been typing up an important document in his office when he received a phone call

from the hospital. Apparently a speeding car struck down his wife when she was crossing

the street to her work at the planetarium. She was an astrologer. He remembered picking

up Dib, his son and Gaz, his daughter from school and racing to the hospital. On his

arrival the nurse at the front desk told us to wait in the waiting room. What was only

hours seemed like an eternity until the doctor finally came and moved Membrane from

the room, away from his children.

It hit them all very hard, but it seemed to hit Membrane's son, Dib, harder. When Dib

was only 3 weeks old, he would never stop crying, until one day she picked him up and

sang a lullaby to him. She rocked with him in her arms, singing softly and he stopped

crying every time. Ever since then Dib had a very strong bond with his mother. She

would often take him to the planetarium and show him the stars and tell him about the

universe. Ever since then Dib's had a fascination with the stars.

"Dad." Called the small voice of his daughter, Gaz, waking him from his trance.

He turned to her, but she looked so much like her mother that it was hard to look at her. "Yes, Gaz, what is it?" Membrane said, returning to his work.

"It's 8:00. Isn't it time for Dib's medicine? His moaning's keeping me up.." and

with that she disappeared to her room.

"That 'Zim' nonsense will be the death of him one day.." Membrane muttered

under his breathe.

Last week, Dib went out to spy on Zim in the middle of the night and accidentally

ended up falling asleep behind the bushes in front of Zim's house after hours of note

taking and watching for Zim. Being in the middle of a very cold winter, Gaz found him

asleep next to the bushes and brought him home. The next morning, Gaz told Membrane

that Dib had trouble getting out of bed, his forehead was very warm and his skin was

blue. Membrane headed upstairs into Dib's room and studied his son's symptoms with

one of his machine's. The machine hovered Dib and scanned his body and typed:

Subject: Dib Membrane

Symptoms:

Fever Rapid pulse Discoloration to the skin Wheezing Coughing Body temp. 105F

Illness: Pneumonia

Membrane thanked science that this illness was treatable, but still worried about

his son. He grabbed his medical equipment and Dib's medicine and started for his

room. But Membrane stopped at the foot of the steps as he heard a faint but

familiar female voice coming from his son's room. As he slowly walked towards

his son's room, the woman's voice grew louder and louder. He turned the knob

and opened the door, as he opened the door the equipment in his hands dropped to

the floor with a loud crash.

There, sitting on Dib's bed, was Dib's mother. Her glowing figure was stunning.

Her purple hair gentle blew around her pale face. Her amber eyes sparkled as she

gazed ever so lovingly at her only son. Dib was wrapped in a blanket, being

cradled and rocked back and forth in the arms of his dead mother. She didn't seem

to notice Membrane standing in shock at the door; she continued to cradle Dib

like she did when he was an infant, singing her lullaby with a soft and silvery

voice:

"Good night, My Angel. Time to close your eyes and save these questions for another day. I think I know what you've been asking me. I think you know what I've been trying to say. I promise I would never leave you and you should always know Where you may go No matter where you are I never will be far away

Good night my angel Now it's time to sleep And still so many things I want to say Remember all those songs you sang for me When we went sailing on an emerald bay And like a boat out on the ocean I'm rocking you to sleep The water's dark And deep inside this ancient heart You'll always be a part of me

Good night my angel Now it's time to dream And dream how wonderful your life will be Someday your child may cry And if you sing this lullaby Then in your heart There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone But lullabies go on and on.. They never die And that's how you and I will be."



Finally She looked up at her stunned husband, her eyes glistening with

freshly shed tears. She stood, carrying her son and walked up to Membrane.

"Kat." Whispered Membrane. Kat placed Dib in his arms.

"Take him, Will. He needs you now." She whispered and with that, she was

gone.

Membrane stood there for several minutes, gazing at the place his wife once

stood. A soft moan escaped his son's lips, Membrane looked down at his son's

fragile figure, safely wrapped in his arms. He smiled as he felt Dib's forehead.

Dib's fever had gone down. He walked over and sat down on Dib's bed, rocking

his son back and forth, he began to quietly sing..

"Good night, my angel. Time to close your eyes."

The End