By animeninjaNIPPON

After the deal was made, Dib went back to his room with Zim clinging lackadaisically to his waist. Dib put his arm around Zim's shoulders, for lack of space to rest it. When they got into the room, Zim kicked the door shut with his Irken boot.

"What are we going to do first?" Zim purred.

"Well, first – hey, stop that!" Dib grabbed both of Zim's wrists before his gloved hands had a chance to feel Dib up. "I'm not some blow-up doll, you know!" Zim went limp and fell backwards onto Dib's bed, laughing like a child.

"Anyway," Dib continued, "I WAS going to go online and find that new site that pinpoints the location of paranormal activity in our general area, but thanks to your stupid data disk, my computer doesn't work anymore."

"Well, that's what you GET for invoking the wrath of ZIM!" He grabbed Dib's computer and turned it on.

"Hey – what are you doing?"

"If I'm going to be STUCK here with YOU, I might as well do something WORTHWHILE!"

"Go ahead. You can't break it any more than you already did." Dib picked up a book called The Encyclopedia of Paranormal Creatures, Vol. 1 and began to read the first page. He had gotten about halfway through the H-section when Zim announced, "It LIVES!"

"What lives?" Dib turned his head in Zim's direction and dropped his encyclopedia in awe. "Did you… fix it?"

"YES! I have FIXED it!"

"Zim, thank you!" He dashed over to the bed and gave Zim a hug. "You've just saved me a lot of money!" It wasn't until Zim resumed his stoned giggling that Dib wondered what in the world had gotten into himself. Before he knew it, Dib was pinned to the bed, looking up at Zim.

"Zim, you're taking this too far!" Dib protested as he struggled to break free. Zim continued to snuggle against the blushing human. Then Dib remembered a tactic that could render any creature defenseless. Without further ado, he freed one hand and started tickling Zim's side. Zim laughed even harder and loosened his grip on Dib, only to tickle him back. Dib cracked up along with the highly amused alien, and they continued their endless tickle fight. In about five minutes, Dib was exhausted and sure he'd die laughing. Zim was nowhere near tired, and not inclined to stop. But there was one thing that would weaken him…

As soon as Dib could get his face close enough to Zim's, he forced his mouth upon that of the green boy. He felt Zim's body ease up under his own, and a foreign tongue extended into his own mouth. He began to feel relaxed… the whole world could stop spinning and freeze over, and Dib wouldn't notice or care at all…

Dib suddenly released Zim before he got too into it, trying to figure out exactly what was going on with his mind.

End of part twelve