(andalitebandit-6, well, this is what I'm planning. I know all of you despise song chapters, but I think you'll understand as it goes along. Know this though, I wasn't originally going to end the story like I did, this was supposed to be the very last chapter, but decided against it. So here it is, the deleted epilogue, you can choose to believe this is the last chapter or not, it's all up to you. But there will be two more updates! The deleted scenes chapter and a bonus chapter, because I love you all so much….plus my friend gave me the idea and decided to run with it.)

Song I used

'Close to you' – Judas Priest (w/Tim 'The Ripper')

Other choice listenings if you don't like the one I used…

Dirt on the Grave, In this River, Rust – BLS (Black Label Society)

Slow Down – Halford

Fade to Black, Nothing Else Matters – Metallica

Time after Time – Ozzy Osbourne

Here Come the Tears, Angel– Judas Priest (w/Rob Halford)

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(So many years that we were one
So many things we've done…)

The wind blew through his hair in the cool autumn sunset. His trench coat blew slightly as he held it tightly around his body. His golden eyes seemed lazy and in a daze, trying to see past what was right in front of him.

(The memories alive
But most of me has died…)

It had been an interesting time trying to tell his father about Zim…in more ways than one. When ever he tried to tell the Professor, Gaz would make a snark comment and make Dib forget his train to thought.

(As I struggle with events
I'm offered words of strength
They do not comprehend
The passion we possessed…)

When he finally broke the news, his father had stood there for a brief instant. Then uncharacteristically pulled the boy close into a manly kind of hug.

"I'm so proud of you son!" said the Professor, "I'm very happy for you!" and that was the last of it…Membrane walked away to do scientist stuff.

Dib had just stood there in shock. "O…K?"

(People tell me what to do
Tell me how I should get through
But they haven't got a clue…)

The years had passed and Dib slowly made monumentous advances like his father, designing many perpetual energy machines and some super weapons. Hell, he'd even discovered a few species of deadly spider…but that came with a very bad experience…

(No one else comes close to you…)

A swift wind brought him back to the present. It was so cold…It also sparked a fonder memory of a winter a very long way back. It was the funniest thing to see Zim trying to figure out if the autumn leaves were out to get him. It was just about as bad as the whole GERMS paranoia…It was also a much fonder time…

(I see your eyes before they closed
They looked right inside my soul
And they asked me not to grieve
I tried but still I bleed…)

Dib smiled a little as tears sprang to his eyes and down his rosy cheeks. He remembered what the evil alter of himself and what he did. He had the technology, but he felt it was cruel…

So cruel…

(I wake up… I break up…
I try hard to shake off…)

"The desolation as it grows as nothing else comes close…" it came out as barely a whisper. His bottom lip quivered and he just broke down into full blown sobs. That day was the worst one he'd ever had to live through…

"But it made me stronger…"

(And as I stand here by the grave
And the wind calls out your name…)

It couldn't have been more than a month ago…The odd appearance that the evil alter had seen when he first lost his Zim, came to Dib's world. Though, Dib had taken the alter down, it turned out to be nothing more than a psychotic android. But it's mission had been completed…Zim had been shot and felled, but he wasn't dead. He was able to get himself into his labs, but he ended up dieing from complications.

(I know that time could never heal
The emptiness I feel…)

"Well, you won, you sick bastard. But I had the last laugh…I will never let what happened to you happen to me, because I'm smarter than that…I know there's nothing I can do about it now…But I know, I know that the pain and grief can swallow a person. I saw that first hand. Zim, be you were you are, know that I love you. I always have and always will, and there will never be another…" The tears finally stopped at the brink of his eyes and he placed a bouquet of flowers he created himself: and Emerald green Iris with burning, Ruby red centers.

(People try to give me hope
Tell me how I should let go
But they'll never really know
'Cause there's nothing else comes close…)

A strong hand gripped Dib's shoulder. Professor Membrane knew what his son was going through. He went through the same thing when their mother (his wife) died. For once, he could really relate and help his son through.

(People tell me what to do
Tell me how I should get through
But they haven't got a clue…)

"C'mon son, it's time to go…" said the Professor, retracting his hand and walking towards the car.

Dib looked at the tombstone just a little longer, then followed suit with his father.

(No one else comes close to…)

'Zim…I miss you so much…I know that the best times of my life were with you…And I'll always treasure them. Thank you for making my life worth living…' thought Dib as he got in the car and drove away from the cemetery. Away from the memories of long past…

(You…)

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(Ok, major angst….like I said, you can choose this to be the end or not. But at least there are two happy chapters left. I guarantee that you'll love the bonus chapter…and if not, you can hold me to that. But until then, I'll be working on some other projects, writing and art alike, so it might be a while before I post anything. C'ya all later!)