Chapter One – Moonlit Night

Normally humans fear this night and the darkness it brings, me I just wait for the full moons like tonight. For it shows the Earth's beauty that I had no idea was there for the longest time. But now, now that I know, I look forward to these nights, when the darkness is shallowed by the moon, I go as far from civilization as possible, to the place with the least lights, so that I may see all the stars and the bright moon in all their glory. Only bad thing about this is that it reminds me of home and how I was deserted by my own kind. But I have made peace with it, though it does sometimes sadden me, I live on, on this Earth. Amazingly I don't think I'd leave even if I could, since I've made friends with Dib and his stunning sister, ARG, that damn thought is back? Shit I thought I rid myself of that thinking, she's a damn human. Though I am too now…sort of.

In my years being here I picked up on the human language and profanities, those of which I am fond of. I don't know what it is about the word fuck but it is my fucking favorite, hehe. Anyways, back to my original topic, mainly I just come out here because it relaxes me and brings me out of any depression I get in. Which has occurred lately since I… since I… goddamn I can't even bring myself to say it, what the fuck is wrong with me? Why do I have these feelings, why do I lust for her so? I don't understand what's happening to me. Is this a sign that I really am becoming more human-like, I've begun to have their cravings for food, for their entertainments, for their alkihol, so I guess I would begin to crave their women… But why her, of all the human women, why her?

This is a point where I invest in another of the human's addictions, sigarettes. Unfortunately I gained the like for some of the unhealthiest human things… Fast food, violent TV (Personally I have no problem with that though), getting drunk, menthol sigarettes, and falling for a human girl that's deadlier then even the Jetzt Im Kino Monsters of Bleegar 7, and let me tell you those are some scary mo-fo's. Alas I guess I deserve it for the whole trying to kill everyone and destroy this beautiful planet thing. Well interestingly enough I feel better now, I guess thinking about my problems aloud, even if to no one, helps especially when the moon's this perfect. Too bad Irk never had a moon…

Somewhere in the city...

A flat black Accord gently rode through the streets, the streetlight not even able to penetrate the black tinted windows. At the wheel was a striking young girl, she was lost in the song, repeating the lyrics that flowed into her ears.

She spoke them in perfect unison with the song, "who said that I wasn't right? I've lived for years without a life, don't have a soul on my side, still ridiculed despite, how hard that I have tried. Don't take me under your wing, I don't need a hand, don't need anything. I've got a roof over my head, as if I'd rather be alone with me instead." She spoke them as if it was her she was talking about.

"Close yet far, drop me a line and tell me how the hell you are and I'll tip my hat to those who can't believe it's me, and I never never never ever wanted this to be."

She finally snapped out of her trance once she'd realized that the buildings that towered over her in the city had disappeared. She had gone a while before she realized it and then pulled to the side. She lit her cigarette and took a drag as she leaned on her car. For the first time tonight she looked up to the stars and was captivated by the moon, it was gorgeous. She stood for minutes that seemed like hours before she made any move other then taking a drag, blinking or shivering from the cold. She most likely would've stayed like that, captivated by the moon's beauty, if something hadn't caught her attention when she looked down to put her cigarette out. Another mile or two down the road a familiar car was parked. 'Nah it couldn't be him, why would he be out here?'

Curiosity got the better of her, so she got into her car and proceeded to the other, which as she got closer confirmed her suspicion that it was indeed his. So she quietly stopped and got out.

"What ya up to stranger?" The girl asked slyly disguising her voice.

"Pondering how I came to get feelings of… love and weather I should shrug it off or just get drunk." She was stunned for a moment, Zim loved something, or rather he loved someone.

"Personally I prefer the latter, got anything to offer?"

"Unfortunately, Gaz, your brother would kill me if I got you drunk." What, how did he know it was me, he hasn't moved an inch since I got here?

"If you're wondering how I knew it was you, I could smell that odd perfume the second you opened the door, and you're not that great at changing your voice."

"Well, anyways, my brother is not my keeper and who do you love?"

"In that case, there's a bottle of vodka in the trunk among others and I'll have to be far past shit-faced, as you humans call it, to release that information." Gaz smirked.

"Then let's get to it." Zim finally looked up and smiled, not a smirk, just a smile. Gaz had no idea why, there wasn't any evil in it or anything, so she wasn't freaked out. He just looked happy, which strangely made her happy... why?

The conversation, two hours, a bottle of vodka, and three beers each, later…

"Sho vhy vere chu out chere again?" Gaz giggled at her slurring.

"I lobe, I loge, I mean, damnit, I loce, I LOVE, man alkihol impairs me, but I lofe it."

"HAHA, chu shtill can't shay lub."

"HAHA, neither can you, hell you can't even speak!"

"HaHA, chur rights, I tink I'b had enougffffff."

"We're out anyways, Gazzzzzzzzzzz."

"HAHA, what the fuck was that about?"

"Idonknow."

Another hour later, in the early hours of the morning…

"So now that we can at least speak, why were you out here?" Gaz asked the young teen alien laying on the hood of his car next to her.

"Well, this is where I go when I'm depressed, when I'm trying to figure something out that's bothering me etc." He explained staring at the moon.

"Oh, what were you depressed about." He glanced at her for a second.

"About how I'm beginning to become so human now, which isn't really so bad. But now I've…"

"You've what?"

"Developed human feelings, one of which is…"

"Love?"

"Ding-ding, she's a winner."

"Why is that so bad?"

"I fell in love with a human, one who'll never return the feelings." For some reason Gaz's heart sank, she didn't know if it was pity for the alien or something else.

"Are you sure she doesn't want you, have you tried talking to her?"

"…No, but still it's pointless to tell her, she would reject me for sure. Besides, I'm past it, the reason I come out here is to come to terms with the inevitable. When I first found this place and stayed here for hours, it's when I came to the conclusion that I was abandoned by my own race."

"Zim, if you give up on everything, then you're not being a human. A human would never be such a pussy and just go and give-up that easily, especially without even trying once. And so what if you don't get her, there are thousands more where she came from. Just don't give up hope and take a chance you owe i-" Gaz was stopped mid-sentence by lips meeting her own as Zim had leaned over and took the chance…

Might be continued, or just left at that…All up to the reviewers