Tapan: I'm going to college soon ;-;.
Torna: isn't that a good thing?
Tapan: not completely. I'll be too busy with college to update my ficcies as often as I do now!
Jhkitty: good! You better not drop out of college!
Torna: I didn't know you even cared.
Jhkitty/scratches back of ear in that cute, kitty way/ I don't. I'm looking forward to the slow updates!
Tapan: that's not very nice!
Disclaimer: I don't own Invader Zim, Jhonen and Nickelodeon do! So don't sue me. I did, however, think up this plot. So, please just don't steal my story, that'll make me very, very sad.
Warning: slash! RAPR, ZADR in later chapters and a little RADR (I know it disturbs some people, but hey! I felt like throwing something new into the mix!) Flame if you wish. But I now see how it is; you flamers only flame those who don't ask for it! Cowards…
Red panted as she ran down the hallway of the school, late for class. This class, right before lunch, she cut yesterday after discovering Phoebe wasn't in it. She pushed the door open, panting and looking wildly around the room until her eyes landed on a familiar boy near the window.
Her stomach cringed and she suddenly wished that she could just cut this class everyday.
The teacher glared at her as the class snickered. "And you would be?"
She swallowed the rest of her pant and sighed. "Yeah, I'm new, and it says I'm suppose to be here."
He glanced down at the attendance list. "Oh, right. Red." He looked back up at her. "Why weren't you here yesterday?"
"Uh, my." She paused and scratched the nape of her neck, trying to remember the human family members. "Mother got sick."
He glared, obviously not believing her. "Fine, I'll let you off this time." He looked around the room for an empty seat, and then pointed at one near the back. "There's a seat open next to Zim. He's the green kid in the far corner."
She looked over slowly, thinking to herself. /please let it be some normal human with the same name. And skin tone. / She looked over at Zim to find the poorly disguised alien to be glaring at her.
The red head's world just seemed to fall apart right then. The one class, the one class she didn't have with her purple companion! And she was sitting right next to the person she hated more than anyone in the universe.
Forcing a smile she looked over at the teacher, then hesitantly moved to her new seat.
She continued to smile until everyone turned back to whatever they were doing. She then glared and looked over at Zim, who did the same thing, slightly confused.
"Okay, now listen." She hissed and leaned toward him slightly. "I don't like you and you don't like me. So if you want to keep all your limbs you will not talk to me, you will not look at me, you will not so much as breath on me. Now, Zim, do I make myself perfectly clear."
The invader cocked an eye, surprised at the sudden outburst of hatred. He opened his mouth to speak.
Red's glare deepened as she put a finger up to silence him. "Not, a word!"
Zim's mouth clamped shut and he turned back to his paper, scribbling something down on it. Red glanced over, a little curious to see a list of names. The paper read People to keep an eye on. Dib's name was at the top, underlined and starred. The name Tak was underlined as well, but also crossed out. A few other choice names were on the list, but at the bottom he put "Red" with a sloppy star right next to it.
Red rolled her eyes, and then put her head down until lunch came around.
"Look, Red. I'm sorry you've got a class with Zim. But there's nothing we can do about it!"
"You told me I didn't have to see him! You lied to me, Pur!"
"Would you stop calling me 'Pur'!"
"Never!"
The two glared at each other before Phoebe gave in and looked away, sucking on a juice box idly before coughing a little, looking at it in disgust, and throwing it to the side unceremoniously.
The juice box then ended up hitting someone. "Ack! My new shirt!" Jessica glared over at Phoebe. The violet haired girl just stared blankly. "What is wrong with you? Do you realize how expensive this shirt was?"
Red propped her head up with her hand, watching the blond rant before speaking. "You do know that it didn't even spill on your precious shirt, right? Do you really need to verbally abuse someone?"
Jessica turned her glare toward the red head. "You stay out of this! It's none of your business!"
Red cocked an eyebrow before causally standing up, taking the tray of mush in front of her and, as if it was normal, shoved the tray into the blonde's chest, causing the disgusting school concoction to pour all over the shirt. "There, now it is my business. Now piss off."
Jessica stared down at the shirt before letting out a shriek, so loud someone would think she was in pain. She glared up at Red, and then quivered uncontrollably. Her little posse then came and dragged her away.
Phoebe turned and glared half-heartedly at Red. "I could've handled that, you know."
Red sighed and sat back down. "Yeah, I know. You were just taking too long." She looked around to see everyone in the lunchroom staring at her. After all, she just slimed one of the most popular girls in the school, why wouldn't they stare.
She ignored them and slammed her head down on the table.
"So, if his pak is his weakness, why not just pull it off and be down with it?" Red blinked, playing stupid with the paranormalist on their walk home.
"I did that once." He shoved his hands in his pockets, suppressing a shudder from the memory. "It attached itself it my back and I started acting like him."
The two continued to think of a plan to destroy the invader. Behind them, Phoebe glared at them, and Gaz walked next to her, occupied by her Game Slave.
After a moment of this, the younger girl spoke. "Dib's gay."
Phoebe blinked in confusion and turned to Gaz. The girl didn't look up from her game. "You don't have to worry about him and Red."
Phoebe scoffed and turned away. "I'm not worried."
"You're a terrible liar." She paused. "Although, he doesn't know he's gay yet, so I guess you still have to worry a little."
Phoebe cocked an eyebrow and looked back forward to see if the two heard the girl.
Dib was too engrossed in the conversation to hear anything from the two behind him. The other leader, however, did hear but didn't allow it to show on her face. In fact, if it wasn't for working with Red since they were smeet, Phoebe wouldn't have known the crimson haired girl heard.
But Red did hear, and she didn't seem at all surprised.
Hours later, Red walked back into the house after yet another long conversation about irken's with Dib. Eagerly, he turned off his disguise and plopped back down on the couch.
Until he heard a pained scream come from the kitchen.
Startled, he shot up and ran to the kitchen to see Purple holding his arm in pain. On the floor was some broken glass and a puddle of water. Red walked over to it to observe, sticking a long claw into the water, only to shoot his hand back as the liquid burnt his skin. "What the--?"
This was something Zim never mentioned!
Red shook off his hand, and then walked over to the other leader, taking Purple's hand off the wound to inspect it.
Purple's eyes widened a little as he felt his hand slip off the burn and into the other irken's, forcing back a blush. He was a little confused on why he was beginning to blush and why his heart wouldn't slow down.
Red, oblivious to his co leader's inner battle, poked at the burn curiously. This snapped Purple back to reality and whimper slightly. The crimson leader looked into the violet eyes and blinked.
They stood there for a few minutes, perfectly frozen in place. Red still holding Purple's wrist, other hand on his arm as they maintained eye contact.
After a moment, Purple spoke softly. "I think I'm alright."
Red blinked then let go of the other, slightly reluctant. He went to walk away before stopping and realizing there were no service drones to clean the mess made in the floor. He sighed and turned back to help clean it up.
Tapan: it gets all fluffy at the end! And to anyone who cares to know; I was listening to I Caught Fire by The Used as I wrote this chapter. That's a lovely song! So! R&R, maybe I'll get a few new chapters in before school begins!