HI PEOPLES! I have now updated from my room, aptly named "The Pit Of Despair" by my friend. With the hecticness of the holidays, it's later than I wanted, but here's the next chapter!

If anybody cares to know, my sister is on her way to a full recovery :) The only thing she's grumbling about right now is how much her arm itches... because she broke her arm. She was in a car accident, I think. Or something like that. She's such a klutz.

Warnings: More swearing. And innuendos, I think. Lex shows his true evil and nasty side...

Hope you like it! "Talking" Thinking 0000000000000 scene changes

Disclaimer: I don't own INVADER ZIM, but I really want the bag HotTopic sells of him!

\/ Chapter 4: Skool's Threats \/

After the horrendous movie ended, Dib and Zim trudged back to their home room class. They were both thinking, minds on the same subject. But they had differentiating views on the issue. What was it? Zim and Gaz's date, of course!

Zim's thoughts were content and smug. If that waste of human flesh Lex dares to make a move on the Gaz-female, I, ZIM, will tear him apart! She expressed no interest in him when he was introduced to him, and I intend to keep it that way. Gaz will see, I was meant to be her love-pig!

Dib, however, was bordering on homicidal. What the hell is Zim doing? Gaz should be smarter than that, dammit! She knows he's an alien! And why does Zim want to date her in the first place? Is he gonna hurt her? What if - Dib let out an undetectable gasp at this notion - What if Zim is using her to get to me? Or even to Dad? Oh shit, I gotta stop him! Or at least learn his motives...

Dib frowned, and as he sat down in the back he stared at Zim's green head. The alien, as if sensing Dib's eyes, turned around in his seat and caught the boy watching him. Both guys raised eyebrows, invisible or not.

"Meet me in front of the skool after class," Dib whispered, and Zim nodded slowly.

"ZIM! DIB! Pay ATTENTION!" Random objects flew at the aforementioned teenagers' heads, making both of them fall out of their seats in shock. The teacher had finally cracked, having gone from throwing his signature chalk to chucking things that could do real damage to someone's skull. Well, you would snap with the two boys in your class, too, you know.

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Gaz, after the movie had ended, made it look as if she was going to class, but instead she altered her course to the forbidden bathroom on the fringes of the skool. Riku was waiting, and it was her duty as his caretaker to make sure he was pleased. She had some leftovers from her breakfast to give to him.

"Hey Riku," Gaz said, stepping into the bathroom and closing the door tightly. Other than maybe her brother, Zim, and Lex, nobody knew she was here. It was the exact way she loved it. Skipping class was never a big deal, as she already knew the material. The principal had offered to let her skip a grade, but she denied. Cutting class was much more preferable to actually having to pay attention in a classroom.

Absentmindedly she pulled out some bread and tossed to a withering pile of green and purple mold. It rustled happily and absorbed it. Gaz still wasn't exactly sure how it digested anything, but as Riku had a great "personality" she wasn't going to ask questions.

Reaching into her pocket, she brought out her GameSlave 4, and turned it on. Riku, after finishing his bread, rustled. This was his way of talking, and Gaz interpreted it as "What're you doing here and not in class?"

Sighing, she paused her game and stared at the ceiling. "I needed to think. Riku, I just...I just feel strange. See, there are these two guys. I think they might like me, but it may just be hormones. In fact, hormones is probably why I like 'em back."

The mold on the walls shivered like it was cold, but the teenager knew that it was Riku's special sign of understanding. She smiled at it, pleased that at least something knew her problems and was there to help. Well, kinda there to help.

Gaz went back to pressing the buttons on her GS4, concentrating so hard on beating the boss she didn't notice the door to the girls' room crack open. A figure entered silently, carefully shutting the door and creeping over to stand next to her.

"Ahem." The person cleared it's throat.

"AUGH!" Gaz, caught off guard, screamed and scooted away. Her heart pounding, she turned around to see...

Lex.

He was just standing there, like he owned the place. He had a strange expression on his face, one that Gaz felt she should know. Hatred? Anger? Threatening? There seemed like there was more...

And then it hit her.

Lust.

He was watching her in a hungry way, like a predator waiting to pounce. It was making the purple-haired youth uncomfortable. She shifted positions just slightly, so that it almost went unnoticed. Lex, however, took notice of her discomfort and grinned to himself. "Hi, Gaz. I knew you'd be here. I have something to ask you."

She blinked at him. "What is it?"

He let the smile show through, but only a bit. "Do you like Zim? At all?"

Stunned, Gaz wondered that herself. "I...I don't know. Maybe. We're friends, but that's mostly just because we have a mutual loathing of my brother. I've never spent that much time with him." Unless flying his spaceships and tormenting Dib at the same time counts, she added in her head.

Lex frowned. "Why're you going to Bloaty's with him then?"

Gaz shrugged. "I like pizza, and Zim was very polite about it. Despite the claims Dib has that makes Zim sound like some horrific otherworldly creature, Zim's actually rather...nice. To me, at least."

Lex nodded slowly. "Uh-huh. So you know he's an alien?"

Her eyes widened, and a gasp barely passed her lips. She tried to fake her way out of it, though. "He's not an alien! J-just ask anyone in the class. They'll say Dib is crazy."

"But I never mentioned Dib."

"How'd you hear about it then?"

Lex snorted. "Anybody with half of a brain could figure that one out. Anyway, if you go out with him, I'll be forced to tell the whole world of his predicament-"

It was Gaz's turn to laugh. "Oh, please, do you think I care? Also, don't you think that Dib has tried that multiple times? He has contacts in secret cults, groups, and the military all over the place, but nobody believes him. Even those 'Swollen Eyeball' people practically abandoned him after he called them one too many times with false information. What makes you think you'll have different luck?"

Lex flinched. I didn't expect for it to be that hard to force this bitch into submission. Damn, time to resort to blackmail... Sighing, he pulled out a stack of papers. They were pictures, and they appeared to be from a notebook or printed. "I didn't want to do this, Gaz. But here are pictures from your house, and from things in your notebook."

Holding them so that she could see them, Lex barely suppressed a grin. This will get her to stay away from Zim, and screw me!

How wrong he was.

Gaz raised an eyebrow. "These aren't mine," she declared, pushing them towards the boy. "Who gave them to you?"

Lex stared wide-eyed at her. "B-but Zita said-!"

"Zita? She hates my guts. She'll do anything to try and get me into trouble. Don't trust her." Yawning, Gaz stood up and stretched. "Well, this was nice and all, but I really should go-"

"Oh no you don't," Lex snarled, pulling out a knife. Gaz's expression changed from one of boredom to one of barely perceptible fear. "You will NOT go to that pizza place with Zim, you WILL become my girlfriend and "help" me, and you WILL NOT tell ANYBODY about this!" Advancing on her, Lex grinned. "Or your life will become one of unbearable suffering. I know may people... many of them would consider themselves lucky to have a new bitch to play with. They are always watching out for me... and I can make it so that they always watch you, too."

Gaz was paler than normal. She had always been the scary one, the one who everyone stayed away from. Suddenly she'd had two guys come at her at the same time, and she had no idea how to handle the situation. It had spiraled out of control so fast now, and Gaz could feel the pressures of teenage life catching up to her.

"Come on, you girl, are you going to accept my kind offer, or will I have to harm you?" Lex was still walking forward, inch by inch.

Gaz swallowed hard, and heard a beeping noise. She instantly realized it was her GameSlave, and knew that it was now flashing a sign that said "Game Over."

To her, that seemed to be the truest statement in the world.

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Mmm...That's all for now. It was going to be much longer, but that would have taken forever to type, and I figured people wanted to read it...

Okay, leave a comment or something please! Thanks! Oh, and a little advertizing: I have a new story up, and nobody seems to be reading it. If you like darker stories, then it's for you. It's another ZAGR, but it a different sense... sort of. Oh well, you decide.

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