A.N Last chapter! Thanks to Arsonist For Rent (hope your rat gets better), ZeratulX35 (eh. . .I'm not Rinny. . .), Rahh Gumba Foo (damned typos. . .and yeah, Pleecy's exit was equivalent to a big showdown battle XP), Computer-Slave (thanks, I'm getting better), Missy Lynne, crownprincesslaya, and Meeshkit (you're on my DA watchlist! Tis neat!). Love you guys.
The Seventh Chapter of Doom
Zim with Tact
Pleecy leaves the following morning. She was still making a big deal over Zim and Tak's relationship, even as she was walking out the door, and now Zim and Tak are standing by the entrance door, and Pleecy's estatic voice is still ringing in theire heads. Once the ringing stops, they are left, once again, alone in an awkward silence.
Then Tak says, "She's gone."
"Yup."
"So. . ."
"So."
"I'm still mad at you, ya know."
"When are you ever not?"
Tak scowls.
"You know Zim," she hisses, "if you weren't such an inconsiderate jerk, I-"
"Sorry."
"Excuse me?"
"About the slurpy thing. Sorry."
"Oh yeah. . . what was up with that?"
Zim stares intently at the floor, blushing slightly, and explains in a sheepish voice, "Um. . .not like I knew who you were, but. . .um, it was a long time ago, but I thought if I could keep getting you to bring out slurpys, I could. . .see you more. . ."
"And why would you want that?"
"Erm. . .I liked looking at you."
Tak snorts.
"You liked looking at me?" she says with a laugh.
"Well, I didn't know who you were then!"
"Zim, you're tactless."
"Me? Tactless! How dare you-"
"Oh, don't you dare yell at me."
Zim grunts in defeat, and Tak says with a sigh, "This is dumb. . ."
More grunts from Zim.
"So what're you gonna do to make up for the slurpys?"
"I already said I was sorry!"
"Well Zim, normally friends will pay each other back when they've been a total heartless jerk."
Zim blinks.
Oh yeah, he thinks. We're friends.
"Fine," he says aloud, "I'll think of something. . ."
"So she's gone?" Joon asks. His face is flooding the screen and he looks nervous.
Tak nods and says, "Yeah Joon. And your stupid little plan didn't work. I didn't get jealous."
"There was no plan, Tak, I told you."
"Mm-hm."
"So you're on good terms with Zim?"
Tak grins.
"You could say that," she says. Throwing her head back, and with a snap of her fingers, she calls out, "Oh, Slurpy drone! I'm thirsty!"
A moment later, a miserable Zim emerges from the darkest corner of the room, holding a tray with a purple slurpy. He offers it to Tak with a scowl, and she smiles sweetly in return.
"Thank you, Zim," she says as she sips from the slurpy straw.
Zim doesn't say a word. He doesn't look at her. Tak stares at him for a long moment. Her face begins to flush.
With a quick thought of 'oh, why not', she leans forward, and brushes her lips lightly across Zim's, leaving him quite shocked, and quite flushed himself.
"Tak. . ." he says, beginning to smile.
Then she takes her slurpy and dumps it on his head.
"I wanted cherry," she says, "not grape."
Zim scowls again, which looks rather funny with a slurpy dripping down his face, and leaves. Tak snickers, and turns back to the screen and then jumps at the sight of Joon.
"Oh crap," she says, "You're still here?"
Joon is smirking.
"I saw that," he says, "and you have to admit it."
"Admit what?"
"That you like Zim."
"Don't you mean 'lurve', Joon?"
"So you admit it?"
"No! I was just saying-"
"Do you like and/or lurve Zim?"
"Joon. . ."
"Just answer 'yes' or 'no'."
"This is stupid."
"'Yes' or 'no'."
Suddenly, Tak hears a familiar voice coming from the screen, saying, "Oh Joon, I'm baaaack."
A horrified Joon mutters, "Oh crap, she found me," then looks to Tak, "um, I'll call you back tomorrow or something," and cuts the transmission.
Tak smirks to herself, crossing her arms in front of her chest. Except for her, the entire room is empty. She stares at the blank screen for a moment, then leans forward, takes a small breath. Her smirk switches to a smile and she whispers, "Yes."
THE END
It's over! Yay! Thanks for sticking with me, all my beautiful reviewers! Hoo-cha. . . anyways. . . keep a lookout for 'Blind-Folded'. . . coming in one to two weeks. . . Here's a short summary:
Zim and Tak are already married, it's five years later from this story, about six since the actual time in the show. . . they have two kids, Pin and Clox, who are adorable, and I should have a pic of them on Deviantart soon. . . and well. . .the story kinda. . .well, you have to read it! But it's good! Very ZATR, but not like, overly romantic stuff. . . just cuteness, and occassional innuendos and a few.. er. . .kisses. And there's this kinda involved thing with a war and a thing, and Kacer's in it with Dib, and the Tallest, and I wrote Gaz in. . . and it's just awesome, okay! Just. . . read it! Once I type it first though. . .
My Deviantart name is Pinkys1985. Go thereto see pics of Pleecy and Joon. I tried to put a direct link here, but it wouldn't let me. . . stupid site. . .
