Family
I don't own Invader Zim. I leave the disturbed 'leftovers' of this show to their rightful owner, Jhonen Vasquez.
Only Deed Membrane belongs to me, as well as any future... smeets...
Note: I realised that I never mentioned anything about Zim eating Earth food. He's been there for the better part of eight or nine years. Kinda makes sense that he'd build up an immunity to the food.
Chapter Six
Zim watched with a crude fascination as Professor Membrane was flayed open like a frog in a school lab. The man's screams were muffled by the cloth that had been tied around his mouth, and Dib pouted when he realized that the bastard had something to bite down on.
So he removed the cloth. From there the Professor had started to bite his tounge.
It only took him a few moments to drown in his own blood.
Deed smiled as she watched her brother. Of course, she had fantasized about the man being killed for years. But to see her only flesh do so was... Deed closed her eyes as she recognised that she was proud of Dib.
Dib was cleaning up while Deed made coffee. Zim watched her work with mild interest.
"So how did you know that I was Irken?" He asked. Deed didn't look up from what she was doing.
"I've seen that symbol before. That, and Dib had been trying to convince the Swollen Eyeball that there was an alien in the neighborhood. I put two and two togather, and..." The smell of the caffiene filled the room as it ran through.
"Don't tell Dib I know about the S.E.N., ok?" Deed asked, turning to look at the alien. "It's not entirely safe for anyone if they were to find out I was here."
Nodding absently, Zim turned towards the entrance to the kitchen as Dib walked in.
Towel around his neck, Dib had exchanged his clothes for a pair of jeans... no doubtedly Zim's, Deed noted, seeing as how hers wouldn't have fit him. And a black, long sleeved shirt that had the Irken military symbol emblasoned on it in red.
Rolling her eyes, Deed went back to her caffiene.
"Darian, what the hell do you mean 'they know where you are'?" Deed almost shrieked into the phone. She heard Darian swallow nervously.
"Deed, hun, you have to understand! I didn't tell them anything at all!" She huffed.
Yeah right. He probably told them right where she was to cover his own ass.
It was how Darian 'Ninja Monkey' Thebes operated. It was wrong of her to even consider that he would be trustworthy to her.
Despite the fact that they had been friends throughout school, Darian had always been one to lie.
And when she'd gotten kicked out of the S.E.N., he'd offered to do as much as possible for her.
But the Network's threats of killing her if she hacked into their information had finally sunk into him.
"Deed, please!" Was the last thing she heard before clipping her phone shut and sobbing silently to herself.
Dib sat up in the middle of the night, taking a second to register that he was in Zim's livingroom. Deciding that he needed to go home and get some clothes of his own, he got up and stumbled out the door.
He never thought to leave Zim a note. Just thought that everyone would be asleep.
By the time he got home, however, he realised that Gaz was very much awake.
"Where's dad?" She questioned, following him into his room. "And why are you packing?"
Attempting to ignore her for a moment, Dib grabbed a duffle bag and emptied out a few drawers of clothes.
"I'm packing because I'm going to stay with Zim for a while to help Deed look for an apartment. As for dad, I have no clue. Maybe he had to go to work." Dib said, not turning to look at her.
Gaz frowned.
"You're lying, Dib. I saw him leave with Deed this morning. And I saw you go with her too." Gaz glared at him. Dib shook his head, walking pass her and shouldering his bag.
"I didn't see him."
"I'll get to the bottem of this Dib. You know I will." Gaz hissed. Dib left the house, fingering the pocket knife that he'd grabbed up when he'd been emptying a drawer.
Truth was, he saw Membrane. His saw his flayed corpse everywhere he looked.
The man was haunting him. And nothing short of death would stop it.
Sitting down in the snow infront of Zim's house, Dib intended to do just that.
And GIR was the one that found him. The one that screamed for Deed and Zim to come out.
Dib knew that they would probably never forgive him for such a stupid stunt.
But laying in the blood soaked snow, Dib couldn't care less.
