A/N: Argh! Another late-ass chapter! Sorry about that, you guys. I really have no excuse this time except that I was being lazy yesterday. Would have gotten the chapter up earlier today, but then one of my friends pulled me away, and I just couldn't stay awake for the life of me today. But I'm awake now, so let me get this posted while I'm thinking about it. Thanks again to those of you who faved or added the story to your story alert list. You guys rock. Here be Chapter 10 of ZADR Orange. And remember, feedback is much appreciated. =3

Warnings: Extreme OOCness

Rating: M for later chapters

Disclaimer: We do not own Invader Zim, nor any of the characters from it. We do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Zim/Tallest Red/Gir: Notgonnadie

Dib/Gaz/Miss Bitters: Me

Tallest Purple: Both of us

Beta: Notgonnadie

Hugging Red tightly, Purple ran his tongue up his neck lovingly.

Face turning a dark green, an evil smirk spread across Red's face before falling away at seeing Zim still there. 'Irk! Gotta get him out of here.' he thought before turning to address Zim. "Hey, Zim. Why don't you take your human back to his planet now. How about it?" he said, just wanting the other out of there now.

Purple giggled. "Yeah, that might be best. A little alone time." he smirked seductively up at Red, his eyes half lidded.

Eyes growing wide, Zim grinned himself, getting the same idea the Tallest had. So, scooping Dib up, he rushed out. "Yes, my Tallest! Thanks for everything!" he slammed the door shut as he left.

"So...Would you prefer we did it right here or back in the bedroom?" Purple smirked at Red as he ran a finger down the others chest seductively, staring at him with half lidded eyes.

Red smirked also. "We'd probably be more comfortable in the bedroom." he began leading Purple by one hand towards their room.

Meanwhile, Dib clung to Zim tightly, not exactly having expected to be so suddenly lifted off the floor and carried out of the room.

Lifting his head, he peered up at Zim. "Ummm...Zim...I-I think your ship is waiting right outside your leaders' ship where I boarded earlier." he informed the other before he ran past it.

Zim screeched to a halt. "REALLY?" he gave Dib a big kiss. "I knew you were useful, Dib-human." he grinned and ran towards the hanger to get his ship.

Blushing a bright red at the kiss, Dib could only sigh out contently, resting his head against Zim's chest as the other carried him in the direction of the hanger, his eyelids slowly drifting closed. "No...problem, Zim..." he yawned, all of a sudden feeling worn out by all the excitement. Finally closing his eyes all the way, he then drifted off to sleep in the others arms.

When Dib finally awoke again, Zim had already loaded them both into the voot and had the ship orbiting around Earth as he held Dib close in his arms. "Do you like the view?" he asked as Dib slowly came to.

"Hmmm..." Dib blinked his eyes partway open, yawning and rubbing at one of them with his wrist. Then, after a few moments, he snapped fully awake again and stared at the view of Earth in awe. "Wow...It's beautiful up here..." he smiled up at Zim.

Smiling back at him with his eyes half lidded, Zim stroked Dib's hair. "So, what shall we do now, Dib pet?" he asked, sending Dib an almost suggestive look.

"Well, what do you feel like doing? Earth's safe, and your leaders are going to leave us alone from now on. A-And we're not enemies anymore, so we won't be chasing each other around any longer. S-So I guess I'm perfectly fine with whatever it is you want to do." Dib stared back at Zim, waiting for an answer of his own.

Face turning a dark green, a sly smile crossed Zim's face. "I have...ideas, Dib-human." he leaned in to nibble at Dib's ear. "MANY ideas." he whispered almost seductively into the others ear.

Gasping and tensing up completely, Dib could feel his face flushing a bright red at the feel of Zim's teeth grazing his ear. "Y-You do?" he swallowed thickly, a bit nervous about what the Irken had in mind.

Zim snickered. "Of course." he licked the side of Dib's face. "I ALWAYS have ideas." the last word left his mouth in a quiet hiss.

Dib squirmed around uncomfortably a bit. "I-I always thought all your ideas had to do with world domination though..." he almost seemed to be trying to change the subject.

"Well...You got the domination part right..." Zim giggled, holding Dib tighter.

Feeling his cheeks burning now, Dib sent back a nervous glance to Zim before squirming about in the others arms just to find that the Irken didn't have any plans of letting go of him anytime soon. "Y-You know...I-I told Gir that if we weren't back in an hour, he should tell my sister to take Tak's ship and get off the planet. M-Maybe we should get back down there before he does that and Gaz decides to kick my ass for sending her on a random space trip." he struggled now to pull free from the other.

Sighing, Zim's antennae drooped. "Yeah...I guess so..." he let go of Dib and moved back to the ship's controls, flying them back towards Earth.

Scrambling out of Zim's lap and into the seat next to his, Dib sank down into it, a bit shaken still by Zim's advances, unsure whether he was ready yet for what he was pretty sure Zim had in mind. Playing with his fingers nervously, he felt a tad bit bad though for ruining Zim's fun in all this. "S-Sorry...I-I ruined the moment just now, didn't I?" he apologized, still not used to this new found relationship with Zim.

Antennas wilting even more, they dangled down in front of Zim's face as he ignored Dib, favoring staring out the front window the rest of the way back home.

Flinching back a bit at the look on Zim's face, Dib whispered another quiet apology before looking off to the side awkwardly, hugging himself tightly. "Sorry..." he pulled his knees to his chest.

Saying nothing in response to that the whole trip home, Zim merely landed the voot in his base once they were back before jumping out and making his way out of the room. "You know where the door is..." his voice held little emotion to it.

Watching Zim leave, a hurt look upon his face, Dib felt as though his heart had been ripped in two. Blinking back tears, he quickly made his way back down into the living room and headed for the front door, opening it and then slamming it shut behind him as he headed for home.

Down in his lab, Zim was at this point banging his head against the wall. "Stupid! Stupid! STUPID!" he slid down onto his knees, his eyes watering up. "Why did I have to do that? I KNEW he didn't want to!" he said as he heard the door slam upstairs. "He hates me now..." he curled up on the floor.

Making his way home quickly, Dib locked himself up in his room to cry himself to sleep as he felt his entire world crumbling all around him and what little hope of happiness he had been clinging onto shattering with it.

It wouldn't be until the next day that Zim was awoken by Gir, who seemed to be acting much too happy for Zim to handle. "Go away, Gir...I don't feel like doing anything today." he grumbled, antennae shuddering.

"But you gots SCHOOL!" Gir reminded him.

Sighing, Zim curled up again. "I don't care..."

"But MARY will be there!" Gir continued to push the subject.

"O-Oh...Right..." Zim blushed and went to stand up slowly. "I bet he still hates me though..." his antennae drooped as he went to go get ready for school.

Meanwhile, over at Dib's house, Gaz stood outside Dib's door, knocking on it loudly.

"Dib! Hurry up and get ready for school already!" she yelled at her brother to hurry up, already waiting for him to walk to school with her like they always did.

But Dib merely threw something at his door. "Just leave me alone, Gaz! I'm not going to school today!" he yelled back at her, sinking down under the covers of his bed.

Gaz glared at the door. "So, what? You skipped dinner last night, refused to come down for breakfast this morning, and now you're blowing off school too?" she seemed to lecture him from her spot on the other side of his door.

"I said I don't want to go today, so just leave me alone and quit asking me about it!" he was getting agitated now by all her questions.

"Pff...Suit yourself..." she finally gave in, walking away.

Turning over in his bed, his eyes red and puffy from crying all night and getting little sleep, Dib sniffled wetly before whispering to himself. "I'm never leaving this room ever again..." he hid his face in a pillow to continue crying.

Back with Zim, said Irken was unwillingly dragging himself to school, not looking up until he got to class, noticing then that Dib wasn't in his seat. "H-He...is mad..." he visibly drooped, sighing heavily before sinking into his chair, no one caring about either him or the missing Dib.

To say the very least, the next several hours were torturous for Zim as he waited out the day to be over.

"And don't forget to study for your history test on Monday. Now, before you all leave for the weekend, I need somebody to bring Dib Membrane his homework. Do I have any volunteers?" their teacher droned on, only the last part really catching Zim's attention.

Before he could stop himself, Zim's arm shot up into the air. "I'll do it, Miss Bitters!" he said, just needing an excuse to go and see Dib.

A/N: And there you have it. Your weekly update of ZADR Orange. And look! We be heading towards a new plot in the story. Not the main plot, but still a very important one nonetheless. Anyways, keep your eyes open for Chapter 11. I'll try to get it up on time next week. Now let me take this time to respond to those of you who reviewed.

To kaoru1174: Lol. See. I told you people you wouldn't be expecting it. But then again, there are lots of things in this story that you people probably aren't going to be expecting. So hopefully you guys all enjoy the many surprises we have to come in this story. But anyways. You don't really have to worry too much about the ZimxPurple relationship in this story. It IS a ZADR story through and through, though their past relationship is just something you'll want to be familiar with when we reach later chapters. And yesh! Earth is saved! Hooray for Earth! 8D Now we be moving on to some more complex plots in this story, the most important of which won't come for a long while still. So we hope you continue to read and enjoy as the story progresses. =3

To Illisandria Carthain: Lol. As I've said before, no worries. I respond to all my reviewers whether they be logged in or not. But anyways, yesh. Gotta love the ZAPR, even if this is a ZADR story. I don't know why. I just love that pairing so much though. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I certainly enjoyed writing it. XD As for your weekly question, the more I think about it, I think it's pretty safe to assume that no, there will not be anymore semi unconventional pairings in this story. We have a few other pairings, but I consider them to be fairly straight forward for the most part. Pretty obvious ones if you ask me. The main pairings are even mentioned in the summary of the story. So I'm doubtful as to whether they will come as a surprise to any of you. Thanks again for reading and commenting. We really appreciate it. And keep the questions coming if you have anymore. We'll be more than willing to answer them, save they don't give away too many obvious hints as to what happens in future chapters of this

To 1337kitsune: Lol. Oh, yes. I suppose I get a little carried away at times with the length of my responses to you reviewers. But I do love to talk. Anyways, I've cut it down quite a bit this week. (That, and I also didn't get as many reviews to respond to. XD) But anyways, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the story so much. This story is indeed OOC, and that is why we have a warning at the beginning of each chapter for it. Though to be perfectly honest, it's about to get more OOC than you could possibly imagine. XD I had no intentions of trying to role play Dib in character for this particular story. Besides, his OOC character in this is so much cuter. X3 I understand the difficulty in finding ZADR stories like that and am quite flattered that you consider our story to be one of those few rare ones like that out there. We really do try to keep you people satisfied when writing this. Anyways, that special chapter you're looking for is still quite a ways away. (Chapter 34) But hopefully you'll enjoy the storyline leading up to it. We have quite a few more important details to get through that are necessary to progress the plot before posting that chapter. So please bare with us. We certainly hope you find it to be perfect when we post it. We did have quite a lot of fun writing it at least. Anyways, thanks a ton for the wonderful review. We look forward to hearing from you again soon. =3