A/N: Well, you guys. This be my last day of summer before school starts. I wouldn't worry too much about updates being late seeing as how on Mondays I only have one class and it's only from about 2:00 in the afternoon to 5:00. So homework shouldn't be an issue. I can do homework for Monday's class over the weekend. However, my internet access may still be just a little bit limited, but oh well. I guess I'll just have to live with getting you guys late night updates. But despite that, I'm still technically getting this updated on time. Anyways, for those of you who have been waiting oh so patiently for Chapter 14 of ZADR Orange, here be your next update. Lots of love to those of you who have faved or added the story to your story alert list. Remember that 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: Notgonnadie
Dib: Me
Beta: Notgonnadie
Leading Dib back to the base, confused as to why it was so quiet but figuring Dib was just being sentimental about something, Zim merely let the others silence slide. "Well, here we are...Uhh...Should I have the computer make you a room? Or would you like to bunk with me?" he asked, looking at Dib questioningly.
Dib finally looked up at Zim at the question. "Ummm...Wh-Whatever you're more comfortable with..." he then looked away to the ground again.
Zim could only look at Dib confused. "Okay...What's wrong now?" he looked worried.
Dib took a few steps back away from the other. "Nothing..." he lied.
Zim was really lost now. "Wh-What's wrong?" he asked again, reaching out a little for Dib but pulling back at the last minute, sighing and turning towards the house to walk inside, head down. "You can have my room..." he said in a low voice.
Dib took a few more steps away from the door. "M-Maybe I should leave..." he felt uncomfortable now that he was at Zim's base.
"What? NO!" Zim grabbed Dib's arm. "Don't leave me!...Please...Please, tell me what's wrong..." Zim begged the other not to go.
"I just...I just don't feel like you're comfortable with me being here..." Dib finally came out and said it.
"Wh-What do you mean? Of course I'm comfortable with you here...Don't you want to stay?" Zim sent Dib a dejected look.
"But I keep on overstepping my boundaries and upsetting you!" Dib argued back in an upset voice now.
"No! Noooo..." Zim pulled Dib close. "Is that what you think? Nooo..." he kissed Dib, wrapping his arms around him. "Come on. Let's just go inside, and I'll get us something to eat...Or, if you want, we could go out for a meal. You pick." he said, just wanting the other to feel at home.
Hiding his face in Zim's chest, however, Dib was still fairly upset. "I'm not very hungry..." his voice came out low now.
Petting Dib's hair gently, Zim could only sigh at those words. "Come on, Dib." he walked inside with him. "You've had a rough day...Let's just get some sleep." he said, his own voice tired now.
Allowing Zim to lead him inside, Dib continued to cling to the Irken as he all the while looked about the place, the pile of debris from the other day still there.
Shivering, remembering what happened, Zim pulled closer to Dib. "I'd be dead if it weren't for you..." his voice came out in a whisper.
Tensing at Zim's words, Dib merely nodded his head slightly as he stared at the pile with wide, somewhat fearful eyes. He never wanted to walk in on such a situation again. Finally managing to look away after a moment, he hid his face away in the Irken's chest, the memory still sending shivers up and down his spine. "I almost didn't come that night...You could have died, and it would have been all my fault..." he breathed in shakily.
Holding close to Dib, Zim walked them into the lift to go to his room. "No, it would have been my fault...Not yours...NEVER think it was your fault." he squeezed the other tightly for a few seconds before loosening his grip.
"B-But you only ended up in that situation because you were waiting for me! And I didn't come right away, so you got hurt in the end!" he exclaimed once again in an upset tone.
Sighing, Zim rested his head on Dib's shoulder as they went down in the lift. "Please stop blaming yourself, Dib. You know I'm accident prone..." he didn't want to hear Dib blaming himself.
About to argue back, Dib stopped himself before he could and fell silent, not wanting to say something stupid again. Then, returning his face to Zim's neck, he hid there in the crook of the Irken's neck the rest of the way down.
Sighing again, knowing he needed to have a long talk with Dib but too tired to do so now, Zim decided to do it later. "We will talk more tomorrow, Dib..." he kissed his cheek. "I promise. I'm just...so tired..." he said as the lift opened, allowing him to walk out, leading Dib towards his room where he had a large, comfortable bed.
Hesitantly following Zim out of the elevator and over towards the bed, Dib looked about the room as the Irken sat him down on the covers.
Snuggling up next to Dib and pulling the covers over the two of them, Zim clapped his hands to dim the lights and curled up with his arms wrapped around Dib. "Good night..." he said, already half asleep at this point.
"Night..." Dib sunk down under the covers a bit, turning onto his side to cling to Zim's shirt tightly, trying to ignore all the wires hanging down from the ceiling and strange shadows being cast across the walls.
Falling asleep soon after, Zim clutched Dib for protection and comfort, seeming to remain nightmare-free for it.
Tugging the covers even more over them to hide under, Dib, however, was unable to bring himself to fall asleep right away, just staring at the picture of his mother that he had brought with him, hoping it would help calm his nerves enough to get some sleep soon.
Curling up more next to Dib, Zim snored lightly, comfortable and calm in his own bed with Dib beside him.
After several hours of just staring at the picture of his mother, Dib finally gave up on sleeping as he merely located Zim's chest to nuzzle his face into, closing his eyes but otherwise not sleeping.
Mumbling something in his sleep and cuddling up more to Dib, Zim tried to make as much of himself touch Dib as possible. "...Dib..." he smiled a little before continuing his light snoring contently.
Peeking his eyes open at the mention of his name, Dib lifted his head up to look at the sleeping Irken, blinking at him before scooting in closer to rest his forehead against Zim's gently, closing his eyes again and just listening to the Irken's gentle breathing.
Purring in his sleep, Zim blushed a little.
Peeking his eyes partway open before blinking them closed again, Dib finally felt himself drift off to sleep.
The next morning, Zim was the first one to show signs of waking up as he slowly began to come to, not wanting to move. "Mmm...Too warm..." he complained, forgetting why it was so warm in the first place until he ended up groping Dib. "Dib?" he smiled, surprised but glad to see the other was still there.
Having only fallen to sleep a few hours earlier, Dib remained fast asleep even with all the moving around.
Purring a bit, Zim smiled, petting his hair back gently. 'Finally getting some sleep?' he thought before yawning. 'I guess I could sleep for a little longer too...' he cuddled back up to Dib.
Remaining fast asleep for at least a few more hours, Dib finally let out a small whine when he realized he couldn't move one of his arms, which Zim was practically curled around at this point and clutching tightly. Blinking his eyes slightly open after a few moments, he stared over at the sleeping Irken before letting out a loud yawn and closing his eyes again, just letting them rest for the time being.
"Mmm..." Zim finally couldn't sleep any longer as he started to stretch, eyes opening a tiny crack.
Shifting his eyes slightly open again at all the movement, Dib brought up his free arm to rub up under his glasses at one of his eyes and let out another yawn before attempting to sit up slowly just to find that Zim had finally let go of his arm. "Mmm..." he looked about the room, still half asleep and disoriented. "Where's the bathroom...?" he asked before flopping back down onto his back when the act of sitting up became too tiresome for him in that moment.
Having also sat up, Zim worked to stretch the kinks out of his back and arms. "Over..." he yawned. "Over there, Dib..." he pointed to a door over to the side of the room.
"Never...Nevermind..." Dib yawned also. "Too tired to pee..." he turned over onto his side and hugged a nearby pillow to himself, hiding his face in it comfortably.
Confused now by that statement, Zim looked back at Dib worried. "Are you okay?" he asked.
But Dib didn't hear him as he had already for the most part drifted back off to sleep. "Mmmmm..."
Sighing to himself, Zim smiled slightly, running a hand through Dib's hair. "Good night, Dib." he wrapped himself around the human and snuggled up close to him before dozing back off a little himself.
A/N: And there you have it. Your weekly update of ZADR Orange. Next chapter should be up sometime next week. So look forward to Chapter 15. =3 Now let me take this time to respond to those of you who reviewed.
To Invader Ang: Lol. XD Indeed, that DOES pretty much summarize the last chapter. I think it was more cute than hot though. XD But anyways, yesh! Stuttery Dib is full of love. However, despite what you may think, I can assure you that Dib IS the uke in this particular story. Personally, I can see him as both seme and uke, but as you'll see soon enough, he's 100 percent uke in this. Zim IS very clingy in this to Dib, but he's also the one pushing Dib into having sex with him in this story. At this point in the story, however, Dib is still too shy. Anyways, thanks again for reviewing. And no problem. I'm usually always willing to answer your people's questions. =3 And yes, random is good. XD
To Illisandria Carthain: Much thanks to you for the compliment. =3 We really appreciate it. As for the Irken hybrid Dib thing, I'm glad we were able to at least reserve some element of surprise in the way we wrote this. And the surprises don't end here. We have much more to go in this story. As for your weekly question, you kind of ruin one of the bigger surprises in this story by asking that. XD But yes, that would be where we're taking this story. Honestly, it's the one chapter I worry about losing readers at. But until then, it won't come until Chapter 39. So hopefully that knowledge won't scare you away from our story in the long run. I already know it will scare away at least a few people. But we're writing this story for our own amusement, so people will just have to deal with it. Either deal with it or stop reading, whichever you'd rather do. We don't make people continue reading this if they don't want to. Once again, I'm always happy to answer any questions you readers may have. We thank you muchly for the cookies and hope you continue enjoying this story despite where it be heading. XD
To Chaos of the asylum: Lol. XD Alright then. Feel free to note me on DA if you ever feel like responding to any of the reviews on here. =3 I'll be sure to post it with the chapter when I answer people's reviews and let them know it's you talking to them. =3
To Meta-Knight-1-fan: Yesh! An Irken Dib is indeed very sexy and cute. ^.^ Glad to hear you're enjoying the storyline so much. There's still much more to be written for this story however. We've only just begun. So be sure to keep your eyes open for future chapters. =3 And fear not, Zim knows what he's doing. Hope to hear from you again soon. =3 And don't worry, we're not giving up on this story any time soon. =3
To ClockwerkOrange: Alright. Good. Hopefully it will be worth the wait for you. And hopefully you'll pull out at least a little bit more enjoyment from this story OTHER than from just the future TAGRness in this story. As for Dib, he comes out of this story with a lot of psychological problems, but that's just something you all have to deal with. The only time he doesn't really stutter in this story is when he's angry or arguing with somebody about something, usually Tak. She has a tendency to pick on him a lot. Though most of the characters do in this story. Here be the next chapter to yet again unbalance our trade. Can't wait to see what you come up with next to balance it out again. XD And once again, for the last time, no sex until Chapter 35. This is at least my second time telling you if not third. So please stop asking and take the time to read through this response thoroughly. I will not repeat this a third/fourth time for you seeing as how I've answered this question plenty of times already for you. With that said, have another nice day. =3
To 1337kitsune: Err...Well, if that's how you see it. XD Really, I just respond to you people in the order I recieve the comments. You were the last person to comment on Chapter 13, so I responded to you last. It didn't really have anything to do with saying goodbye. But anyways, glad to hear you enjoyed Chapter 13 so much. We certainly enjoyed writing it. But then again, we usually enjoy writing any scene in this story. It's such a blast to write. =3 Like I said before, I assume you enjoy reading it here more because you don't get an overload of information all at once. And, yes. They do stutter and blush quite a bit in this story. But trust me, Dib is the only love-struck teen in this. XD Zim is MUCH older than Dib in this story, even if he doesn't act like it. XD Anyways, get yourself some food. Get yourself some sleep. And I'll talk to you next time. =3
To Casykirby: Haha! Thanks. X3 Really? That's awesome. We're quite flattered you find this story that interesting that it'd be the only story you're reading. That being the case, here be another chapter for you to read. We sincerely hope you enjoy and continue to enjoy as we update this each and every week. So until next time. =3