A/N: Gah! Been so long since I last updated the story here for you guys! ;3; Sorry about that. Been so busy with my last semester of school, I just haven't been able to find the time for updatage like I wanted. So I'm sorry for the wait, you guys. I'll try to find more time to keep this story updated here like I wanted. But before I get to posting this next chapter of ZADR Orange, I have a few announcements to make. One: I will NOT be answering back reviews this week. No, this is not a permanent fix. I've just become so unorganized with the reviews, I can't remember who actually left a review on the last chapter and who didn't. Sure, I could look it up, but that'd take longer going through all those reviews just to find who reviewed on what chapters. So, just for this chapter, I'll be skipping the reviews. Call it a fresh start. I'll start answering reviews again NEXT chapter. Two: For those of you thinking of attending the next InvaderCon in July, we thought we'd let you guys know that both NGD AND myself WILL be attending. Both of us have already bought our tickets, NGD reserved our hotel room, and now we're working towards getting our plane tickets sorted out so we can meet at the airport and prepare. NGD WILL be running a vending table and we plan on having all sorts of ZO merchandise at the convention as well as some possible games. So I'll be sure to keep you guys all updated on our plans for the upcoming InvaderCon, this way you may have the chance to win some cool prizes and stuff. =3 THREE: And, going along with what I just said in two, I thought I'd just put it out there that both NGD and myself ARE taking art requests for prints of any ZO moments any of you would like to see made for InvaderCon. So if any of you would like to request a picture be drawn, please feel free to ask. These will also be going up on deviantart so even if you're NOT going to the convention, you can still request a scene from the story be drawn. This will be an ongoing thing until the time of the convention. So please, request away and we'll see what we can get done over the next 10 months. All prints will be up for sale at the convention and possibly even a DRAWING we plan on having for donations. That said, I shall now stop rambling and get on to presenting you guys with Chapter 51 of ZADR Orange. Much, much, much LOVE to all our readers, reviewers, people who add the story to their faves, and those who add the story to their story alert lists. We really appreciate you guys being so patient with us. For your patience, here be the next chapter and quite possibly, another chapter to follow later in the day/weekend.

Warnings: Extreme OOCness

Rating: M

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/Rose: Notgonnadie

Dib: Me

Jack: Both of us

Beta: Notgonnadie

Eyes growing wide at Dib's words, Jack couldn't believe Dib was offering to tell them what had happened to him. Rose had told him she had asked about him being an alien, but he never expected Dib would admit to that. "Of course! If you want to tell us, that is..." he quickly tried to mask his excitement so as not to scare Dib away from telling them.

Turning his attention to Jack now, Dib seemed to hesitate momentarily. "Y-You have to promise not to tell anyone else." he didn't want this getting out to the rest of the world. The only reason he was even doing this now was because he trusted Rose and Jack and thought they could keep a secret.

Exchanging glances, both Rose and Jack then looked back at Dib and nodded simultaneously.

"A-Alright...W-Well...Y-You were half right about that 'being an alien' theory...B-But I'm still for the most part human! I-I mean...at least, I still feel like I'm mostly human...Y-You see, ever since the time I was 3, I believed in aliens. But nobody else would ever believe me. All my classmates and my dad's co-workers called me insane for the longest time.

"But then, one day when I was in the 5th grade, a new student joined my class, and I knew from the second I saw him that he was an alien. H-He had a really bad disguise on...B-But nobody else seemed to notice. W-Well, I hated him at first, and for five years I spent all my free time trying to expose him. U-Until our relationship changed one day...really recently actually. A-And he told me about a procedure he could perform to make me into a hybrid of our species and his.

"I agreed, but only because I had just had an argument with my dad! I-I looked like him a lot and didn't want to anymore, so I asked him to change me. But ever since that day, it's just been one disaster after another!" Dib's antennae drooped again and he felt the tears coming to his eyes once more.

Eyes wide, Jack could only stare at him for several long moments. "Oh, wow..." he slumped back in his chair, bringing a hand up to hold his head. It was a lot to take in all at once.

"Oh, you poor thing!" Rose exclaimed, both her and Jack looking concerned.

"So...Is the part about you being sick one of the disasters? Is it some sort of fatal alien illness?" Jack asked, assuming that it must be if Dib was so sick.

Tensing at the question, Dib blushed and dropped his gaze back down to the ground. "N-No...N-Not exactly..." he felt uncertain about whether he should tell them or not. "I-It is the reason I left him though..." he began playing with his fingers nervously, shifting about in his spot uncomfortably.

A little frightened by that, Rose leaned in closer to him. "It must be horrible! What did he do to you?" she asked, all her attention directly on Dib now.

Jumping a bit at her question and sudden closeness, Dib shrunk down in his spot even more as he couldn't bring his gaze up to meet either hers or Jack's. "I-I don't even really know myself...Things happened so quickly, I-I didn't have a chance to process what he was telling me...A-Apparently there are some...umm...anatomy differences between the males on his planet and the males on ours..." he felt at though his face were on fire now.

A little puzzled now, the two of them pulled away somewhat to lean back in their chairs.

"What kind of differences?" Jack was the first to speak up, raising one eyebrow at Dib.

Her own eyes wide, Rose could only stare at him as she began drawing upon her own conclusions. The thought had crossed her mind, but she figured it was impossible and had only thought of it because she was pregnant herself. "Are you..." she began but stopped herself to shake her head, smiling to herself. The very thought was absurd. "No...You...You're not...pregnant...are you?" she found herself asking him regardless of what she thought.

Eyes growing wide again, Jack could only turn to stare at his wife, wanting to say something before giving it some thought and realizing Dib did seem to have some of the same symptoms his wife had had a few months earlier. "Y-You are...aren't you...?" he didn't even wait for Dib to answer his wife's question, able to see the answer written all over Dib's face.

Dib just wanted to curl up and die in that moment from embarrassment. "H-He told me he thought it wasn't possible! Th-That I was human enough for it not to be possible! B-But I didn't even know that was an issue until he told me a week ago!" he finally exploded on them when both their gazes were fixed back on him, tears coming to his eyes.

"Oh, Dib..." Jack stood up to pull him into a tight hug, Rose following soon after. "It's okay..." he tried to soothe the sobbing hybrid.

Having completely broken down again, Dib was by now shaking with emotion. "I didn't want to believe him! So I ran out the moment he told me! How could he expect me to stay when I didn't even remember sleeping with him in the first place? All he could tell me was that I had been on a strong painkiller the night it happened and that I didn't remember anything the next morning when I woke up!" he hid his face away in Jack's shirt.

Stroking Dib's hair like a mother would, Rose dropped her voice down to a soft whisper now as she spoke soothingly to Dib. "Maybe he's telling the truth, Dib...Maybe he didn't know that would happen...And maybe he didn't know you wouldn't remember sleeping with him. People make mistakes..." she pressed a cheek to the top of his head.

"But he knew! He knew I didn't want to sleep with him at the time! I told him over and over again that I wasn't ready for doing something like that! I'm 16 for crying out loud! I'm not even out of high school yet! And now whenever I think of him, it hurts...because I don't know whether I can ever bring myself to fully trust him again..." Dib shook his head before breaking down even more.

Squeezing his shoulder, Jack tried to help steady Dib a bit more. "Maybe you were so out of it from the medications you told him you were ready." he said, trying to think of a reasonable explanation.

Dib could only shake his head at that though. "I didn't want things to go this way...I wanted it to be something special between the two of us! Not something I wouldn't remember in the morning! And I don't know what I'm going to do now in my current condition..." he tried to hold back some of his tears now, sniffling wetly.

"Dib..." Rose tilted his chin up to make him look at her in the eyes. "You know...No matter how hard things get or how angry or frustrated I might get at Jack, I would never leave him...because I love him. Even if we want to kill each other one day, we always find some way to make up. I think what you need to think about is not whether you can trust him or he's hiding something from you, but whether you love him and he loves you." she said, running her thumb across one of his cheeks.

Dropping his gaze away from her, Dib could only lower his voice down to a whisper at that. "Everybody keeps on telling me that...But I never said I didn't love him...I told him I couldn't ever stop loving him...But I have a right to be mad at least! And it's not like he can force me to stay there when I need some time to myself to sort things out!" he looked back up at her as he said that.

Nodding her head, Rose agreed he had a point. "True." she couldn't argue with Dib there.

"But...How long have you been gone? And...Did you even tell him where you were leaving to? He's probably worried sick?" Jack bit his lip, looking out the window.

Dropping his eyes back down to the ground, Dib shook his head. "I've...only been gone about 5 or 6 days...B-But he probably thinks I went straight to where my sister's been staying...I-It was the only place I'd think of to go...And I did...A-At least for the first night..." his sentence trailed off.

"Then what happened?" Rose asked, wanting to know how Dib had come to end up here.

"I-I had a fight with...with her new girlfriend..." Dib cringed. "H-Her girlfriend is an alien too...Th-The same species as Zim...A-And she was sent here recently by one of their leaders to kill Zim...Sh-She wouldn't stop picking on me though and blaming me for everything that happened...S-So I left...I-I just didn't feel comfortable staying there, especially when she kept threatening me if I threw up..." he said, recalling the morning he had left.

"W-Was this why you were in the park throwing up when I found you?" Jack asked, everything suddenly seeming to make a lot more sense in his head.

Nodding his head slowly, Dib continued. "I-I wasn't sure where else to go...So I went to the park and ended up getting sick in the bathroom there..." he explained, figuring they could piece the rest of his story together themselves at this point.

"Ohh, you poor thing..." Rose brushed a hand through his hair gently.

"I don't know if Zim knows I'm no longer staying with my sister and her girlfriend yet or not, but I want to go home...I don't want him to hate me forever for leaving..." Dib nearly choked out, having to hold back his tears again.

Pulling Dib into another hug, Rose went to say something when a knock on the door interrupted her before she could say anything more. She sighed. "Can you get that, Jack?" she asked, busy holding Dib close.

"Sure thing, honey." Jack nodded before heading for the door in the living room. Then, reaching forward a hand to open the door, he responded before even seeing who is was that was at door. "Yes, can I help-" he hesitated to finish his sentence when he saw an individual with green skin similar to Dib's leaning up against the door frame unsteadily. "you?" the last word came out delayed.

Eyes barely open, large, dark circles having formed under them, Zim stood there with tear stains all down his face. He was so tired he had to lean up against the wall to support himself as hunger had also made him too dizzy to even move in a straight line any longer, his vision doubled.

"H-Hello." he forced out, his voice sounding scratchy from having to repeat this speech to every door he came to. "I-I'm looking for my Dib. H-He's this tall, black hair...brown eyes..." he began but at this point finally broke down crying and let himself fall to the floor completely, convinced he would never find Dib.

A/N: And there you have it for now. Once again, just to remind you guys, I'm not answering reviews until NEXT chapter. So sorry for any inconveniences that causes any of you. But it's been so long, I just want a fresh start, not to mention I have a killer headache right now and don't want to deal with responses back. So, in the meantime, just enjoy the chapter and review if you'd like. I be off to take a short nap now. Maybe, if I'm feeling up to it later, I'll post another chapter later tonight. Just depends on what I have going on at that time. So until next time~