ZADR Orange Chapter 72

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

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Jack sat next to Dib and Rose on the couch. "Dib, do you think you could tell us what happened?" he asked.

Hands shaking, Dib brought them up to his face to cry into. "H-He doesn't think we're supposed to b-be together...j-just because I can't bring myself t-to have an urge to s-sleep with him 24/7 l-like he feels towards me... B-Because I can't bring myself to give ALL of myself to him! A-And because the strongest feeling I have towards him is o-only contentment just being around him..." he said.

"Oh..." Jack looked at Rose for help.

"Uhh...W-Well, are you sure that he really meant that he wanted to break up with you? P-Perhaps he was just frustrated. A-And did you two get a chance to even talk it over before you left? M-Maybe it was just a case of miscommunication between you two. For all we know, h-he could be out there looking for you again."

"BUT HE DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO STOP ME FROM LEAVING! I gave him a chance to stop me before I left! I waited upstairs for him to come up and try to work things out! But he never came! Even though he promised me he would never leave my side again no matter what... He promised me, and I asked him whether he really meant it... He said he did, but if he really meant it, then why am I here and he's not?" Dib curled in on himself, his tears coming more and more now.

Jack's eyes narrowed. "I'm going to talk to him." he said.

Dib's antennae fell back at those words. "I don't want to see him though!" he yelled, in a more angry voice now. "I'm tired of being hurt by him constantly! He never keeps any of his promises, and I'm sick of it!" he didn't want Zim anywhere near him at this point.

"Then I won't bring him here. But Dib, I have to see what's going on."

"Why? There's no point in trying to fix things up between us! In fact, there's no point in me even continuing to chase after somebody who hurts me so much! At this point, I don't even want him anywhere near me! All I want is to forget!" Dib exclaimed in a truly hurt voice.

"Dib, honey. You don't mean that. We know you love him. And what about your babies?"

Jack sighed. "No, it's okay. I won't do anything. Okay, Dib?" he lied, still planning on doing something.

"I don't care! I don't want to see him! It's too painful!"

"Dib...You have to care...I know you. You're a loving person."

A knock at the door interrupted them.

"Hmm? Now, I wonder who that could be." Rose said, looking back up at Jack. "Can you get that, hon?" she asked, not wanting to leave Dib.

Nodding his head, Jack went to get the door, his eyes widening with surprise. "Z-Zim?" he asked, surprised to see the other.

"...Can I see Dib?" Zim asked, avoiding eye contact. He had spent the night thinking it over, replaying everything over and over in his mind, and he had come up with a plan. But he had to see Dib to put it into action.

Unsure whether right then was the right time to let Zim see Dib, Jack sighed. "Weeell...Come on in..." he gave in, stepping aside to let the Irken inside. "But can we have a talk in private before I let you see Dib? I don't think right this second would be the best time to see him. H-He's pretty angry right now, and I'm not so sure what he would do if you saw him at this very moment...Besides, he's just now recovering from a panic attack he had earlier this morning." he said, afraid something similar might happen if he let Zim see him.

"...Please...I just need to see him...I'll leave right after...I-I won't even speak..."

Jack sent him a slightly confused look. "Well...Okay...B-But I can't promise you he won't yell at you when you go in there..." he said, leading Zim to the room Dib was in.

"I know..." Zim followed Jack, feeling a little edgy but sure of what he had to do.

"D-Dib...There's someone here to see you..."

His antennae pressed to the back of his head, Dib was at this point sitting up stiffly, having already had an idea of who was at the door. "I don't want to see him..." he said, refusing to even lift his gaze to acknowledge Zim's presence.

Eyes averted, Zim walked up to Dib. "Dib...Please..." he pulled a small, metal pen-like device out of his PAK and held it up. "Just look at me..." he said, hoping the other would do as he asked.

Antennae pressing as far back against his head as possible, Dib glared at the ground below him. "Go away..." he didn't want to hear anything the other had to say to him.

"Dib...I'll go away, but only if you look at me...just for a second."

Dib just continued to stare down at the ground. "No! I don't want to look at you! Don't you get it? It hurts to look at you! If you really think we're not meant to be together because of me, then why don't you go and look for whomever the hell it is you think you're meant to be with and leave me alone? You were probably thinking that since day one and just leading me on so you could get inside my pants!" he turned his head away from the other.

"NO, I WASN'T! I LOVE YOU! I WOULD NEVER LEAD YOU ON, DIB! JUST LOOK AT ME!" he held the pen-like device tighter, placing a finger on the top of it.

Dib finally snapped. "AND WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE YOU? YOU'VE BROKEN EVERY PROMISE YOU'VE EVER MADE TO ME! EVEN THE ONE YOU TOLD ME YOU MEANT! THE ONE YOU PROMISED NOT TO BREAK LESS THAN 24 HOURS AGO!" he retorted, Zim's words meaning nothing to him any longer.

"I KNOW I DID! DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT? LOOK AT ME, DAMMIT!"

"NO!" Dib clung to Rose, hiding his face away in her shirt. "No..." he shook, breaking down even more. "I've lost everybody in my life already, Zim...I lost my mom...I lost my dad...I lost my sister...and now I'm losing you...Don't make me watch you go too...If you're going to go, just go already...Please..." he pleaded with the other not to put him through this.

"Please...I don't WANT to go, Dib...Just LOOK at me...A-And if you still want me to leave afterwards, then I'll go..." he squeezed his eyes shut tightly, the pen-like device still at the ready.

Dib could only whimper into Rose's shirt. "Why are you doing this to me...?" he asked before raising his head to look over at Zim with tears streaming down his face non-stop.

With a sudden gasp, Zim pressed the top of the pen and a bright flash went off in front of Dib's face. Then, Dib fell back into Rose's lap. "I'm sorry...But you'll be better off if none of this ever happened..." he sniffled and then put the pen-like device down.

"WH-WHAT DID YOU DO?" Jack demanded when Dib passed out.

"I wiped his memory..."

Panicking, Rose was by then holding Dib close. "Zim! How could you just do this to him? You have to undo this now! He's pregnant for crying out loud! What do you expect him to do when the babies come and he has no idea what's going on with himself?" she demanded.

Placing the pen-like device back in his PAK, Zim reached out to take Dib. "He will think I did evil alien experiments on him and hate me for the rest of his life...like it should be..." his voice shook somewhat.

Holding Dib closer when Zim reached out for him, Rose's eyes widened. "Don't come any closer, Zim! You're not taking him with you!" she glared back at the Irken.

"Give me my Dib-love! Or do you want to lose your memory too?"

Rose started to back up on the couch with Dib. "No, Zim! J-Just leave him alone!" she refused to listen.

Wasting no time at all, Jack, within a matter of seconds, cut Zim off from Rose and Dib. "You leave them alone, Zim! I'm not letting you lay a finger on either of them!" he said, not about to let the alien walk out of there with Dib without a fight.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 72. =3 Until next time~