ZADR Orange Chapter 75

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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Refusing to answer Dib's question, Zim merely shook his head. "You win, Dib. You should be happy." he said, turning to head upstairs and get Dib something to eat.

Rather than feeling happy, however, Dib felt rather sick to his stomach as all he could do was sit there in a daze. This wasn't right. It didn't feel anything like a real win for him. It wasn't like he had the upper hand at the moment or was the one chasing Zim away from Earth. On the contrary, he was the one who was locked up here. But even so, he felt as though he were being abandoned on a completely alien planet himself.

Zim returned moments later, a large plate of food in hand. "Here, you'll need to eat..." he said.

A dazed look on his face, Dib merely sat there with his knees up to his chest. "I'm not hungry..." he said in an eerily low voice. He didn't want to eat. He didn't want to sleep, talk, or even look at Zim when he came back into the room. For some odd reason, besides making him feel sick, the other's words had angered him for the most part.

"You're still going to eat, Dib. You need to."

Dib's antennae could only fall back even more at that. "I said I'm not hungry." he spoke in an even more stern voice as a sort of warning not to push the subject or him too much farther. He was on the verge of another breakdown at this point as he glared down at the ground, refusing to look back up at Zim.

Setting the food on the floor of the cage, Zim sighed. "I'm only doing this for you..." he said.

Dib scowled even more at the floor. "I don't want you doing me any favors! The only reason I'm even in this situation to begin with is because of you!" he growled in a low voice.

"Then you'll be glad when I'm gone, won't you?"

Dib felt his body beginning to shake with anger. "Just get out of here already! Leave me alone! I don't feel like talking to you right now!" he wanted to be alone.

Flinching, Zim retreated back to his spying spot.

Letting out a shaky sigh once he was alone again, Dib felt his body shaking as he began breaking down again, the tears coming and dripping down his face.

Burying his head in his arms, Zim then curled up on the floor, waiting for Dib to fall back to sleep. "I'm sorry..." he whispered, Dib's soft whimpering echoing throughout the quiet room.

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A few hours passed, Dib just crying to himself in the corner of his cell until finally he managed to drift back off, his eyes red and puffy from how long he had been crying.

Seeing Dib fall asleep, Zim slowly stood up from his spot and went to check on him, entering the cage and gently picking him up so he could carry him over to the bed. Then, sitting down with Dib's head in his lap, he began to pet the hybrid's head gently, rubbing his antennae a little and looking sad as he leaned down to kiss the top of his head.

Dib, meanwhile, remained fast asleep as Zim did all this to him. "Mmm...Zim..." he murmured in his sleep, shifting slightly against the Irken.

Pulling Dib closer, Zim smiled sadly. 'I thought this would change things...but I can't stop loving him...And it looks like he can't either...' he thought.

New tears slipping from his eyes as he slept on, Dib shuddered in his sleep, his dreams carrying him back to just a few days ago when he and Zim had still had a relationship.

Wrapping his arms around Dib, Zim sighed sadly. "I'm sorry...No matter what I do, I hurt you..." he said in a soft voice to the other, curling up around him protectively.

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Sleeping on for several more hours, Dib jolted back awake suddenly in the bed Zim had set up for him, panting uneasily as it took him a moment to remember where he was and why.

An arm draped over him to help keep him warm, Zim had foolishly allowed himself to fall asleep next to Dib.

Sitting bolt upright at realizing Zim was fast asleep next to him, Dib just about let out a startled noise but stopped himself, realizing this could be his one and only chance to escape. Looking over at the door to the cell and then Zim, he carefully shifted the other's arm off of him and searched his pockets for the key. Upon finding it, he didn't hesitate to make a run for the exit, locking the door behind himself and leaving the room to search for a way out. He would question why Zim was sleeping in the same bed with him later, but now was not the time.

Opening his eyes only after he realized his source of heat was no longer there, Zim jolted awake upon realizing that A) he was in Dib's cage, and B) DIB WAS GONE! Jumping out of the bed in a hurry, he then rushed to the door, which he found to be locked and his key to it gone. "Shit." he swore to the empty room.

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Meanwhile, as Dib was desperately running about the place searching for the elevator, he suddenly found himself stumbling upon a room harboring dozens of computer screens, each screen recording live time footage of each and every room in Zim's base.

He walked in slightly amazed. "Whoa..." he looked over each and every screen, his eyes widening when he saw one screen that showed the room he had been kept in and Zim currently standing at the cell door, using his spider legs to pick the lock. "Oh, crap!" he turned to make a run for the elevator but stopped himself when something else caught his eye. In a corner of the room to the left of him, there sat a box which had his name written on it in big, bold letters. "What the-?" he approached it to look through, finding it filled to the brim with disks of what he assumed were surveillance videos of himself, perhaps from the past when he had tried to sneak into Zim's base. But then, underneath it all, he also found a pile of books which all looked rather new to him, like they had just been packed up less than 24 hours ago. Picking up one of the books, he read the title: 'Your Pregnancy Week-By-Week'.

"Wh-What is all this?" he began looking through the rest, finding them all to be pregnancy books. Had Zim really planned all of this ahead of time? he asked himself, returning his attention to the surveillance disks and looking through them for the one with the most recent date on it. As much as he knew he should be getting out of there by now, he wanted to know what was going on. So, walking up to one of the computer monitors, he found a place to insert the disk and waited for it to load.

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Rushing out of the room to look for Dib once he had finished picking the lock, Zim sighed, yanking on his antennas. "Oh, what's the point? He probably left already." he said before stopping in his tracks upon hearing what sounded like his and Dib's voices coming from the surveillance room. "Or maybe not..." he walked towards the room and peeked inside.

Inside, Dib stood watching the screen with wide eyes as the video played out everything that had happened within the past day or two he had been there.

"Dib, you're painfully shy of everything about you...You won't even let me see you naked, and we live together, and you're pregnant..."

"W-Well, what reason do you have for wanting to see me naked in the first place? C-Can't you find some other way to get yourself off like most other people do?"

"I-I love you...I'm sorry...I just...guess I can't help myself...I want you to myself. ALL of you..."

Bits and pieces of this for some reason seeming familiar to him, Dib continued to just stand there, dumbstruck, as the video continued to play through the conversation.

Quietly walking into the room behind Dib, Zim sighed.

Dib had begun shaking a bit in his spot as he watched the screen with trembling fingers covering his mouth and new tears threatening to overflow down his face. "What is this?" he asked nobody in particular, not realizing Zim was behind him as he sank down to his knees.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 75. =3 Until next time~