ZADR Orange Chapter 93

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

Enjoy. =3

Hearing Jack's words, Rose's face became one of concern. "Oh no. We'll be right over." she responded back to Jack.

"Well, where are they?!"

"In one of the bathrooms. Dib is throwing up."

"Alright. We'll be waiting for you." Jack said before ending the call by closing his phone and returning it to his pocket. As Dib continued to throw up, he couldn't help but glance over, noticing that a lot of what was in the toilet looked to be blood.

Jack waited until Dib had finally stopped throwing up long enough to ask him whether he had hurt himself. "Dib! Dib, did something happen to you after you ran off?! You're bleeding!" he exclaimed as he continued to rub the panting hybrid's back.

Dib was by this point crying too hard to answer Jack's question.

Jack, rather than waiting for a response from the hybrid, carried him out of the bathroom after flushing the toilet. "Come on, Dib. Zim and Rose are on their way over here right now." he said.

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Meanwhile, checking every bathroom he came to, Zim rushed with Rose following a little ways behind towards the side of the mall Jack had gone to.

Smashing into a bathroom, Zim growled as it was once again the wrong one.

Rose panted. "Zim, calm down. Jack won't let Dib run away. There's no rush." she said.

"Yes, there is! He'll hate me more if I don't hurry!"

"No, he won't, Zim! You need to calm down and slow down otherwise you'll end up giving both Dib AND Jack a heart attack barging in like that! So just take a deep breath and slow down already!" Rose sent him an all too serious look, not too happy about having to run around herself with the baby weighing her down.

Bouncing in place a little, Zim whined. "But the longer I'm away, the more he'll think I don't want to be with him!" he exclaimed.

"Zim! He's not going to think that! He was just upset because he was feeling sick! And I don't think you barging into the bathroom like a maniac is going to make him feel any better! Just calm down and we'll find them quickly enough."

Ditching his wig to tug harshly at his antennas, Zim whined again.

"There you guys are."

Gasping, Zim ran over to Jack when the other called out to them, looking worried. "Dib? Dib, are you okay?" he asked.

"He'll be alright." Jack said, handing the crying Dib to Zim.

Taking Dib, Zim held him close and nuzzled him gently. "What's wrong, Dib-love?" he asked, softly kissing him. "Are you hurt?" he asked.

Clinging to the Irken, Dib wrapped his arms around Zim and sobbed into his chest.

"Oh, Dib. Please tell me..."

"You're the one who's hurting because of me!" Dib cried into the other's chest, feeling absolutely horrible about what had happened earlier.

"What? No." Zim kissed Dib again. "There is nothing wrong with Zim. Now, what is wrong with you?" he asked.

"He was throwing up blood in the bathroom when I found him."

Zim's eyes widened. "Dib?! What happened?! Are you sick?! Are the smeets injured?! Did someone hit you?! Tell Zim!" he exclaimed.

His antennae drooping, Dib flinched back a bit at all the yelling. All the screaming and panicking was only serving to make him feel sick again. "I-I just bit my tongue..." his voice came out shaky.

"Oh..." Zim held him tighter. "Is it okay now?" he asked.

"I think I'm going to throw up again..."Dib began sobbing again into the other's chest.

"Maybe we should sit down for a while and let Dib calm back down."

Nodding, Zim nuzzled him and carried him over to a rest area nearby where they could take a seat on one of the fluffy couches.

Allowing him to curl back up into his lap, Dib coughed hoarsely as Zim took a seat. "I'm sorry...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." he apologized repeatedly in an upset voice as Rose and Jack took seats on either side of them.

Reaching out, Rose played with his hair. "Shhh...Calm down, Dib. Nobody is mad at you. Right, Zim?" she said.

"But I punched him!" Dib exploded back into tears, hiding his face in Zim's lap, antennae shuddering.

"It's okay, Dib. I deserved it..." Zim kissed him repeatedly, trying to calm him down.

Dib could only get more upset, however. "No, you didn't! You didn't deserve to have me punch you like that! I don't even know why I punched you in the first place! The only person here who deserves to be punched is me because of what an ass I've been to you all day! Because of what an ass I've been to you this entire pregnancy!" he exclaimed.

Zim sighed. "It's not like I've been helping very much..." he said.

"You're wrong! You've done everything for me! Every last thing I've asked you to do, you've done without questioning! I don't even think I would have made it this far in the pregnancy without going insane if you hadn't been there! But I just keep throwing it back in your face and hurting you!"

Staring at Dib sadly for his words, Zim pulled him even closer. "Noooo...Noo, Dib..." he kissed him again. "It's okay. Shhhh..." he rocked Dib back and forth gently. "It's not your fault." he tried to reassure the other of that.

"No, it's not okay! Because it IS my fault! Who else's would it be?!"

"Hormones..." Zim smiled and lifted Dib's head up, kissing him on the lips. "...and myself. It's my fault you're pregnant in the first place, after all." he said.

"But you didn't do it on purpose. You didn't even know it was possible. So I can't blame you for it. It's not your fault...And it's not your fault I've been acting like such a jerk..." Dib sniffled wetly, only calming down slightly.

"But it's not your fault either, Dib." Zim smiled.

"Yes, it iiiis..." Dib whined, returning his face to Zim's lap. "Yelling at you does nobody any good and yet I keep on doing it...And I don't understand why you continue to stay with me...Why you want to stay with somebody who hurts you constantly and probably won't even make a good mother to these smeets in the end anyways..." he said.

Zim sighed. "Dib, you're not hurting me...You hurt me more when you didn't know how I felt about you...You're the best thing that ever happened to Zim...And you will be a GREAT mother." he said.

Eyes half lidded as the life seemed to drain out of him now, Dib just continued to sniffle wetly. "...I don't think they'll like me...I'm already doing a bad job taking care of them, and they're not even born yet..." he said.

Zim held Dib close. "Dib, you've done nothing wrong." he said.

"I just wish...I wish I weren't so bad at this..." Dib turned his head slightly to rest his cheek against Zim's leg.

Zim sighed. "I wish I was better at this too..." he said.

"B-But you're already so good at it...You take care of them a-and me...And whenever they're upset, you kiss them and calm them down...A-And you spoil them even though they're not out of the womb yet...A-And...And...You just do everything every good father should do for their kids..."

Zim's antennae drooped. "But I don't...I get them riled up in the first place by making them upset. I scream and shout at you when you act up, making you more upset then you should be..." he said.

"But that makes it my fault they get upset! You're not yelling at them! You're yelling at me because of the stupid things I do! But then you do everything you can to calm them down...If that's not being a good father, then I don't know what is..."

Zim sighed. "But you don't...Your father was terrible...You don't know what a good one is like..." he said.

Dropping his eyes back down to the floor, Dib's antennae drooped. "That might be so...But you must be better than him if you're doing everything for them that I wish my dad had even ever considered doing for Gaz and me..." he said.

Zim nuzzled him. "That's why I'm trying so hard...I DON'T want to be like him..." he said.

Lifting his eyes up, Dib gazed at Zim through half-lidded eyes. "You're not..." he nuzzled Zim back affectionately, breathing in shakily.

Hugging him, Zim smiled. "You wanna go home? We can come back later for the smeets." he said.

Seeming to give that some thought, Dib slowly shook his head. "No...No, I don't want to have to make another trip back down here...I don't want to put you through another car ride or make Jack and Rose take time out of their lives to drive us back down here...Let's just...get it over with...I don't want us putting it off...Otherwise, we might not even get down here again to do it..." he said.

Zim nodded. "Okay, Dib." he kissed his head. "Whenever you're ready, we'll go looking, okay?" he said.

Closing his eyes to collect himself, Dib nodded his head slowly. "Do we know where we're going...?" he asked.

"Well, Jack and I were planning on taking you two to the same store we went to when we first went shopping, but I know there's at least one other baby store somewhere in the mall, maybe two if you want to check those places out too."

Without opening his eyes, Dib merely nodded his head slowly. "I guess it depends on what we end up buying..." he said.

"Well, we don't really know what gender the smeets are yet...We just know there are three..."

"Well, that leaves you with a few options then. You could either choose gender neutral colors for them until you know what gender they're going to be...Or you could get colors for both. Though the color doesn't really matter at this point. What matters is that the things you buy are useful."

"Let's just get neutral until we know." Zim nodded, the color purple coming to mind.

Rose smiled. "So...Any specific gender you're hoping to get when they're first born? Or does it matter to you?" she asked.

"Uhh..." Zim glanced to Dib. "Well...Zim was hoping male...What about you, Dib-love?" he asked.

Opening his eyes slowly, Dib blinked up at them. "T-To be perfectly honest, I-I haven't really given it much thought...I-I guess I'll be happy with whatever I get just so long as they're healthy...And I suppose there's a good chance we may get at least one of both...Heh...I really wouldn't mind a little girl though...err...Just so long as she's not too much like Gaz or Tak..." he smile nervously. "H-How about you? D-Do you and Jack already know what gender your baby is going to be?" he asked.

"Well..."

"Rose and I decided not to check yet...We want to be surprised..."

"And we don't want to get our hopes up..." Rose said, looking away somewhat sadly.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 93. =3 Until next time~