A/N: I would sit here and give you guys some long-winded explanation as to why this chapter took me so long to get posted, but given I have the flu and really don't feel like typing up everything that's prevented me from working on and posting this story, I think I'll just give you the short version instead.

I ran out of pre-written chapters.

That's all there really is to it. So basically, I have to reficafy chapters from this point on. So sorry to say it, but updates will be slowing down again after this point.

That being said, I hope you guys otherwise enjoy my revamp of Chapter 117 and onwards.

ZADR Orange Chapter 117

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

Smiling at Purple's reaction to feeling the smeets move, Rose ran her thumb over the surface of his hand gently before pulling her own hand away to allow Purple more freedom of movement. "The smeets you'll have won't move, but they'll still be alive like this, even if they are in eggs. That's what you're fighting for." she said, hoping he would understand now why giving up just wasn't an option.

Smiling even more at the continued movement, Purple nodded his head at those words.

"If that's not enough motivation to make you keep trying, then I don't know what is."

Not really seeming to mind all the touching in that moment, Dib's antennae twitched as he merely dozed off against Zim.

Able to feel the movement continuing, Pur kept his hand pressed against Dib's belly. "Do they always move this much?" he asked after a moment, not so sure he could imagine what it would be like to have something constantly moving inside of him.

Zim laughed a little. "For Dib they do." he said, knowing they most often responded to Dib's emotional states.

"Does it hurt him?"

Zim shook his head. "Only when they kick REALLY hard." he then said, thankful that didn't happen often.

Purple smiled at that bit of information. "No wonder it hurt him so much when the eggs hatched inside him. They must have been kicking really hard back then to get out of their shells." he said, still quite shocked that the eggs had hatched inside of Dib's body.

Smiling sadly, Zim nodded. "Yeah..." he agreed, a part of him not minding the transition despite the difficulties he knew it would bring Dib later in the pregnancy. Although it was scary to think that Dib would have to give live birth at some point, he couldn't help but find a certain sort of pleasure out of feeling them move within Dib's body.

Turning over in the bed slightly, Dib clung to Zim after a moment.

Smiling, Zim nuzzled him. "He's had a rough time..." he then said, thinking back on all the obstacles they had been forced to overcome thus far.

"...I'm sorry...I think that's partially mine and Red's fault..." Purple pulled his hand back to himself, looking away to the side.

"No, no! It's not your fault! It's mostly been mine..."

"Well...He's still lucky to have you. And those smeets are lucky to have you. You're going to make a wonderful father to them." Purple smiled at Zim. "You know...I spent so long wanting smeets, even before Red and I became the Tallest. But now...I think I just want Red back...I don't want to give up on having smeets, and I won't...But I don't want to lose Red in the process..." he said, a part of him beginning to miss his co-ruler despite the lack of attention he'd been receiving from the other lately.

Zim nodded. "You won't lose him. He loves you. And you'll get smeets soon. Zim knows it." he reassured his leader, knowing they really weren't so different in that respect.

Purple smiled even wider. "You're right...I just worry too much. This is the way things were meant to be. I mean, can you just imagine what things would have been like if WE had ended up together?" he pointed back and forth between himself and Zim.

Snorting, Zim laughed loudly. "You would have made Zim carry the smeets." he snickered to himself at the mere thought.

Smirking back at him, Purple turned away to lean his back against the bed as he sat on the floor, tilting his head up a bit and staring into space. "Not intentionally...The law would have prohibited me from being the carrier because of my taller height." he said, the image in his own head of Zim heavily pregnant with smeets causing a small giggle to escape him.

Nodding at those words, Zim glanced at Dib. "Lucky for me, that didn't apply here...Dib is a bit taller than me..." he said, glad that height didn't hold any weight here on Earth.

"I always hated that law...If we had ended up together, I would have much rather been the carrier. And I was just lucky Red was the same height as me. We were able to choose who was on top and who was on bottom. But if I had ended up with anyone else, I wouldn't have been allowed the option to carry even if I wanted to. But I'm glad you weren't faced with that problem down here. I don't think I could imagine you carrying smeets."

Zim snickered. "Yes, Zim is not a carrier." he said, shaking his head as he knew he was far too dominant to ever let anybody top him in bed.

"And I'm not a dominant. Our roles could have never been reversed. That's why we couldn't be together. That's why that one time we tried to mate didn't work. I don't think either of us was comfortable with our roles in it."

Grinning, Zim nodded. "Yeah... That's kind of why I avoided mating back on Irk... Zim was the smallest there..." he said, having always cursed his short height back then.

Purple looked back at Zim with his own grin. "Well, you've grown taller since then, so I'm certain you would have been able to find a more suitable mate than you had back then if you had ever returned to Irk. Someone...who would have made it feel right for you...I remember my first time mating with Red. It was the first time I ever felt comfortable mating with ANYBODY. He didn't fumble through it like I would have." he sighed at the memory, loving that he had barely had to do any work that first time.

Smiling, Zim shook his head. "I could never leave Dib though. It feels right with him." he said as he went to pet the hybrid's head gently, remembering the first night they'd had sex together and how perfect it had felt.

Bringing up his hands to make a small box with his fingers, Purple then turned to frame both Zim's and Dib's images within it. "Yep, you two definitely seem as though you were made for each other when I look at you." he then smiled, dropping his hands back down. "And it must mean something if you two were able to conceive on your first try." he said, only wishing things could have been that easy for him and Red.

Grinning wider, Zim nuzzled Dib closely. "It wasn't exactly on purpose..." he said, his cheeks momentarily flushing a darker shade of green.

"Hmm? You mean this pregnancy was accidental?" Purple asked, tilting his head to one side. "I was convinced you had done it to keep Tak from killing you like she had been ordered to do by Red." he said, having not realized that the pregnancy was unplanned.

Zim laughed a little nervously. "No... Tak being here was why Dib had come back to my base...But he had worked himself up so much I had to give him a large dose of medication to calm him back down...And...It kind of made him horny by the time I got him down to my bedroom..." he explained how the whole thing had even come about.

Purple could only blink wide eyes at the other for several long moments. "What kind of medications were YOU giving him anyways?! Maybe I could use the same ones on Red at some point...Perhaps slip it into his drink the next time I see him..." he seemed to give it some serious thought.

Zim laughed nervously again. "Umm...Well, I was using some Vortian painkillers..." he said, fiddling with his fingers a bit as he hadn't meant to make it seem as though he had drugged the other on purpose.

"Vortian painkillers?" Purple said before falling silent for several long moments. "...Why didn't I ever think of that...? Those are really strong painkillers, and they can have all sorts of side effects." he said, knowing that said painkillers were very rarely used, even in the Massive's medical bay.

Zim nodded slightly. "I should have known not to use them..." he said, antennae drooping at his own carelessness on that night.

"Hm?" Purple lifted an antenna. "Why? You got to sleep with your mate. And you're getting smeets out of it in the end. What's the problem with that?" he asked, honestly wishing he had thought of that himself long ago.

"Well, Dib wasn't really happy at first...He never wanted us to mate..."

"WH-WHAT?! He never wanted you two to mate?!" Purple looked at Zim incredulously. "B-But wait...If he never wanted you two to mate, then why did you mate a few days earlier?" he asked, not understanding how anybody in a relationship wouldn't want to mate, reproductive reasons aside.

Zim smiled shyly. "He changed his mind...Or maybe the smeets changed it for him..." he shrugged, really not knowing what it was that had changed Dib's mind in the end.

"The smeets? I think I'd be terrified to mate if I were carrying live smeets inside of me. What if they got hurt?!"

Zim shrugged.

"Well actually, it doesn't work like that." Rose smiled at him, cutting in on the conversation since neither Zim nor Purple seemed to have much experience with concepts surrounding the carrying of live young.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 117. =3 Until next time~