ZADR Orange Chapter 120

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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Tensing up a bit at Purple's words to him, Dib could hardly contain himself any longer as his entire body shook with emotion. "I'm nothing like him! And I don't want Zim seeing anything in me that she thought she saw in him! Because I know there was nothing good in him that she could have possibly seen! Nothing!" he exploded on the other all too suddenly, tears stinging his eyes all the while.

Purple froze at the outburst. "O-Okay...What are you talking about?" he asked, not understanding why the other was getting so upset all of a sudden.

Tears slipping down his cheeks, Dib brought his arms up to hug himself tightly. "He was a lying jerk...He never cared about us...Never cared what would happen to us in the end..." he shook his head slowly. "I hate him!" he then exclaimed, not really answering the other's question as expected.

Purple merely stared at Dib confused. "You know him?" he then asked, pointing to the image of Membrane on the screen.

"Of course I know him. He's my father. Or at least he used to be...Before he kicked me and my sister out on the street!"

Purple fell quiet for a moment. "Wait a minute...I thought Jack and Rose were your parents..." he said, none of what Dib was telling him making sense at all.

Eyes wet with tears, Dib looked up at Purple with a confused look of his own now. "Wh-What? I-I never said Jack and Rose were my parents..." he said as he sniffled a bit, wiping at his eyes with one of his arms in an attempt to calm himself back down before his emotions got the better of him.

"No, but Zim- ...He lied, didn't he...?

"Zim...? Zim told you they were my parents...? But..." Dib clutched the couch even tighter.

"Are you okay?"

Pulling his knees up to his chest and hiding his face in his arms, Dib could only shake his head slowly.

"Uhh..." Purple didn't know what to do, looking around and then patting Dib on the back gently in an attempt to comfort him.

Dib, however, couldn't help but break down as Rose was making her way down the stairs.

"Is everything okay down here? I heard screaming."

Purple jumped at her almost the moment she walked into the room. "You! Do something!" he bit his lip, looking back and forth between her and the crying Dib as he wasn't good at dealing with such situations at this himself.

Quickly making her way over to Dib, Rose pulled him into a warm embrace when she realized he was crying. "Oh, Dib...What's wrong?" she asked as she held the hybrid close to her.

"I want my mom..." Dib broke down even more, hiding his face in his hands.

"Ohh, Dib..." Rose pulled him closer and held on to him tightly as she rocked back and forth a little.

"I...I...I want my mom..." Dib continued to whimper out between sobs as he broke down completely now. "You can't replace her! Nobody can!" he then exploded on Rose without any prior warning.

Rose flinched at the outburst. "I-I'm not trying to replace your mom, Dib..." she hid her initial surprise as much as she could, just wanting to calm him before he had the chance to become anymore upset in that moment.

"THEN WHY DOES HE THINK YOU'RE MY MOM?!" Dib pointed at Purple before curling in on himself even more again, the tears coming in a flood now.

"Oh, Dib... I thought Zim had filled you in on that. We thought that up as an excuse for Jack and I to be there...I didn't know you still weren't in on it..."

"Zim never told me anything!" Dib cried, feeling as though his heart had been ripped out, his trust in Jack, Rose, Zim, and just about everyone else around him gone now.

Rose watched him concerned. "Are you okay, Dib?" she asked, thinking there was more to this than just what had been revealed thus far.

"No! I'm tired of him lying to me...Of EVERYBODY lying to me...All the time!"

"Dib...What happened?"

Pulling down on his antennae and squeezing his eyes closed tightly, Dib could only shake his head even more, not wanting to answer that and have to relive everything that had happened to him. "...I-I almost forgot her voice..." his words came out shaky, the only thing he would say in that moment.

Figuring Dib was just having a hard time with the pregnancy and getting emotional, Rose looked over at the television momentarily before returning her attention back to Dib. "Do you want me to turn it off?" she asked, thinking that might be part of what was setting him off in that moment.

Merely curling in on himself even more at that question, Dib didn't answer at first. "...I just want her to be alive again..." his voice suddenly fell down to a silent whisper.

Sighing at those words, Rose looked away. "I'm sorry, Dib..." she said as she knew nothing she did could make that desire come true.

Not wanting to hear it but rather just be left alone, Dib returned to sobbing into his arms again for the time being.

Sighing again, Rose let go of Dib before backing away slowly.

Bringing his arms up once Rose had backed away, Dib hugged himself as a sharp pain in his chest caused him to whimper out softly, his heart in pain.

Wishing she could do more to help him, Rose considered her options for a moment before looking up towards the room Zim and Dib had shared the night before. 'Maybe Zim knows what's going on...' she thought as she decided to give Dib some space to calm down before coming back to him.

As Rose left to head upstairs and find Zim, Dib, meanwhile, just sniffled wetly before letting out an even wetter cry.

Looking back towards him, Rose kept going regardless, knowing some time alone would be best for Dib in that moment. Once she reached the top of the stairs, she then headed for the room Zim and Dib had spent the night in, knocking on the door lightly. "Zim, are you awake?" she asked through the door, not wanting to disturb him in the event he was still sleeping, unaware of the fight Zim had had with Stella and Dib earlier that morning.

"Come in..."

Slowly opening the door some more, Rose peeked her head in on Zim. "I was just wondering if I could talk to you about D-" she began before cutting herself short upon seeing Zim sitting with his knees to his chest in the bed. "Hey...What's wrong?" she asked as she entered the room fully now and closed the door behind her. "Don't tell me you and Dib are fighting again." she said, Dib's current mood seeming to suggest it even more now.

Zim shook his head slowly as if in a dream. "I don't know what happened...I was asleep and something woke me up...then I cuddled up with Dib and he started yelling at me..." he explained to her, still in quite a bit of shock himself over how suddenly the other had exploded on him that morning.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 120. =3 Until next time~