ZADR Orange Chapter 128

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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Bringing his own hand down to his belly at Zim's words, Dib felt where one of the smeets was kicking inside of him. "...If we all survive..." he whispered, sounding somewhat doubtful, which brought him back to his original reason for having wanted to see Gaz that day, his antennae drooping even more at the thought.

"What do you mean? O-Of course we're going to survive." Zim laughed uneasily.

"But what if something happens to me or the smeets while I'm giving birth to them? Life can end so quickly sometimes...I could die without ever getting to see my sister again...Just like our mom died..."

Freezing at those words, Zim then wrapped his arms around Dib to pull him in close. "D-Don't say that, Dib...I'd never let you die..." his voice shook with some emotion at the thought.

"But what if there are complications?! I...I would want you to save them before you tried to save me...A-And if something DID happen to me, it wouldn't be fair to leave them with only you...I could never ask Jack and Rose to take on so much responsibility all at once, and I couldn't just dump it all on you either...I want Gaz to be in their lives if something happens to me. She's my last living relative, and they may be her last link to me if anything bad happens..." Dib sent Zim an almost pleading look now.

Zim's eyes watered up at that. "Don't say that..." he looked away and held Dib close. "Please..." he then begged the other to stop, not wanting to hear any more about it.

Dib's antennae could only droop at the hurt look on Zim's face. He didn't want to put doubt into the other's mind, but at the same time, he didn't want to wait until the last second to think about the possibility of such a thing happening. "...I'm sorry..." he looked away also. "I want to be ready though..." he breathed in shakily.

"I...I understand...I just don't like thinking about it, I suppose..."

"...I'm sorry..." Dib apologized again. "I just don't want them to ever be left like Gaz and I were left...I want them to be taken care of by people who love them and not by someone as neglectful as our dad was...I want them to be happy and smile a lot and not miss me as much as I've missed my mom ever since she left us..." he said, the memory of how painful it'd been to lose her weighing heavily on his mind still.

Feeling a bit hurt that he was once again being compared to Dib's father, Zim looked away but let it go otherwise. "I won't let that happen to them, Dib...And...If anything ever happened to me...I'd want you to do the same thing..." he said, wanting nothing more than for his family to be taken care of in his own absence were such a thing to ever happen.

Dib couldn't help but notice the change in Zim's facial expression at the mention of his father. "Oh...Oh no, Zim...I didn't mean it like that..." his antennae fell back as he sent Zim an apologetic look. "I didn't mean for it to sound like I was comparing you to my dad...Because you wouldn't be neglectful...I know you wouldn't...And I would do my best not to let myself be either if anything ever happened to you...But that's why I want Gaz in their lives too...Because I DON'T know how I would react to ever losing you..." he said as he brought his arms up to hug himself.

Sighing at those words, Zim kissed him deeply. "I know..." he said, knowing already that Dib hadn't meant it in the way it had initially sounded.

Finding Zim's chest when the other pulled him in close, Dib buried his face in it. "...It just about killed me losing my mom, Zim...I don't know if I could survive going through something like that again if I lost you..." he said, closing his eyes and trembling slightly against the other.

Zim held him tightly. "It's okay, Dib..." he ran his hands up and down Dib's back in an attempt to soothe him.

Breaking down a little bit in Zim's arms, Dib clung to his front tightly.

"Come on. Let's just get some shopping done then go home and get some rest, okay?"

Having sneaked up behind them, Tak, meanwhile, stood back with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. "Oh yes, I agree. And do so before you flood this place with your tears." she spoke up before Dib could respond, causing both Zim and Dib to jump in some surprise. Pulling away from Zim, Dib then lunged at her angrily, pushing her up against one of the walls of games in the store.

"Where is she?!" Dib demanded, glaring down at her with tears still in his eyes.

"WHA-! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?" Tak shouted back at him, trying to shove him off of her.

"YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHAT THE HELL I'M TALKING ABOUT! WHERE IS GAZ?! TELL ME NOW!" Dib clung to the front of her shirt, shaking her roughly back and forth against the wall.

Having heard the yelling from across the store, Rose quickly made her way over to where Tak and Dib were. "Dib! Dib, let her go..." she tried to coax him off of her.

"SHE'S ON A BATHROOM BREAK, YOU IDIOT!" Tak yelled, doing her best not to get too dizzy from all the shaking.

Breathing heavily now and eyes wild as his hands continued to shake, Dib finally stopped shaking her, Rose managing to pull him away after a moment.

Tak glared. "Good Lord, you're insane, aren't you?!" she said between pants as she tried to regain her initial composure.

"SHUT UP!" Dib continued to glare at her. "I know what you're trying to do! YOU'RE TRYING TO GET HER INTO BED WITH YOU, AREN'T YOU?!" his antennae fell back to press against his head at the thought.

Tak scoffed. "You're just SOOO interested in that, AREN'T you?!" she said sarcastically, not about to tell him anything about their personal life.

"Keep away from my sister!" Dib screamed, stumbling back unsteadily against Rose a bit, the tears coming even more now. He didn't want her to take Gaz away from him, to take the last person in his family that he cared about away from him.

Glaring at him, Tak growled, suddenly wanting to tear him apart. "You ASS! I'M NOT LEAVING HER ALONE, GOT IT?! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF I SAID YOU COULDN'T BE WITH ZIM ANY MORE, HUH?!" she exclaimed, her blood absolutely boiling at this point.

"ZIM'S NOT OUT TO KILL YOU LIKE YOU WERE TO KILL HIM!" Dib screamed back. "Zim's been in my life for five years! You barely know my sister! AND you've tried to take over Earth in the past!" he began to list off all the reasons he didn't like her being with his sister.

"SO HAS ZIM! AND WHAT DOES IT MATTER HOW LONG I'VE BEEN HERE?! IT'S BEEN -MONTHS- THAT WE'VE BEEN LIVING TOGETHER! I BET WE KNOW MORE ABOUT EACH OTHER THAN EVEN YOU AND ZIM DO!"

"AND I'LL BET YOU DON'T! I'VE TOLD ZIM THINGS ABOUT OUR PAST THAT I KNOW GAZ WOULD -NEVER- TALK ABOUT WITH -ANYONE- ELSE! AND HE'S TOLD ME PLENTY OF THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO HIM IN THE PAST BEFORE HE EVER EVEN CAME TO EARTH!"

"WELL IT'S NOT LIKE YOU TWO REALLY SHOW IT! ALWAYS FIGHTING AND AT EACH OTHERS' THROATS! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'VE DONE!"

"WELL, AT LEAST ZIM AND I ARE ACTUALLY BASING OUR RELATIONSHIP OFF OF SOMETHING MEANINGFUL, UNLIKE YOU! YOU'RE JUST BASING YOURS OFF SOME STUPID BET THAT MY SISTER HAPPENED TO LOSE! HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK I'M SUPPOSED TO FEEL ABOUT HAVING TO WATCH YOU TWO BASE IT OFF OF SOMETHING AS STUPID AS THAT?! I MEAN, DO YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT MY SISTER IN THE SLIGHTEST?! SHE'S BEEN THROUGH JUST AS MUCH SHIT IN LIFE AS I'VE BEEN THROUGH AND THE LAST THING I WANT IS TO SEE HER GETTING HURT BY YOU IN THE END!"

"SHE'S NOT GOING TO GET HURT, DIB! THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD POSSIBLY GET HURT FROM THIS RELATIONSHIP IS ME! IT'S NOT BASED OFF OF A BET TO ME! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, I'M PREGNANT!"

Opening his mouth to continue arguing back, Dib then stopped himself short at those words, his eyes growing wide. "You're...You're..." he glanced back at Zim almost desperately, his body beginning to shake now.

Eyes widening, Zim rushed forward to grab Dib before he could collapse.

Unable to say any more than that one word over and over again as he stared wide-eyed at Tak, Dib felt his legs giving out from beneath him as Zim scooped him up to hold close. "You're...You're...You're..." he couldn't seem to get past her words enough to say them out loud.

"You're pregnant?!" Gaz exclaimed from behind Tak, having walked back into the store during that last part of the conversation.

Freezing, Tak's eyes grew wide at the sound of Gaz's voice. "Uhh..." she turned to Gaz slowly. "Hi, Gaz..." she said in a rather uncharacteristically sheepish voice, having not told the human yet the news about her pregnancy.

"What do you mean you're pregnant?! Since when?! And how?!" Gaz demanded, not many things in life able to throw her off guard as much as this news undoubtedly had.

Looking down at her feet, Tak shifted about on them uneasily. "Umm...A little over a month ago...And...I took your DNA while you were sleeping and used my lab..." she explained, though not with nearly as much enthusiasm as she had been planning on telling Gaz the news with.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 128. =3 Until next time~