ZADR Orange Chapter 134
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 Dib's words and the small penguin imitation he was doing, Zim leaned in to kiss him gently. "I'm strong enough to carry you, Diblet." he demonstrated by lifting Dib up bridal style. Faltering a little, he then grinned, straining a bit. "See?" he said through somewhat grit teeth.
"Well, yeah, maybe now, but are you still going to be able to when I'm farther along? It may seem like it's a long ways off from now, but before you even know it I'll be in my seventh or eighth month and need a disguise to even go out of the house because at that point no clothes will be able to hide it."
Zim shook his head. "Then I shall stay inside with you." he said, not minding himself if they spent a few months locked up in his base together.
"We can't stay inside the entire time though...I thought you wanted us to sign up for those classes pregnant couples go to to prepare."
"Oh right…" Zim had forgotten about them. He groaned and set Dib down before rubbing his temples. "Can we just go home?" he then asked, not wanting to think about them just yet.
"Okay..." Dib's antennae drooped, not having meant to stress Zim out.
Zim sighed. "Let's go pay." he said, getting in line behind some people and moving the baby products down the counter with them when the people in front of them had finished paying for what they were purchasing.
"...Okay…" Dib kept his gaze focused on the ground as they approached the cashier in the checkout lane to purchase their items. As the cashier was ringing up what they brought him, Dib then looks back up at Zim guiltily. "Are you angry...?" he then asked, having been able to sense a shift in Zim's mood.
"Why would I be angry?"
Dib glanced at the cashier momentarily before pulling Zim aside for a moment. "Because I keep stressing you out when I don't mean to...I'm sorry...I only brought it up because I want us to be prepared...You know, so you don't faint or something when I go into labor..." he smirked up at the Irken weakly.
Zim smiled. "Dib, I cut you open and turned you into what you are now. I think I can handle watching smeets come out of you." he said, not finding it to be quite as big a deal as Dib seemed to think it was.
"Are you really so sure about that?"
"Of course I am. Do not doubt Zim."
"I don't know about that. This is a completely different kind of pain than the kind you get when you cut someone open with a sharp object." Dib smirked at the other teasingly. "But since you're so convinced you won't have any problems watching it, I guess I should warn you now that I'll rip your head off if you even THINK about trying to take pictures or video tape it. You weren't planning on doing that, were you?" he then asked quickly, eyeing Zim suspiciously.
Zim gagged. "Who in their right mind would want to record such an event?!" he exclaimed, shuddering at the thought.
Dib shrugged. "I don't know...Some people do...They think childbirth is a beautiful thing and should be recorded to commemorate it...or something like that...But I think we'll be happy enough only having to experience it once." he said, not wanting one of his most private moments in life being recorded and saved to a tape for anyone else to see.
Zim nodded furiously. "Definitely." he said, knowing already that he could handle it but not necessarily wanting to experience it over and over again on tape.
"Though some people still bring a video tape into the delivery room with them, not necessarily to tape the baby BEING born, but just what's going on in the room around them. My parents did that...back when I was first born. My mom had wanted to have a video of right after I was born. Before I was born, dad just kept the camera focused on the clock in the room."
Zim smiled a little sadly and nuzzled him. "Should Zim do that?" he asked, thinking Dib might like a video of after their smeets were born to commemorate the occasion.
"Huh?" Dib blinked back up at Zim before blushing. "I...Do whatever you want...Just no close ups while it's happening if you do..." he then said, not really caring either way.
Zim smiled and kissed him. "Of course." he said, not wanting to do anything that would make Dib uncomfortable in the long run.
"HEY, move it already! We've got people waiting here!"
Dib glanced back at the cashier momentarily before bringing his gaze back to Zim. "Heh...I guess we should get moving now." he returned to the checkout lane to grab their bags. "Uhm...Should we find Rose and Jack now? And your leader?" he then asked, wanting to let Jack and Rose know they were leaving before grabbing Purple and heading on home.
Zim gave the cashier the money for the stuff and turned back to Dib. "If you want." he said, not really caring either way.
"Well, we can't just leave your leader here with Rose and Jack. And we really should tell them if we're leaving. It would be rude to just up and leave without letting them know, especially after everything they've done for us."
Zim nodded. "Okay, okay. We'll go tell them." he agreed, taking Dib by the arm to lead him out of the store.
"We weren't gone for too long. They're probably still back in the game shop." Dib said as they began heading back towards the entrance to the store. Looking up, he then saw Rose standing by the front entrance to the baby store.
Reading something posted on the front door, Rose only looked up when Zim and Dib approached closer. "Oh, Zim. Dib. I was just coming to look for you." she said before noticing the bags. "Did you already buy everything you needed in the time you were gone?" she then asked, somewhat surprised they had gotten along on their own.
"U-Uhm...No...Not everything...But a few things." Dib said, reaching into the bag to pull out one of the rattles so he could shake it in front of Zim's face.
Whining, Zim tried to snatch it away from him, his eyes locked onto it.
Pulling it back, just out of reach of Zim, Dib smiled wide at the other's reaction.
Rose laughed a bit herself at the teasing. "Oh, now that's just mean, Dib." she said, finding his teasing to be a little more than cruel.
"Yeah...I guess you're right..." Dib said before handing it to Zim to play with as he searched through the bag for the pacifiers, teething rings, and bottles they had bought to show her. "We decided not to buy them a crib and instead use Tak's old ship since I still have it stored away in the garage of my old house." he then said as he rummaged about in the bag.
Busy shaking the rattle ferociously, Zim, meanwhile, was causing quite the racket.
Nodding at Dib's words, Rose began laughing uncontrollably upon seeing Zim's display.
Dib laughed himself at Zim's rattling.
"Did you consider buying him his own rattle while you were in there since he seems to like it so much?" Rose asked in a whisper to Dib.
"Well...I did, but I think for now I'll just let him play with one of the three we got for the smeets since they won't be using them for another few months or so."
"I'll bet you could get him to do whatever you'd like with that thing."
"I was considering trying that sometime tonight. See if he'd be willing to get up in the middle of the night and buy me some ice-cream or something if I whipped it out for him." Dib snickered deviously into his hands.
A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 134. =3 Until next time~