A/N: Happy Mother's Day, you guys~ =3 Hope you enjoy this Mother's Day upload. And also, please do remember to send lots of love to your mothers today. After all, if it weren't for them, you wouldn't be here to begin with.

ZADR Orange Chapter 143

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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Blushing at Dib's question, Zim looked away before answering. "Yes..." he smiled a little. "There were lots of places I thought I would take them if I ever had them…But after joining invader training, I didn't get much time to think about that." he then said, trying to remember what things had been like before his main training had begun.

"But you have time now...You have all the time in the world to take them wherever you'd like..." Dib smiled, taking Zim's hand and squeezing it. "And soon...You'll have the smeets you used to think about." he then said, pressing the others hand to his swollen belly where one of the smeets was moving.

Zim's eyes widened and he smiled slowly as he realized what this meant. Grinning, he then pulled Dib closer. "All thanks to you." he said, leaning in to press a kiss to Dib's lips.

Dib got comfortable against Zim, yawning somewhat tiredly. "Tell me about what else you used to think about doing with them if you ever had any…Tell me...how you would have raised them..." he said, blinking his eyes partway closed.

Zim smiled, twirling his fingers through Dib's hair. "I'd play with them and keep them safe, take them to all the funnest vacationing planets and the best places to eat on Foodcourtia...I never really thought much about actually raising them, just about having them around..." he admitted, a part of him having never thought the day would come when he would actually be planning for the arrival of his own smeets.

Dib smiled before giggling a bit to himself. "So in other words, you would have spoiled them." he reached up a hand to poke one of Zim's antennas playfully. "But at least that's better than neglecting them. What's going to be the first thing you do with them after they're born? I mean...Do you think things will be any different because you're on Earth? Or do Irkens raise their young anything like humans do?" he then asked, rather curious as to how Zim might react to their arrival.

Zim shrugged. "I'm not sure…We still have my Voot to go into space if we wanted to..." he said, having honestly not given it as much thought as he would have expected himself to in this situation.

"That could be fun. What do you think they'll look like? I mean...We know they'll look like us, but do you think they'll be identical?"

"Mmm…Maybe two of them will be…But I've never heard of identical triplets."

"I know it's possible. I've seen it on TV before. But I guess it really does depend on whether all three are the same gender or not. Should we have something worked out to tell them all apart just in case?"

Zim bit his lip and sighed. "I hope there's a male..." he said in a rather quiet voice.

"Does that mean you don't want any females? Or will you still be happy just so long as we at least have one male one?" Dib asked, poking at the tip of one of Zim's antennas playfully again just to watch it twitch in reaction.

Zim smiled. "I just want a boy, at least one, anyways. The others can be females if you want." he said, having always imagined himself raising male smeets for some reason.

"All I want is for our smeets to be healthy. That's all. I'll be happy with whatever gender we get. Though, to be perfectly honest, I'd love to see how you'd react to having at least one girl." Dib smiled at the thought of Zim being one of those overprotective fathers who wouldn't let anyone near his daughter.

Zim sent him a funny look. "And what is that supposed to mean?" he asked, not knowing what Dib seemed to find so amusing about him having a female smeet.

"Weeell...Y-You know how some fathers can be overprotective of their daughters? E-Especially when they get to that age where they start dating and stuff? I-I was just curious as to whether you'd act in the same way...I mean...You don't seem to do all that well around females to begin with..."

Not really understanding half of what Dib just said, having grown up on a different planet and all that, Zim looked confused.

"Ehh...Never mind…" Dib said when all he received from Zim was a confused look. "I just...want to know you won't favor one smeet over another just because of gender differences." he then said, hoping that wasn't what Zim was getting at with his desire for a boy.

"Of course not!"

"Do you think...we'd be able to handle a female if we had one? I mean...We don't exactly have that more feminine touch that a real mother would have..."

"Uh…" Zim shrugged. "I have no idea." he then said, having not had much experience with human females in the past or their mothering techniques.

Dib sighed. "I hope we don't screw up..." he said, starting to feel nervous about things all over again.

Zim smiled a little nervously himself. "So do I..." he said, understanding how Dib must be feeling about things at this point.

No longer in such a good mood, Dib's antennas drooped as he pulled his knees up to his chest to hide his face in.

"Dib?" Zim held him close. "Are you okay?" he then asked, able to sense the others change in mood again.

"...Maybe we're not ready for this..."

Zim's antennas drooped. "Well…It's too late for that now..." he said, knowing that having doubts about their situation wouldn't help anything in the long run.

Dib could only curl in on himself even more at that. "...I don't want them to hate us..." his voice cracked a bit.

"Oh Dib." Zim hugged him tightly. "They won't. It'll be fine. They'll love you. You're perfect." he then tried to reassure the hybrid of that.

Dib could only shake his head at those words however. "No...I'm not...I don't even know the first thing about taking care of them, whether boy or girl." he said, honestly having no idea what to even expect once they got there.

"We'll learn…We have those books, and we have Rose and Jack…"

"But I feel like they deserve so much better! Why should they have to put up with us stumbling through the first few years of their life?! Especially if we have girls that neither of us even know the first thing about?! It wouldn't be fair to put them through that! It would be just like when my mom first died...I remember what a hard time Gaz had adjusting to a household with only males in it..."

Zim's antennas drooped more. "Dib...I…I don't know..." he closed his eyes and pulled away a little, rubbing at his face. "We have Rose...and Jack…and..." he couldn't think of what more to say. It just seemed everyone who could help them had a family of their own about to be made already.

"And nothing! They've already got their own baby on the way! And so do Tak and Gaz!"

"I-I know…I just…" Zim sighed. "We are going to have to do this on our own, aren't we?" he then said, the pressure suddenly beginning to weigh heavier than before on him.

"...I'm not even sure if we can..." Dib breathed in shakily and brought a shaking hand up to place on his belly where one of the smeets had begun kicking again. "I'm not ready for this, Zim...They're going to hate me. I just know it. Because I just can never do anything right." he then said, a small panic attack beginning to creep up on him.

"No, Dib! Don't say that! You do everything right! It's everyone else who screws up!" Zim snapped, not wanting Dib to begin doubting himself when he was trying so hard already to do everything right for their smeets.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 143. =3 Until next time~