A/N: Hey, you guys. Long time, no see. Been close to a year since I last updated here and for good reason. To make a long story short though, I've decided to give the public a second chance with this story after sending it out as part of a mailing list for the past 11 going on 12 months. If you read my chapter 151 A/N, then you would know what went down and WHY I removed this story from the public. I was really dealing with a lot of negativity surrounding this fandom and was just looking for a way to keep my motivation going.

To say the very least, the mailing list idea worked out great for the most part. However, after enjoying nearly a year of peaceful posting, I've decided it's about time I gave the public another chance to continue reading this story. Some people may have given up on this story ever being updated again, but for those of you who have hung on to the hope that I would resume posting here some day, you can consider this your lucky day.

I gave this decision a lot of thought in the long run and just want to make it clear that any drama that arises in regards to continuing this story WILL result in the story being removed from the public once again and returned to my mailing list method. I'm not kidding about this, you guys. The one purpose I have for continuing to post this story is just to put a smile on people's faces should they choose to read and enjoy it. The story was written for fun and nothing more. As such, it will not remain posted to the public if negative comments come in about it. I don't FORCE anybody to read this story, so if you don't like it, then kindly walk away now and keep your opinions about it to yourself. That's all I'm asking of you guys.

For those of you wondering what made me change my mind about posting this story again, it was quite simply my attendance at the final InvaderCon. It was far more relaxing than the last one I attended was and may very well have just lulled me into a false sense of security about the fandom as it currently stands. If the peace can be preserved though, I'll continue to post here as normal. Should it turn out that I made a mistake in continuing this story however, please rest assured that I'll have no problem cutting you guys off again and perhaps even removing the story as whole. FLAMES AND HARASSMENT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED HERE! SO PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS RESPECTFUL IF YOU SO CHOOSE TO COMMENT ON THE STORY AT ALL! I'm not looking for critiques on this story or anything of the sort. As such, it should go without saying that if you don't have anything nice to say about it, don't say anything at all. I don't go around picking away at stories other people write for fun. So please pay me the same respect and keep any negative opinions you may have about it out of your comments posted here. They won't make me change the way that I write this story. Period.

That being said however, I hope those of you reading this can understand where I'm coming from in the long run and just enjoy it for what it's always been intended to be enjoyed as: a story started between two people FOR FUN that just so happened to be shared with you guys, the public. No need to start any wars over it should anybody out there decide they dislike it. It's a waste of time and energy to express so much hate towards something you have no control over. Just saying.

Moving along though, allow me to now present you all with the long awaited Chapter 152.

Please note that the following is the PG-13 VERSION of this chapter and not the original. The original version, unfortunately, can not be posted here on FF due to sexual content. As such, I'll include a link in my profile to the 18+ FA version should any of you want to read the chapter in full. To put things simply though, I've broken this chapter down as much as I can while still trying to maintain what I believe to be important to the plot. That is the ONLY reason I didn't just skip this chapter as a whole like I've done with countless other 18+ chapters in the past. Future sex scenes in this story will no doubt be ommitted from this story unless otherwise noted.

That being said, please enjoy the continuation of this story, you guys. I have to be heading off to work soon so there's not really much more I can say on the issue at this point in time. If you have any further questions regarding this story, please feel free to PM me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

~Pat

ZADR Orange Chapter 152

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

His co-Tallest's screams falling on deaf antennae, Red merely looked away from the look of anguish that replaced Purple's otherwise disgusted face in that moment. "I did what had to be done." he said in an eerily calm voice before pulling him close again. "And I don't care about his mongrels. But I WOULD care about ours." he then returned his gaze back to Purple's, eyes piercing-serious.

"Smeets are smeets, Red! How could you be so uncaring?!" Purple brought his hands up to hide his face in. He wasn't sure he could go through with it, as much as he wanted it.

Red kissed him gently. "Maybe you could teach me to care more then~" he said with a slight smirk, able to see that Purple's willpower was weakening more and more by the second with his offer of a smeet.

Almost losing his resolve to stay mad at Red, Purple shuddered at the kiss. He hadn't been kissed in so long, and he knew it wasn't right to be doing this after everything that had just happened. "P-Please don't do this...I...I...This isn't right, Red...I want a smeet, but we shouldn't be doing this..." he tried to pull away from the other again only to have Red cling to him even tighter.

"Why not? You want one. I'm willing to give you one. What's to stop us?"

Looking up into Red's eyes for a few moments, Purple then looked away to the ground uneasily. It felt wrong, but he had been wanting this for so long and so badly over the past few months that he just couldn't turn the opportunity down as he thought of Rose's earlier words to him, telling him in his head that he had to do whatever it took if he wanted a smeet. "...Okay..." he finally gave in, sniffling wetly as he felt horrible about agreeing to this.

Smiling, Red lifted his chin to kiss him deeply. "Our room?" he gestured in the direction of their bedroom onboard the ship, lips peeling back to reveal a zipper-toothed smile.

Purple looked away just as soon as Red had finished kissing him, it hurting him to look at the other "...Okay..." he said again, his voice holding little to no emotion in it this time.

Red nodded and led Pur to their bedroom. "No interruptions." he then snapped at the staff as they passed on by them.

His gaze fixed on the ground and antennae drooping, Purple let Red lead him towards the bedroom.

"Relax, Pur~ I know this is what you wanted."

"But at what cost...?" Purple hugged himself tightly, trying not to lose his resolve to do this.

Shaking his head, Red pulled an antenna into his mouth to suckle at gently.

The antennae between Red's lips twitching in anticipation, Purple gasped softly.

Starting to feel him up, Red then popped his armor off one piece at a time.

Purple didn't make any moves to pull away though as Red made quick work of his armor and then the few lighter-fitting garments underneath before moving on to pull his own clothes and armor off.

Within moments, Red was straddling Pur in his full, naked glory.

His chest rising and falling steadily as Red worked his hands slowly up his body, Purple breathed in deeply.

Red nuzzled him. "Don't just lay there like a lump." he said, wanting Purple to at least enjoy this.

Not so sure he WANTED to touch Red or be touched by Red after what the other had done, Purple shuddered at those words. But wanting this smeet more than anything else in that moment, he forced himself to reach up his two slender arms so he could run his hands down Red's slim body, his slender fingers feeling every muscle beneath the others skin as they worked their way down lower and lower on his body.

Red smiled and licked up the side of his face. "Don't hate me, Purple. I did it for you~" he said as though that was excuse enough for what he had done prior to this.

"No..." Purple looked away. "You did it for yourself..." he sniffled wetly. "...So I hope you're happy now..." he already knew it was too late to do anything about it now as his antennae drooped down by his face.

Red rolled his eyes before purring and kissing Pur deeply.

"Mmm..." Purple hummed out softly between the kiss, taking in more calming breaths before kissing him back gently. "Please..." he then whispered softly into the others antennae.

Pulling back, Red grinned. "Please what?" he said in an almost teasing manner, wanting the other to beg for him.

Purple panted. "Please...I want this smeet more than anything...So please...Please give it to me..." he didn't want this time around to be meaningless. He didn't think he could go another round with Red without seeing results. "Please...Please try..." he then said in a more broken tone now, the first show of emotion he'd let slip from him since agreeing to this.

Red nodded. "Alright, only for you." he said as he positioned himself in front of the other.

Wrapping his arms around Red's neck, Purple braced himself for what he knew was to come. It had been so long, it almost felt like a dream to him. He couldn't even remember the last time Red had done anything like this for him or whether he ever HAD done anything like this.

Red licked the side of his face again.

"Ah!" Purple threw back his head when Red began making love to him, always the one to get right down to business, never taking the time to love him softly.

"P-Please..." Purple had his eyes closed and head tilted back. "Please...Just give me a smeet..." he almost seemed to be praying to some higher power that this wouldn't be for nothing.

Antennas falling a little, Red sighed and kissed Purple tenderly for once.

Peeking his eyes slightly open at the soft kiss, Purple peered up at Red with glazed over, glassy eyes. He wasn't used to Red being so soft with him, but the sensation sent almost a jolt of pleasure he had never experienced before throughout his body. He wished Red would do this more often, treat him as though he were fragile in nature.

Red smiled at the look on the others face. "You like that?" he asked.

Purple didn't respond save for a small nod of the head, not wanting to speak for fear that he would ruin this rare moment, this moment of Red looking upon him as though he were something brand new that the other didn't want to accidentally scratch or scuff up.

Smiling and kissing him again, Red then pulled him in close to him.

Closing his eyes again and trying to focus on Red, on this feeling the other was making him feel right then, Purple then felt his eyes snap wide open when he realized it reminded him of how Zim had made him feel.

Red continued making sweet, gentle love to Purple, making his co-Tallest feel things he had never felt from him before.

"Please...Don't let this moment end..." he said again as he felt like he was in a dream, a dream that he didn't want to wake up from, reality his nightmare.

Knowing things would however, Red smirked. Although not many Irkens knew it, an Irken was more likely to reproduce with a gentle touch, something he'd figured out during some research on the subject he'd been doing before sending his guards to retrieve Zim.

"Mmm..." Purple purred out. "Reeed..." he enjoyed the feel of the others lips grazing his skin lightly, Red giving his chest a few small licks and suckling on his skin gently. Arching his back slightly off the bed, enjoying the slow, gentle touches but growing just a bit restless nonetheless, Purple then reached up his hands, took hold of Red's hips, and tried to move more fluidly with him, wanting to be in perfect sync.

Red worked at it to get more in tune as well.

Lifting his heavy lidded gaze up to stare into Red's eyes again, Purple's own eyes widened when he saw Zim's face instead. He looked away, feeling guilty as his antennae drooped. It may have been Red making him feel this way, but it was Zim who was on his mind. He closed his eyes, tried to take his mind off of Zim so he could focus on Red, on this moment, so perfect that he never wanted it to end despite how much his heart was hurting.

Red frowned a little. "Look at me, Pur~" he tried to get the other to open his eyes again.

"...I'm sorry..." Purple apologized before lifting his gaze back up to look at Red again, those eyes so similar to Zim's but not his. "I'm sorry..." his voice shook. As much as he wanted to blame Red for all of this, he knew everything that had happened had been his own fault, for never letting go of Zim, for not loving Red enough, for not having seen ahead of time where all this was heading.

Red kissed him. "He's dead now, Pur. Let go." he said, having hoped his actions would fix things in the long run.

"But it's my fault...Because you questioned my loyalty to you...This never should have happened..." Purple's eyes filled to the brim with tears.

Groaning when he noticed the other starting to tear up, Red let his head fall. "Don't start crying now." he whined.

Trying to keep back his tears the best he could, Purple closed his eyes again. "It's because I hurt you though..." he bit down on his bottom lip which quivered uncontrollably.

Red sighed. "It's over now, okay?" he said.

"Then why does it still hurt so much...?" Purple brought up a hand to clutch at his heart.

Red sighed again. "Maybe we shouldn't be doing this now." he said, about ready to pull away at this point.

"No! I-I mean...I want this...more than anything...And I've been wanting it for a long time now...I just...wish it had taken place under different circumstances...That you could have loved me like this without having to go to such extremes..."

"I always loved you this way..." Red kissed him again. "I just never got the chance to show it this way." he then added at the end.

"I wanted you to though!...But you never wanted to touch me again...You were avoiding me like I were the plague!"

Red sent him a blank stare. "Maybe because you really don't care about me, hmm?! All you want is Zim! That's all you've EVER wanted!" he started pulling away from Purple.

"That's not true!" Purple snapped his head up to stare at Red, on the verge of tears now. "That's… not true..." he said again though this time in a much less certain voice.

Red glared again. "It's very true. Tell me, when you looked at me, who were you thinking of?" he asked, almost certain Zim was the one who had been on Purple's mind when he looked away.

His eyes growing wide at those words, Purple's body tensed at the question as he looked away guiltily again, gripping the bed sheets tightly. "I...I..." he squeezed his eyes tightly shut, knowing that if he told Red the truth, things would be over between them. "I saw you...But...You weren't you...You were scary..." he lied, thinking that maybe Red would buy that. Anything the other believed would be better than admitting the fact that he actually WAS still seeing Zim in his head.

Antennas twitching at that response, Red sent back a disbelieving stare.

Afraid to look up at Red for fear that doing so would give him away, Purple kept his eyes sealed shut. "...You're...You're still scary..." his antennae fell back, no longer just an act.

Sighing and sitting up in his spot, Red pulled out of him before looking away to the other side of the room. "This was a bad idea." he finally said, unable to stand even looking at Purple at this point.

Still not opening his eyes, Purple shuddered as he went to curl up on his side, facing away from Red now.

Sighing and pulling Purple close to him again, Red then cuddled up to him from behind.

Purple sniffled wetly as he broke down all over again. "...We're never going to have a smeet together, are we...?" he said in an all too broken tone that he just couldn't help from escaping him.

Shaking his head, Red rubbed at his side. "Not with you still on Zim." he said in a surprisingly calm voice, given the current circumstances.

"Then let me make things right...Let me do just one last thing for him...And then I'll let go for good, Red...I promise...Please…" Purple turned back over to face Red, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Please..." he looked up at Red pleadingly, his eyes begging the other to let him do that one thing before letting go for good.

Red sighed. "What do you want to do for him?" he asked, not liking the request at all but knowing Purple wouldn't move on unless he allowed it.

"Let me return to Earth...Let me make sure his mate and smeets will be okay...You had those bastards do something horrible to them! I just know it! Y-You hurt them...The least I could do is make sure they're all okay, like Zim wanted...I caused all of this! I know you don't care about what happens to them, but I can't just sit here and pretend like I don't care at all! Pretend like I don't have a heart at all...None of this was any of their faults...They don't deserve to be going through this..."

Red groaned at the others words. "Fine, you can go see them, but you better be back here tonight or we're through." he warned the other, not sure how much more of this he could honestly take.

Purple's antennae perked at the others words. "Do you mean that? You'll actually let me go?" he stared back at his co-ruler wide-eyed, surprised the other had agreed so willingly after everything that had already happened.

"As long as you come back, then fine."

"I'll come back! After all...There's nothing tying me to that planet anymore..."Purple's antennae drooped as he looked out the window in their room, able to see the Earth just outside as they were orbiting it. "...The sun should be up soon..." he then said, knowing his time was limited now.

Red nodded. "Then go ahead." he stood up and began to pull his clothes back on again.

Purple watched as Red stood up to put his robes and armor back on. "Are you angry at me for wanting to do this...?" he looked away, clutching at the covers a bit.

Red merely rolled his eyes at that question. "Why are you still sitting there? Go." he pointed out the door, not wanting to remind the other that he was on a time limit now to get this over with.

Antennae drooping a bit, Purple then stood up from the bed, walked across the room to where Red was standing, and reached up two hands to cup his face. He stared intensely into Red's eyes. "You're...the way I remembered you now...Back before you became all scary..." he said, remembering now that this was the side of Red he'd first fallen in love with so long ago.

Red sent him another odd look for that remark.

Blushing slightly, Purple then leaned in to place a quick kiss on his lips, pulling away after a moment to gather up his clothes and head on into the bathroom in their room so he could get changed quickly. Once dressed, he then exited the bathroom to make his way over towards the door to their bedroom, shuffling by Red quickly. "I'll be back. I promise." he glanced back at Red one last time before making his way back down the hallway, towards the room Zim had been stripped of his PAK in.

Once Purple had left however, Red smiled sadly to himself. "You better come back." he said in a shaky voice to himself, a part of him uncertain as to whether he really believed the other or not about returning to him but knowing now that he couldn't force the other to love him like he had hoped to.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 152. =3 Until next time~