A/N: Bleh...Sorry once again for the kind of shitty post, you guys. :( My thoughts have just been all over the place this past week, making it very difficult for me to concentrate on anything. This is the last chapter I'll be posting before my next hiatus though. Hopefully taking a step back from this story will help me focus on it when I DO get back to writing for it again. I don't know. Will try to answer messages at a later time, when my brain is less scrambled. Thanks for your patience in the meantime though, you guys. I don't mean to be this flaky with my writing and such.

ZADR Orange Chapter 176

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

Continuing to stare at Dib through half-lidded eyes, Zim hardly registered the suddenly uneasy body language of his mate next to him in bed. "Hmm? Yes~?" he asked before grinning to himself and purring audibly.

Pulling the covers up as though to cover himself with more, Dib blushed at the small purr. "U-Umm...Wh-Why are you giving me that look?" he asked, the other seeming to be spacing out on him, lost in his own little dream world.

Zim licked his lips as he continued fantasizing. "What look?" he asked in a small daze.

"Th-That look..." Dib nervously pulled his knees to his chest as though that alone would stop Zim from looking at him in the way that he was.

"What look?" Zim asked again, not realizing that he was looking at Dib in any other way than how he usually looked at him.

Dib felt as though his cheeks were on fire now. "Ziiim..." he whined, pushing the other away slightly. "THAT look! You're giving me a look!" he exclaimed, unable look at Zim any longer as he shifted his gaze away, hugging the covers to himself almost shyly as though the other were looking right through them as well as his clothes to his bare body, which he still felt fairly self-conscious about with all the scratch marks that marred him. He didn't particularly enjoy being some piece of eye candy for the other.

"What look?" Zim asked one final time, confused now.

"You're giving me a really suggestive looking look, okay?!" Dib pulled the covers completely over his head now, hiding beneath them to stop Zim's eyes from roaming his body as he felt his skin heating up with the look in Zim's eyes.

Realizing he must have been, Zim's eyes widened and he blushed. "Oh, come here, Dib-love." he wrapped his arms around him before pulling him in close.

Heat prickling beneath his skin again at the other's closeness, an endless cycle he was beginning to get used to but succumbed to every time, Dib flinches slightly at the touch before relaxing again as Zim pulled him close. He felt his antennae twitch, almost in anticipation of something as Zim removed the covers.

Zim smiled down at him as he peeled the covers off of him. "I love you so much." he whispered to the other, kissing up his jaw.

Zim's closeness fueling the heat beneath his skin even more, Dib let his eyelids slip closed as he breathed out a shaky sigh. "I-I know..." he slumped slightly up against Zim.

Licking his cheek, Zim grinned and purred again.

Peeking his eyes open at the small lick, Dib looked up at Zim and blushed. "Z-Zim...I..." he fell silent and then leaned himself forward to give Zim's own cheek a small lick of his own.

Zim blushed and grinned wider at the affectionate gesture. "Can I touch you?" he asked in a soft voice just barely above a whisper, his hands already hovering just centimeters away from the other's skin.

Bringing his gaze up to meet Zim's, Dib swallowed thickly and nodded his head slowly.

Smiling at the small nod, Zim rolled over on top of him, straddling his lap while avoiding his belly for the time being.

Hissing through his teeth at the bit of extra weight, Dib otherwise didn't protest as he shifted to get more comfortable, leading Zim's hands to feel his sides before pressing them against his shirt first as he needed just a little time to adjust.

His smile growing a bit softer, Zim then kissed his belly lightly, gently rubbing his sides where the other had placed his hands.

"Oooh..." Dib mewled out lowly, Zim's hands just barely brushing over the scratch marks on his belly, gentle as a feather as they almost seemed to flutter down his body.

Zim bit his lip. "You okay?" he asked when he heard the other let out another small hiss.

Panting just a little bit, slowly and steadily, Dib reached down his own hands to place over Zim's reassuringly, encouraging them to continue. "Yeah...I'm okay..." he took in a few more calming breaths as he felt the Irken's hands slip underneath his shirt. "A-Are you okay?" he then asked, lifting his head to glance at Zim. "Because I'm okay so long as you're okay." his honey colored eyes met Zim's crimson eyes again.

Zim smiled slightly at that response. "I'm okay." he said in a small assuring manner before continuing his gentle ministrations as the other was leading his hands to do.

"Goood..." Dib tilted his head back to rest against the pillow, his eyes drifting partway shut again. "I love you..." he then smiled warmly up at Zim before a small smirk made its way onto his face. "And I want to have your children..." he brought up a hand to poke the Irken teasingly.

Laughing a little at those words, Zim smiled wide. "Good, because I think it's too late to NOT have them?" he said in an all too amused voice.

Dib pressed one of his own hands to his belly now. "Would you have believed me if I had told you I was destined to have your children when we first met?" he asked, already knowing the other's answer but deciding to ask anyways.

Zim snorted and laughed louder. "Not one bit." he smirked back at the hybrid underneath him.

"How about if I had...randomly approached you and started doing lewd things to you in the classroom that day?" Dib snickered to himself, wondering what Zim's first reaction would have been had his own reaction not been to try and expose him.

Blushing darkly at such a notion, Zim licked his lips momentarily. "I…probably would have dragged you out of the room so you could finish." he said, his eyes becoming half-lidded once more.

"Oh, really?" Dib smiled playfully up at Zim. "You're...giving me that look again. Care to tell me what dirty thoughts were going through your head earlier?" he asked, quickly changing the subject back to what had previously brought about the Irken's lustful gaze.

"Uhhh..." Zim blushed darker and looked away. "Nothing." he lied, figuring what Dib didn't know wouldn't hurt him.

"Awww, come on, Zim...Please..." Dib looked up at Zim pleadingly. "I promise I won't get mad if you tell me." he then leaned up to lick at Zim's neck now, teasing the sensitive skin there.

"I…I was thinking of you...wearing the bracelet and collar we were talking about…" Zim said, leaving off, or rather leaving on, the part about his clothes.

Dib quirked an eyebrow at that. "Oh? Really? And...What was I doing in this little fantasy of yours?" he asked, trailing a finger down Zim's chest almost knowingly. "Was I...modeling them for you?" he then smirked, teeth showing now.

Zim swallowed once more. "U-Uh…M-Maybe..." he stuttered out, not wanting the other to know just how far astray his thoughts had gone.

"Naked?" Dib leaned in again to kiss Zim's neck, grazing his teeth teasingly along the alien's skin before biting down lightly to nibble on it.

"Mmm~ Shush." Zim blushed darker, refusing to give the hybrid a yes or no answer to that question.

Planting one last kiss to Zim's neck, Dib pulled away after a moment. "Well...Maybe if you're good...I'll act out that little fantasy for you...on our honeymoon..." he blushed, smiling back at Zim playfully.

Blushing even more, a wide grin spread across Zim's face at that offer. "You mean it?" he asked all too excitedly, having assumed admitting to such a fantasy would upset Dib more than anything else.

"You'd...have to provide the collar and bracelet, but yes." Dib said before nodding his head in agreement and blushing shyly himself.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 176. Until next time~