Dlbn: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another chapter. Nothing clever to say here.

Nbld: So, we'll hop right not the Review Corner. Thank you to Invader Johnny and Zim'sMostLoyalServant for reviewing! Hot chocolate for you both!

Invader Johnny: She's a very complex character, I'll give her that. Good or bad, everyone will get to see down the road.

Zim'sMostLoyalServant: They just don't stop coming, do they? She's got one foot in each side of things, which may prove to be some undoing for at least one side.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and the OC Irkens you should all recognize by now. Everything canon belongs to Jhonen Vasquez. I make NO money off writing this.

Dedication: With a heavy heart, I dedicate this to my little mouse I found the other day, Sunny. I woke up this morning and she wasn't moving. I tried to get her attention, but my boyfriend checked on her and she was deceased. RIP, I love you, little mouse.

000

Zim flopped onto his back later that night in Zayena's bed. She lived alone, what a shocker, so there was no one to bother them. Her friends had wanted to come over, but she had said she was tired and needed to destress. If they knew she was destressing by having sex with the guy they hated for three hours, they'd flip. The thought made him almost giddy.

"Some things never change." Zayena commented.

"But that piercing in your tongue is new." Zim informed.

"You noticed?" She giggled. "I was hoping you would."

"Kind of hard not to when it's rubbing up against my…"

"Okay!" She covered his mouth with both hands. "Enough of that, baby."

He nodded, gently prying her off. "You good?"

"Am I sore? No. Can I go another round? Yes." She straddled him, fingers working out the kinks in his muscles.

"Shit, not what I was asking, but if you insist."

She nodded, positioning herself. "I do. It's been too long…"

"You and me or…?"

"I wasn't with anyone after you, if you're asking that. No one could compare to this."

He grunted as he entered her again. "Shit, girl, slow down."

"The day I first met you, I hopped into my bed with you. The very day we reunite, I hop into my bed with you again. You tell me when I've ever taken things slowly, Junior. Or you, for that matter. I'm not the only girl who has a first date, first time with Junior story in Seoul, and we all know it."

"I'm not arguing." He answered, folding his arms behind his head. "Mm…"

When they both finished, she climbed off him and snuggled against him again. Her fingers danced along the military insignia on his shoulder.

"You ever ditching that?"

"Soon as they think I turn eighteen, so someone will legally do it."

"Eighteen?"

"That's an adult here."

"Well shit."

"Got that right."

"Poor little shits at school. Won't be able to drink or drive til they're eighteen."

"Drinking at twenty-one, driving at sixteen. Legal adult and voting at eighteen. Can screw whoever you want at seventeen, but if it's an adult, you're better off waiting one more year."

"God damn."

He laughed.

"I don't know where I'd be in life without booze, I shit you not."

"Couldn't agree more. I definitely wouldn't be here of all places."

"Yeah, booze is what got you kicked to the curb in the first place."

"Exactly."

"Your friends seem nice, though."

"They are. Good kids. Your friends treating you well?"

"Clingy, and all Dee does is bitch about you."

"Figures." He rolled his eyes. "And Dib…?"

"He doesn't say much about it. I think a part of him is ashamed, but I'll crack that nut later."

"Not if I have anything to say about it, you won't."

"Why? Don't you…Junior!" She laughed as he flipped them so he was on top.

He kissed her passionately, pulling away when the tip of her tongue prodded at his lip.

"Is it too early to say I love you?"

"More like twelve years too late."

He smirked. "I couldn't agree more."

000

Zim got home around three in the morning to find Sila playing Grand Theft Auto V on his game system, but Lahna wasn't with her.

"Where's Lahn?" He asked.

"Bed." Sila stated. "Which is where I'm guessing you were with Zayena all this time?"

"Nothing's changed, Sils. Even you not knowing how to mind your own business about my sex life." Zim flopped down onto the couch.

"So, you did sleep with her."

"Don't be ridiculous, Sila. This is Zayena we're talking about…I slept with her four times."

"Fuck, dude." Sila pushed him away.

Zim laughed, leaning against the side arm she pushed him onto. "You asked, I told."

"Next time don't tell."

"Next time don't ask."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Just make sure our friends know what's up about you and Zayena. It will break their little hearts to think you have a girl and might leave them like Dib did."

"I'd never do that. I promised when Lahna joined that her being here wouldn't affect anything."

"She's your sister, and that's disgusting."

"They didn't know she was. Still don't."

"Well, either way, we all know you have more loyalty in you than Dib does, so you're not going anywhere. If you tried, you know I'd be there to pound your ass back into line."

"Yeah, boss, you got me."

She laughed, shooting a guy in the game and laughing harder at him. "Right in the skull!"

Zim laughed, but it soon faded. "Sila?"

"What?"

"Do you think…?"

"What?"

"She could turn on me like Dib did? They corrupted Dib. What if…?"

"Junior, she likes you. Dib's a moron, but Zayena isn't. She knows just what she's losing if she's not with you."

"I know, but…"

"No buts. Now go grab yourself a beer and help me slaughter some guys."

He laughed. "Right away, Master."

"Woof, woof." She winked.

Zim walked into the kitchen and grabbed a beer from the fridge before joining his friend on the couch and taking the second controller.

"I can't believe you can do multiplayer in this thing. What the hell." He commented, cracking open his beer and taking a swig.

"Eh." Sila shrugged. "You shoot out the window, I drive. Seems like an obviously multiplayer game to me."

Zim laughed. "Why the hell do you get to drive?"

"Hate to admit shit to you, but you're the better shot…" Sila muttered, making her character take a swing at a random stand by bot.

"Holy shit, Sila gave me some form of praise? World must be ending." He held his beer up in a toast before clicking the join button and having his character jump onto the screen.

"Fuck you."

"Maybe later."

"Asshole."

"You know it."