And soon Christmas eve had arrived. But neither Zim nor Gaz were in a celebrating mood. Gaz wouldn't have minded so much, but the phrase misery loves company doesn't apply to Zim. He whined and moaned, clinging to her in hopes the discomfort would ease. It was only increased when she smacked him upside the head. Gaz sighed, realizing she had Dib and Tak helping her out (not that she needed it) but Zim had no one right now.
Zim sulked on the couch watching the Wizard of Oz with Gir and Mimi. He was too tired to beg them to change the channel. He was halfway alseep, when a large tray was set infront of him. He looked up to see Gaz kneeling down next to the couch.
"Think you can eat?"
"Depends...did your brother cook?" Zim wheezed.
Gaz smiled, "No, I did."
Zim was thrilled. He didn't even bother to ask what she had made, she could hand him rat poison for all he cared, he'd still eat it. Before he could grab the bowl, she stopped him, "Take off your shirt..."
Zim blushed, "Here? Now? In front of the minions?"
Gaz rolled her eyes, "No...just do it."
He happily obeyed. He watched curiously as she picked up a small blue jar from the tray and opened it. He could smell the potent stench through his closed sinuses. She grabbed a glob of goo and moved toward him.
"Wh-what is that?" He asked, fearing pain.
"Vapor rub."
"You're going to vaporize me?" Zim yelled in disbelief.
"No, you idiot..." Gaz thought of a way to put it for Zim to understand, "I'm vaporizing the germs that won't let you breathe."
"...Oh..."
Zim quieted and allowed her to rub the ointment on his toned chest. Gaz hoped she wasn't blushing. Gaz never liked overly muscular guys, or too scrawny guys. Zim was very thin, but he had incredeble mucle defintion. Of course there was no belly button, no nipples, but she hadn't expected him to have those. She couldn't help but remember his tight grip around her waist... Once done she shook herself off and reached for the coughe syrup as Zim put his shirt back on.
"Is it supposed to tingle?"
"Yes." Gaz sighed as she poured the thick liquid into a cap, "Take this...it should help you feel better."
Zim did as told. Finally, she set the tray with the chicken soup in his lap. She watched as Zim gingerly lifted the spoon to his lips, hesitant. He took a bite. No burning, no pain. He began to eat ravenously. Soon he was dozing heavily on the couch, the credits of the movie going off only for the same movie to start again.(it was a marathon)
Gaz sighed and looked at this alien, the TV's light playing on his face, "What am I going to do with you?"
Then a thought crossed her mind. What was she going to do without him?
"Hmph, just a cold... whiner." Gaz rolled her eyes as she was puting Gir down next to Mimi, who was already but in her reinforced crib by Tak. The room was more of a nursery, but mixed with a few prison elements, as Mimi had a tendency to wonder off.
"He does that with everything he finds unpleasant, like water... if he tried standing in it or even drinking it it won't kill him... but first bad experience, he avoids it for life."
"Then he should've learned to avoid me a long time ago." Gaz said as Tak giggled. But then she stopped when a thought crossed her mind. Zim hates pain and humiliation, why is he going through all of this to get Gaz in his plan? Maybe he did like her. But she shook the notion as she headed to bed.
"Uh, Tak, the room's over here." Gaz motioned with her head to the bedroom they were currently sharing.
"Oh, yeah... but I think, because you're sick, I should share Dib's for a while." Tak said avoiding the smug look Gaz was giving her.
"Sure... we don't want everyone getting sick." Gaz briefly smiled as she went to bed, leaving Tak grateful she didn't say something like "I KNEW IT". But that was more Dib's style. Tak laid next to Dib and kissed him, surprising him.
"Hey,you scared me.." He smiled as he held up a book Tak got from the library. She snatched it from his hand and smiled mischivously.
"Dib, this isn't the scaring holiday... it's the giving one... and I want to give you my christmas preasant." Dib blushed furiously as they leaned in to kiss.
(Due to the graphic of smutt, we skip this and move on)
It was the night before christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... Zim dozed on the couch. Mini-Moose and Spike were curled together infront of the fire asleep. Tak and Dib slept in eachother's arms after making love for the first time. Even Gir was silent as he was sleeping over with his best friend and crush. Gaz on the other hand was trying to go back to sleep, But the scratching at the window would not let her.
Hearing a moan she shot up in her bed only to find horror. There she, a violet-haired woman was, scratching at the window with her nails broken off, trailing a blackish blood down the glass. Gaz opened her mouth to call for Dib, but couldn't find her voice. That's when it started.
The woman opened her mouth as well, letting a loud scream in the air. The screaming did not stop, it continued as the creature needed no air to take in a breath to scream again. Dib flew out of bed in his shorts, as Tak struggled to find something to put on. Then the screaming went from a woman's voice, down to a low howl.
Zim was the first one to Gaz's aid. He nearly froze in fear seeing the woman at the window as her feature's became distorted and her jaw stretched to the point of breaking off, the howling sounding like pigs for slaughter. He picked Gaz up, who was in a state of shock and ran out the room. Seeing nobody in the room, Dib and Tak went downstairs, finding Zim holding on to Gaz. But by now she was getting annoyed and he squeezing her too tight.
"Zim!" Dib punched the alien, forcing him to let go ,"What did you do?"
"Dib!" Tak yelled after him, pulling him off Zim, and trying to get Dib controlled. That done she decided to tell them. She told them everything of the house, it's past, and their mother.
"You should've told us.." Gaz whispered, staring into the fireplace with an unreadable expression on her face.
"I know I should have... and I was. But things were going so well." Tak looked down, not wanting to see Dib's eyes.
"Any other secrets, we should know, Tak? Just so I won't be too surprised when something happens." Dib sneered.
"Yeah, kentucky fried chicken's secret recipe is sage, and there is no Santa!" Tak spat deffensively.
"SHUT IT!" Everyone turned their attention to Gaz, "Tak, it would've been nice if you told us. But Dib, if anyone was to tell us anything about Mom it should've been Dad..."
"Why should he have? He probally killed her." Zim said, feeling left out.
"Zim!" Tak yanked his antennae. Didn't he have any tact?
"I don't think what I saw was Mom, though..." Gaz stared off into the fire again.
"Gaz is right, ghosts don't change like that... and that noise..."
"And not to mention that black stuff is still on the window, ghosts don't leave things like that, right?" Tak looked at Dib as he nodded.
"SCOOOOBY DOOOO" A shriek made them all jump as Gir came flying down with Mimi on his back. Tak sighed, frustrated.
"Zim... could you please ask your SIR unit how it broke through the nursery?"
"Oh... he always breaks stuff." Zim replied non-chalantly reminding himself to buy Gir a cupcake later. Dib was on the computer looking for answers.
"Hey, here's something... telekenetic or poultergeist. Sounds, movement of objects, and even apparitions can be the work of a stressed individual, usually a young female." As Dib finished that sentence they all looked at Gaz.
"What? a few scary and horrifying stuff happens and you blame me?" Gaz looked offended, but everyone was still looking at her. "I'll try to stop."
"PERFECT! SO PERFECT!" Now it was his turn to be gawked at."I mean... if you try and stop, would be perfect..." What was crossing Zim's mind was that Gaz was really different from all the humans... superior, worthy, and perfect.
"I have an idea, it's pretty much Christmas, let's open our presents." Dib suggested and everyone agreed. Dib got a new telescope, and Tak got a picture of herself, which was placed next to Dib's and Gaz's on the mantle, indicating she was part of the family, and Gaz a book she always wanted, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (a real book and bestseller. Spike got a copy of Godzilla on dvd. Mimi gave Gir a 2 day old waffle, and Gir gave her something that had to be thrown out, lest the flies came back. Zim looked at his 'manners' book, and decided to give his presents.
"Here, Dib-beast, happy suicide increasing-day..." Zim threw a envolope at him. Dib opened it cautiously.
"A picture of Bigfoot using your hammer? AND HE HAS MY BELT-SANDER!" Dib looked at it with a WTF expression as Zim shrugged.
"No clue why he needs these things..." Zim gave Tak a picture also, but this was framed.
"Oh my Irk, are they watching hannah montanna?" Tak snorted at the Tallest's candid moment as he nodded.
"I already gave Spike her's early... a cow." He went to Gaz and bent down to where his lips met her ear, his gloved hands resting on her hips, "I got you something special... but let's wait for some privacy to unwrap it"
A/N: QueenofDoomydoom is my screenname at deviantArt also. Real creative, No? ^^ Is Gaz going to let herself be seduced? What Dib and Tak be able to help Gaz control the haunting poultergeist? IS it really what Dib says? AND WTF DOES BIGFOOT NEED WITH POWERTOOLS?