It had taken over a year to plan. But today was finally the day. Kam sat there and looked at the white bouquet on the table next to her. Gaz was busy behind her fixing Kam's hair.

"I still can't believe you're going to marry that loser." Gaz said putting the last green flower neatly into the neat set of brown braids. Kam just laughed and turned around to hug Gaz.

"Thanks for helping me with my hair."

"Yeah whatever." And with that Gaz left the room leaving Kam to her thoughts. It had been 5 years since they had first met.

Getting over the fact that your boyfriend is an alien wasn't exactly an easiest thing to do. So much had happened since the day he told her. Kam had graduated collage and was working at the Membrane Labs. Zim had started a business for repairing alien ships that broke down in the nearby quadrant. Not Irken ships though. He was still banished from contact with the empire.

Even though he was banished, Kam had managed to convince him to contact at least one Irken to be present at the wedding. It had taken a large amount of convincing, and a little evidence of the planets effect on Irken height, before Invader Skoodge had been willing to come.

A knock on the door pulled Kam out of her thoughts.

"Hey Cuz." Dib cracked the door open. "They told me to tell you it's time."

Zim watched as Kam was walked down the aisle by her father. He would have preferred to not have had to wear his disguise but with regular humans around there wasn't much choice. Besides, Irk didn't really have any such thing as a wedding so going with human traditions was the only other option.

He took Kam's hand from her father. Looking into her eyes, Zim knew that this day, and every one after it, would be the best times of his life.

For the first time, the little invader was truly happy.

Preview: Return to Irk

"NO NO! This… That's not good! We… we can't…" Zim put his hands over his antennae trying to calm himself. He had to be able to do something.

"Zim? What's wrong? I thought you would be happy." Kam stared into Zim's large pink eyes, trying to figure out where such fear was coming from.

"No… I am…" He turned and pulled her into a warm embrace. "Truly I am…"

"But?"

"But…" Though he didn't want to frighten her; she deserved to know. "There's a reason that Irken children are never born off planet…"


Well that's the end! I hope you enjoyed reading it!

Return to Irk is the original story I had thought of, but I decided I wanted to see how Zim's personality would develop further before I just stuck him into such a situation. I'll try to get onto writing that other one right away. If people leave a review saying they want to read it I might start sooner. If not I'll get to it whenever I get bored or have writers block on Demon's Descendent.

Untill next time!