Arriving at the Membrane house the next day, she immediately went over to her fathers lab door and placed her identification in. Once in, she locked it back up behind Zim siting that you couldn't be too careful. Walking over to the place her father told her he hid all the tapes he had of her mother shortly after she arrived here, she hefted up a rather large box with Zim's help. Opening up the combination, the box lid lifted up revealing nothing but recordings in chronological order. Lifting up the first tape, she swallowed hard, then looked nervously up at him.
"They believe she is dead. You even asked who assassinated her. Are you certain this will work?"
"Yes, I believe it will. I won't send a robot in with your mother's likeness because as much as I can program a robot, it won't really be believable." He replied, gently stroking her cheek.
"Wow! A long time ago you would believe that your robot would be able to fool them, you have matured." She mentioned as she thought about those horrible robot parents of his.
Laughing nervously, he shrugged. "Yes, well, even I had to learn a lot."
Thankful that there was at least a t.v down here, she loaded the tape in and waited for the butterflies in her stomach to subside.
A young and unspectacled, Professor Membrane was seen in front of the camera, also sans his lab coat, as he stood in front of an exam table. In the back was a unconscious Dai laying there with bandages on her.
"I did have a tape of her when I first found her, but due to her injuries and her begging to keep her safe, I thought best to scrap it." Glancing back at her, he looked back to the camera. "I won't turn her in since I know she will be cut open and examined the very second she is in their hands."
Walking around the table, he focused down to the prone figure below him. A indescribable look upon him for a mere second. "The only reason why I'm recording this now is because, I just want to feel not so crazy at the moment. She is remarkable."
Cutting the bandages on her, he looked over her wounds for a good 20 minutes, even rolling her on her back. "It is also good to note that she is vulnerable to water." Gently rolling her on her back with such ease, you can see the early stages of a possible crush. "Her skin burned when I did that." Hand on her forehead, he looked into her face. "I wish she was awake to let me know what can help her heal faster, but right now, I have to unfortunately guess."
What looks like him putting on some sort of salve on her, he waited to see what would happen before putting more on. "I don't know her name. She passed out before she can say it." The tape went fuzzy.
When the image came back, the time stamp was 5 days after. Membrane, was looking into a microscope, her mother on the table started to stir. Membrane hearing something faint behind him, looked behind, and dropped what he was doing to be by her side.
"Hello." He spoke very gently. "Please don't get up, you have been through a lot, and I don't want you to pass out and get hurt."
"Where am I?"
"Planet Earth. My name is Alexander Membrane. I am a Professor here." He answered. "What are you from?"
"I am from Planet Irk. My name is Dai." She replied in a lilting tone of voice.
Membrane looked already entranced by her. "I am guessing your planet is extremely far away."
"It is, Al-ex-an-der." She said almost unevenly.
"You may call me, Alex." He smiled at her sweetly.
Dai returned that smile back to him. "Alex." Then fell back to sleep.
Covering her back over, the camera video turned fuzzy again.
Weeks passed. Dai finally went over why she happened to leave her planet. Bandages were fully off. She was sitting now in the living room with him with a soda in her hand, and Membrane with a mug in his. She explained the planets history. The politics. How she is the last Elder's child, making her an Elder by birthright. How she had to escape certain death. She informed him that maybe sometime in the future, she will go back and take over her birthright, but for now, she had to lay low.
Membrane kept shaking his head at the stupidity of all of that, and took her hand. "Dai, your secret is safe with me. I want you to stay here as long as you wish. I will protect you as much as I can from your race."
Happy for his honestly, she smiled sincerely. "I think I will take you up on that." Placing her soda down, she lifted a device from her pocket, and started to fiddle with it. "I was curious if you wanted me around or not, so I made this just in case."
"What is that?"
Releasing his hand, she touched a button, and there in front of him was a adult human female with long full light purple hair and a petite physique. "What do you think?" She asked nervously.
"The only one I know with natural purple hair is a distant cousin who is adopted." Standing up to step closer to her, he placed his hands on both her arms gently.
"Well I thought it was an interesting color when I saw the picture so I thought..." She was cut off by him kissing her.
Taken aback by his brashness, he stepped back. "I'm sorry, Dai, forgive me." Plopping on the sofa he placed his hands on top of his head and tried to hide his head down. "It is just that, we have known one another for such a short time and I think you are so perfect as you are and I couldn't help myself."
Back to her normal self, she went to his side, and returned his kiss with so much fervor that after they both held one another laughing. "Alex, I have feelings for you too."
Hours and hours of tape were watched until the last tape showed Professor Membrane sitting alone in the lab.
"Dai is playing with the kids at the park. Dib is curious about things in the Paranormal, while Gaz worships the ground her mother walks on. I still don't understand where, Gaz's purple hair came from when no one has real purple hair in the family, but there is my little girl being as original as her mother." Pride marked his face there.
"Dib is a clone of me. My exact duplicate. It was a decision that we made. We wanted kids, and she was afraid it wouldn't happen. Dai told me she will talk to him when he is older. How cloning became natural in her society after her. It doesn't make you at all wrong simply because you are a clone. I'm nervous about it, but she is confident in him."
"Gaz is half alien with more human in her then anything. Gaz has done things around the house that make you question if she has special abilities or not. There is no way I will hook her to a machine to test it out."
Sighing heavily, he frowned. "Each day, I am scared about losing my sweet precious, Dai. She is absolutely amazing. She said her society is raised to be invaders, but she is obviously not one since all I see is love from her. My sweet special, Dai."
(Two days after the death of her mother, Gaz thought as she read the date on the screen)
Gaz was behind him laying where, not so long ago, her mother was, unconscious. Bruised and bloodied. Membranes face looked almost in disrepair as well as you can see the blood shot eyes and bags under the eyes along with tear stains on his cheeks.
"The bastards took my beautiful Dai and hurt my daughter." Sniffing, he closed his eyes. "They will pay for doing this. I don't know when or how, but they will pay because science will win against those murdering bastards."
Behind him, Gaz started whimpering in her sleep, and clawing at the bed. Running over to his daughters side, he leaned over and whispered in her ear eventually calming her down. Gentle kiss on her forehead, he stood back up, and wiped a stray tear from her eye.
"They will pay. They will pay." He kept repeating that until it cut out.
Tears falling quickly from her eyes, Gaz ran upstairs, stumbling a little on a couple of steps, but otherwise she didn't care. She ran upstairs out of the lab, and ran clear to her room. She didn't know why she needed her room, but she needed it.
Almost running after her, Zim noticed one more tape left, and picked it up. Had to be an obvious reason why this was hidden. Placing it down, he decided what was important was upstairs at the moment. So running up, he noticed she wasn't in the living room or kitchen so he went upstairs, and walked into her room.
On her bed, she just looked at the bear in front of her. "My mom got me that bear. That purple one because I wanted it. That is the only stuffed animal I never converted into security. Although I'm sure mom would of been proud if I did."
Sitting beside her, he looked at the bear as he placed his arm around her. "Your mom is more amazing then what I ever learned about just by reviewing those tapes. She lived through all that, came here, fell for your dad, and had you and your brother. Your dad was pretty in love with her."
Smiling, she leaned against him. "Oh my gosh he was. Still is obviously." Staring at that bear, she added. "My mom will come back from the grave to scare the pants off Red and Purple."
Smiling about his little demoness, he placed one clawed finger under her chin and gently turned her face to him. "I know you can pull this off."
She was sad from watching all those videos, especially that last one, but she felt her mom would be proud of her for doing this for her. She knew it wouldn't bring her back, but it would restore her honor. Then looking upon, Zim she felt her heart just well up. She tried to lock herself away from feeling for him. To deny everything, but that was so foolish.
"Zim, I can't be your mate in that way until I'm at least 18, but for now..." Kissing him on the lips, she felt everything not only go warm all through her, but she felt weak as he deepened the kiss with her.
Zim for his part laid her on the bed to even his height a little with her own, pulling briefly apart, he agreed to her wish, as he wrapped her up in his arms, and made love to her in this one way alone.
I kinda suck with adding years so please forgive me there. I am human and I'm always writing at night when I should be asleep. :)