" I shoulder probably go home, My dad wants to talk to me about all this." Dib whispers and he and Zim lay together on the couch infront of the tv. Zim doesnt answer, he keeps his eyes shut, hoping that Dib wont leave. But Dib trys to get up anyways, Zim refuses to let Dib up." Zim..i have to go..." he groans. Zim just clings thighter, shutting his eyes tight. Dib smoothes back Zims antane. " do you want to come with me?"

"wont...wont your Father be mad?"

" probably, but i want you there." Zim sits up.

" then let me go get dressed. Zim runs upstairs, and pulls of the outfit he was going to wear to skool the day he got sick. he pulls in his hair and puts in his contacts, then rushes downstairs.

" Ready!" he procalims as he aplys his eyesliner. Dib Jingles the keys high above his head. " oh no, your not driving! it took alot of brain washing to convince people taht i bought taht like a normal human."

" You stole it?" Dib askes in amazement.

" yeah...i dont have a job." Zim jumps up and pulles on the keys, but Dib doesnt let go. Zim molds against the tall lengthy form on the human. " please give me the keys?" zim coos, his claws trailing down dibs neck, and down his chest. Dibs breath come out in a shutter, his hand goes slack. Zims lips trail softly down his lovers neck, then hes walking out the door. Zim opens the passenger door for Dib, then goes around to his own side, hissing in pain as he sits. Dib places a hand on his knee. Zim drives 10 miles under the speed limit. When they car pulls up infront of Dibs house, Zim doesnt move. Dib places his hand in his lovers chin, and turns his face so that hes looking him in the eyes.

" its okay.." Dib murmmers brushing his lips against his partners green ones." now, we should probably head inside." Dib gets out and takes Zims hand. Dib grabs the door nob. " ready?"

" not in the slightest."

Dib laughs nervously and opens the door." Dad?"

"he in the kitchen, and hes not very happy." Gaz mutters and she walk by and into the living room.

"Zim...why dont you go into the living room with Gaz?" his voice is shaky. Zim kisses his cheek chastly, and slinks into the living room behind Gaz.

"Dad?" Dib calls softly as he enters the kitchen. Professor Membrane in sitting at htthe table, a cold cup of coffee infron ofhim.

" sit down son."

Dib does as told and sits across from his dad.

" Dad...look i know you must be upset-"

" Upset! you think i am merily upset! MY only Son GAY!" He thunders." Not only am i upset i and angery and Dissapointed. and to imagine what your mother would say!"

"Mom would support me!"

" But shes not here! your mother Died, hoping that one day both her children would get married and give her grandchildren! And Dib, deep down you have to know that its wrong! Me arnt men to have sex with other men! To think that you'd even ing want to do that..." Membrane looks at his son, who is looking down at the table, guilty.

" You did sleep with him!" Membrane screams in rage. " You disgust me!" tears well in Dibs eyes but he doesnt look up.

"What could possibly posses you to do something like that?"

"i love him." Dib whispers.

"WHAT!" Membrane rages. " HOW CAN YOU LOVE HIM! YOU'VE SPENT THE LAST 7 YEARS TRYING TO EPOSE HIM AS AN ALIEN!"

Zim gets up off the couch, and stands out side the kitchen, just around the corner. He can hear membrane very clearly now, and is horrified by what he hears.

" I forbid you from seeing this...Zim every again!"

"WHat! Dad No!"

" No Professor Membrane." Zim protest calmly, stepping into the room. The professor eyes Zim, then picks dib up by his collar.

" Of all the humans in the world, you choose a green one!" Membranes free hand swings around to slap Dib, But is Stopped.

" Dont you dare hurt him." Zim Growls, gripping tighly on Membranes wrist. Membrane looks down at the Green boy in suprize. Zim squeazes slightly, an experession of pain washes over the professors face. " Let him go." Zim colapses to the floor. Zim releases Membrane and sinks to Dibs side, resting his hand on his lovers face.

" im okay... Zim really im fine." he protest with a weak smile. Zim smile back, kissing his forhead.

"You can stay at my house again tonight...If you want?"

dib nods slowly, and pulls himself and Zim to they're feet." Come on i have to pack some clothes."

" you go get what you need, i dont think in finished talking to the professor."

Dib eyes Zim questioningly.

" im not going to kill him or anything." X\Zim promises. Then he turns to the professor.

" You know your son wasnt lying."

"About what?" the professor spits.

" about me being an alien."

the professor luaghs coldly. " enough joking you gay freak."

the hurts, Zim closes his eyes. " im not a freak!" Zim growles, and in one fliud motion he pulls of his hair piee and pulls out his contacts. " and i wasnt joking." Zim whispers cruely in his iurken tonge. The porfessor reaches behind himself for the phone.

"oh i wouldnt do that if i were you. I dont want to have to kil you, but i will if i have too."

The professor freezes.

"Yo see professor Membrane, im here on exile. so i intend to enjoy myself. and i cant do that if the whole world knows about me. I dont want to lock you up in my lab and use you for testing, but if i hear that your telling people about your sons alien lover, i may have to do just that. Do you understand?"

the professor nodds quickly.

"good." Zim stalks out of the room and upstairs to find his lover.

"hey..." Zim says seductivly, leaning against the door frame. his atane twitching.

Dib turns, shock crosses his face." you told my dad?"

" it had to be done." Zim says nochalantly. Dib cant help but feel worryed." Come on, grab your stuff, im starving."

Zim throws Dib dufflebag onto the couch as soon as they get home. "Gir!"

"Yes master!" the little robot answers after falling from the cieling.

" WOuld you take Dibs bag up stares while i make Dinner?"

"Okey Dokey!" He squeaks and bounces with the bag upstairs.

"you didnt have to do that Zim, im could have walked upstairs."

"yes, but then how would i entertain Gir andmyself. Gir is probably throwing your stuff all over my room, which he is enjoying, and i enjoy that fact that hes up there, not bothering me."

Dib grins." so whats for dinner?"

" Enchaladas. i figure something spicy, that i can eat, that isnt so spicy that you wont eat it," He says scratching an antannae. Dib shrugs, looking around. He feels really bad that Zim had to hear all those things that his dad said. And with barely an upward glance, he turns and walks out of the kitchen, and heads upstairs, where he locks himself in Zims bathroom, walking by Gir, who is indeed throwing his stuff around the room. Zims antannae drops down, and he wonders if hes done something wrong.

~ Dib?~

but theres no answer, he know Dib can hear him.

~ Dib, whats the matter?~ he keeps his thoughts calm, soft.

~Dib please...:~

Still nothing. Zim sighs sadly, and procceds to make everyones dinner. While its in the oven, zim heads upstairs, and sits infront of the bathroom door.

" Dib?"

Silence.

"please... DIb tell me whats wrong?" Zim beggs. there a muffled sound, the mix between a word, and a sob. Zim stands, and withhout thinking, kicks open the door. Dib, swollen red, puffy eyed from crying, jumps nearly a mile.

" Dib.." Zim whispers. he pulles Dib into his arms and leads him to the bed, where he sits them both down." whats wrong? theres not reason to cry." Zim says in comfort, whiping away his lovers tears.

" im...im sorry...about my Dad."

Zim laughs. " Dont be sorry about that fool. he said nothing about me that offended me, then only things he said that hurt me where ths things that hurt you." Zim states as if it were an obvious fact.

"really?"

"Ofcourse. now, the timer ust went off for dinner, and your not going to make me eat all the food now are you?"

" No." Dib says with a sniffle.

Zim dishes up them each a nice platfull, and dabs some sour cream on top of Dibs.

" here." Zim says, setting the plate infront on DIb. he then sets out to eating his own helping, tryingto ingore the sound of gir who is also eating with them at the table. DIb takes a bite, groans in satisfaction, and begins to shovel it down.

" after Dinner, i have a manual way down the the lab, we should go down and get to work. Theres alot that must be done, and i want to exact my revenge soon."

Dib nods, swalloing. " i agree, plus you have to fill me in on the entire plan."

" Im just plan on going in and blowing stuff up. Im really go at that, i once took down an entire city, trying to a snack out of the machine."

"REally?"

"yes, and that was the time i was banished to Foodcourtia, but i got away. so they sent me here on a false misson. They didnt even know if there was even a planet out here. I road in my ship, for 6 months before i made it here. and then, my first day at school, you had already discoverd me. I though i was screwed. But nobody beleived you. You were crazy Dib. and Then we fought, and fought. and beat eachother up. and fought. you'd break into my lab, or most times, Gir let you in through the from door... Man, im superized you didnt try to disect me!"

" no way Zim, if you had know more about human emotions you would have known almost from the beginging, that i was inlove with you."

Zim smiles, a blue blush riasing up his neck and across his cheeks.

"To the lab?"

Zim lays out parts on every serface, all the computers show intstructions in iurken. Dib looks at the nearest screen.

"Hey Zim?"

"YEs Dib-Human?"

Dig chuckles softly at the name." i cant read any of this."

Zim looks up from the un hes over half way finished with. "oh yeah... Computer Translate all into english."

After hours of building and stopping to help Dib, Zim is drained." Come Dib-thing, its late and were going to school tomorow."

And thats how the whole week goes. they had planned on keeping there relationship a secret, but the pizza girl(who is in Dibs math class) told everyone that woul listen, and since its hiskool everyone listened. Zim seemed to be teased the most for it. probably cuase he was the green guy was dressed like a girl. HE does his best to ignore them, sticking close to Dib, but never saying anyting outloud. Finally its friday.

" Zim! what is the answer to the question?"

"uh..could you repeat the question?" he askes being sucked out of his thoughts, he looks up, theres a supstitute. shes smiling sweetly.

" when did you start Dating Dib?"

" what kind of question is that?"

" a very relevent one, since were in home Ec"

" um..." Zim looks over to Dib who is across the room. ~ what do i say?~

` just say about a week, becuae i was gonna break down and ask you out eventually, even if you hadden come to me for help.`

" ABout a week...i guess..." Zim says waving his hand like it reall didnt matter.

" Heve you had sex yet?" she insists, Both boys blush brightly.

"so you have! what was it like?"

` what was it like?` Dib askes Zim mentally.

~ it hurt...like a bitch~

` you could have to me to stop, to be careful. i would have done anything for you, you know that.`

" Well maybe i just wanted to make you happy! " Zim yells angerily." Your always so crazy acting and depressed looking!"

" You could have told me, i would have be gentle!" Dib fires back, both boys are on they're feet.

" You dont seem to et it do you Dib-worm!"

"No i dont...i dont understand anything in that alien head of yours."

" I didnt tell you... Becasue i love you!" Zims voice cracks. " im going at home. Gir will come get you after school." Zim says turning on his heel, and stalking out of the class room. he runs as fast as he can out to the car, and speeds away before Dib can stop him. He runs into the house, and all the lights are off, even the TV, which is Odd, because Gir should be home, and he never turns anthing off anyways.

"Gir? Gir im home.."Zim calls. nothing. then something hits him, hard over the head and everything goes black. When he regains his conciousness hes cold, he cant move.

theres a cold bright light above him, blinding he when he opens his eyes. he trys to move his arms. They're locked down, just like his legs. hes on a cold autopsy table. panic floods him. a heart monitor beaps fastabove his head. he stuggles, he has to get free.

" theres no use struggling." i cold voice says from his left.

" Let me go! Nobody Capture ZIM!" he yelles, doing his best to hide his fear.

The man in the lab coat ignores him, walking around the table and into the light, e speaks to himself.

" hmmm, the creature seems well built, ver human like structure, acpt the head, to long antannae, and large round red eyes, like a bug. it apears to have human genitailia..."

"Im right here!" Zim yelles in anyyoance.

" it can speak english, but its been here for many years." the docter speaks into the recorder. " tell me beast... where is your home planet?"

Zim spits at the doctor.

" now, now... it apears to have a temper. And when angery ejects a saliva like substance, though it doesnt seem to harm me." the man chuckles." i'l be back, you little montser with some specialists."

Zim lets his head fall gently back onto the table, trying to call out to Dib with his mind. But it doesnt work, either they're to far away, or Dib is ignoring him, the second is probably the case. Zim growls feruiously. pulling at his restraints. its useless, he strong, but theres something in them that he cant break.

"Hello Zim..." he recognizes Membranes voice.

"you told, im going to have to kill you when i get out of this."

" oh, you wont be getting out of this. now lets get down the the examintation." the woman beside him nods. He takes a scaple in his goled hand. Zim snarls, his antannae faltten against his head.

" Hmm." mebrane wonders, setting down the scaple." Tom, you said bug like antannae, well tels see... yes they do apear quit bug like, but react like a dogs ears when a dog is anger or scared. i wonder what else they do?"

" Dont!" Zim yelles in fear as membranes hand reaches toward his head. the Professers gloved fingers graps the feeler softly, and Zim cant hold back the moan that fights its way up in throat and out his clamped lips.

" interesting, antannae also act as pleasure receptors."

Zim is digusted about how his body reacts, how it spasmed at the touch.

" nows a good time to measure and test the subjects penis, Marly, why dont you measure it?"

the woman gulps, but does as instructed.

" iteresting, not much larger then the average human male." then he takes something in his hand, and Zim gulps in fear, he has a pretty good guess where that prob is headeding.

"Stop." Zim comands, but so much of the force taht he wanted never made it to his words. the professor doesnt even bother to prepare the prob for insertion, he moves around the table, and presses it against Zims enterance. then with no warning, inserts it. Zim throws his head back in a mangled scream of agony. tears well i his eyes. the docter pules it out slightly and then, just when zim thinks hes going to tkae it out, he thrusts it back in twice as deep, and extreamily hard. the sound taht come out of Zim mouth, is a sicking, blood curdling scream. " please..." Zim begs. " please...stop..." the proessor mearly laughes.

" now tell me, what exactly are you?" he asks, twisting the probe.

" I-iurken!" Zim, says around a scream.

" Iurken..." the doctor repeats. " where is your home planet? hmmm?"

" Many hundreds of light years from here." Zim wihspers brokenly.

the professor nods. " fetch me a machine Marly, the one that connects to this, you know the one." Marly, the woman nodsa nd hurryed from Zims view. While she is gone the professor takes out an ultrasound machine." you see, i dont want to cut you open just yet, there are alot of things that you need to explain to me." he pours the cool liquid onto Zim abdomen. suprizinf ly it doesnt burn him.

" your heart is on the Right side? strange. and it also seem that you have a womb... and a fetus?"

" My smeet!" Zim exclaims, hoping the profesor wont do the thing that zim fears most.

" smeet? hmmm." its not very old, I'd say... no more than...6 days, but suprising well developed, how long does it take?"

Zim pinches his eyes shut. he keeps them closed, but his antannae twitch when the woman returns. niher she or the professor speak. and in a wuick motion the porfessor removes the probe, but ZIm only groans in releaf.

But the relaeaf is hort lived, whatever the machine was, it hurt, the probe is attackes to the end, and is continually thrust into the poor alien.

"Sto-op!" Zim shrieks in pain. the professor luaghs again, and zim can hear foot steps as he is left complely alone. Left with his tears and screams. this was the worst pain imaginable, the prob is so much bigger then his lovers shaft, colder, rougher, and it rips through Zim, and he can feels is own blood flowing free. and hes left that way, for hours, well into the night. his screams are horse, and dying. Another Professor, finailly steps into the light.

" Hello monster... we're gonna do a little procedure... nothing serious, were just going to remove that little fetus from you, and test its genetic code." the professor smiles.

"Sime lets out an apualed screach, yelling something in iurken that the docter didnt understand. But she smiles. the machine, that had been breaking the por alien stops.

But right now Zim doesnt care, hes worried about his smeet. the woman cleans Zims lower abdomin, she doesnt even sedate him. and he screams, worse than anything yet, crying out in iurken. the woman makes a digusted sound, and Zim opens his eyes, blurry from the pain. his in the jar shes holding. He scream in rage, to weak to thrash around as the woman stiches him up. then to clean off the wound, she pours water oveer begins to smoke. zim hisses,the pain barely registers.

" specimen burns under water." she then she leaves, but onlu for a moment,then she come back as if relieazing she forgot something. then she turns the prob machine on again. this time Zim calls out pianfully in his native language, a veery imistakeable name. Dib.

" Dib?" Membrane askes, over what sound like an intercom." you still belive he loves you!" he luaghes coldly." he calles me, told me about whats been going on, he doesnt love you... you sick creature. i called me, and told me taht i had to help him, becuase he was scared that if he tryed to leave you would kill him."

Zim growles, but there is relazation in his eyes.

" you know its true, he doesn love you. he never did. He was just pretending, so that he could expose you."

Tears stream down Zim cheeks. it couldnt be, it couldnt. HE barks something in Iurken, but it doesnt matter. Hes loose his will. The one person on this eart that he loved,doesnt love him back. Then, even though he in pain, he lets himself be sucked into the darkness of his mind.

"Zim? Zim areyou home?" Dib calls into the house. Gir wizzes dosn the stairs and note in his hand.

"Zim took the cruiser, he going to check something!" Gir laughes. Dib looks at the note. Zim must have been pretty upset to just take off. Dib sighes sadly and sit down on the couch. his mind locked on his lover. and soon he a sleep. The next day he goes to school by himself, im Zims car. and the whole day he cant help but wondering where is Alien went. And when he gets back to Zims house, hes still not there. And he begins to panic.

"Computer, is the voot cruser still docked?"

"Yes."

that was all the answer that Dib needed, im didnt take the cruiser. But then where did he go?

" so alien, how long does it take for a fetus to develp?" Membrane askes, sitting next to the table, a recoder in his hand.

" i not sure...i was born in a test tube, i didnt have parents." Zim says flatly.

" And why are you here?"

" exlie."

"" and why were you exiled?"

" becuase i wasnt a good invader."

" Invader?hmmm."

" now my son said for years that you where here to take over the earth. is that so?"

" that what i thought." zim rasps." My Tallest.." he struggles angerily over the name." sent me here under false pretences. they told me i was to tinny to be an invader, to small to be of any worth, so they sent me here, and hoped that i would die."

"interesting. and why do you call them ' My Tallest'?"

" Becuase they are the tallest, litterally umounge my race."

" and how tall are they?"

" Tallest Miyuki is over 8 feet, while most of my race, never make it over 4 feet."

" but your almost 6 foot."

"yes, something to do with your planets atmousphere, i havent really looked into it." Zim answers, he doesnt care anymore, he'll tell them anything lamost that ther wish to know. and thats all the happens the rest of the day, and most of the night, Zim tells the professor almost everthing he wants to know. and by the third day, he cant lift his head, he brain is fuzzy. and when the professor ask him questions, they're answer comes to them in iurken.

"Dad!" Dib yells walking into the lobby of Membrane labs. " Dad!"

" Hello Dib. Come to watch the Disection?"

"yeah...you didnt start without me did you?" Dib askes trying to keep his voice light.

"Of course not. we've spent the last couple days interrogating him. very interesting." The professor says leading his son down a lfight of stairs and through a heavy locked door. in the very center of the dark room, i a pool of light, lab ewuptment set up around a medical table, and on that table, lays the green form on an alien. the body of Zim.

" is he dead?" Dib askes.

" not yet, but we suspect he will be when we're done."

Dib swallow painfully noding. and then he comes up upon the table, stepping into the light. Zims dimmly lit easy fall on him, and he hisses, faint words in iurken fly from his mouth. Dib keeps his hard expression.

" Are you ready son?"

"actually no, may i have a moment alone with...with the sick creature, kind of like a celebreation?"

"of course." the professor says proudly, ushering away all the other doctors and professor, as he follows them out.

Di pulls up a stool and sits.

"Zim."

the alien lets out a pathic whimper, as his former lover looks over his exposed body. His eyes fall on the machine, wide in horror. he jumps up to turn it off and remove the prob. his lover is torn and bleeding, a pool of blue blood, gathers sickly.

` Zim...Zim im so sorry, i never ment for this to happen.`

Zim reply comes back in iurken.

` im going to get you out of here, but its going to be diffucult. is there anyway i can give you some strength?"

~ N-n-no~ the reply is faint.

` Zim...i have to get you out of here.`

~ no need...im almost gone anyway.~

`No! tyour not going to die.`

~ why would you want to...g-get me out of here, your dad told me all about your plan.~

` what plan? Zim hes lying! i love you, and im not going to let you die!` At this, Zims limp antannae twitch, then stand up.

~ how are we going to do this?~

` im going to unlock you, but leave the clasps over, then im going to start a fire, they're going to rush in, then im going to grab you, and run.`

~ this will never work.~