Paranoia

-.-

Zim had gone back to the base, he finally had the right amount of positrons (actually, an exceeding number) to kill Dib, he had a human he was afraid of falling in love with but somehow still wanted to and that just happened to be Dib's father, he had an author whose imagination had just come back from a horribly long vacation and had brought with them some horrendously weird ideas, but still, he didn't feel the impulse to kill Dib...he was getting worried.

He thought that maybe his base could inspire him...but he also thought, as soon as he closed the door, that the father of the person he wanted to kill, couldn't possibly be of any inspiration...

He took off his disguise and grabbed the trash-can elevator to the level where Membrane was, he heard the sound of the shower, the water falling and it kind of soothed him...how ironic, or maybe it wasn't the water, but who was getting completely and utterly drenched by it. He walked across the level and got near to the shower, it was very similar to the one that Zim used when he covered himself with glue so he didn't get all burned by the water, but it wasn't completely transparent, it was more like blurry.

Membrane wasn't really aware that he had company until he felt a lanky pair of arms embrace him from behind and he froze at first, relaxing soon afterwards, his hands were reluctant to hold Zim's so he settled them on the cristal wall of the shower, Zim's hands roamed over Membrane's skin and then the alien yanked him down almost violently as he settled against the opposite wall, with Membrane sitting between his legs and barely managing not to fall in the process, Zim pressed his forehead against Membrane's shoulder, resting his head there, he was tired...the water kept running.

"Are you alright?"
"I don't know..."

A long pause had stretched out before Zim answered, Membrane felt the alien was upset, and as much as he wanted to know, he wasn't one to force people to speak if they didn't want to...and still, curiosity was killing him.

"What's wrong?"

Zim shook his head softly, one of his hands sliding its way up, and resting on Membrane's cheek while the alien sighed, Membrane felt his skin burning with the same fire he'd felt many times before and gasped quietly, and it just didn't seem to be the time for it...

"I don't feel like killing Dib anymore..."

Anyone would've thought that Membrane should be happy when hearing this, but he knew better, he couldn't say he hated the fact but he also knew that it wasn't good to hope for things that just wouldn't happen, it was specially necessary to abandon all hope when it came down to Zim, because the irrational joy that any normal father would have felt when knowing such thing was only that, irrational...

Zim turned slighty and licked the back of Membrane's earlobe, he could feel the vibrations of the scientist's body while he shuddered.

"I...don't know that to say to you..."

Zim held him tighter, he liked to hear how Membrane's breath became somehow erratic and caught in his throat with only the little licks and bites he gave to his neck and shoulder (yeah, he'd developed some kind of shoulder fetish), so the damn prisoner had been right, he really loved the human beyond all reason.

When his mind went back to his body, he had the scientist half-lying under him on the shower floor, reclining on an elbow and with his other arm wound around Zim's neck, his head thrown back...Zim suddenly had an idea, he leaned forward, sliding his hands down Membrane's back, along his hips and grabbing his thighs, sinking his nails in the flesh, wanting to make it bleed while he whispered on the dazed human's ear.

"I didn't really expect an answer. Membrane...have you ever been fucked senseless?"

-.-

Zim heard the rustling of fabric and a small grunt and turned away from the huge window showing Earth's round form, he saw Membrane move in the bed that Zim had expanded so he could fit, it was really near to the control panel, apparently the scientist was only dreaming, Zim was kind of nervous, his life had changed so much in so little time, he'd spent more than a hundred years conquering, destroying, assasinating, invading, etc, and he couldn't say he wasn't beginning to miss that but...a human had him entranced...a human had wrapped him in a reality of despair and so much confussion, that he seemed to not be able to live without anymore.

"Computer!!"
"Yeeaaah??"
"Computer...you should really run a check-up on your AI brain...anyhow, locate the Dib-human..."
"Yes master...somehow he made it to Cleveland..."
"Ooooh...so nothing I care about will be destroyed, perfect! Computer!! Prepare the positron cannon..."
"Ok...but master, didn't you like Nine Inch Nails??"
"Um...doesn't matter!!"
"I thought you liked them..."
"Mmm, I guess I could always clone them...yeah, computer!! Continue preparing the cannon!!"

The giant cannon began to move, fixating coordinates and warming up, Zim really wasn't in any hurry, he could wait as long as needed, and it wasn't long...

-.- Half an hour later -.-

"Master...the cannon is ready, the positron count addecuate to fire 303 times as least and coordinates are confirmed, errors corrected according to Earth's gravity and curvature and to the target's movement, error margin: 0.00000001%..."
"Perfect!! Fire it at once!! I want immediate confirmation after the target's annihilation..."
"Yes master..."

The computer shoot the cannon and the ray of particles began to curve itself because of the Earth's gravity, Zim had some parts of it holographicaly amplified, the sub-atomic anti-particles were getting elongated while they travelled and penetrated into the Earth's atmosphere, the gamma ray blast should be visible immediately, Zim told the computer to cover the station with with anti-radiation shields, he knew he could tolerate any kind of radiation himself but his human couldn't, the holograms didn't follow the ray inside the atmosphere so he couldn't see Dib when he was destroyed but he saw the gamma blast...Zim smiled...

"First try missed..."
"Damn!! Computer, try again!!"

And the sequence began again, the ray of sub-atomic anti-particles curving and penetrating the atmosphere, and then, another blast, this time...it didn't miss...

"Annihilation confirmed, target obliterated...perimeter of destruction because of gamma ray blast: 4000 kilometers squared...particles dissipating rapidly..."
"Finally...I wonder, why didn't I think of this from the beginning??"

AN: I suppose that I can only say that the damage perimeter is that little because it was a 'controlled' shot o_O

-.-


"Gla...sses??"

The cause of his confussion had just woke up...

"I told GIR to get them for you...though I think laser surgery would be better..."

Membrane put them on and turned to look at the green alien, the focus was perfect, actually much better than any glasses he'd wore before, he didn't like the idea of surgery, he liked his glasses!!

"How did you know the...?"
"It's easier than I thought...to hack into human databases..."
"Ah...um...come here, please?"

Zim shifted in his chair, he grabbed a handful of his uniform, his knuckles beginning to turn a lighter shade of green, he let go and saw his fingers were trembling and he wondered why he'd not wore his gloves...and then he remembered that if he'd done so, he wouldn't have been able to really feel the pale skin of a certain human...but damn, it didn't have why to be so hard!!

"I...I have to tell you something..."
"...I'm listening..."

Zim walked slowly towards the bed and sat on the edge, Membrane stretched a hand to touch the alien and pull him near but Zim grabbed it instead and just held it there between them. The contrast of mint green and nearly paper-white pale skin was nice and made Membrane wonder...

"It's done...Dib's...dead..."
"...oh...my God, oh my God..."

Membrane moved from his sitting position and crawled next to Zim, he wasn't in shock, he wasn't horrified but he was very sad, he didn't think he'd feel like that, he'd thought he'd prepared his mind and soul for it but it was obvious he hadn't, he felt something crumble inside him and he pressed his forehead against Zim's back since the alien wasn't facing him and wound his arms around the alien's middle, he'd told himself he wouldn't cry, wouldn't whine, wouldn't complain but he couldn't stop the tears from silently rolling down his cheeks, he squeezed Zim tighter...

"Aaww..."

Zim covered his face with a hand and stroke Membrane's head with the other, he didn't feel like moving and his human seemed to be too engrossed in crying and shaking, he'd wait until none of them both were so tense, it really didn't turn out as he planned...

-.-

Several days had gone by and Membrane's mood seemed to improve just a little, a tiny bit, he still wasn't as interested in Zim's lab as he'd previously been and that meant his mind hadn't settled just yet, Zim didn't worry too much, he knew his human wasn't the type to go and kill himself over stupid reasons...he was new to all this 'comforting' thing but it seemed like he was talented at it because Membrane didn't refuse ANY of his attentions...

After a week and some days more Zim was in his lab doing stuff, planning stuff to destroy humanity (why did he still planned more stuff when he'd developed a positron ray cannon that could obliterate all humanity with only minimum adaptations was beyond all reasonable explanations but c'mon, it's Zim) when Membrane appeared, apparently he'd managed to find normal human clothes *somewhere* and didn't seem as broken anymore...

"What are you doing?"

Zim's eyes widened, he turned around and decided that...he looked like an over-grown Dib somehow...but he ignored the idea quickly, he didn't approach, he wanted to see Membrane's attitude, to see if he'd finally got over it...

"The usual...trying to end humanity..."
"Oh..."

Membrane moved towards another control panel, he'd become used to the Irken's base, and knew how it worked and everything, that would've alarmed any other alien, but Zim knew Membrane just wouldn't betray him...the alien was a bit disappointed by Membrane's coldness but he supposed it was part of the process, so he went back to his own stuff...and quickly, all the sound that could be heard was the buzzing of machines and the normal sounds of them experimenting with stuff.

Suddenly, Membrane slammed a crystal flask containing something goey against the panel, and it was a miracle the flask didn't break, it made Zim jump a little and turn slowly to look at the scientist with suspicious eyes...Membrane didn't turn just yet...

"Zim..."
"Yeah?..."

Membrane turned around, holding the unbroken flask on one hand, the other one hung limp by his side, he moved aside some other artifacts and things that were on the panel and sat upon it, Zim kept watching him intently, he wouldn't interrupt a thing his human had to say, he would only watch.

"I think...I want a baby..."

Zim...nearly fell over...

"What the FUCK!?"

Membrane smiled a bit, he'd thought Zim would be shocked but not that much...it was funny.

"Exactly what you heard."

Zim was still in shock but managed to answer.

"B-b-but...how?? It-it's not possible...the species, the gender, t-th-the...why!? Oh no, don't tell me it has to do with Dib!?"

Membrane shifted a bit, the panel didn't make a sound at the weight moving upon it.

"Well...you see, losing Dib did make me VERY, seriously sad, but then I realized that, I'd never had a kid in my life, you know that Dib was only my creation, he carried my genes but he literally, had no 'mother'...and the same with Gaz..."

'He's serious', thought Zim...

"W-well, do you at least mind telling me HOW?"
"I don't know, you're the alien, you're the ones who always think of weird ways of making interspecies experiments, not us..."

Zim was beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, Membrane's brain had just melted.

"YOU..want ME, to think HOW!? Are you insane!? Irkens don't HAVE babies!!"
"No I'm not, use your imagination!!"
"I have no imagination!!
"Yeah right..."

Zim began to feel TOO dizzy.

"I think...I don't feel so good.."
"Zim??"
"Wha...?"

Zim saw the world get really black before he fell to the ground and Membrane's voice vanished into some alternate reality where stinking humans didn't want to have babies with Irkens...

-.-

AN: soo, this is the end.