Author's note I don't own My Favorite Things
from The Sound of Music
Dib's pov
It was nice having Jo back it made me feel happier. I worried about her being near Zim, but that was out of our hands. Yet that didn't mean I still didn't spy on them and try to protect her.
It was nothing, to worry about they were working and Jo did take care of herself. She had to since dad was never around, we all had to She really was smart and she knew what Zim was. She was the only person besides Gaz that knew about him, but deep inside of me something was changing. My views on my race and life on Earth were changing. What scared me was that I had dreams about helping Zim take over!
"Maybe I'm Crazy!" I mumbled
"Now why would you say that Dibbers" asked Joe
I jumped she always did have the ability to move like a ghost.
"Sorry didn't mean to scare you" she said with a laugh
"Ha Ha funny Joanna!" I smirked
She hated being called that, why I don't know probably because dad always called her that.
She tackled hug me, we started laughing. I never been so happy in my life! I never wanted to be without Jo again. I started to think what if Joe liked Zim , he like her or worst yet they liked each other.
Yet as I thought about it could I really take something away from Joe, Zim of course.I knew deep down if I took Zim away from Joe I be no better then my father and there was no way in hell I was going to be like him ever! I didn't want to push my family away they all I had. Even if that meant Zim dated my sister.
"Dib?" Jo asked worriedly
I didn't realize that I stopped laughing
"Sorry thinking"
She pushed herself up and sat on my bed.
"Shot!"
I smiled no matter what Joe would listen to me and be there for me. Though I loved Gaz, Joe was the better sister. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"Joe do you like Zim?" I asked quickly
She looked at me for a second and sighed
"I don't know Dib he a jerk sometimes..."
"All the time is better" I said
"Can I finish or do want to go into how evil he is?"
I chucked
"No go on"
She smiled
"I don't know Dib some days he annoys the shit out of me but other days...."
"Other days he what?" I was getting worried
"I don't know what I feel he makes me feel wanted ..."
I knew what she meant by that she meant understand not thought as a weirdo. The kids at school liked her alright. I mean no was mean to her personal, but she knew what they really thought of her.
I think want she really wanted was dad to expect her for who she was, but that would never happen. He never heard her sing before! When I was teased at school and some days come home crying Joe would sing me a song. I still remembered it to.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad
"Dib?"
"Sorry I remembered that song you use to sing to me"
She smiled
"So you aren't mad that I might like Zim?"
"I don't like it, but I can't be mad at you for having a crush. Remember I had a crush on Tak"
"You still do"
"NO,I DON"T!"
"Yes you do!"
"NO!"
"Will you two be quite!" yelled Gaz
"NO!" we both yelled knowing we were dead but it was funny!
Then I heard something I never heard before a giggle, then another then a laugh. For the first time in Gaz life or in front of me she laughed. She stood outside the doorway.
"It creepy how you guys do that"
"Do what?" we said together
"That!"
"What" I started
"Would" Joe said
"that be?" we said together
She shook her head and laughed.
"It's twin thing isn't?" she asked
"Yes" we said together
"Stop that!"
Joe and I started to laugh and so did Gaz. I knew now that no matter how bad things got we would be there for each other.
Zim's pov
I couldn't stop thinking about her, she was like a... I don't even know what to say. We worked on the project for weeks now. We were friends secretly because Joe knew that Dib wouldn't like it. She said she have to slowly tell him.
When she did I had to show him the tape of the tallest telling me that my mission was a lie. To prove it to him that I was done. Joe believed me 100% though she knew I hated the humans, but her, Gaz and sometimes Dib-worm.
She was coming over to work on the project which was on history. Lucky Joe was very good at it.
"Zim you there?" she called
I gulped, I had to tell her how I felt before I go mad!
"Yes"
I opened the door, she hugged me like she always did. I held tight for a while.
"Umm Zim?"
"Sorry" I let go sadly
"What's wrong Zim?"
"Jo can we talk" I stammered
"Sure, why so nervous?"
I just did it, I pushed my lips onto her. She didn't push away she let me. Maybe she liked me back? Of course she does I'm Zim!
No, I lucky that she likes me very lucky and I pulled back and when I did she kissed me back.
She kissed me BACK! I found her I found her! My MATE!
Then the moment was perfect till there was a scream.
Jo's pov
I kissed him back, I couldn't help it, when he me I kiss felt sparks fly.
I was about to kiss him again when I heard a shout.
"Stop kissing my sister!" yelled Dib
I sighed it was now or never, I kissed him again. I got up and left knowing perfectly well that I was trouble.
"See you Zim" I said sadly
"No" He spat
He graphed my arm softly.
"Dib-worm we need o talk." he said calmly
Dib graphed my another arm.
"No you brainwashed my sister you Alien Scum!" he spat
"I did no such thing Dib-worm!"
I sighed, what was I going to do the most important man in my life hated each other and would do anything to get what they wanted and right now it was me.
"YOU filthy cheating lying alien scum ball!" yelled Dib
"Dib-worm! let me show you something!" Zim yelled back
"NO!"
"Dib please let him show you!" I begged
"Jo he brainwashed you I should realized sooner when you told me that you had a crush on him! I mean how can you like that!" he point at Zim
He didn't realize that he let go of my hand and now only Zim was holding me. I saw Zim get idea in his eyes. I knew in the end it would work out, but I wasn't going to like it at all.
With that thought Zim scooped me up and ran into to the lab.
"Let her go!" yelled Dib pissed off now
Zim easily made to the lab before Dib and he put me down. He gave me a quick kiss and started to get ready for my overly protective brother.
I been in Zim's lab before he show me the tape of the tallest. He still had to remind him that he never wanted to be that heartless again, and also to remind him what ass they were.
"ZIM! Give me my sister!"
Zim let out a chuckle, I rolled my eyes
"Your enjoying this way to much, you know that"
He laughed and kissed me again, I felt butterflies in my stomach. He took his clawed hand and ran it through my hair making me shiver. No had ever touch me so sweetly before and loving.
Dib and once in a while Gaz and Kat would show love, but it wasn't like this.
It was soft yet powerful. I looked at Zim his bright red eyes looking back at my dark green ones. My body was shaking now.
"Jo are you cold?" Zim asked worriedly
Which shocked me. Zim had maybe three or four voice tones. One his demanding/annoyed tone usually aimed at Gir and mini-moose , two his joking/happy tone which is rare, three his pissed off one. Which happen the most mainly because of Dib and fourth his calm one which I was most used to seeing. This one was new.
I nodded, it wasn't a lie.
It was cold down here, how the hell Zim was always warm like a hot spring was beyond me, must be an Irken thing.
"You feel warm enough, so way are you shaking like a leaf as you humans stupidly say?"
Could I really tell him that he made me feel weak in the knees, that I was willing to die for him, that he made me feel special and wanted?
Yes, Yes I could
"Zim..." I began
"ZIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Dib who was beyond piss now
"Oh Shit!" I thought
Dib's pov
Ok now I was pissed off and I was going to kill Zim for kissing my sister, my twin, my best friend! He was an alien scum playing with my sister emotions, the he cut her down like a tree. That's his game to hurt anyone he could and my sister wasn't going to be one of them!
I knew she liked him back, I understood that. She lived her whole life surround by females. When the first guy made her feel anything she jump on it. Jo was not as tuff as she acted she a soft person who could easily get her heart broken.
I marched down to the labs that for the past two years I tried to destroy or get proof that Zim was an alien, now here I was no traps, no robots no.....
I stopped This was to easy I was walking through Zim base without been attacked, not even by Gir. Something was wrong very wrong. I started to breath heavily, did Zim kill her?
No, I know that Jo and I had that weird twin thing when we could feel each others pain. I didn't feel anything, but I was shaking like crazy. Was she scared, was Zim going to hurt her? I wouldn't let that happen!
I suddenly found them. Jo perfectly free no chains or anything holding her. Just Zim touching her hair and neck softly. My eyes widened I realized that Jo was like him touching her like that a lot and her body was starting to show it.
"Jo!" I yelled
She looked up and smiled. I was relieved she was fine, but Zim wouldn't be. Yet before I moved closer to him. I was hugged tightly by Jo.
"Dib please let Zim show you something please for me?"
I sighed
"I hate when you do that, but fine!"
She smiled and Zim pushed a few buttons and then screen came down and then I saw it.
Tape
Zim: "My tallest if we drain all the world of it's...
but he was cut off
Red: "Zim it time you learned the truth"
Zim: "Truth?"
Purple: "About your mission"
Zim: "What about my mission?"
Red: "It was a lie Zim to get rid of you in hopes that you would die, your a defect and a disgrace to the Irken Empire"
Zim: "But my tallest..."
Purple "Shut up Zim! We hate you, you are banished from Irk you can never return and if you do you be killed on the spot!
Zim: ......
Red:" This is the last time you be able to speak with us you only be able to call for supplies to live on no more."
Purple: "I like to say it been nice knowing you, but it wasn't
Then it ended, For the first time since I met Zim I felt bad for him. His own people threw him out like trash and hoped he would die. They thought he was annoying and nothing, but trouble.
I looked up Zim looked sad, which he never was. Jo was hugging him telling him it was ok, that she was there for him. Then I realized something scary Zim and I were more alike then I like.
Both of us hated by our race, always trying to please someone, wanted to be expected, both thought as annoying and most of all outcast.
I realized I had been wrong about Zim, he wasn't really evil he was just trying to fit in. Now he was trapped on this rock, with no hope of ever seeing his home world again. I realized he was trapped here which meant he couldn't destroy it.
I won! yet it wasn't really a win. Who was I kidding Earth sucked! Then only real reasons I probably didn't join Zim long ago was because of Jo and Gaz. They were the only two on this only rock that meant anything to me.
I sighed,
"What is happening to me?" I thought
Yet now was not the time, now was to start over with Zim and finally feel like I beyond somewhere and have a friend.
Zim's pov
Watching that tape again brought back the painful memories and that knowing that I was useless. I held back the tears, I wasn't going to cry in front of Dib and most of all Jo. I didn't want her to see me weak. Suddenly I felt arms wrap around me.
"I'm here Zim" Jo said softly
I took a deep breath, I tightly her no matter what Dib-stink did or tried to do I find a way to be with her. She was mine and I was hers. We were made for each other. She closed her eyes and put her head on my shoulder. I realized she must be tried after all the excitement of the day.
"Tried love-pig?"
She didn't answer she was out. I smiled She looked so peaceful
"So your done taking over the world?" asked Dib who I forget was there.
"Yes, though I still think it sucks"
He chuckled
"True, it's suck"
"Did you agree with me"
"What if I did"
I laughed, I picked up Jo and took her upstairs and put her couch and put a blanket on her.
"Why do you humans sleep so much?"
"We have to we don't have Paks that recharge us, so our bodies do it when we sleep."
"I see"
"So when did they tell you?"
"Over the summer"
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be they're jerks and besides maybe be banished here won't be so bad..."
I blushed
"You really do like my sister don't you?"
I gulped
"Yes, Dib-stink"
He shook his head and sighed.
"Fine I let you guys be together but there are some ground rules!"
I raised my antennas.
"One you won't kiss her in front of me, Two if she dumps you, you can't hurt her, Three stop calling me names! and last you won't make her Irken!"
I smiled
"Anything else?"
He walked up to me and graphed my shirt. He glared at me.
"Yes, if you even make her cry once I will kill you got that space boy!"
"Loud and clear Dib-human"
He rolled his eyes. I heard a soft moan, Dib and I quickly turned to see that Jo was up.
"Wow you two didn't kill each other that's a shock"
We both laughed.
"Are you ok love-pig?" I asked
She looked weak and very tried like she hadn't slept in a while.
"I'm... coughs fine"
Dib ran up to her and touch her forehead.
"Jo your burning up!"
"I'm weird I felt fine early and Dib Zim didn't do anything"
"He kissed you!"
"I kissed he back!"
Dib-worm rolled his eyes
"Your sick Joanna, we have to get you home"
"But the project!"
"Love-pig you need to rest, I will get the voot cruiser and give you two a ride home."
"Thanks Zim" said Dib-stink
"I'm not doing it for you I'm doing it for my love-pig"
"Whatever Space boy"
I went to get the voot, but sometime told me that my love-pig was in trouble. I had to keep her safe even if that meant breaking the ground rules, but if it was saving her life then Dib-worm would take it, but for right now she was just a little sick.
Jo's pov
After Zim took Dib and me home, Dib turned into Doctor Dib. He was making sure that I had ever little thing I need.
"Dib it just a fever, I'm fine!"
I tried to sit up, but was pushed right back down again
"Jo, you are sick and I going to make sure you get better"
"You not letting me out of your sight are you since Zim and I are dating now"
"You got that right!"
I smiled
"Dib you can't protect me from everything"
"But I can try and will. Jo, you and Gaz are all I have and if anything bad were to happening to you guys. I be crushed. I older brother, it's my job to keep my sisters safe."
"YOUR only older by a minute"
"Still older" he said with a laugh
I rolled my eyes
"Fine, Dib whatever you say"
The front door opened and closed. Dib and I looked at each other, was dad home for once?
"Kids?" he called
"Up here dad!" yelled Dib
He walked into the room.
"What's wrong and where is Gaz?"
"Video game store" I answered with a cough
"Jo not feeling to well, I just keeping an eye on her."
My father walked over and took his glove off and placed his bare hand on my forehead. I couldn't tell, but I thought I saw worriedness in his eyes.
"Son, go get Gaz, I stay here and take care of Jo"
Dib looked shocked, but nodded and ran out.
"Joanna, what did you eat today?"
"Cereal with skim milk, apple, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, chips and green tea and cookies with milk"
"Ok, maybe the peanut butter some have be recall"
"It tasted fine"
He smiled
"Jo, I'm sorry that I was a bad father to you and you siblings, but I going to make it up to all of you by being home more"
"Really?"
"Yes"
I smiled and hugged my father for the first time in years.
"We like that, a lot"
Maybe things were getting better.
from The Sound of Music
Dib's pov
It was nice having Jo back it made me feel happier. I worried about her being near Zim, but that was out of our hands. Yet that didn't mean I still didn't spy on them and try to protect her.
It was nothing, to worry about they were working and Jo did take care of herself. She had to since dad was never around, we all had to She really was smart and she knew what Zim was. She was the only person besides Gaz that knew about him, but deep inside of me something was changing. My views on my race and life on Earth were changing. What scared me was that I had dreams about helping Zim take over!
"Maybe I'm Crazy!" I mumbled
"Now why would you say that Dibbers" asked Joe
I jumped she always did have the ability to move like a ghost.
"Sorry didn't mean to scare you" she said with a laugh
"Ha Ha funny Joanna!" I smirked
She hated being called that, why I don't know probably because dad always called her that.
She tackled hug me, we started laughing. I never been so happy in my life! I never wanted to be without Jo again. I started to think what if Joe liked Zim , he like her or worst yet they liked each other.
Yet as I thought about it could I really take something away from Joe, Zim of course.I knew deep down if I took Zim away from Joe I be no better then my father and there was no way in hell I was going to be like him ever! I didn't want to push my family away they all I had. Even if that meant Zim dated my sister.
"Dib?" Jo asked worriedly
I didn't realize that I stopped laughing
"Sorry thinking"
She pushed herself up and sat on my bed.
"Shot!"
I smiled no matter what Joe would listen to me and be there for me. Though I loved Gaz, Joe was the better sister. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"Joe do you like Zim?" I asked quickly
She looked at me for a second and sighed
"I don't know Dib he a jerk sometimes..."
"All the time is better" I said
"Can I finish or do want to go into how evil he is?"
I chucked
"No go on"
She smiled
"I don't know Dib some days he annoys the shit out of me but other days...."
"Other days he what?" I was getting worried
"I don't know what I feel he makes me feel wanted ..."
I knew what she meant by that she meant understand not thought as a weirdo. The kids at school liked her alright. I mean no was mean to her personal, but she knew what they really thought of her.
I think want she really wanted was dad to expect her for who she was, but that would never happen. He never heard her sing before! When I was teased at school and some days come home crying Joe would sing me a song. I still remembered it to.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad
"Dib?"
"Sorry I remembered that song you use to sing to me"
She smiled
"So you aren't mad that I might like Zim?"
"I don't like it, but I can't be mad at you for having a crush. Remember I had a crush on Tak"
"You still do"
"NO,I DON"T!"
"Yes you do!"
"NO!"
"Will you two be quite!" yelled Gaz
"NO!" we both yelled knowing we were dead but it was funny!
Then I heard something I never heard before a giggle, then another then a laugh. For the first time in Gaz life or in front of me she laughed. She stood outside the doorway.
"It creepy how you guys do that"
"Do what?" we said together
"That!"
"What" I started
"Would" Joe said
"that be?" we said together
She shook her head and laughed.
"It's twin thing isn't?" she asked
"Yes" we said together
"Stop that!"
Joe and I started to laugh and so did Gaz. I knew now that no matter how bad things got we would be there for each other.
Zim's pov
I couldn't stop thinking about her, she was like a... I don't even know what to say. We worked on the project for weeks now. We were friends secretly because Joe knew that Dib wouldn't like it. She said she have to slowly tell him.
When she did I had to show him the tape of the tallest telling me that my mission was a lie. To prove it to him that I was done. Joe believed me 100% though she knew I hated the humans, but her, Gaz and sometimes Dib-worm.
She was coming over to work on the project which was on history. Lucky Joe was very good at it.
"Zim you there?" she called
I gulped, I had to tell her how I felt before I go mad!
"Yes"
I opened the door, she hugged me like she always did. I held tight for a while.
"Umm Zim?"
"Sorry" I let go sadly
"What's wrong Zim?"
"Jo can we talk" I stammered
"Sure, why so nervous?"
I just did it, I pushed my lips onto her. She didn't push away she let me. Maybe she liked me back? Of course she does I'm Zim!
No, I lucky that she likes me very lucky and I pulled back and when I did she kissed me back.
She kissed me BACK! I found her I found her! My MATE!
Then the moment was perfect till there was a scream.
Jo's pov
I kissed him back, I couldn't help it, when he me I kiss felt sparks fly.
I was about to kiss him again when I heard a shout.
"Stop kissing my sister!" yelled Dib
I sighed it was now or never, I kissed him again. I got up and left knowing perfectly well that I was trouble.
"See you Zim" I said sadly
"No" He spat
He graphed my arm softly.
"Dib-worm we need o talk." he said calmly
Dib graphed my another arm.
"No you brainwashed my sister you Alien Scum!" he spat
"I did no such thing Dib-worm!"
I sighed, what was I going to do the most important man in my life hated each other and would do anything to get what they wanted and right now it was me.
"YOU filthy cheating lying alien scum ball!" yelled Dib
"Dib-worm! let me show you something!" Zim yelled back
"NO!"
"Dib please let him show you!" I begged
"Jo he brainwashed you I should realized sooner when you told me that you had a crush on him! I mean how can you like that!" he point at Zim
He didn't realize that he let go of my hand and now only Zim was holding me. I saw Zim get idea in his eyes. I knew in the end it would work out, but I wasn't going to like it at all.
With that thought Zim scooped me up and ran into to the lab.
"Let her go!" yelled Dib pissed off now
Zim easily made to the lab before Dib and he put me down. He gave me a quick kiss and started to get ready for my overly protective brother.
I been in Zim's lab before he show me the tape of the tallest. He still had to remind him that he never wanted to be that heartless again, and also to remind him what ass they were.
"ZIM! Give me my sister!"
Zim let out a chuckle, I rolled my eyes
"Your enjoying this way to much, you know that"
He laughed and kissed me again, I felt butterflies in my stomach. He took his clawed hand and ran it through my hair making me shiver. No had ever touch me so sweetly before and loving.
Dib and once in a while Gaz and Kat would show love, but it wasn't like this.
It was soft yet powerful. I looked at Zim his bright red eyes looking back at my dark green ones. My body was shaking now.
"Jo are you cold?" Zim asked worriedly
Which shocked me. Zim had maybe three or four voice tones. One his demanding/annoyed tone usually aimed at Gir and mini-moose , two his joking/happy tone which is rare, three his pissed off one. Which happen the most mainly because of Dib and fourth his calm one which I was most used to seeing. This one was new.
I nodded, it wasn't a lie.
It was cold down here, how the hell Zim was always warm like a hot spring was beyond me, must be an Irken thing.
"You feel warm enough, so way are you shaking like a leaf as you humans stupidly say?"
Could I really tell him that he made me feel weak in the knees, that I was willing to die for him, that he made me feel special and wanted?
Yes, Yes I could
"Zim..." I began
"ZIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Dib who was beyond piss now
"Oh Shit!" I thought
Dib's pov
Ok now I was pissed off and I was going to kill Zim for kissing my sister, my twin, my best friend! He was an alien scum playing with my sister emotions, the he cut her down like a tree. That's his game to hurt anyone he could and my sister wasn't going to be one of them!
I knew she liked him back, I understood that. She lived her whole life surround by females. When the first guy made her feel anything she jump on it. Jo was not as tuff as she acted she a soft person who could easily get her heart broken.
I marched down to the labs that for the past two years I tried to destroy or get proof that Zim was an alien, now here I was no traps, no robots no.....
I stopped This was to easy I was walking through Zim base without been attacked, not even by Gir. Something was wrong very wrong. I started to breath heavily, did Zim kill her?
No, I know that Jo and I had that weird twin thing when we could feel each others pain. I didn't feel anything, but I was shaking like crazy. Was she scared, was Zim going to hurt her? I wouldn't let that happen!
I suddenly found them. Jo perfectly free no chains or anything holding her. Just Zim touching her hair and neck softly. My eyes widened I realized that Jo was like him touching her like that a lot and her body was starting to show it.
"Jo!" I yelled
She looked up and smiled. I was relieved she was fine, but Zim wouldn't be. Yet before I moved closer to him. I was hugged tightly by Jo.
"Dib please let Zim show you something please for me?"
I sighed
"I hate when you do that, but fine!"
She smiled and Zim pushed a few buttons and then screen came down and then I saw it.
Tape
Zim: "My tallest if we drain all the world of it's...
but he was cut off
Red: "Zim it time you learned the truth"
Zim: "Truth?"
Purple: "About your mission"
Zim: "What about my mission?"
Red: "It was a lie Zim to get rid of you in hopes that you would die, your a defect and a disgrace to the Irken Empire"
Zim: "But my tallest..."
Purple "Shut up Zim! We hate you, you are banished from Irk you can never return and if you do you be killed on the spot!
Zim: ......
Red:" This is the last time you be able to speak with us you only be able to call for supplies to live on no more."
Purple: "I like to say it been nice knowing you, but it wasn't
Then it ended, For the first time since I met Zim I felt bad for him. His own people threw him out like trash and hoped he would die. They thought he was annoying and nothing, but trouble.
I looked up Zim looked sad, which he never was. Jo was hugging him telling him it was ok, that she was there for him. Then I realized something scary Zim and I were more alike then I like.
Both of us hated by our race, always trying to please someone, wanted to be expected, both thought as annoying and most of all outcast.
I realized I had been wrong about Zim, he wasn't really evil he was just trying to fit in. Now he was trapped on this rock, with no hope of ever seeing his home world again. I realized he was trapped here which meant he couldn't destroy it.
I won! yet it wasn't really a win. Who was I kidding Earth sucked! Then only real reasons I probably didn't join Zim long ago was because of Jo and Gaz. They were the only two on this only rock that meant anything to me.
I sighed,
"What is happening to me?" I thought
Yet now was not the time, now was to start over with Zim and finally feel like I beyond somewhere and have a friend.
Zim's pov
Watching that tape again brought back the painful memories and that knowing that I was useless. I held back the tears, I wasn't going to cry in front of Dib and most of all Jo. I didn't want her to see me weak. Suddenly I felt arms wrap around me.
"I'm here Zim" Jo said softly
I took a deep breath, I tightly her no matter what Dib-stink did or tried to do I find a way to be with her. She was mine and I was hers. We were made for each other. She closed her eyes and put her head on my shoulder. I realized she must be tried after all the excitement of the day.
"Tried love-pig?"
She didn't answer she was out. I smiled She looked so peaceful
"So your done taking over the world?" asked Dib who I forget was there.
"Yes, though I still think it sucks"
He chuckled
"True, it's suck"
"Did you agree with me"
"What if I did"
I laughed, I picked up Jo and took her upstairs and put her couch and put a blanket on her.
"Why do you humans sleep so much?"
"We have to we don't have Paks that recharge us, so our bodies do it when we sleep."
"I see"
"So when did they tell you?"
"Over the summer"
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be they're jerks and besides maybe be banished here won't be so bad..."
I blushed
"You really do like my sister don't you?"
I gulped
"Yes, Dib-stink"
He shook his head and sighed.
"Fine I let you guys be together but there are some ground rules!"
I raised my antennas.
"One you won't kiss her in front of me, Two if she dumps you, you can't hurt her, Three stop calling me names! and last you won't make her Irken!"
I smiled
"Anything else?"
He walked up to me and graphed my shirt. He glared at me.
"Yes, if you even make her cry once I will kill you got that space boy!"
"Loud and clear Dib-human"
He rolled his eyes. I heard a soft moan, Dib and I quickly turned to see that Jo was up.
"Wow you two didn't kill each other that's a shock"
We both laughed.
"Are you ok love-pig?" I asked
She looked weak and very tried like she hadn't slept in a while.
"I'm... coughs fine"
Dib ran up to her and touch her forehead.
"Jo your burning up!"
"I'm weird I felt fine early and Dib Zim didn't do anything"
"He kissed you!"
"I kissed he back!"
Dib-worm rolled his eyes
"Your sick Joanna, we have to get you home"
"But the project!"
"Love-pig you need to rest, I will get the voot cruiser and give you two a ride home."
"Thanks Zim" said Dib-stink
"I'm not doing it for you I'm doing it for my love-pig"
"Whatever Space boy"
I went to get the voot, but sometime told me that my love-pig was in trouble. I had to keep her safe even if that meant breaking the ground rules, but if it was saving her life then Dib-worm would take it, but for right now she was just a little sick.
Jo's pov
After Zim took Dib and me home, Dib turned into Doctor Dib. He was making sure that I had ever little thing I need.
"Dib it just a fever, I'm fine!"
I tried to sit up, but was pushed right back down again
"Jo, you are sick and I going to make sure you get better"
"You not letting me out of your sight are you since Zim and I are dating now"
"You got that right!"
I smiled
"Dib you can't protect me from everything"
"But I can try and will. Jo, you and Gaz are all I have and if anything bad were to happening to you guys. I be crushed. I older brother, it's my job to keep my sisters safe."
"YOUR only older by a minute"
"Still older" he said with a laugh
I rolled my eyes
"Fine, Dib whatever you say"
The front door opened and closed. Dib and I looked at each other, was dad home for once?
"Kids?" he called
"Up here dad!" yelled Dib
He walked into the room.
"What's wrong and where is Gaz?"
"Video game store" I answered with a cough
"Jo not feeling to well, I just keeping an eye on her."
My father walked over and took his glove off and placed his bare hand on my forehead. I couldn't tell, but I thought I saw worriedness in his eyes.
"Son, go get Gaz, I stay here and take care of Jo"
Dib looked shocked, but nodded and ran out.
"Joanna, what did you eat today?"
"Cereal with skim milk, apple, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, chips and green tea and cookies with milk"
"Ok, maybe the peanut butter some have be recall"
"It tasted fine"
He smiled
"Jo, I'm sorry that I was a bad father to you and you siblings, but I going to make it up to all of you by being home more"
"Really?"
"Yes"
I smiled and hugged my father for the first time in years.
"We like that, a lot"
Maybe things were getting better.