Reach A Little Farther

Alien freak

Zim knocked for the third time on the beaten up door, getting more and more anxious with each second that life wasnt sensed on the other side.

"Hello?"

He called out, waiting again for a minute or so before ramming his fist into the door a forth time. He held his breath as the chain door lock could be heard getting loudly shoved aside, the person opposite his side was not at all pleased to be opening the door for him.

"What in the actual hell do you want with me this early in the morning!?"

Zim harshly shoved her aside to see if anyone else was in the parts of the house visible to him, it wasnt of much use as she pushed herself back into his line of sight.

"You gonna tell me what you want or just keep staring in my house?"

Zim rubbed his temples, he wasn't even sure how the human could stand her!

"Im just looking for-"

"Gaz right? She's in bed, and I'm not going to wake her up because some selfish brat needs something at four in the goddamn morning."

She went to slam the door, but Zim stuck his foot out as a doorstop before it realigned with the frame.

"Please Tak, this is extremly important!"

She grummbled and stared him in the eye one last time before reentering the house, Zim close behind. She firmly pointed to the living room when Zim attempted to follow her up the stairs, prompting him with a sharp, "Stay."

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Before he knew it, Zim was sitting at the kitchen table with a steaming cup of tea in his hands, Gaz and Tak sitting across from him. He cringed a bit as Tak lightly left a peck on Gaz's cheek before grabbing the pitcher to refill her own cup.

"Zim this better be good or so help me-"

He held up his hands, nearly knocking over the cup, (thankfully it only wobbled a bit) he quickly interupted before she got angry. Even after being stuck on earth with all these humans, becoming accustomed to random strangers trying to pick a fight with him, she still terrified him the most.

"Nonono, its a perfectly good reason!"

She thanked Tak as a now full cup of tea was handed back to her, she sipped it, waiting for Zim to continue.

"Well, I figured that if anyone would know where Dib-"

Tak slammed her fist down onto the table, the wood splintering into little chips, not a hint of remorse was in her tone anymore. Just the pured fury and hatred for the irken in front of her.

"You wouldn't dare come to MY-" she slammed her fist into the table again, the structure cracking in a solid line this time. "-house and expect to get any information about the person you sent off into space without even letting us know!"

Zim flinched, obviously he hadn't intended for this visit to go so poorly, no poorly is not the right word. More like it caught fire and burned everything to the ground, then it then caught fire again and smoldered for hours.

"I will admit that it was stupid of me to just give Dib the voot, but was he happy on earth? No."

Gaz abruptly stood, the chair clattering to the floor behind her from the force of it. Warning bells blared in Zim's head, he wanted so badly to run from her, but found he couldn't.

"Get out."

Her voice sent shivers all down his back, but for some ungodly reason he tried to keep talking.