Nothing Is Normal (invader Zim X reader)

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The fly back to Zim's home was going to be a while, no doubt about that, it was very late though, you felt woozy. You poked Zim's shoulder "Zim, how much longer?" He checked a little monitor on the ship's screen "seven hours, why?" You groaned in annoyance "I'm just exhausted, that's all" Zim laughed "oh you pathetic humans and your...sleep" "don't you need sleep too?" Zim thought for a moment "eh, well yes I do, but it's just to recharge" "uhh yeah, that's what sleep is, dummy". Zim let out a small grunt of frustration, but ignored you since you were technically right, but still fought you with reasonable arguments, still you felt light headed and tired, "so you see (y/n)? Irkens don't necessarily need rest, but we do it to- whaaaatt on Irk are you doing?" It hasn't even been near to seven hours yet, but you couldn't help yourself, carefully you rested your head on Zim's lap, causing him to freeze completely. "So....sleepy...need bed.. to dream..." Zim was tense, he started to mumble to his computer, in hopes that you couldn't hear, "computer...go on autopilot for a few hours, and while you're at it, make more room in the voot by disabling my chair". You couldn't really see much, but you saw Zim's chair sink down into nothingness, even with all the extra room, Zim still let you rest on his lap, "would you also like a blanket, Zim?" The computer teased, Zim blushed but answered angrily back "if you could, then yes.." within a few seconds a fluffy, purple blanket came out of a little slot in the ship. You woke up a little, and grabbed the blanket yourself, this gave Zim enough time to reposition himself, so your sleep wouldn't be as awkward. You laid down on the hard metal surface of the ship, and started to drift off to sleep, next to you sat Zim who was deep in thought.

The next morning you woke up suddenly, ' damn, another nightmare, what's up with this one specifically though? It's the same one I had in miss Bitters class so many months ago, been having the same one for a while now'. You sat up and looked at your surroundings, still in Zim's ship, you hesitantly climbed off with the purple blanket still wrapped around you, you started to walk aimlessly around the base, your bare feet lightly taping against the cold floor ' strange' you thought ' I don't recall falling asleep barefoot, oh well'. After a while you finally found Zim, who noticed you almost immediately "good morning human", "morning, what are you up to?" Zim looked at you and explained "oh I'm just trying to track Tak down, but it's challenging" you nodded understanding, you walked over next to Zim, dropping the purple blanket in process. You two didn't really say much, just a little small talk and looking for Tak (which was mostly just guessing on where she could possibly be) with this going on for hours you got bored, you didn't realize it but you were starting at Zim, more specifically his antennas. "Hey, whatever happened to your antenna when I touched them that one time?" You asked curiously, Zim stopped for a minute "oh..err..I've actually been meaning to speak to you about that.." You raised an eyebrow "oh?" Zim tensed "umm... I talked to my leaders about you touching them..and they insisted that I shouldn't do this, and I wanted you to meet them before I asked you of this , but...". Zim looked very tense now, he was blushing and he looked extremely nervous, you started to blush as well, "h-hey, whatever it is you don't have to do it.." his antenna started to tingle and shake "n-no! Ahem..I mean no, I..I want to explore this new feeling...I want to understand it..so..I need you to help..can you help Zim?" You nodded, Zim quickly took your hand and led you to another room, there you two both sat down. Zim's face flushed even more now and so was yours "okay human...You must not tell anyone of this..understand?", " y-yeah I understand.." Zim shook off his hesitation and spoke " Zim needs you to touch his antenna again..just be quick about it!" You nodded, but you could hardly move. Eventually you did the unthinkable, you reached your hand up and lightly grabbed Zim's antenna....