•several weeks later•

       "What do you mean you want to break up?"

        Dib stared at Kyt like she was crazy. He watched her look down at the ground, then peer up at him through her veil of ghostly hair with apologetic eyes. The way she had often done when they first met. He wanted to cry- he wanted to be all sorts of upset- but he couldn't. He'd seen it coming. She had been slowly easing him off her presence since she returned in the near-broken pod with Zim and Gir.

       Kyt opened her mouth to speak but stopped at the sound of boots hitting the polished wood floor. Dib jumped a little to turn and see Zim's face with an odd look of curious indifference. He looked between the two with his maroon eyes, examining the awkward timing he had chosen to step in at. He moved passed them to the counter, speaking in an eerily calm fashion: "I'm just getting a drink."

     Dib turned his attention back to Kyt-away from Zim's obvious lie- only to find her attention on him. Dib groaned internally: Of course. I'm stupid. Alien and alien. He watched her green eyes glow softly, in a way they always have when it came to that despicable green... bug. It was subtle and it had always been there, but now it was glaringly obvious. She probably didn't even realize how she looked at him. Dib took in a breath, turning away in a darkly dramatic style. "If you want to be with him... Go ahead."

      Kyt blinked, her eyes focusing back to Dib with a mild surprise. Zim looked between the two, the glass up to his lips as he drank very, very slowly almost in an unwilling way. Kyt frowned. "Dib, this isn't... This isn't about Zim. I'm next in line for the Halön crown. My mom doesn't want to rule and my father wasn't found among all the others on Irk."

       Dib scoffed, "So what?!"

       He stood up, slamming his chair into the table storming off into the living room. Leaving two shocked aliens. Zim's eyes darted to Kyt and simply said,"Hyumans."

        It wasn't a second after that when he stormed back into the kitchen, jabbing a finger at Zim's chest. His childish anger and need for revenge was scattering his mind,"I'll get you, if it's the last thing I do. I swear."

      Zim looked down at Dib's hand with disgust and pushed it off of him. "Oh you won't have to worry about Zim anymore. Zim is Almighty Tallest~."

          He chirped the last sentence with a wicked smile. "Earth is no longer of use to me."

         Dib felt his shoulders undeniably sag. Everyone was just going to leave him? Everything he had been working hard towards would be gone in a heartbeat?

"Is it just that simple?" His voice cracked as he took a step back. "You're all just gonna... go?"

      Dib leaned against the door frame, the life draining from him. He felt like he was in a bad dream. A dream that had lasted since he had been eleven. His rambunctiousness, for the first time ever, was toned to a quiet whisper, "I think I've gotta.... go."

Kyt watched as he made his way out to the living room and then the door, slamming it shut. She took a deep breathe, rubbing her temples. Zim came to her, pulling out a chair to sit by her. There was an awkward silence as his mind whirred to think of what to say. "Zim knew this would happen. It was only a matter of time."

Kyt raised a brow, peeking from behind her fingers. Her green hues were questioning. Zim looked out the window to the repaired city. The city he had always intended to destroy along with the rest of Earth in his conquest was restored at his command. His home for the last several years was just across the street. "I would rule. We would all part. My squeedly-spooch felt it."

A humorless "hah", left Kyt's lips as she shook her head. She had finally made friends. She had overcome too much... and now she had to let go. It was surreal and heartbreaking. Almost as if none of it had happened. It had all come unnoticed and they would leave unnoticed. She felt herself drawn back to reality when Zim's gloved hand touched hers. "Kyt... This... Is farewell?"

A sad smile touched her lips, but dissipated quickly into a frown. She didn't want to answer, because she didn't know how to answer. There was no for certain what this was. Zim's antennas folded back with worry. They sat there in silence for a while until Gaz came in to say goodnight, Gir in tow as he whined about wanting to watch the Scary Monkey Show and wanting Zim to leave with him. Eventually, Kyt was sitting alone. Wondering if any of this had been real. She thought about the conversation they had had days after arriving back on Earth.

About how there would be human complications if they stayed any longer. They had destroyed over half of a city in an alien invasion... and had it "magically" been restored to how it was before. There was no way the human government wasn't all over it- "Unless they are undeniably stupid," Ari had stated with a sarcastic snort, earning a bolstering laugh from Zim. She had sat there trying to take it all in... how Zim was leaving, how she was leaving, how Ari would go with her to teach her the odd and ins of their former home, and how they were likely to not come back for a very long time... Leaving behind Dib and Gaz... her first friends in her entire life.

Kyt took a deep breath. "I hope not."

Zim nodded in understanding. His body acted on its own, reaching over to graze her cheek. They leaned forward with little hesitation, the day changing to night as they kissed.

        And when they opened their eyes the two were heading separate ways. Kyt with her wings out-stretched and Zim's boots hitting cold metal.

          Dib and Gaz Membrane standing a few feet away, waving their teary-eyed goodbyes until neither were in sight. And everything that had ever happened was like it had never happened.

         Later that night, Dib sat on his roof, mumbling as he fiddled with knobs and pressed the headphones against his ears more. Trying to hear past the static to remember what had happened. He wasn't sure it had happened at all, until he heard a familiar voice on the other end and cheering from thousands of his kind. He jumped at the blast of static and a drawled out laugh. Dib's heart was beating out of his chest as he listened closely.

         "You thought this was over?"