[Author's Note:

For the epilogue, I suggest listening to the song "If I Were a Bird" from the Code Geass Soundtrack. Actually, I order you to do so. If you do not listen to that song – which is the song that I listened to while writing this epilogue – and you listen to another song instead, I will not be held responsible for the sheer amount of song/reading material conflict that may ensue. Listen to the one WITHOUT the lyrics.

~ClockwerkOrange]

Tak straightened her purple striped shirt while her legs dangled off of the side of the dock.

"Does it remind you of Nennius?" Zim asked.

Tak stared into the deep blue water. "I guess."

They sat in silence there, side by side, looking off into the red horizon.

"Coming here was a good idea, Zim. I'm glad we did," she said.

Zim glanced over at Tak, who was still absorbed in the sunset. "Yeah."

Tak looked at him for a few seconds after he had lowered her eyes, and she laughed.

Zim frowned. "What?"

"I'm sorry, but your disguise is terrible," Tak said.

"Thank you," Zim replied. "It's strange how different you look in yours. Still similar, though, in a weird way."

"Yes, I suppose," Tak agreed.

"So, do you want to g-…"

Tak threw her arms around Zim, and kissed him.

"Oi, lovebirds, do you want to play some 'vaul-lee-ball' or what?" Pepper shouted from the beach, about twenty feet from where they were.

Tak let Zim drop, and he fell backward, PAK clattering against the wood of the dock.

"Alright!" Tak yelled back. "We'll be there in just a minute!"

Tak let herself fall backward next to Zim. "So, Zim, do you think coming back to Earth was a good idea?"

"Yes, I do," Zim said breathlessly.

"I'm glad," Tak said, and rested her head on Zim's shoulder. "I'm really, really glad."

End.

~ClockwerkOrange