Yeah...major cuteness in this chapter. I own Caleb, just so you know. If you steal him, I will cry. (well, not really)
Seven months had passed since Rueben and Violet had admitted their love for each other, and life in the Pelekai house was normal...well, except for the new arrival.
Violet walked into the kitchen with Rueben. She had a small bundle in her arms.
Stitch looked up as they entered and cocked his head as his eyes landed on the bundle. "Oooohh." he said, pointing and turning everyones attention on them.
"How is Little Experiment going?" Jumba asked.
"Great." Rueben replied, putting a hand on Violet's shoulder. "He hasn't been much trouble."
"Yet." Violet added.
Lilo sat up on her knees. "Can we see your baby?" she asked. She, Stitch, Nani and Pleakley had known about Rueben and Violet's baby for a week now, but this was the first time
they'd seen it since it had been born. Jumba had helped with the birth, and was one of the first to see it.
Violet nodded and pushed her lower pair of arms out. She held tightly onto the tiny experiment with three arms, and used the fourth arm to climb up onto the table. Rueben followed her
and sat with Stitch. Violet gently pulled the blanket back to reveal a cute little face. The baby yawned and rubbed it's eyes before looking around and babbling away in baby talk.
"Awww, he's sooo cute!" Lilo gushed. "I want one."
Jumba looked at her. "Not until you are being older."
"I meant a baby experiment, not a human baby."
"Ih. Baby cousin. Naga human cousin." Stitch piped up, watching the little experiment. It looked around at Jumba and stretched his arms out towards the Quelta Quanian.
Rueben laughed. "I think he likes you, Jumba."
Jumba watched aa Violet unwrapped the tiny experiment and, to his suprise, held it out to him. "Do you want a nurse?"
Jumba looked down uncertainly at his massive hands - he was used to holding steaming vials of chemicals...not babies...especially babies that were so small, it looked like it would
break if he touched it.
Rueben laughed at the look of uncertainty on his creators face. "You won't hurt him."
Jumba swallowed and reluctantly held his hands out, and Violet placed her baby on his palm. It wriggled and crawled around in his hands, and Jumba held it up in front of his face.
"So, Little Experiment is inheriting 6-2-5's hair and teeth, 6-2-2's ears and..." he turned the little experiment around in his hands, but it was too interested in playing with the Quelta
Quanian's thumb. Jumba smiled and tickled the little experiments tummy with a finger, making it laugh and push it's antennae out. "6-2-2's ears and antennae, and both 6-2-5 and
6-2-2's colouring."
"Meega like colouring." Stitch said, watching Rueben's baby chewing on Jumba's thumb. It's fur was Rueben's golden-brown, and it's eye patches, chin, stomach and nose were
violet.
Pleakley sat next to Jumba. "Have you thought of a name yet?"
Violet nodded. "We were thinking Caleb, wern't we Rueben."
The golden-brown experiment nodded as he watched his son playing with his second set of arms.
Lilo smiled. "I like it."
"Ih." Stitch agreed. "Pooja oon cheeky baba."
Violet smiled as Caled squeaked and ran up Jumba's arm. The Quelta Quanian watched him with his smaller pair if eyes as he entertained himself by playing with Jumba's ear.
Lilo tapped Jumba on the arm and he looked down at her. "Yes, Little Girl?"
"Ummm...if Rueben and Violet have only been together for seven months, how could they have a baby?"
Jumba chuckled. 6-2-2 and 6-2-5 can be having baby because is only taking three months to be developing before having to be born. Not like human babies."
Lilo nodded, still a bit confused. She wanted to ask why, but knew her Uncle would probably explain it the scientific way, and use words she'd never heard before. She turned to Stitch
for help - being an experiment, he'd probably know. He shook his head and shrugged. He'd often loose track of what Jumba was talking about.
"How long 'til he's able to talk?" Pleakley asked, leaning a little to the left because Caleb was hanging off Jumba's ear and reaching for his antenna.
"If calculations are being correct, speech should be coming in two months." Jumba raplied, wincing as Caleb's weight pulled his ear.
"Caleb, let go of your Uncle Jumba's ear!" Violet scolded.
Jumba looked up. "What? Uncle?"
"Well...we were hoping." Violet said quietly, shuffling her feet. "Your already a great Uncle to Stitch and Lilo...and you look like the Uncle type of person."
The Quelta Quanian blinked and looked at Caleb. The little experiment had his fingers in his mouth, and it touched Jumba somewhere deep down. Blinking back tears, he nodded.
"Jumba is liking sound of that." he said, smiling. It was times like this when he felt like a true Evil Genius.(I'm not saying that he's not an Evil Genius, it's just one of those things)
Caleb lost interest with his fingers and crawled down Jumba's arm and sat in his hands. The Quelta Quanian lifted him up in front of his face. "Is Little Experimant hearing? Am your
Uncle Jumba."
Caleb's only reply was to lick Jumba's nose and wrap his little arms around it in a hug. The Quelta Quanian's eyes widened as Caleb rubbed his cheek against his nose. He smiled
and gently wrapped his arms around Caleb's tiny body, returning the hug.
Pleakley pulled a camera out of nowhere and snapped a picture. If we could get your softer side all the time, things would be different."
Jumba glared at him, causing the Plorgarian to recoil. "What? Are you wanting hug to?"
Pleakley shook his head, but Jumba reached out and pulled his roommate over to him in a hug. "Is Little One-Eyed One happy? Jumba is showing softer side.
Hee hee. Caleb is sooo cute!
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