Sunday was the first day Lilo and Stitch had to rest in what felt like forever. Because Stitch was getting more and more uncomfortable as time went on, the two spent most of the morning and a bit of the afternoon in their bedroom. Even Nani and Pleakley made Stitch's programming go hay wire. Lilo did her best to keep Stitch calm, so as not to arouse any suspicion. However, Pleakley couldn't help but feel suspicious over Stitch's odd behavior around him, and that they had shut themselves away in their room. Being dragged into helping with chores, Pleakley was drying the never ending flow of dishes.
"I can't believe we're stuck doing all this cleaning, and they're just wasting the day in their bedroom."
"But you like cleaning." Nani retorted, without looking at the noodle like alien.
Pleakley paused for a moment. "That's beside the point. Anyway, don't you think Stitch has been acting strange this last little while?"
"Strange…" Nani began, letting herself trail off as she thought about the past few days. "You mean stranger than normal?" She joked.
"This is no laughing matter, Nani. He keeps looking at me strange, and I haven't seen him without Lilo in who knows how long."
"Pleakley, everyone looks at you strange. The two of them are growing up, it's normal for them to behave differently, it's probably just a phase." She handed him the last dish, taking the cloth to wipe down the counters.
"You might not think anything of it, but I do. Jumba hasn't left his lab in days, Stitch is acting strange, and Lilo doesn't leave his side. I think something is up."
"You're just paranoid." Nani brushed his ramblings off.
"It's not good to stay in your room alone for so long…wait. Paranoid? Yes I am." He declared proudly. "But between living with an evil genius and living on an island populated with monsters, as much as they are family, how can I not be? At any moment the entire island could be destroyed!" He began flailing his long arms. "What would we do if there's nothing left? We wouldn't be fine. We would be the exact opposite of fine. We would be…. Destroyed!"
"You have a point." Nani agreed, as she threw the cloth in the hamper.
"About us being destroyed?"
"No." Pleakley's face dropped. "About staying in their room. It seems no one is busy today. Maybe we should have family fun night tonight."
"Family…fun…night…" Pleakley thought back to the last time they had family fun night. His head was nearly chewed off by Stitch after he ate the last piece of cake. Shuddering he tried backing out of his earlier statement. "I don't know, Nani." He gulped. "Now that I think about it, we should let them be. Like you said, just a phase and all. Heehee."
"Nonsense! It'll be fun!" She grabbed the phone and rang David, who was happy to hear from her. After a bit of convincing, David finally gave in and agreed to come over for the evening.
"Well," Pleakley began with a sigh. "I guess I'll go let Jumba know." He left the kitchen defeated and more than a little scared for the oncoming night. Having taken his time reaching the ship, he entered and found the lab entrance closed. Knocking a few times he waited patiently for an answer, taping a steady rhythm on the wall. Letting a few minutes pass he tried knocking on the door again, this time a little harder.
"Jumba?" Pleakley called out, his voice echoing through the halls. "Heehee. Guess no one's homes."
With no reply, Pleakley shrugged and started to walk away, tripping over his legs. His flailing arms hit the control pad next to the door causing it to slide open. Rubbing his head, he looked into the lab and found it completely black, no one insight. Nervously, he entered, shaking from the eeriness of the dark lab filled with equipment that all looked evil.
"H-hello? Jumba? Y-ou here?" Pleakley bumped into a trolley of equipment, making him jump and scream. After a second he composed himself, continuing his way through the maze of equipment. "W-where are you, Jumba?"
Some odd sounds were floating through the air of the lab. Following what he could make out, he saw a door on the other side of the lab, glowing every so often in time with the sounds. As he approached, he could tell the sounds were some sort of tools.
He looked down to see the panel beside the door flashing "UNLOCKED" in bright green letters. He tapped on the open button, making the door shoot up, revealing Jumba in lab coat and goggles working on an impressive red machine. He walked in, mouth agape. Jumba heard the door open and the sound of footsteps approach, he stopped what he was doing and, removing the goggles, looked to find his one-eyed companion staring at him and his work. Unable to think of anything to say, Jumba just looked at him, clearly worried.
"What is that?" Pleakley asked.
Jumba stared at him then the machine and then back at Pleakley. "What is what?"
"That! That thing!" Pleakley pointed to his machine for Lilo and Stitch, shaking off a sense of déjà vu.
"Oh, this? This is nothing. It's a, a, isn't it obvious what it is?"
Pleakley stepped forward, checking every inch of the large machine. "Well, if I were to guess. I'd say it is a pod machine, designed to alter the genetics of two of your little monsters, to bind them and their love together for all eternity. Most likely in the case of one or both going crazy from the need to protect the one they care about most." After a pause, Pleakley had one more thing to add. "But I'm no expert."
Jumba was a little taken aback. How Pleakley figured it out he would never know, but for Lilo and Stitch's sake, he had to convince him that he was wrong.
"Bah! You know nothing of true evil geniousry." Jumba laughed. "This is clearly a new, environmentally friendly…uh…. Tanning bed. For two!"
"Really?" Pleakley crossed his arms, something didn't seem right about Jumba's answer to him.
"Yes, it is designed to be completely safe for the environment and its user." Seeing it wasn't working very well, Jumba tried a new approach. "I've been thinking I need a new look, for my, uh, earth disguise. You mentioned something about tanning before so I thought why not?"
"That doesn't seem evil, or bad." Pleakley was lowering his defense.
"No, no, no. I may be evil genius, but I would never create anything evil again… well, not so soon."
"So can I try it?" Pleakley began to open one of the pods, causing Jumba to slam it down, hard.
"No!"
"And why not?"
"Because it is not being done yet!" Jumba said exasperated, this was no time to be explaining anything to Pleakley, he needed to finish as fast as possible. "Who knows what could happen if you used it when it's not finished. It could be catastrophic!"
Jumba had grabbed Pleakley and began rushing him out of the room. "Now please, let me be getting back to work."
Pleakley furrowed his brow out of anger. "Okay, okay. You don't have to push." Once he was out of the room, he remembered why he was there in the first place. "Oh, yeah. Nani has called a family fun night tonight. So you know the drill."
"What? Bah! I don't have time for that. I am not going." Before Pleakley could respond, Jumba shut the door and punched in the lock code on the pad. Leaving the noodle like alien standing in the dark confines of the lab, alone.
"Nani isn't going to like that…." Pleakley left to return the news of Jumba's absence to Nani. Fearing what she might do to him.
A few hours later, Lilo and Stitch were still in their room. They decided the best way to help Stitch and pass the time was to go through their photo albums and make another memory book. They wanted to make a new one for a while, but had been too busy. Now that they were a couple, they wanted a special memory book to just themselves. Relaying memories to each other, giggling at all the times they could have realized their true feelings. Lilo grabbed a picture out of the many scattered across their floor, giggling at the image on it.
Lilo was holding a large net as she sat on stitch's shoulders with a large, parrot like experiment on her shoulder. He had a red head with a colorful body. Rather than having beady eyes, he had large black eyes like many other experiments.
"Remember this day?"
Stitch looked at the picture and laughed too. "Ih. That was butifa crazy."
"Yeah." Lilo looked back at the picture, remembering all the trouble Squawk had caused. "I was so worried he was going to reveal that I said I love you more than anything."
Stitch looked at Lilo, seeing the smile on her face grow as she thought more about it. "I guess when I think back, I should have realized what it meant. I thought it was cause you're my best friend, but there was more too it."
"Well, when experiment force youga to say something without control, youga never really know gaba come out. Whether isa true or not."
Lilo giggled, putting the picture in the pile of what they were going to use. "Did they make you say anything?"
Stitch got quiet really fast, his face started to grow red and he tried to hide it. Lilo saw though, and it made her curious as to what Stitch had thought about. "You did! Didn't you?"
"Nagga." Stitch's face grew even redder, he could feel the heat grow as Lilo continued asking him about it.
"I knew it! What did Squawk make you reveal?"
"Nagga nota." Stitch started backing up, crawling away, trying to hide what he had said and done two years ago. Lilo wasn't backing down, though. She crawled over to him with a mischievous face.
"Come on, Stitch. You can tell me. I won't laugh." Stitch felt his back hit the dresser. He had nowhere else to go. Lilo quickly made her approach and trapped him. Leaning over him, she could feel the heat from his cheeks radiate off of him. "If you don't tell me, I have ways of making you talk."
Lilo grabbed each of Stitch's hands and held them down to the floor. Of course, he was strong enough to break her grip on him, but he would never hurt her, he physically couldn't. In all sense of the word, he was trapped, and he felt his heart race because of it. She brushed her lips, ever close to Stitch's. He could feel her breath mix with his, and could almost feel her kiss, but she kept it just out of his reach. If he moved closer, she would move back. Unable to fight his programming he needed to kiss her again. He needed to show his love. In all his struggles, nothing he did made Lilo give in and press her lips to his. Lilo couldn't help but grin at the display Stitch was showing. He is too cute. 626, the greatest and strongest experiment ever made, struggling for my kiss. Her own heart began to race at the thought. She loved giving him a taste of his own medicine after what he made her go through in the buggy. Feeling he may have had enough, she leaned forward, but before their lips finally met she whispered to him.
"I'll kiss you if you tell me."
Unable to resist any further, Stitch gave in. "Oketaka. Meega talk."
With the answer she desired, she gave into him. Pressing herself against him, she let go of his hands and fell onto his chest, never breaking their tender sweet kiss. Stitch wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer into him, almost tearing her red muumuu with his claws. They let the kiss continue, slowly, letting all their love and passion break through as their lips danced together. Lilo petted the back of Stitch's neck, sending a shiver down his spine. The two continued their embrace for as long as they could manage. After a few minutes, with short breathe, their tender kiss ended with Lilo laying on Stitch's chest. He gave her a quick kiss on her head, leaving his head to linger as he enjoyed the smell of her hair.
"So? What was the secret Squawks made you reveal? It must be pretty big."
"Remember youga went on date with Keoni that day?"
"Well it wasn't a date, but yes."
"Meega follow youga around, when youga told meega not to." Stitch tried to hide his red face.
Lilo was a little upset that he followed her, but couldn't stay made at how cute he was being. "Why'd you follow us?"
"Meega jealous."
"Oh, Stitch." Lilo leaned up and kissed him on the nose. "That's when I realized I didn't have a crush on him anymore."
"Ih."
"Well, I can see why you wanted to keep it hidden, since I told you not to follow us. But why did you seem so embarrassed about it?"
Stitch hesitated, he knew he had to tell her. He did promise after all, but he really wish he hadn't.
"Pleakley was with meega, and he made meega a disguise."
"And?" Lilo was very persistent to find out what Stitch was keeping hidden.
"Meega was a baby, meega in a carriage. Pleakley was disguised as meega's mother."
Lilo couldn't help but giggle at the image of Stitch in a bonnet and diaper, being pushed around by Pleakley. I wish I could have seen that. Stitch grew more embarrassed about it.
"So that's what Squawk made you tell?"
"Ih. Meega worried they would reveal it to youga. That why meega catch Squawk as soon as meega could. Thankfully, they nagga tell youga when weega caught them."
"I was glad that Squawk didn't mention what I said either. I was still young, even if I didn't realize my feelings… "Love" was still an embarrassing thing."
"Ih."
They shared a laugh and continued to cuddle for a few more minutes. The sound of the elevator breaking the moment. Getting used to breaking away at a moment notice, the two went back to their photo album. Nani reached their room with a big smile on her face. Lilo and Stitch became worried. Nani only ever smiled like that when something bad was about to happen. At least, what they considered bad.
"Okay you two, that's enough time in your room. We are having family fun night in ten minutes. I expect both of you downstairs in that time."
"Do we have to?" Lilo pleaded. "We just want to stay up here."
"You two have been up here long enough. Now I have gone to a lot of trouble to put this together, so we are all going to spend tonight together as a happy loving ohana." Nani stressed the word 'ohana.' It was the one thing that Lilo always had to comply too. Stitch on the other hand, could still try to get his way.
"Naga-takabah!" He turned away from Nani and crossed his arms, he was determined to stay in his room. He normally caused something bad to happen on family fun nights, and with the way he was now it was sure to only be worse.
"Well, I tried to do this nicely." Nani quickly grabbed Lilo and Stitch by the arm. Lilo was worried that Stitch would snap, but luckily he didn't. He was struggling in Nani's grip, but despite him and her being dragged to the lift, he wasn't tearing Nani apart. I guess that kiss will keep him cooled him off for a while.
Once the two were dragged into the living room, they gasped. Jumba was sitting on the couch with Pleakley. They both were looking very nervous. Jumba looked at them, his eyes conveying all the apologies he was silently saying for being there instead of in his lab.
"Now all we need is David. Pleakley, will you come help finish some things off in the kitchen?" Nani demanded more than asked.
"Sure!" Pleakley jumped up and hurried into the kitchen. I don't want to know what Nani did to scare everyone… Lilo thought. Nani could be very persuasive, especially when it comes to family fun nights.
Taking this opportunity, Lilo and Stitch ran to Jumba. They talked secretly in hushed voices so as not to be heard by the two in the kitchen.
"Were you able to finish it?" Lilo asked, hope on her face.
"I am being very sorry you two." Jumba apologized. "She managed to pull me out of my lab at a very crucial part of the maintenance. I could have had it done by the morning, but now it will take until tomorrow night."
Lilo and Stitch both became crestfallen, they were hoping that they didn't need to go to hula class with Stitch still like this. "How she find youga?" Stitch chimed in.
"Pleakley found me in my lab earlier, he must have told Nani where to get me. You know how persuasive she can be being."
"Wait, Pleakley found the machine?!" Worry shot throughout Lilo. Pleakley wasn't known to be good at keeping secrets. "Does he know?"
"Know? Hah! I got him believing it is a tanning bed."
"Gaba a relief." The two sighed.
"I guess we'll just have to manage." She grabbed Stitch's hand to comfort him. "It's only one more day after all. We just have to survive tonight…and school…and Myrtle…. And everyone else."
Stitch felt Lilo's grip on him weaken, he grabbed her hand tightly causing her to look in his confident eyes. "We do together."
Stitch's confidence came through to Lilo. She felt her spirits lifted. "You're right. We can do it together." She gave him a quick kiss on the lips. We can do anything if we're together.
"Alright, enough of the cutesy stuff." Jumba waved them off. "I am not needing the warm fuzzy feelings."
The two laughed hand in hand, breaking apart when they heard the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!" Lilo shouted as she ran to the door. When she opened it, a very nervous David walked in.
"She got you guys too?" He asked as he looked at each of them individually.
"Yeah…"
"Yep."
"Ih."
The three replied in unison. David sat on the couch next to Jumba, Lilo and Stitch took their usual spots on the floor, sitting slightly closer together than normal.
Nani burst into the room, clapping her hands together, gaining the combined, scared attention of everyone into the room. "So? Who's ready some family fun?"