A/N okay y'all, this is it! The next to last chapter (unless I change my mind of course). I hope that this chapter is to your liking...I feel so guilty. For Stitch, that is.

Mahalo plenty to all of my friends who've reviewed:

"Okay, guys..." Owen stood authoritatively in front of Aron and Garon. They were more interested in the sandwich he was waving than what he was saying, though. "I'm the big cheese here, so if you're gonna stay in my house there're some things you need to remember." He began to pace, eating as he talked (oh, surprise surprise). "Number one: no eating pickle and strawberry frosting after 9:30. Trust me, you'll be sicker than a carsick poodle. Number two: don't ask your mother to make your sandwiches for you. Trust me, she doesn't have the gift. Number three: always hide your messes. Nani can be pretty crabby sometimes." The blue one (they had decided that he was Garon) finally lost interest in his father's food and wandered off towards the refrigerator.

"Um...Owen?" Peka asked from the table.

"Just a second." He went on pacing.

"Did you realize that our son is now trapped in the fridge?"

"No he's not. He's...he's trapped in the fridge! WHAT'RE WE GONNA DO? WHAT'RE WE GONNA DO?" Owen flopped down next to Aron. Peka rolled her eyes and wandered over to them casually.

"You're pathetic." She pulled open the door, freeing Garon. The pup skittered on the wood floor and slid into Owen.

"I'm almost like having another kid, huh?"

"Well you see...there was a storm! An electric storm. Somehow the lightning caused a section of the plane to just disappear! We found it like that as we were landing." Stitch fidgeted as Istari tried to explain what had happened to the plane's owner. She was failing wonderfully. Stitch was upset, and he just couldn't ignore those horrible urges to break something. Nothing much, maybe a chair.or better yet, the plane. It wouldn't be flying again anytime soon. The owner seemed to be feeling destructive too; he was shouting at Istari and gesturing wildly at the gaping hole. Istari was trying to keep from giggling at the huge veins popping from his neck. Stitch left Twyla and sauntered over to the aircraft. With a glance around him, he casually began ripping away small chunks of the plane's wing and tossing them aside. He still felt awful.

"I don't care what you think happened!" the owner was yelling. "I want a new plane. And you're gonna..." there was a loud buzzing sound and the man fell to the ground. Jumba lowered a strange looking weapon.

"I got bored other night and built stunner. Let's go home before he gets up."

Lilo stood on the porch silently, giving up playing with Aron and Garon to watch for Stitch. She thought he'd be back, but maybe Stitch couldn't do everything as fast as it seemed. She listened as Nani shooed everyone out of the kitchen. With a cry of protest, Owen appeared in the doorway with an arm full of incomplete sandwiches and another arm full of Aron.

"Have you taken root yet?"

"Stitch isn't back." Lilo continued to stare down the road. Owen sat down heavily to eat.

"If he caught up to them in time, then he might not be back for a few days." Lilo didn't say anything. "Are you gonna stand here all that time?"

"I want to see him when he comes home. We're usually together."

"Oh..." Owen smiled at her. "Getting a little jealous are we?" Lilo made a face.

"No, but I'm used to him being here. I want him to come home. 593 too." She sighed and turned to him. "Do you think he did it?"

"Yeah. Stitch could germinate if he really wanted to."

"Germinate?"

"You know what I mean."

"Come on!" Twyla tugged at Stitch's arm as they lagged behind Jumba and Istari, but he dug his claws into the dirt path.

"No, I can't do it. What am I supposed to say? 'Hello everyone, we're back. Oh did I forget to mention I'm a murderer now?'" Twyla rolled her eyes and let go of him. Stitch tumbled backwards. "Hey!"

"They'll understand. You kind of had to." She attempted to pull him by his middle. "You got to face them sooner or later."

"Twyla," he pulled away so he could look at her. "I could've just turn him over to Mr. Bubbles. He would've took care of the whole thing. But I didn't! I killed him!" he stopped suddenly, his ears perking up immediately. Shamefully, he turned to face Lilo as she came running up the path toward them.

"There you are! I was starting to wonder if you'd ever come back!" neither Stitch nor Twyla responded. "What's wrong?"

"You know, I think I'll go say sorry for the way I acted before." Twyla spoke up suddenly. She grinned supportively at Stitch before disappearing from sight, leaving Stitch at a loss for words and Lilo wanting an explanation. Lilo finally began walking after a long silence.

"So, did you guys get Pish to Istari's brother's?"

"Pish didn't make it, Lilo."

"Then where is he?" the little girl turned to look down the path behind them. "I saw Jumba and Istari already."

"He won't be coming back." Stitch picked up the pace as much as he could without being too obvious. "Lilo...um, when did it happen?"

"Huh?"

"Peka."

"Oh, that." Lilo beamed at her friend. "A couple of hours ago." Stitch stopped in his tracks.

"Why are you so happy?" the little girl began tugging him toward the house.

"What are you talking about, Stitch? Oh you shoulda been there! Peka and Owen are so happy, and wait till you meet Aron and Garon!" Stitch gave her a wide-eyed, confused look, but she plugged on ahead. "At first Peka was awfully sick. And the vet said she was gonna die. But now she's okay!"

"Wait a minute...Peka's alive?" Stitch broke into a run, surprise and joy overpowering his guilt. But then he remembered what was going on and managed to skid to a stop right outside the front door. "I can't go in there."

"What? Come on, you gotta!"

"Lilo, I thought...I thought Peka was dead!" he pulled Lilo away from the door. "Pish, he poisoned Peka! Tried to kill her! And Twyla and he tried to wreck the plane! I- I threw him off." Lilo stared at him.

"You did what?"

Stitch turned away shamefully and slumped down on the steps. "I had to, he might've tried to hurt someone else. I understand if you and Nani want me to leave." Stitch braced himself for the anger that was sure to come. To his surprise, Lilo threw her arms around his neck.

"Oh Stitch! Just because you were bad, doesn't mean we want you to leave. If you want to, that's okay. But I hope you don't." she buried her face in his soft, blue fur. "I love you, Stitch."

"I love you too, Lilo...So, you're not mad?"

"Nope." Lilo wrinkled her nose at him. "He didn't seem very nice, no matter what 593 said. I still think he was a big meany."

"No, it's Twyla now. Not 593."

"Twyla? Who came up with that?"

"Who do you think?" Stitch sighed and climbed to his feet. "I guess we better go in now. I got to tell everybody before I get too scared."

Everyone was there, even Cobra, squeezed into the tiny kitchen. And everyone was staring at Stitch open- mouthed. Pleakley suddenly turned red in the face and leapt to his feet. "Why would he do something like that? Why on Earth would he want to kill Peka and 593?"

"I told you. He's a psycho." Stitch sighed. "And it's not 593, its Twyla!" Stitch retreated to where Twyla was standing with Lilo and the others and Aron and Garon immediately latched onto him. Cobra shook his head.

"So many changes in just one day. Looks like we'll have our hands full." he glanced at Nani. "We might as well start dinner. I'd said things will go back to normal, but I don't think they ever will again."

"So, what do you think?" Peka asked. Stitch smiled slightly at the little furballs biting at him.

"Cute and vicious...looks like they got the best of both of you." Owen pulled the younglings off Stitch as Peka threw her arms around him.

"I'm so glad you got to her in time, Stitch. I really am." Owen cocked an eyebrow at his mate.

"Of course you do know that if he hadn't caught her, he would've gotten her back some other way."

"I know, but I'm still glad." She pulled away from him and threw an arm around Twyla's shoulder. "So, what now?" Stitch smile at his family.

"We wait till tomorrow."

End!

A/N Yay! I don't feel quite so guilty ending this as I thought that I would! Well? I hope it was good. I know I certainly enjoyed writing it. I think I might add another chapter (short, epilogue type stuff). What do y'all think? Well, thanks to absolutely everyone who reviewed at any time during this story, cause if it weren't for you guys, I don't think that I would've gone so far with this.

Now that that's done, it's time to start on the prequel, "Until the End"! I'm thinking that it'll tell the stories of Owen, Twyla, Peka, Lilo, and Stitch before they all lived together (with some new characters thrown in). It probably won't focus so much on Lilo and Stitch as it will the other three, but I'll get them in there if it kills me. Aloha for now!