Daytime11:05am here again.  Hello out there in computer land. 

To Purplejoy6- Thank for the review and don't worry I have plans for Equis.  Don't forget Stitch is the lonely one.   I love your stories by the way.  You did a great job capturing the nicer side of 552.  Don't stop writing or reviewing, okay?

These are a few of my favorite things, they also happen to be things I own as well; 597-A 597-B, Zurc DeAlba, 379, 630, 631, 632, and the various letters of the Spanish alphabet. 

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So, sit back, relax, read, review and enjoy the fifth chapter of......…..Trust and Love

            Downstairs, Jumba was talking with Zurc.  Nani passed them and said she was going to get dinner.  They were having pizza.  Yay!

"So how does it feel to be living on Earth?"  Zurc asked.  "I've only visited here once when I was very little and, I'm afraid, I don't remember much."

"Well, it is like vacation where you say "is nice place to visit, but I would not like to be living there".  Being here is good and bad.  And, oh, they have such ridiculous holidays here.  Like holiday where you dress in silly costumes and go from house to house asking for candy.  Pleakley kept changing his mind about costumes and kept dragging me into it.  I told him "I am not giving darn about costumes".  Oh, that was very strange night."

            Zurc laughed at the thought of such a holiday.  At the same time, it intrigued her.  For one night of the year, you can pretend to be someone or something else.

"Sounds like a really fun holiday.  I know I would like to participate in it.  Hmm, I even think I remember my grandmother telling me about it."  Zurc said.

"Oh, yes, that's right.  You are ¼ human.  What was the story?  Your grandmother was abducted and your grandfather saved her.  Yes, I remember you telling me that."

"Yea, that was pretty much it."

"Let me tell you, you are in luck.  That holiday is to be coming around corner."

"Oh, really?  That's great!  Maybe 597 would like to join the festivities."

"Sure."

            Zurc paused.  She wanted to ask about Nani, but she chose her words carefully so jealousy wouldn't show.

"So, uh, how did you meet Nani?"

"Uh," Jumba thought about how to answer that.  He didn't want to mention Stitch, because she never saw him in person and he wanted to keep it a surprise that he lives there.  "I met her through a friend." He answered.

"Really?  Did you buy this house together, or is it hers?"

"Actually, we built it; Nani, her sister, social worker man, Cobra Bubbles, Pleakley, other friend and I.  We all built it together."

"Who is Pleakley?  You mentioned him before.  Is he the friend who introduced you to Nani?"  She asked, hoping to find someone to hate.

"He is other extraterrestrial who lives here.  Please, don't mind him.  He is very strange."

"So, how does it feel to be married?"

            Jumba paused and stared, wide-eyed, at Zurc, trying to comprehend where exactly this question came from.  He couldn't.

"What?"

"Married, how does it feel?  I'm a little curious.  I've never been married."

"Married… to… Pleakley?"

"No…Nani."

"Nani?"  Jumba couldn't help but let a chuckle or two slip.  "You think I am married to Nani?"

"Aren't you?"  Zurc was very confused.

"What makes you think that?"

"Well, on the phone, you said you had an Earth family.  You were living on Earth with a small family."

"I have family, but I am not relating to them.  Oh no, Zurc, I am not married."

"Good, cause I was about to get really mad at you if you had a wedding and didn't invite me.  'Cause that's just rude."  Zurc said, jokingly.

            Jumba laughed.  "Don't worry, Zurc, my dear.  If I will be getting married, I will make sure you will be there." *…Standing next to me* He added in his mind.

*Yea, I better be there, you big goof.  I'll be standing next to you.* Zurc thought. (A/N: Don't worry.  They can't read each others thoughts)

            They talked a while longer about what happened to Zurc's career.  Even though, there was no proof that she had anything to do with the experiments, a lot of companies wouldn't hire Zurc because it was known that she was close to Jumba and they didn't want a suspicious doctor on their payroll.

            About half an hour later everyone returned home.  Zurc and Jumba were in the kitchen drinking juice.  Pleakley and Lilo were the first to walk in.

"Hey Jumba."  Pleakley called out.  "You missed the most fabulous book sale, 50% off everything.  Oh, and did you hear from your friend yet?  When is she coming?"  He was holding a bunch of book and set them down.

"One of Jumba's friends is coming?"  Lilo asked holding two books of her own.

"Yep."  Jumba answered.  "She's right here."  Jumba walked out of the kitchen with Zurc right behind him.

            Pleakley turned to look at her and his eye widened.  Zurc was a slender cat-like creature, with long brown hair with light brown highlights, green cat like eyes, and light brown skin.  She had a very attractive body with accentuated curves.  It came as a big shock to Pleakley that Jumba had an admirer of this sort.

"Hello, Dr. DeAlba.  I'm Pleakley."  He said, introducing himself.

"Pleakley…Your name sounds a bit familiar, now that I think about it.  Didn't you used to work for the Galactic Alliance?"

"Yea, I was an agent for them.  I was their Earth expert.  Until I got involved with Jumba, here, and ended up getting fired…but that's okay.  I'm fascinated with Earth culture and ways of life so I guess it all worked out in the end."

"Oh, well that's good.  You're actually here and following your passion as an Earth expert."

            Lilo walked up to Zurc and examined her.

"Zurc, meet little girl, Lilo."  Jumba introduced.

"Hello, Lilo or how do Hawaiians say it?...Ahalo?"

"It's aloha and aloha to you too.  Wow, you look like a big kitty.  You have a tail and ears on your head and everything, but you don't have fur all over, just on your head."

"Yep, I'm from the Gatonian Galaxy.  Almost everyone there looks like me."

"You look fairly human.  You won't need must of a disguise.  The most you'll need is a hat and sunglasses.  You could even say you have cat eye contacts to explain the eyes."  Pleakley mentioned.

            Zurc nodded.  At that moment, David and Nani came in.  Jumba introduced Zurc to David and Zurc helped Nani with the pizzas into the kitchen.  Jumba followed.

            Stitch walked up the stairs to the front door with a large pile of books.  He tapped on the door with his foot since he couldn't open it.  Lilo came to his aid and let him in.

"You know, Jumba."  Zurc began, sipping a glass of water.  "I've only seen 626 in pictures."  She followed Jumba out to the living room.  "What ever happened to… (gasp)…626!"  She shouted, dropping her cup, as her eyes fell on Stitch.  Stitch dropped the book and turned quickly.  He saw a cat women duck behind Jumba.

"Jumba, 626 is in Nani's house."  She said in a worried tone.

            Jumba looked at Stitch and grinned.  "Yes, he is."  He said, casually.

Zurc looked at Jumba like he was crazy.  "And you are all okay with this?"  Zurc asked, looking around at everyone.

            Pleakley, Lilo, Jumba and David nodded their heads.  Nani shrugged.

"Do you know Stitch?"  Lilo asked.

"Know him?  I helped Jumba create the formula to create him."

"Little girl, Zurc helped me create experiments."  Jumba explained.  Stitch took a few steps closer to Zurc.  She cowered further behind Jumba.

"Don't worry, Zurc.  Lilo helped the little monster become good.  So, he's not as destructive as you intended him to be."  Pleakley explained.

"What?  You mean to tell me a little Earth girl undid years of research and development?"  She said slightly angry.  She began whispering into Jumba's ear.  "I'd kill her if I wasn't so scared."

            Jumba chuckled.  "Yes, don't worry.  You'll get over that.  I did.  Anyway, the one eyed one is right."

"So, 626 is good?"  Zurc asked just to clarify.

"Yep."  Stitch answered.

"I named him Stitch."  Lilo said.  "He's disguised as my dog.  So, I named him.  I name his cousins too."

"Cousins?"  Zurc asked, stepping out from behind Jumba.  She knelt down to Stitch and began petting him.  Stitch began purring.

"Yea, the other experiments."  Lilo said, brightly. 

            Zurc stopped petting Stitch.  Jumba's winced. She turned her head slowly toward Jumba and gave him a serious stare.  "The other experiments?  Is there something you need to tell me?"  She had a feeling she wasn't just here for a visit.

*Something happen here…  It was probably Jumba's fault… and I'm here to bail him out.* She thought angrily.

Jumba looked down and twiddled his thumbs a bit. "Funny you should mention that."  He laughed nervously.  He sat Zurc down and told her about Lilo releasing all the experiments in order to get them away from Hämsterviel and how he need a little bit of help with the computer.  Zurc felt a bit disappointed that Jumba wanted her on Earth just to help with the experiments.  After hearing the story, Zurc turned to Lilo.

"Do you realize what you have done?"  Zurc asked angrily. 

Jumba held her arm.  "No, she doesn't and don't try explaining.  Is no use.  Good part is, little girl and 626 offered to catch them all and give them new homes and turn them to good."

"Good luck."  Zurc said looking at Lilo. 

Lilo couldn't let if Zurc was being serious or sarcastic.  She decided to thank her anyway.  Lilo turned to Stitch.

"Stitch, can you take the books up to our room.  If someone trips on them, they could have a spinal fracture and that would be bad."

            Stitch nodded and picked up the large stack books. 

Meanwhile, upstairs, someone was waking up.  597-A sat up in the bed she slept in and tried to get her eyes to open.  She was still a little bit tired.  So, they didn't want to listen.  When they finally opened, the first thing she saw was her red jump suit.

*I hate wearing this thing.* She turned her head a bit and looked at the pillow.  It was red, too.  *Red pillow?* She thought and closed her eyes.  *Wait.  No, it wasn't red.  It was white.  It was a white pillow.* She opened her eyes and the pillow was white.  *Stupid color spasms.  I want Zurc.* She picked up the blanket and wrapped around herself.  She hopped off the bed and went to the elevator pad.

            Downstairs, Stitch was making his way to the elevator.  As he walked, the elevator began descending.  Stitch realized that he wasn't close enough to the elevator for it to pick up his motions.  He dropped the books and hid behind them.  The book stack was taller than him.  So, it hid him very well.

 *If everyone's in the living room, who is in my room?* He thought.  Stitch watched the elevator pad lower.  Then he saw something he didn't quite understand.  Stitch saw his blanket walking down the hall to the living room.  *Wait, something is wrapped up in my blanket.  Wow, it covered itself good.  I can't see what it is at all.* The only thing Stitch could see was that it was a little smaller than he was.

            As soon as it rounded the corner, Stitch stepped out from behind the books and followed it into the living room.  It walked up to Zurc and climbed into her lap.  She embraced it.

*I guess, whatever it is, came with Zurc.  Now, what was it doing in my room?*

            Stitch went back into the hallway, grabbed the books and went to his room.  He set the books aside and climbed on to his bed.  Stitch looked around to see if it had touched anything else but the bed.  It didn't.  He smelled the bed.  A sweet scent filled his nose. 

*Whatever slept here smelled really good.* Stitch hugged the pillow and took a deep breath.  It gave him a shiver.  He put the pillow down and hurried downstairs to see what it was that had that wonderful scent. 

Stitch went to the living room and hid behind the side of the couch. He peeked around the side and saw the thing in Zurc's lap still had the blanket around itself.

*I guess it's still sleepy.* Stitch thought.

            Zurc cradled it.  "Come on, 597, wake up and say hi to everybody."  597 didn't respond.

"Cousin?"  Stitch whispered.  Zurc looked up and saw Stitch.  Her eyes widened as if she remembered something.  She handed 597 to Jumba.  "Jumba, take her outside and don't come back in till I say so."  She whispered.

"Why?"

"I forgot 597 is very afraid of 626.  If she knows he's here, she might try to runaway or panic and end up hurting herself.  Trust me.  I'll explain everything to her later."

            Jumba carried the sleeping 597 outside.  Lilo turned toward Stitch.

"Hey, Stitch, Zurc has one of your cousins."  She said, with her usual cheerfulness.

            Stitch watched Jumba leave and looked at Zurc with a confused look on his face.

"626, I have to talk to you."  Zurc said with a serious tone.  Stitch walked over to her.  "The little creature you saw Jumba take outside is experiment 597-A.  You see, I asked Jumba to take her outside because she is very scared of you, almost to the point of being a phobia.  I heard you had escaped custody and were on the loose.  I wanted nothing more than to make sure she was safe.  So, I told her about what Jumba and I created you for and I made sure that if she even heard your name, she'd run in the opposite direction.  It's going to take sometime for my to try to undo what I told her.  So, I'm going to ask you for a favor.  It would really be appreciated greatly if you didn't let her see you."

"Aw, but I really want to meet her.  Wait, her?  So, she's a female experiment?"

"Yes."

            Stitch grunted in frustration.  *Now, I really want to meet her.*

"I understand you want to meet her, but right now she's not ready to meet you.  Listen, you'll meet her soon, but trust me on this.  Don't let her see you until I say so, okay?"  Zurc said petting him. 

            Stitch sighed.  "Okay."

"Thank you, 626."

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Well this is the end of the chapter.  It is chapter five for those of you who lost count.  I know I have. 

Hey I have something new at the end of this chapter.  I thought I'd try something a little new.  Here's some advice for all you people who are reading my story. 

When reading a book, you shouldn't skip all the even numbered pages just to say the book is odd. ß I heard that on an episode of the first season of "All That".

Well if you didn't like the new thing, here's an old thing I do.  The next chapter will contain the following in no particular order; a tour, a nebula, a bathroom, and another pillow.  Whoa, another one.  That's a first.  Cool. Next, chapter up soon.  

 Please review.  I need them to prove to the world that I'm not insane…..or at least to show them that my insanity and free time are put to good, juicy, and creative use.