Author's Notes: Well, it looks like the story is coming to close. Just one more chapter after this, and it's mostly an introduction to the next fic: Thru New Eyes. This chapter will basically end the story for Polarity.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lilo and Stitch.
Polarity Chapter 7
End of the Nightmare
Emotion filled Lilith's cold heart. She felt true love once again, and the memories, once twisted with evil, became clear to her once more. At that moment, Lilith ceased to exist, and Lilo became the reality once more. The white light covered her, and when it vanished, her human form was left in its place.
As her mind came back into focus, her first thought was I'm kissing Stitch. I'm actually kissing Stitch. He really loves me!
Then she remembered the acts she committed as Lilith, and she was horrified. I actually did those horrible things. I beat Myrtle and her friends within an inch of their lives, I tortured my own family, and I tried to kill Stitch. Stitch. I don't deserve his love. I'm a monster! Lilo pushed Stitch away.
Stitch, afraid he had failed, simply asked "Lilo?"
Tears began to form in her eyes, and Stitch knew that Lilo had come back. He tried to approach her, but she back away and fell to her knees.
"Stay away from me Stitch. I'm a horrible monster who doesn't deserve anyone's love." Lilo said as she began to cry.
Stitch now understood what was happening; Lilo remembered everything she had done as Lilith. She remembered and it horrified her. He knew now that he had to assure her that what she had done was not her fault, and that monster wasn't her. "Lilo, it's okay. She's gone. She's gone and never coming back."
"No Stitch!" Lilo cried, "I did all those horrible things. I almost killed everyone. I don't deserve anything but to die."
Stitch realized that he had to make Lilo see that just because she had been evil, didn't mean she deserved to die. Stitch's voice became stern. "Do I deserve to die Lilo?"
"No! You don't deserve to die." she said as she began to cry harder. She was convinced that Stitch hated her, and that he was finally revealing his disgust.
But what Stitch said next showed that she was mistaken. "I was evil once. You saved me from it. This is no different. You were evil, but you aren't anymore. You fought it and you won."
Lilo turned to meet Stitch's gaze. "But, I still have those powers. I'm still Lilith."
Just as he was about to try and correct her, someone else did it for him. "Little girl, you are no longer being blacked furred monster." Jumba said as he approached the couple.
Lilo turned to face him. "Yes I am. Just because I'm good doesn't mean I lost my powers. And those powers are what made me Lilith."
Jumba just smiled as he patted her head. "You would have been receiving powers anyway. I made serum for you to be with 626 remember?"
Lilo looked down. "And look what I did with them."
Then everyone heard another voice coming from the hallway. "But it wasn't your fault Lilo. You need to quit blaming yourself for things you can't control." It was Nani. Apparently when Lilo became good again, she unconsciously released her thralls.
"But Nani, I tortured you and the others, I tried to turn the experiments back to evil, and I took control of you and made you threaten Jumba and Pleakly with a plasma blaster. How is that not my fault? How is anything that happened today not my fault?"
From the front of the room came the answer. "Because you were acting under a compulsion, and by law you are held responsible for nothing you do under the influence of a compulsive effect." The voice surprised everyone there. It was the Galactic Councilwoman. She was followed by Cobra, Pleakly, and Victoria.
"Lilo, you're you again!" Victoria cried as she ran to embrace her friend. As she hugged her best friend, Cobra stepped forward.
"Everything that happened here was not your fault Lilo. You shouldn't beat yourself up for things you couldn't stop."
Lilo let go of Victoria and turned to face Cobra. "But what about Myrtle and the others? She will most defiantly blame me. And the damage I did was too great not to notice. I almost killed them." Indeed, after finishing torturing Myrtle and her friends, they had been near death. But Lilith had wanted them to live longer so she could torture them again, so she took them to the medical wing to recover in stasis.
But Cobra just smiled. "That's has been taken care of. Jumba had recently modified Amnesio to be able to remove only parts of people's memories, and the injuries can be past off as the result of a bad fall. So they won't remember anything and no one will ask questions."
Lilo then turned to Jumba. "But the serum; I'm still an experiment, and a dangerous one."
"So, is good for your relationship with 626. Being of same species will be making relationship easier." Jumba said smiling.
Now this was news to Cobra. Not the fact that Lilo was now an experiment, but the fact that she was in love with Stitch. However, this didn't surprise the councilwoman in the slightest; she knew the two were extremely close, so close it was only a matter of time before they fell in love.
"Is this true Lilo?" Cobra asked, adjusting his glasses so she could see his eyes.
"It's how he saved me, our love for one another was stronger than Angel's song." Then she remembered. "Angel, what's going to happen to her?"
Angel became worried and sad. She knew what would happen to her. This whole thing was her fault, and she would be going away for a long time.
But the answer Cobra gave was a surprise to everyone. "Nothing. As far as anyone is concerned, none of this ever happened. Understand?" He said as he turned his gaze to Nosy.
"Umm…sure. What ever you say!" he replied nervously. He may be programmed to be the galaxy's biggest gossip, but Cobra was more convincing than his programming.
The Grand Councilwoman then spoke as she turned to face Jumba. "As for you, I am willing to overlook your illegal actions this time, as they did have an extremely noble and good purpose. But be warned, I will not allow you to create any more genetic experiments. Do you understand?"
"Yes ma'am." was Jumba's reply.
"Alright then, I do believe this matter is settled." she said as she turned to leave.
And all went well after that. The Grand Councilwoman recovered Gantu and charged him with endangerment and kidnapping, but told him he could go free if he left Earth and said nothing of what had happened. Gantu agreed and left Earth that same day. Hamsterville was to be re-imprisoned on a different asteroid, one not of his construction, and would remain there for the remainder of his 150 year sentence.
Meanwhile, both Fibber and Shush received medals of honor for actions above and beyond the call of duty. Nosy landed a job at one of the world's foremost tabloids, The Worldly Eye, for keeping his mouth shut about the whole Lilith incident. 625 got the one thing he wanted more than anything: Angel's love and affection. She had been impressed by his bravery against Lilith and asked him out the day after the incident. And Victoria and Snooty were just glad to have their friend back to normal. Or almost normal anyway.
Everyone gathered at the Pelaki house that Friday evening to celebrate two things. First was the fact that the world had just been saved by the guests of honor. Of course no one other that those who had been present at the actual battle knew what really happened. They just assumed that it was another one of Hamsterville's plots that had been foiled. But that wasn't what was important. The real reason everyone came was to congratulate the new couple. A lot of the experiments had guessed that there might be something between the two, but were still pleasantly surprised when Lilo and Stitch had announced it to everyone the day after the incident.
The new couple was bombarded with questions the entire evening. First Clip and several other female experiments kept asking Lilo how it happened, when she had realized she was in love with Stitch, and how she got her big sister to go along with it. Meanwhile Splodyhead and the guy experiments kept asking Stitch why he didn't tell her sooner. They weren't stupid; they knew Stitch had had feeling for her for a long time. They also asked if Nani was going to change the sleeping arrangements, which Stitch replied she wasn't, she saw no need to. Then HunkaHunka made a comment he shouldn't have, and Stitch chased him around for 10 minutes, screaming curses. He only calmed down when his girlfriend got on to him about it.
But all was not well. The deeds of Lilith still weighed heavily on Lilo. The guilt she felt was almost unbearable. Myrtle and her friends had gotten out of the hospital just that morning, and everyone had believed that it had been no more than an accident, since the stasis chambers removed all signs of electrocution. But when Lilo saw Myrtle that day at the store, she received a horrible glare from her, worse than any Myrtle had ever given her.
At the party, Lilo's guilt had just about reached the breaking point. The fact that the world nearly ended by her hand, and that the experiments all wrongly believed that she had helped save it, was tearing at her. Stitch had noticed that she had been a bit withdrawn, but he figured it was due to her horrible experience.
Well, he was sort of right anyway.
Near the end of the party, 625 proposed a toast to Lilo and Stitch. "Let's hear it for the new couple! Stitch and Lilo, two of the galaxy's greatest heroes!"
Those words broke the dam that contained Lilo's guilt. She quickly grabbed the microphone from the karaoke machine (Pleakly and 625 did a duet on it earlier, and it was the worst thing most of the others had ever heard.). "Stop it!" Lilo screamed, almost to the point of tears.
Stitch saw this and knew what would happen next. "Lilo put the microphone down. It'll be okay."
"No, no it won't be okay! Everyone is celebrating, and yet none of them no what really happened!" she screamed as the tears began to flow.
This had gotten everyone's attention. Nani looked at her sister and knew that she was suffering terrible guilt. Even though Cobra had said nothing should ever be said about "Lilo's Bad Day" ever again, Nani knew the only way to get rid of guilt that powerful was to confess what you had done to cause it.
The other experiments (the ones who had not been there) were confused. They had never seen Lilo this upset. They wondered what could be wrong, what had happened that day that was so bad it would make her go to tears. Then they got their answer, but it only confused them more.
"Hamsterville wasn't threatening the world," Lilo said, her voice growing softer, "I was."
Not one person made a sound, not even Fibber, which confirmed that Lilo had told the truth.
Now this confused all the experiments that hadn't be there, but the smarter ones were starting to put two and two together and glared at Angel. It was of all the experiments, Bonnie, that finally said something.
"Angel, what the hell did you do to her to make her try and destroy the world!"
Angel just stood there, her ears down, head tilted to the ground. "I'm sorry, it was all my fault. I got jealous of Lilo and used my song on her to try and get her into trouble. But she became too evil and she almost made us all evil again, not mention nearly killing several people, including Stitch, in the process."
To say that the other experiments were pissed was an understatement. Many of them started cursing at her, and others were outright ready to attack her. "Sorry? Sorry isn't good enough for what you did Angel!" Clip said, her claws drawn to full. "You destroyed the innocence of the nicest girl any of us have ever met, and for what? Cause you were too full of your self to realize that you should have just let Stitch be happy."
The rest of the crowd seemed to agree with Clip, and many of them were drawing closer. 625 got in the way of the advancing mob. "Hey now stay back, she's a victim of this too." he said in a scared voice.
"Get out of the way fatso!" Richter said, "She's going to get what she has coming to her."
At hearing those words, Lilo remembered what happened with Myrtle. "STOP!" she screamed. "Leave her alone! She tried to fix it when she figured out I'd become too evil. She just couldn't."
"And why was that?" Cannonball asked. "Maybe it's because she didn't care what happened to you Lilo! She's just a selfish little bitch."
"No, she couldn't because I shot her. Then gave her to Gantu and he put her in a soundproof container." Lilo said, crying.
Unfortunately, this made none of them feel sorry for Angel. "Well, what about when Stitch came? I'm sure he freed her. Why didn't she sing then? Why did he have to fight you?" Dupe said, having overheard Snooty talking about Lilo and Stitch fighting, only now understanding the implications of what he heard. Of course, then it hit all of them. He had to fight Lilo? Why couldn't he have just restrained her?
"Umm…ok, Dupe, who told you that?" French-fry asked.
"Snooty. But now I'm wonder why, or how they fought." Dupe replied.
Lilo answered their question. "Because I'm not exactly human anymore. I'm an experiment, thanks to a serum I stole from Jumba."
"Little girl did not technically steal, since was made for her anyway." Jumba replied.
Nobody heard him; they were all shocked by what Lilo had just said. And Fibber didn't beep, so it was true. Or Fibber was broken, which some of them were seriously starting to consider. But then he'd been beeping all night at 625, who was trying to tell stories about his "bravery".
"But, why do you still look like you?" Clip asked. "And don't say a hologram, because I can tell real hair from any sort of fake from a mile away, and that hair on your head is real."
"Because she probably has self-metamorphosis as a power, duh." said Morpholomew.
"Well, yes I do." Lilo replied, suddenly very apprehensive.
She was then bombarded with questions by the curious experiments, which had seemed to forgotten all about their anger toward Angel.
"What other powers do you have?" one asked.
"Who's stronger, you or Stitch?" asked another.
"Can we see what you really look like?" another asked.
It was too much for Lilo. She had promised herself that she would never transform back into that monster ever again. But the questions the experiments asked her, especially the last one, made her realize she was still 'that monster'. Her form now, of the human Lilo, was a lie. Lilo didn't exist anymore. It was all to much for Lilo and she ran. Away from the party and the others, and ran into the night.
Stitch watch her run and immediately bolted after her. "Lilo, come back!"
As Lilo ran through the forest, her mind raced. Why won't this nightmare end? The others are right. I'm still that monster. I'm still Lilith. That part of me, the experiment part of me, will never go away. How will I be able to continue with my life if I have to see that monster's face every time I look in a mirror? As she ran, she noticed she had become faster, and that her feet weren't touching the ground anymore! She looked at her hands, but they were still human. She stopped, and she felt the ground again. "I can't even hide my powers in my human form." she said as she saw the shadow of a pair of wings, which apparently grew in size when she did. "Myrtle's right, I'm a freak. A monster."
Lilo began to cry again, but heard a voice from behind her. "No you aren't. Myrtle's wrong Lilo, you aren't a monster. And you aren't Lilith either. She ceased to exist the moment you became good again." Stitch said as he came down the path.
"But I still have her powers, and I still look like her when I change." Lilo sobbed.
"But you don't have the evil heart she had. And that matters more than anything."
"Stitch, I know you are trying your hardest, but the fact remains that every time I use these powers, I will be reminded of her. Of what I became."
Just then the two heard the footsteps. It was Jumba and Nani, who had finally caught up with the pair in Nani's jeep. "Little girl, power's were not Lilith's, were your own. And look at wings." Jumba said as he pointed to her wings.
Stitch hadn't noticed it before, but Lilo's wings were not black, but a light sea blue. "Lilo, look." Stitch said in awe.
Lilo looked down at a puddle on the ground, and sure enough, she didn't see a pair of black wings. These wings were a sea blue. "My wings, what happened?" Lilo said in shock.
"Your fur is metamorphic. Is simple matter for you to be changing color scheme of fur. Also is happening when you are being in certain powerful moods." Jumba explained to the surprised girl.
"But does that mean if I change, I won't look like Lilith anymore?" Lilo asked, staring up at Jumba.
"It is meaning you will not be dark, evil tones any longer. Will be normal, sea-blue color. Why not be trying right now?"
"Ok." Lilo said as she stood up. The light enveloped her, and there stood a sea-blue experiment, with the same body and design as Lilith, but her chest fur was now a light green instead of a blood red. Her wings mirrored the sea blue of her fur, as did her long, flowing hair.
She's more beautiful than ever. And this is what she was meant to be, not that monster. Stitch thought to himself as he gazed upon Lilo's new form.
"I'm, I'm beautiful." Lilo commented as she looked at herself in the puddle. "So Lilith really is gone." Tears had begun to form in Lilo's eyes. "It's really over. I'm me again."
Stitch embraced her, and she returned it. "Of course you are Lilo. And now we can finally be happy together."
"Yes, finally. Nothing is keeping us apart anymore." Lilo said as she looked into Stitch's eyes. Her wings began to close around him in reflex, as if she never wanted him to let go. And she didn't.
The sight was the most romantic any of the onlookers, which now included everyone who had been at the party, had ever seen. The two lovebirds didn't notice the crowd around them, like many in their position before them; their world consisted of just the two of them.
"I love you, Bugee-Boo." Lilo whispered.
"And I you, Bugee-Boo." Stitch replied.
As their lips met, they knew they had found true happiness in each other's embrace.
Two days had passed since the party and Lilo and Stitch's kiss. There had been a couple more since then, mostly when Nani wasn't looking, and Stitch thought his life could get no better. Then Jumba called him into his lab.
Stitch entered the ship to see Jumba working at his computer. "You called for me Jumba?" Stitch said as he looked over at the computer. He saw an experiment on one side of the screen, and a human on the other. Immediately he feared the worst. "You aren't going to turn Lilo back to a human are you?" Stitch said with worry.
Jumba just laughed at him. "Of course not 626. This serum not being for such transformation."
Stitch was now curious. "Then what is it for?" he asked as he looked at the actual writing.
From what he could tell, the new serum did indeed alter DNA, but what it was for he couldn't figure out.
Jumba answered his question with one of his own. "How would you be liking to take little girl on date as little boy?"
Now Stitch's life couldn't get any better, of that he was sure. "Ih!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. "You're the best Jumba!"
"Am knowing that." Jumba replied as he uncapped the serum.
Now fear of needles or not, nothing was going to get in the way of his and Lilo's happiness together. He just stood still as the serum was injected. It burned, but Stitch knew the pain would be worth it.
After about 10 minutes, nothing had happened, and Stitch was beginning to wonder whether or not it had worked.
"Jumba, how come I haven't changed yet?" he said worried it had failed to work.
"You are still being here?" Jumba asked as he looked up from his computer. "Oh, oh right was not telling you how to be changing back and forth."
Jumba explained to Stitch on how he transformed back and forth, that it was just like pulling appendages out and them putting away, he simply focused on his entire body instead of one point.
Stitch did as he was told, and a light enveloped his form. The light grew larger, and disappeared.
Where Stitch had once stood, stood a young Hawaiian boy, about the same height as Keoni. He was dressed in baggy red shorts and a blue t-shirt. His hair was a messed-up blue mop of hair that spiked slightly at the edges (if anyone has ever seen the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, he looks like a tall, Hawaiian Calvin.)
"So how do I look?" Stitch said, turning to Jumba. Then he heard his own voice. "Hey, what happened to my voice!" His voice sounded, human.
"Could not have you walking around with old voice, would raise suspicions." Jumba replied. "And as for looks, shouldn't you be asking girlfriend that question?"
As if on cue, Lilo walked on the ship, looking for Stitch. Then she noticed the boy standing next to Jumba. "Jumba, who's this?"
"You should know, know him better than anyone, even own creator." Jumba remarked as he turned to face Lilo.
Lilo was puzzled for a moment. He did seem very familiar, then she realized creator, then that means this boy is…
Just then Pleakly walked in with a tray of food. "Did it work Jumba?" Then he saw the transformed Stitch. "It did work! But his clothes look terrible; we have to go get him some better ones."
Stitch made a face. "Great, clothes shopping with Pleakly, what fun."
It was then Lilo came out of her shock. "Stitch, is that you?"
Stitch just smiled. "The one and only."
Now this was a nice surprise. Lilo had to admit, Stitch made a very handsome human. And the blue hair was a nice touch. "Wow, Stitch, you look…"
Lilo was having trouble getting the words out, but her face said it all. Stitch was the most handsome person she had ever seen, alien or human. "I am thinking girlfriend approves of new look, eh 626?" Jumba said with a smirk.
Stitch walked forward, and kissed his stunned girlfriend on the lips. The shock faded, and she returned the kiss. Lilo didn't realize of course, that her wings had shot out. Stitch however, noticed as he pulled away. "Lilo."
"Yes?" Lilo replied, clearly in a dreamy state.
"Wings." Stitch, gesturing to her back.
"Not again!" Lilo said as she turned her attention to the pesky appendages. She couldn't keep those things put away for the life of her. "This was my favorite dress too! Why won't these things stay put away?"
"Because little girl's metamorphic abilities are tied in part to emotion, and little girl's wings are most sensitive to it. Must be learning to control powers so that they will not be releasing wings every time she is getting upset or is kissing boyfriend." Jumba explained.
"Well in the meantime, I'll try and fix your dress." Pleakly said as he put Jumba's food down. "Come on and I will try to make you something your wings can go thru."
"Ok." she said as she let go of Stitch. "I better tell Nani about this and try to lessen the eventually shock. So don't come in the house until I come for you, ok?"
"Well what do I do tell then?" Stitch asked. "I mean, Jumba doesn't like people in the ship when he is working."
"Indeed, am very busy." Jumba said as he turned his attention to the computer, "Would like to be alone."
"Why don't you go into town for a little while?" Lilo said. "I mean, nobody is going to be able to tell the difference between you and any of the tourists. So you can walk town now without drawing attention."
She had a point. Stitch now looked as human as everyone else. Beside, he could go and give some of his cousins a big surprise. But before he could leave, three people, none of which he was expecting to even be here at this time of day showed up at the front of the ship.
"Ahh is social worker. I asked him if he could be helping me with something." Jumba said, not surprised at all he was here, or that he had brought Nani. Now David, however, was a surprise. "Am seeing that surfer has also decided to join us."
"I have taken care of it Jumba, but now I have a few requests of my own." Cobra said as he stood at the ships entrance.
Nani looked concerned. "Umm… who is that boy? And should we talking about this kind of stuff around him?"
"It concerns him, right Stitch?" Cobra said, pulling his shades down.
It came as no surprise that Nani and David were extremely shocked. "Ou weh? That's Stitch?" David said as he took a second look at the blue haired boy. "You look different." he added in his typical surfer fashion.
"Stitch, is that you?" Nani asked, completely caught off guard. Cobra said he had to discuss something important with her, but this was a bit extreme. But then again, it does make it easier to take Stitch into public places, and he and Lilo will be able to show affection in public without drawing attention, as long as Lilo's wings don't pop out again.
Those wings of Lilo's had been nothing but trouble since they got home. She couldn't control them too well yet, and they tended to pop out when ever she got too emotional. They had been watching a cop show where a little girl had been hurt really badly, and Lilo got so upset that her wings came out and knocked over the new lamp. (Cobra and the councilwoman had their people erase all traces of damage to the house from the Lilith incident, so just about everything was brand new).
But then what Cobra said brought Nani out of her thoughts. "We need to go inside and discuss the conditions."
"What conditions?" Stitch asked curiously.
"The conditions of your alter-identity, Christopher 'Stitch' Strikerson."
Once inside the house, Cobra got down to business. "For this situation to work, Stitch must adhere to three rules."
"And they are?" Lilo asked, curious to what Stitch had to do. If Stitch did this, one day they could legally get married on Earth!
Stitch was equally curious as to what he had to do to be with Lilo here on Earth.
Cobra wasted no time starting. "One, Stitch and Lilo cannot sleep in the same room until they leave this house at 18."
Immediately this was met with much discontent. "What? Why?" Lilo asked. She didn't like the idea of being separated from Stitch for even a moment.
Stitch didn't like the idea either. He and Lilo had been sleeping in the same bed since the incident. Indeed, Lilo had needed the comfort; she was still upset about the whole thing. It was still at the point, even now, that Lilo had trouble looking in the mirror when she was in experiment form. She was scared she would see the black form of Lilith.
"Before you question me any further, realize that Lilo and Stitch sleeping in the same room would raise unwanted suspicious and gossip." Cobra replied to Lilo's question. "All of these conditions have nothing to do with my opinions on your relationship, that is Nani's concern."
The two nodded their heads. They didn't like it in the least, but Cobra had a point. Besides, Jumba and Stitch had just added on a guest room to the house, and Stitch could use it, since he was legally Jumba's ward and it would make sense to those outside the family.
"Alright, now that that is settled, now on to condition number two. If you are out in public, you are not to change between forms unless it is an emergency."
Now this was more agreeable to the two, as well as the rest of the family. But the third condition would come as the shocker.
"The third condition is that Stitch will attend school along with Lilo, effective tomorrow." Cobra said, pausing for the reaction.
And boy did he get one. They ranged from excited (Nani) to shocked (Pleakly), to "WHAT?" (Lilo and Stitch).
Nani was excited beyond belief. Stitch has to go to school. That means he's not my problem anymore during the day! He's the school's. And I bet with Lilo watching his every move, he won't be causing anyone any trouble.
Pleakly wasn't nearly as excited. He wants to set that little monster loose in Earth's school system? That's crazy talk! There is no way the teachers on this planet will be able to keep order with him there.
"I have to go school, why?" Stitch said, obviously extremely shocked. Why do I have to go to school when I already have the brain of a supercomputer?
"Stitch has to go to school?" Lilo added, also extremely shocked. Does he have any idea what might happen?
"I already know that Stitch has the brain of a supercomputer, but it's an empty one. And besides, it's to keep up appearances more than anything else. And I expect him to behave himself." Cobra said, glaring at Stitch.
"Gulp, yes sir!" Stitch said. Cobra could bring anyone in line with his glare.
Jumba agreed with Cobra. Stitch was smart, but didn't know much about Earth topics such as history and geography. And would be easy grades for him in all of the other subjects. Except English of course, but he could learn that. He had a tutor who could always command his attention. "Am agreeing with social worker, 626 could benefit from Earth education. Grades would be easy and would be helping him with social skills."
"Which he desperately needs." Pleakly added.
"Besides," Nani added as she turned to Stitch, "it's more time you get to spend with Lilo."
Now, with that said, school didn't sound like such a bad idea to Stitch. I guess I could live with not being able to sleep near Lilo if I get to spend all day with her.
Lilo was now just as thrilled with the idea, for more than one reason. I not only get to spend more time with Stitch, but I get to show him off too! She knew having a boyfriend as cute as Stitch in human form would defiantly have its advantages. But then she thought about it more. But then every girl in school would be after him. What if liked one of them better? I'd be alone again. A tear formed in her eye.
Stitch immediately noticed Lilo's tearing up. "What's wrong Lilo? Won't it be great that we get to spend more time together?"
Before she could make up an excuse, Pleakly blurted out his suspicions, which strangely enough, turned out to be right! "Judging from the look she had a minute ago, I think she was happy. Happy she'd get to show off her new boyfriend. Then she realized a girl prettier that her might try to take you."
Jumba rolled his eyes. "That is being most ridiculous thing I have ever…" Then he noticed the tears on Lilo's face flow faster. "That is what is bothering you?"
Lilo just nodded her head slightly.
Stitch was shocked she would think such a thing. "Lilo, I love you. I thought I had already proven that. Why do think I would leave you?"
"It's just, some of the older girls at school are a lot prettier than me. And some of them like to steal other girl's boyfriends." Lilo said sadly.
"But they aren't you Lilo. You're special. Besides, they may be prettier than you on the outside, but I bet they aren't on the inside." Stitch said as he hugged his bugee-boo. "Besides, if they tried, you could just take control of them and make them kiss the school nerd. That'd kill their popularity real quick." Stitch didn't know much about school, but Pleakly had made him sit through enough reruns of shows about it that he kinda got the idea that that would be bad for a girl's popularity.
Lilo smiled at her boyfriend's suggestion. He was right; her powers did give her a definite advantage. But she would never use them that way. That was something Lilith would do, and she would do nothing like her. "Stitch, I would never do something like that. It would be mean. And it would make me like 'her'."
Everyone knew what Lilo meant by "her". Lilith. Lilo would always be scarred by the events that took place that day. But she needed to get over it. "Lilo, although I do not advise using your abilities to get back at others, it isn't the same as torturing your family. You are not Lilith. You are not capable of the things Lilith did. But her memory will continue to torture you until you just let it go." Cobra said as he looked at Lilo sympathetically.
"I know, but I have her memories. And somewhere, deep within me, she still exists. She is the evil part of me, and although I'm not her, not anymore, I can never be rid of her. She will still tempt me to do bad things, things I shouldn't, when I'm angry or afraid."
"Is true, but you must be learning to ignore her, as you were doing before. All of us are having dark sides, and we must live with them too." Jumba said as put his arm around the girl.
"Yeah, guess you're right." Lilo said as a smile crossed her face. "Besides, I get to spend all day tomorrow with Stitch, and that's defiantly better than what school was last year."
"Yeah, but you better focus on your studies, and not your boyfriend!" Nani added.
Lilo giggled. "Don't worry Nani, I'll take my eyes off Stitch long enough to learn at least something.
"You better, and that goes for you too Stitch."
"Okay, I promise to pay attention." When I'm not passing notes to Lilo that is.
"Well, now that that's settled, let's eat dinner." Pleakly said, standing up. "I just learned how to make Chinese! They cook with a big metal bowl. It's fascinating."
"Yeah food sounds good, even if it you making it." Jumba commented.
"Very funny."
That night Lilo met Stitch outside on the dome. "You came." Lilo said as Stitch climbed onto top of the roof. Both of them were now in experiment form, but Lilo had her wings retracted.
"Yeah, what do you want to talk about?" Stitch asked as he sat next to her.
"Stitch, what do you think will happen to us now? I mean now that we are together?"
"What do you mean? Is something wrong Lilo?" Stitch replied, voice full of concern.
"No, but think about it, we have to be more careful now that we are bugee-boos, and more importantly, you being human looking."
"What do you mean Lilo?" Stitch asked as he scooted closer to her.
"Think about it. I have to call you Chris at school now, and if I accidentally call you Stitch, people are gonna get curious. And we can't afford that." Lilo said as she looked Stitch in the eyes. "We have to be very careful, or we could be found out. And that would be bad for the both of us. Not to mention the rest of the ohana."
"Already got that covered." Stitch said with confidence. "My nickname is Stitch in human form, remember? I can just say that I would rather my girlfriend call me that name."
"Yeah, but that's your name in experiment form too, remember?" Lilo said, still concerned. "And everyone knows I had a 'dog' named Stitch for years."
"Coincidence." was Stitch's reply.
"Well, I guess that will work. But remember, we also have to make sure no one ever sees us change form. I don't care how many 'best' friends you make at school, you can't show them the real you, or show off your powers. Understand?"
"Crystal." Stitch said as he leaned in and kissed Lilo.
Lilo met his lips and returned the kiss.
When they pulled away, Stitch noticed something, or the lack off. "Lilo, your wings, they didn't pop out."
"Yeah, I've been practicing all day. I can't have them coming out in public."
"Yeah that would blow our cover really fast." Stitch said, smiling. "But hey, then I could say I'm dating an angel."
"Stitch." Lilo said, her expression turning to one of slight anger. "I will not have you referring to me with the name of your ex-girlfriend. Understand?"
At this moment Stitch was glad Lilo's glare power didn't work on him. Since it was based on both Angel's and Checkers' abilities and he was immune to both, he was probably immune to her power, he hoped. And that still didn't mean he wouldn't obey her every whim; he wasn't immune to being her boyfriend. "Yes dear." he replied submissively.
"Good." Lilo said, smiling. She knew Stitch was pretending to be submissive, trying to be cute. And it worked. "Stitch, I couldn't ask for a better bugee-boo, you know that right?"
"Neither could I." he replied. "But come to think of it, you do need an experiment name. One that complements you abilities."
The two thought about it for a moment. Then Lilo had the answer. "Well, I can fly. And when I flap my wings, I sent stuff flying like it was hit by a hurricane. And I guess the energy bolts are kind of like lightning. So how about Sky?"
"Nah, too plain. Hey what another word for sky?" Stitch asked.
Lilo thought about it. She knew a couple of different words for the sky, but they were either not good names or trademarked (a certain X-Man, or woman). Then she remembered about a boy she had met the other day. He had been sitting on a bench, listening to a small mp3 player.
Flashback
Lilo walked along the path to the beach, determined to get a little more beach time before school. She was also trying to get her mind off Lilith. Sitting at the bench along the path was a small blonde-haired boy. He was dressed in a red shirt with funny symbols on it, and had the strangest hat on. It looked like a cat's head. He had over his ears a pair of headphones connected to a small mp3 player. One of the headphones was dangling off his ear slightly, and so Lilo could hear what was playing. A lot of good it did her; it was in a foreign language.
She wouldn't have given it a second thought, except as she past he looked up at the sky and said "Sora".
"Excuse me?" Lilo asked as she turned to face the strange boy.
"Sora." the boy repeated. "It's the Japanese word for 'sky'."
This boy was extremely strange, even by her standards. "So?" Lilo asked. Then she realized the boy may have just been talking to himself. "Oh sorry, I guess you were just talking to yourself. Sorry I bothered you."
The boy didn't even look down from the sky. "It's okay, but you should remember that. You never know when stuff you hear can come in handy."
End Flashback
"Guess that little kid was right; never know when what you hear might come in handy." Lilo thought aloud.
"What little kid, what are you talking about Lilo?" Stitch asked, wondering what she was talking about.
"Oh nothing, but I think I have a name for myself. How about Sora?" Lilo asked.
"Ok, what does it mean?"
"It's Japanese for 'sky'". Lilo replied.
"How do you know that?" Stitch asked.
"Let's just say I heard it from someone who makes me look normal." Lilo said with a smirk.
End Polarity Chapter 7
Final Chapter
New Beginnings for Lilo and Stitch