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Worlds Apart.

The rain was pouring outside, thunder echoing in the distance. The small college campus beaten and ravaged by the onslaught of the storm. A Hawaiian teen stares outside of her dorm window, watching the rain fall, feeling every raindrop thump against her window like heartbeats in an empty room. She was bored, her roommate had gone to a party on the next floor, she had stayed behind, as was her nature. Drawing in a breath she sat back to her desk to work on her writings, she had to finish the report, yet the task seemed never ending, and in this space, she couldn't find a place to retreat to, no quiet area to catch breath, no calm place to meditate on events past, no place to remember her home.

The phone rang, she picks it up, its her sister, "Lilo? Lilo are you there?"

Lilo smiles, "Hey Nani, whatsup?"

"Oh, just calling to check up on my big college girl. Did you get your tickets?"

Lilo glances over to the opened envelope on her bed, two round trip plane tickets fallen from the ripped parchment, "Yes, I got them."

"Great, then you'll be coming?"

Lilo wavered on the decision at hand, to return to Hawaii, to face them once more. She didn't think she could handle it, handle seeing them again, handle seeing him again...

"I uhhh, don't know if I can, I mean with the schedule and all..."

Lilo heard her sister sigh on the line, then Nani said, "Honey, what's done is done, I'm not even sure if he's coming. You know how I miss you, and you need to see how your nephew has grown."

Lilo thought of her nephew, little Komalla. He had the spitting image of his father, David.

"I don't know..."

"Sigh, please Lilo, for your sake and ours, come to Hawaii, just for the summer, and bring your friend Gloria. I have to go, it is long distance you know."

Lilo smiled, "Come on, I bet your job can pay for it...you still have your job, right?"

"Hmph! You lolo, come to Hawaii and say that!"

Lilo giggled, "Okay Nani, Love you, Bye."

She hung up the phone, and sat looking outside. Soon Gloria entered, laughing and carrying on, and flopped on the bed next to Lilo. Gloria looked at the morose look at Lilo's face, and said, "Whatsup? Family abducted by aliens?"

Lilo smiled at that, "Not yet, but Nani called..."

Gloria sat up, "Yeah?"

"She wants me to go to Hawaii."

Gloria immediately understood, "Your going to go...right?"

"I just...don't know..."

"Listen Lilo," Gloria said, putting her arm around her best friend, "It would do you some good, you spend too much time working, you need a break, and more importantly, you need to see your family. And if your scared, I'll be with you, every step of the way."

Lilo smiled, and thought about it, the flight left in three days, long enough finish the end of the year report, she nodded, "When do we pack?"

On the other side of the galaxy, the patrol ship Zenor 3 lumbered around lazily, looking for anything out of the norm. Space was quiet, a desolate place of infinity, stretching forth like some mighty beast, engulfing travelers who lost their way. That notion didn't intimidate him, nothing intimidated the fearless creature. He sat looking out the port window, watching the stars go by. He marvels at the stars, their existence only for their own, a lonely existence, much like his own...

Stitch looked at the holo-velope that lay on his work-desk. The message of Jumba repeating itself over and over again. The family re-union, could he come? Should he come was a more reasonable answer. He was afraid of what would happen, what she would say...

The door to his room opened, and 625 entered. The chubby experiment entered, and plopped down on his bed opposite of Stitch's. He looked at the holo-velope, then to Stitch, and asked the question Stitch had been pondering, "So, you goin'?"

Stitch looked at him, "Don't know," The translator Jumba installed worked wonders, "Tch, like it would matter..."

625 stared at him, "Why wouldn't it matter? Jeez man, I'm dyin' for some excitement! For your own sakes and mine, go!"

Stitch stared out the window, and stretched out on his bed, the height inhancers Jumba installed were a personal favorite of his, he was now five foot ten.

Stitch began to talk, almost to himself, "I never belonged there, I ruined their lives. This military ship is my penance."

"Ohhh, don't go talkin' like that. After all, you did nothing wrong..."

Stitch continued to stare out the window, 625 didn't give up, "Besides, its been a year since I saw my buchee-boo...and you know the captain won't let me leave, unless, you call it your vacation..."

625 and Angel were married, she remained back on earth. Stitch knew how badly 625 missed her, and a part of him did want to return...

"Very well, I send the report for our vacation tomorrow..."

625 jumped up, "SCORE! I'll make us some lunch...sandwiches ok?"

Stitch laughed, "You know they are."

Stitch turned away as 625 began to pack, and Stitch wondered, would it be ok? How would it go? Lilo, to see you again...