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Chapter 3: Sadness and guilt, the ultimate cleanse

Dawn…

Stitch woke up somewhere but it wasn't the beach, he only remembers waking up very late and walked around the island…lost

He woke up on a roof. He looked around the familiar scene, wondering where he was.

Stitch prickled up his ears,

"Someone's crying"

He said to himself

Stitch crawled to the window of the house.

There she was, Myrtle, crying on her bed.

"Dumb weird girl!"

"WHY!"
She looked at a picture with Lilo in the background

"Why did you have to die?"

She kept crying

"Who am I going to tease now? Huh? WHO!"

She stopped talking and continued crying.

Stitch was confused and sad, he didn't thought she actually cared for Lilo that much.

'If she's this sad, I can imagine her mom'

Stitch thought

He crawled to the living room from the ceiling, there he saw Myrtle's mother making breakfast, he was surprised that she wasn't crying, not even a tear.

"Myrtle! Breakfast!"

She set the breakfast on the table and sat down

"Well…Guess you're in a better place"

After saying that, she started crying too

Stitch couldn't help but to shed some tears

'This is my fault, if I headed home instead of falling asleep, none of this wouldn't have happened'

He thought as he exited the house quietly

'My ignorance has paid the ultimate price… I don't want to make this island suffer again'

Stitch walked toward the mountains, he looked back at the house he once called home,

"Goodbye"

He said as he turned his back and headed to the mountains.

Somewhere at the top of a mountain…

Stitch was looking below at the small village where he lives. He decided to make the mountain he's in his home, he didn't wanted to make the people below suffer again because of him.

'Lilo's death was my fault, I lost someone really important to me. I don't want that to happen again…'

Stitch thought to himself as he rested his head on the mountain's wall

"For someone who's supposed to be the ultimate fighter, you sure aren't acting like one"

Stitch almost jumped out of his skin when he heard someone else talking to him, he turned back to see a faded image of himself wearing a dog collar and with his antennae, back spines and extra arms out.

"I'm hallucinating aren't I?"
Stitch said as he got up on his feet

"I'm just your conscience; I can't take all of this guilt inside of us so I'm here to snap you out of it"

Stitch's conscience said to his shell

"How can you help? You and I are one, aren't we supposed to feel and do the same?"

Stitch questioned

"Not exactly, I'm supposed to act similar like your anger controller, but ever since you got into this rage, it's been hard for me to get to you"

"But…It's my fault, if I went home instead of snoozing at the beach…"

"That's your problem"

Stitch's conscience interrupted while pointing at his shell

"It wasn't your fault, Gantu snapped, you couldn't know that Gantu was going to do what he did"

"But…I felt that something bad was going to happen"

Stitch told his conscience

"You felt the same thing at Lilo's party when she invited Myrtle. But nothing bad happened didn't it?"

"Yea, I drank Nani's coffee and ruined the party!"

Stitch assured his conscience

"Everyone thought that was part of he party, that made her popular with parties, and they stopped calling her weird… Except Myrtle"

"Same thing"

Stitch said as he turned his back

His conscience sighed, and snapped his fingers.

Stitch's surroundings changed to white, they appeared inside Lilo's house, just a few minutes before Gantu attacked.

"Look"

Stitch's conscience pointed at the door.

Stitch entered through the door.

"Is that me?"

Stitch questioned

"Yep" "…3…2…1"

Gantu appeared and started firing, Stitch's feeling got flooded by horror as he saw himself fighting with Gantu.

Stitch won the battle, Lilo and Nani were saved.

Stitch looked at himself being hugged by Lilo and Nani, he shed some tears

"That was going to be me if I arrived in time?"

"Yes"

His conscience confirmed

"But…Look what happens a few weeks later if you saved her"

He snapped again his fingers and everything turned white. They appeared in the middle of a street.

"I know this place"

Stitch looked around

"Look before you cross"

His conscience said as he pointed to the other side of the street

Stitch saw himself and Lilo crossing the street with smiles on their faces, he heard the sound of a car driving maniacally fast.

"LOOK OUT!"

Stitch yelled

The car impacted on Lilo & Stitch, they were sent flying.

Stitch watched in horror as he saw Lilo and himself being tossed like toys, after a few seconds the impacted Stitch opened his eyes and saw Lilo, with a few words, Lilo died.

The real Stitch watched with tears in his eyes, he turned to his conscience and grabbed him,

"What happened! Why didn't they heeded my warning! Why didn't that car stopped?"

His conscience just looked at his crying shell

"The driver was drunk…and they can't see you nor hear you, you're like a ghost to them"

Stitch dropped his grip; he fell on his knees and started crying

"I'm sorry, but even if you saved Lilo yesterday, you would still lose her in a few weeks"

"But…I could've stopped this death too"

Stitch tried to convince his conscience

"Yes, you could. But nothing last forever. Humans age and they die of old age…Unlike us"

Those words cleared Stitch's mind, he widened his eyes, he turned to his conscience. He was facing the truth, Lilo would've died eventually

"Do you understand?"

Stitch turned back, staring at the floor,

"…Yes"

He got up and stared at his conscience

"Even if I saved Lilo from deaths that can be avoided, she had to die eventually"

"Exactly"

With that said he snapped his fingers again.

This time, everything disappeared, including Stitch and his conscience, Stitch only saw white, but he knew his conscience was listening

"Thank you"

END OF CHAPTER 3