Video - Lilo Has a New Toy

[andstitch]

"Whoa! This is so cool!"

[The kid has the screen right up to her eye then pulls it back to a more normal distance.]

"I could film all sorts of cool things with this! Like space mummy vampires from Mars! But first I'm gonna need some actors. Oh! I wonder if this thing can call Jumba! Then he can make me all sorts of new actors!"

[Someone was bouncing like she'd had too much sugar.]

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[3wingedangel]

"And in all that time, they have never cared to be with you?" he frowned. That was similar to how it had been for him with the local children, but he hadn't been sadly desperate enough for friends to think of them as such.

[andstitch]

She glared, getting angry. "They're my friends!" They were! They were!

[3wingedangel]

He sighed. "Very well then." Obviously pursuing that line of questioning was useless. But it bothered him thinking of how badly she must be being hurt by these "friends."

[andstitch]

"Besides! It's not like you are offering to play dolls with me!" Adults never did.

[3wingedangel]

"There are other ways to spend time with people. I brought you to this ice cream shop," Sephiroth pointed out.

[andstitch]

She shrugged. "For now... but you're an adult. You're gonna say you hafta go to work and tell me to go play or give me to someone else to watch. You're not gonna play dolls or come on adventures or look for 'speriments. I'm just a kid to adults. Not someone to wanna play with." She looked down.

Her mom used to play with her. And Nani used to, before she had to be a mom. She fought a tear. She didn't wanna cry.

[3wingedangel]

"It's true adults need to work," Sephiroth said. "I admit, I don't play anymore. At least, not the way you're probably thinking of it." Although he was never very traditional in what he did play. "I suppose, however, that things such as practicing flying could be considered play." He didn't think of it that way, but it was playful and fun. "If you would like, perhaps I could take you flying sometime."

[andstitch]

"Like me and Stitch having rocket packs! COOL!"

[3wingedangel]

He looked amused at that. "Well, I can't fly quite that fast. But you can imagine that, if you would like."

[andstitch]

"Why imagine? I want an actual rocket pack!"

[3wingedangel]

"Heh. That, I'm afraid I can't provide. I don't even know if they have them here."

[andstitch]

"Then how is that playing and not just an adult carrying me where he wants me to be?"

[3wingedangel]

"I don't typically have a destination in mind if I'm just flying for fun," he replied.

[andstitch]

"How is that fun then? If there is no one to chase?"

[3wingedangel]

"You don't feel just the very act of flying would be fun?"

[andstitch]

"Not if I can't steer! Then it's just like riding in the spaceship."

[3wingedangel]

“Heh. You’ve ridden so many times it’s that unexciting to you? I would think most would envy you having such a vehicle.”

[andstitch]

"But I don't have it. They never let me drive," she pointed out. "Well... almost never. And they never let me use the weapons."

[3wingedangel]

Well, thank goodness for that.

"Would there be a reason to use the weapons?"

[andstitch]

"Cause it would be fun!" Duh! "And it would have helped us against the big dummy! PEW PEW PEW!" She began mimicking gunning someone down with space lasers.

[3wingedangel]

Well, she certainly had a unique way of looking at things. Or maybe it was normal for children. He really wasn't sure, since he hadn't interacted with children much.

"Perhaps it's something you have to be a certain age for, such as having a driver's license," he said.

[andstitch]

"I once used a 'Speriment to become an adult... it didn't go so well. So better just let me fo all the fun stuff while I'm still young enough to have fun."

[3wingedangel]

Well, that sounded terrifying. He hated to think what level of chaos she might have created in an adult body, given all that she liked to do.

"Heh. That sounds like Zack. Although his motto was having fun even as an adult."

[andstitch]

"I like him already! Think he'd play dolls? I have one!"

[3wingedangel]

"Hm. You know, I actually think he would. Perhaps ... if he comes ..."

He can hope, at least.