Mortality (Drabble Project, Day 14)
Jan. 14th, 2012 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
were_lemurLilo and Stitch, all ages, not mine. Lilo wonders how long an illegal genetic experiment's lifespan is supposed to be.
It wasn't until she was eighteen, and ready to start her first job, that Lilo had realized how much time had passed since Stitch had become part of her family. She'd seen friends lose pets; she understood that different species aged differently, and she didn't know how long Stitch's lifespan would be.
That night she'd sat up all night, holding him and sobbing, because she didn't know what she'd do without him.
Now she's sixty-five, retirement age, and Stitch doesn't seem to have aged at all. And she's suddenly worried what he'll do without her.
It wasn't until she was eighteen, and ready to start her first job, that Lilo had realized how much time had passed since Stitch had become part of her family. She'd seen friends lose pets; she understood that different species aged differently, and she didn't know how long Stitch's lifespan would be.
That night she'd sat up all night, holding him and sobbing, because she didn't know what she'd do without him.
Now she's sixty-five, retirement age, and Stitch doesn't seem to have aged at all. And she's suddenly worried what he'll do without her.
