(the story is been totally updated, but I will keep the old version. just in case)

my first fanfic, so please be gentle!
I will only tell a little before I begin. first of all; this fanfic is mostly based over the cartoon-series and only few things is taken from the movie. remember that when you read it.

Because I´m not very good at English, you will maybe find some grammar mistakes.

Tim Burton own Beetlejuice and all the character in this story
I will tell you by time who I own.

Prologue

it was one of those rainy days we all know too much. It was just one of those days the 12-year old girl was told, she couldn't go outside, because they didn't want her to be wet and cold. But the truth was she loves the rain and the darkness there came with it, even the thunder. She couldn't explain why she liked it so much, she just found something fascinated about it.
Everything there was... well, different was fascinated in her eyes. She never has seen vampires, werewolves or Frankenstein monster as (very much) spooky. Maybe that's why people in the school for girls, she barely have started on, saw her as weird and avoided her, but she was used to it...
the girl gave a small sigh from her. Sometimes she wished she has a friend, a friend like all the others from school have... or just someone to spend the days with, like a boring day like this.. she heard a noise near her mirror

did Percy come in without I seeing it? She thought and looked up. To her surprise it wasn't her black cat, but a man.
There was a man inside her mirror!
The man hasn't noticed her and with a boring expression on his face, he looked around her room like he searched for find something to do and finally his green eyes found her and he began to look wide-eyed at her. Both just stared at each other with stunned faces.
he was the first who came to himself and with a high "EEEP!" he disappeared from the mirror, just like he fell backwards out of it and into something unknown.
"wait!" she cried after him and quickly jumped off her bed and walked over to the mirror, to see if she could see him on the other side of the mirror's glass "please don't go!" few seconds after the man's forehead and eyes peaked up from the bottom of the mirror.

"you folks don't usually want me back when you first see me" he remarked suspicious.

"how did you get inside my mirror?" she jumped on her chair in hope to better see him and tired to see her hand could go through the mirror, but to her disappointment the mirror was solid as always.

"just checking if someone makes something funnier here in this dump" he peaked himself up so she now could see his face and chest. She saw that the strange man has blond hair there was messy(she could have sworn she saw a beetle behind his ear) and went down to his shoulder. His eyes was(to her surprise) yellow with narrow dark-green eyes. He has teeth there looked like they was been thrown into his mouth and(how could they even be that? she thought) they was green. She also notice that his skin was in a oddly pale, almost purple tone. Everything about him was not something she was use to see in her house or in the town either.

"do you think my room is a dump?" she asked slightly offended over his comment.

"you know, kid" he said while he took a extra good look around her room "your room is spooky and gloomy, just after my taste" she couldn't help but smile, he was the first who 'likes' her room. Her mother has never liked her room and still tired to redecorate it when she didn't see it. It was a little depressing sometimes.

"so you don't think my room is... weird?"

"are you kidding?! Weird in my book is when folks talk to plants and the plants talks back" and by the word 'book' he suddenly turned himself into a book with his face and seconds later, he again turned back and was holding a plant in his hand like Hamlet and the plant mumbling something back to him. she got so surprised over that she couldn't help but laugh at him and gosh, she has never laughed like that before!
"huh?" she heard him ask in her laughing

"hahaha you-haha you are funny"

"you really think I'm funny?"

"sure! how do you do that? It is some kind of magic?"

"Naah! It's my juice. I am after all the Ghost with the most!" he winked with a big green-teethed smile

"are you a ghost?" she took a better look at him and it was a little hard to believe he was a ghost, for he didn't look like one "you don't look like a ghost" he looked slightly surprise over her comment and shrugged;

"well, the right word for me is Poltergeist, but you can make a cool-" he cleared his throat "self-proclaimed name for yourself with that"

poltergeist huh? She thought and tipped her head a little and asked;
"what is the different?"

"all ghost is a bunch of yahoos and when you are a poltergeist, you can do everything" he grinned

"but since you call yourself the ghost with the most" she wondered out loud "don't that do you to a ghost and a yahoo too?" her question really took him by surprise and she could barely hold a smile back when he clearly thought about what she said to him.

"hm... you got me there babes" he finally said "but you have to believe me, I am a ghost"

"is there a way you can prove it?"

"there is" he said with sly smile "but before I tell you, you have to tell me your name first"

"I'm Lydia" she said with a smile "Lydia Deetz"

"Lydia? Think I call you Lyds" She giggled of him

Lyds? She thought it first time someone have giving me a nickname, except for my father
"so what is your name?"

"I can't tell ya" she blinked confused over his comment, it even looked like it annoyed him slightly.

"why?"

"it's part of my charm" his big teethed grin came back and changes himself into a necklace and back to himself, but she still looked confused at him "buuuut, you can guess my name"

"how?"

"by play charades with me" he said "ready?"

"ready" she said and it was first her she notice that his fingertips was covered in red. She has never seen something like that before. His grin disappeared and it turn more(only a little) serious. He showed two fingers up to her and patted them on his arm
"okay. Two words" she said to him, to tell she understand this and when he began to first point on his shoulder and when make some unclear moves "I don't know..." she said slow. He rolled annoyed with his eyes.

"turn around" When Lydia turned around, she couldn't hold a chocked gasp back, for on her floor there was a really big insect.

"a insect?" she asked and keep her eyes on the insect there slowly disappeared.

"nope, try again" he snickered, probably amused over her reaction when she saw his 'trick'

"you're not suppose to talk in charades" she said smart back to him, she was beginning to be a little more confident to say her intention to him.

"rules" he mumbled "there have to be a law against them" she couldn't hold a giggle back for his point of view and remembered that she still played charades with him

"a bug" she tried

"nah"

"what about beetle?" she turned around to look in his face and saw he just smiled back. Again snapped with his red-tipped fingers and a new thing appeared beside of Lydia. It was a carton and a glass. The carton began to pour juice down in the glass "orange?... ehm orange juice?"

"close"

"juice?"

"bingo kid"

she thought for a second a beetle and a juice? Who has a name with those two thing? Lydia looked at him there gave her a smile back, she went to her bed to sit down and to think;
well... if he can sit in my mirror and change himself by literally translation and make things appear, I'm sure a name with a beetle and a juice is normal for him. I am beginning to believe that he is a ghost.

"figure it out, kid?" she heard him ask from the mirror. He put both his hands on the mirror, so she could see that he was trap on the other side. But trap where was another question.

"is you name Beetle and Juice?" she asked

"no, but close"

"Beetlejuice?"

"Bingo kid, that's my name!" Beetlejuice cheered up and down like a little kid, Lydia giggled of his eagerness

"is your name really Beetlejuice?"

"you bet it is Babes" his smiled funny enough got bigger

"you have an odd name, Beetlejuice-" she gave a cry of surprise when he suddenly jumped out of her mirror

"HA! Finally!" and Beetlejuice landed on her floor

"wow" she said with wide eyes and jumped down to him from the bed "how did you do that?" now she got a closer look at him. he has a suit with vertical black and white stripes, a magenta colored shirt and a messy black tie.
"okay" she said to him "I believe you are a ghost"

"took you long enough to figure that out" he snickered to her and walked closer to her. It was here a stench hit her hard in the face. even she stood 5 feet from him, she could smell him(stinks worse than dump and death together). But even after all this, she couldn't stop seeing him as a cool and funny guy
"you see Lyds" he flew up in midair with a laid-back expression and said as he pointed his index finger beside his forehead "every time you say my name three time in a row, I can come to your world"

"really?" she asked and her next question was a little more hesitating "can I come to your world too?"

"only if you kick the bucket too early" he said still in mid air, but he did look confused at her "and why would you come there in the first place? For I have tried to get out for that place is really boring-"

"I want to get in..." she whispered low.

"why?" he asked her with a puzzled look. It disappeared quick and he said more careless "I mean... not what I care of course... but you are young and have you whole life in front of you" Lydia has a feeling he(in his own way) cared for her well-being, even he didn't admitted it. he looked at her small body like he search for something he didn't find "it can be that bad?"

"it just... I am lonely" Lydia admitted "sure, I have my parents, but they just don't get me" she looked more pitiful down in the ground, for tell a total stranger and even a ghost her daily problems "nobody likes me and always make fun of me"

"why?" he asked again

"well..." she shrugged "because I love the strange and unusually"

"that's all? People don't get you because you act differently than them" was it just her or did he some kind of way sound offend? "and not to mention that you're talking to a completely dead guy here" Beetlejuice landed on the floor again and his last comment make her giggle a little.

"yeah" she admitted again and added "to make a long story short" He looked thoughtful out in the room. Maybe he didn't believe her or he just process what he have heard, Lydia didn't know.

"what about we make a deal" he suddenly said to Lydia's surprise "I will take you to my side of the mirror, without you joining my side" he raised a finger up in the air before she could open her mouth "if you promise me you will call me out every time I want you to" he got a almost malevolent smile "deal?" even Beetlejuice looked malevolent, he didn't look like, he want to hurt her. Lydia asked just to be sure;

"sooo... it is possible to come to the dead land-?"

"it is just called the Neitherworld" Beetlejuice said and leaned a little back frowning "yeah, it is possible-"

"why do you want to be here? There is nothing there are funny here" she asked him and knew that Peaceful Pines was named that for a reason. Because there was so peaceful that there rarely happen something funny.

"that was you think, babes" he grinned and before she could ask him what he mean by that, he interrupted her "so do we have a deal or not?" she hesitated slightly, this could be a deal with the devil itself, but her curious was still bigger than her more reasonable side of her mind. She really wanted to see the Neitherworld.

"deal" she finally said to him and his smile grew wider "so how do we come to the Neei-"

"Neitherworld" Beetlejuice corrected her and added "easy. You just have to say my name three times again and I even give a little show for it" She couldn't stop laughing at him.

"deadly-vu! So I just have to say your name tree times again and I can come to the Neitherworld?"

"that's how it works babes"

"alright!" she could jump up and down of pure excitement, but she managed to keep a hold on herself and quickly ran over to the door to check what her parents did.

"hey, whatcha doing?" he asked confused over her actions.

"I have to make sure that my parents won't notices that I am gone," she closed the door quietly again, when she heard the TV was on, they probably sat and saw something boring "I just have to make sure to be home before dinner"
I don't think I will tell them about Beetlejuice. It's not like they would believe me anyway. This is soo cool, I can't believe that this is happening!

"sure thing Babes. Just give me the three B-words, so we can have some more fun!"

"I thought you said the Neitherworld was a boring place?" she remarked

"well, I lied" he said so casual that Lydia burst out in laughter. She never laughed as much as she did today "you just have to make some con trick, if you know what I mean?"

"I am not sure I follow, but I still want to see the Neitherworld" she smiled a smile there could fit him and said his name as quickly as she could "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" The ghost Beetlejuice began laughing maniac and flew up in the air.

"it's Showtime!" he laughed and with a zap with his index finger the whole room began to act on its own. The balcony door opened with a bang and thunder was seen outside, the door to her room opened as well, but instead seeing the rest of the house, it sucked all her carpet and few other belongings out like a giant vacuum. The wallpapers broke apart and Lydia's whole room grew larger and spears pieced out from the walls and made a perfect resting place for the bats there like the rest; magically arrived.

"DEADLY-VU!" she couldn't help yell amazed out and began to spin around herself to see every detail of her 'new' room "this is SO freaktastic!"

"you mean fantastic?" he ask confused, still up in the air

"no FREAKtastic" she laughed and ran over to her bed to see it's new details "this is so freaky that I can stop loving it!"

"and you know the best part?" the ghost flew down to her "this little trick will happen every time when you stand in your room and want to come to the Neitherworld!" Beetlejuice said while he fly(didn't really surprises her he also could do that) around her.

"can I also have some freaky clothes?" he raised an eyebrow for her question "you know..." she shyly took her arm behind her back and looked down in the ground "so I fit better in you world, I can see my clothes don't look any of yours... I have always wanted a red poncho, but my parents never wanted to give me one"

"a poncho huh?" Beetlejuice grinned at her little story, it made her think she maybe already have made a fool out of herself. Then to her surprise the ghost floated over to her small lamp table and clapped it. Her lamp and the table disappeared and the tablecloth floated bit around and finally it put itself around her neck, automatically she lifted both her arm to make sure it fitted her.
She looked down at herself she saw her new cloth have changes into a deep red color poncho with black spider-web pattern. Together with the poncho, she also got a full-body black leotard there ended in finger-less gloves and at the bottom of the legs was a double footwear, also in black. she also notice that even her hair was sat up with a dark-purple band.

"WOOOW!" she cried with wide eyes and a big smile, like before she spun around herself to see all details on her new clothing. Beetlejuice grinned over her excited spinning around herself and pointed at her poncho

"that little thing will come every time you step foot into the Neitherworld" he landed and cried in an almost childish voice as he went up to the door "and now it time to have some fuuuun!"
Lydia smiled and ran with him up to the door, highest up in the room. The door opened and a whole new world appeared in front of her, it looked like nothing she had ever seen before.
Beetlejuice has already jumped out and turned around to see why she wasn't following him... she hesitated deeply.

can I really trust this guy? She thought for herself. She looked at his questioning face and she bit her lower lip before she asked hesitating;
"will you be my friend?" she knew it was a stupid question, but she have to be sure he wasn't just another one who will later pick on her. Beside; he was a completely stranger and her parents have told her more than once not to go with strangers.
But… he has been the only one so far who have been nice to me, and made me laugh; so he couldn't be all that bad, right? When she looked into his face, she saw he has a stunned look, there did looked kinda funny on him.

"gee" he scratched the back of his head so beetles jumped out (she giggled a bit over that sight) and when he added "never have a real friend before"

"you don't?... me either" she said sad "everyone has always seen me as a freak" she felt a hand been laid on her shoulder, she looked up and saw Beetlejuice looked friendly but also teasing down to her.

"You know Lyds, the two of us can be freaks together" she smiled to that comment, not exactly what she expected but it was far better than a normal and boring answer. He gave her his hand (literally!) to her
"so what do you say, kid?" he said with an impish smile down to her surprised wide eyed face "do you wanna be my partner in pranks?" So after the surprise he did give her his hand, she gave him a big smile and even he didn't say it, she knew he wanted to be her friend. She stuffed his hands back in place on his wrist and said almost laughing;

"yes I do"

I know some of you will probably start saying that; this is not how they meet. to be honest; I have always wondered why she will be friends with someone who first tries to kill her parents and then force her to marry him.

beside, the two Beetlejuice's have only the name in common... well almost, but it pronounce as the same. not so much with the rest.

so what that happen in the movie, never happen in my fanfic's. so either Babara, Adam, Juno, Jane or Otio will be seen in my fanfic, but I can (maybe) make someone there remind of these guys, just with other names of course