Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from the movie Beetlejuice. I do own Kiera, Guinevere (Gwen), John, Bella and any other second character along with the storyline.

All right, so this is the third book, I suppose, in the Devil's in the Detail's Saga. This story is set 7 years after For Our Children. Kiera is now 15 years old, turning sixteen in a few months and a junior in high school. She has grown up to look like her mother and very devoted to her stuidies. She has grown to love photography, drawing and pretty much anything artistic. Gwen has been taking her ghost lessons from her Aunt Bella every Monday for the past 7 years and has gotten a little bit, but since she is half ghost and she was very young when they started, she hasn't progessed as far as she wanted to. She has also become quite a beauty, looking and acting a lot like Beetlejuice, which you'll see.

Bella is still here, and has not only tutored Gwen in her ghost studies, but also opened up a shop with Lydia and has become very close to her brother and his family. Beetlejuice and Lydia are still dead and look exactly the same as they always have. Lydia has not aged over her late twenties and Beetlejuice has not aged in well, forever ;) This will be an important detail later on.

This is the first chapter of the story and I just want to get everyone reintroduced into the characters on how much they've grown and changed since the time of For Our Children. I think that these characters are so complex that this entire story will both be a continuation, but a new story as well. Old ideas may arise, but new conflicts will be in there as well. I'm slightly nervous about this so please review this for me. I want to get everyone's feedback. I hope you enjoy!

Keegan Eavan

Gwen groaned as her alarm clock clicked on, turning it to her favorite top forty radio station. She slipped her hand out from underneath her covers and tapped her the end table next to her bed searching for the snooze button. Just five more minutes she said to herself and rolled over, her white blonde hair twisting in her bed sheets and pillows. There was a quick knock on her door before it opened and her older sister bounced in and hopped on her bed.

"Get up sleepy head, it's time for the first day of school." Kiera said, her black hair falling down around her face.

"Get off Kier, five more minutes." She groaned and put her pillow on top of her head and pressed it against her ear.

"Come on Gwenny quit being such a baby." She said and rolled her eyes hopping off her sister's bed and walking downstairs. She almost ran straight into her father at the bottom of the stairs and had to stop herself gripping the railing on the stairs.

"A little excited Kier?" Beetlejuice said smiling at his fifteen year old girl. She had grown so much, especially in the past year and now in just a few short months she'd be sixteen years old. She looked just like her mother, her long rich black hair tied up in a quick pony tail and her soft green eyes shining. She'd only just begun to wear a hint of make up, browns on her eyes and a brown gloss on her lips. She still wore the necklace that he gave her all those years ago, the silver J with an amethyst stone set in it.

"I'm looking forward to my new classes, I have photography and drawing this year. It'll be fun." She said and smiled up at him. Her father hadn't changed an inch since she was born, still the same bright emerald green eyes and not a hint of grey in his hair, a few smile lines around his face, but that was it. He still looked like he was in his mid thirties and just as strong as ever. She was now taller than her mother who was just a slip of a thing.

"That's nice, you'll do great in both." He said. "Where's Gwen?"

"She's being lazy and sleeping in." Kiera said and rolled her eyes. She turned to walk into the kitchen to get some breakfast. Beetlejuice just shook his head, a smile on his lips as he watched his daughter walk away, her pony tail bouncing from side to side since she had a skip in her step.

Gwen came down a few minutes later tugging on her navy blue sweater vest over her white dress shirt for school. Her blonde hair was still a rat's nest as she yawned widely walking down the stairs.

"Mornin'." She said in her yawn when she saw her father.

"Mornin' Gwen. Sleep well?" He asked and gave his daughter a little hug when she leaned up against him, closing her eyes.

"Uh huh." She said and yawned again. He chuckled and she gave him a sleepy smile. "I don't wanna go to school Dad."

"Don't you think it's a little early to start moaning? It is only the first day." He said and looked down at his youngest. She was a mixture of him, Lydia and his sister Bella. Her white blonde hair was a tangled mess that reminded him of the way he wore his before he met Lydia and her deep navy blue eyes were hazed with sleep. She had grown up to be just as pretty as her mother and aunt and while that made him swell up with pride he also frowned. Both of his girls were extremely pretty, beautiful really, but that meant that he was going to have to deal with boys. He'd already had to deal with a few with Kiera, but she wasn't that interested in dating right now. She had her friends and her hobbies and that was enough. Gwen on the other hand already showed signs of being boy crazy and that made him groan.

"But Dad, since it was summer I had double lessons with Aunt Bella, so it really wasn't like summer." She pouted. He rolled his eyes at her. Ever since she was six years old she'd been having ghost lessons with her aunt to strengthen her power. They had been so weak for the first several years and even now they weren't that strong, but she'd been practicing one a week during the school year and twice a week during the summers to strengthen them up to full ghost powers.

"Yeah, yeah blame it on your lessons, just like every other summer. Go in and get some breakfast with your sister." He said. She groaned and pushed off of him to shuffle into the kitchen.

"Gwenny you look like something the cat dragged in." Lydia said when she saw her youngest daughter shuffle into the kitchen. Lydia hadn't changed in over seven years and still looked like she was in her mid twenties. Her black, shiny not even hinted at by grey and not a single line touched her face. By all rights she should have looked like she was around forty by now, except for the convenient fact that she'd died so many years ago. She had the fresh youthfulness that kept her feeling alive and was now starting to get curious glances.

"Yeah, yeah." Gwen mumbled and was able to snap herself a spoon, but nothing else. Food was still alluding her and that was one of the things she wanted to learn the most. Lydia smiled and poofed her a bowl of cereal and fixed her hair so it was slick and shinny down her back. "Thanks Mom." She said and Lydia just smiled down at her youngest daughter.

"Come on Gwenny, hurry it up." Kiera said finishing her breakfast and grabbing her backpack. "We've got to get to school before it starts."

"Why are you so excited to go to school? That's just weird." Gwen said through her cereal.

"Cause I like school and I want to see some friends before classes start, so get a move on." She said. Gwen just rolled her eyes and finished her breakfast and gave another great yawn before she grabbed her own backpack and headed out the door with her sister, almost bumping into her aunt on the way out.

"Hi girls, have fun at school." Bella said as she walked in.

"Bye Aunt Bella." They both called over their shoulders.

"Gwen," Bella called. Gwen turned to look at her aunt. Bella had been dead for longer than her father and looked like she was twenty. Her long light brown hair was healthy and strong and her soft grey eyes shined at her niece.

"Yeah?"

"Don't forget our lesson tonight."

"You mean we still have to do it tonight, even though it's the first day of school?" Gwen asked, dumfounded.

"Monday's just like always Gwen. I'll expect you at the same time." Bella said. Gwen rolled her eyes and huffed as she turned back to walk with her sister to school.

"It's just not fair. I have school work, plus Aunt Bella makes me study my powers too." Gwen grumbled. Kiera shot a glance at Gwen through the corner of her eye. Her sister had been complaining so much lately and it was starting to get on her nerves. Didn't she realize how lucky she really was? She could do all the things that everyone else had to wait until they were dead to do. All because her dad was a ghost when she was born.

"How is it not fair? You have powers and I don't." She said. Gwen just shrugged at her older sister in reply which irritated Kiera even more. "You can be such a baby sometimes. You've been doing this since you were six Gwenny. You would think that you'd get used to the routine by now."

"I am used to it, I'm just tired of it. It's been seven years and I still barely have anything." Gwen said wrinkling her face up.

"Mom and Dad said that you would be kinda weak because you're only half ghost." Kiera said and shrugged.

"Yeah but, I can only do a few things. I can't even lift myself off of the ground yet." Gwen said in a huff.

"That's why you have your lessons with Aunt Bella."

"Yeah, a lot of good it does me."

"God Gwen, get over yourself." Kiera said and saw a few friends, walking away from her sister to say hello. Gwen stuck her tongue out at her sisters back. What did she know? She's never had to go through doing powers before, who did she think she is?

Gwen loved her Aunt Bella, a lot, but she was a stickler when it came to studying and doing homework. She couldn't understand that Gwen might want to hang out with friends or just chill at home. No, her aunt expected her to be studying all of the time and it was wearing her out.

"Hey Gwen." Melissa said walking over.

"Hey." Gwen said in a frown.

"What's the matter?"

"Oh, my lessons with my aunt are driving me nuts. I have to go over there after school, even though this is the first day of school." She complained.

"I still really don't understand why you still have to take those lessons. I mean you've been taking them forever." Melissa said.

"Ever since I was six." Gwen complained.

"Why don't you just play hooky. I'm sure your aunt would understand." Melissa said. Gwen just looked at her and shook her head. Her aunt, not to mention her mother and father would have a cow if they knew that she'd skipped out on her lessons. They never understood her, never and it wasn't fair.

"Have you noticed that Gwen is acting a little moody lately?" Bella asked Lydia when the girls had left.

"She's thirteen, of course she's going to be moody. That's what teenagers do." Lydia said and shrugged. Bella nodded, but lately having Gwen with her to learn how to control her powers had been down right difficult. Ever since she was eleven she started showing less and less interest in them and didn't seem to care anymore whether she could move something or not. Bella kept telling her that it was going to take a lot of time, but she just didn't want to listen to that any more.

"But Mom was able to master it in a few months, why can't I?" She whined to her aunt last week when Bella repeated her line yet again.

"Because when your mother died, she became a full ghost. She was able to master it because not only was she practicing every single day, she was also practicing for hours on end every day and she was a full grown adult. You're a child, learning how to do this, you are only half ghost and we only practice once a week. Of course it's going to take more time." Bella said feeling like a broken record.

"I am not a child anymore I am a teenager." Gwen shot back. Bella could only sigh and shake her head. She hadn't been around children in so long that when she met Kiera and Gwen for the first time it was an entirely new experience for her.

They had been so adorable when they were younger, ready to please and eager to learn. Kiera was still eager to learn, she could see that in her studies. She went after anything that interested her, much like Bella's mother had been all those years ago. Gwen, on the other hand would rather be laying around or hanging out with friends than doing studies. It reminded her of her brother in so many ways that it almost frightened Bella to see her young niece taking on the bad qualities her brother had and she hadn't seen any of the good ones.

"I wouldn't worry about it too much Bella, like I said she's going into puberty and everything will be either really high or really low with her for a while. We'll all just have to deal with it, she is so much more extreme than her sister." Lydia said and sighed. Kiera had gone through a little bit of trouble when she turned thirteen, but not a lot. Ever since she had her run in with John all those years ago she had been so overwhelmed with guilt about how she treated her parents before then that she kept herself in as much check as she possibly could. Lydia had actually feared that Kiera had been stuffing all of her angry feelings inside of herself, shutting herself down, but Kiera seemed well adjusted and happy. She didn't worry too much about her, but sometimes she did wonder.

Kiera was almost too eager to please her parents sometimes and Lydia had caught her on more than one occasion staying up late into the night studying for her next big test and she always brought home top grades. Gwen had always tried, but not drove herself into the ground with it. She brought home good grades as well, but she didn't worry if she got a B instead of an A and sometimes she brought home a C, which was fine and they didn't push her to get higher grades. Gwen was not only going to school, but had also studied ballet with her sister and she had been doing her ghost studies for the last several years.

"I don't know Lyds, she's acting a lot like B did when he was that age and let me tell you he was a hellion." She said. Lydia laughed at her as they walked out of the house and headed to their shop. Since Bella had decided to stay close to their family she needed a job and Lydia found that Bella had a good eye. They had decided just in the past few years that they would open a photography studio and they'd been fairly successful too.

"That," She said in a laugh. "Is something I believe whole heartedly."