Series: 31 Nights of Frights, Part Deux
Title: Well, You Certainly Know How to Show a Girl a Good Time
Author: Jmaria
Rating: FR-15
Disclaimer: Joss owns Amanda, JK owns Cedric.
FfA Pairing: Amanda/Cedric Diggory (HP)
Summary: 31 encounters of the creepy and not so creepy kind. FfA pairings.
Part Summary: Adolescent ghost seeks similar type for companionship and conversation.
A/N: The term skelping (spelling may be off) comes from the movie High Spirits starring Steve Guttenberg, Darryl Hannah, Peter Gallagher, Peter OToole, and Liam Neeson.
31 Nights of Frights, Part Deux
Well, You Certainly Know How to Show a Girl a Good Time
Amanda leveled her best mock-Buffy glare. When she'd put out feelers for a new face to hang around and haunt with, she hadn't been expecting the good-looking All-American type to answer to her. Except he wasn't American, so she supposed he was really more of British version of an All-American. The polar opposite of her - both the living and dead versions of her.
"You're not what I'm looking for," Amanda said bluntly, turning her back on the tall dark-haired ghost. "You're the exact opposite of what I'm looking for."
"What's wrong with me?" He'd said it with such hurt in his puppy-dog eyes that part of her snapped.
"What's wrong with you? You are nothing like me, you won't get me, you've probably already judged me as being someone so insignificantly puny that you can never understand me. Hell, you probably died in a car accident after one too many keggers at the frat house! You could never understand how I died or why I died -"
"I didn't die in a car accident and I've never been to a frat house or a kegger," Cedric snapped at her, anger flashing through his gentle eyes. Amanda floated back a few steps as he continued to take his own frustration out on her. "I was the bumbling idiot who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The I found myself stuck here, watching my ex make time with the Boy Who Lived. So I think I have enough brain cells to grasp what youre going through!"
There was a tense silence for several moments. It took that long for the slight anger and resentment to finally burn itself off. Amanda spoke first.
"I kinda died the same way. Wrong place, right time, wrong left turn," she muttered. "Sorry I jumped down your throat."
"Sorry I jumped down yours," Cedric answered.
"So what do you know about skelping?"
"Excuse me?"
"Skelping, you know, ghost sex?" Amanda asked curiously, hovering closer to him.
"Not much," Cedric felt his cheeks darken in embarrassment. This girl certainly switched gears fast. "Why?"
"Well, I was a virgin when I died, and I'd rather not be one in my afterlife."
"I know what you mean," Cedric murmured, thinking about his own doomed love life.
"So, what do you say?"
"Say to what?" Cedric asked, his head snapping up to see her smiling brightly at him.
"To skelping with me."