This is my first Beetlejuice FanFic. I've only really been into the couple for the past year or two, but I've gone in hardcore. Obviously, I do not own these characters – probably Universal Orlando does or something. You know, except what characters I decide to make up. This is going to be a slow process since I'm not completely sure how often I'll want to write or how often I'll have time to write.
Also, if the rating did not warn you, later chapters might be sexual. Please be forewarned. Furthermore, if you wish to know specifically which chapters have adult content in them, I will try to remember to label them. Thanks bunches! ~ESTD
People are always writing fics about the movie verse coming first. But what if the cartoon came first and something happened to make Lydia forget her best friend? What if time isn't as perfectly measurable as we like to think it is? Please read to find out.
Time passes differently in the Neitherworld than it does in the mortal world. Some times this is a good thing and other times it is bad. But that's most things.
This is the story of how the passage of time in both worlds caused appalling consequences for two of the best friends the Neitherworld had ever seen.
Five minutes in the Neitherworld can differ anywhere from one minute, to two minutes, to two months, to two years, to twenty years in the mortal world. It is rare that a century passes, but it has been known to happen. This is the way the residents of the Neitherworld deal with the fact that they are no longer alive and have no right to visit the mortal realm. However, sometimes the reverse is true. There are times when five minutes in the mortal realm can feel like an eternity in the Neitherworld. All this story takes is four years in the mortal world and a full century in the Neitherworld for a man's mind to break and a girl to become a different person.
Perhaps a small premise to get our story started:
There are some, few and far between, who can visit the mortal world after fully passing over into the Neitherworld. These are not the friendly little house ghosts that are stuck to their mortal homes for 125 years. These are ghosts with power. Power to do amazing things, not least of which is the ability to travel between worlds.
These ghosts, with all their amazing powers, discovered – and subsequently kept secret – the fact that they could bring the living (or "breathers") back with them. What's more, as long as a living person is in the Neitherworld, the passage of time in both worlds will sync up. The same, after much experimenting, was discovered to be true in reverse. If one of these world jumpers was in the mortal world, time stayed synced for the duration.
What's more, a ghost with those sorts of abilities is able to track the passage of time in both worlds simultaneously. Unlike the inhabitants of the Neitherworld, the house ghosts, or "breathers" who are limited to one time. However, this is not something that comes naturally and requires constant focus.
When one is heartbroken it is very hard to focus. And that is how Beetlejuice – our "hero," for lack of a better term – came to lose track of time in his best friend's world and, in part, his own. It is also the reason he ruined everything.
