I DON'T OWN GHOSTBUSTERS, OR ANYTHING AFFILIATED WITH IT. I AM MAKING NO PROFIT OFF THIS.

AN: I should mention that this story will bounce from Ray's thoughts to Rose's thoughts. I'll try to make it as least confusing as possible, but I can't guarantee anything. Also, I will have to change some lines a little bit to make Rose fit in. It shouldn't be anything major, so don't worry. Just a little tweak here and there.

Chapter 2

"Hello," a man said, walking up behind their group. Rose turned to look at him and a spark of attraction flickered in his eyes. Ray resisted the urge to pound the jerk who dared to look at his Rose like that.

Whoa, calm down, Ray. She isn't 'yours'. And I doubt that she would appreciate you staking claim on her like that. Ray thought to himself, trying to relax his jealousy.

"I'm Roger Delicour. Are you the men - and lady - from the University?" he said, his eyes again flickering towards Rose. She tried her very best not to roll her eyes. However, she did move a little closer to Ray, who felt his heart swell with happiness that Rose actually wanted to be near him.

"Yes," Peter said, drawing Delicour's attention away from Rose. "I'm Dr. Venkman." They shook hands and Peter gestured to Ray and Egon and said, "Dr. Stantz. Egon."

"Ah, and you are, madam?" Delicour said to Rose.

"I'm Rose Venkman." She stuck her hand out, trying to be polite. Delicour took her hand and kissed her knuckles.

"Oh, are you Dr. Venkman's wife...?"

Rose tried not to look disgusted, but failed and said, "No, he's my brother."

"Oh, so are you single?"

"Okay!" Ray intervened. "You've got a ghost that you need taken care of, don't you?"

Rose wondered if Ray was jealous that this creep was hitting on her, but then told herself that she was being silly. Why would he be jealous?

"Yes. Thank you for coming. I hope we can clear this up quickly and quietly."

Peter looked at Delicour and said, "Let's not rush things. We don't even know what you have yet."

Delicour led the way to a smaller room where their frightened witness, Alice, was lying on a table. Alice immediately started telling them about her experience.

"I don't remember seeing legs, but it definitely had arms, because it reached out for me!" she said, clearly distraught.

Rose would have felt sorry for the poor woman, if she hadn't been excited that she might actually see a ghost. Clearly, Ray, who was filming the interview, felt the same way because he said, "Arms? I can't wait to get a look at this thing!"

"I know, right?" Rose whispered to him. Ray nodded and smiled that adorable boyish smile at her.

"Alice," Peter said, "I'm going to ask you a couple standard questions, okay?"

Alice nodded and Peter continued, "Have you or any member of your family ever been diagnosed schizophrenic, mentally incompetent?"

"My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome," Alice said. Peter, Ray, and Rose all looked at each other and Peter said, "I'd call that a big yes. Have you been habitually using drugs, stimulants, alcohol?"

"No!" Alice exclaimed.

"No, no. Just asking," Peter replied. "Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?"

Rose personally thought that Alice was postmenopausal, but maybe she looked older than she was. Besides, Rose had never heard of anyone hallucinating a ghost while on their period before.

"What does that got to do with it?" Delicour asked, slightly disgusted that Peter mentioned the woman's period. Rose rolled her eyes and muttered very quietly under her breath, "What a wuss."

Ray looked sideways at her and nodded in agreement. Peter, on the other hand, simply said, "Back off, man. I'm a scientist."

Rose wondered if Peter was a little upset that Delicour hit on her. I mean, he is my older brother. Isn't he supposed to be protective of me when it comes to guys?

Just then, Egon, who had been tracking the ghost, rushed in and said, "Ray! It's moving. C'mon." Ray grabbed his equipment and followed Egon. Rose and Peter followed after the other two. Delicour followed them until Peter turned around and said, "Look, Roger. Can I call you Roger? Good. Roger, we don't know how dangerous this ghost is, so for your own safety, stay here and leave this to the professionals, okay?"

Delicour didn't have time to answer Peter before he and Rose took off again.

"I think you've got an admirer, Rosie," Peter said, teasingly.

"Shut up, Pete. I'm not remotely interested in him," Rose told him.

"Yeah? Well, Ray didn't look too thrilled that he was hitting on you."

"I said, shut up, Peter."

"Ooh, touchy, aren't we?"

Rose glared at him and he said, "Alright, alright. Relax. I'm just sayin'."

Rose walked faster and caught up with Ray and Egon, who were tracking the ghost, very concentrated. The tracker led them to the basement. Peter followed slowly, as though he wasn't interested. The four of them walked through shelves and shelves of books until they came upon a stack of books that went from the floor to the ceiling.

"Look!" Ray said, pointing at the stack.

Ray and Rose took to one side and Egon went to the other. Peter just stayed behind. Ray was filming all of this excitedly and Egon ran his PKE meter along the stack of books.

"This is hot, Ray," Egon said.

"Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947!" Ray concluded, still filming.

"I read about that in one of my parapsychology classes!" Rose blurted out. "It was so weird."

The three men looked at her and she said, "What? I went to college, y'know!"

"Yeah, but we didn't know you took a class on parapsychology," Peter told her.

"That was my major, Pete. I minored in Occult Studies."

"Cool," Ray commented. Rose smiled at him, and he blushed lightly again. Rose tried not to get her hopes up but maybe, just maybe Ray was interested in her, like she was in him.

Peter turned his attention back to Ray's previous comment about the book stacking. "You're right, Ray. No human being would stack books like this."

"Leave him alone, Peter! At least he's making connections to other paranormal occurrences. All you're doing is making snide jokes."

Ray blushed at Rose's defense of him which, luckily no one noticed. Peter frowned a little in annoyance. He didn't seem to like that his little sister kept defending Ray against him.

Ray decided to switch the attention from Rose to something he noticed. "Listen," he said. "You smell something?"

Rose raised an eyebrow at Ray's choice of words but she understood what he meant. She smelled something nasty. Egon looked at his PKE meter and started walking towards the next section. Ray and Rose followed him, and again, Peter lagged behind, completely uninterested.

They came upon an area that looked like a hurricane went through it. "Talk about telekinetic activity! Look at this mess!" Ray exclaimed, still as excited as ever.

Rose noticed something that Egon was looking at. "Ray, look at this!" Rose told him.

He came over and looked at the clear goo that was dripping off four or five drawers that were pulled out. "Ectoplasmic residue!"

"Venkman, get a sample of this!" Egon said, handing Rose a Petri dish.

"Yeah, Venkman, get a sample of this!" Rose handed the dish to Peter, who grimaced. Egon smirked at Rose who simply smiled innocently.

"It's the real thing!" Ray breathed, filming every second of it.

"Somebody blows their nose and you wanna keep it?" Peter asked Egon.

"Oho, do we have a skeptic in our midst, Ray?" Rose asked him, jokingly.

"I think so, Rose!" Ray joked right back. Peter made a face at both of them.

"I'd like to analyze it," Egon explained.

"There's more over here," Ray said. Peter started scraping residue into the dish.

"I've got stronger readings over here, this way," Egon told them. Meanwhile, Peter had managed to get the residue all over his hands and started wiping it on the books.

Ray filmed Peter trying to get the residue off him and said, "Come on!"

They turned a corner and Egon kept waving his PKE meter around. Peter came up behind him and said, "Egon, your mucus."

Rose snorted softly in amusement at her brother and Egon took the dish from Peter. All of a sudden, a bookcase fell over behind them, causing them to jump back. Rose stumbled a little, right into Ray. He put his hand on her waist to stop her from falling over.

"Oops, sorry, Ray. Thanks for not letting me fall," Rose said. Ray blushed and said, "No problem."

As the dust that the bookcase rose settled, Peter turned to Ray and asked, "This happen to you before?"

Ray closed his eyes and shook his head. Rose looked between the two as her brother said, "Oh. First time?"

Ray nodded this time. The three of them started following Egon again as his meter started glowing and making noises, again. They turned a couple more corners and stopped when Egon put his hand up. His meter was going bonkers. They edged forward slowly and Egon turned to his right. He stopped, looked up and said, "It's here."

"A full torso apparition," Ray whispered in her ear. His voice at her ear sent shivers up and down her spine and she struggled to let it remain unseen. She turned to Ray and whispered, "I know, and it's real."

Right there in front of them was, indeed, a full torso apparition. Rose subconsciously grabbed Ray's hand and squeezed it tightly; she was a little frightened. To read about these kinds of apparitions was one thing, but to have it right in front of you was another story entirely.