AN: Ok here is Chapter two I want to thank my friend rubydesires for her help with the story cuz lets face it I'm not a very good writer. Plus a thanks for her review of the last chapter I do not own Beetlejuice that is copyright Universal Studios & maybe some what Warner Bros. & Tim Burton Nightshade belongs to rubydesires Spiderjuice belongs to me.
Chapter 2
Beetlejuice walked out of the Neitherworld Waiting room and jumped into his car, the Creepy Cruiser, changing into his black and white striped suit to head back to his place.
Back in the Livingworld Lydia walked up to her room after getting home from school. She moved out to the balcony after changing into her street clothes. Looking down, she saw a squirrel in the yard when a yellow and blue striped snake slithered up, grabbing the poor animal & ripped its head off. Then the snake drops it, and slithers off. Lydia covered her mouth in a bit of horror at what she just saw . . . and did she hear the snake snickering evilly at what is had just done?
A few minutes later, Lydia had boxed up the poor squirrel's lifeless body & gave it a funeral.
"What type of snake would kill like that just for the fun of it" she thought to herself "Didn't they only kill for food or protection?"
The Maitlands watched her from the window; they were wondering the same thing she was after she told them what she seen--plus the odd coloring she described. Neither of them had ever heard of a blue and yellow striped snake. Could it be another ghost? They didn't want to say anything to the Deetzes, especially Lydia, until they had proof, so not to put her through again what happened with Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice himself was just getting back to his roadhouse, driving over the bridge, and parking under the right side carport. As he climbed out of his Creepy Cruiser, he couldn't help but think back to the night Spider murdered him. He had left his partner in Crime, Nightshade, to finish up their latest con after getting word his brother wished to talk to him. Spider said he had toned down his ways, wanting to be a conman instead of a psychopathic murderer. That was not to be the case. When he got to the inn the two met and went up to Spider's room for some drinks.
Beetlejuice should have known better but family is family and when you're the oldest you got to help out (which is one reason BJ ran away before meeting Nights in a tavern and teaming up). A few swallows into his ale, he started getting pains in his stomach and throat. "Alexander what did you do?" he had asked, realizing it would be the last thing he'd say in his living life. "What's wrong William viper venom not agree with you? Oh, and don't worry about Emily. I tipped off Blackthorn's men. I'm sure they will take very good care of her."
Then all went black. Next thing he knew, his parents were picking him up from the waiting room to stay with them, he had a new name, and his mom made him take baths, and his dad made him get a job working for Juno. At least Nights was there, after being drown at the hands of Blackthorn and his men. It was a wonder she forgave him for leaving her alone to finish the con he thought up. Beetlejuice shook his head, clearing out the unwanted memories.
"I know what I need: a nice hot slime shower that will clear my head" Beetlejuice said to himself. He walked into his bathroom turning on the shower watching the hot ooze spray from the faucet. "And Nights says I don't bathe." His clothes disappear and he climbs in.
After a few minutes out side Lydia walks back in.
"You did a nice thing Lydia," Adam told her when she walked back in.
She looked to him. "I just don't get it. I never seen anything do that--it was just evil."
Barbra looked to her husband with worried eyes then spoke up. "I don't know Sweetie, there are just some things you can't explain. Maybe it was just one of those weird things. Go up and start your home work I'll bring you up something to eat in a second."
She nodded and hugged her ghostly surrogate parents then headed up to her room.
Barbra looked back to Adam. "What are we going to do if we are right, and it is another ghost"
"We don't have any proof that it is. We just have to wait it out till we know for sure we don't want to cause a panic" Adam told her leaning over kissing his wife's forehead. Then they both looked up the stairs not wanting anything to happen to the young girl.
Beetlejuice decided after his shower to visit Nightshade, but as soon as he showed up she sent him off to go grossery shopping for her. What was he her errand boy? It took him about an hour or two to get everything on her list. "What she doing throwing a party or something?" He packed up the back of his car and headed back to her mansion. Once there, he teleported himself and the grosseries into her kitchen.
"Did you get everything on the list?" Nightshade asked him when she saw him and started looking in the bag.
"Awwww come on Nights, don't you trust me? I even got your favorite eye scream: Beetle Pecan with 5% more beetles."
She eyed him a bit annoyed. "No B, that's your favorite, and where is my change?"
He smirked some "What change?"
All of a sudden he is flipped upside-down floating in midair and starts to be shaken with Nights' money, a couple beetles, a snake, Lydia's wedding ring, and the finger it was on starts to fall from his pockets.
"No change, huh?" She grabs up her money then lets him fall on his head.
He starts to scrabble grabbing the other stuff sticking them back in his pockets. "Thanks for dropping me on my head, not like I had a bad enough day!"
She laughs at him a bit. "Heard you tried marrying a Breather, got eaten by a Sandworm."
BJ smiles thinking of Lydia.
"You like her, don't you?"
He shakes his head at her comment. "Me? No, I don't like anybody. It was all a con to get what I wanted. I was after a peace of ass."
She raises an eye brow and smirks. "I've known you for over 600 years. You're not as mean as you act, B. You care about people. You just like acting like a jerk."
BJ covers her mouth. "Shut up! Ok ok, this stays here. There is something different about her. She gets our kind more then any other breather can. I can't stop thinking about her."
Nights smiles. "Aww, your so cute when your not being selfish."
He growls at her and walks out. He didn't have to take this from her.
Lydia looked at the clock, finishing the chocolate cocoanut chocolate chip cookies Barbara brought her then closes her school book, finished with her home work stacking everything up for school the next day. She started thinking except for the squirrel thing it has been a pretty good week. She had the Maitlands, she made a couple friends, Bertha and Prudence, but there was something still missing that she couldn't put her finger on. But at lease she was happy sometimes, and that's better then never. She went up to the attic where Adam was working on the model of the new Town Hall.
"Hey Mr. Maitland, how is the model coming?" she said smiling when she saw him.
He looked up from his work. "Its coming along really well. You got some great shots. They make it really easy to build it."
She smiles, happy she is appreciated. "I finished my home work, think it will be ok if I go for a walk?"
He looks up at the clock hanging on the wall. "Its fine by me, but ask your parents first."
She frowned a bit. "Fine, I will. Bye Mr. Maitland." She then headed down stairs to her Father's office. "Daddy, I'm going for a walk."
Charles looked at her a bit. "Ok Pumpkin, be back before dark"
"I will, daddy." With that, she rushed down and out of the house. She was making her way toward the bridge when she heard something rustling. Slowly she turned in the direction the sound was coming from and a skinny black cat comes leaping out of the bush grabbing onto her shirt shaking as if it might have a heart attack any moment.
From the bush after the cat, a rabid looking dog bearing sharp yellow teeth walked out. It had clearly been chasing the cat, trying to get it. Lydia looked around and saw a stick. Holding the cat to her, she picked it up. "Stay back, I'm warning you," She told the ugly dog, backing away some, but the thing did not pay her any mind and leapt at her. She swung the stick and BAM! Clocked the dog across the head with it, knocking it back to the ground. She then ran as fast as she could toward her house, still holding the scared cat in her arms.
The dog turned into a man, getting up. He was dressed in a yellow and blue striped suit, blue boots, and bow tie. In addition, a red-orange shirt. He grinned, his yellow teeth showing. "She is going to be more fun then I thought." His voice was deep and dark, almost a growl demonic like. He then vanished after watching her run.
Lydia made it home, slamming the front door quickly behind her, breathing hard. Her heart felt like it was going to leap out of her chest and she swallowed a few times. After they both calmed down, the cat rubbed on her purring. It was grateful for her saving it.
Delia walked into the living room. "What do you have there, Lydia?"
Lydia looked down to the cat, then to Delia. "It's a cat, Mother. I saved it from a dog. Think I can keep it?"
Delia looked the poor thing over. "I suppose it's alright as long as it doesn't break anything."
Lydia hugged the poor little cat. "I'll call you Percy." She then walked up to her room to find a place for the new member of the family to sleep.
Back in the Neitherworld, Beetlejuice laid in his coffin shaped bed, not able to sleep. True to what he told Nights, he could not stop thinking of Lydia. Then he started to worry some about two things. "What if I'm going soft? What if Spider saw the wedding and goes after Lydia? Who knew I would care for a Breather?" Ok, so it was three things that were rattling his mind. Then he got an idea. A Neitherworld two-way mirror. Using magic, he could link it with any mirror in the Livingworld. He stole it last week and was going to link it with a mirror in a high school girls locker-room but his gut told him there was something more important he could use it for.
He hung it on his bedroom wall, and using his ghostly powers, linked his two-way mirror with the one in Lydia's bedroom. When he looked through, he saw her sleeping peacefully on her bed, with Percy by her side. "Ok, good, now this stupid feeling can go away, and I can get my dirt nap." He yawned and started to float to his bed when he heard a scream coming from the other side of the mirror--then the evil laughter he knew could only come from Spiderjuice.
AN: Thank you for reading Chapter three will be up as soon as I write it. It might only be about three or four Chapters Please Comment & Review let me know what you think.
