The next morning you get out of bed, and get dressed to go the Ghostbusters office to set up an appointment, then head over to Columbia University for an application paper. You call a taxi and go to the office (you remembered the address from the commercial), walking inside there is a woman sitting at the desk with short hair and big glasses. There's a nameplate on her desk that says Janine Melnitz,
"Hello? I need to speak to a Ghostbuster."
"Do you have an appointment?" She snaps her gum.
"No, but I will pay if I need major service."
"Major service? What is your case about?" She snapped her gum again.
"I think my apartment is haunted, but there's never been any major signs before last night."
"Last night?" She sighs, and presses the intercom button next to her computer. "Ray, there's a girl here who has no set appointment, but needs to speak to you about an apartment haunting last night. Should I set one for later this week or are you free at the moment?"
*over intercom* "Yeah, we're free. Send her up here."
*intercom* "Alright. He says you can go up to the lab, go up those stairs *she points to her left* and on the second floor they're up there waiting for you."
"Thank you." You said as you walked to the stairs.
"You're welcome." She popped her gum one last time.
You walk up the stairs and there on the second floor, where three men around a table and one sitting on a couch. You stood in the doorway, and tapped your knuckles on the wall to get their attention.
"Hello? Are any of you, Ray?" You ask.
One of them gets up from the table, and walks towards you with his hand out to be shaken.
"Yes, I'm Dr. Raymond Stantz. But you can call me, Ray."
You giggle and shake his hand, "Thank you, I'm (y/n). Nice to meet you."
"Also on the Ghostbusters team is, *points to the man who was sitting across from him* Peter Venkman, *points to the black man between them* Winston Zeddemore, and *points to the couch* Egon Spengler *who was tweaking on the PKE meter mentioned earlier*." Ray introduced them.
You stared at Egon longer than the rest of them, Ray noticed you seemed entranced and snapped his fingers in front of you, "Hello? (y/n), are you ok?" He asked.
"Yeah, um about my situation, oh." You snapped back to reality.
"What happened last night?" Ray asked you.
"Well, yesterday I was home all day except I was done finishing filling out some college applications I went out for a drink at a local bar." You nervously admitted.
"And then after you returned home, what happened?" He continued.
"I got a water from my fridge, put on some TV, then I must've dozed off. The the news was over when I woke up, *you chuckled* and then I...Uh." You suddenly stopped.
"You what?" Ray looked confused.
"I saw your newest commercial on TV." You chuckled again.
"Ah, then what happened?"
" I went to take a bath," You blushed. " and while I was, I heard noises coming from my room and when I went to investigate, a black mass bolted towards my apartment door. It kinda creeped me out, so I called my mom and told her my plan to come here and see what you guys could do." You explained.
"So, you want us to check to see if there's any readings in your apartment before we decide if it's a true case?" He asked.
"If it wouldn't be too much, yes." You replied.
"Well, I guess we don't have any major apointments today. *he rested his head against his hand* I suppose we could."
Your face beamed with excitement as you thanked him, he turned around and called everybody's attention. "Peter, Winston, Egon, we're going to help this young lady out. Get the reading gear ready, we won't need the big stuff just yet."
Peter got up from his chair and leaned against Ray's shoulder, "Ray, you know I can't do this today...I got a date with Dana and Louis is babysitting Osco for us. So you Winny and Egon have fun with this one, ok?" He left and winked at you. You rolled your eyes, not very ammused.
Winston got up after Peter walked out and shook your hand, "No need for introductions ma'am since Ray took care of that." He smiled warmly, you did the same back at him.
Egon on the otherhand was still sitting on the couch confused, still tweaking the little device with a small screwdriver. "Why isn't this thing working properly?" He mumbled to himself not really noticing you.
Ray called out to him, "Eggy(ee-gy), come on. This person needs our help, the PKE meter will be fine until we get back, just use one of the spares."
He looked up at Ray a bit irritated, "Ray, I don't like the spares they're more twitchy than this one. I made this one myself, the others are imperfect copies."
Ray apologized to you as he walked over and pulled Egon up a little by the shoulder, Egon got the message and stood up stretching. The white lab coat he wore slid down his pale wrists exposing a watch on his right, he was wearing a gray sweater vest and red tie under the coat, 'Odd fashion sense', you thought to yourself as you watched him. He cracked his back by putting his hands against his hips and curved backwards, then rubbed under his round glasses at his eyes. He sighed and brushed his hand through his hair (which had a poof in the front).
You stared at him again, like something was pulling you towards him. He looked back at you and you jumped slightly, he noticed you were staring. Ray noted the silence was getting too thick and tapped Egon and you on the shoulders, "Well, let's get going, we don't have much time since Pete won't be helping and it's just us." He walked you down the stairs together to the base level where the Ecto-1 was parked, you didn't notice it there when you walked in...must've been a subconsious thing. Ray got it just as Winston finished loading the scanning equipment carefully in the back, then Egon sat in the back with Winston. Ray motioned from the driver seat for you to get in the passenger side door...this car looked insane, this was going to be a fun ride home.
