Beetlejuice character belongs to Tim Burton
Ella and the story belongs to me
Not my child?
a week walk by, but Lydia's 'sickness' or what it was didn't go away. Most of the time she just lay in her bed, sleeping the most of the day away and she only stood up for go on the bathroom or to get something(which she did as often she sleep) too eat.
It was on/off then he stayed with her or not. She could sleep almost(to his dismay) a whole day and only be awake few hours. So then he was sure she have everything in hand-length, he took to the Nietherworld to both find something useful to her and use some prank-steam off someone.
She only got a bit better the next few days, but still not enough, so Lydia finally decided to take on a hospital to figure out what to with herself.
"are we there yet?" she ask in his arms then he has teleported them to the nearest hospital.
"where are your patience when we need it? Yes, we are here, but we have to walk the rest of the way" he said smiling to her there again look like she was close to fall asleep "y'know? I can juice it gone"
"and take the changes to look worse? Better refuse here" she teased back then he sat her down so she could walk the last way.
"you can't look worse than me, Lyds" he morph his face to something gross and creepy
"Beej! People will notice!" even she was weaker than normal, her voice was still strong. She quickly nudge his head so he morph his head back
"then we will maybe got a shorter line" he grinned back, she only role her eyes at him and they both walk slowly over to the hospital.
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Beetlejuice hated lines. It. Was. so. Boriiing!
Lydia look like she was bored too or else the 'sickness' (or what it was) have knocked her out, either way she sleep up at him with her head on his shoulder. So now he sat here, bored almost his own brain out of his skull(but not enough to it did jump out of his skull) and now of the people here was not fun either, for they look like they was bored or 'ignore-every-one-around-you' mood.
puk
what the? someone have throw a small spitball after him, he look up and saw a young boy sat and 'tried' to look innocent, but he reveal himself then he keep looking at Beetlejuice. The ghost(only the sleeping Lydia knew this) know that look mostly from himself.
Never seen a ghost before, kiddo? Hey... you can be my new victim out of boredville Thought the ghost for himself but decide to only do something about it, if the boy was stupid enough to keep pushing his luck
puk
first round...
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second round.. one more time and you will got a scare of you life, kid
puk
it showtime!
Beetlejuice look quick around to see if someone look at him, it was only the boy who looked(stupid) at him. He turn his head against the boy and morph his head into a wasps head with long teeth. The boys eyes wide in fear and ran screaming away. All in the room woke up and either look confused or shocked around. Beetlejuice have already his own head back and snicked for himself for his genuineness.
At least I got my laugh today. Oh boy I'm genius
"Lydia Deezt. Lydia Deezt?" ask a nurse out in the room
"finally" Beetlejuice said to himself and woke Lydia up with some small pad on the cheek
"huh?" she ask
"it's our turn.. come on" he quickly make her stand up, making her almost lose her balance "before she thinks we are not here" he help her up and they follow the nurse into a small room. She began to ask how Lydia has it(isn't that obvious?! Beetlejuice thought annoyed) and how long she have feel it this way. After that she took Lydia's temperature, a quick blood test and polite ask them to stay in here a little longer. Beetlejuice looked at Lydia, she began to look better.
"how are you feeling?" he ask
"I don't feel so weak anymore. The power nap really work on me"
"Pff! You have almost snooze all day long in the last few days" he laugh
"I most have needed it..." she mumble. The ghost began again to get bored and it was here he saw a picture how a body inside look like. He just couldn't help it.
"hey babes. Look at this one" he flow up and make himself in miniature state. She only look curiosity at him. "this guy really need some new organs" Lydia make a small gasp, then it suddenly look like he was been eating at the picture "agh! He got me" Lydia look at his whole 'I-am-been-eaten' scene with wide eyes, probably not knowing she should laugh or not. He ended in the pictures stomach "hey. This a really stomaching bath" this time she laugh and the he jump out of the picture with a big grin "just be glad I didn't take the whole way out"
"eww" she giggle "I think that is someone never will remember. It just make my stomach hurt for the thought"
"uhh, good one babes" he laugh and nurse came back with a little smiled
"Ms Deezt and..?" the Nurse look at Beeltejuice
"B.J.. hers boyfriend" Beeltejuice said and wink his head against to her. "how ya doing tuts"
"B.J!" Lydia said too him, but she still smiled a little, so she was not mad at him
"oh okay" the nurse said a little unsure, so she decided to look back at Lydia again with the little smile "Congratulations Ms Deezt, you are expecting" Beeltejuice blinked confused;
"excuse me.. what?"
"she...she say.. I'm... pregnant?" Lydia said almost speechless. Beetlejuice felt like his whole being turn to ice... and not on the good way. "are you sure?" she ask the nurse
"yeah. Are you sure?" Beetlejuice said hard, that subject was not something people should joking about around him. The Nurse look at him with serious eyes.
"have you two have unprotected sex?" she ask
"yeah?" he said, it was not like there could happen anything.
"then it's quit possible sir. You girlfriend is pregnant"
"you don't-" he began close to be really angry
"B.J" Lydia stopped him with pleading eyes "not here"
Beetlejuice barely heard the next few questions... Lydia was pregnant and he knew that he couldn't be the father for he was a dead man and a dead can't give life. He was quite the way back to Lydia's apartment and didn't feel any better either.
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Lydia was shocked over hearing that she was pregnant, but she still was some kind of way glad for it. Right now her concern was most on Beetlejuice. Funny enough, he has been silent in the teleporting trip back.
"B.J?" she ask him slowly
"yeah?" he said back, he was not looking at her.
"are you okay?"
"no, I am not" he said a little hard, but he sighed deep and tried again "Lyds... I can't be the father to your child..."
Lydia knew that question will have come sooner or later. But what anger her a little was his next question.
"have...have you... been.. have you been with another-?"
"No" she said to him
"it can't be mine... dead cannot give life" he said to her and finally looked at her, he look desperate and hurt "babes.. there are no other possibilities in my head. Just tell me the truth and I won't be mad"
"I have not been with another man" she said again, this time a little harder "I have only been with-"
"I know you are lying, Lyds. I can't be the father of that life you bear inside of you" he look angry at her now and his gaze ran quickly over her stomach. He look more angry at her stomach than at her.
"I have not been with another man, Beetlejuice! I have only been with you!" she yell at him, she didn't like at all how he looked at her stomach.
"you lying Lydia! Just tell who he is!" he sneered high back "it is some guy you pick up from the street there look a bit like me!"
"how can you even think that?!" she hissed and try to calm herself down for his accuse. She thought over the past few weeks and she had a feeling that her morning sickness was really pregnancy sickness "I think it yours"
"I wish I could believe you... but I can't..." he almost whispered and looked away from her again.
"Beej..."
"don't" he lifted at hand to silent her, his clench his fists and sighed frustrated "just, don't 'Beej' me" she blinked when he suddenly laugh bitter "I should I told myself... this is why dead and alive don't 'get' together. I knew this-" he look hurt on her again "was way too good to be truth"
"Beetle-" he glared at her and she knew she was close to send him back. Lydia bit a little in her lip before she tried to reason with him "listen, we'll figure something out-"
"we?" she blinked again when she heard how cold his voice was "what do you mean by 'we', for last I check I was not the one there cheat" she notice that his eyes began to changes color, he was beginning to be angry
"Beetle-"
"SHUT UP LYDIA!" Lydia jumped chocked away, when he suddenly roared at her. This time his anger was pointed at her "WHY DON'T WANT TO TELL ME WHO IT IS?!"
"stop yelling at me?!" she yelled back, still chocked over his anger.
"I am not yelling at you!" Beetlejuice yelled back, he realized that he did yell at her, so he began to walk in circles "agh! Why did you do it? how can you do this to me? I can't even stand this!" he ask frustrated and angry
"just listen to me-"
"why?!" he snap "I have done everything for you and this is how you repay me?! By fuck with another man?!"
"please just-" but again he roared at her
"THIS IS YOUR OWN FAULT!"
"when tell me why it's suddenly my fault" she narrow her eyes at him
"because it not me, who have another breathers child" it sound like a mock in her ears "so it is you fault!"
"will you just-" this time she went silent when he grab her hard in her arm and looked more angry than ever she has seen him... he had never been angry at her before, so it scared her to see him angry now
"I hate you Lydia Deetz" Beetlejuice growled hateful "you don't want my love? Fine! I will not even think being your friend again" he almost pushed her away and Lydia could feel tears began to came up in her eyes "you are the most heartless person I know. You could just tell me you don't want us to be us anymore, but noo you just have to kill me all over again with that stunt!" he snapped once with his red-tipped fingers and all the picture of him and her scattered. Lydia looked shocked at him there keep looking at her with toxic-green eyes "I hate you!"
"please-" there he just step over the line, she knew he have been though a lot, but this was going to far.
"I HATE YOU!" he yelled now "I HATE YOU!" now she turn hurt and angry at him too, he will not talk to her, then let him have it his way!
"FINE! I don't want to see you before you can say sorry to me!" she yelled angry with tears in her eyes. He only looked angry at her and growled hateful, when she lifted her arms and said; "Beelte!-"
"Don't bother! I do it myself!" Beetlejuice walk past her and bump hard in her shoulder "and don't ever call me again!" he snapped once with his fingers and he was gone in a cloud of green mist
"you jerk" Lydia hissed once, but all her angry emotion was wash away for the new regretting she have in her heart and she let her tears ran "I can't even be mad at you... for I think you are right..."
so instead to be happy... she was so sad over that child she bear, only have bring them both suffer.
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Beetlejuice was hurt.
Hurt, frustrated and angry.
Angry at her or himself? That he could not decide.
The first thing he did, when he returned to the Road house was to trash everything there was in for five feet of him. He throw everything there remind of her inside his closet and when all his anger was out of his system, he sat in his completely destroyed couch and felt bad for himself. His neighbors did hear his rampages and he only need to say one line to them.
"Lydia is pregnant" so they leaved him. Not saying a word, for all of them knew that Lydia was probably the best 'nice' thing there ever have happen to him.
"fine. I was also better off without her" he growled to himself when he sat down in his ruin couch and took the remote control to his TV "who need love anyway? Not this ghost" he turn on the TV and saw some shows, the problem was just that everything he saw reminded him of Lydia. If he saw some stupid commotion about a trip to some stupid place he remembered that he once took Lydia there. He zapped away from that and a show with a vampire came on the screen, he remembered how Lydia and him had problems with a vampire and she has ask him to turn into a stick, but instead he(by accident) turn into a steak. He zapped more frustrated away and this time it was a show with really too much love there just hurt him to watch so he hissed once and kicked his TV hard so it turn off.
"she is not worth it" he reason with himself "so what if everything you watch remind you of her?" not sure why he did it, but his eyes ran over the place the picture of Lydia usually was, now there was only a empty space "dammit... I shouldn't have spent so much time with her" he mumbled and knew it will be very tough to forget her.
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Beetlejuice knew it will be hard, but he had no idea that this heart break will feel like he was been drove over more than once. The hours ran so slow now and the nights was the worst for he keep dreaming about her, Beetlejuice even lost his apatite for that too remind him of her.
"dammit... you have to eat old boy" he said again to himself while he keep playing with a beetle there tried to take the run for it "don't let history repeat itself" he knew if he keep doing this he will end up by erase his own soul, like when he cut himself of Lydia when he saw the law there could exorcist him and get her in jail after dead. That time he did it for her sake, but now it was her fault he has it so terrible and heart broken, just because she got pregnant with another breather. Beetlejuice sighed frustrated over his after-ife and smacked the luckily beetle away "go off, scud!" he growled to it, right now he was not at all hungry
"I hate you Lydia, look what you have done to me" he lay his head down on the table, remembering when he actually made her some breakfast, he close his eyes upset "is there really no way to forget her?"
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day... months... and years passed by and Beetlejuice could not take the solitude anymore, he tried to return back to her and was even ready to beg to come back.
The poor feature ghost found his best friend sitting in a room he didn't even reorganize and have never believed Lydia will set foot in the kind of place. Everything was so bright, even the clothes she wore and the only thing there look like something he remembered was her porcelain skin, raven-black hair and sunset dark eyes. Beetlejuice smiled weak over see his old flame again
"Lydia..." he whispered, he had not use his voice in a very long time since he end up in solitude. Lydia looked up from a women magazine(again a thing he never will believe Lydia would look in to) and gaze right at him in the mirror
"who are you?" she ask confused. He couldn't actually blame her for there most have gone years since he last saw. He tried to smile to her when he lay his hand on the mirror surface
"it's me" he said weak "you know?... me"
"oooh yes" Beetlejuice winced a little the way she talk to him like she taunting him "Beetlejuice"
"yes" he nodded and looked more pleading at her "wanna call me out?"
"no" she said and raise up with crossed arms "why should I? When you left I returned back to my child's true father" again he winced to hear this... it could not end like this
"Lyds..."
"I don't need you anymore, I am happy without you and you are just..." she waved careless with her hand towards him "a block around my life"
"give me one more change-"
"darling? Will you do something about that... thing there are in my mirror?" she called surely to her husband. Beetlejuice looked at the door where she called to that bastard there took her from him. His eyes wide in double size when a sandworm came out of the door, looking hungry at him. Beetlejuice immateriality backed away, trip and-
Beetlejuice woke up with a gasp when he hit the floor, he was beginning to sleep his days away in hope that will help on not thinking on Lydia. He lay with his feet up in the air for a second before he groan "I hate sandworms, even if it just was a dream made up sandworm" he looked quick at his calendar and saw it was soon four days ago him and Lydia broke up... or whatever it was. Again he groan, but this time it was a more sad groan
"I hate this... but damn I miss her" the ghost looked again the man-size mirror(he had thrown a blanket over it) in his bedroom "she has probably already found herself a new guy... the same jerk there make her pregnant" he came quickly on his feet snapping with his fingers so he stood in his regular striped suit and he folded his sleeves up angry "I want to see who it is and when I can juice him to a letterbox for taking my Lyds away from me" fuel be his new found anger towards this unknown guy, he rip the blanket off his mirror and with only a blink with his eyes, Lydia's room could be seen. Beetlejuice notice that he was evening, he didn't see a new guy in her room, but he did found Lydia(he felt his once beating heart, make a little beat by seeing her again) speaking in telephone.
"hi Ella, how was your trip?" she said into the telephone "it sounds great... me and Beetlejuice have a huge fight" he was really close to say something, but when he heard this, he keep silent "I am pregnant... I don't know either what I shall do. I have never seen Beetlejuice so hurt before and I don't think he will come back" he heard her sniffle a little, he felt a little bad for have hurt her, but his pride was really been step on with all of this pregnant thing "I don't think I can do this alone... what will you say, if you was in my place?" there was silent in a while, but Beetlejuice could hear that Ella have raise her voice a little "sorry... no. Ell... I won't keep it" that statement hit him cold. He realize what his action has make her do
she will kill it? For me? He thought and hearing this he began to think a whole new way Lydia always wanted a kid, what if she did this for me? What if she actually did this... for us? I will never get a changes bigger than this to be... Suddenly Beetlejuice felt so ashamed of himself. He has once said to Lydia that he always wanted kids, but it was too late for him now. His eyes darted a little when he make a decision there took a lot swallow his pride to do
"I can't be happy Ella, without Beetlejuice support, so I-"
"no" he said (Lydia said his name three times, probably without her own notice)and walk out of the mirror.
"Beej..." she turn around and look right at him. She hung up on the conversation with Ella "I-" she make a small gasp when he took her into a hug.
"don't kill it Lydia" he said to her, while he gently patted her shoulder, in hope she will stop crying and also because he truly need to feel her in his arms again.
He close his eyes for a little moment.
"I think you did it for make me happy, so even if I'm not the true farther of your child..." he shallow his pride in him, for now he did this only for her "just let me try to be"
Lydia look stunned at him, with few tears in her eyes. He wipe them gently away and she ask;
"you will love it, even if not yours?"
"yes..." he said and bite more of his angry pride in him "please... let me at least try" she look more shocked over his 'please' and he took a hand under her jaw "I will not ruin your only changes to be a mother"
she gave him only a very weak smile and gave him a hug. Part of him was angry over her betrayal and will have nothing to do with this 'life', he just hoped it will look like her and not after a another guy.
the part of him there loved Lydia will not see her sad, he knew she want a family and he could not give it to her, but it still hurt to think over that it was not his child.
"Beeltejuice... I have never been with other than you" she said after a good silent moment between them. He knew she tried to probably convince them both, mostly him... he close his eyes and only said;
"okay..."
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Lydia was grateful for what he did for her, but she still feel guilty for have done this to him, even she has no idea how it happen, Lydia really tried to think who the father of the child was. She knew she has been to parties, but she have never gotten(like him) so drunk, that she can't remember at thing next day.
So in her head, the father to the child could only be the one who could not be the father.
Beetlejuice.
Even her stomach didn't show sign that she was pregnant yet she was sad over Beetlejuice keep staying with her and help her when she was to weak to do anything. Sometimes she just wish he will stop it and maybe began to yell at her again, but there was no reason to him to do that anymore, he promise to be there for her and her unborn child, so she could not even say it was selfish. For he didn't do this for himself... he did it for her.
Lydia could see the he was really did his best to be there for her, but he could not hide all his bitterness. So just most of the time, they just sat beside each other, but didn't talk to one another.
"I'm sorry Beej" she said to broke the dreadful silent between them. Sometime she just wish, he will stop to doing this. She began to think she was the selfish one, because she so badly wanted to keep the baby.
"for what?" he ask while he just(not really looking) look at the series they watch in the TV
"for all of this" she sop, he look at her now. She just couldn't hold her tears back anymore "I am so sorry... if I know who the father was, I would have told you it immaterially-" he hushed her gently. He didn't say anything there could help to ease her mind. He too look a little sad but he just he sighed deep, turn off for the TV, took her up in her arms and took her into her bedroom to lay her in the bed.
"you better go in bed" he said to her.
"I'm sorry"
"I know" he only said and lay beside of her "just try to get some sleep"
"what about you?" he didn't answer her question. She sighed slow and lay herself in a more comfortable position and close her eyes to sleep.
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The next day she walk up alone and have a little stomach ache.
"Beej?" there was no response. She walk slowly over to the kitchen to get something to eat and it was here she saw a note there stand;
"we can't doing this. I need to seek something out. I will come back"
"I hope you find what you seek after..." she mumble for herself with lowed head.
so sad, but you can't blame Beetlejuice for reacting like this. he felt betrayed.
anyway, you have to wait on the next chapter to see what will happen with Lydia's future child
what do you think what will happen? I'm all ears... well, not literally XD