A/N: OMG even though I got two reviews I'm HAPPY! -does happy dance- Ok thanks guys! It means a lot to me. It kind of helped me get through my gloomy stage and drama. So on with the story.

Beetlejuice, Lydia, Juno, etc. are not my characters. All credit is to Tim Burton. Ari, Allen, and Aladdin are my characters.

Warning: Violence (mild, almost small)


Chapter 8:

Juno saw the flash on the reflection of the Lost Soul door. "LYDIA!" The light engulfed all three of them. Their thoughts could be heard.

"What's happening?" Clearly Beetlejuice's thought.

"Lydia is using her 'light' to save you. Someone with 100 years of practice could only do this. She may lose control and destroy her. It will save us, but not her. Doing this could possibly leave her disabled. It's an 80 out of 100 percent that she would have a disability at the end of this." Juno thought. She felt Beetlejuice tremble in fear of losing Lydia.

"Lydia! Lydia! Answer!" Beetlejuice yelled in his thoughts. What a big headache was Juno going to have after this.

"Why can't she hear us?" Beetlejuice asked, anxious.

"She is doing this unconsciously." Juno replied. She has been here before with Allen except it was in different situation and he had more control over it than Lydia.

"When will she-" The light disappeared, severing the connection of thoughts. Juno collapsed to her knees, breathing hard. Beetlejuice was pinching his arm to see if he really was back into his body.

He pinched himself very hard "OUCH!" He yelped. "Okay, I'm real. Where's-" Beetlejuice stopped himself when he saw Lydia laying on the checkerboard ground. He rapidly knelt down to her left side, grabbing her shoulders firmly and shaking her.

"Lydia. Lydia. Lydia! Lydia, wake up! Lydia, wake up. It's not time to go to sleep yet! I'm ready to go prank! Let's go have fun! Let's have our first date! Let's get married! Lydia!" Beeltejuice rambled on, nervously.

"LYDIA! NOT NOW! DON'T LEAVE NOW WHEN WE JUST GOT HERE!" Beetlejuice let go of her shoulders and laid his head on her tummy. "You're stupid, Lydia. You could have just left me go. You could have just lived on without me. Then you wouldn't be like this, you wouldn't be dead."

Juno turned around to watch Beetlejuice and Lydia.

She snapped her fingers, transporting Lydia back to her bed with Beetlejuice seated on a chair next to her, his head resting on the bed while his hand was holding Lydia's left hand. Hospital equipment had gotten attached to Lydia by dead nurses who disappeared once their job was done.

Adam and Barbara along with Delia and Charles were in the room, shocked by the sudden appearance of Lydia and Beetlejuice and the state Lydia was in. "How?" Adam asked, afraid of the answer. Barbara gasped at the sight of Lydia with her eyes closed, her chest moving slightly and bruises and cuts covered her arms and legs.

"The cuts and bruises are from Lydia unknowingly using her pure soul powers. She didn't know how to yield it." Juno stated, smoking her cigarette and dropping it to the floor, grinding it to the floor.

Delia held Lydia's right hand, opposite of Beetlejuice, while Charles wrapped his arm around Delia's shoulders.

"Pure soul powers? I don't know what they are, but why did she use them?" Barbara wondered.

Juno got out another cigarette and lit it, inhaling deeply. Everyone moved their eyes to Beetlejuice, accusing.

Beetlejuice didn't pay attention to them, his mind was on Lydia. His attention was on Lydia. Everything ached for her. He blamed himself for what is happening, but he didn't need anyone else blaming him. He already knew what he has done.

He whispered softly in Lydia's ear, whispering promises and loving words that no one could hear.

"Just take care of her. She's in a coma." Juno said, detached. She wanted to get out of here; she no longer had the strength to fend off her memories. "It may take a few months to recover. If she is lucky, she could recover in a few weeks. It varies." Juno then vanished into her crowded office that was over-filled with files.

She threw her cigarette into the ashtray and fell into her chair with a satisfying plop. The memories where like flipping channels that were all the same channel.

"Allen, I really want this job. This might be the thing that saves me." Juno pleaded.

They were in a checkerboard floored hallway that had no doors except for one that was at the end of it.

"So you want to be miserable for the rest of your after life? You want to be suffocated by files, love?" Allen snapped.

"It doesn't matter. I need to do something. I need to busy my hands so I," Juno replied

"Don't have drama. So you don't feel pain or anything else. You want to be emotionless or let me say another term you know, darlin'. You want to be numb." Allen finished off her sentence, angrily.

"I can change it, Juno. Don't you understand this is what love is? It's scary, but it's wonderful because you know that you have someone else right beside you the whole time. Someone who says 'I'm here. Let's share our burden with another.' Someone who loves you back with their life, but not more than they love themselves because that's not healthy." Allen stated, cupping Juno's left hand with his two.

Juno looked into Allen's gray eyes. "It's not that I don't love you, Allen. I do love you." She pulled her hand out from his hold.

"Then what is it, love? What is it that frightens you?" Allen asked, urgently.

"It is becau-" Juno felt something rip inside her. She howled in pain. She covered her wounded left side near her ribcage.

"Here you are." Aladdin came in, his hands filled with his power. "Such a sight I'm seeing right now. It was almost like a melodramatic T.V. show."

Allen's eyes harden and Juno turned around slowly to face Aladdin.

Juno aimed her left hand at Aladdin, suspending him mid air. Aladdin tried to shoot his powers at Juno again, but couldn't. "Allen, finish him." Juno said through her clenched teeth. Aladdin began to laugh.

"Oh Juno, you are blinded by love. You knew I couldn't follow you here since Judge Mental is protecting you, so did you ever wonder how I got here and found you?" Aladdin taunted.

Allen went stiff. Juno shook her head, the answer already in her mind.

"Oh I know you can put 2 and 2 together." Aladdin said, impatiently.

Juno shook her hand again. "It was Allen. He led me to you. He tricked you into going here. He lied to you, Juno." Aladdin said, jabbing a finger toward Allen. "Say it with me, Juno, 'Allen betrayed me.'"

"No." Juno croaked. She turned to Allen, still leaving Aladdin in mid air, "Tell me it's not true." Allen cast his eyes down to the floor. "Tell me, Allen. Say it's a fib that he is saying to weaken me."

"ALLEN BETRAYED YOU!" Aladdin laughed. Juno turned her attention back to him, slamming him into a hallway wall, making him unconscious.

Juno then turned to Allen, once again. "Please tell me it's a lie."

"It's not a lie." Allen finally said.

"Why?" Juno asked, tears already forming in her eyes.

"Let me heal you." Allen said, getting closer to Juno. Juno took three steps back and she saw pain flash in Allen's eyes. "Why?" Juno asked again, almost choking. The lump in her throat kept getting bigger. Allen engulfed them in his pure soul light. His thoughts connected with her since he was conscious.

"I didn't want you to go into that job. Giving Aladdin where you were going to be was to show how dangerous the job is for you."

Juno felt the light slowly mend her broken ribs. Juno then began to cry, not because of the healing, no because of his reason. "You put me in danger and you have the guts to say you love me?" Juno sobbed.

"What's the matter with you?" Their connection was ended. Juno stood up, wiping her tears with the back of her hand. Judge Mental had already Aladdin and he grabbed Allen.

"Juno, I love you. I always will." Allen said, over his shoulder when he was being taken away.

Juno sunk into her knees.

A few months later, Allen became the over looker for a place created for him. The Lost Soul Realm. Aladdin was tossed into the darkest corner of it. The door had been placed where the incident happened.

Juno got her job in the office. She was numb like Allen said she would be.

However, she became numb from him, not from the job. It was is betrayal that made 'love' become a myth for Juno.


A/N:Hopefully, you enjoyed it! Leave a review! And I think this was my fastest update ever... :o