Thank you all for all of your wonderful comments. They've revived me and gave me a whole second wind with this story. I was wondering about this story for a while, but not now.

Chapter 21 Showdown and Chapter 13 BJ's Past have GOT to be my favorite chapters of this whole story, but I've got a biased opinion. :) So now Kiera knows it all.

But there's still more to come! Can you believe it?

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Beetlejuice walked outside, still fuming from his encounter with John. He saw Lydia sitting in the snow holding Kiera who was sobbing against her.

"Kiera." He called to her. Kiera heard her father's voice and turned her head. She tried to get up, but she was so cold that she just fell against her mother. Beetlejuice started running and when he got to her he pulled her up into his arms. She shivered against him, both from crying and from freezing.

"Baby, your so cold." He said looking at her. Her pale skin was now tinged with blue and snowflakes stuck to her black hair and face. She nodded and felt the tears welling up again and she turned her head into his chest.

"We have to get her home." Lydia said. Beetlejuice nodded and felt Lydia put her arms around both him and Kiera as they snapped back to their house.

Kiera looked back up and saw that they were standing in their living room. Beetlejuice still had her in his arms and he walked up the stairs.

"I want to know everything." She said weakly.

"We will sit down and tell you everything, but right now you have to get warm or else your fingers are going to fall off." He said. She gave a small smile and he laughed. "There we go Babydoll." He said. He set her down on her bed and bent down to look in her eyes.

"You promise that you and Mom are going to tell me everything?" She asked. He grabbed her hands and they were colder than his were.

"I promise, get into your pajamas and come back downstairs and we'll tell you everything you want to know." He said.

"No holding back?"

"No holding back." He said. She smiled and put her arms around his neck.

"I really am sorry Dad. I didn't mean those things I said." She whispered. He wrapped his arms around her and squeezed.

"I know you didn't Kier. Your mother and I understand." He said. She pulled back and nodded. Beetlejuice left her and walked back downstairs to where Lydia was sitting on the couch, her head in her hands. He walked up closer to see that she was crying silently. He sat down next to her and pulled her into his arms.

"We could have lost her." She sobbed into his arms. He didn't even want to think about that idea, it scared him to his toes.

"There is no way that we would have lost her Babes. I knew that you would catch her." He said, rubbing her back.

Lydia looked up at her husband, her eyes red and sore from crying and narrowed him. She gripped the lapels on his jacket and yanked hard on them.

"Tell me that you tortured that son of a bitch." She seethed.

"Let's just say that I gave the sandworm half of his meal, then the rest." He smiled. "You shoulda' seen his face as he fell down." Beetlejuice said. John's face was contorted into a mixture of panic and horror as he fell down, screaming high and loud as his upper body went to meet with his lower body, shreds of shirt and skin flying in the wind.

"Why didn't you exorcize him? Get rid of him permanently?" She asked. If Beetlejuice would have exorcized him then they wouldn't have to worry about him ever again.

"I thought about it, seriously Babes, but I wanted him to suffer for as long as possible."

"How?"

"Well ya see Babes, when you die again you go back into the waiting room, which sucks. Then if your torn apart, you don't automatically go back together. It stays that way for a while before you can have it reconnected. It's kinda like going to Juno. You gotta wait, then you gotta get called, then you gotta have some doctors reattach your body. I think it ends up taking up to a few years before you can have it done. Then on top of that he has to go back to that house. I figured that he hated that house so spending another hundred and twenty years or so in there is gonna be hell for him. After that I figure that we'll exorcize him. Only after he's suffered a good long time. Gotta torture him Babes, he doesn't deserve to be exorcized so quickly." He said. Lydia smiled at him, through the tears.

"I see, you're evil." She said, wiping away her tears. He laughed and pulled her in to kiss her cheek.

"You got it."

Kiera walked down the stairs, she was still cold, but she didn't care. She needed to hear everything as soon as possible. She saw her parents on the couch together and took a deep breath as she headed towards them.

"I'm ready." She said and they looked up to see her. Lydia held out her hand and grabbed Kiera's, pulling her in between them and wrapping a blanket around her.

"You getting any warmer?" She asked, holding her daughter.

"Yeah, I am. Can we get started now?" She asked. Lydia smiled down at her daughter and got comfortable. Kiera was sitting in her lap and she leaned up against the arm of the sofa, throwing her legs over Beetlejuice's legs.

"Where do you want to begin?" Lydia asked.

"The beginning. I want to know everything." Kiera said. Lydia looked up at Beetlejuice and he smiled, a sadness in his eyes.

"We really didn't want you or your sister to know this until you were much older, but with everything that has happened, you deserve to know the truth and all of it. I guess we should start with the fact that I'm a ghost, have been for a long time." He said.

"When did you die? How did you die?" She asked looking at him. She didn't seem upset or angry, but curious. Maybe she was still in shock over it and it would come later, but he prayed that it didn't.

"I died way back in 1367, about sixteen years after the Black Plague ended. I was thirty six years old. I died because I got into a fight and someone knocked me out. They threw me out into the streets and it started to snow." He said and took a deep breath. He didn't like reliving that, but Kiera asked so he'd tell her. He didn't want any more lies in his family anymore.

"So when did you meet Mom?"

"I met your mother when she was seventeen years old. Your grandfather and grandmother just moved into their house and there were a couple of ghosts who lived there that didn't want them there. In fact, they're still there." He said.

"Aunt Barbara and Uncle Adam." Kiera said.

"Exactly. Back then I was what you call a Bio-Exorcist. I got rid of the living in ghosts houses."

"But Aunt Barbara and Uncle Adam get along great with Grandma and Grandpa." Kiera said.

"Now they do, but back then it was an entirely different story." Lydia said. "I meet Beetlejuice because he wanted to get out. See he was restricted to stay in the afterlife and he wanted to be out in the living. To do that he needed to get married to a living woman. He chose me." Lydia said.

"So you weren't dead then?" Kiera asked.

"No Babydoll, I was very much alive." Lydia said.

"Your mother wasn't too keen on me back then. In fact the only reason she agreed to marry me was because she wanted to save Adam and Barbara from being exorcized. I sort of forced your mother into marrying me and well, it happened." Beetlejuice said.

"Wait a minute," Kiera said. "Mom told me that right after you were married that you were separated for a long time. What happened?"

"Well, I was eaten by a sandworm." He said and smiled.

"You mean that thing that...he was talking about?" Kiera asked and Beetlejuice nodded.

"Barbara was trying to send me back and I zapped her to Saturn, that's where sandworms live. Well she came back riding one and I was eaten by it. I had to spend five years in a place called the waiting room before I could be released. Since I was married to your mother I had to be released, no one could stop me even if they wanted to."

"Why would they want to?"

"I wasn't exactly the nicest guy. You know when I get angry, that's pretty much what I was like all the time." Kiera knew exactly what her dad was like when he was angry. He flew off the handle, yelling and screaming. It was scary, even if you were used to it.

"I had to get on with the rest of my life after that. I didn't know how long Beetlejuice was going to be gone. Juno told me that she'd keep him there for as long as she could so I live. I moved to New York and met...him." Lydia couldn't make herself say his name. "I told you this before, but we were friends and then we dated and I found out I was pregnant. He told me that he didn't want anything to do with you or me and left. I carried you and had you by myself. When you were nine months old Beetlejuice was released."

"I was told by Juno," Beetlejuice started.

"Who's Juno?" Kiera asked, interrupting him.

"She was my case worker, Adam and Barbara's too. She told us that when I married your mother I had to stay with her. I couldn't go run wild like I thought I was going to be able to. So I went to see your mother. She was twenty three by then and grown up. I never saw a more beautiful woman and I think I fell in love with her the moment I laid eyes on her again." He said. Lydia smiled at him and reached out to hold his hand. Kiera rolled her eyes.

"Then what happened?"

"Your mother introduced me to you and from the moment I laid eyes on you I knew that you were perfect. You giggled and laughed up at me and I just melted on the spot. After that we settled into a life, sort of. I slept on the couch and got a job tried to get to know your mother."

"I was starting to fall in love and it was quick, but I got very scared. Since we hadn't had the best past I didn't know what I was doing and I told him I needed to take things slow and get to know him as a friend first." Lydia explained.

"Things were going pretty well until your mother started getting phone calls and flowers from...him." Beetlejuice felt the rage boil in him even if he thought about John. "He said that he wanted her back, but your mother didn't want anything to do with him." He said with a thick smugness in his voice. Lydia rolled her eyes at him and he gave her a lopsided smile.

"I didn't want anything to do with him because of you, well, because of Beej too, but it was mostly you. Any one who could be so cruel as to leave you I could never forgive. Besides I think I'd already fallen in love with," Lydia really wasn't sure how to address Beetlejuice to Kiera now. She furrowed her brow and thought.

"With Dad." Kiera said and smiled at Beetlejuice. Lydia smiled down at her daughter and dropped a kiss on her head.

"Exactly, with your father." She said, her heart filling her up.

"So what happened after that?" Kiera asked.

"Well some very bad things happened. John,"

"Don't say that name in this house." Beetlejuice said darkly. Lydia looked at him.

"I had to. He came after me and scared me, but I made managed to get away. It was the day that you had your check up with the doctor. We came home and I had you all to myself, which was a rare thing back then. I was working very hard back then so I just got to see you at night for a little bit when I got home and had to put you to bed. I was so happy that I had some time with you. We sat on the floor and played when there was a knock at the door." Lydia said and took a deep breath and dropped her eyes. She never wanted either of her children to know what had gone on back then. She just wanted to forget about it.

"It's okay Lyds." Beetlejuice coaxed.

"It's so hard. Kiera, you have no idea, how evil that man was." Lydia said.

"I want to know Mom, please?" Kiera asked. Lydia looked down into her daughter's eyes and saw them pleading with her. She sighed and gave in.

"It was John, he burst into the apartment that we had and he was very drunk. He picked you up and dropped you. You were screaming so loud and when I reached to get you," Lydia said and her throat closed on her. She felt the tears rising up in her and she pushed them back. Her daughter didn't need to see her cry. "He grabbed me and pulled me away from you and knocked me down to the ground. He tried to rape me Kier. You were screaming and crying, your pretty face red with tears and I tried to reach you, but he beat me up." Lydia shook her head not able to finish.

"I walked in right before it happened and I pulled him up off of your mother and she ran over to you. I grabbed him and beat him until he slumped down. I would have killed him then, but your mother said that you had been through enough. We called the police and he was arrested." Beetlejuice said, his voice barely restrained.

"How bad did he beat you?" Kiera asked.

"I had two black eyes and bruises all over." Lydia said. Kiera looked at her mother. She looked like she was about to cry, but she didn't. "I wanted to come home then and so your father took us. He took care of everything and brought us to your grandma and grandpa's house. We stayed there for a little bit and you said your first word there." Lydia said softly.

"Dada." Kiera said and smiled. She'd heard that story a hundred times, but it seemed so much more important now.

"Yes." Beetlejuice said thick with pride. "When we were here we got news that he was out on bail. I wanted to keep you and your mother safe so I went back to the city and took care of things there. Your mother stayed behind to find us a place to live. When I was gone he came back to find your mother and kidnaped her."

"He told me that he only wanted me to get money. He took me away from you and from my family because he needed money to buy more drugs."

"What happened Mom?" Kiera asked softly.

"I came back early and your grandfather told me that your mother had been taken. I left to find her, changing back into my old self, which is what I look like now and every Halloween. This is what I wore all of the time and what I looked like. I found them and I was so angry that I sent him to Saturn where he was eaten." Beetlejuice said bitterly.

Kiera shook her head at the whole situation. She knew that he was mean when she talked to him, but to know that he did all of that other stuff. She wished they would have told her sooner, but she knew why they didn't.

"After that we decided to get remarried. We wanted a clean start and we got one." Lydia said and smiled.

"So when did you die Mom?" Kiera asked. Lydia looked at her daughter and sighed.

"Just a few months ago, back before Halloween."

"Oh," Kiera said she knew exactly when her mother died. "You didn't survive the accident you had in the river."

"No, I didn't." Lydia said. Kiera sat there in silence for a few minutes, taking it all in. Her parents were dead. It didn't seem possible, but there it was. She'd seen their powers for herself just a few hours ago.

"So those powers that you have...what else can you do?" Kiera asked. Lydia smiled at her daughter.

"Pretty much anything, really." Lydia said.

"Like what? Show me." Kiera said excitedly. Beetlejuice laughed at his daughter and got up from the couch. He changed from the clothes that he wore to a dog, then back and into a pair of jeans and shirt. Kiera laughed at him.

"What about you?" She asked turning to her mother. Lydia smiled and lifted her daughter into the air. Kiera giggled as she floated about and Lydia gently placed her back on the ground.

"This is so cool. I mean you've got powers. How many kids at my school can say that their parents have powers." She said.

"I think we're the only ones." Lydia said, a powerful relief washing over her, Kiera wasn't mad or upset that they were dead. She was too interested in what they could do.

"Wait a minute," Kiera said and furrowed her brow. "How come you and Dad can walk around, but Aunt Barbara, Uncle Adam and...him can't?" Kiera asked.

"When I married your mother we were bound to a contract. In that contract we were supposed to separate when your mother died, but on that night when I rescued your mother when she was kidnaped we finally professed our love for one another and Juno came, telling us that with the bonds of love she was set free from haunting and we could stay together forever." Beetlejuice explained.

"I see, so they have to stay in one place for a long time and since you love each other and got married you're free?" Kiera asked.

"Pretty much." He said. She nodded her head and smiled.

"Cool." She said. She saw the smiles on their faces and sighed. They weren't a normal family, since her parents were dead, but it was her family and she loved them.

"So how come you don't look like a billion years old?" She asked Beetlejuice.

"When you die, time stops for your body. I will always look like I'm thirty six and your mother will always look like she is twenty nine, forever." He said.

"Hmm, that's a lot." She said.

"Yes it is." He agreed. "Can you accept that?"

"Yeah, I'll be okay. Grandma's gallery...that was you wasn't it Dad?"

"You're too smart for your own good." He said.

"I recognized you when you turned into that lion. It was just like the sculpture Grandma made."

"She wanted me to model for her." He said and laughed.

"Now you and Mom and model." She said.

"You're the first person we told about your mother." He said.

"I think everyone needs to know. Especially Gwenny, she'll love it when you lift her up in the air like you did me." Kiera said. Lydia looked at Beetlejuice and took his hand.

"Do you think it's time?" She asked.

"It's better that the whole truth is out now. I don't want us to have to go through any of this again." He said and Lydia nodded.

"Let's go get our other baby." She said.

"Can we poof ourselves there?" Kiera asked and made her parents laugh.