Hey everyone! Sorry for not posting anything the past week...I've been really busy at work. Yesterday was a pretty stressful day even though it was Saturday, but oh well! I had some debate about this next chapter, and decided to do something completely different so I had to rewrite almost everything I had and that's what took so long. I promise, after this, it will start to pick up, I think. So enjoy and please review! :)

As soon as she'd showered off the slime with painstaking efforts, Keira collapsed on her bed in a T-shirt and pajama pants. She was still lightheaded and even closing her eyes brought back the sight of the nightmarish ghost flying towards her.

The shape of the ghost had been human-like, but the figure also seemed to be trailing thick green smoke after it. What frightened Keira the most about the creature was its eyes. They looked almost human, but darker, like the life had been taken from them and replaced with shadows. Keira tried to shake away the vision, dreading the thought of going into the library the next morning, but for the moment she couldn't even force herself to move from her bed.

Her dreams were odd once she finally reached unconsciousness.

Her vision was foggy, like in most dreams, but she could make out that she was in what appeared to be a dark alley.

Well this is already headed in a bad direction.

Keira found herself walking towards the shadow-enshrouded end of the alley, a tense feeling in her mind as she moved. She could hear voices echoing distortedly through the shadows which made her hesitate. But her feet moved of their own will and she pushed on into the darkness.

The next thing she knew, she felt a sharp pain tear through her chest. She reached to clutch a hand to the sudden pain and found a handle protruding from the center of her chest. Her mouth opened in an exclamation of surprise and horror as her hand was instantly coated with her blood. She felt the heat as it rushed out of her body and she fell to the alley's ground, still bleeding out. She gasped and cried out as the rise of her chest caused her fresh pain. Her vision cleared for only a moment, long enough to see a white car go flying by the entrance to the alley. Then her eyes closed and the pain overtook her.

Keira startled awake, her heart hammering in her chest and her lungs burning. She grabbed at her chest where she could have sworn she could still feel the pain from her nightmare. She looked around her room, early morning sunlight filtering in through her curtains. She glanced at her alarm clock and could see that it was only a little past six in the morning.

"I guess that ghost experience really tired me out…if I slept over twelve straight hours…" She muttered to herself. She couldn't force herself to sleep any longer even though she still had a few more hours until her alarm went off, so she decided to get up and make a small breakfast before she had to get ready to leave for the library.

She was just sitting down to a plate of toast and scrambled eggs when her phone rang. "Hello?" She answered as she poured herself a cup of coffee.

"Keira? Hey!" Matt said. Keira smiled as she stirred a splash of milk into her mug.

"Hey Matt, I was just about to call you before I left. I'm sorry I didn't meet you last night for dinner. I fell asleep yesterday afternoon and slept straight through the evening and all night long. I wasn't expecting more than a quick nap, or I would have called you." She apologized.

"You did call me…" He said. "I got a little worried and was about to head over to your apartment when you finally returned my calls."

Keira had been taking a sip of her coffee and nearly choked on it with her surprise. She heard Matt chuckle lightly.

"You must have been dreaming because none of what you told me made much sense. You were saying something about a ghost and that you were feeling sick. I took that to mean that you were staying in." He said slowly. Keira scoffed.

"Well I definitely don't remember using the phone last night, but what you heard makes a little bit of sense to me." She smiled. "The Ghostbusters did find a ghost down in the library. They chased it outside and it disappeared. But not before sliming me…"

"Sliming you? Wow…that sounds gross, but awesome!" Matt said excitedly. "What was it like?"

Keira grimaced, recalling how long it had taken her to wash the goop out of her hair.

"It was pretty gross." She said. Matt laughed and she found herself smiling as well. She tucked a stray bit of blonde hair behind her ear.

"What did the ghost look like?" Matt pressed her, curiously. Keira opened her mouth to answer but then found that she couldn't remember what it had looked like. She frowned as she tried to pull the memory of the spirit charging towards her on the front steps of the library.

"It…it was glowing…" She started. Matt was silent as he waited for her to elaborate. She shook her head quickly. "It burst through the front doors of the library. The Ghostbusters sent me straight home after I was hit, but they stayed to replace the door somehow…I guess they have their ways…and they were going to look around for the ghost some more."

"But it was gone?" Matt asked.

"I-I guess. I haven't heard anything else about it. But if I missed your calls last night, I could have gotten one from the Ghostbusters and I just don't remember it." She said, combing her hands through her hair nervously.

"Well I'm glad to hear that you're okay. I really was worried about you last night." Matt said seriously. Keira winced.

"I feel terrible that I missed our date, Matt. Can we have a redo tonight?" She offered hopefully.

"Of course we can. I'll pick you up at seven?"

Keira bit her lip and smiled as her heart did a little flutter. She glanced down at her engagement ring with the little blue stone set into it and nodded towards the phone.

"I'll be ready. Can't wait." She murmured into the phone. She made a little kissing noise and then smiled as she heard him do the same. She hung up and quickly finished her breakfast.

She was able to freshen up and reach the library by 9:30, thirty minutes before opening time. Cindy was already at the front desk, sorting through the clutter behind it. She smiled in relief as she greeted her coworker.

"Good morning, Keira. I wasn't expecting you to come in today." She said. Keira flashed her a cocky smile as she placed her purse in a drawer behind the front desk.

"Why wouldn't I?"

"Ah, I see you survived your scare after all!"

Keira whirled around to see Peter and Ray strolling her way from among the maze of bookshelves on the opposite end of the building.

"How long have they been here?" Keira quickly hissed at Cindy. The other librarian shrugged.

"They had me open the doors for them a little before eight. To be honest, this is really exciting!" Cindy said. Keira smirked and rolled her eyes.

"How are you feeling, Miss Jackson?" Ray asked as he approached the front desk.

"Well, after a good thirteen hour night's sleep, I'm back to feeling a hundred percent." She smiled politely. Ray raised an eyebrow and chuckled.

"Well, I must admit, I'm jealous. We stayed here looking for that ghost until about nine last night. Not even a trace of it. We thought maybe we'd have some more luck getting a fresh start this morning." Ray explained.

"But so far, we haven't." Peter interjected. Ray pursed his lips and lowered his gaze to the ground, dejected.

"I'm not so sure about that, Venkman. I'm getting some very strong readings now…" Egon rushed towards them from another row of shelves, following the blinking meter in his hands excitedly.

"What is it?" Keira asked worriedly.

"Looks to be a class four entity…it's very faint though." Egon raised his meter and twirled around in a circle.

Keira placed a hand to her temple as she felt the beginnings of a headache forming there.

"Wow, we're finally getting something?" Winston asked as he emerged from behind Keira in one of the backrooms. Keira jumped and then placed her hand to her chest reflexively. Winston smirked at her apologetically.

"This is odd. After Keira left yesterday, that was when we lost all traces of supernatural activity around the library and now that you're back…" Egon turned towards her and frowned as the meter in his hand lost all signatures of the ghost. After a moment, he glanced at her over his glasses.

"It appears I was wrong." He said thoughtfully. He waved the device around for a few more seconds but couldn't find another reading. "That's strange…"

As quickly as it had appeared, the headache in Keira's temples was gone. She inwardly shrugged away the thought.

"Did you check downstairs again? Maybe the ghost went back to its original haunt." Keira suggested. Ray shook his head.

"We've been taking new scans down there every ten minutes. Nothing since yesterday afternoon when the ghost came out of hiding." Ray said.

"Could it be hiding from you now? Maybe it's somehow shielding itself. You said there was nothing down there yesterday but somehow you broke through its shield and were able to find it, even if it was only for a little while." Keira said. Ray and Egon both considered her thoughtfully.

"It's possible." Peter finally said.

"Hey, you're smarter than you look." Winston added lightly. Keira smirked.

"Well…I read a lot." She said, spreading her arms in a gesture at the library around her. Ray smirked at her, while Peter frowned as she beat him to the joke.

"We'll go look around some more…now that you're here, there seems to be a slight change in the readings we're getting. It was brief but it was there." Ray said.

"The library opens in just under twenty minutes…" Cindy piped up quietly. "Do you think it would be okay to open like normal today? Or would that interfere with what you men are doing?"

"No, I think it would be good to go about everything like usual. Maybe that's another factor that caused us to lose the ghost yesterday. When it realized that the library was empty, that's when it headed outside." Egon said.

"So it likes people?" Keira asked, trying to keep up with the Ghostbusters' thought processing. Ray and Egon threw her a glance.

"Some ghosts prefer heavy populated spaces, yes." Egon answered.

"Okay, so we'll open like normal, then." Keira confirmed, still feeling wary about the idea.

"You did great evacuating the library yesterday though, so we might want you on stand-by." Ray complimented her. Keira nodded.

"Alright guys, let's go down there. It won't hurt to check again." Winston said, turning and heading away from the front desk.

"Maybe someone should stay up here in case something happens…" Peter said. Keira flashed him a warning glance and then smirked as she noticed that Ray had caught it.

"You're right, Venkman. I'll stay up here with the girls. Good call." Ray smiled triumphantly as Peter scowled at him.

"Touché, Dr. Stantz…" He muttered and he spun around with a flourish to follow as Egon led the way back downstairs.

Keira laughed softly as the other three Ghostbusters went out of earshot and she turned back to Ray who was studying her thoughtfully.

"That thirteen hour rest has really put you in a better mood than you were in yesterday." He noted. Keira shrugged.

"I guess I should apologize for my attitude yesterday. I didn't know what to think about you all. From what I had gathered, I pictured you as frauds, but after seeing that thing…" Keira frowned as she once again couldn't pull the memory of what exactly the ghost looked like.

"Yeah, people have different opinions about us. But if you had been here a few years ago…" Ray glanced at Cindy who squirmed uncomfortably in her chair.

"Yeah, Matt told me all about his experiences with the Stay Puft Marshmallow man and the Statue of Liberty…and I must admit it was hard to believe. Then he showed me photos of his car covered in marshmallow…" Keira smirked.

"But you're still skeptical?" Ray asked. Keira shrugged.

"I don't know what to think anymore. That thing that covered me in slime yesterday was pretty real, wasn't it?"

"I'd say it was pretty real. We don't usually have that tough of a time capturing a ghost like that." Ray admitted.

"Well, I hope you find it quickly. I don't know how I feel about sharing my workspace with a ghost." Keira shuddered. She was surprised to hear soft laughter echo around her. She glanced up hurriedly but neither Ray nor Cindy acted like they'd heard the noise.