Surprisingly, in the while that I was gone, I still don't own this movie, franchise, or anything Ghostbusters related. Just my OC.
At the sound of a knock at the door, Dana Barrett looks up from her cello and sets it down carefully, yelling "I'll get it" so that her nanny could stay with Oscar.
She opens the door and smiles when Juliet greets her. "Hi Julie." she says, giving her a hug.
"Hey." Juliet says happily. Dana steps aside to let Egon and Ray in and she greets them warmly as well.
"Hi Dana." Ray says as Dana hugs him.
"Hi, Ray. How good to see you!" she smiles and steps back. "Thanks for coming."
Ray smiles. "Hey, no problem. Always glad to help- and hug!" he added at the end. Egon gave her a simple hello, still not comfortable with many people but Dana didn't seem to notice because she smiled and hugged him as well. Egon had no choice but to hug back awkwardly.
"Nice place." Ray said as he looked around at Dana's new apartment. Hopefully, this one wasn't a ghost magnet as the other one.
Juliet smiled at Egon's awkwardness but the smile fell when Dana went over to close the door.
"Uh, Dana, there's…" her words faded away when Peter stuck a hand and foot in before Dana could shut the door and she took a step back as he pushed the door open again.
"Well, I know I'm just asking for the big hurt but I thought I'd give us one more chance." Peter said with a grin.
She glanced over at the others and Egon and Juliet looked at Ray. He stuttered as he tried to defend himself. "He tortured me! He pulled my ears!"
Dana only smiled and looked back at Peter who was looking around the room.
"Hello, Peter." Dana continued to smile in spite of her shock. Peter whipped around and smiled.
"Hello, Dana." Peter growled in a way he thought sounded sexy. He stepped towards her and wagged a finger at her the way you do to a small child who did something bad. "I knew you'd come crawling back to me." Dana sighed and rolled her eyes.
Juliet watched as Peter slowly continued to dig himself deeper in his own problem. She was amazed that Dana still hasn't kicked him out. She probably thought Dana was as amazed and amused as she was at how quickly Peter's mouth formed words. Juliet wondered if his brain ever had the time to catch up with his mouth.
Peter did a over-dramatic turn and continued to talk. "You know, Dana. I'm very, very hurt that you didn't call me first. I'm still into all this stuff, you know. In fact, I'm considered an expert. Haven't you ever seen my TV show?"
"I have." Dana nodded coolly. "That's why I didn't call you first."
Peter clutched at his chest as if she had mortally wounded him. He shrugged a few seconds later and said, "But in the interests of science I'm going to give it my best shot. Let's get to work." he said as he nodded to the other three.
They shared a look and rolled their eyes. It seemed like old times….unfortunately. Juliet walked over to the nanny and the young Hispanic women handed Oscar over to Juliet. She smiled at him as he made small cooing and gurgling noises. She wanted to just squeeze him into a hug over how cute he was.
Dana followed them and bit her bottom lip. "So, what would you like to do first?"
Egon pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "We'd like to examine the baby first."
Ray nodded. "Yeah. And anything associated with the baby. Especially stuffed toys. Things with fabrics in them."
"And the buggy if you don't mind taking it out." Juliet said to her and Dana nodded.
"Alright." Dana moved a couple of things from a table. "Can I put him over here?"
"And wherever he sleeps." Ray added as an afterthought.
"Yes." Dana responded and Egon nodded to Dana's question.
"This will be fine."
Ray put a small mat on the surface of the table and glanced at Egon. "This okay?"
"Fine." Egon said as he took out his PKE Meter.
Juliet smiles at Oscar as she sets him down flat and Dana chews on her bottom lip.
"Okay, sweetheart, now they're gonna take a look at you." Dana said softly to Oscar as he only looked around at all of them, confused for all the attention but enjoying it none the less.
"A little precursory medical examination." Egon said and Ray turned to him.
"What do you say? Gammill and Pross Infant Acuity Test?" he asked and Egon nodded.
"Sounds good, we'll finish off with an Apgar score."
Dana looked at the two of them, a little worried. "It's nothing that's going to hurt him, right?"
"No!" both Egon and Ray said in unison. Juliet chuckled and turned to Dana.
"No, I don't think so. He'll be fine." Juliet smiled at her friend. "Besides, I'm here to keep them from doing anything stupid."
The two men sent her a glare but Juliet only smiled at them. Dana looked a little more relieved but at the sound of an instrument, she turns around and sighs when she sees Peter playing her cello like a guitar. She leaves and Ray glances at Egon as he starts taking out what they'll need.
"You ever done this before?"
Egon nods, though hesitant. "On a chimp."
Juliet sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. These were the "professionals". As the other two did all the 'hard-core' science stuff with the baby, Juliet walked over to the buggy that had raced out into traffic. She took out her own PKE reader and scanned it. Most of the readings were calm and normal up until she reached the bottom of the buggy. The small hand-held device that almost resembled small electric razors with wings began to beep loudly and she gave a slight gasp.
Juliet bent down and moved the PKE reader under the buggy. The needle moved to the end of the scale and her eyes widened. She put down the reader and took a pen out of her shirt pocket and a small note pad from her jacket. She took the cap off with her teeth and with one hand held the reader up again and with the other wrote down the number on the paper.
Juliet stood back up and stared at the buggy. Whatever made it move on it's own must have been pretty strong. She put away her PKE reader and held the note pad in her hand. She walked over to Egon and Ray as Egon took out a stethoscope and started to examine Oscar with it.
"Ray, look at this." she walked up to him and he looked at her as she showed him the number she wrote down. "I got it when i scanned the bottom of the buggy."
His eyes widened. "Wow! We ought to look at his room too." he said as Peter walked over to them and Egon stands up straight when Peter calls his name.
"What are we doing?" he asked right into the stethoscope. Egon flinched and whipped them off. Juliet snickered when Egon glared at Peter. He stayed serious though and looked at Dana.
"He seems to be fine, Dana." he told her and she smiled.
"He's very healthy."
Ray took out his PKE reader and stepped forwards. "When he does sleep, where do you put him?"
"Right around here, I'll show you." Dana led them to Oscar's room. Egon hands Peter a jar and tells him, "Venkman? Get a stool specimen." before he follows Dana.
Peter smirks. "Business or personal?"
Over his shoulder, Egon gives him a glare that equaled the phrase zip it. Venkman shut his mouth and nodded at him.
When they stepped into the room, Juliet smiles. It was very colourful and was filled with toys. She goes to look at some of the toys as Dana moves a few of the toys on the ground.
"It's a little messy."
Ray smiles at her and shakes his head. "Well, we don't wanna play with anything, we just want to sweep for valances."
"Hmm. Very cheerful. My parents didn't believe in toys." Egon says and Juliet looks at him in surprise but before she can say anything, they hear Peter from outside the room yell something and they look at each other. .
"Uh-oh." The three of them say in unison and Dana sighs as she leave to check on Peter.
Juliet gets up from her crouched position and walks over to Egon.
"You mean… you never even a slinky?" she asks him and he thinks for a few minutes before answering.
"We had part of a slinky. But I straightened it." he says and she sighs, a small smile on her face.
"Of course you did." she says which makes Ray chuckle behind her.
"I had a ton of toys." Juliet continues as she scans the closet.
"Yeah, I remember." Ray says, with a smirk on his face. "You still had a ton of stuffed toys on your bed even though you were, what? Seventeen?" he said and she glared at him playfully as she tossed a stuffed dinosaur at his head. He laughed and she tried not to smile as she went back to scanning the room.
Peter walked into the room a few minutes later to find Ray under the crib, Juliet scanning the white drawer, bored as Egon leaned on it.
"Well, Holmes," Peter says to Ray who popped his head out from under the crib. "What do you think?"
"It's an interesting one, Pete." Ray mumbles. "If anything was going on, it's totally subdued now."
Peter turns to Juliet who looked at the PKE reader in her hand with a bored and slightly aggravated gaze. "How about you, Watson? Find anything?"
"Nothing! Absolutely nothing." she says, disappointed.
Egon looks at the ground with an intense, concentrated expression and Peter recognized it immediately.
"So what, brainiac?" Peter asked him and Egon looked up at him.
"I'd like to do some gynecological tests on the mother." he said and Peter scoffed.
"Who wouldn't?"
Juliet rolled her eyes and put away her PKE reader. "I think we should check out the street where the buggy stopped on. Maybe we'll find something abnormal."
Peter nodded with a smile. "Finding something abnormal on a New York street shouldn't be too hard."
Moments later, Dana had led them to First Avenue and pointed to the middle of the street.
"It stopped right over there! In the middle of the crosswalk!"
Peter raised up his hands and grinned at them. "Alright, I can handle this." he told them before walking right into the middle of the street.
"Hey, Venkman, hold on!" Ray yelled over the sounds of the cars but Peter ignored his worried cries as he continued to walk in front of the cars.
"We're scientists! Excuse us! Get out of the way! Thanks a lot, we've got work for you here. Thanks! Appreciate it. Thanks a lot." Peter yelled and Juliet admired his utter craziness. She had to admit, she really missed his antics.
They stopped at the spot Dana had pointed at and a Taxi driver stuck his head out his window, a look of annoyance on his face.
"You gonna get out of there, or what?" he yelled and Peter grinned and was about to open his mouth but Juliet had beat him to it.
"Relax! You're on the meter!" she yelled without looking up as the PKE reader in her hand took up most of her attention. Peter stared at her, surprised but then gave her a proud and happy gaze. He hadn't noticed how much he had missed having her around. She was the only he knew who could match his sarcasm. It made him realize that if he didn't know she had a thing for Ray, he totally would have asked her out by now. Oh well. He looked back at the oncoming traffic and continued to yell.
Ray and Egon scanned the ground, both in their intense concentration mode. Juliet sees Egon take out another hand-held device and moves over to him.
"That's new. What is it?"
"Egon and I have been working on a gauge to measure psychomagnotheric energy in GEV's," Ray explained to her. "Giga electron volts."
"That's a thousand million electron volts." Egon clarified to her. She scoffed and stood up.
"I knew that." she muttered. Ray sent her a smile and went back to his work, leaving her with a blush and racing heart.
"Come on, hey! We're scientists! Get out of the way!" he waved his arms around a few more times before turning around to see what his friends had found.
Ray grinned as he read the number on the PKE reader and looked at Egon. "Whoa-ho-ho! I think we hit the honey pot! There's something brewing under the street. I've got 1118 on the PKE!"
"2.5 GEVs on the Giga-meter."
"Well, what does that mean?" Dana asked them. They were quiet and Juliet sighed.
"It's...well...not very good." she said and Dana gulped, glancing at Peter.
"You...you think maybe I have some genetic problems or something that makes me vulnerable to these supernatural things?" she asked him, her voice trembling.
Peter put a reassuring arm around her shoulders. "You mean like the time you got possessed and turned into a monster terror dog? Naaaah. Not a chance. Total coincidence."
He smiled at the others. "Am I right?"
They shared a look at each other and looked back at Peter, they were clearly not buying the coincidence theory.
"I said," Peter repeated, "Am I right?"
Juliet faked a smile as she nodded and nudged Ray with a kick and he blinked before answering.
"Oh, yeah." he nodded.
"Sure." Egon agreed.
Peter led Dana and the others back to the curb. He turned around and faced the frozen traffic. "Gentlemen!" he called and grinned. "Start your engines."
Within seconds, the traffic on East Seventy-seventh Street was as frantic and loud as usual. It all looked normal. For now.
Ray Stantz walked down the tan colored walls and looked around at the many shiny wooden doors, the room numbers on the left side of the small skinny windows on the doors. He had gotten the name of the school Juliet worked at from Dana. Well, through some begging of course.
The receptionist had given him her room number and pointed him to the stairwell and now here he was, in a brightly lit hallway, at around 7:15 in the afternoon, looking for his best friend's room.
He looks back at the small paper in his hand and read the number for the tenth time. Finally he reached the room and glanced inside through the window.
Juliet sat at her desk, a red pen in her hand, scribbling something on a piece of paper. On the right side of her desk was a neat pile of papers. He didn't pay much attention to that but more to her appearance. Her hair was pulled back in a very messy bun and if it was meant to keep hair out of her eyes, it wasn't a very good solution. She had on a regular light blue button up shirt and dark blue jeans.
He watched as she stopped writing and set aside the paper, reaching for another one. She began to read over the paper, every once in a while writing something with her red pen, a look of concentration on her face. He could faintly hear music playing in the room and stepped back. He shut his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and reached for the door handle but hesitated in turning it.
Why was he so nervous? He had spent all morning with her just a few days ago and didn't feel as nervous as he did now. Was it because he knew Peter or Egon weren't here to help when he didn't know what to say? He felt his heart race and let out a shaky breath.
"Ok, you can do this." he told himself. "Just go in there and ask her if she wants to come with us. Nothing more, nothing less."
He pushed his nervousness away and turned the handle, opening the door. He stepped in and gave a knock on the already open door to get her attention. She glanced up but when she noticed who it was, she smiled in that way of hers that always made his knees weak when they were kids.
"Hey!" she said as she stood up and put down her pen. "What are you doing here?"
"Um, well, I…." he stuttered. 'Damn it, don't choke up and look like an idiot!' he said to himself. "Uh, me and the guys were heading over to First Avenue to try and see if we can find anything under the street."
"How are you going to do that?" she asked and gave him a suspicious look.
"Well, Peter had the idea that we could, you know," he looked at his feet. "Dig under the street till we find something."
"Oh, I know that's illegal." she said with a groan and put a hand to her face, shaking her head. She looked at him again. "What are you gonna do if the cops find out?"
"Peter has a plan." he said simply. She stepped closer to him and he gulped.
"So, you and Egon just do what Peter tells you to do now?" she said and he sighed to hide how nervous he was.
"We need a way to find out what is under there and this is the only way we think we'll be able to." he explained and she took out the pin that held her hair up. He watched as her hair fell to her shoulders and she ran a hand through it.
"Alright, but why did you come here to tell me?" she asked and it took him a few seconds to stop staring at her to answer.
"Uh, I or well, we thought you wanted to come with?" he finally asked and she smiled again. Damn her and her perfect smile.
"As much as I would love to go out into the cold and dig a hole in First Avenue, I do have a lot of work to do." she said and he blushed, getting flustered.
"Oh! Of course! You don't have to if you don't want to, I just taught you wanted to go." he said and she giggled, leaning up on the tip of her toes and kissing his cheek.
"Try not to get arrested." she told him and went back to her desk. He stood there, his cheeks still red and he watched as she put her hair up again, the hairpin in her mouth and and then she grabbed it and put it in to keep the hair from falling.
He had no idea what made him speak up.
"Do you maybe what to go out sometime?" he said quickly which surprised them both. Juliet's head whipped around and he could hear himself yell curses and obscenities in his head for doing something so stupid.
"W-What?" Juliet asked softly, her cheeks getting red.
"I mean…" he froze. 'Fix this, you idiot! Fix it!' he swallowed. "Um, do you, I don't know, go out sometime? Not as a date! You know, as friends." he added at the end. Ray was so worried about his slip up that he missed the disappointment cross Juliet's face.
"Oh, right, of course." she felt like crying but pushed the feeling away. "Uh, yeah sure." she gave him a smile and he nodded, smiling as well.
"Okay." he stuffed his hands into his pockets and walked back to the door. "I have to, you know, go to meet the guys."
"Right." she said and giggled softly at how nervous and awkward he looked. Sometimes he still acted as if he was 16.
They both said goodbye, though both a little hesitant. And when Ray shut the door, both let out a breath neither had realized they had been holding.
At around 11:30, all the lights went out in the usually bright New York City. Juliet, though was awaken by her phone ringing. She groaned as she sat up and reached over to her nightstand, picking up the phone.
"Hello?" she asked, her voice still full of sleep. A very familiar voice took away any sleep still in her system.
"Winston? What hap- what do you mean all the power in the city is out? Whoa, whoa, slow down! Okay so what happened?" she said into the phone and got up from her bed.
Winston explained that the guys had accidentally knock out a power line and now all the light in the city was out. Juliet went over to her window and yanked open the curtains to find he wasn't lying. Then Winston said something else.
"They WHAT!" she yelled. "Okay, okay I'll be right over." she hung up the phone, or well, slammed the phone more like it, and quickly put on a random change of clothes and rushing out to her car to make the difficult drive to the NYC Police Department.
She sat there in the station, waiting for her friends to be let out of their holding cell. Winston and Louis Tully had been there earlier to help with the bail but after paying, waiting three hours was too much for them and she told them to head home.
Juliet had her head in her hands but when she heard a door slam open, she looked up. She grinned when she saw a very pissed but very tired looking Peter Venkman walk out.
"Peter!" she exclaimed and he turned to her. At the sight of her, he smiled in relief and caught her when she ran into his arms.
"Hey, Barlow. Didn't ever think I'd be this happy to see your face." he said and she laughed. She stepped back and put a hand on his face.
"Are you okay?" she asked and he nodded, chuckling at how worried she was. Egon walked out, holding his head.
"Egon!" she exclaimed like before and tackled him into a hug, surprising him. He hugged her back fiercely after the shock wore off and she stepped back to ask him the same question she had asked Peter.
"I'm fine, Juliet." he told her with a smile. "Just a headache."
"I think I have some aspirin in the car…" she faded off towards the end when she saw Ray come out, running a hand through his messy hair. He froze when he met her eyes.
She grinned and jumped right into his arms, kissing him multiple times on his face, much to his embarrassment.
"Oh, Ray! I'm so glad you're ok! I was worried sick!" she told him when she stopped and moved back to see his face. After her relief calmed down, she started to hit him multiple times in the shoulder.
"You! Are! Such! An! Idiot!" she yelled at him, furious.
"Ok! Ok! I get it! You're pissed!" Ray said, trying to block her hits. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
"Damn right you're sorry!" she said. She stopped hitting Ray and glared at the three of them. "How could you guys get yourselves arrested!?" she scolded at them. Peter walked closer to her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Look, you can yell at us all you want. But, uh, do it outside, huh?" he asked and she didn't answer, only turning on her heel and walking towards the front door. The other three took it as a okay and followed her.
They stepped outside and Juliet turned to them, glaring at them like before.
"I knew it was a bad idea to let you three go do something so stupid!" she yelled. "And, even worse, you guys brought your packs too! Proton packs you are not supposed to be using by the way!"
The three men paled when she said that and she scoffed.
"Oh yeah, I know about that. The lady at the front desk told me what exactly you were being charged with." she ran a hand through her hair. "How could you guys be so smart at one moment but so stupid the next!?"
Juliet then directed her glare at Peter. "And you! I blame you for this."
"Me?!" Peter stared at her in shock. "Why me?! Ray was the one who kicked the power line!"
"I don't care!" she yelled. "This was your idea! And I would have told you guys not to go, if you hadn't sent him to tell me about it!" she pointed at Ray as she said this. "You know I can't say no to him!"
Ray blushed but Peter glared right back at Juliet. Egon knew a fight was just bound to happen so he stepped in between them.
"I know you two want to rip each other's heads off but please, it's three in the morning and I am really tired and if you remember Peter, the trail is tomorrow morning."
They both backed off and Juliet agreed to drop them off at the old firehouse. Before she got to get into the car, Ray grabbed her hand.
"Julie, I'm...I'm really sorry." he said to her. She glared at him at first but her expression softened. She couldn't stay mad at him.
"I know." she said and kissed on the cheek. "It's fine."
She got into the car and Ray got in after her, sitting in the back with Peter. He allowed himself a small smile before going back to worrying about the trail in the morning and the thing he found under the street.
Hey guys! Sorry for being long for such a long time. I had a attack of writer's block but I forced myself to write this one. I hope you all like it! next one will probably be up a lot faster since it's the courtroom scene and it's one of my favorite scenes. Please, please review! Tell what you guys think! Suggestions are always welcome! Till next time guys!
