Hey!!! I forgot about a couple reviews for my shout outs for the last chapter so here they are:

Darkbangle: Thanks! Yes, it is nice to see BJ all brave and nice. Smile and yeah know what?! I didn't even think of that Beauty and the Beast reference until I read your review! And now that I think about it, you're right! I love that movie and I didn't even notice.

Woof (again): thanks. Sorry it wasn't that fast! And I'm not your slave!!! GRRR …lol…jk I don't really mind that much.

Ok so putting the a/n first this time: His everybody sorry I didn't update as fast as I wanted to but I've been busy with projects and Christmas stuff. I don't really even celebrate Christmas. But this is my "Christmas" present to all of you reading it right now. : Smile:

And after about a month of writers block I'm here with chapter seven so Becky can shut the fuck up and stop asking me if I'm done yet. AHA! Trumpets Of Joy

Disclaimer and all that jazz…good song that is…any who: I don't own Beetlejuice…sniff saying that makes me cry every time.

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Chapter Seven: Date With The Dead

Lydia smiled.

The day seemed to go on forever. Lydia had become as anxious as a child at Christmas time. Multiple times had she looked at a random clock, always only being one to two minutes later then the last time she'd looked. Sighing in boredom, Lydia slumped back on the old sofa in the Roadhouse's main room, starting to comb the sand out of her hair with her fingers. Her nails scraped through her messy hair, slipping many times. Never had she thought she'd be going out with a dead guy, Beetlejuice of all dead guys too, and yet her hands were shaking and there were butterflies in her stomach. She didn't even know if she should call this a date.

Lydia smiled.

She sat alone on the couch. Beetlejuice had let her wonder the house as she wished before stalking off down a random hallway. Lydia had strolled down many different hallways, most she had seen before, but this time the rooms that were once empty where filled with furnishing layouts of different kinds. Dinning rooms, too far off from the kitchen to be of any use, bedrooms by the dozen, multiple bathrooms with no clean running water, even a rotting library with books too old to be opened with out being ripped.

It amazed Lydia of how much stuff Beetlejuice had. Why one person had or needed so much stuff was beyond her, most couldn't be used and the rest was basically junk by her standards. Not to mention the bugs that ran around, beetles, crickets, cockroaches, a variety of different kinds of insects. They didn't bother her. Really they didn't. It was the fact that Beetlejuice ate them that made her cringe.

This whole place, this life…

Lydia smiled.

It didn't seem like her, it wasn't how she was used to living. This weird mess, the crazy life of a dead man, it suited Beetlejuice. It had him written all over it, but she had to admit, even if it was just to herself, this life was growing on her. She liked it here. Out loud she would have never confess to it, but in the sanctuary and security of her mind she was free to tell the truth.

Lydia smiled.

She pondered on this thought. Had he really gotten to her that much? Had she been corrupted enough to think he was good? Lydia sighed deeply pulling her knees to her chest.

As much as she didn't want to say it, she liked it here, she liked being with Beetlejuice.

Lydia pushed her hair back out of her face. Even without a mirror to see, she could tell her cheeks were bright red. Her skin was hot but she could feel goose bumps rising on her arms. Hiding her face in her knees, Lydia closed her eyes and could make out a perfect replica of Beetlejuice in her mind.

His pale skin, intense green eyes, hollow cheekbones and messy blond hair matted with grime and dirt, his ghoulish yet handsome face.

Lydia smiled.

She let out a small sigh and wondered off into the dream state of a sleeper.

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Beetlejuice glared up. His upper lip twitched as he sneered at the figure in front of him. A tall man, handsome by his values, leaned up against the wall. One foot crossed behind the other, his right elbow propping him up, his hand falling just below his chin. A cigarette was held between his index and middle finger. He smiled back at Beetlejuice and chuckled a bit.

Beetlejuice's lip twitched again. Arms crossed he leaned back against the opposite wall of the hallway.

"Why so mad my friend?" The man asked straightening the front of his white on black-stripped suit with his left hand.

Beetlejuice did not answer. He brushed some dust off of his own black on white-stripped suit, ignoring him completely. The man pushed off the wall and took a step forward across the narrow hallway to come face-to-face with, himself

Beetlejuice looked into the face of his other half. He did this a lot. Splitting his mind in two so he had someone to yell at.

He had problems and he knew this.

His other half raised his cigarette to his lips, took a drag and held his breath. Beetlejuice's lips twitched again. His other half started to chuckle, smoke rolling out of his flared nostrils and the slits between his crocked yellow-green teeth.

"What?" Beetlejuice snarled jumping up off the wall and stomping past him.

"You love her."

Beetlejuice stopped dead in his tracks. His other half stared at his back. Beetlejuice head dropped, his shoulders heaved up and down. "LOVE?" He roared in laughter.

"Yes that is what I said."

"Love, that skinny, little, black widow are you crazy?" Beetlejuice yelled throwing his hands up in the air.

"I'd watch who you call crazy. I am part of you remember?" His other half said calmly.

"The stupid part." Beetlejuice murmured running his hand through his hair.

"Is that why you invited her out with you?"

Beetlejuice hand dropped heavily. His breathing became shallow and his eyes darted around. "Hu." He grunted.

"Something possessed you to do it. If not that then it was your own fe-"

"Say the 'F' world and I'll rip you're dead heart out!"

The threat fell on def ears as his other half continued to smile through the cigarette smoke.

"It's all part of my plane. If you weren't so dumb you'd know that."

"Who are you trying to kid?"

"Who are you trying to kid?" Beetlejuice mocked, the corner of his mouth rising as he laughed at himself. His other half shook his head.

"Look-"

"I don't need you to tell me what to do."

"I am you."

"You're just a voice in my head."

"Apparently I'm the only smart thing up there. Listening to you right now…HA, hell would be more fun."

"Oh really? Then why don't you go there then and give me a break?"

"I can't survive one my own and neither can you. You know that."

"Yeah, yeah, Whole souls live forever, loss part and you're damned to limbo. Whatever, I hear it before." Beetlejuice shoot at himself. He sighed, turned calmly and raised his hands in defence. "Ya know what? I don't care. Go back in my mind and we'll run with whatever we got going right now."

"HA!" His other half laughed throwing his cigarette to the floor. "I trust you as far as I can throw you." Beetlejuice glared at him

"Admit it."

"No."

"C'mon you now I'm right." He said slowly walking forward. "Think about it. She's everything you're not, the complete opposite of you." He circled Beetlejuice like a hungry vulture. "You love her. You just need to realist this before you loose her again."

As the memory of the past betrayal ran through his head Beetlejuice spun on his heels snapping his fingers and he watched the body of his other half crumble to dust as he returned to the dark dismal corners of Beetlejuice's mind.

"Fucking Bastard!"

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"Hey Babes. Wake up, nap times over." Beetlejuice poked Lydia in the shoulder again. Her eyes fluttered open slowly, he smiled. "Hi."

"Hi." She answered rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "Did I fall asleep?" Beetlejuice nodded. "Oh..." She said back. An awkward silent lingered around them for a minute. Lydia stared at the floor and Beetlejuice stared at her.

He jumped to his feet and banally held out his arm to her. Lydia gave him a slight smile. "Shall we?" Beetlejuice asked with a corny smirking. The emergence of Lydia's smile fell.

"What?" She asked, her voice small, weighed down by jolts from the past. Beetlejuice raised an eyebrow.

"We goin' out or not?" He asked not understanding her fully. Lydia nodded sharply before standing up. She looked down at Beetlejuice still out stretched arm; causally she looped her arm around his. "Come on, it's a long walk from here." Beetlejuice said genuinely as he leading Lydia out the front door.

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Beetlejuice chortled at her worried shyness. Lydia walked along beside him quietly in the grass. She hadn't said a word since they left his house. It didn't take a genius for Beetlejuice to know that something he had done or said had upset her. He just didn't know what it was. They walked quietly along a path of green rocks towards the edge of the large floating isle. There wasn't much to look at; the grass was short, light purple at the roots getting darker as it went up the blades, there were no trees or other plants just large green rocks scattered on either side of the path that divided the isle in half.

"Look Babes-"

"I was thinking-"

They're words mixed into one messy sentence making Lydia giggled. Beetlejuice couldn't help but fallow suit and let a small chuckle himself.

"Uhm…BJ." Lydia spoke out softly.

"Yeah Babes?" He asked.

"I forgive you ya know." Beetlejuice raised an eyebrow. "For what you did, a few years ago. I understand why you'd do it. Being here, alone, no one to talk to, or spend time with, no family or friends. Must be lonely."

"I've got family, the lucky bunch of bastards they are. They didn't end up in the same situation as I did. They get to be free, like the dopes in your attic. Not like this thing with friends, I don't need 'em."

"But don't you get lonely?"

"I guess sometimes. Even the most unsocial people in the world get lonely. I'm only human…or was when I was alive and a human."

Lydia giggle. Beetlejuice smiled, her laugh sounded like tiny bells. He loved it. No, not love, he didn't believe in that shit. Love was for the weak and gullible and he was neither of those things.

"You really have no friends?" Lydia asked pulling Beetlejuice from his thoughts. He snuffed at her question.

"Girls." Beetlejuice rolled his eyes.

"What?" Lydia asked in hassle.

"You! Girls and your stupid emotions." Lydia's jaw dropped. He was making fun of her.

'What an idiot.' She thought letting go of his arms and walking away from him. The edge of the floating island prevented her from going any farther but she still didn't have to look at him. Lydia stared out into the black nothingness of the sky. The darkness of the sky and the chilling air consumed her making her feel unreal, like this whole ordeal was a bay dream.

A weight pressed down on her shoulder, but it was nothing more than Beetlejuice's hand. "See what I mean?" He said behind her.

Lydia did not turn or flinch. She continued to gaze out at the blank sky and tried to show as little emotion as she could muster.

"You ok Babes?" Beetlejuice asked stepping out from behind and looking down at her porcelain profile. She nodded, "Yeah. Just a bit homesick I guess." She lied wishing he would just shut up.

"Homesick eh?"

Again Lydia nodded. "I've never been on my own before."

"You're not on your own, I'm here."

Lydia swallowed. Her stomach flipped and she felt sick for real. She didn't know what to make of it. In her mind she felt as if she were about to pass out, but Lydia couldn't help but like this feeling. Her heart pounded in her chest hard and her face was hot.

"You can always go home ya know." Beetlejuice said stepping back and moving over to a near by rock. Lydia huffed.

"That would require saying your name and then you'd be out rampaging around," Lydia walked over to him and put her hands on her hips. "And I'm not about to let that happen."

Beetlejuice dropped to the ground and rested back against the rock. He folded his hands behind his head and eyed her for a moment. "Maybe not right now, but you never know." Lydia jumped up onto the rock and crossed her legs.

"Oh, I know. You're not getting out of here as long as I have a say in it." Lydia heard Beetlejuice chuckle but made no farther response. They stared out into the dark sky. Lydia sighed. Beetlejuice cocked his head to look up at her. Her sat silently, her bright silhouette against the dark sky made her shine with life. Her hair matched the colour of the sky. Her dark eyes fixed outward seemed even more beautiful then in normal lighting. With a smile and a tap against the rock it gave away and Lydia let out a streak. She tumbled sideways and landed with a soft plop onto Beetlejuice chest. She stared wide-eyed up at him for a long time before she realised what he had just done.

"You. You! ARG!" She cried clambering to her feet. "Do you have this affect on all people you meet?"

"You don't need to say it. I know how much of a turn on I am already." He said with a wink.

"Why you self conceded bastard." She said in a low snarl. "Don't you ever stop?"

"Stop what? Why?"

"Stop being so…so…"

"Sexy? Alluring? Seductive? Amusing?"

"Annoying!" Lydia shot back cutting him off.

"Now that hurt."

"Good. You need a smack in the head. Maybe it'll tighten your screw loose."

"Again, that hurt!"

Lydia glared at him crossing her arms. He laughed and pulled her by the arm. "What the hell?" She cried dragging her feet trying to get him to stop. Beetlejuice pulled her closer to the edge and spun her around to face the sky. He looped his arms around her body and pulled her close to him. Lydia looked out to see the moon of her world and the ones of this.

"BJ…"

"Shh…Beautiful isn't it?" Beetlejuice asked looking down at the girl in his arms. She turned her head slowly to look back at him. Their eyes locked, Lydia though it must look like a typical movie love scene where some girl and her lover share they're first kiss. Beetlejuice's dead heart beat out of control. He could see the wanting inside her eyes, the effect he had on her by the redness in her cheeks. He slowly lowered his head towards hers. Lydia snapped. He was going kiss her. Her head shot forward again. She bit her bottom lip. She wanted him to but at the same time she knew he shouldn't and she shouldn't want him to.

Beetlejuice stopped. That this rate if she kept spurring his advances, it's be month before he'd get out. He straightened up, still holding her close. He could wait but not forever and he knew she couldn't either.

They remained staring out at the sky for a long time, Lydia wrapped in his arms.

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"There ya go, home sweet home." Beetlejuice said opening the door for her. Lydia giggled and walked inside the Roadhouse. She tucked some hair behind her ears and beamed.

"Thanks." She said, her voice honey sweet.

"No problem." He said.

"Well, I'm going to-" Lydia pointed over her shoulder, not remember her words. "Bed!"

"Yeah, go on."

Lydia giggled again and headed for the door across the room. She stopped halfway there, her heart was pounding out of her chest and she couldn't stop what she was about to do. Slowly she turned around and walked back, right into him. Wrapping her arms around his torso she lifted herself onto her toes and kissed him full on the lips. Beetlejuice gaped back blankly. He could have expected this and yet he didn't. Lydia pulled back slightly to look up at him. He had a shocked look on his face and his mouth dropped open. Lydia smiled before running out of the room in slight embarrassment.

'She couldn't have just done that.' Beetlejuice thought to himself. He could have expected this and yet he didn't. He had planed for this to happen but he never saw it coming.

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She couldn't have just done that. Lydia ran right to her room and closed the door behind her. She gave a short laugh at her actions. Why she just did that she didn't know. Walking over to her bed she pulled back the sheets and kicked off her shoes. The door creaked behind her and she jumped as she turned. In the doorway stood Beetlejuice with a distraught look on his face.

"BJ!" She said.

The depressing look on his face melted into a fierce determined look. Lydia raised an eyebrow. He crossed the room in widely spaced steps. He grabbed her by the waist and pulled her close to him capturing her lips with his own. Lydia gasped at sudden the kiss but soon closed her eyes tightly giving in to it.

From that moment on no words past between the two of them,

Beetlejuice kissed her furiously trailing along her jaw and down her throat. Lydia fisted his blond hair as she bit down on her lip. Lydia breathed hard as a feeling of lightness traveled through her body.

She moved closer to him, pressing her small body against his. This drove Beetlejuice insane, his body aching for more. He ran his hands along her rib cage wanting to touch every inch of her. Lydia rested her head on his shoulder, moaning into his touch. Hungry for her Beetlejuice tangled his hands in the fabric of her nightdress. He pulled the material up around her hips exposing her naked thighs.

He looked into her eyes but found no sign of objection. Leaning her back onto her bed he threw off his jacket. She couldn't hold back the smile that crossed her face. He kissed her then. Lydia's finger nails digging into his back causing him to groan against her thin lips.

Lydia looked up at Beetlejuice, her eyes searching for something. Leaning up she kissed the side of his mouth. He looked down at Lydia with a lustful look and she saw something behind his eyes that made her know she wasn't making a mistake. Beetlejuice winked at her making her giggle and the lights went out.

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A/N 0.5: Ok so not really how I thought I'd end this chapter but come on. They belong together and they're cute. And I didn't want to add too much to this chapter or it would have gone on forever and I wouldn't have anything to put in any fallowing chapters. So yeah tell me what ya think please.

Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and Merry Eggnog to all of you guys reading this right now, yay you.

Reviewed Reviews:

Black-Beri: Hope I didn't jump into it in this chapter but I needed things to get ahead so I can work more on the next big thing in the next chapter. You'll have to read it to figure out what the hell I'm talking about. :Winks:

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