AN: First of all lets all have a moment of silence to remember Glenn Shadix the man who played Otho Fenlock in Beetlejuice. He was a great actor my prayers are with his family.Here is chapter 3 Thank you toDark Angel Erissa for her Reviews. Beetlejuice & Lydia is owned by Universal Studios, This version of the Boogieman belongs to me.

Chapter 3

The next day, Betty returned home from shopping to hear things being thrown around her room. When she got there, she saw her brother, Beetlejuice, in her closet throwing clothes out. The rest of the room was trashed as well as if he was looking for something.

"What the hell are you doing Beetle!" Her oldest brother stopped, peeked out of the closet, and gave her a little, embarrassed laugh.

"Hey, Betty, I'm going to hang out with my buddy, Lydia, in the Livingworld. So I need a disguise," he replied, grabbing one of her dresses. Like all members of their immediate family, Betty wore stripes.

"You're not going to disguise yourself as me." She knew what he was planning and went to grab the dress, but he was too fast.

"Sorry, sis, can't stay here with you. Gotta go!" he said before he poofed out of her house. She could only sigh and fix up her room.

He then appeared in Lydia's mirror. "Hey, babes, I'm ready. Just lay those magic B-words on me and we can hang out."

She thought about it for a minute, then knowing he was her only friend (since the Maitlands were more second parents then friends) she might as well hang out with him, and he might help her out. After all, he's been so nice to her lately. Answering her questions and making her not feel so stupid when she said something that didn't make sense. Plus he cooked for her and was pretty good at it.

"Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJUICE!" With the last chant of his name he disappeared from the mirror but was nowhere in her room. Downstairs, Charles heard a knock on the front door. When he went and answered it, what he saw was the ugliest girl he had ever seen. She wore a bat hair band with her dirty hair pulled back in a pony tail. Her striped dress showed off her hairy legs (dear God, was that a bit of chest hair?) She wore steel toe boots and had something green growing around her face, legs, and arms. (It almost reminded him of the ghost that sent his boss to the hospital and then saved his daughter). The only makeup she wore was red lipstick. The girl then spoke in a weird somewhat girly voice.

"Hi, Mr. Deetz. I'm Bettyjuice, Lydia's friend. I'm here to hang out. She is going to show me about taking pictures and stuff."

Charles wasn't sure about this girl, but she seemed ok enough and Lydia had been having a hard time making friends . . . so one weird friend was better than no friends.

"Yeah, come in, Betty. She is up in her room." He looked Betty over as she walked in and watched her look over the house.

Wow, they must have contractor connections, Betty thought. No holes in the ceiling or floors. No sign of the fight with Spider.

Betty went up the stairs to Lydia's room and walked right in making the goth girl jump. She was still looking for her newest friend. When he saw the ugly Bettyjuice, she started laughing the same way her friend did the day before. She could see right through Beetlejuice's disguise.

"Where did you come up with this look?" she asked, wiping tears from her eyes.

"I got it from my sister, and I'm using her name. Which isn't making her happy, but that's what siblings were invented for-to annoy." He was still talking in the girly voice.

The raven haired girl was just happy he was going incognito, and not letting on that she summoned him back into her life. When Lydia grabbed her things and they opened the bedroom door, Barbara and Adam were standing there. They had seen Beetlejuice enter and they, too, were able to see through his disguise. Beetle and Lydia could only look at each other and swallow. They felt in their guts their friendship was now going to be put to an end.

Adam eyed the two. "To the attic, now!" They had no choice but to sheepishly follow the two ghosts up to their attic room. As soon as they made it up to the room Adam and Barbara lived in, Beetlejuice returned to his true form. Adam paced back and forth by his model while Barbara looked at Lydia like she was disappointed in her. It kinda made the gothic girl's heart sink a bit.

"How you call him back after all the harm he did? And you," Barbara said, turning her eyes to Beetle. "I told you to stay away from her!"

Beetle's face went from the "Crap we were caught" look to an angry one. "Look, Babs, last week when I fulfilled my deal and saved her from my sick freak of a brother, you were all too happy with me. I go back to the Neitherworld, like I promised, and you start bad mouthing me again. Good move, I'm proud. But here's the deal: Lyds needs a friend that isn't like a parent to her and I fit the bill." With that he lifted his legs in the air and leaned back like he was relaxing in midair.

Lydia had to add on to it. "If you're worried about him doing anything to me, he hasn't. He hasn't even tried. Not even a kiss. He has been very nice to me, and he helps me feel better, like you guys have. You guys are great, but I need more than just parental figures. He helps me feel more confident." She had to take a breath since she had completely emptied her lungs in her rush to get the words out.

The Maitlands looked at each other, then at the two friends. The past few days Lydia had seemed much happier then she had been since they became a second set of parents to her. They finally agreed to let them hang out together and be friends. Lydia also made them promise not to tell her parents. She was fine with Adam and Barbara knowing, but she didn't want Charles and Delia to know for as long as she could keep it from them. Once the two were free to go, Beetle returned to being Betty and the two headed out to do errands and hang out together. This time was Lydia's turn to show BJ around.

While they were out, Lydia saw two girls she was kinda friends with at school even though she didn't talk to them outside of said establishment. Bertha and Prudence were nice girls. Like Lydia herself, they were the "losers" in school so the three got along well during the eight hours of education, but she wasn't sure how they would get along in everyday life.

Beetle saw Lydia look over to her school mates and grinned, walking over to them. "Hey, girls, I'm Betty, Lydia's friend. You two should come hang out with us."

The two girls looked at the ugly blond girl before them over. Prudence, being smaller and shy, was scared of Beetle/Betty. But Bertha, who was into trying almost anything, agreed for them both. Lydia wasn't too sure about this at first, wondering if Beetle had any thing in mind, but he didn't do anything to them. The four hung out and had fun, and Lydia made two new real friends. Bertha and Prudence even considered Betty their friend, even if they thought she was kinda ugly, scary, and gross.

That night before dinner, Delia decided it would be a good idea for Betty to stay over for the night. The two friends agreed it would be fine. It wasn't long before it was bed time, and once they were in the room, Beetlejuice poofed himself up a cot to sleep on. He claimed it was bad for his back and he needed to work in some kinks. An hour later, Lydia laid in bed to the noise of her friend sleeping on the cot. Boy, can he snore, she thought to herself, but was soon able to block out the noise he made and fall asleep.

The next morning, Lydia went down for breakfast. Beetle wanted to stay up in her room for a little while so he could read The Afterlife. Downstairs, Charles was reading the Winter River paper, "The Peaceful Pines", while he ate. Lydia noticed on the front page a story about three children disappearing from their rooms in the night. Beetle, too, saw a related story in the paper he was reading: "BOOGIEMAN ESCAPES". Beetlejuice swallowed hard. Not only was this guy a breather child eating S.O.B. but Beetlejuice was the one that turned Boogie in for the Neithercash Reward.

Beetlejuice returned to his Betty form and ran down the stairs. "Lyds, I got to go. You wanna come with me?" The rush in his/her voice made everyone jump at the breakfast table.

"Sure, Betty, I'll be right there." Lydia put her dishes in the sink, and the two ran out the door. "BJ, slow down! What's wrong?"

Beetle/Betty only shook his/her head. "No time right now. We need to get to the Neitherworld." He was using his real voice at this point, still rushing, and she decided to go with what he was saying. hoping he might explain later.

"Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice-" Beetle/Betty grabbed Lydia's hand and nodded- "Beetlejuice." They both disappeared and reappeared in the Neitherworld. Beetlejuice was back in his true form, and dragged Lydia to the Deathlier Building, where all the ghosts went to see their caseworkers.

"This is where the suicides have to work?" Lydia asked while she and Beetle walked into the waiting room.

"Yeah, but not everyone that works here killed themselves. Juno and Flat Stan were murdered, but they are workaholics. So they work here. When you comment suicide, it's like being on probation in the Livingworld: your job is picked for you. Otherwise, you can apply for any job you want."

They were moved through quickly. (Beetle knew that braking wind in there once would make it where he didn't have to wait for years to come.) When they stepped into Juno's office, Beetlejuice slapped a copy of the paper on her desk.

"What kinda cops we got here, Juno? First, they lose track of Spider, then The Boogieman escapes." His eyes shifted to Lydia. He could tell she was worried about the one monster everyone feared being loose.

Juno looked at Beetle. "What do you care, Beetlejuice? This won't affect anything dealing with you."

He didn't care that she thought he only cared about himself. He in fact was quiet proud of it, but he knew Lydia would care what the monster did, and that made him care just enough to want something done. "Who is in charge of looking for him? Don't tell me it's Friedeggs and Ham?"

Juno took a drag of her cigarette and shook her head, smoke flowing from the slit in her throat. "No. It's Officer Offed and X Cop," she told him.

That news made Beetle relaxed enough where he didn't care Boogie was at large anymore. Offed and Cop were good. In fact, they had put him away a few times, and it takes skill to catch the ghost with the most.

Boogie was currently in his swamp home within the Neitherworld. He sat there, frustrated, chewing on a fresh bone before tossing it across his shack. His raven, Phobetor, hopped down to peck at it then flew off. The Boogieman absently swayed his tail. He wanted Beetlejuice . . . it was because of him he was locked up in jail for 450 years.

AN: Yes the Boogieman is my Villain Spider has yet to be put back together again. Please let me know what you think in Reviews.