Inevitable (The morning)(Lydia and Beetle's POV)
I was destined to keep going,
Through my aphotic travels,
To drift in isolation,
Floating in space for eternity,
Unable to move,
Unable to feel, (Frozen in time)
Ruminating on what was lost...
Till I noticed you in the background
After all the things I encountered
You stood out like no other.
With your sights set on me, (How unique you were)
The inevitable was happening,
Impossible would become improbable,
Through quantum mechanics
And incomparable ardor,
You would make it possible
As I succumbed to gravity's will
I couldn't escape you (Nor did I want too)
My course was changing.
It was slow at first,
Leaving me nausea's,
Bending matter and reason,
Twisting and squeezing me,
Pulling me in deeper, (I want this)
Suffocating, scaring me, (Panic)
Distorting my limbs,
Tearing me apart, (I need this)
And when I couldn't bear anymore, (I can't breath)
I slammed my eyes shut...
Silence...
I let you take me in...
Opening my eyes, (This is familiar...)
Time had stopped...
Constellations and solar systems,
Supernovas, suns, stars,
All fitting in the palm of my hand, (Have I been here before?)
An astronomical feat
Only you could complete
In cosmic pandemonium
They exploded all around me
Into a celestial waltz,
The world I once knew had disappeared,
No more vague premonitions
Or mirages leaving me with false hope
Light surrounds me now, (This is different though)
Warmth blankets my body.
It's unbelievable, ethereal,
Almost, inconceivable...
Everything is right with the universe,
Oceans of galaxies fill every void,
As stars realign and planets take shape,
I lean back in open arms,
This is where life starts over once again,
Where serenity can be found,
This is where happiness is born,
Where passion can be found,
This is the beginning of the end,
This is where love can be found
"Oh, I knew it was just a dream…I wanted so much for it to be real…" Lydia thought as she woke without opening her eyes, feeling the loss of the comforting feeling of his arms around her.
"Are you awake yet babes?" A gravely voice asked from across the room.
Her eyes shot open and she bolted upright, "Is…Is it really you?" she asked hesitantly
"Yeah babes, I told you I wasn't going anywhere." He was facing out her window, but turned as he heard her pattering footsteps and squeezed her back when she flung her arms about him.
Lydia could hardly believe it, she missed him for so long, and now that she had him, she was really pissed. "What-the-hell-where-were-you-why-did-you-just-leave-me-like-that!!!" She began to reign blows along his chest and shoulders.
"She has every right to be mad, I have to explain if she's willing to listen." Beetlejuice thought as her blows bounced off him harmlessly.. war had made him stronger, he barely even noticed he was being hit. "Babes, do you really think I would leave you willingly?"
"How…how could I have thought anything else… when you didn't come back I thought you were angry at me, I was so lonely without you." She whispered into his chest on the verge of tears.
"But you got married, that's means you dated, you didn't wait for me… not like I expected you to or anything-"He mumbled out before getting cut off.
"The only reason I started dating was because I thought I would never see you again, and mainly to shut Delia up, I got so tired of her telling me I should leave my room and quite waiting for Mr. Right to show up in my bedroom mirror…huh she never knew how close to the truth she came when she said that."
"What did you say?" Beetlejuice asked hardly daring to breathe
"I said given the choice I would have sat on my bed and wait until hell froze over if it meant I would get to see you again, Beetlejuice. Until you left I never realized how much I need you."
"But you're still married... even if we could manage anything other than friendship, what are you going to do about that guy?" Beetlejuice asked miserably.
"We're getting divorced, I made plans for it yesterday, as soon as I walked in on him cheating on me." She clenched her hands in anger, and her face darkened in hatred.
"He did what? Who is he i'll kill him? What kind of idiot would cheat on such a beautiful woman like you?!" Beetlejuice yelled.
"Beej... do you mean that? Do you really think I'm-I'm...beautiful?" she almost could't ask.
"Babes of course I do." He pulled her to him, and kissed her deeply. They were so caught up in thier own world that niether noticed the footsteps approaching the door.
"I'm telling you Charles I heard voices in there!" Delia walked in and screamed at the man clutching her step-daughter, who looked terminaly diseased. "Who the hell are you?"
"Dad, Delia... meet Beetlejuice," Lydia said after thay eventually parted lips.
"So you found him after all, I'm so glad for you pumpkin," Charles said happily.
"What?" shouted Delia and Beetlejuice increduliously, "Charles!," Delia continued, "How could you? He's horrendous!"
"He's my choice! Since following your ideas have turned out SO great for me, I've decided to try a few of my own, and if you don't like it, learn to deal with it, because I'm never leaving him!!"
"Charles do something call the police! Get rid of this man, he's obviously brainwashed her or something!" Delia turned toward him and gave him the look.
Charles looked at his wife to his daughter staring up happily into the eyes of the dead man he had known as Mr. Beetleman, he had often seen that look on her mother's face whenever he caught her staring at him unexpectedly, and for once something clicked inside of him, "No Delia, I don't think I will."
"What?," everyone asked, in a combining mixture of shock, pride, and anger.
"I said I won't Delia. If Mr. Beetlejuice makes Lydia happy then what right have we to stop them?" He turned back to Lydia and Beetlejuice, "Just promise you won't hurt her."
"Chuck, if anyone ever tried i'd kill them," There was a look about his eyes that said he would do it to.
"Good, now Delia, let's go make breakfeast," Charles led her out of the room.
After the door closed, Beetlejuice turned to Lydia and chuckled, "I'd never thought I'd see the old Chicken-Livered Chuckie stand up to that hag."
"Let alone it be over you," Lydia smiled, she was so happy she doubted anything could ruin her mood, then her cell phone rang. She stared at the number, a slow turmoil churning in her stomach, "What do you want?" She spat.
"Who is it?" Beetlejuice mouthed, hoping it would be her husband so he could travel through the phonelines and give him some hell.
"Before you even try apologizing I'm just letting you know we're getting a divorce," Speaking to the man on the phone and indirectly answering Beetlejuice. there was indistinct shattering, "Oh and why should I forgive you? I wouldn't have been as mad if it had been anyone else... but Claire of all people, her!!" she screamed. More chattering, "Oh please, as evil as that whore was, she's not smart enough to seduce you, and even if that were true, why didn't you just get up and leave?" Silence, "That's what i thought, i'll bring you the papers soon," She closed the phone and sighed. "The sooner it's over the better."
"Why did you marry him?" Beetlejuice asked.
"Well, honestly, he was the first person to ask, and I just wanted to keep my life moving." Lydia moved to sit on the bed, He stayed where he was.
"Why?"
"Well I figured if I lived a good enough life, and died unexpectedly, I wouldn't have to stay on Earth and I would see you again." She looked up at him.
"Babes...," He was lost in those beautiful dark eyes of hers, and began floating to her, "I love you, you know that right?"
"I do now, Beet-"
He clamped a hand over her mouth, Careful with the B-words Babes, my curse is lifted but you still have the power to send me back and forth." He explained.
"I always meant to ask, is there a way around that?"
"Well.." he flopped to the bed next to her," yes. There is," and thought "I'd never ask her to do it though."
"What is it, I'll help anyway I can." She leaned over him unknowingly trappng him with her eyes
After a long hesitation, he slipped out a single word. "Marraige."
"What? Why?" She looked confused.
"You know that whole soul-mate concept," He continued at her nod, "It came from this, breather marraiges aren't for forever, because it's only a connection of bodies, but if a breather is married to one of the dead, it's not thier bodies but thier souls that are mated, because it becomes impossible for death to do the couple part, they will never be separated, even if the breather dies." He explained staring away from her, "But I couldn't let you do that babes."
"Why the hell not!" She hissed.
"Because I couldn't ask you to waste eternity on me, not you Lyds." He turned toward her miserably.
"Beej, If it meant i could be with you for eternity, I'd give anything!" She pulled him up to her, forcing him to stare directly in her eyes.
He was drowning in the emotions he saw there, "What are you saying Lydia?"
She shivered when he said her name in that whisper, "I'm asking you to marry me I guess, i'd get on one knee but i think that's a bit too much." She half-chuckled.
Beetlejuice sat completly and began searching his pockets, "Where is it?" he thought, before finaly pulling out an intricate silverband set with an onix in the shap of a beetle, "Here, you asked I figure i can provide the ring," He held it out to her to look at.
"It's so beautiful," Lydia thouhgt. What she took for swirls at first sight were actually small carving of spiders and other small insects moving through leaves, the black beetle seemed ready to jump of the band and fly away. "She pulled off the ring her now forgotten husband gave her and threw it on the dresser next to her bed and gave her hand to the grining ghost on the bed. "Oh it's so beautiful, Beetlejuice." They were both transported to the roadhouse, "Oh I'm sorry Beej!"
"Don't be babes, we can leave whenever we want." As he leaned in and kissed Lydia deeply, he thought, "My Lyds... mine for eternity." As thier kiss deepened just before they lost all semblance of control, he teleported themselves to his coffin bed,and everything was lost in a flurry of movement.
But Lydia paused when she pulled away his shirt, and saw his torso littered with large and small scars, " Oh Beej, what happened," she ran her fingers over the larger scars.
He grabbed her wrists, "When i learned that Vince could open the gates if he won, I promised to fight for him, these are some scars left from the battles, they don't hurt so just ignore them, they're not as important to me as you are. "They bagan kissing again amd spent the night in each other's arms, touching and tasting secret places and cring ou tto the God's thier with thier passion.
IN THE KITCHEN THAT NIGHT
"Be-atel-jooze 'as been at it zince zis morning!" Jacques the skeleton moaned.
"When will he stop?" Ginger replied.
Beetlejuice strolled into the kitchen half an hour later, whistling a grisly tune to himself and grabbing food from the pantry. "I hope from ze look on you face, zat you 'ave a good woman in zier." Jacques laughed.
"I'd hope so Jacques," Lydia said from the doorway, smiling slightly as Beetlejuice walked to her and gave her a deep kissfrench kiss. "We should probably get back to my place, my parents might be worried." Lydia said half-heartedly from the circle of Beetlejuice's arms.
"You're pobably right, or we could just stay here," He suggested, squeezing her waist.
"How about we tell them where I am going to be, then come back here?" Lydia suggested.
"I guess," he moaned in return. "Just say the words and e'll be out of he-" He stopped as he felt a familiar sensation of being summoned. He and Lydia fell through the void and landed, arms still wrapped about each other, in Juno's office.
"Do you to know how much paperwork you are making for me?" She spat, smoke pouring out of her mouth and neck.
"Does it really matter?" Beetlejuice asked sarcasticly.
"You do realize Miss Deetz, that once you marry him is free to travel between both worlds and not even you will be able to summon him?"
"Isn't that why I asked him to marry me?" She smiled to Beetlejuice.
"Wait YOU asked HIM!!" She almost swallowed her cigarette.
"Yup," They both replied.
"You two really want to do this don't you?" She asked quietly.
"Well yeah, why wouldn't we?" Ldia asked speculativly.
"Once you two are married, there is no separation, no divorces, no death." She explained.
"Yeah Beetlejuice told me that." Lydia said, "I still want to marry him."
"Well then there' no stopping you, have a happy eternity together, oh and Beetle, if you wreak to much havoc in the Outerworld, your curse will be replaced, marraige or no mairrage." Juno turned back to here paperwork as Lydia said the last teo Beetlejuice's to leave the Nietherworld, "At least they're both happy, maybe he'll settle down a bit because of her, I hope he's happy." Juno looked sadly out of her window, down to the offices of those who worked for her. "I've spent so much of my afterlife in here I can hardly remember a party, Hell why not I deserve a night off!" She stood and slipped on her jacket, completly ignoring her seretaries questions, "I'm taking the night off, the rest of you can as well," she threw back as an afterthought.
Miss Argentina stared dumbfoundedly at Juno's back, "Well about damn time!" she thought.
IN LYDIA'S ROOM
"Lydia it's time for dinner, you cabn bring your....friend with you." Delia called up the stairs.
"She'll never accept you, you know." Lydia stated almost sadly.
"Who cared we've got all of eternity to teach her otherwise," Beetlejuice pulled her into a tight embrace.
Looking up into his green eyes, Lidia thought, "Eternity won't be long enough." She leaned into another kiss and let her thought fly out of her head. The future was something they were both getting to look forward to.