AN~ I completely rewrote this one with a new plot and new characters and everything because it was AWFUL.
The Ghost of Earth Days Past was not too happy with his job.
Oh, sure, being a holiday ghost was way better than just haunting around randomly, waiting for someone to finish his business, but still. Earth Day?
He hadn't even died on Earth Day! He'd drowned in a puddle in August! How did that even connect?
Couldn't he at least have gotten a holiday that got school closings?
His job was to find people who weren't in the holiday spirit and show them how their childhood had caused them to not care properly about his day.
The thing was that people didn't usually have horrible childhood scars that kept them from liking trees.
Earth Days Present, at least, got to show people how beautiful nature was and how people all over the place were screwing it up. There was some immediate cause and effect there. But not for him. No, he just had to search these people's childhoods and tell them it was their parents' fault for not teaching them recycling was the right thing to do when the people were in kindergarten.
Plus, he had to find people who could actually contact ghosts easily, and there weren't too many of them. It was easy for the ghosts with the big holidays, when the boundary between life and death thinned a little more than usual, but that didn't happen on Earth Day.
Nothing happened on Earth Day.
Well, this year it was raining. There was that, at least.
He'd sought out Scrooge for the same reason they all did: he was an easy one.
No one exactly knew why Scrooge thinned the walls between worlds. The Christmas ghosts had been the ones to find it out first, because he was actually in their territory, but the man was a veritable supernatural magnet!
And he supposed it might get frustrating being told he had to celebrate every holiday ever, but the Ghost was desperate. Rain felt very strange sliding through his ectoplasm, and it was his holiday, and this was his last chance for a whole year to be sent to the afterlife.
So he was determined to see Scrooge today. No matter what it took.