Out of Sight, Out of Mind//A Beetlejuice Fanfiction

||Chapter Thirty Three|| Out-of-Sorts

Lydia couldn't take much more of anything, her vision suddenly becoming blurry. She started to sway, her family stopping and looking at her with concern. And as Lydia felt herself start to fall to the ground, Barbara teleported over to her and steadied her as she lay her down on the floor. The rest of the family crowded around both females, ignoring the concerned looks that onlookers were giving them and the whispers that came along with it.

Barbara ran a hand through Lydia's short, black bob cut, whispering things as the rest of the family debated on what to do. Just this morning, Lydia had been absolutely fine. So they were unsure as to what had initially caused Lydia to pass out. Whether it had something to do with that prophecy they'd been reading about lately, they weren't entirely sure. When they got back to the hotel room, they were going to need to do a little more research on mediums and on mediumship, as they were now sure that there was a lot that they still didn't know.

As Charles sat down on the floor next to his daughter, Barbara scooted a few feet away to give the living male some room. She stood up and moved to stand over near her husband and Betelgeuse as Delia too kneeled down on the floor next to Lydia.

"It's like she's out cold," Charles explained in a rather frantic voice, him and Delia looking over towards all three ghosts. Adam, Barbara, and Betelgeuse all crowded around their living family, blocking the view of some of the onlookers who had since crowded around the family of six and were talking over one another.

"But she was fine just this morning," Barbara said, worry filling her voice. "What do you think could have happened?"

"You guys need to get her up to your hotel room as soon as possible," Charles said to the Maitlands and Betelgeuse, all three of them nodding in unison.

Charles and Delia stood up and moved off to the side as Barbara gently scooped Lydia up into her arms, her, Adam, and Betelgeuse teleporting away in a flash of light with the teenager in tow. Charles and Delia payed for breakfast and quickly hurried out of the room as quickly as they could, ignoring the faint whispers from the onlookers that were clearly about the sudden and brief flash of light in the middle of the room.

Upstairs, Barbara laid the teen, who was now snoring away, on her bed, using her powers to pull the covers over her. It was at that moment that they heard the frantic knocks of Charles and Delia, Adam teleporting over to the door to let them in. Both of the living adults rushed into the room, nearly knocking over Adam - who made himself invisible to them in the nick of time - as they moved to stand over near where Barbara and Lydia were.

Adam made himself visible again, teleporting over to the rest of the family as they moved to sit around the sleeping Lydia. Summoning an ice pack, Barbara levitated it onto Lydia's forehead. Betelgeuse levitated the copy of the Handbook for the Recently Deceased that Adam had left sitting on the chest of drawers situated directly across from Lydia's hotel bed, handing it to said male ghost. Adam took it and began flipping through it until he found what he thought what it was he was looking for.

"Side effects of mediumship and psychic powers," Adam read aloud, turning the attention of the rest of the adults and Betelgeuse over towards him. "Lightheadedness...."

Barbara peered over her husband's shoulder. "Sudden onset of stabbing pains and constant headaches."

"Memory loss."

"Tiredness."

"Temporary loss of vision."

"Loss of balance?"

All four adults glanced at one another, confused as to why a sudden loss of balance be a side effect of mediumship? Deciding to ignore it, Adam and Barbara continued to read through the list of side effects, Charles and Delia listening along.

"Constant visions and dreams/slash nightmares."

"Cold sweats. This is rare though, and doesn't always happen."

"A sudden onset of hallucinations."

"Confusion."

Adam flipped to the next page in the Handbook, reading through it quietly to himself before looking at the rest of the adults and Betelgeuse. "The next page in the book is an expansion of what we already know about mediums/mediumship."

"Then I think we need to read through it. Who knows, there might be some more information on the prophecy that might be helpful."

Adam nodded, he and Barbara taking turns reading through the page until they got to the bottom, where a word that they couldn't understand was written down. Since it looked to be written in a code of sorts, Adam levitated the book over towards Betelgeuse in hopes that the demon knew what it was.

"There appears to be a sort of code word written here on this page. Do you think it's a clue to the prophecy?"

Betelgeuse took the book, looking carefully at the word oh the bottom of the page. "It's a name written here actually."

"What name?" all four adults asked at once, all equally as curious as one another.

"I know this sounds crazy, but it appears to be Lydia's name that's written here."

"WHAT?!"

"Urgghhh...."

They heard Lydia shifting in her bed, Adam closing the Handbook for the Recently Deceased once Betelgeuse handed it back to him and levitating and setting it back down on the chest of drawers as the five of them moved a little a ways away to give the teenager some room. She opened her eyes, looking around the room she was currently in.

"Lydia? Are you okay?"

The teenager's eyes closed and opened yet again and she glanced upwards to find all three of her deceased pals and her dad and Delia, all worried, sitting around and glancing down at her. A splitting and painful headache made her feel out-of-sorts, and her vision was a little blurry. She wasn't exactly sure as to what happened. The last thing she remembered, she and her family had been eating breakfast and talking.

Lydia sat upright, closing her eyes tightly as a sudden stabbing pain coursed through her head. She placed a hand against her forehead, unable to stay awake. Barbara moved to sit behind her, placing a hand on her back to keep her steady.

"What happened?" Lydia managed to ask as another stabbing pain came and went.

"You passed out when we were downstairs eating breakfast and talking," Barbara explained as Lydia turned her head and glanced at her. "Adam, Betelgeuse, and I got you back upstairs to our hotel room as quickly as we could, Charles and Delia meeting up with us not too long after."

A/N: after some consideration, I have decided to continue writing this. I had initially started up on writing a sequel to this, but that didn't get that much attention. And this story isn't really over yet, there's a lot more that I still have yet to cover.