||Devil's Advocate||Betelgeuse x Adam x Barbara

(𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝗼) It's All Fun and Games

The sounds of the Maitlands sorting through boxes in the attic made Lydia think they had forgotten all about pranking her dad by making his computer go haywire, the teenager making her way over towards the far corner of the attic, where she knew the two ghosts most likely where. She rounded the corner to find Adam placing a box upon a high up shelf using his ghost powers. The teenager stayed standing in the corner, waiting until Adam and Barbara had finished up with sorting through all those boxes. Then made her way over towards the two ghosts when they turned to look in her direction.

"Lydia, you okay?" asked Barbara with concern laced in her voice, placing a hand on the teenager's shoulder.

"I'm fine. I was just wondering if you guys are still going through with your plan to prank my dad by making his computer go haywire. Or if you decided against it."

"Oh, no no... we're still going through with it. But we're not sure if it's a good idea. When I used my powers to make your phone go haywire, you didn't sound all that amused. Or even think that it was funny."

"I was amused. And it was funny," Lydia countered.

"You are such a kidder," said Adam with a sly grin plastered on his face, reaching out an ice cold hand and tickling the teenager, Lydia immediately bursting into a bout of laughter.

"ADAM!!!"

Lydia tried to push Adam away from her as Barbara reached a hand out as well, also tickling the teenager nonstop and making her laugh a little louder than she had previously been doing. She tried to playfully get away from her adoptive ghost parents, but they both immediately went right back to tickling her.

"Cut it out you guys!" Lydia said out of amusement, managing to slip out of the Maitlands' hold.

Sly grins creeping across the two ghosts' faces, Adam and Barbara leapt towards the teenage girl, knocking her to the ground and resuming tickling her. Lydia burst into an even louder bout of laughter that almost... almost broke something that belonged to the Maitlands back when they were alive. Barbara was glad she caught it in time, levitating it back to where it had been previously before turning her attention over towards Lydia with a serious yet amused grin on her face.

"I think you should be more careful next time," the female ghost reminded Lydia.

"Aren't I always?" Lydia quipped, looking directly at Barbara.

"Lydi-..." Barbara started, only to trail off as Adam tackled her to the ground and started tickling her nonstop. She giggled amusingly, pretending to crawl out directly from underneath him. "Adam!"

"Look out below!" Lydia shrieked out with excitement, the Maitlands looking upwards just in time to see Lydia running, jumping, and crashing into them.

Landing in a pile on the attic floor, the three of them burst into a rather heavy bout of laughter. The Maitlands, though still laughing in unison, teleported out from underneath Lydia, stopping the teenager from crashing into the floor face first and standing her upright. Lydia moved off to the corner, finding a nearby chair to sit on.

"I think we should do this more often!" exclaimed Lydia, letting out a hearty chuckle as she leaned backwards in the chair and nearly caused it to topple over. Barbara used her powers to steady both Lydia and the chair she was sitting in.

"Maybe whenever your dad and Delia aren't home?" laughed Barbara, letting out a sigh.

"Like now?" inquired Lydia, looking a little curious.

"Isn't it after twelve?"

"In the morning or afternoon?" Lydia asked, her previous curiosity becoming amusement as a playful smirk crossed her face. Barbara raised an eyebrow in a look of amusement and shook her head. Lydia was something alright.

"You know what I mean, silly," Barbara laughed.

"Yeah. I do. I guess I am kind of hungry," Lydia said, glancing down as she heard her stomach start to rumble. "I'm in the mood for some soup."

She and the Maitlands left the attic, making their way down both sets of stairs and into the house's kitchen. Lydia sat herself down at the kitchen island, eagerly awaiting the soup that Barbara had materialized out of thin air and put in the microwave before turning it on with her powers. Once the soup was done cooking, Barbara levitated it out of the microwave and poured it in the bowl that Adam had gotten out of one of the cupboards before setting the bowl of soup and a spoon down in front of Lydia.

Barbara turned to the sink, starting on washing the plate Lydia had most likely put in there after her mid-morning snack an hour and a half or so ago. When a loud plonk sounded, followed by a quiet grumble, she turned her attention over towards Lydia, whose head was resting on the counter with the bowl of soup she had previously been eating upside down and on top of her head. Some of the remnants of the soup were in her hair and the spoon was nowhere to be found.

"You, Lydia Deetz, are something alright," Barbara chuckled to herself as she materialized a wet cloth out of thin air and moved over towards where Lydia was sitting at the kitchen counter, dabbing some, but not all, of the soup from the teenager's hair.

"I'M AWAKE!!" Lydia shouted as she shot up in her chair and nearly launched the bowl she was still wearing off of her head and directly into the living room, where it very nearly smashed into a dozen pieces.

Barbara was more than lucky to have caught it in the nick of time, placing it in the sink to be washed and turning her attention towards Lydia with an amused smile on her face.

"Come here, you!" Barbara tried to sound stern, but that was almost impossible with the smirk that crossed her face.